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Ranked choice voting is good for democracy, not least because it can channel the natural ambition of politicians in productive directions. It gives people an incentive to collaborate before primary day, rather than after, when ex post facto endorsements can feel more cynical.

submitted 6 hours ago • 2 comments

I’m still not over the fact that there was an extremely popular award-winning movie over a decade ago about the perils of falling in love with a chatbot and a company decided to make the chatbot in the image of the movie’s chatbot and now quite a few people have decided to date it

submitted 2 days ago • 122 comments

In surveillance news, the city of Chicago has this wild proposal that would require every licensed business to buy and install surveillance cameras and turn over that data to CPD without a warrant. LPL has more here bsky.app/profile/lucy...

submitted 19 hours ago • 10 comments

New from 404 Media: 'FuckLAPD.com' is a website that lets anyone use facial recognition to instantly identify cops. Point camera, take photo, upload to site. It provides their name and salary information. Creator also rebooting their tool for identifying ICE employees www.404media.co/fucklapd-com...

submitted 23 hours ago • 30 comments

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

submitted 8 hours ago • 24 comments

Zohran Mamdani is the only democrat in the mayoral race that released an LGBTQ platform and the only democrat in the country (that I know of) to commit to safeguarding gender affirming care for youth + adults with $$.

submitted 10 hours ago • 14 comments

submitted 7 hours ago • 2 comments

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

submitted 10 hours ago • 17 comments

[Me realising only after seeing a @diplomatofnight.com skeet that zohran is mahmood mamdani's son like wot 😳 😂 Nice]

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

Brad Lander told NY1 at Mamdani’s party that what Democrats need to decide right now is whether to be “fighters or folders” and yes he should immediately mount a primary challenge to Chuck Schumer

submitted 8 hours ago • 39 comments

A story that got less attention was the incredibly cynical primary of my amazing Councilwoman—the first Muslim woman ever elected to the NYC Council—by a billionaire, corporate-backed candidate also lobbing gross accusations of antisemitism. Anyway, the challenger got trounced. Hell yea.

submitted 10 hours ago • 51 comments

Günde 18 çocuk istismarı suçu işleniyor Çocuğa yönelik istismar çarpıcı boyutlara ulaştı. Verilere göre, ülkede günde ortalama 18 "çocuğa karşı istismar suçu" işlenirken, sadece 2024 yılında mahkemelere toplam 18 bin 884 dosya taşındı www.birgun.net/haber/gunde-...

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

NYT reported tonight that Trump’s allies are preparing to turn Mamdani into a national target, particularly leading up to the midterms next year. Turns out they've already begun. And it's ugly. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 8 hours ago • 33 comments

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.

submitted 9 hours ago • 6 comments

Zohran’s victory is an earthquake. The left everywhere must dedicate itself to an insurgency against Dem incumbents. The Dem establishment has lost credibility w/ its base in the face of fascist threat. The base is looking leftward for new leadership. We are the opposition party.

submitted 10 hours ago • 9 comments

This is great from @attackerman.bsky.social on how Zohran’s opponents tried to use the politics of 9/11 against him - and it didn’t work. www.forever-wars.com/this-is-the-...

submitted 7 hours ago • 3 comments

CAIR's executive director congratulating Zohran: "We demand the necessary protection for him and his family." Indeed, I hope they hire some airtight security, because the escalating threats from islamophobes and racists are serious indeed.

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: the Murdoch Broadsheet has discovered historical materialism

submitted 22 hours ago • 12 comments

I don't think we talk enough about how dignity is also a human right. Food, water, shelter, education, health care, representation...all of those are human rights that everyone should receive regardless of who they are. But it's also a right to not have to beg for them.

submitted 21 hours ago • 30 comments

Every morning, a new story about how many Palestinians were killed by Israeli troops while looking for food. But we’re supposed to believe Iran is the big bad.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

A step in the right direction IMO, to actually have a worker and labour leader in the role if anything to correct for the elitism that can shape appointments. But let's see, I'm briefly reminded about Kim Dae-hwan's miserable time in the role during the Roh administration.

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🏳‍🌈 Kaos GL’nin X hesabına Türkiye’den erişim engeli 👉 Kaos GL, platformdan kendilerine herhangi bir resmi bilgilendirme yapılmadığını açıkladı. bianet.org/haber/kaos-g...

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Western fanfics about China are really getting out of hand

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

they figured russia normalisation is too politically costly for now so they're opening the back door instead

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The DHS Secretary says Florida will receive funds from FEMA to build immigration prisons. Depraved af.

submitted 1 day ago • 97 comments

Elon Musk is one of the worst mass murderers of the 21st Century.

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

We're getting very close to an actual WAR IS PEACE Fox news banner.

submitted 1 day ago • 422 comments

I'm excited to announce this new paper we have in The Lancet Planetary Health. We show that the world is not moving towards a just and ecological future for all.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

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/...

submitted 1 day ago • 37 comments

Fine point but whenever we have to resort to economics, I recall Ha-Joon Chang's assesment that economics has become the language of rulers, of power. Unless we speak in economics, our arguments are null. So it becomes about economics than say morality of war [not saying this is OP's intention]...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

zohran is proof that to mobilize the left you have to have "dorkiest guy at the punk show" energy instead of "coolest guy at mock trial" energy

submitted 1 day ago • 42 comments

imagine writing this completely uncritically as if it’s a normal thing for a government official to say

submitted 1 day ago • 203 comments

Fat-transformation for attack ads. Like. There is no bar low enough for these people. Being islamophobic racist pricks was not enough, they also had to be fatphobic. Just plain old hate anyone but themselves.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Tech companies only have five ideas: robot slave (actually just human slaves), hallucinatory counter-reality, untaxable money, The Everything App, and Clippy

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

"What is feared is a mayor who cares no less about what Palestinians in Bay Ridge feel when they see pictures of children in Gaza killed by Israel than he does about what Jews in Riverdale felt when macabre images flooded in on October 7." www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

The International Criminal Court is reviewing a confidential report asserting that the Russian Wagner group has committed war crimes by spreading images of atrocities in West Africa on social media. They include videos alluding to cannibalism. apnews.com/article/wagn...

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White supremacists are endorsing Andrew Cuomo for mayor

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

If this is the case, then there looks like a route for the US and Iran to climb down, at least for now. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

submitted 1 day ago • 61 comments

I believe Dr Badar Khan Suri from Georgetown, also targeted, said something similar in an interview after his release, to the effect that he was quiet before, and this is how they treated him, so why not be loud now?

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

What is missed but makes this particularly meaningful is at the Gaza Solidarity Encampment/Columbia protests, Khalil did not lead rallies. He was a media liaison who provided statements to the press on behalf of student demonstrators. The Trump admin’s targeting of him turned him into a leader.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

In case you can't tell what just happened, JK Rowling instructed her followers to take photos of anyone in a women's restroom who doesn't match their idea of Western feminine beauty standards. Short hair? Thick cheekbones/jaw? Too tall or broad-shouldered? You're now "a man" and will be harassed.

submitted 2 days ago • 85 comments

How will toilets be policed? Its simple, everyone will be a toilet cop with the power to threaten and harass the untermenschen

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments