This is news to me, a Jew who doesn't feel like I have lost anything because of Zohran's victory.
My goodness. Imagine showing everyone how much your brain is just absolutely pickled in fear and bigotry.
Send your friends who feel all hopeful tonight the link to @ruwaromman.bsky.social's campaign for Georgia governor. Let's get some of this New York energy down South
www.ruwaforgeorgia.com
this is objectively hilarious
this is very funny, but to be earnest for a moment: the same guys setting $10M on fire here are the ones who can’t stand the idea of buses being free, of rent being affordable, of anything at all being easier for all the people for whom $10M would be an unimaginably transformative amount of money
About to become the most NYC-loving New Yorker of all time
i can’t believe a good thing happened we should do this more often
This is the kind of result, if it turns out to hold, that I personally think is most significant.
In retrospect maybe it was unwise for Republicans to destroy Virginia's economy for no reason ahead of an important election
holy shit
everybody gets twenty-four hours to lib out with impunity, tonight is the cringe purge
The Captain America sit down and shoot straight meme. I made it say: So, you said you're going to leave New York.
the first muslim woman being elected to statewide office (in any state!) the day dick cheney died is beautiful
I feel like this is an important aspect to emphasize, loudly, to everyone who endorsed Cuomo. they chose to side with a known sexual predator for personal gain and frankly that should be disqualifying for public office. you knew who he was and decided the women he hurt were acceptable losses
New York City map of which areas voted for Cuomo and which for Mamdani.
New map of the cool parts of NYC just dropped.
you can win without billionaires supporting you
you can win without party leadership endorsing you
you can win unapologetically standing with every persecuted minority pundits say are too politically toxic to touch
we could do everything about this process differently if we wanted to
this, towards the end, may be the most important part imo
'An authoritarian, fascistic movement [...] is trying – and to some extent succeeding – to build an authoritarian state; but [...] the political conflict isn’t over, nor is democracy’s fate sealed for good'
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Posting this from September now since Conde Nast is merging Teen Vogue into Vogue and cutting the politics section.
www.teenvogue.com/story/men-dr...
Let's review: The person you consider to be HitlerMussolini reincarnated is endorsing your candidate but this isn't causing any consternation for you?
Hi Emma! I would love to share your query with a colleague of mine here at DGB, Jim McCarthy! His QM is: querymanager.com/JimMcCarthy
A Labor Day reminder: today there isn't a single city, metro area, or state in the U.S. where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment.
Millions of people with jobs—even multiple jobs—aren't safe from homelessness in this country.
5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA GAVIN NEWSOM, et al., Plaintiffs, Case No. 25-cv-04870-CRB OPINION GRANTING INJUNCTIVE RELIEF V. DONALD J. TRUMP, et al., Defendants. Congress spoke clearly in 1878 when it passed the Posse Comitatus Act, prohibiting the use of the U.S. military to execute domestic law. Nearly 140 years later, Defendants President Trump, Secretary of Defense Hegseth, and the Department of Defense deployed the National Guard and Marines to Los Angeles, ostensibly to quell a rebellion and ensure that federal immigration law was enforced. There were indeed protests in Los Angeles, and some individuals engaged in violence. Yet there was no rebellion, nor was civilian law enforcement unable to respond to the protests and enforce the law. Nevertheless, at Defendants' orders and contrary to Congress's explicit instruction, federal troops executed the laws. The evidence at trial established that Defendants systematically used armed soldiers (whose identity was often obscured by protective armor) and military vehicles to set up protective perimeters and traffic blockades, engage in crowd control, and otherwise demonstrate a military presence in and around Los Angeles. In short, Defendants violated the Posse Comitatus Act.
BREAKING: Trump, Hegseth violated the Posse Comitatus Act with their troop deployment to Los Angeles, Judge Charles Breyer rules after trial. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back
You can always buy from @workingfamilies.org which explicitly supports a multiracial multi generational New York
store.workingfamilies.org
the drop in violent crime in baltimore in recent years is one of the most astonishing successes in crime reduction in us history
As an historian, I think it's bad when "blood libel" goes from denoting a very specific part of anti-Jewish history rooted in particular forms of medieval Christian anti-Judaism, to just meaning any criticism of Israel. A whole generation won't understand just how bad the actual blood libel was!
Chris Cuomo posting a deepfake of AOC the same week that Jim Acosta “interviews” a deepfake of a school shooting victim are both harbingers of how traditional media power players will help usher in the worst of the AI slop era
B'tselem, today:
"[T]he unequivocal conclusion [is] that Israel is taking coordinated, deliberate action to destroy Palestinian society in the Gaza Strip. In other words: Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
www.btselem.org/publications...
