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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 15 hours ago • 223 comments

I don’t know if Mamdani will ultimately become a successful mayor, I don’t know if Lander will go on to do new things, but I sure as shit know that it’s nice to see politicians and think “I like them, they seem like good human beings”

submitted 16 hours ago • 14 comments

Hope and solidarity won tonight, and will win again in November. Congratulations, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

submitted 15 hours ago • 810 comments

raise your hand if you're not in NYC but you're following the mayoral election out of a desperate need to believe that good things are possible

submitted 16 hours ago • 75 comments

(Pace salsa voice) NEW YORK CITY!

submitted 16 hours ago • 85 comments

what’s funny is that if pro-cuomo centrist democrats were less myopic they might see that mamdani was running the kind of campaign that could help rebuild the party brand — accessible with an outsider persona and a focus on “kitchen table” issues.

submitted 16 hours ago • 202 comments

AOC and now Zohran. The New York lesson, once again, is that If you're gonna be a progressive politician, be a progressive politician. (With Lander in third, the ranked votes are likely not going Cuomo's way.)

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

My maintenance man always wears an n95 at my request. “No need to thank me. You should feel safe in your home,” he says. Like it’s simple. And it IS that simple. I wish my family, healthcare providers, etc felt the same way. Many won’t mask, even though they “love me” or “care about my health.”

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

wow, who knew it would work this well?! (everyone knew)

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Run free! run run run run!!!!

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Toronto is YouTube Vancouver is TikTok Montreal is Instagram Ottawa is LinkedIn Winnipeg is Bluesky Edmonton is Mastodon Halifax is Pinterest Calgary is Facebook

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

LA is YouTube New York is TikTok DC is LinkedIn Chicago is Bluesky Miami is Instagram Phoenix is Facebook San Francisco is NextDoor Salt Lake City is Pornhub Berlin's Führerbunker in 1945 is Twitter

submitted 1 day ago • 149 comments

Alberta by-elections. So far, with half the ballots in, it looks like no surprises. NDP is holding Strathcona and Ellerslie and UCP is holding Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills. Bad day for the separatists. Alberta Republicans have about 17% of the vote in Olds and barely ahead of the NDP.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

I think @naheednenshi.bsky.social just quieted the panicking pundits (until at least after the July holiday) with a very decisive win in his byelection, and an equally key hold on the suburban edge in Edmonton-Ellerslie.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

“Safe Third Country”

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Probably safe to say the NDP and UCP hold their seats in Edmonton-Strathcona and Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills. Looks like NDP leader Naheed Nenshi is sitting at 80+% support as votes roll in! The NDP has slipped a tiny bit in Edmonton-Ellerslie, but they should hold that one too. #ableg

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Bravo Winnipeg! Transit corridor on Graham Avenue is moving to Portage Avenue. Instead of giving the street back to cars, it will become a linear pedestrian public space spanning downtown. Different pilot project uses will be tested before being made permanent. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Time to vote again!

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

This is the most measles cases in 40 years. It's more than all the years combined since Canada eliminated the virus in 1998 - a status we will likely lose in 2025. And it's all thanks to anti-vaxx rhetoric (and policy) and Covid blowing up immune systems.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

“My commitment is about delivering a city that is not only affordable to each and every New Yorker, but is one that each and every New Yorker feels proud of living in.”

submitted 3 days ago • 35 comments

We were lucky for a while, but Edmonton's got measles now.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

If you were born before 1990, consider getting a measles vaccine booster.

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments

As a fan of everyone involved, I’m very happy to be a part of this weirdness!

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

"While LLMs offer immediate convenience, our findings highlight potential cognitive costs." www.psychologytoday.com/us/b...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

submitted 3 days ago • 406 comments

Kind of impressed that the apocalypse is this stupid.

submitted 3 days ago • 73 comments

Trump's bombing of Iran serves no larger political or security purpose. He just didn't want to look like a loser as he was goaded by the war criminal Netanyahu. Canada must separate ourselves from the reckless violence of the gangster regime in Washington.

submitted 3 days ago • 89 comments

The Walk Hard reunion video I need. zurl.co/TCvFN

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

this kind of panic is completely disconnected from objective reality, what on earth are they expecting will happen if the city becomes (optimistically) 10% more responsive to the needs of people who will never know anyone who has a line drawing of themselves in the newspaper

submitted 5 days ago • 161 comments

The extensions keep coming and I'm starting to wonder if TikTok really is a dangerous threat to national security. www.npr.org/2025/06/18/nx-s1...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

The 2021 heat dome proved that air conditioning is now a requirement of survival. www.theweathernetwork.com/en...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Sorry, Oily pals. Bobrovsky was most definitely back on the case.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Alberta, share this with everyone. The UCPs decision to limit covid vaccines by making people pay for them is not good public health policy, ethical or founded in scientific evidence. They should be encouraging widespread vaccination across populations and covering it.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Thanks to NPR for explaining that due to the ancient, mysterious culture of Persia, Iranians "don't like to be attacked" npr.org/2025/06/16/n...

submitted 8 days ago • 194 comments

That's dark, retail email. But, yeah, if he was alive he definitely would have loved this phone grip.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Y'all saying you will trust the authorities to tell us when we have to wear masks... Sorry, but have you seen the authorities in charge of public health right now?? If there was ever a time to think independently, it's now

submitted 10 days ago • 9 comments

Look, I showed up in a pussyhat in 2017 and it was my first time at a protest and was the start of my own education and growing awareness of what was happening. People have to start somewhere. People showing up is what matters. Let’s fucking go, team.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

I'm sorry but the largest protest of my lifetime is not the 7th or 8th biggest news story in the country behind "what does Gen Z want from Instagram?" This shit is humiliating. Rearrange your layout to meet this moment. Omitting the thing happening in every American city is malpractice.

submitted 10 days ago • 677 comments

Gathering of The Juggalos vs. Trump's birthday party

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

Pikachu's birthday party vs. Donald Trump's birthday party

submitted 10 days ago • 14 comments

Trump's Bday party is worst than time the OJ Simpson car chase happened in the middle of my birthday party as a child.

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments