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I caught sight of Hegseth today and had a flashback of Sean Spicer declaring that Trump's first inauguration had drawn the "largest audience to ever witness an inauguration – period – both in person and around the globe." I'm old enough to remember such things.

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The "12 day war." These people are so unserious.

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I am convinced, although I have no hard evidence, that ICE has gotten orders to go out and re-detain Iranians with final orders of removal, many out in the community on orders of supervision for decades as Iran wouldn't take them. They may now be deported to Panama or somewhere random.

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"They tried to cut Jewish New Yorkers off from the rest of New York, as if we don’t also suffer from staggering rent and inflation. They tried to use fear to play us for chumps. And they failed." mollycrabapple.substack.com/p/we-fucking...

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Just checking in with my friends in New York. Any pictures or footage of the mass exodus from the Upper West Side? Any plans for a send-off parade?

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🔮🧙🏿‍♂️Years from now, some Dem will try to convince me how evil and islamaphobic the GOP is, and they'll use this upcoming NYC mayor election as proof I'll point out that in the primary, the progressive Muslim and Jewish candidates cross-endorsed each other♥️ but centrist Dems paid for islamaphobic ads🤡

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I pitched the NYT on this and they passed cause "all democrats are good with LGBTQ people"

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Zohran Mamdani offered New Yorkers a political revolution – and won | Bhaskar Sunkara

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Israeli forces continue their war on Gaza, killing Palestinians, as US President Donald Trump announces a ceasefire between Israel and Iran. 🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/jea5mt

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DA Alvin Bragg (the DA who prosecuted Donald Trump last yeaR) has a huge lead in the Democratic primary. As does Jumaane Williams, the public advocate. It looks fairly certain that both incumbents, who faced challenges from their right, will win tonight.

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it is unfathomable to some people that a person can have a good life and go "damn it'd be cool if other people also had good lives we should make that happen"

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Brad Lander: "I also need to thank some of the most important people in my life and on this campaign—I mean, of course, the NYT editorial board. Just kidding, of course: I love Wordle and Connections, but I really urge the Times to cancel their new feature 'Editorial Riddles.' No one likes those."

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Strong night for left: —Mamdani will finish well ahead in 1st round. —All challenged NYC Progressive Caucus councilors will win, that's 10 of them. —Left may add new councilors (e.g. some AOC- or WFP-endorsed non-incumbents up) —The more liberal (WFP-endorsed) candidates up in Syracuse and Buffalo

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all major news sources concur that the results of the NYC primary prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that Bluesky has the juice

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Really can’t overstate how many anti-Mamdani ads were running on local networks over the last week. Basically constant.

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For a REAL detailed map of how NYC voted, check our map out 😎 www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/24/m...

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schadenfreudescrolling

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Apparently Cuomo didn't just concede in his phone call to Mamdani, but told him that he hasn't yet decided whether he's continue in the race as a third-party candidate.

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Many years ago, Zohran attended a few meetings of Survived and Punished NY. When we launched our #FreeThemAll campaign to free people in women's prisons who were incarcerated for defending themselves against DV/SA, Zohran who was then working on Cynthia Nixon's campaign got us on her radar.

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I can't emphasize enough how ugly and pervasive and persistent the "Mamdani hates Jews" campaign was. I'm happy that so many Jews stood strong against that vileness. Maybe people will start to understand that we've had it with being treated as a paranoid, easily manipulated single-issue bloc.

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Left's strong night, updated: —Mamdani finishes well ahead. —All 10 challenged NYC Progressive Caucus members win, or way up. Jumaane Williams, too. —Left may add councilors (AOC- or WFP-backed newcomers up) —WFP-endorsed candidates win primaries for Syracuse & Buffalo mayor.

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

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Busy morning. Violations to a ceasefire which never existed? Or existed in the mind of one deranged person? Or was brokered by someone else. It's a whiplash kinda day.

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How can there be a "serious" violation of a ceasefire that never existed?

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Israel claims Iran has violated the "ceasefire". How surprising for Israel to do that. The whole thing is a charade. Although many will be fooled.

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A Harvard study of IDF data finds that there are 377,000 people unaccounted for in Gaza. That estimate is six times the number of people normally cited as killed. Genocide. medium.com/@m4xim1l1an/...

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"SCOTUS allows Trump admin to deport people to random countries with no notice" Honestly still can't believe that I wrote this headline today, let alone that the U.S. Supreme Court's majority did so.

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What does it really look like to meet this moment from a different worldview than the one that got us here?

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#BREAKING: Over a (sharp) public dissent from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS clears the way for the Trump administration to remove migrants to third countries without giving them an additional opportunity to contest whether they face persecution or other forms of mistreatment there:

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Rubio confirms the suspicion that Iran was not constructing a nuclear weapon, the US did not attack based on new intel, and Israel's claim that an Iranian bomb was imminent is BS (though if you parse non-Bibi statements, they say high enrichment, not bomb construction). So I guess there's that.

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“There is no intel” JFC www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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"In my prison, we’ve been debating the following question: What would the U.S. government do with our prison populations in the event of a large war or enemy invasion?"

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#blue #sky

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“False claims or insinuations about Iran having nuclear weapons or a nuclear weapons program are not a simple slip of the tongue… They are being used by both Israel & the United States to argue that a catastrophic war is both urgent & necessary.” - @sarahlazare.bsky.social & @ahjohnson.bsky.social

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"Find your political home" remains, for me at least, the single best guiding star in times of crisis and chaos. Individuals can doomscroll and post and have big feelings; groups can take meaningful action. Maybe it's an activist org, union, student group, career, collective/crew, etc (1/3)

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