awkword
@awkword.bsky.social
Hip Hop Artist | Sociologist | Organizer | Activist | Strategist | Journalist | @tendemands.bsky.social Founder • Work: NWU, Unicorn Riot, Counterpunch, Mass Appeal, Melina Abdullah, Noelle Cook, etc. • aka @philmandelbaum.bsky.social • thisisawkword.com
From 👮♂️ Eric Adams to 🚙-less Muslim Zohran Mamdani, who’s so anti-Semitic he saved an historical Yiddish bookstore…
Yeah, in a New York Minute, everything can change — well, except the built-in police state
Yeah, in a New York Minute, everything can change — well, except the built-in police state
November 9, 2025 at 3:44 PM
From 👮♂️ Eric Adams to 🚙-less Muslim Zohran Mamdani, who’s so anti-Semitic he saved an historical Yiddish bookstore…
Yeah, in a New York Minute, everything can change — well, except the built-in police state
Yeah, in a New York Minute, everything can change — well, except the built-in police state
99% of us on the wrong side of their doors
They get tax breaks, we pay twice, and fight their wars
And we wonder why they cut scholarships and aid
It’s designed to keep the status quo, we’re the new slaves
They get tax breaks, we pay twice, and fight their wars
And we wonder why they cut scholarships and aid
It’s designed to keep the status quo, we’re the new slaves
November 2, 2025 at 2:52 PM
99% of us on the wrong side of their doors
They get tax breaks, we pay twice, and fight their wars
And we wonder why they cut scholarships and aid
It’s designed to keep the status quo, we’re the new slaves
They get tax breaks, we pay twice, and fight their wars
And we wonder why they cut scholarships and aid
It’s designed to keep the status quo, we’re the new slaves
"I think we do an immense disservice to ourselves by playing off the fascists as just idiots. The media fed us that crap.
Meanwhile, bro is getting ready to send in National Guard to destroy marginalized communities.
So no, let's not... They know what they're doing."
Meanwhile, bro is getting ready to send in National Guard to destroy marginalized communities.
So no, let's not... They know what they're doing."
October 30, 2025 at 4:05 PM
"I think we do an immense disservice to ourselves by playing off the fascists as just idiots. The media fed us that crap.
Meanwhile, bro is getting ready to send in National Guard to destroy marginalized communities.
So no, let's not... They know what they're doing."
Meanwhile, bro is getting ready to send in National Guard to destroy marginalized communities.
So no, let's not... They know what they're doing."
Thought the beats would protect me, I just write songs
Why’s it my fault, just ‘cause you sing along?…
They’re persecuting me for every seen that I’ve drawn
They’re persecuting me for every crime that you’ve done.
Why’s it my fault, just ‘cause you sing along?…
They’re persecuting me for every seen that I’ve drawn
They’re persecuting me for every crime that you’ve done.
October 25, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Thought the beats would protect me, I just write songs
Why’s it my fault, just ‘cause you sing along?…
They’re persecuting me for every seen that I’ve drawn
They’re persecuting me for every crime that you’ve done.
Why’s it my fault, just ‘cause you sing along?…
They’re persecuting me for every seen that I’ve drawn
They’re persecuting me for every crime that you’ve done.
They’ve long had it out for Portland.
This is a clip from my now-infamous 2020 conversation with the Portland DA
And a link to the story I wrote after Andy Ngo seemed to take it to heart.
youtu.be/i6ugxEWYkJg?...
medium.com/@philmandelb...
This is a clip from my now-infamous 2020 conversation with the Portland DA
And a link to the story I wrote after Andy Ngo seemed to take it to heart.
youtu.be/i6ugxEWYkJg?...
medium.com/@philmandelb...
October 10, 2025 at 11:09 PM
They’ve long had it out for Portland.
This is a clip from my now-infamous 2020 conversation with the Portland DA
And a link to the story I wrote after Andy Ngo seemed to take it to heart.
youtu.be/i6ugxEWYkJg?...
medium.com/@philmandelb...
This is a clip from my now-infamous 2020 conversation with the Portland DA
And a link to the story I wrote after Andy Ngo seemed to take it to heart.
youtu.be/i6ugxEWYkJg?...
medium.com/@philmandelb...
Thought the Amazon settlement might’ve been for murdering their workers. But alas.
September 26, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Thought the Amazon settlement might’ve been for murdering their workers. But alas.