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Unions built this city and keep it running. They’ve fought against power and greed to make the impossible possible. Now, they need an ally in City Hall. On Labor Day, the presidents of the Hotel Trades Council, 32BJ and SEIU 1199 make the case at @cityandstateny.bsky.social.
Reminder: Most mass shootings are carried out by cisgender men.
Felt like a pie chart was in order. Number of mass shooters since 2018: 4197 % of mass shooters since 2018 that were transgender? 0.095% % of mass shooters that were cisgender: 99.905%
Just like the Nazis
One of the things the Nazis did when coming to power was push propaganda that Jews were criminals and prone to violence by focusing on crime committed by Jews or fabricating crime they falsely attributed to Jews. The last 36 hours on X has been this on a massive scale against trans people.
I think people really struggle w partially consolidated authoritarianism, either understating our problem or understating our power It's like we're in a liminal fascist space. And not recognizing how far gone we are or thinking we're simply too far gone are both grave errors we can't afford to make
They're openly calling to lock up every trans person by force. We need every ally to speak out forcefully against this because trans folks cannot do this on our own.
Oh look, it's the thing every fascist government says about the opposition party before they dissolve them and turn the country into a one party state.
The messaging from this administration has the same vibe as a cross set ablaze in someone’s front yard. It’s about communicating menace and instilling terror, the opposite of what the government of a free and democratic society should be doing.
Citizens United Almost Broke Democracy. Here’s the Fix.
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Congrats, MAGA! You're complicit in covering up one of the most vile child sex-trafficking rings in history. Jeffrey Epstein thanks you for your service! Catch up on all of today's news here: www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-p...
FM @lars-loekke.bsky.social: ”Israel’s plans to expand settlements in the West Bank are unacceptable and a violation of international law. I condemn the decision and call for its immediate reversal w/ colleagues from 🇬🇧🇩🇪🇨🇦 and more." um.dk#/embedded/re...
"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.
Chattel slavery was so bad that when we tell you how bad it in fact was most of y'all shut down and tell us we're making it up and pass laws against us ever telling you how bad it was again because your brains literally cannot handle how bad it in fact was.
One of the many fascinating things about the NYC mayoral race is that it’s not just Mamdani’s remarkably successful campaign which even after the primary has continued to build new momentum. It’s that the rest of the political establishment or opposition or whatever you want to call it …
More than 700 SEIU health care workers at Butler Hospital won a new union contract through standing together and fighting back against the greed of our broken health care system. Unions raise wages, protect health benefits and improve patient care.
Cuomo's new campaign strategist is a Trump supporting right winger
The Simplest Example Of Why Putin Is Screwed In Ukraine and NATO Will Take Trump Down With Him
Here's a tweet by the current DHS PR officer pushing fascist and nazi imagery. He calls for trans people to be eradicated.
18/ So it must be understood that the devil the QAnonists were looking for all along is in fact Donald Trump. Or at least Donald Trump is *one* of the *faces* of that devil. It should also be understood that there is absolutely nothing Donald Trump will not do to avoid disclosing what he has done.
"...he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them." "...no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust...shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title...from any King, Prince, or foreign State."
How Health Insurance Rates Could Rise In New York In 2026
‘Distracting the public’: group of health professionals call for RFK Jr to be removed https://twp.ai/4ipEqZ
#ReleaseTheCuomoList
Well, Cuomo asked for a fight. He got it.
Cuomo campaigns on raising rent for the average New Yorker https://twp.ai/4ipGRI
A Trump order seeks to impose involuntary confinement on homeless and mentally ill Americans. Trans people are already at a higher risk. But a nightmare scenario of mass confinement hangs over the order - the right defines trans people as inherently mentally ill. slate.com/life/2025/08...
Baltimore Mayor Scott response on Trump: I think it's very notable that each and every one of the cities called out by the President has a black mayor, and most of those cities are seeing historic lows in violent crime…
Full series of events
The military takeover of Washington is not a “distraction” from Epstein. It’s a military takeover of Washington, which is an even bigger deal, and those of us who kill brain cells reporting on this stuff knows it’s been an explicit goal since before the election.
Homeless people were one of the early targets of the Nazis, rounded up and forcibly moved to concentration camps.
