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The Rent Is Too Damn High in New York City. Join Tenants Bloc Freeze the Rent campaign. Rank #ZohranMamdani No. 1 & #BradLander No. 2 in the Mayoral Primary election on June 24. DO NOT rank Andrew Cuomo. He is bad news for renters.

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

Trump cut a secret deal with the Mexican cartels, Mexican security chief Omar García Harfuch confirmed cartel family members entered US in a deal with the Sinaloa Cartel and the Trump regime. President Sheinbaum is demanding an explanation from the US which tried to keep it secret.

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Sometimes it’s hard to balance the need to laugh at the ridiculousness of everything with the knowledge that much of it is actually very serious.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Any minimally adequate form of government must include a way to remove a chief executive for flagrant misconduct. Impeachment is the US's main way to do that, but it's entirely broken. That, all on its own, makes the present Constitution fatally flawed.

submitted 2 days ago • 39 comments

so the members of congress just stopped going to el salvador and not a single person who was illegally sent there has been returned and that’s just how it is now?

submitted 2 days ago • 312 comments

‼️Language from the 2024 nonprofit killer bill was approved in House budget-reconciliation this morning. @liaholland.bsky.social campaigns + comms director at @fightforthefuture.org names risks of this "terribly thought-out" legislation to at risk groups: apnews.com/article/cong...

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We built this for you, the NYC voter. Because elections are about your views and your opportunity to express them. Who should you rank on your ballot to be the next mayor of New York City? Take the same quiz the candidates did and find your closest match. projects.thecity.nyc/meet-your-ma...

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

Trump Cut Deal To Let Sinaloa Cartel Members Into US apnews.com/article/el-c...

submitted 3 days ago • 135 comments

The student protestors are the best of us. I stand with Yunseo Chung.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Love to see each one these ghouls go down in flames.

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Wowww! Look at Kilauea now 🤩

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

“This is a takeover of a major component of the legislative branch,” the expert tells Rolling Stone. “There’s no reason that they’re going to stop there.” More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 4 days ago • 18 comments

Fentanyl deaths are up by 50 percent in San Francisco after Mayor Lurie replaced harm reduction programs with police and prisons. It's almost like you put lives in danger when you treat a public health problem like it's a crime 48hills.org/2025/05/fent...

submitted 4 days ago • 32 comments

The lack of shame is truly epic.

submitted 5 days ago • 27 comments

christ, what a day to be an immigrant cursed with the ability to read

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

NEW: Trump’s takeover of the Library of Congress is about taking control of the legislative branch. One expert says it’s “dangerous,” given agencies within the Library provide legal advice to lawmakers and police their misconduct.

submitted 4 days ago • 27 comments

Not a single Republican Senator was willing to commit to holding Trump to the constitution. These people are corrupt, pathetic slugs who believe in absolutely nothing.

submitted 5 days ago • 17 comments

Congestion pricing in NYC has been a runaway success, with a speed and depth that has surprised even its diehard advocates. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

Poisoning the air of a Black community for a fucking chatbot.

submitted 7 days ago • 146 comments

New York Dems: It’s important to vote in June’s mayoral primary. It’s important to rank 5 candidates for your vote to count in every round. It’s essential not to rank bullying, predatory, self-dealing Andrew Cuomo. We deserve better.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

I personally endorse the defection of Navy jets to the Orcan Liberation Front. el aire y el mar unido jamás será vencido

submitted 6 days ago • 18 comments

Since 2022, this couple has rescued animals from the front lines.

submitted 6 days ago • 28 comments

NYC parents: 10 more days to vote! We’ve got great slates of candidates for NYC D2, other districts and the citywide councils! We’ve got candidates that will come to meetings and listen! Candidates that care about racial equity and academic rigor and letting trans kids be kids. We can do it all!

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

As Democrats slowly mount a resistance against Trump’s second administration, there is no worse person to elevate than a shameless self-promoter with an inflated sense of his political gifts and accomplishments. newrepublic.com/article/1949...

submitted 7 days ago • 63 comments

Wait, whut?

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

few in america understand what AMLO and now Claudia Sheinbaum have been doing to undermine key foundations of Mexico's democracy. it may be hard to face it, given Sheinbaum is seen as the anti-trump, but this is important

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Short thread (hopefully in plain English) on the nuclear deterrence dynamics in the India-Pakistan relationship and where this goes if escalation continues. <1>

submitted 7 days ago • 25 comments

Based on what I've seen credibly reported over the last 2-3 hours, it is fair to now call this a full-scale war.

submitted 7 days ago • 38 comments

This is absolutely worth your time.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Major airspace closures for civil aviation announced by both Pakistan (all airspace) and India (along the border with Pakistan) in the last few hours. We're possibly about to witness the start of the most intense and broad-spectrum direct conflict between two nuclear-armed states ever.

submitted 7 days ago • 33 comments

The message today is clear. The arrest of a sitting mayor Ras Baraka by Ice tells you they believe they run this country, that they are completely above the law, and free to treat any person of color, regardless of rank, however TF they like. And I guarantee you Homan approved/ demanded this arrest.

submitted 7 days ago • 24 comments

The first Democratic governor who sends their state troopers into an ICE field office to free someone ICE has kidnapped is going to be president in four years.

submitted 7 days ago • 481 comments

What we witnessed was a political kidnapping of an elected official and I don't know what more to say than that.

submitted 7 days ago • 60 comments

India is continuing to escalate its attacks on Pakistan, the main thing preventing the situation from devolving into a full scale war is Pakistan's response which has been defensive but could switch to offensive. Blackouts, airline groundings reported.

submitted 7 days ago • 22 comments

As mayor of Newark, Ras Baraka has a responsibility to ensure that facilities operating in the city are adhering to laws that protect the safety and wellbeing of occupants and residents.

submitted 7 days ago • 656 comments

“Abolish ICE” is the moderate position. Radical is “prosecute every ICE employee under RICO.”

submitted 7 days ago • 1463 comments

yes, ChatGPT is in schools; there are K-12 school districts and DOEs entering into AI contracts, too. so rather than panicking over the death of academia as a foregone conclusion—particularly when LLMs are frequently wrong—why don't we talk about the climate costs of AI? my latest @teenvogue.com

submitted 10 days ago • 30 comments

HAPPENING NOW: Hundreds of protesters chant “Free our Mayor!” outside the DHS building in Newark, NJ where Mayor Ras Baraka is being held (Video: @spydermonkeywatch.bsky.social)

submitted 7 days ago • 362 comments

Trump and Noem opened an ICE detention center in Newark without permission and in clear violation of the city's ordinances. And when confronted by Mayor Baraska, they did what authoritarians do. They arrested and disappeared him.

submitted 7 days ago • 31 comments

Holy fuck I am flabbergasted but so glad

submitted 7 days ago • 10 comments

I think it's important to stress that the Mayor was arrested AS HE WAS TRYING TO DO HIS WORK.

submitted 7 days ago • 39 comments

"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

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