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Bernie endorses Zohran 🙏

It’s also contrary to all Catholic teaching- her fake purported religion.

It appears Netanyahu has succeeded in dragging the US into joining Israel's war on Iran, another disastrous adventure in the Middle East.

Everybody knows that funeral rites and respect for the wishes and dignity of the dead is as close to a universal human value as there is, one that pre-dates the written word. What my thesis presupposes is, maybe it isn’t? My latest for the Atlantic:

Vote for Andrew Cuomo, he’ll kill your kids with his car.

Never forget that Liz is a convert to Catholicism, just like ole JD

What I learned today is that the @nytopinion.nytimes.com doesn’t believe in young people of color in leadership. Time and time again people tout “seniority” and “experience”. 75 years ago, there were no women of color elected in NY. Where is “seniority” or “experience” to come from for us?

NEW: Lobbyists and contractors banned from giving big money to NYC mayoral campaigns are bundling it instead—for Andrew Cuomo. readsludge.com/2025/06/16/c...

Listen, we're straight shooters at Hell Gate. We play no favorites. Like, say if anyone wracked up speeding violations in school zones, and then parked their car in the middle of traffic in midtown Manhattan. You know what we'd call you? An ASSHOLE. Here's one. hellgatenyc.com/cuomo-derang...

People who convert to Catholicism in this day and age are universally very bad.

like who thinks this is what we need in a mayor? Like what is wrong with the NYTimes - are they so very afraid of - a city run grocery store, free busses, what is it? Why can't we have ANYTHING???? Our neoliberal overlords are just too cruel.

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”

When I die I’d like the @nytimes.com editorial board to lower me into my grave so I can be let down one last time.

The Times questioning Zohran’s experience kinda just boils down to ideology & racism but the idea of 33 being too young to hold a major political office is so funny. If he was a CEO of a startup that produced something worse than nothing they’d write a glowing feature on his new bold ideas.

With about one week until primary day, we’re revisiting some clips from the mayoral forum we put on with @nysfocus.bsky.social. Here’s @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and @bradlander.bsky.social talking about the worst thing that Andrew Cuomo did while in office.

Happening now: a small group of protesters are once again blocking ICE agents' vans outside immigration court in Chicago. Masked agents with handcuffs are threatening activists with arrest and intimidating photographers. Situation is tense, we'll update as we can.

going fully fully fully fully fully insane reading the paragraph about cumo's progressive "accomplishments" with zero mention of the decade he spent ratfucking the state legislature because they weren't conservative enough. oh well, they conclude. true centrism has never been tried

This is what unity for the people looks like. Rank me #1 and @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social#2. Join us LIVE on IG & X at 11AM for our joint announcement.

If you are too young to remember the Iraq War, you'll hear "no one protested" and "no one knew they were lying." Millions of people knew they were lying and protested. The press not only did not want a record of mass dissent; they did not want a record of mass knowledge of lies.

They are absolutely fine with that and so is most of New York media See Samantha Bee talking less about race after folks called out her support of such a system in schools

Yes exactly it will be phenomenal.

If Mamdani wins this primary, the institutional/organizational forces trying to defeat him in a general election will be enormous, likely including the city’s billionaires, major news orgs, prominent black leaders and many Dem politicians. That’s what happened to India Walton in Buffalo in 2021.

not to expose myself as insufficiently cynical but I’m actually kind of shocked at how bad this is across multiple levels—as a piece of analysis, as a piece of rhetoric, and as a deployment of the NYT’s outsized power in this specific instance

One reason I get uncomfortable with venerations of the US Constitution at anti-Trump demos is that the Constitution's flaws are a big part of why we're now <waves hands> here. Electoral College, disproportionality and anti-urban bias in Congress, lifetime SCOTUS appointments...

There were at least 50 volunteers at the Zohran canvas I went to today. It was one of four canvass shifts at this location, which is one of about 60 locations where canvasses are happening today. It's starting to feel like a movement.

i know i’m not a SoOpER geNiUs like elon or anything but this seems bad!

It's pretty telling that the second part of the "Mamdani is a danger to Jewish new yorkers" pitch is always "so vote for sexual harasser shitbag Italian Catholic Andrew Cuomo" and not "so vote for Jewish Progressive Brad Lander"

We will have to do the work that we failed to do after the Civil War and the second world war, in that we will actually have to hold powerful fascist to account and they will have to be tried and dealt with in whatever way we see fit as they can never walk free on this planet again. All of them

It will forever anger me that so many NY State Democratic leaders are backing a known sexual predator to lead New York City just to protect Big Money and corporate greed — and then will continue saying they will “fight for women.” Don’t rank Cuomo.

Wow it's not until you get to the 4th paragraph that you find out he wasn't shot by the dude they arrested but an unidentified probable designated protest peacekeeper real use of exonerative tense channel2now.com/2025/06/15/a...

love how it says the majority would rather have someone other than cuomo, describes how ranked choice fixes this, and then implies it's somehow less democratic

When I tell you Los Angeles is an occupied city/county, this is what I mean… Yesterday, ICE agents showed up to a regular Saturday swap meet with armed Marines and a military helicopter overhead, like it’s a fucking war zone.

Cuomo’s texting me about a five year old Instagram post and Zohran’s team knocking on my door to ask if I have a voting plan. You know who to rank #1 and make sure don’t rank Cuomo.

Thousands of Christians are being rounded up and deported by the U.S. government, but they’re not cottagecore tradmoms or their homeschooled goat milk enthusiasts, so these guys are fine with it. Actually, they’re thrilled.

Just as we did with the attempted pipe bombings against nearly every democratic leader. Assassination attempts against leaders on the left are not treated as news and not covered as the constant, incited attacks that they are.

ICE raiding a crowded supermarket in Rosemead, California with no identification, indistinguishable from cartel hitmen, pulling high caliber rifles on unarmed US citizens trying to ask questions about wtf is going on. #3E #StopICE

Hi everyone I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing

It was a privileged speak at the No Kings, No Cuomo rally alongside many folks I admire in the fight. And it’s a privilege to be a small piece of reimagining whistleblowers in our culture. We don’t speak up to stay silent afterwards. We fight & we will win and help change the world for our kids.