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Olivia Gonzalez Killingsworth 🌹🦾 🐜 @olivekilworth.bsky.social · 1d

The great American playwright Clifford Odets wrote a play in 1935 in which a lab assistant is offered a big raise to work on a secret project to develop chemical weapons, and also to spy on his coworker. Not only does the guy immediately refuse & quit his job, he PUNCHES THE BOSS IN THE FACE 👑👑👑

Excerpt from "Waiting for Lefty"
FAY: That's a big job for foreigners.
MILL: But sneaking—and making poison gas—that's for Americans?
FAY: It's up to you.
MILL: My mind's made up.
FAY: No hard feelings?
MILL: Sure hard feelings! I'm not the civilized type, Mr. Fayette. Nothing suave or sophisticated about me. Plenty of hard feelings! Enough to want to bust you and all your kind square in the mouth! [Does exactly that.]
BLACKOUT

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 1d

[Me, a poor, on the subway, glowering jealously at all those fat cat, fancy pants rich people on the public bus]

Andrew Cuomo tweet:

@ZohranKMamdani's "plan" provides no relief for working families who take the subway, and unnecessary benefits to wealthy New Yorkers who take the bus and can afford the fare.

I focus on working families, while @ZohranKMamdani the mansion boy focuses on helping the rich.

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Olivia Gonzalez Killingsworth 🌹🦾 🐜 @olivekilworth.bsky.social · 1d

That's my mayor!

Still from video in which Zohran says "For us, it's that we need to build more housing"

Still from video "and we also need to make sure that for the public sector"

Still from video: "that housing that we're building is immediately affordable."

Still from video: "It's something they can see themselves in."

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Rise and Resist @riseandresist.bsky.social · 2d

📣 Hands Off Tish James
📆 Friday, October 10
⏰ 5:30 – 7pm EDT
📍Foley Square (Pearl Street & Centre St, NYC)

#HandsOffTish

More info:
www.mobilize.us/ny-wfp/event...

Solidarity Rally Hands Off Tish James Friday 10/10 Foley Square, 5:30pm

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Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 3d

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 3d

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

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Olivia Gonzalez Killingsworth 🌹🦾 🐜 @olivekilworth.bsky.social · 3d

socialists.nyc/join?source=...

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 3d

If the regime does go after DSA, the appropriate response will be for as many people as possible to become dues-paying members.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Jonathan Choe to Trump: "Another group right now that is behind antifa and working with antifa very closely based on the research that we have right now that we're gonna give to you and your team are the Democratic Socialists of America."

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Brendan Davey @brendandavey.bsky.social · 3d

Last week, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social joined Starbucks workers that had unionized and are fighting hard for a fair contract.

Meanwhile, Cuomo, claiming that he is finally becoming more "visible," didn't even show up today to the boarded up Starbucks in Harlem his campaign said he would be at 1/

"Wednesday Visibility in Harlem" Announcement claiming Cuomo's campaign would be present "outside the Starbucks at 284 St. Nicholas Avenue."

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Eric Blanc @ericblanc.bsky.social · 4d

"To help cut off US arms to Israel we'd have to more frequently work with people who don’t agree with us on everything. More leftists have to leave their comfort zone of being a powerless opposition, protesting on the sidelines, expressing outrage online"

www.laborpolitics.com/p/ultra-left...

Ultra-Leftism Won't Help Free Palestine

My interview with Bashir Abu-Manneh & Hoda Mitwally on how US activists can more effectively support Palestinians

www.laborpolitics.com

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Actors' Equity Association @actorsequity.bsky.social · 8d

📢 Attention theater lovers - we need your help!
actionnetwork.org/petitions/st...

Neon-style graphic with the text "UNITED FOR A HEALTHY BROADWAY!" The logos for Local 802 AFM and Actors' Equity Association are at the top. Below the main text is an icon of a document being signed with a pen, surrounded by a red neon-style circle. The bottom text says "SIGN OUR LETTER TODAY."

