1/ The night of the raid, Jonahyker López awoke to the sound of a helicopter over his building and federal agents yelling, “Open the door!” López told me he sat on the edge of his bed, wishing that his own door would become invisible. But the door came down and agents burst in. 🧵

In a rare case of Substack notes usefulness, I just learned that Sarah Kendzior (author of They Knew and a brilliant writer) got bounced from Bluesky. What the hell? new @sarahkendzior.bsky.social

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 5: Vito Marcantonio

There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future.

Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.

The absolutely brilliant pitch perfect troll of getting targeted by your opponent with virulent Islamophobia and then immediately releasing an ad in all Arabic.

Great profile of Elle Bisgaard-Church, the novice campaign mgr to novice mayoral candidate Mamdani; a team that connected, stayed on message...& deftly handled tired machine politics.

Frankly, it's a relief. Mamdani & Bisgaard-Church are poised to run NYC.
🧾 www.cityandstateny.com/personality/...

I wish Gregg Popovich nothing but the best as he steps away from the San Antonio Spurs bench. There was nothing quite like dealing with Pop. He resisted my every attempt to do this story on him, but in the end he kinda sorta cooperated. The man is one of a kind. Please enjoy. bit.ly/4m0KLoK

Teachers teach. We need a leaderful movement, and there are leaders all around us.

History buffs will know that every authoritarian leader eventually converges on some version of: "I *am* the state. I can not break the law, I am the law, the law is instantiated in me."

Our march to authoritarianism so far has been excruciatingly by-the-book. Hitting every beat. No surprises.

Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year.

2022: $0
2021: $0
2020: $0
2019: $0
2018: $0

Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”

James Baldwin

I've seen others offering some really interesting suggestions for how Democrats should be interacting with voters in the community in real life: opening offices that offer constituent services, for example. This is the kind of thinking that I think needs to happen.

We’ve now entered the Temu era of presidential appointments…🫠