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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h

i don’t think you can maximin vote share with polls and spreadsheets, and i think it is a problem that the most prominent and influential political commentators right now are more devotees of data than experts in narrative

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Ruben Abrahams Brosbe @rubenlev.bsky.social · 19h

"The fight to regulate technology like ChatGPT — the data it uses and what it uses for — has the potential to decide not only how we make sense of the world, but also the fundamental rights and freedoms we hold dear."

What does ChatGPT think about me?

Reading Vauhini Vara's Searches prompted an unsettling line of inquiry with ChatGPT.

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 1d

THREAD. We have just filed a landmark new civil rights case in Colorado in our campaign across the country to establish a constitutional right for children to hug their parents. More information to come soon, but this is a big deal.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

Do some of you remember how I said a few months ago that the fascists aren't having fun? They still aren't, lol.

Their parties [when they have them] SUCK.

They make bad art.

They aren't funny.

They CRAVE Leftist popular culture & resent the fact that they do.

They aren't actually having fun

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Ruben Abrahams Brosbe @rubenlev.bsky.social · 1d

www.handsoffnyc.com/take-action

Take Action — Hands Off NYC

www.handsoffnyc.com

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Ruben Abrahams Brosbe @rubenlev.bsky.social · 1d

Shout out to the organizers behind Hands Off NYC who are getting us in formation post-No Kings.

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 1d

The leaders of one of the biggest Hasidic communities in NYC going out of their way not to endorse Cuomo and also explicitly saying they don't think Mamdani is antisemitic.

Big deal, to say the least. And speaks more to their pragmatism than anything necessarily ideological.

Jacob N. Kornbluh
@jacobkornbluh
🚨 Satmar Ahronim leadership not endorsing Cuomo in race for mayor.

In open letter to their followers, the leaders highlight Mamdani’s gestures and outreach and prospects of him becoming mayor.

“It is clear that we must not fight against him, we must not wage war with him…”

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d

I still can't believe that Eric Adams was Mayor.

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Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Action @jfrejnyc.bsky.social · 2d

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Bend the Arc: Jewish Action @bendthearc.bsky.social · 2d

“A lot of people are talking about how Jews in New York feel about @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social...

Well, I’m a Jew in New York!

And I’m out here canvassing with my community for Zohran!”

Watch Madeline’s story about why she’s a New York Jew for Zohran:

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 2d

If this was 2016, about 20 or 30 of us would be getting commissioned RIGHT NOW to write essays on queer kinship, desi culture, and the extended Black family for BuzzFeed, the Guardian, Gawker, XO Jane, Teen Vogue, them and a dozen other pubs that no longer exist 😭😂 bsky.app/profile/solo...

Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 2d

My momma bestie is my auntie
My auntie friend that go to her church is also my auntie
My 75 year old cousin... is also my auntie

"Auntie" is what happens when you understand the expansive proposition of family

"That's not your aunt" is what happens when you live outside of restorative community

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Micah @rincewind.run · 4d

important reminder: food banks usually prefer money to direct food donations because they can buy at discounted rates

check with your local food bank to be sure but now is the time to help out

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 6d

Americans brace for food stamps to run out: ‘the greatest hunger catastrophe since the Great Depression’

Nearly 42 million people in danger as federal government shutdown continues and Snap funding to end 1 November

www.theguardian.com

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 4d

One food bank in Virginia saw a 65% increase in visitors since last year, more than at the height of the pandemic.

“We thought it would come back down and it hasn’t,” the food bank’s chief philanthropy officer said. “It keeps growing.”

(Published Oct. 3)

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 4d

Amazing pro-Zohran, anti-nationalist op-ed by @rabbiandykahn.com in @nydailynews.com today:

archive.is/ynzrE

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Carey @careylikemariah.bsky.social · 4d

Really striking moment at tonight's big Zohran rally:

Kathy Hochul, Andrea Stewart-Cousins, and Carl Heastie came onstage to tepid applause. Eventually, the crowd started a spontaneous "Tax the Rich!" chant, drowning Hochul out completely.

"I can hear you," she replied, sounding uncomfortable.

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Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Action @jfrejnyc.bsky.social · 5d

Spotted around NYC 👀 Early Voting is in full swing! Still in search of a voter guide? Check out ours: jfrej.org/ballot

Sign on wall that says “ICE OUT OF NYC” in various languages

Signs on wall that says “JEWS FOR ZOHRAN” and “ALL FLOURISHING IS MUTUAL” in various languages

Signs on wall that say “JEWS FOR ZOHRAN” in various languages and “Hindus for Zohran”

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Mindy McAdams @macloo.bsky.social · 5d

42 million Americans rely on SNAP benefits to buy food to eat. Total U.S. population: 343 million.

