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brent is Saw Gerrera-pilled @therealbrent.bsky.social · 10h

DO IT DO IT DO IT

Scoop: Mamdani ally weighs challenging Hakeem Jeffries

Just talking about a potential campaign could drive a further wedge between Mamdani — the democratic socialist in line to be New York's next mayor — and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 18h

We know more about the massive military-style raid on a Chicago housing complex thanks to the reporting of @southsideweekly.bsky.social, @blockclubchi.bsky.social, and neighborhood resident Eboni Watson who chronicled the event. Among the emerging questions: what's real estate's role in this?

section of text from South Side Weekly's coverage, which says: "The building was purchased by Wisconsin-based investor Trinity Flood in January 2020, according to Cook County records. On October 1, the day after the raid, a judge reviewed an emergency motion from Wells Fargo seeking to appoint Matthew Tarshis of Frontline Real Estate Partners as the property’s receiver.

Flood purchased three multifamily properties in South Shore in 2020. The neighborhood, which had the highest number of eviction filings in Chicago from 2015-2019 according to the Law Center for Better Housing, has seen a rise in outside real estate investors since the 2017 announcement of the Obama Presidential Center’s construction in the neighboring Jackson Park.

Wells Fargo Bank foreclosed on the building in mid-2024, bringing a $27 million lawsuit against Flood for missed loan payments. In late 2024, the City began closing its largest migrant shelters and, through state funding assistance distributed via Catholic Charities and moving support from New Life Church, relocated many families to buildings such as this one."

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 13h

I didn't know Mamdani's wife was a comics nerd! New York, you have to vote for him now because I need at least one person in comics to have good health insurance.

Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · Jun 25

This is Zoran Mamdami’s wife’s portfolio site and she is very good

HOME | Rama Duwaji

Rama Duwaji is a Syrian illustrator and animator based in Brooklyn, NYC.

www.ramaduwaji.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 12h

"On Wednesday, Mr. Mamdani, the Democratic nominee, rode the full route of the M57, a crosstown bus that traverses Midtown Manhattan and is one of the city’s slowest, to remind New Yorkers that he wanted to speed up their commutes."

Mamdani Rides Slow Bus to ‘Fast and Free’ Buses Event

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Chase Madar @madar.bsky.social · 17h

One thing I’m looking forward to is the deep bench of media heads who got voted out of office giving savvy streetsmart advice to purportedly naive Mamdani after he wins 😹😹😹

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Send Cuomo to Florida @notandrewcuomo.bsky.social · 17h

There is no conceivable benefit to this that wouldn’t be achieved from just raising taxes on the ultra wealthy so there’s literally no other way to understand this than as a fetish for punishing women, queer, nb + trans people. Good news! Our government is already doing that daily!

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 18h

"Reproductive freedom should be sacrosanct" and "we should tax women who refuse to breed" are not in fact mutually compatible statements.

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 20h

My most controversial take on this is probably that while I think reproductive freedom should be sacrosanct, I don’t really have any problem with additional taxes on (high income) childless people. Someone gotta pay into the pensions!

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 18h

This is why men should take a vow of silence about reproductive freedom. Idiotic ideas, abound.

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 20h

My most controversial take on this is probably that while I think reproductive freedom should be sacrosanct, I don’t really have any problem with additional taxes on (high income) childless people. Someone gotta pay into the pensions!

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Award-Winning Reporter Dave Colon @davecolon.bsky.social · 18h

Zohran Mamdani rode the M57, the slowest bus in the city. I taught him the word “macher”

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 21h

Got a few questions on this, voting yes on 2-6, still undecided on 1 (conservation groups like it but also the Olympics are always a boondoogle).

Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 1d

yes, us! here you go:

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Joshua McElwee @joshmcelwee.org · 1d

Pope Leo told U.S. bishops visiting him at the Vatican on Wednesday that they should firmly address how immigrants are being treated by President Donald Trump's hardline policies, attendees said, in the latest push by the pontiff on the issue. For @reuters.com:

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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 1d

yes, us! here you go:

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Gersh Kuntzman @realgershkuntzman.bsky.social · 21h

Every aging, out-of-step pol (and, yes, journalist!) needs to read this insightful @nytopinion.nytimes.com piece by Jennifer Steinhauer: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/o...

Opinion | Win or Lose, It’s Zohran Mamdani’s Political World Now

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City Limits News @citylimitsnews.bsky.social · 22h

For the first time, housing code violations issued by the city at NYCHA properties are now publicly available—giving public housing residents information about their buildings that tenants in privately-owned properties have long had access to. citylimits.org/city-issued-...

City-Issued Violations at NYCHA Developments Are Now Public, Following Legal Settlement - City Limits

NYCHA residents can now look up housing code violations for their buildings online, something tenants in privately-owned properties have long been able to do.

