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Sometimes I think about how the far right has the patience to play the long game because none of the shit they’re obsessed with has any material impact on their lives.

Adams signed off on this. Cuomo would too. We have a primary in a few weeks, NYC. Let’s show up.

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

Lovely piece in @thecut.com profiling Noor, the wife of Mahmoud Khalil is being forced to raise their son alone while he languishes in ICE custody. Give it a click, give it a read, give it a comment of support (the Zios found this article) www.thecut.com/article/mahm...

thanks to Musk we are on the path to 25 million excess deaths abroad because of US aid cut off. 25 million. 4 holocausts plus. unbelievably horrific...and mostly greeted with a shrug.

My very simple message for my fellow New Yorkers on the Democratic primary: Anybody But Cuomo (ABC)

Let me just be clear: Americans live worse than the citizens of other rich, developed nations — in terms of transportation, healthcare rights costs and outcomes, access to education and higher education, quality of life, social support, and social mobility We refuse to see this for some reason

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The only message coming from Democrats should be crisp & clear: Primaries are an essential part of the process that we welcome.They allow our voters to evaluate & pick the best candidate.We will put everything we have behind that candidate to defeat Republicans in the General & take back the House.

Yes. Theft, larceny, robbery, a shakedown, pockets picked, purses snatched, wallets lifted, accounts pilfered, assets liquidated. A massive wealth transfer from the most vulnerable to the wealthiest.

GUYS. The comment period for this ends in THREE DAYS. PLEASE if you have even a little bit of time, submit a comment here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD... Let them know EVERYONE should be able to get COVID vaccines. They BACK DOWN when WE PUSH BACK. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...

HE LAUNDERS THE IDEAS AND MAKES THEM MAINSTREAM THAT'S WHAT'S DANGEROUS sorry got a little heated there. I'm very tired of people who don't understand what rogan is saying we gotta find the leftist Rogan

it is insane and unacceptable that we now live in a world where law enforcement investigations exist to give the president political leverage over his opponents but as we live in that world, perhaps we should not elect someone who makes it incredibly easy to build a real case against him

the DOJ is literally **arresting Democratic members of Congress** and Senate Democrats are voting to pass Republican legislation

Oh, I like this alliance a lot.

In the richest nation on Earth, 60% of families can’t afford a “minimal quality of life.” Absolutely unacceptable. We need to tax the damn rich and fully fund our basic needs programs. www.cbsnews.com/news/cost-of...

i hear & get what shes saying but just for a moment, I thought the sentence might end with 'bc that's what your agents do,' not 'bc your agents aren't clearly identified' like, I don't want any agents running around terrorizing POC w/o regard for the law, no matter how hard they are to impersonate

Everyone seems very worried about "Gosh, well what do we tell the transphobic people to get them to vote for Democrats?" Tell them to get the fuck over it. Tell them, straight to their faces, "I feel embarrassed for you that this is a thing you are whining about."

I was reading the comments on a local news article about Medicaid cuts and a Missouri woman called having access to healthcare a “lifestyle” that isn’t meant for folks who can’t afford it. I have never read anything more sad, or American, in my life…

We cannot harm those deemed “undeserving” without also harming many who are supposedly “deserving.” These false dichotomies serve only the most wealthy/elite. MLK was on point when he said that “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” We ignore that wisdom to our own peril.

sometimes I truly feel like I am losing my mind that so many people are still so earnestly justifying or downplaying this all as fine

1) We had outdoor dining for several years in NYC and not only was it glorious but it massively increased business for restaurants 2) The city whose outdoor dining I’m currently enjoying is Paris, where I can confirm it is regularly below 50.

fun fact three fighter jets is roughly equivalent to the NEA’s 2024 budget

AOC: Tom Homan said he was going to refer me to DOJ because I’m using my free speech rights in order to advise people of their constitutional protections… to that I say: Come for me… Do I look like I care? There’s nothing illegal about it and if they want to make it illegal, they can come take me.

April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.

LongCOVID researchers know the importance of wearing a mask in public spaces #LongCOVID researchers are one of the few groups of people who can TRULY do a “risk assessment” because they’re the most informed of what the SARS-CoV-2 virus can do to your body #LongCOVIDAwareness #COVIDisNotOver

Really great to see someone say what needs to be said over and over: lots of those executive orders are bullshit grabs for powers the president doesn't have--unless we give it to him, and that starts through misinformation.

Beyond vile and completely unacceptable.

A generation of infants are being born HIV+ today who should have been born HIV-free because one of the principal propagandists of AI bullshit in the world dismantled PEPFAR and USAID.

Dear senators who think you can’t do anything, Today, Senator Van Hollen - through diplomatic pressure - got a meeting with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador. So that thing you’re thinking about doing? DO IT. ~ All of Us

Bring back *everyone* who was sent from the U.S. to CECOT in El Salvador. *No one* should be sent there. ALL their rights were violated. ALL of them should come home.

Negotiations are still underway on the NY State budget, including whether to include “a statewide ban on mask-wearing”! www.newsday.com/news/region-... Call your NY State Senator and Assemblymember and tell them #NoNYMaskBan! More info: covidadvocacyny.org/stopmaskbanny

This National Public Health Week, I encourage fellow journalists to refer to the Covid-19 pandemic in the present tense. Sure, the government emergency in the US is over, but that means people can be forced to come into work while sick with Covid, which increases the risk of developing Long Covid.

here’s a curse word free version of “look it up” as requested by countless teachers and librarians 🥰😘

Whew!

If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.

Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC

Every single university president should be asked, in public, why they are not speaking out this way to support all the students currently detained without due process, and all those terrified that they will be next, on every campus in this country. Yes, including Columbia's acting president.

This story should be viral