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 6d

*elite capture intensifies*

Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 6d

Bari is going to run CBS News not because of her journalism, or even because of The Free Press, but because much of the mainstream media serves as a vessel for elites to distribute power to their allies

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preservationist.bsky.social @preservationist.bsky.social · 5d

My kingdom for a city that has historic preservationists who want to talk about historic preservation instead of their aversion to tall buildings.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/n...

In a city where expensive supertalls have punched through the skyline, that question is being raised by Andrew Berman, the executive director of Village Preservation, a group that focuses on architecture in Greenwich Village, the East Village and NoHo. His target is a 30-story condominium tower planned for West 13th Street.

That is so tall that Sean Khorsandi, the executive director of the local preservation group Landmark West!, said that the tower would be “head and shoulders above its context,” meaning other buildings in the neighborhood.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 10d

Like Scandinavian...but brown.

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Olivia Gonzalez Killingsworth 🌹🦾 🐜 @olivekilworth.bsky.social · 11d

Anyway: www.federalunionists.net/join-us

Federal Unionists Network - Join Us!

Join Us!

www.federalunionists.net

Olivia Gonzalez Killingsworth 🌹🦾 🐜 @olivekilworth.bsky.social · 11d

Well here's something you don't see every day on the official website of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development 👀👀

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Olivia Gonzalez Killingsworth 🌹🦾 🐜 @olivekilworth.bsky.social · 11d

Dear Lorne Michaels: please hire @kumail.bsky.social and Chris Redd to do this on SNL, ty.

Dan Miller @meelar.bsky.social · 11d

A scene from Zohran Mamdani's first State of the City address:

Mamdani: We must protect health care for all New Yorkers.
Eric Adams, Mamdani's weirdness translator, on the side of the stage: If you can't go to the hospital after a unicorn attack, YOU WILL PERISH.
*crowd murmurs in appreciation*

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Dan Miller @meelar.bsky.social · 11d

A scene from Zohran Mamdani's first State of the City address:

Mamdani: We must protect health care for all New Yorkers.
Eric Adams, Mamdani's weirdness translator, on the side of the stage: If you can't go to the hospital after a unicorn attack, YOU WILL PERISH.
*crowd murmurs in appreciation*

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Tetra, of some repute 😵‍💫 @tetrarchy.bsky.social · 13d

The waiters said I couldn’t do it. And they were correct. Honestly great call from the waiters

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 13d

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams ends his reelection campaign.

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Jacob Kornbluh @jacobkornbluh.bsky.social · Sep 11

Zohran Mamdani on Charlie Kirk murder:

“Yet another victim of gun violence in a nation where what should be a rarity has turned into a plague.

“It cannot be a question of political agreement or alignment that allows us to mourn. It must be the shared notion of humanity that binds us all.”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Sep 11

condemnations of political violence are well taken but it does feel as if some
prominent political commentators are of the view that violence isn’t a part of the history of American politics and that is very much not true.

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · Sep 10

it’s a beautiful day to shut the fuck up

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Émilia • Azrael (עזראל) @emilia.bsky.social · Sep 10

New York City calls itself a refuge for queer and trans Americans, but that promise is at risk if we don't take on the housing crisis head on. Read my op-ed about the need to build more housing to reduce rents, in this case, via the OneLIC project: gaycitynews.com/new-york-rem...

For New York to remain a queer haven, we must build more homes

People move to New York because they believe in certain promises: a place where you’re free to be yourself, to thrive, and to find community. Especially for

gaycitynews.com

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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · Sep 8

I joined @msnbc.com @theweekendprime.bsky.social to talk about the nyc mayor’s race, Andrew Cuomo’s need to be emasculated again in the general election and how democratic leaders should get behind @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.

Give it a watch and share. www.msnbc.com/the-weekend-...

Former Cuomo aide: 'He doesn't know that no means no... he's going to have to be beat and emasculated again.'

Donald Trump is acting as a shadow power broker in his attempt to beat Zohran Mamdani in the NYC mayoral race. The president is reportedly courting both Andrew Cuomo and Eric Adams. But, Mamdani isn't...

www.msnbc.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Sep 5

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