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In the midst of a brutal heat wave, NYC chooses between Andrew Cuomo, who lied about causing vulnerable seniors to die in nursing homes, and Zohran Mamdani, who’s dedicated to to making NYC affordable and green for everyone. This is what 21st century climate elections actually look like.

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It's wild how many civic textbooks portray the Supreme Court as an institution that generally protects the rights of disempowered minorities

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There are journalists who had decades-long careers and the only time we mentioned their names in FAULT LINES was to quote their gullible cheerleading for the war in Iraq. Looks like a new generation is lining up to be memorialized in the same way. Your kids will be so proud!

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Professor Khaled Elgindy of the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University tells the public that the Israeli occupation army invaded, ransacked and stole from his wife's familial home in the occupied West Bank.

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You have more in common with the average Iranian citizen than you do with the people that run this country

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"Not for you." Palestinian citizens of Israel--21% of the population--are being excluded from bomb shelters on the basis of their ethnicity. This is the society the West will defend at all costs. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...

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“I just find it fascinating that this student can write [a racist] article, a series of [racist] articles that are essentially manifestoes, and that’s free speech,” Ms. Chatman said, “but my class can’t be called ‘Race, Entrepreneurship and Inequality.’”

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Feels like just in my lifetime the tech industry went from solving problems to pretending to solve problems, to creating problems

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IND line for Zohran

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The conservative movement is lying about basically every empirical "debate" of our time, from climate change to voter fraud to vaccines. Why is it so impossible for reactionary centrists to contemplate the possibility they're lying about trans healthcare too?

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To be really clear: The reason members of Congress can't just walk right in is because of the guns. Armed DHS personnel won't allow entry. In other words, DHS is using armed force to break laws. Democrats need to wrap their minds around that. Accept that the frog is boiled.

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I give Schumer credit for being forceful here, yet have not forgotten nor will forget the cowardice of his post about the abduction of Mahmoud Khalil, who months later remains in a Louisiana gulag on grounds that are just as plainly lies.

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With no charges against Brad Lander, and therefore no case, I guess we will never learn more about the identities of the men who grabbed him.

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This one goes out to all the people asking me what I have against Andrew Cuomo. This has been his M.O. for literally 48 years, except that in the 1977 (losing) mayoral campaign for his father, it was homosexuality, not antisemitism, that was the target of his last-ditch demonization campaign.

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Brad has been released and the crowd breaks into a chant of “Free them all.”

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It's interesting that the NYT will cover the President's unhinged social media activity as official when he is demanding the unconditional surrender of Iran, but not when he is effectively declaring war on US cities and states governed by his domestic political opponents.

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"I'm happy to report I'm just fine. I lost a button. But I'm gonna sleep in my bed tonight, safe, with my family... At that elevator, I was separated from someone named Edgardo... Edgardo is in ICE detention and he's not going to sleep in his bed tonight."

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what a model

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In response to a Q from @maxrn.bsky.social, Lander said: "This is a critical time to have a mayor who will stand up to ICE and stand up to Donald Trump... I am very grateful to the other mayoral candidates who came out here to call for my release and I really hope New Yorkers will elect one of us."

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“I’m a lawyer and I’m going to give you the legal term for what’s happening: It’s fucking ridiculous.” @zellnor.bsky.social

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Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani, another mayor candidate who has cross endorsed Lander, speaks to crowd.

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DHS doubling down on Gestapo tactics

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Brad’s wife Meg speaking out — we all know that @bradlander.bsky.social will be ok but we need to recognize all of the people and families without the same access and privilege aren’t so lucky. Let’s stand up for ALL OF THEM!

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the image of a Jewish man locking himself to an immigrant, his fellow neighbor and a stranger, to keep him from being kidnapped by the American gestapo is making me weep. how could he have done differently when we know what we know?! how can any of us

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NYT news division now compounding the shamelessness of the editorial board. The board explicitly advised voters to leave only one of the two main front-runners off their ballots. This is effectively misinformation, aka bad journalism.

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Just days ago, Brad Lander called me to interpret for an Arabic-speaking asylee whose case was approved, yet ICE was still harassing him inside the building. Brad personally escorted him out to safety. He does this kind of work quietly, every day.

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Hi, it’s Meg again. Brad is still in ICE custody. We are grateful to the many friends, supporters, and allies who have gathered in Federal Plaza. Together we are standing up for those with no voice.

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a story with the lede about zohran being the legislator with excellent constituent services who responded and ultimately delivered to neighbors upset about a dangerous intersection? crush intensifies www.thenation.com/article/poli...

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ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds. He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings. He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights. This is political intimidation.

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ICE arresting the NYPD is introducing deep quantum uncertainty into the Cool Zone

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Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife. While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE. This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.

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"A reporter from @thecity.nyc had overheard one agent say to another minutes before Lander’s arrest, 'Do you want to arrest the Comptroller?'"

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Democratic mayoral candidate and NYC Comptroller Brad Lander arrested by Trump & Noem’s Secret Police for requesting that they produce a judicial warrant for the detention of a migrant he was escorting.

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A “shift” never happened. A chaotic raid at a worksite and a warrantless sweep in our communities have the same outcome. Bullshit rhetoric aside, they’re hunting us down while we’re trying to feed you. Who’s actually in charge?

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Israel attacking Iran and Iran attacking back has driven Israeli leaders underground and required US media to gingerly note the IDF maintains underground bases in “populated areas”. I wrote about this awkward fact and US media’s racist and cheesy “human shields” double standard.

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We’re announcing new legislation — the No Secret Police Act (SB 627) — to ban local/state/federal law enforcement, w/ some exceptions, from covering their faces when interacting w/ the public & require them to wear identifying info. The secret police behavior we’re seeing destroys trust & must end🧵

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Democratic senators need to stop pretending that GOP senators are their “good friends across the aisle” and realize many of them are just lying sociopaths who are actively fanning the flames of violence against them.

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need some adult supervision at the New York Times

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Cuomo’s car parked (illegally) outside union HQ. I asked a cop nearby if it was parked illegally. He said “yes.” Why? “Because it got two tickets already”

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The NYT's crypto-endorsement of Cuomo & paean to "thoughtful liberal governance" cites the educational record of Rahm Emanuel, who closed many Chicago schools and provoked a massive 2012 teachers' strike in an effort to deny resources for quality education. NYT source? An Emanuel press release.

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My 12-year-old takes the subway to school every day. The Times editorial board is living in a different reality than nearly everyone else.

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