After emigrating from Sicily, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s grandfather, Andrea Cuomo, opened a grocery store in Jamaica, Queens. The store soon drew a regular patron: Mr. Trump’s father, Fred Trump, a politically connected developer building homes nearby. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/n...
This whole story gave me the ick. Gift Link www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/n...
Suburban man retreats to safe space.
Attorney General James took on Trump's fraud and the NRA's rampant corruption—and won both cases. So it's little wonder that Trump's politicized DOJ is now coming after her. The people of New York stand with their lawyer and champion.
Mass deportations don’t just target immigrants; they threaten the caregivers that many older Americans depend on. From @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social: trib.al/Jcmdl2m
Zohran Mamdani calls out Trump’s meddling in NYC mayoral race https://twp.ai/4ip7IC
Chinese ICE Detainee Dies by Suicide at Pennsylvania Detention Center theintercept.com/2025/08/07/i...
“I’m tired of fighting this fight with my hand tied behind my back," NY Gov. Hochul said. “We’re not going to roll over and we’re going to fight fire with fire,” Calif. Gov. Newsom said. About damn time. There's a five-alarm fire. The old rules are defunct. www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-d...
“Ask for what actually fixes the problem — and then go out there and fight for it.” On Monday, @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social came to NYC to talk about universal childcare, and why we shouldn’t listen to billionaires who say making life affordable for working families isn't possible.
GOP supermajority, folks. This is what they want for the U.S. www.wate.com/news/tenness...
At @rollingstone.com, @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social lays out the stakes of our election. "It turns out there are some billionaires and Wall Street CEOs who can’t stand the idea of a mayor who wants them to pay their fair share to create a city that everyone can afford."
Thank you @theguardian.com for showing US news outlets how actual journalism is done. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
He straight up, deliberately lies about demonstrable facts (the jobs revision happened before not after the election and Trump called it out at the time!) and no reporter challenges him on it. No Sunday show host challenged his officials about his lies. He gets away with it.
We’re just not a serious country anymore. Beyond a joke.
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Mamdani: I would say that for the former governor to have spent an entire day speaking almost exclusively about me and barely about the New Yorkers who have been killed is indicative of the very politics New Yorkers want to leave in the past.
I remember when Jill Stein told me there was no difference between the GOP and the Dems on climate change. 🤷🏽♂️ www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/c...
Meiselas: One of those headlines I had to reread. We’re not allowing the president of Taiwan into the U.S.? Our ally? Trump caved to China’s demand and blocked him. MAGA screamed Dems were weak on China—then did exactly what they fear-mongered about.
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This is not an answer you give if you're innocent.
This is so far over the line I don't even know where to begin. Trying to get students -- your own students -- expelled or deported because of political activism? Jesus, I won't even punch down at random college students on *social media*
He is really a brilliant comic.
My goodness! A national newspaper publishing a trans woman without a bigot for 'balance' mind you, it's called opinion, despite reporting quite factually on a march of 100,000 people that got very little coverage because no one was violent or arrested. www.independent.co.uk/voices/londo...
trump is first and foremost a vehicle for delusional extremists — most of whom are total mediocrities — to impose their ideologies on the country, with vought as a paradigmatic example
Trump can’t legally deploy the military on US soil. His budget bill gives $30B to ICE to hire 10,000 more masked, armed agents to be deployed in our communities. He’s building a domestic military accountable only to him. This isn’t about immigration. It’s authoritarianism.
Governors Newsom and Hochul should urge their legislatures to start holding hearings with the Epstein/Maxwell victims/survivors ASAP! On camera. Under oath. Let Pettyman Smallcock or Todd Blanche try to stop it!
Ryan Walters, the Oklahoma schools chief who wants bibles in the classroom and Christianity taught to kids, just got caught watching adult content. On his work computer. During a Board of Education meeting. Read that again. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/ryan-walte...
He ain’t lying🤷🏽♀️
* REUTERS POLL -- NEARLY 90% ECONOMISTS, 89 OF 100, SAY THEY ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THE QUALITY OF OFFICIAL U.S. ECONOMIC DATA, INCLUDING 41 SAYING VERY CONCERNED @reuters.com
"French President Emmanuel Macron announced Thursday that France will recognize Palestine as a state, amid snowballing global anger over people starving in Gaza." stunning. apnews.com/article/fran...
