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New outlets are literally giving more smoke to a candidate for A LOCAL ELECTION who wants to pilot 5 state owned grocery stores, fix vendor licenses and raise taxes on the rich by 2% then Trump literally doing fascism

submitted 6 hours ago • 15 comments

I feel like I'm losing my mind. Here is the transcript of what Zohran Mamdani actually said about the phrase "globalize the intifada." This is his "refusal to disavow it." This is what has people terrified. Just fucking read it. Source: podscripts.co/podcasts/the...

submitted 11 hours ago • 49 comments

i’m telling yall, get whatever vaccines you need now bc there’s no guarantee they’ll be around later

submitted 9 hours ago • 73 comments

It should go without saying but historically people who propose denaturalization are not, as my grandfather would say, good for the Jews

submitted 10 hours ago • 31 comments

Do y’all not see that these attempts to make Mamdani a Jew vs Muslim issue is CLASSIC white supremacy pitting minority groups against each other in order to divide us because we are very dangerous to them when we’re in community?? Are y’all for real gonna fall for that shit!?

submitted 9 hours ago • 15 comments

we ship everywhere! booksmith.com xoxo

submitted 9 hours ago • 63 comments

This racist notion that ethnicity overrides all thought is embedded in American behavior and I think this NYT article is broadly anti-Semitic. Being Jewish doesn't equate with support for Israel and criticizing the state of Israel doesn't equate to hating Jews.

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

It is utterly wild to me how resistant a huge number of people seem to be to the idea that one can be an antisemitic Zionist, especially given how much of the US government is run by them

submitted 13 hours ago • 3 comments

First of all, incredible concept for a rom com. Second of all, HELL YES. This guy has been begging to star in a RomCom for ages. He is an adorable person. This is gonna be great I’m so happy for him.

submitted 14 hours ago • 26 comments

2031 is a long time to wait for Senator Brad Lander.

submitted 14 hours ago • 5 comments

Woo! We lost power! We have no estimate for restoration!

submitted 13 hours ago • 2 comments

I've written a bunch about how conservatives reliably assert, whenever Democrats take office in New York, that everyone is leaving. (Current pop.: 8.2 million.) I think it's a throwback to white flight ooga-booga from the 60s and 70s.

submitted 15 hours ago • 3 comments

Two years ago I interviewed a 31-year-old NY state assemblymember about a 7-year-old girl killed by an SUV driver in his district. I hung up the phone, astonished that I'd talked to a legislator who so thoughtfully articulated what actually needs to change on our streets. He'll make a great mayor

submitted 1 day ago • 35 comments

scientists consistently found that consumption of ice cream led to reduced risk for t2 diabetes and insulin resistance. They didn't want to believe this and buried the data in favor of yogurt when they published. Multiple scientists have tried to disprove the data since & it backfired every time.

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

The Times could have tried talking to ANY of the actual Jews or Jewish orgs involved in Jews for Zohran! There were many many many — and highly visible. And it’s dangerous malpractice for the NYT to not include us for the sake of an inflammatory binary.

submitted 17 hours ago • 9 comments

Jake Sherman is reporting that the Medicaid gender affirming care ban has been removed from the reconciliation bill! Huge news!

submitted 18 hours ago • 88 comments

Not Japan-related, but since we all need a distraction from The Horrors, Takaya Suzuki points out a study that examined 408 sleeping cats and found the majority (65%) curl leftwards. I'm not sure how useful this information is, but...it's yours now.

submitted 1 day ago • 43 comments

Anyone else in Brooklyn experiencing prolonged light flickering?

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

honestly this is a masterwork of a statement. like the degree to which it throws Cuomo under the bus by implying that they were all just paying protection money because YOU KNOW HOW THAT GUY IS RIGHT? DON'T WE ALL HATE HIM OVER HERE ON THE WINNING SIDE I WAS TOTALLY ALWAYS ON?

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

An Andrew Cuomo mega donor contributed $250,000 to his campaign out of fear that he would abuse his power to penalise them if they didn’t donate.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Feels like ranked choice was absolutely decisive in this race—not because of the vote count, but because of how it changed the incentives from zero-sum to cooperapetitive. It allowed a fractured left field to align organically through co-endorsements instead of falling into a circular firing squad.

submitted 1 day ago • 97 comments

Help us record firefly flashes! 👇🙏

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

NEW: Records of 911 and EMS responses to calls from ICE detention centers show a surge in emergencies the facilities are unequipped to handle, including suicide attempts, severe pregnancy complications, and alleged sexual assaults by staff. This is by @dmehro.bsky.social and @dell.bsky.social

submitted 1 day ago • 74 comments

It’s hard to describe how much everyone hates Adams for being bad weird - his insistance that he’s vegan while eating fish; his weird statements about crystals, wolves, and Game of Thrones; his idea to have drones hover over drowning people and play a recording of him asking them to remain calm.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 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 1 day ago • 472 comments

Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.

submitted 2 days ago • 28 comments

honestly last night was a huge vindication for the "the rent is too damn high" guy

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

NY Democratic machine genuinely befuddled after the charismatic, talented person with good ideas defeated the sex pest fuck-up with name recognition

submitted 2 days ago • 31 comments

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.

submitted 2 days ago • 45 comments

When you have trauma - at this point we all have a lot - you can live in fear or you can live in curiosity. Today after Mamdani’s primary victory, I’ve predictably got ppl telling me I’m not a real Jew and/or never to speak to them again because the depth of research they did was the New York Post

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

I saw so many people talking about how Mamdani and Lander were clearly running because they love their city and want to make life better there, while Cuomo seems to hate and fear it, and that feels like the key piece of this campaign that could be replicable by progressives everywhere

submitted 2 days ago • 21 comments

A Muslim son of immigrants might become mayor of NYC in part because he cross endorsed and supported a Jewish candidate and Black candidate, and vice versa. It's a beautiful American story for the rest of us. A nightmare for all the right people ;) It's so New York.

submitted 2 days ago • 538 comments