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Tom Ochs
@tomochs.bsky.social
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Love living in Brooklyn. Family, sports, politics, movies, music, food. #CloseRikers. My teams #LFC #NYLiberty 🗽🏆 #GothamFC🦇 #Jets #Isles #Knicks #Yankees #UConnWBB #USWNT
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Council Member Shahana Hanif @cmshahanahanif.bsky.social · 5h
Every NYC school deserves a library and a librarian!
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Restore school libraries to aid reading freedom
It’s Banned Book Week, and New York City is not immune from ever-increasing attempts to curtail freedom of speech and ban books. Recognizing this threat, in June the Legislature passed The Freedom …
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Tom Ochs @tomochs.bsky.social · 10h
I got a few of @gregpak.net postcard at the pop up for Gaza organized by @prisonculture.bsky.social Also got a super cool Hammerhead Shark for my grandkid at @edidin.bsky.social booth.
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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 10h
Absolutely love what @gregpak.net has going on at his NYCC booth (he also has comics but this is great). Booth L-25 in Artist Alley!
Greg Pak’s booth with free photos and a suggested donation for the New York Immigrant Coalition and a zine on How to Report Ice
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 11h
The Advantage program was a lifeline for New Yorkers like Kasha, a working mom struggling to get out of a shelter and into stable housing.

But when then-Gov. Cuomo slashed funding, homelessness surged.

These are political choices. We can choose differently.
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Tom Ochs @tomochs.bsky.social · 11h
Great to see my CM @cmcrystalhudson.bsky.social there as well! @maketheroadny.bsky.social @thenyic.bsky.social @bkindivisible.bsky.social
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Award-Winning Reporter Dave Colon @davecolon.bsky.social · 12h
Whether it's universal daylighting or restarting Mayor Adams' stalled bus lanes, Zohran Mamdani told Streetsblog he'll get his agenda done even if means fighting the DOT deep state or the big shot political bosses who just endorsed him nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/10/09/m...
Mamdani Vows To Defy DOT Insiders, Political Bosses To Pursue His Streets Agenda - Streetsblog New York City
Mamdani pledged stand up to bureaucrats and political power players who oppose his plans to make streets safer and buses faster.
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Tiffany Cabán @tiffanycaban.bsky.social · 13h
I’m introducing a law today to keep ICE off Rikers. We must protect New Yorkers from modern-day storm troopers.
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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 1d
If Belichick can't last at North Carolina, what chance does our love have?
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Tom Ochs @tomochs.bsky.social · 1d
Too busy securing COBA endorsement with his disgraceful plan to keep Rikers open. Some grim reaper shit by this ghoul. @dreamfornyc.bsky.social
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Tom Ochs @tomochs.bsky.social · 1d
Important thread from @edidin.bsky.social on Cuomo’s pledge to keep Rikers open. Reason # gazillion to support @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social who supports the #CloseRikers campaign. That COBA Cuomo endorsement is coming any minute. #CloseRikers not a slogan, a necessity. @freedomagendany.bsky.social
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Tom Ochs @tomochs.bsky.social · 1d
First guest? Gotta be @pablo.show
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Tom Ochs @tomochs.bsky.social · 1d
Only one choice.
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Tom Ochs @tomochs.bsky.social · 1d
Damn! Thanks for sharing this from @ollieconnolly.bsky.social Someone just shared with me a live look at @pablo.show
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ALT: a man wearing a blue jacket and a blue shirt is making a funny face
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Eliza Orlins @elizaorlins.bsky.social · 1d
No Kings 2 is Oct 18. Show up. We need you. #NoKings2 #Courage2025
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No Kings 2 is Oct 18. Find or host a protest near you at courage2025.org/nk2. #NoKings2 #Courage2025
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Rise and Resist @riseandresist.bsky.social · 1d
📢 Immigration Vigil
📆 Thursdays
📍 26 Federal Plaza, NYC, Federal Worker's entrance
⏰ 12 pm

Join us for a silent vigil calling out ICE for abducting immigrants. This may be a silent vigil, but our message is loud!

This space is open to pedestrians and therefore it is legal to protest there.
Immigration vigil, join us in protest, Thursdays 12-1pm, 26 Federal Plaza, NYC. Graphic has black ground and red text, with barbed wire
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d
#WarRavagedPortland
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Tom Ochs @tomochs.bsky.social · 2d
This place MDC here in Sunset Park, Brooklyn is like something out of a Batman movie. But, it’s real. A real hellhole.
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Tom Ochs @tomochs.bsky.social · 2d
Every Tuesday 6pm-7pm.
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Tom Ochs @tomochs.bsky.social · 2d
Some of the signs at the weekly vigil outside MDC here in Brooklyn. Lots of support from folks driving by! @bkindivisible.bsky.social @shahanafrombk.bsky.social @thenyic.bsky.social @maketheroadny.bsky.social
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Tom Ochs @tomochs.bsky.social · 2d
On my way!
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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 2d
Great book 👇
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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2d
The table of contents for Read This When Things Fall Apart is a crisis directory—“read this if…” [insert heartbreak, setback, disaster, or breaking point]. I wish I could gift a copy to every activist in Chicago. You can donate a copy to an activist in need here: www.akpress.org/read-this-wh...
The cover for the book, Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis. The cover art features a person wading into a body of water in the woods at night.
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Indivisible Brooklyn @bkindivisible.bsky.social · 2d
Join us tonight!!
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Indivisible Brooklyn @bkindivisible.bsky.social · Aug 22
Join us and Good Shepherd Lutheran of Bay Ridge at our weekly vigil outside Metropolitan Detention Center, where 100+ immigrant neighbors are being detained by ICE. Every Tuesday at 6pm www.mobilize.us/indivisiblen...

@indivisible.org
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Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 3d
If you'd like to delight in a side-by-side comparison, here's Bari Weiss' reported note to CBS staffers (left) and the one I cooked up on ChatGPT with a quickly dashed-off prompt (right). Looking forward to hearing from you in the days and weeks ahead!
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 3d
Weird thing where people say “no one could have predicted it” when really what they mean is their political commitments and orientation were such that they ignored everyone who was predicting it

Sorry but “no one could have“ and you having your head stuck up your ass are two different situations
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Tom Ochs @tomochs.bsky.social · 4d
I lived in DC during peak Joe Gibbs mastery. They won Super Bowls with 3 different QB’s and 3 different lead running backs. Never been done and highly unlikely to ever be done again.
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