NYC's largest union—the mighty @dc37nyc.bsky.social—stood with us in the primary when few thought victory was possible. Now they're all in for the general election. Together, we'll deliver a city where the people who keep it running can afford it too. From last week's endorsement:
If you think it won't happen to you, think again... Art by @dennisgoris.bsky.social
NEW ANGLE Watch and decide, but I was never fully convinced he was shot in the first place. Never mind that his ear should’ve been blown off—now completely healed. Or that the Secret Service took their time getting him offstage. But from this angle: you see the photographers guided into place…
The members of @1199seiu.org are heroes—saving lives, delivering babies, caring for all us in our time of need. I will stand with them as Mayor. So grateful to earn this endorsement from the largest healthcare union in the country.
I found a new video of the event, would like feedback on how this was handled by people who might know... #revolution2025
More than two thirds of New Yorkers are tenants. Andrew Cuomo compared them to hotel guests. We need a Mayor who will bring our city together around an agenda to lower costs for everyone, whether they rent or own.
Breaking news: “The Late Show” with Stephen Colbert will end in May 2026, CBS said in a statement. The announcement came days after Colbert spoke out against the $16 million paid earlier this month by Paramount, the parent company of CBS News.
Turns out that NPR and PBS' pandering to the right still didn't save their funding. Maybe there's a lesson here for media that think that tilting to the right will spare them from accusations of "liberal bias."
Yesterday, Maurene Comey, who prosecuted the Epstein case, was summarily fired from SDNY. Her letter to colleagues pulls no punches. "Fear is the tool of a tyrant, wielded to suppress independent thought." h/t @msnbc.com
I was given an ultimatum.
This is the face of nightmares. Not only for adults, but especially for children. It is the face of the most notorious pedophile in the world — the president of the United States.
Support For Medicare For All: All: 59% By Age: 18-29: 70% 30-44: 64% 45-64: 57% 65+: 45% YouGov / July 7, 2025
Ossoff: Did anyone really think the sexual predator president who used to party with Jeffrey Epstein was going to release the Epstein files?
So Medicare is about to use AI to determine if you're allowed to have a certain medication or procedure.
The 14th Street Busway has been a smashing success: faster commutes, fewer crashes, calmer streets. So why is Eric Adams blocking a similar plan for 34th Street?
No one.
Recently, my book THEY CALLED US ENEMY was banned – again – in Tennessee. Book bans are out of control. Huge parts of American history are being restricted. To join me in standing up for the freedom to read, go to pen.org/action. @penamerica.bsky.social @topshelfcomix.bsky.social @idwpublishing.com
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social Who literally has their finger on the pulse? #NYSNA #Mamdani
Delivering for the working people of this city is only possible through partnership with leaders like Congressman Espaillat, who has paved the way for immigrants like me.
Everyone like this needs to be hounded out of the Democratic Party. These are people who genuinely believe a permanent Trump/GOP trifecta is a better outcome than policy being slightly left of their preferences. They are a major reason why millions of people who agree with Dems don't bother to vote.
New in PN: The worst chief justice of all time "American history has no shortage of legendarily bad chief justices and disgraceful decisions. But John Roberts has overseen the wholesale corruption and capture of the Supreme Court, and history should look back on his tenure with revulsion."
“Secret police” are your words, not mine. Seems like you’ve been giving them a lot of thought. Unlike NYPD, your agents don’t identify themselves & wear masks that cover their faces. Now they ignore judges’ rulings, too. What law enforcement agents are supposed to uphold … is the rule of law.
Daughter of street vendor asking why police aren't helping!! Broken heart 💔 🖕🏽 LAPD
We can deliver affordability and fight authoritarianism at the same time. I am eager to partner with state and federal leaders to do exactly that.
For what it's worth, this is precisely the reason the Klan wore hoods when they terrorized communities and disappeared unfavored minorities. Historically, it wasn't called doxxing it was just recognizing a fascist community member.
People in Alligator Auschwitz describe the inhumane conditions in the concentration camp—insufficient water, scarce and unsanitary food, lack of medicine, denial of religious rights, etc. “They're not respecting our human rights. We're human beings—we're not dogs. We're like rats in an experiment."
It’s a profound honor to receive the endorsement of Manhattan Democratic Party and its Leader Keith L.T. Wright, who has worked for decades to build a fairer, more just New York. We are uniting this party around a vision to make our city affordable for all. manhattandemocrats.org/2025/07/manh...
