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Akiva עקיבא

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New Yorker, Jew ✡️, Communist ☭, feminist ♀️✊🏻, polyglot, Aspie ♾️, agender 🏳️‍⚧️, asexual 🏳️‍🌈, cat person 😻 Human rights means ALL HUMANS. #ANTIFA 🟥 Humanity First 🇮🇱🇵🇸🕊️☮️ p: they/them/any 🗣️: en, de, es, it, pt, ru, he Be the guillotine you want to see in the world

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Akiva עקיבא @akivabensarah.bsky.social · 5d

I really don't want to hear any more hemming and hawing from anyone about whether we're really in full fascist territory or not. Federal goons beat an opposition candidate for office for simply following their orders at a peaceful protest. We're there. Full stop. Now act like it.

Akiva עקיבא @akivabensarah.bsky.social · 6h

FWIW, this is the sort of thing that got Rodrigo Duterte put in prison…

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U.S. Widens Campaign Against Alleged Drug Boats With Eastern Pacific Strike — The Wall Street Journal

Two killed in attack as the military targets suspected trafficking in area where large amounts of cocaine typically move

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Akiva עקיבא @akivabensarah.bsky.social · 6h

Ah, that's the smell… roasted Andrew Cuomo.

Akiva עקיבא @akivabensarah.bsky.social · 6h

Hopefully the next time they meet will be when Cuomo is called to defend Bibi after Mamdani directs NYPD to arrest his ass and hand him over to The Hague.

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Akiva עקיבא @akivabensarah.bsky.social · 6h

I'm literally wincing because I never want public safety in the city to be brought up in front of Curtis Sliwa. Dammit.

Akiva עקיבא @akivabensarah.bsky.social · 6h

No wonder he loves Columbus so much. They both like to lay claim to things that aren't theirs and pretend it's their right.

Akiva עקיבא @akivabensarah.bsky.social · 6h

I don't believe for a second it's Cuomo's last debate. He's got no shame. He'll keep trying over and over again and never get the hint that he's unelectable. You don't resign from a large state like New York in disgrace and get to have any kind of political future after a fuck up that severe.

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Eunice Cho @eunicehcho.bsky.social · 15h

Pregnant women detained by ICE report horrifying treatment: shackling, solitary confinement, no prenatal vitamins, inadequate food. ICE's own directives and regulations require the agency to avoid detention of pregnant people in the first place. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Pregnant women describe miscarrying and bleeding out while in ICE custody, advocates say

The ACLU and other groups are pressing for ICE to identify and release all pregnant women in custody and to stop detaining anyone known to be pregnant, postpartum or nursing.

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Akiva עקיבא @akivabensarah.bsky.social · 6h

He can always change his mind, and hopefully after giving it more consideration, he will.

Akiva עקיבא @akivabensarah.bsky.social · 6h

Truly love to see this. 🩷

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 7h

Protesters have blocked the westbound side of Canal. They are chanting "ICE out of New York now!" and "Liberation, not deportation!"

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Akiva עקיבא @akivabensarah.bsky.social · 6h

So, in other words, the 34 year old is the grown-up. No surprise there.

Akiva עקיבא @akivabensarah.bsky.social · 6h

It always is. I really would have hoped by now we'd have progressed a little as a society (ideally, a lot). But no, it's still 1990-something.

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Akiva עקיבא @akivabensarah.bsky.social · 7h

At some point I expect him to just give up and make Palm Beach the new national capital and designate Mar A Lago as his Presidential Palace.

Akiva עקיבא @akivabensarah.bsky.social · 7h

"Fuck it. Just give me Darth Vader's mask."

Akiva עקיבא @akivabensarah.bsky.social · 7h

The truly wild part about this is that this imbecile actually has a Bachelor of Science in Economics from UPenn. Holy shit. Someone needs to get their hands on those transcripts!

Akiva עקיבא @akivabensarah.bsky.social · 7h

I want to start seeing people address Andrew Cuomo as "Q-Omo" just to make a point.

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Akiva עקיבא @akivabensarah.bsky.social · 7h

It's ludicrous. There's a huge gulf between the level of trust I have in Mamdani to protect Jewish New Yorkers and to treat us fairly and with dignity and the other two. And I mean that I trust Mamdani and not the others.

Akiva עקיבא @akivabensarah.bsky.social · 7h

The one on the left is Roger Stone's back.

The one on the right is Roger Stone's bottom.

Akiva עקיבא @akivabensarah.bsky.social · 7h

Perhaps it's Brazilian? 🤷🏻

(friendly teasing from someone who learned European/African Portuguese and finds Brazilian nearly indecipherable.. please don't hurt me LOL)

Akiva עקיבא @akivabensarah.bsky.social · 7h

I mean, Andrew Cuomo and integrity. That's such a funny combination, it was just invited to Saudi Arabia to entertain the royal family.

Akiva עקיבא @akivabensarah.bsky.social · 7h

The only way to accomplish any major change is to have the integrity and the will to see it through. Have we _ever_ seen anything remotely approaching that out of Andrew Cuomo in all the years he was governor of the whole state? Why on earth would anyone expect that from him as mayor of the City?

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8h

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 7h

City Hall can help landlords deal with the rising cost of insurance, utilities and a broken property tax system.

But we will not pad their profits by crushing tenants in rent-stabilized homes. We will freeze the rent.

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Timothy™️ @posttim.bsky.social · 1d

Every single day, damn it.

Simpsons meme: don’t make me tap the sign and the sign says,

“Fascism-lite” isn’t a strategy to defeat fascism but it’s very effective in normalising it.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 8h

A pregnant Amazon employee asked for a chair to sit on—and wound up homeless.

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