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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 22h

You won’t be surprised to hear the next mayor of NYC @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social did an amazing job crainsnewyork business leaders breakfast. He is going to be a visionary mayor- the leader we need.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

I grew up going to Zabar's. So many of my childhood memories center around the best lox in NYC (which is saying something). With Saul Zabar's passing today, the Upper West Side has lost a legend who turned his parent's humble store into a culinary institution.

Saul Zabar, Smoked Fish Czar of Upper West Side, Dies at 97

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Bright D Limm 임대중 @bdlimm.bsky.social · 2d

Our main objective in NYC is a million votes for Zohran, with 200k of those on the Working Families line. #VoteZonRowD.

Our secondary objective is to block MAGA. In particular, Kayla Santosuosso's win in District 47 (BK) would not only help block the Right but also help build the Left. VoteWFP.info

Screenshot of the top of the New York Working Families Party's "Vote WFP" website for the 2025 general election. On the upper left is a photo of a multi-racial group of people wearing Working Famlies Party t-shirts and Zohran for NYC campaign bandanas while holding WFP signs or Zohran campaign signs. On the upper right are the words, "Vote WFP: Build power for working people." On the bottom is a black-and-white image of a line from a NYC general-election ballot showing the candidates for NYC mayor. Superimposed on that image is a zoomed-in image of the box for the Working Families Party ballot line; this box is in a conspicuous orange color and shows the letter "D" (since WFP currently occupies the position of "row D" on ballots in New York), with "Zohran Kwame Mamdani" as the candidate, and the bubble next to his name filled in.

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Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 1d

NYC DSA has endorsed Andrew Cuomo

(That's the New York City Deputy Sheriffs Association)

Cuomo Receives Endorsement of New York City Deputy Sheriffs’ Benevolent Association

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, candidate for mayor of New York City, today proudly received the endorsement of the New York City Deputy Sheriffs’ Benevolent Association.“New York City is in crisis and ever...

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 1d

when one of those things are true and the other isn't, it's important to make them sound like they are the same thing

Politico @politico.com · 1d

The attacks in the NYC mayoral race continue: Cuomo is painting Mamdani’s backers as extremists and Mamdani is framing Cuomo’s as oligarchs.

Cuomo paints Mamdani’s backers as extremists. Mamdani frames Cuomo’s as oligarchs.

Cuomo joins in on Mamdani's months-long attack on super PACs.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

This image is from Los Angeles in 1992. What are you doing here?

CNN @cnn.com · 2d

"President Donald Trump and his top aides are using the word 'insurrection' more frequently to describe anti-ICE protests in places like Portland," writes Zachary B. Wolf. https://cnn.it/4pWYmzr

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 1d

This is maybe the best statement a politician has made on this horrific anniversary.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

My statement on the two year anniversary of October 7, 2023.

“Two years ago today, Hamas carried out a horrific war crime, killing more than 1,100 Israelis and kidnapping 250 more. I mourn these lives and pray for the safe return of every hostage still held and for every family whose lives were torn apart by these atrocities.

In the aftermath of that day, Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Israeli government launched a genocidal war: adeath toll that now far exceeds 67,000; with the Israeli military bombing homes, hospitals, and schools into rubble. Every day in Gaza has become a place where grief itself has run out of language. I mourn these lives and pray for the families that have been shattered. Our government has been complicit through it all.

This must end. The occupation and apartheid must end. Peace must be pursued through diplomacy, not war crimes, and our government must act to end these atrocities and hold those responsible to account.

These last two years have demonstrated the very worst of humanity. We must answer it by modeling the very best: a relentless pursuit of our higher ideals and an unwavering commitment to universal human rights.”

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Adrienne Adams @nycspeakeradams.bsky.social · 2d

In 2022, NYC saw the most pregnancy-associated deaths since 2016, nearly half of which were Black women.

Maternal mortality is a public health emergency, and that’s why our Steering Committee is focused on solutions to prevent these deaths.

Bar chart about Black non-Hispanic women accounting for 42% of pregnancy-associated deaths in NYC in 2022.

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Megan Piontkowski illustration @meganpiont.bsky.social · 2d

#NYC! We have an ICE Watch Hotline! I repeat, we have an ICE Watch hotline! I updated the zines to include the hotline #. FINALLY!!!

(If you have the old zines, you have my blessing to write the # in with a sharpie or pen.)

drive.google.com/file/d/1y2S_...

NYC-SALUTE-zine-10-6.pdf

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d

Breaking MSNBC:

A top prosecutor in Virginia has informed colleagues she plans to decline to seek charges against New York Attorney General Letitia James — resisting intense pressure from Trump, according to two people familiar with her discussions. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Top prosecutor is rejecting Trump pressure to charge New York AG

A key federal prosecutor in Virginia, where James Comey was indicted, is resisting bringing charges against Letitia James.

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Eric Thor @ericthor.com · 2d

I made a thing a few weeks ago! Now the campaign is officially launching it!

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