alefkowitz.bsky.social
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In 2021, after Eric Adams beat Kathryn Garcia 50.4% to 49.6% with 404,513 total votes, he met with Biden and Pelosi and was declared the future of the Democratic Party. Mamdani has now beaten Cuomo 56% to 44% in the final count and increased Adams's vote share by 35%.
FINAL RCV pending affidavits

🟠 Mamdani 545,334 (56%)
🔵 Cuomo 428,530 (44%)
July 1, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Melissa Hortman, who was assassinated last night, was the Speaker of the Minnesota House in the 2023-2024 session, when Democrats ran the state government.

That means she had a leading role in shepherding the many landmark reforms that Dems adopted in that period—an important legacy. Brief 🧵.
June 14, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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how is this real life
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
June 14, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
June 9, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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What is the cost of sending National Guard and active duty Marines to Los Angeles, where they are not needed? What is this political theater costing taxpayers? Talk about WASTE, FRAUD AND ABUSE.
June 9, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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⚠️ For those unfamiliar with the term “remigration,” it does not only mean deportation of undocumented immigrants but also the expulsion of non-white people to the country of their racial or ethnic ancestral origin without regard to their citizenship, legal status, or place of birth.
SCOOP: The State Department's new reorganization plan includes the opening of an "Office for Remigration," a term popularized by far right extremists and neo-Nazis in Europe. The office will coordinate directly with DHS "to advance the President’s immigration agenda."

My report:
State Department set to launch ‘Office of Remigration’
The concept of remigration has explicitly neo-Nazi roots and has been popularized in Europe.
www.thehandbasket.co
May 29, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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The mugshots that were missing from the White House lawn.
April 29, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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This morning, news broke that Amazon would start displaying how much an item's cost increased because of Trump's tariffs.

Then, Trump threw a fit — and Amazon backed down.

Pathetic.
April 29, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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The children's books that Sam Alito says convey "highly objectionable moral principles" are standard-issue storybooks with gay and trans characters. They don't teach anything about "gender and sexuality." Alito is just a homophobe who doesn't want to see it. ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/mahmo...
Let’s Take a Look at the Children’s Books Sam Alito Is So Afraid Of
Stories like "Uncle Bobby's Wedding" are only objectionable if you find the very existence of LGBTQ people to be objectionable.
ballsandstrikes.org
April 24, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Florida: Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez (20) is being held in the Leon County Jail, charged with illegally entering Florida as an “unauthorized alien."

Lopez-Gomez is a U.S. Citizen, born in the USA. He showed his U.S. birth certificate in court. The judge held him in jail anyway.

This is Fascism.
April 17, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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the american electoral system is basically 500,000 information-resistant people across a handful of states taking a guess and then going "haha! oops!" every two years. this process takes 18 months and costs four trillion dollars every time
April 17, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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If Karoline Leavitt or anyone in this administration has receipts showing that Mr. Garcia is a member of MS-13, or engaged in human trafficking, they’d be presenting them in a power point presentation every single day.
April 15, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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The DOJ lawyer who made the mistake of answering the court's questions about Abrego-Garcia candidly (eg yes he was mistakenly deported, a fact the Administration already has acknowledged), which got him put on administrative leave, has now been fired, ending his 15-year DOJ career..
April 15, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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"After nearly five hours, he and his wife were released. They are now pursuing legal action.

"It's not about the immigrants," his sister, told NBC10 Boston. "It's coming to us Americans, and it's going to go after all of us."

www.nbcboston.com/news/politic...
‘Treated like a criminal': US citizen says he was detained returning from Canada
Bachir Atallah, a real estate attorney from New Hampshire, says he and his wife, Jessica Fakhri, were stopped crossing from Canada into Vermont
www.nbcboston.com
April 15, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Letter from Dem Senator Chris Van Hollen (MD) requesting a meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele
To discuss MD father Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return

"If Kilmar is not home by midweek – I plan to travel to El Salvador this week to check on his condition and discuss his release."
April 14, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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I pray you’ll read my latest. We are being challenged as a nation and this is a test we must pass.

open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
Americans Must Prepare to Fight for the Citizenship Rights of U.S. Prisoners
Trump's Plan to Render U.S. Citizens to Foreign Jails Seeks to Exploit Americans' Disinterest in the Rights of Prisoners
open.substack.com
April 12, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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What a fucking idiot.
April 6, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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New — I spoke to the school principal of Sackets Harbor, NY, where ICE handcuffed and disappeared a mother and 3 kids (including a 3rd grader). It’s also the town Trump Border Czar Tom Homan calls home.

Cook tells me about how the small town is taking on enormous power to bring the students home:
Try that in a small town
ICE disappeared a mother and 3 children. Neighbors of Trump's Border Czar said hell no.
www.thehandbasket.co
April 6, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Let’s go, Seattle 👏
April 6, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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I cannot understate how appalling and helpless it feels as a Jew that this is being done under the guise of fighting antisemitism.
April 3, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Every day I wake up to the news
April 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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If our democracy dies, this is its epitaph
April 4, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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The phrase of the day is “jury nullification”

www.bbc.com/news/article...
US prosecutors to seek death penalty for Luigi Mangione
The 26-year-old is accused of shooting dead healthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside a Manhattan hotel.
www.bbc.com
April 2, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Strom Thurmond's record is 24 hours and 18 minutes which was done against the Civil Rights Act of 1957 & in defense of segregation. Cory Booker, a Black senator from Jersey, breaking his record to speak out against a white supremacist President would be poetic justice.
Cory Booker crosses 23-hour mark in marathon Senate floor speech protesting Trump agenda | CNN Politics
Sen. Cory Booker is holding the Senate floor into Tuesday afternoon, as the New Jersey Democrat continues his marathon speech protesting actions taken by President Donald Trump’s administration.
www.cnn.com
April 1, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Still going. Listen in.

www.youtube.com/live/rCUK2Vb...
LIVE: Cory Booker speaks on the Senate floor
YouTube video by Associated Press
www.youtube.com
April 1, 2025 at 9:57 PM