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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 7h

Zohran Kwame Mamdani
@ZohranKMamdani
Unlike all the crap fall tv I'm currently watching, #JaneTheVirgin keeps things 💯💯
3:15 AM · Oct 28, 2014

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FreeLinkophant Shelley B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 1h

Has anyone done a wellness check at the op-ed department of the New York Times yet?

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 5h

As the cold reality of Cuomo’s defeat sets in, this is a moment for centrists to ask themselves: Have we lost touch with the common voter? Get out and spend time in the tattoo parlors and dispensaries. The drag shows, community gardens and outsider art galleries where Real New Yorkers congregate

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 7h

BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students.

Follow AP for live updates.

Live updates: US voters head to the polls in first general election since Trump's return to power

One year after Donald Trump retook the presidency, 2025 Election Day includes closely watched races for New York City mayor, New Jersey governor and California's Proposition 50.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

i wouldn't be a total glenn youngkin hater if i didn't mention that the results tonight mean that his total tenure amounted to presiding over the destruction — at least for the next few years — of the virginia republican party. lmao.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

there are basically not enough republican voters to create enough safe seats to withstand the kind of wave that, for example, turned virginia into a democratic supermajority state for the first time in the modern era of its politics

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

to maximize gains you have to turn dark red republican districts in to red ones and red ones into light red ones. in a very bad national environment for Rs, this could bring a total wipeout. this is why i specified incumbents.

Kheti The Scribe @kheti.bsky.social · 7h

...the Republicans who were engaging in partisan redistricting because they were afraid of being punished by voters for Trump's policies will stop redistricting because they're now even more afraid of being punished by voters?

I feel like I'm missing steps here.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

really important element of this basically total victory is that it puts the fear of god in republican incumbents and may bring the redistricting push to a total halt

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Pack2010 @pack2010.bsky.social · 8h

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

hell yeah eugene debs

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6h

one thing that other candidates need to learn from mamdani is how to deliver the most cold blooded attacks on an opponent with a smile on your face

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 7h

Breaking.

A screenshot of a social media trending section showing “Politics · Trending” followed by the phrase “WOKE IS BACK” in bold white text. Below it, “15.3K posts” indicates the number of related posts. The background is black.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 7h

NBC News has called it for Prop 50, the redistricting ballot measure in California has passed.

A graphic showing election results for “Prop 50: Congressional Redistricting” in California. The measure is labeled as “PASSED” in a yellow bar. Below, two options are shown: “Yes” with a yellow check mark and “No.” Both show 0 votes and 0.0%. A note at the bottom reads “0% expected votes in (Est. remaining 10,742,000).” The top banner displays “2025” and “California Congressional Redistricting.”

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 7h

Zohran Mamdani wins with >50% of the vote.

Clean sweeps in statewide races in New Jersey and Virginia.

Pennsylvania retains all democratic Supreme Court justices.

California passes prop 50.

This is the best possible outcome that could've happened tonight.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Mamdani: "I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life but let tonight be the final time I utter his name."

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Rajan Narang @rdnarang.bsky.social · 23m

Big wins in Mississippi and Georgia last night! MAGA was repudiated all over the map

Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 3h

After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats have broken the Republican Party’s supermajority in the Mississippi Senate.

Democrats flipped two GOP-held Senate seats and one House seat in the special elections.
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Mississippi Democrats Break Republican Senate Supermajority, Flipping 3 Legislative Seats

After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats broke the Republican Party's supermajority in the Mississippi Senate, flipping 3 legislative seats.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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Ben @cinemashoebox.bsky.social · 22m

lessons such as "stick Wes Streeting's head in the toilet"

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 5h

The replies are full of ppl that are completely unaware that Ken Martin endorsed Mamdani before the election and that the DNC was also supportive of him pre-election too. Just a bunch of political hobbyists that know shit about fuck.

Ken Martin @kenmartin.bsky.social · 8h

Congratulations, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, for winning the NYC mayoral election!

Zohran will be a real changemaker, making life more affordable for New Yorkers.

Democrats @democrats.org · 8h

New Yorkers have spoken and voted for change. Congrats Mayor-elect
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social!

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 22m

Watching Mamdani’s full speech now, which begins with images of laboring hands & then:
“The future is in our hands.”
youtu.be/zKrrE5rxWNk?...

FULL SPEECH: Democratic Zohran Mamdani gives victory speech after winning the NYC Mayor's Race

YouTube video by Eyewitness News ABC7NY

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22m

Page One in Kentucky.

@kentucky.com #SNAP

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 7h

AOC: We have a future to fight for, and we're either going to do that together or you're going to be left behind. It's not about Progressive. It's not moderate, it's not liberal. This is about do you understand the assignment of fighting fascism right now? And the assignment is you come together…

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 12h

“I have not found one single instance of a straight person risking, helping, protecting a queer and trans person during this history. Not a single one. And that’s a hard pill to swallow"
19thnews.org/2025/10/lgbt...

Holocaust history shows LGBTQ+ people have always been their own heroes

Queer historians are using LGBTQ+ History Month to reflect on the often forgotten but powerful resistance against the Nazis.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 12h

Oh

Perhaps most significantly, researchers have learned that queer people were largely reported by people in their own communities. As many as a third of LGBTQ+ people who were arrested were denounced, that is reported to the Nazis, by their friends and family.

”That really changes the understanding of the Nazi period, because it’s easier to think that this was just a top-down hard line or dictatorial regime implementing all these policies, and they’re the ones doing the hunting down and finding of the so-called enemies of the state,” said Newsome. “But what we’re actually seeing is that most Germans just did nothing to protect LGBTQ folks.”

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 8h

Things that are inspiring now will be cringe later and things that are cringe now will make you cry with compassion later and unfortunately there's no way to tell the difference

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 3h

Once upon a time we were pleased when the police stopped fascists.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 4h

I suppose it was only a matter of time, once judges decided that transphobia was protected under the Equality Act, before they decided that full blown fascism was (www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...).

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