Result: about 1 in every 8 or 9 Americans will be hungry and food insecure.

The Trump administration is cutting off $6 billion in USDA monies used to fund SNAP.

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Showing Up for Racial Justice @surj.org · 5d

What's next after No Kings?

The cracks in MAGA's power are getting bigger. No Kings Day shined a light through and showed that millions of us are willing to fight against authoritarianism and for each other. Join us TONIGHT at 8pm ET/5pm PT to learn how you can continue to show up!

Mass Call: Showed up? Keep it up! What's next after No Kings Day · Showing Up for Racial Justice

While times are very intense and wild, the growing signs of mass resistance are impactful and huge. The No Kings Day protest was the largest single-day political protest ever in the U.S. Just last mon...

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Asad Dandia @asadfromnyc.bsky.social · 7d

“For Asad Dandia, an urban historian, Mamdani’s success to date is a culmination of 400 years of Muslim history in the city, stretching back to the enslaved Africans brought to New York, about 30 percent of whom were Muslim.” www.aljazeera.com/news/longfor...

NYC working-class Muslims see progress in Mamdani, but policies win votes

History-making run met with pride, prejudice, but many Muslim New Yorkers more focused on message of affordability.

www.aljazeera.com

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 7d

This sentence is misleading on many levels. 1) Biden had a razor-thin majority in the House for his first two years (then the GOP controlled it); 2) why not blame the supposedly worker-friendly GOP for its blanket opposition?; 3) in spite of this, Biden got through a surprisingly robust set of laws.

Though Mr. Biden governed as the most pro-labor Democrat in a generation, a small group of pro-business Democrats in Congress stymied much of his agenda.

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Ruben Abrahams Brosbe @rubenlev.bsky.social · 7d

I definitely want my 2028 candidate to be a guy who looks like death and notoriously covered up a police murder. Did he mean he wants to "execute the promise of tomorrow"?

Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 7d

Former Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Thursday a decision on whether to pursue the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination comes down to whether he thinks he can meet “both the challenge and the promise of tomorrow” and execute on it.

Rahm Emanuel points to record, trust with Republicans as he considers presidential bid

Former Chicago mayor and Japan ambassador Rahm Emanuel said at a City Club of Chicago luncheon he needs to have something unique to say and know he can execute on it to run for president.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 7d

So proud of people here

Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 7d

NYC: ICE is unwelcome in the city. Citizens have surrounded them and forced them to leave.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 8d

"Mamdani’s evolving relationship with Black New Yorkers sheds light on a critical question for any left project in the United States: How do you build trust with Black voters to earn their support?"

the latest from @hammerandhope.bsky.social

hammerandhope.org/article/zohr...

Will Zohran Mamdani Win Over Black New Yorkers?

Five people talk about their experience of the Mamdani campaign — from the inside and the outside.

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Erick Fernandez @erickfernandez.bsky.social · 8d

“Wealthy individuals and their income move at lower rates than other income brackets, even in response to an increase of personal income tax.”

Erick Fernandez @erickfernandez.bsky.social · 8d

The Myth That Mamdani Will Cause New York City’s Richest to Leave

The Myth That Mamdani Will Cause New York City’s Richest to Leave - The American Prospect

Millionaire tax flight would devastate a future Mamdani administration. If the rich leave, how could anything be financed? But research shows that wealthy individuals move at lower rates than others, ...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8d

you can’t really call this anything other than cowardice

All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 8d

WATCH: @chrislhayes.bsky.social asks Rep. Hakeem Jeffries who he plans to vote for in the NYC mayoral election.

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Katie Unger @kungernyc.bsky.social · 8d

Jews for Zohran... we're seeing a cascade of desperate hysterical pieces come out about Zohran.
It's going to get more intense. because they are losing. It is not a sign of their strength. It is a sign of their failure.

Let’s focus.
Jfrej.org/field

Every lever of fading influence will be used, every button, every trope of barely coded racism, fear mongering and normalized dehumanization of Muslims. Every non-New Yorker acting out their discomfort with a multiracial city.
Stay focused. Don't get reactive or defensive or derailed by the noise.
We are building a winning movement that brings thousands of Jews into a powerful community of collective safety and thriving. Zohran is a piece of that - and it neither started nor ends with election. It is hopeful, it is energizing, it is also the only way. Let's do this.

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