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New Yorkers deserve better than a disgraced sex pest for mayor.
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I think about this from Victor Serge a lot.
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One reason it's good for Chi Osse to stay in the council and be focused on city business is there is clearly a bloc of council dems who are anxious to --quietly--stifle Zohran's agenda. He'll need all the friends he can get.
New: In vying to become the City Council’s next speaker, Julie Menin has in private conversations floated bringing back use of the chamber’s subpoena power, a tool that could be a check on incoming Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s admin, per sources. www.nydailynews.com/2025/11/25/n...
NYC Council speaker hopeful Julie Menin floats using subpoena power, a potential check on Mamdani
It’s not unusual for city agencies to refrain from providing all the information and documents requested by the Council — an issue that has become especially pitched under Mayor Adams, whose …
www.nydailynews.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:29 PM
One reason it's good for Chi Osse to stay in the council and be focused on city business is there is clearly a bloc of council dems who are anxious to --quietly--stifle Zohran's agenda. He'll need all the friends he can get.
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A low-hanging fruit for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and the new City Council in their first 100 days would be to approve legislation making outdoor dining year round and have it go into effect immediately. Given all the existing design regulations it should be easy to flip the switch on this.
Thousands of outdoor dining areas might not return to the city's roadways next spring, the result of what activists call a costly approval process created by the Adams administration when the program became seasonal.
Outdoor Dining Has Faded Out — And Not Just Because It's Winter - Streetsblog New York City
From thousands of pandemic-era eateries to perhaps just a few hundred, thanks to a seasonal, not year-round, program.
buff.ly
November 25, 2025 at 7:14 PM
A low-hanging fruit for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and the new City Council in their first 100 days would be to approve legislation making outdoor dining year round and have it go into effect immediately. Given all the existing design regulations it should be easy to flip the switch on this.
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Zohran Mamdani has zero people named Dave Colon who are from Long Beach on his transition committees. This is outrageous and offensive to up to one dozen people in the city
November 25, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Zohran Mamdani has zero people named Dave Colon who are from Long Beach on his transition committees. This is outrageous and offensive to up to one dozen people in the city
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It’s an absolute honor to serve on Mayor-elect Mamdani’s transition team. We have lots of work to do, and I couldn’t be more proud to stand alongside many of my education justice comrades to help usher in a new era for NYC government!
The work is just getting started!! Let’s go!
The work is just getting started!! Let’s go!
November 25, 2025 at 7:19 PM
It’s an absolute honor to serve on Mayor-elect Mamdani’s transition team. We have lots of work to do, and I couldn’t be more proud to stand alongside many of my education justice comrades to help usher in a new era for NYC government!
The work is just getting started!! Let’s go!
The work is just getting started!! Let’s go!
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Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough.
Pertussis, best prevented with a vaccine, has killed three Kentucky babies in the last 12 months.
kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...
Pertussis, best prevented with a vaccine, has killed three Kentucky babies in the last 12 months.
kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...
Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough • Kentucky Lantern
A third unvaccinated infant in Kentucky has died of pertussis as public health officials urge Kentuckians to get vaccinated against the disease.
kentuckylantern.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough.
Pertussis, best prevented with a vaccine, has killed three Kentucky babies in the last 12 months.
kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...
Pertussis, best prevented with a vaccine, has killed three Kentucky babies in the last 12 months.
kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...
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We got a mandate for a New Era for New York City, and it's time to get to work!!!
I am deeply honored and privileged to be given this opportunity to serve our city on the @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Transition Committee (Health).
www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
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I am deeply honored and privileged to be given this opportunity to serve our city on the @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Transition Committee (Health).
www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
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November 24, 2025 at 11:40 PM
We got a mandate for a New Era for New York City, and it's time to get to work!!!
I am deeply honored and privileged to be given this opportunity to serve our city on the @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Transition Committee (Health).
www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
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I am deeply honored and privileged to be given this opportunity to serve our city on the @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Transition Committee (Health).
www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
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Some professional news: I’m coming back to @cityandstateny.bsky.social as editor-in-chief.
I was a fan of C&S when I was a college student emailing to ask for an internship, and I’m still a fan today. Excited to take the helm heading into such a crucial and interesting time in NY politics.
I was a fan of C&S when I was a college student emailing to ask for an internship, and I’m still a fan today. Excited to take the helm heading into such a crucial and interesting time in NY politics.
November 25, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Some professional news: I’m coming back to @cityandstateny.bsky.social as editor-in-chief.
I was a fan of C&S when I was a college student emailing to ask for an internship, and I’m still a fan today. Excited to take the helm heading into such a crucial and interesting time in NY politics.
