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"Maybe people don’t actually care about the price of rent—they just want a mayor who seems cool and energetic and that’s the real lesson going forward for the party. We’ll see, I guess."

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but what do you really think brad lander hellgatenyc.com/brad-lander-...

submitted 18 hours ago • 65 comments

If Jeff Bezos can afford to rent Venice for a $50 million wedding, he can afford to pay his fair share in taxes.

submitted 1 day ago • 1187 comments

Dem leaders would rather destroy their own party than support Mamdani and AOC. For what? The billionaire class and a genocidal Israeli regime that is increasingly loathed by young people around the world. They will unleash everything to undermine Mamdani as predicted. Sickening.

submitted 9 hours ago • 72 comments

Birthright citizenship is a Constitutional RIGHT. Any attack on it is an attack on us all. This is an attempt by far-right justices to attack immigrant communities and remove protections from any American who questions Trump. Your rights are nonnegotiable. We can’t compromise on that basic fact.

submitted 1 day ago • 668 comments

Ackman asserts that when he claimed he and a few billionaire friends could buy the NYC mayor’s election he really wasn’t saying that he and a few billionaire friends can buy the NYC election.

submitted 9 hours ago • 142 comments

I think Zohran Mamdani demonstrated pretty handily that he’ll protect Jewish New Yorkers when the seniormost Jewish elected official in the city was detained by jackbooted thugs and he was on the scene demanding his release in minutes

submitted 15 hours ago • 4 comments

Cartoon by @claybennett.bsky.social. Birthright Citizenship

submitted 19 hours ago • 370 comments

Thomas Jefferson must be rolling in his grave. He founded American liberty and the institution that President Trump is now strong arming as if he's a modern day king. Trump is forcing a state institution to bend the knee to the President. This is the opposite of liberty.

submitted 10 hours ago • 11 comments

A government ban on Hungary’s Pride parade backfired Saturday as over 100,000 people marched through Budapest, far more than usual PM Viktor Orban warned people to stay away, threatening “clear legal consequences.” But the warnings only turned a modest event into a mass rally against his government

submitted 11 hours ago • 539 comments

Can't get enough of these videos of Peter Thiel being asked by a friendly interviewer to "just say you're not the antichrist, out loud" followed by Thiel making various deep sea creature noises for 30 seconds before going "it's uh it's uh it's uh there are a lot of declensions here, interestingly,"

submitted 17 hours ago • 63 comments

1/ If Justice Barrett thinks we need to go back to what the Founding Fathers intended, I’ve got news for her. Their biggest concern was avoiding tyranny. So they created 3 branches of gov’t & divvied up the power the people (that’s us) were allowing the gov’t to use to create order for all of us.

submitted 19 hours ago • 759 comments

Do they really think they can scare us with the word “socialist” when they are literally sending out men in masks with no warrants and no badges to disappear people off American streets? I know what I’m scared of, and it’s not a socialist.

submitted 2 days ago • 769 comments

When Eric Adams, a corrupt dirtbag centrist cop, won the primary four years ago, mainstream white media was quick to anoint him as "the future" of the Democratic party. Nate Silver said he's be the party's presidential nominee. Mamdani wins and it's like "oh, shit, well, there's still the general."

submitted 3 days ago • 92 comments

nyt op-ed: we cannot normalize the left’s brazen attempt to win voters by talking to them

submitted 3 days ago • 97 comments

Most of this “press conference” is this lunatic yelling at the media. This guy is so obsessed with his press coverage that he can’t even function.

submitted 2 days ago • 5373 comments

Beloit, WI revitalized its waterfront and chose this way to celebrate it: by bringing to life Georges Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte."

submitted 3 days ago • 647 comments

ZOHRAN AND BERNIE WERE IN THE CLOSET MAKING SOCIALISM AND I SAW ONE OF THE SOCIALISMS AND THE SOCIALISM PUSHED ME INTO THE EAST RIVER WHICH WAS ICED OVER SOMEHOW

submitted 3 days ago • 161 comments

Two years ago I interviewed a 31-year-old NY state assemblymember about a 7-year-old girl killed by an SUV driver in his district. I hung up the phone, astonished that I'd talked to a legislator who so thoughtfully articulated what actually needs to change on our streets. He'll make a great mayor

submitted 3 days ago • 35 comments

That sentence is so insane

submitted 3 days ago • 227 comments

All of the Zohran fear mongering is so funny because he's a massive dork who looks like he used to do magic

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

Democratic Party hastily commissions a study to figure out why so many people preferred the attractive, energetic, charismatic guy with the fun name to the disgraced vampire

submitted 4 days ago • 279 comments

I want to make this 100% clear: After the last 3 elections in which Dems demanded that progressive voters support establishment candidates for the greater good, a refusal by the establishment to support Mamdani when it’s the progressives who earned the win, will permanently cleave the party.

submitted 3 days ago • 67 comments

Murray to Vought: This should be a yes or no. What I hear is all kind of word salad to make sure you are letting us know that you intend to do things that are outside the intent of the law.

submitted 3 days ago • 266 comments

Schrier to RFK Jr: You gave Cassidy the answer he needed to hear in order to get his confirmation vote, then as soon as you were secretary you turned around & fired all 17 members. You lied. I also want to be clear that I will lay all responsibility for every vaccine-preventable death at your feet.

submitted 4 days ago • 1069 comments

@maxmikemovies.bsky.social we truly do need - in fact, REQUIRE - a ‘Movies Mike Should Be Forced To See, For His Only Good’ series.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

The establishment would rather burn NYC to the ground than have Mamdani win. But, boy, if he can pull this off...AMAZING. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

submitted 5 days ago • 97 comments

On Friday night, we walked the length of Manhattan, from Inwood Hill to Battery Park. New Yorkers deserve a Mayor they can see, hear, even yell at. The city is in the streets.

submitted 5 days ago • 283 comments

New episode with @rweingarten.bsky.social youtu.be/1jxOuyL7KMI?...

submitted 7 days ago • 72 comments

News Analysis: Over the past two decades, the U.S. has used sanctions, sabotage, cyberattacks and negotiations to try to slow Iran’s long march to a nuclear weapon. In Iran, President Trump unleashed a show of military might that each of his last four predecessors had deliberately avoided.

submitted 7 days ago • 177 comments

This is hilarious. #USDemocracy

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BREAKING Statement from the Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran:

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

Okay, folks, here you go. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 7 days ago • 87 comments

Rework of the North America nebula using the SHO Hubble palette. My first true Hubble palette image! Esprit 100mm refractor with ASI2600MM camera 🔭

submitted 7 days ago • 14 comments

By disregarding his own intelligence advisors that Iran was not about to have nuclear weapons, Donald Trump has, without any justification whatsoever, provoked Iran to retaliate against American troops in the Middle East and American civilians at home. He is a irresponsible, simpleminded idiot.

submitted 7 days ago • 457 comments

My reaction to the Trump illegal strikes on Iran tonight:

submitted 7 days ago • 32 comments

The entire establishment from both sides is aiming all of its money and firepower against Zohran Mamdani. Very telling. This is what they're threatened by and who they are willing to crush.

submitted 7 days ago • 162 comments

People reacting to the new Japanese Maglev bullet train passing right by them during a test run. #Japan x.com/PicturesFoId...

submitted 178 days ago • 2 comments

one other side of this is something that I try to emphasize to my students: "what does freedom actually mean" is not a 21stC issue anachronistically read backwards into the 18thC. The US, French, and Haitian Revolutions happened at more or less the same time, with an overlapping cast of characters