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Kumar Rao @kumar.bsky.social · 18h

This is supposed to be a flex by the President of the United States? 🥴

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Trump posts AI video showing him literally dumping shit on America

Kumar Rao @kumar.bsky.social · 18h

Pretty reasonable.

John Cusack @johncusack.bsky.social · 18h

www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

John Cusack says Trump should ‘go to hell!’ at ‘No Kings’ protest in Chicago

‘No, you can’t put troops on our streets,’ added the ‘High Fidelity’ star

www.independent.co.uk

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Kumar Rao @kumar.bsky.social · 1d

Wow.

I ❤️ NYC.

Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 1d

Times Square, NYC. #NoKings

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Kumar Rao @kumar.bsky.social · 1d

Here at #NoKings Brooklyn.

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Kumar Rao @kumar.bsky.social · 1d

Www.freethefuture.net

#NoKings

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 2d

Feeling dehydrated? This quenched my thirst. www.wsj.com/us-news/zohr...

New York's Richest Ask 'how Dare He?' as Mamdani Closes In on City Hall
The city's 1% realize their influence is waning: It's hard to be chill and relaxed'

It was just after finishing a set of pelvic floor exercises that a Pilates instructor on the Upper East Side recently brought up one of the least popular men in the neighborhood: New York City
mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani,.

All of a sudden the class, which costs $50 a pop, became something of a political confab. In between sets, some women strategized about helping former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo,
who they see as more palatable, pull off an upset. Others gushed about a recent New York Post cover depicting Gov. Kathy Hochul, who had recently endorsed Mamdani, as a devotee of Mao Zedong.

New York's richest residents can't stop talking about Mamdani, the Democratic nominee. To many of the city's uber-wealthy, his sustained
popularity has been a shock. The 33-year-old, self. described Democratic Socialist is the overwhelming favorite to win City Hall next month, on a platform that includes free buses and free child care--programs that, the moneyed
are well aware, somebody needs to shell out for.

"I hope Mamdani is going to give out free Xanax," said Caroline Leventhal, a lifelong Upper East sider who co-founded 'Mic'd and Medicated," a podcast that dissects the lifestyle of cosmetic surgeries and private ski instructors. "It's hard to
be chill and relaxed."

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Kumar Rao @kumar.bsky.social · 2d

“The fictional GOP portrait of protesters as deplorables and undesirables is part of a strategy to stop the resistance before it flexes its growing power against a president who is already decidedly unpopular.” #NoKings

www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Opinion | Republicans' attacks on 'No Kings' protests reek of desperation

Republicans’ fictional portrait is part of a strategy to stop the resistance before it flexes its growing power.

www.msnbc.com

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Kumar Rao @kumar.bsky.social · 2d

The resistance reaches into Trump country #NoKings wagingnonviolence.org/2025/10/resi...

The resistance reaches into Trump country

As organizers for No Kings 2 seek historic turnout on Oct. 18, the broader pro-democracy movement has already broken new ground.

wagingnonviolence.org

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 2d

and another thing: im not mad. please don't put in the newspaper that i got mad

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump on No Kings: "This is not a king. They're referring to me as a king. I'm not a king."

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d

It's bing bong season.

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Kumar Rao @kumar.bsky.social · 2d

You love to see it

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Kumar Rao @kumar.bsky.social · 2d

Another banger line from Sliwa

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Kumar Rao @kumar.bsky.social · 2d

😫

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Kumar Rao @kumar.bsky.social · 2d

In addition to being hilarious, knowing how utterly mad this woulda made Cuomo, this was the best line of the night, by far. 😆

Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 2d

“I knew Mario Cuomo. You’re no Mario Cuomo, Andrew Cuomo.” - Sliwa

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Kumar Rao @kumar.bsky.social · 2d

I genuinely hope this debate is the last time I am subject to having to listen to Andrew Cuomo’s grating and exhausting voice.

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Kumar Rao @kumar.bsky.social · 2d

Those poor kids headed to school tomorrow. 😆

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Kumar Rao @kumar.bsky.social · 2d

Something incredibly, incredibly disgusting to hear Cuomo repeatedly say “prostitutes”

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d

No surprise that someone who signed up for Benjamin Netanyahu's legal defense team doesn't know the occupation is illegal.

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Kumar Rao @kumar.bsky.social · 2d

Mamdani is dripping with discipline.

Politico @politico.com · 2d

Mamdani is so far doing what he needs to do to win tonight's debate — staying calm, cool and collected, writes our NY politics reporter Jeff Coltin.

"Critics who are waiting for Mamdani to give them ammo have been left waiting in the first half hour," he said.

More live analysis: ow.ly/fUJN50XcPqL

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Kumar Rao @kumar.bsky.social · 2d

It’s malpractice how the media always fails to note that Andrew Cuomo was investigated for years *by the DOJ under Biden*—and its civil rights division concluded flatly he violated federal and state law.

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Kumar Rao @kumar.bsky.social · 2d

Good line. GREAT line.

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 2d

The NYC mayoral debate starts with Mamdani promising to raise taxes "on Andrew Cuomo's donors."

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 4d

Biden could have ended this by early 2024. he chose not to prospect.org/world/2025-1...

Joe Biden’s Ignominious Gaza Failure

It’s America’s worst foreign policy disaster since the invasion of Iraq.

prospect.org

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 4d

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

www.mediaite.com

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Kumar Rao @kumar.bsky.social · 4d

Cuomo “resigned because he did these things.”

“People powerful within his own party forced that resignation because they knew he did these things. So he’s lying. … We have to repeat it, because people have to know what an abuser he is.”

Important reminder from @lindseyboylan.bsky.social

Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 4d

Lindsey Boylan was the first of about a dozen women to accuse Andrew Cuomo of sexual harassment and is now supporting Zohram Mamdani for mayor of New York City.

Lindsey Boylan, Ex-Cuomo Aide Who Accused Him of Sexual Harassment, on Why She Supports Mamdani

There are just weeks to go before the November 4 New York City mayoral election, a virtual rematch of the Democratic primary from earlier this year, when democratic socialist state lawmaker Zohran Mam...

www.democracynow.org

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 5d

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 5d

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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