Middle East crisis live: Gaza running out of specialised food to save malnourished children, UN agencies say Supplies of ready-to-use-therapeutic food will be depleted by mid-August if nothing changes, says Unicef
The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste. By Hana Kiros
Here's an extreme example of the reality that there is no absolute scarcity, only distribution politics. In Gaza created as a tool of genocidal war. But the same is true of almost all human needs, including housing here in the USA.
![Ramban on Numbers 35:33:1
V’LO TACHANIPHU’ (AND YE SHALL NOT POLLUTE) THE LAND. Because He had said at the beginning: And these things shall be for a statute of judgment unto you throughout your generations in all your habitations, meaning that these judgments apply also outside the Land [of Israel], therefore He mentioned additional stringencies applying to the inhabitants of the Land [of Israel], in honor of the Divine Presence which is [especially] present there, and He warned us not to pollute it and not to defile it.
And the meaning of the term chanuphah [mentioned here, which literally means: “flattery,” or “pollution”] is that which is said with reference to the imprecations: Thou shalt carry out much into the field, and shalt gather in little; Thou shalt plant vineyards and dress them, but thou shalt neither drink of the wine; Thou shalt have olive-trees throughout all thy borders, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with oil; All thy trees and the fruit of thy land shall the locust make bare, for all expressions of chanuphah indicate doing the opposite of that which is seen by or appears to the eyes. This is the punishment [which will come] to the Land because of idolatry, bloodshed, and immorality, just as it is said, will not the Land ‘chanoph techenaph’ (become polluted)?; the earth also ‘chanepha’ (is polluted) under the inhabitants thereof; ‘vatachniphi’ (and thou hast polluted) the Land with thy harlotries. And the meaning of the term “defilement” [used in the next verse — And thou shalt not ‘defile’ the Land] is that the Land will become defiled so that the Glory of G-d will not dwell therein if there is innocent blood [shed] in it which has not been atoned for by the blood of him that shed it. Thus the Rabbis have said in the Sifre: “‘V’lo tachaniphu’ the Land — this is an admonition against flatterers.” For at first [in Verses 31-32] He warned us against taking a bribe from murderers, and then [in Verse 33 here] He warned us against flattering them b…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:zju7gpf2woz5vwegmzdg2acl/bafkreibhhjsg2i4o3ubftau4eupc4phsk7lfjhcghjs5dcvqemhczumhzm)
Ramban on Numbers 35:33:1 V’LO TACHANIPHU’ (AND YE SHALL NOT POLLUTE) THE LAND. Because He had said at the beginning: And these things shall be for a statute of judgment unto you throughout your generations in all your habitations, meaning that these judgments apply also outside the Land [of Israel], therefore He mentioned additional stringencies applying to the inhabitants of the Land [of Israel], in honor of the Divine Presence which is [especially] present there, and He warned us not to pollute it and not to defile it. And the meaning of the term chanuphah [mentioned here, which literally means: “flattery,” or “pollution”] is that which is said with reference to the imprecations: Thou shalt carry out much into the field, and shalt gather in little; Thou shalt plant vineyards and dress them, but thou shalt neither drink of the wine; Thou shalt have olive-trees throughout all thy borders, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with oil; All thy trees and the fruit of thy land shall the locust make bare, for all expressions of chanuphah indicate doing the opposite of that which is seen by or appears to the eyes. This is the punishment [which will come] to the Land because of idolatry, bloodshed, and immorality, just as it is said, will not the Land ‘chanoph techenaph’ (become polluted)?; the earth also ‘chanepha’ (is polluted) under the inhabitants thereof; ‘vatachniphi’ (and thou hast polluted) the Land with thy harlotries. And the meaning of the term “defilement” [used in the next verse — And thou shalt not ‘defile’ the Land] is that the Land will become defiled so that the Glory of G-d will not dwell therein if there is innocent blood [shed] in it which has not been atoned for by the blood of him that shed it. Thus the Rabbis have said in the Sifre: “‘V’lo tachaniphu’ the Land — this is an admonition against flatterers.” For at first [in Verses 31-32] He warned us against taking a bribe from murderers, and then [in Verse 33 here] He warned us against flattering them b…
Ramban: He warned us against flattering [the murders of innocents] because of their high position or their power, or the honor of their family, even without taking a bribe, because if we flatter them, we will thereby cause the Land to “betray” its inhabitants.
Bemidbar 35:33 — If you allow the murderers of innocents among your people to go free, you defile the land and drive away the divine presence.
