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Matt Curtis @mattcurtisnyc.bsky.social · 16h

Everything on your list also had, directly or indirectly, big constituencies in the legislature and intellectual & organizing leadership from people who were not Cuomo. He used this to leverage his IDC scheme and general inclination to shill for $$ interests.

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Matt Curtis @mattcurtisnyc.bsky.social · 16h

Even this list of wins is heavily cherrypicked and lacks context. Cuomo *needed* to maintain a narrative of support and delivering around Dem priorities and he was decent at seeing the (obvious) ways the winds were blowing, like the sustained national waves of CJ reform, gay rights, environmenalism.

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egg price watcher @bluser12.bsky.social · 1d

Zohran is stone cold man. Putting out an ad in Arabic after all the Islamophobic shit that’s been thrown his way? Pure swag.

Dems don’t need to copy his politics or even necessarily his campaign strategy, they need to learn how to grow a fucking spine.

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

أنا اسمي زهران ممدان وعم رشّح حالي لأكون العمدة الجديد في مدينة نيويورك

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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 6d

It took over 4 years, but the paper is finally published. In this study, we developed novel methods drawn from #LegalEpidemiology to map addiction #stigma in California law.

This #interdisciplinary work was conceptually and methodologically difficult!⤵️

#PaperSky #EpiSky #AcademicSky

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Targeting Addiction Structural Stigma Embodied in Law (“TASSEL”): Findings from an intrastate legal mapping study

Stigma is a fundamental cause of disease that reflects and intensifies health inequalities. Laws are powerful mediators for stigma; to correct them, i…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Matt Curtis @mattcurtisnyc.bsky.social · 6d

While you're at it could you please for the love of god stop rubber stamping approval of Trump judicial nominees? Absolutely baffling that you and a handful of other Dem senators keep doing this.

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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 7d

Ms Rachel just called Andrew Cuomo a raggedy old racist bitch

Ms Rachel via Instagram:

I've eaten rice the way Zohran Mamdani does. A friend made me a meal years ago & showed me that way of eating rice. I thought it was cool.
Teachers in NYC teach students to be kind & respectful toward other students' cultures. It's one of our learning standards to help children feel proud of who they are.
It's disappointing that some adults can't model the same decency & kindness that students in NYC show every day.
They would rather model something none of our religions teach us - racism and attacking our neighbors instead of loving them.

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Tal B. Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 7d

i just need people to know it's not hypocrisy when Devout Christian Mike Johnson cuts off SNAP benefits. it's not a lack of "christian charity" to make kids starve; it's because the christian right wants to control who gets food, through churches, so they can deny queers and sluts at will

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Imani Gandied Yams @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 10d

When Jacobin and the Pod Save bros are aligned on defending nazi tattoos, we’ve got a problem and it’s not going to be solved by you coming into my mentions and telling me I’m not seeing what I’m definitely seeing—

which is white people left, right, and center coming together to defend Nazi tattoos

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Ben Daniel (he/him) @revbennyd.bsky.social · 11d

Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 10d

Whenever you think he's nazi'd as hard as any one person can possibly nazi, he just nazis harder.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10d

Stephen Miller: "The scandal is how Democrats & the left scarred the landscape of our country w/grotesque so-called modern art that celebrates ugliness ... very importantly, President Trump is making sure it's in the neo-classical design around which our nation's architecture has long been directed"

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 11d

SNAP benefits expire in one week.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11d

Leavitt: At this moment in time, the ballroom is really the president's main priority.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 11d

Today @samthielman.com writes about an ICE raid on Canal St. in NYC and everything these pigs are trying to destroy that makes his city beautiful and @caiken.bsky.social writes about ICE raids in Chicago and everything these pigs are trying to destroy that makes their city beautiful.

Our survival is their failure

I knew eventually right-wing shock troops were coming here

www.welcometohellworld.com

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O. Rose Broderick @rosebroderick.bsky.social · 12d

gender-affirming care is everywhere for those with the eyes to see it

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/m...

‘I’m on Fire’: Testosterone Is Giving Women Back Their Sex Drive — and Then Some

www.nytimes.com

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 12d

In Germany, the police academy is 2.5 years. In Finland, 3 years.

Even the NYPD is 6 months.

ICE is was already 3 months. Now 1.5 months.

Pure indifference to any actual skill or ability. Makes them both more dangerous and less effective.

Hell of a double-edged sword.

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Matt Curtis @mattcurtisnyc.bsky.social · 12d

Great thread on the basic correct orientation for thinking about political communication in organizing, definitely not limited to electoral politics (eg think about normal people’s wildly conflicting views on drug policy/drug war).

Dan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social · 12d

Going to take a swing, again, at what I think is the one biggest thing the establishment DC Searchlight Abundance mod blogger Argument blob (aka everyone with money and audience, sigh) is getting wrong:

Their model of how voters' brains work is not how voters brains actually work. 🧵

Way to Win @waytowinus.bsky.social · 15d

The "partisans" (so many questions) are not wrong, moving to the center is not the Way to Win, and hello @nytimes.com Ed Board. Apparently we are at the phase of responding to an argument without responding to the actual argument. Our first time being subeditorialized! Fun.
🤩🧵

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12d

trump is demolishing our national symbols and selling the country for scrap to his corrupt donors

Antonia Juhasz @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social · 12d

Exclusive: Leaked documents detail Trump's plans to open East and West coasts to offshore oil drilling.

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Exclusive: Leaked documents detail Trump's plans to open East and West coasts to offshore oil drilling

The Trump administration plans to open whole swaths of the East and West Coasts to offshore drilling, including areas previously protected for environmental reasons, documents show.

www.yahoo.com

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Matt Curtis @mattcurtisnyc.bsky.social · 13d

This is the logical end of drug induced homicide laws and the drug war in general.

Doug McVay @dougmcvay.bsky.social · 14d

"Gregg accepted the offer, was convicted of delivering heroin in Multnomah County Circuit Court and served nearly five and a half years.
"But shortly after he completed his sentence, he discovered the man who supposedly died of an overdose was actually alive."
www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

Portland set to pay $300K to man imprisoned for overdose death that never happened

Adam Gregg accepted a plea deal to avoid a lengthier sentence in an alleged fatal overdose, only to later discover his alleged victim never died.

www.oregonlive.com

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Senator Chris Larson @senchrislarson.bsky.social · 14d

ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.

The President is building an army to attack his own country.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 14d

Well this is delightful and hopeful. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/s...

Running a Local Paper? In This Economy?

www.nytimes.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15d

Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement.

Check out how tiny the crowds were:

Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000

Tax Day Is Met With Tea Parties (Published 2009)

www.nytimes.com

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Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 16d

Petro objected to the US bombing a Columbian fishing vessel that had the emergency beacon on because they were broken down, that we subsequently bombed. One Columbian fisherman survived the attack.

This is the official US response to Petro's comments.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 16d

🚨 NEWS: Colombian President Gustavo Petro accuses U.S. government officials of murder and violating Colombia’s sovereignty and says the Trump-ordered strike of a boat in the Caribbean killed a fisherman named Alejandro Carranza.

Screenshot of a post on X from Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s verified account. The post reads: “US government officials have committed a murder and violated our sovereignty in territorial waters. Fisherman Alejandro Carranza had no ties to the drug trade and his daily activity was fishing. The Colombian boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure. We await explanations from the US government.”

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 16d

"Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered, but we have this consolation: The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph." —Tom Paine

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Joe DeLong @joedelong.bsky.social · 16d

Powerful sign at No Kings in Cleveland

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 16d

Minneapolis is showing up and showing out. #NoKings

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