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I've covered race for two decades. I knew the 2nd Trump Admin would be dangerous for civil rights. Yet the collapse of the federal civil rights architecture and national will to address racial inequality and work on integration is stunning. Here's my latest. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/m...

submitted 13 hours ago • 20 comments

🙌🏽 my absolute favorite Nina record. Her rendition of Summertime alone, makes this a must have. If time travel were a thing, I’d use it to go see this show. pour yourself a glass, light a candle and drop the needle on this masterpiece. you won’t be disappointed.

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

But yall thought project 2025 was fear mongering.

submitted 12 hours ago • 17 comments

This administration is pursuing a white supremacist project—attacking birthright citizenship, gutting DEI, welcoming white S. Africans under the guise of “white genocide,” and brutalizing brown folks who’ve contributed to this country for decades. We must fight this project relentlessly.

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

people: mamdani is going to turn NYC into a theocracy!!!! SCOTUS: it's ok if ur religion thinks being gay is evil and don't want ur kids to read about it in school

submitted 12 hours ago • 48 comments

Yes, this is bad for porn. But porn famously has no clear legal definition. As such: This is a direct path to censoring anything the GOP wants to censor and can argue is “adult” - info on birth control, queer identity, anything about trans people or gender diversity or safe sex or HIV or drag or

submitted 12 hours ago • 63 comments

Zohran: Imagine living in a city where you can afford your rent, your groceries and even a meal at a restaurant now and then without much stress Eric Adams: Imagine a platypus so powerful that it could destroy the city. We need more cops

submitted 23 hours ago • 271 comments

One of my journalistic heroes has died. We journalists should all vow to keep speaking truth to power in his memory. open.substack.com/pub/joyannre...

submitted 1 day ago • 41 comments

Bill Moyers has died. He was 91.

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

This truly bums me out. He’s one of the best to do it. I’ve missed his voice so much since he’s retired and think about him often when thinking about our current times. RIP Moyers, and thank you so very much.

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The Parliamentarian strikes: -The Provider tax cap for Medicaid -Denying federal funding to states for Medicaid coverage for certain immigrants -Lowering FMAP number for states that give undocumented immigrants Medicaid -Ban on transgender care in Medicaid www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...

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Note: We turned off the paywall for this one because it's primarily based on public records.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

I think that if you hate NYC, you shouldn't live in NYC. I think this is simple.

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

This is a Hall of Fame reader comment on a very reactionary op-ed about Zohran Mamdani's victory that was published in my local paper today.

submitted 2 days ago • 474 comments

Brad Lander was extraordinary in his defense of immigrants. Politicians have their own motivations, of course, but he did the right thing, when so many did not.

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

There really is something special about what Zohran and Brad are showing the rest of the world what it still means to be a New Yorker and an American. A Jew and a Muslim modeling a politics of mutual respect, rejecting cynicism. Human decency has been taking a beating but she's not out just yet!

submitted 3 days ago • 36 comments

Whenever I see Dems claim they are out of power, there’s nothing they can do, I think of Brad Lander and how he escorted people to court while being comptroller and running for mayor. Do something or get the f out of the way so there can be more Brad Landers.

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

Surprisingly effective things Zohran Mamdani ran on: -free buses -rent freeze -halal cart for $8 instead of $10 -taxing the 1% -no cost childcare -city-owned grocery stores -a Department Of Community Safety for mental health programs and crisis response -building affordable housing -why Cuomo sucks

submitted 3 days ago • 277 comments

His name ends in a vowel—maybe Mamdani's Italian, T.

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"GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE"

submitted 3 days ago • 163 comments

this part!

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It’s hard to overstate how angry rank and file Dems are at the Dem establishment right now. And if I were a self-preservationist incumbent I would take note.

submitted 3 days ago • 311 comments

Oh wow. Cuomo raided funding from the MTA when he was governor of New York!! NYC: rank wisely. www.cityandstateny.com/policy/2017/...

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

13 women risked their safety and livelihoods to reveal how Andrew Cuomo treated them. It’s easy to forget just how bad it was—so let their words remind you. And share them with any voter you know who’s still on the fence. (and, help us run this as a final ad: actblue.com/donate/dream...)

submitted 4 days ago • 11 comments

As we head to Election Day, for folks who voted early, thank you. I know some folks have not yet made up their minds. I am making an appeal to you. Please do not rank Cuomo. I have worked with every single one of the candidates for mayor. I will tell you he does not like us.

submitted 4 days ago • 22 comments

Know Your Rights Information🚨 ICE has been arresting people at immigration court and routine check-ins across the country. If you or a loved one is in this situation, know you still have rights.

submitted 4 days ago • 82 comments

Meta’s web-to-app tracking proves you’re right to distrust Meta, and we need to end surveillance advertising.

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

More than 3 times as many Americans believe the Chupacabra either definitely or probably exists than wants war with Iran

submitted 5 days ago • 56 comments

I am honestly in awe of how well the HSGAC and Senate Budget Democratic staff did. They won on almost everything. Legendary stuff here. Tho it does help that the GOP staffers in the room were…. not good at their jobs.

submitted 5 days ago • 15 comments

Worse approval ratings than chlamydia, let’s see if anything matters.

submitted 5 days ago • 133 comments

ICYMI when we broke the story in April, but Andrew Cuomo used ChatGPT to come up with his housing plan. (Earlier in his career, he was the HUD secretary) hellgatenyc.com/andrew-cuomo...

submitted 5 days ago • 22 comments

And won’t! And that’s on CRICKEY!

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

We are being lied to

submitted 5 days ago • 317 comments

I think about this photo from right after Hurricane Katrina quite often. See, Black America has been here before..

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Iran’s stockpile dropped to 0 after Obama made the Iran Deal… until Trump pulled out of it (against the advice of his own Defense Secretary, General Mattis… because he hated Obama) Feels pretty relevant in this moment.

submitted 6 days ago • 63 comments

Large majorities of Americans, including many Republican voters, oppose bombing Iran. They might want to weigh in with both the House and the Senate. US Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121.

submitted 6 days ago • 34 comments