I was a fan of C&S when I was a college student emailing to ask for an internship, and I’m still a fan today. Excited to take the helm heading into such a crucial and interesting time in NY politics.
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To my pleasant surprise, the New York Times does not abstain from acknowledging the basic fact in this article: Nefesh B'Nefesh promotes settlement in the occupied West Bank.
This is the value of having a mayor elect who is willing to say the truth, it compels the conversation to change bit by bit.
This is the value of having a mayor elect who is willing to say the truth, it compels the conversation to change bit by bit.
Mamdani Response to Protest Inflames Tensions With Jewish Leaders
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
To my pleasant surprise, the New York Times does not abstain from acknowledging the basic fact in this article: Nefesh B'Nefesh promotes settlement in the occupied West Bank.
This is the value of having a mayor elect who is willing to say the truth, it compels the conversation to change bit by bit.
This is the value of having a mayor elect who is willing to say the truth, it compels the conversation to change bit by bit.
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I was repeatedly told that nobody in real life cared that the Senate Minority Leader refused to endorse his own party's nominee for the largest city in the country, which also happens to be where he lives.
November 25, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I was repeatedly told that nobody in real life cared that the Senate Minority Leader refused to endorse his own party's nominee for the largest city in the country, which also happens to be where he lives.
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Young people feel like we've lost agency over our lives. We can't *really* pick where to live, or whether to change jobs, or how many kids to have -- the cost of living makes us feel trapped.
Younger candidates can powerfully speak to that emotional truth. talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/young-c...
Younger candidates can powerfully speak to that emotional truth. talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/young-c...
Young Candidates Can Speak to the Affordability Crisis Because They’re Living It
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Young people feel like we've lost agency over our lives. We can't *really* pick where to live, or whether to change jobs, or how many kids to have -- the cost of living makes us feel trapped.
Younger candidates can powerfully speak to that emotional truth. talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/young-c...
Younger candidates can powerfully speak to that emotional truth. talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/young-c...
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you shouldn't host events at synagogues encouraging people to illegally settle in occupied territory, which is an act that directly interferes in the possibility of a two-state solution. you also shouldn't protest outside a synagogue while chanting "death to" anyone.
Zohran Mamdani chastised a Manhattan synagogue that hosted an event promoting migration to Israel and settlements in occupied territories. His stance further tested his strained relationship with pro-Israel Jews in New York.
Mamdani Response to Protest Inflames Tensions with Jewish Leaders
The mayor-elect chastised a synagogue that hosted an event promoting migration to Israel and settlements in occupied territories. His stance further tested his strained relationship with pro-Israel Jews.
nyti.ms
November 25, 2025 at 2:21 PM
you shouldn't host events at synagogues encouraging people to illegally settle in occupied territory, which is an act that directly interferes in the possibility of a two-state solution. you also shouldn't protest outside a synagogue while chanting "death to" anyone.
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everyone please join me in celebrating @jccoltin.bsky.social and also let’s bully him into using this website more (respectfully)
November 25, 2025 at 2:14 PM
everyone please join me in celebrating @jccoltin.bsky.social and also let’s bully him into using this website more (respectfully)
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The MTA is negligent in making no effort to install these, but massive jury verdicts are the worst way to do cost-benefit analyses. Platform screen doors are complex to retrofit, and the lack of them is tied to political pressure to never cut crew staffing (which are a major benefit of screen doors)
MTA has started to pay the price for procrastinating on the three-station pilot for platform screen doors, first announced in 2022. ny1.com/nyc/brooklyn...
MTA ordered to pay $81.7 million to woman struck by subway in Brooklyn
The jury determined that the MTA had failed to install safety barriers or other protective devices.
ny1.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:27 PM
The MTA is negligent in making no effort to install these, but massive jury verdicts are the worst way to do cost-benefit analyses. Platform screen doors are complex to retrofit, and the lack of them is tied to political pressure to never cut crew staffing (which are a major benefit of screen doors)
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“New York school phone ban has made lunch loud again” — one.npr.org/i/wnyc-b41c9...
🔊 Listen Now: New York school phone ban has made lunch loud again
WNYC on NPR One | 3:45
one.npr.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 PM
“New York school phone ban has made lunch loud again” — one.npr.org/i/wnyc-b41c9...
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The mayor-elect’s much-touted online portal has received 70,000 -plus applications from people seeking “roles across City agencies and offices.”
But that’s not the real path to landing a city job. Good stuff, as they say in the trade, from @reuvenblau.bsky.social www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/25/c...
But that’s not the real path to landing a city job. Good stuff, as they say in the trade, from @reuvenblau.bsky.social www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/25/c...
70K Apply to Mamdani’s Transition Team. Here’s How to Actually Get Hired by NYC.
More than 70,000 people have applied to Mamdani’s transition site, but the real route to thousands of open roles runs through civil service exams.
www.thecity.nyc
November 25, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The mayor-elect’s much-touted online portal has received 70,000 -plus applications from people seeking “roles across City agencies and offices.”
But that’s not the real path to landing a city job. Good stuff, as they say in the trade, from @reuvenblau.bsky.social www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/25/c...
But that’s not the real path to landing a city job. Good stuff, as they say in the trade, from @reuvenblau.bsky.social www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/25/c...
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This cover is making me happy
November 24, 2025 at 8:52 PM
This cover is making me happy
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Trying to get 50 more people to send a letter to your City Council member in NYC demanding that they increase and stabilize public library funding. actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries!
In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...
actionnetwork.org
November 25, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Trying to get 50 more people to send a letter to your City Council member in NYC demanding that they increase and stabilize public library funding. actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
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part of what I like about Mamdani is his admission that housing affordability is a more complex problem than either building more housing or expanding rent control. You need to do both in order to protect the most vulnerable now and improve the problem long term.
November 25, 2025 at 12:33 AM
part of what I like about Mamdani is his admission that housing affordability is a more complex problem than either building more housing or expanding rent control. You need to do both in order to protect the most vulnerable now and improve the problem long term.
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Zohran Mamdani has named his transition Committee on Transportation, Climate, & Infrastructure.
Congratulations to @2avesag.as and others - lots of good names on this list that I recognize.
Congratulations to @2avesag.as and others - lots of good names on this list that I recognize.
November 24, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Zohran Mamdani has named his transition Committee on Transportation, Climate, & Infrastructure.
Congratulations to @2avesag.as and others - lots of good names on this list that I recognize.
Congratulations to @2avesag.as and others - lots of good names on this list that I recognize.
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this is an electorate practically crying out for Ayanna Pressley lol
UNH poll | 11/13-11/17 LV
Massachusetts Democratic Senate primary
Ed Markey 34% (incumbent)
Seth Moulton 25%
Alex Rikleen 2%
Write in someone else 3%
Don’t know/undecided 35%
scholars.unh.edu/cgi/viewcont...
Massachusetts Democratic Senate primary
Ed Markey 34% (incumbent)
Seth Moulton 25%
Alex Rikleen 2%
Write in someone else 3%
Don’t know/undecided 35%
scholars.unh.edu/cgi/viewcont...
November 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
this is an electorate practically crying out for Ayanna Pressley lol
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Meta knowingly addicted young people to its platform, worsened their mental health, and refused to act.
That's why we sued Meta and passed laws in New York to protect our kids from the harms of social media.
That's why we sued Meta and passed laws in New York to protect our kids from the harms of social media.
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Meta knowingly addicted young people to its platform, worsened their mental health, and refused to act.
That's why we sued Meta and passed laws in New York to protect our kids from the harms of social media.
That's why we sued Meta and passed laws in New York to protect our kids from the harms of social media.
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I'm excited to announce that I have been asked to join the Mamdani Transition Team to work on community safety issues. A New Era for NYC.
November 24, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I'm excited to announce that I have been asked to join the Mamdani Transition Team to work on community safety issues. A New Era for NYC.
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Looking to speak with folks who have experience doing anti-ICE education and organizing (preferably in NYC, but anywhere is helpful).
If any of you are doing this work yourselves or are connected to folks who are, please let me know.
If any of you are doing this work yourselves or are connected to folks who are, please let me know.
November 24, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Looking to speak with folks who have experience doing anti-ICE education and organizing (preferably in NYC, but anywhere is helpful).
If any of you are doing this work yourselves or are connected to folks who are, please let me know.
If any of you are doing this work yourselves or are connected to folks who are, please let me know.
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Maga world discomfited by Trump’s warm welcome for Mamdani
Maga world discomfited by Trump’s warm welcome for Mamdani
Members of rightwing base disorientated by cordial Oval Office meeting – but not all Trump supporters downcast
A flurry of social media posts from Maga influencers have laid bare the disorientation felt by members of Trump’s base at the spectacle of Friday’s cordial Oval Office meeting with Mamdani, who the president previously painted as a “communist lunatic”.
“Wild to allow a jihadist communist to stand behind the president’s desk in the Oval Office. Sad to see,” wrote far-right activist Laura Loomer, one of Trump’s most fervent online backers. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Maga world discomfited by Trump’s warm welcome for Mamdani
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Our Executive Director, Ben Furnas, has been appointed to Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's Transition Committee on Transportation, Climate, & Infrastructure!
November 24, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Our Executive Director, Ben Furnas, has been appointed to Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's Transition Committee on Transportation, Climate, & Infrastructure!