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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Jul 1

anil isn't kidding. this level of transparency and detail — talking to voters like adults — is remarkable. i would imagine it also helps people feel like they are part of something bigger. and, christ, mamdani is insanely charismatic and good on screen. like, you just want to watch him talk!

Anil Dash @anildash.com · Jul 1

This @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? (Video split in 2 to fit in Bluesky’s limits)

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pollyannainhell.bsky.social @pollyannainhell.bsky.social · Jul 2

My God, they've reinvented the Deadly Joke. And somehow possibly developed immunity to it. We're all doomed.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed_o...

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pollyannainhell.bsky.social @pollyannainhell.bsky.social · Jul 1

This. Greenblatt and the travesty he's made of the ADL shouldn't be allowed to claim they're the one true arbiter of "Jewish concerns."

They're not; they don't speak for anything like all of us; and they don't get to claim to do so over our objections.

Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · Jul 1

lol he finally just said it

Greenblatt is a disgrace. I hope Mamdani continues to ignore the ADL and they fade into deserved irrelevance or Greenblatt is fired and they get a new head who makes them into a civil rights organization

Jonathan Greenblatt saying that Zohran Mamdani “doesn’t get to pick and choose which Jews he talks to” because “he has to come to us” or he won’t truly have addressed “Jewish concerns.”

pollyannainhell.bsky.social @pollyannainhell.bsky.social · Jun 30

Yes. I just wanted to clarify, since people will read terms of art as if they were natural language, and be confused, and this is important.

I can already see the posts yelling, "They're denaturalizing Zohran, it's a civil case so he can't have a lawyer!" And then you have to explain 10,000 times.

pollyannainhell.bsky.social @pollyannainhell.bsky.social · Jun 30

Of course it's a barrier to access, but there's still a huge difference between "you're going to need to find a public interest org who want to litigate this" and "we don't care if Danielle Sassoon is willing to represent you pro bono, you're not allowed to have a lawyer."

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pollyannainhell.bsky.social @pollyannainhell.bsky.social · Jun 30

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · Jun 30

To be clear, this is what actual antisemitism looks like.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · Jun 30

Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner says she "100%" questions the faith of Jewish politicians who endorse Zohran Mamdani.

"The same way I would question Chuck Schumer, who works against the interests of his own people at times for the politics."

Emily Compagno then accuses Mamdani of Holocaust denial!

pollyannainhell.bsky.social @pollyannainhell.bsky.social · Jun 30

Ah, thanks. I'm reading that to mean that unlike in criminal cases, you're not entitled to have a lawyer appointed for you if you can't afford one, but NOT to mean that you can't have a lawyer at all.

Is that great? No. But it's a far cry from not being allowed counsel, period.

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pollyannainhell.bsky.social @pollyannainhell.bsky.social · Jun 30

Where are you getting that? Just on the face of it, these appear to be normal civil or criminal cases, where a defendant would normally be entitled to counsel.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · Jun 29

ICE *already* can't meet their detainment numbers without rounding up children, veterans, people born in the U.S., people with no criminal records, people at immigration hearings, plus academics and visitors with valid visas.

So who do they plan to detain with >10x the budget?

The answer is: you.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Jun 28

If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:

- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · Jun 28

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pollyannainhell.bsky.social @pollyannainhell.bsky.social · Jun 28

This is likely a waste of both our time, but I'm genuinely curious: Do you really think somebody who's weaker on policy is a better choice for president because they have a few less dollars? You're pushing Gavin Newsom, not some poor person.

pollyannainhell.bsky.social @pollyannainhell.bsky.social · Jun 28

So what? Sometimes you can use a good class traitor, and he's never suggested the party's gone too far supporting trans people.

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pollyannainhell.bsky.social @pollyannainhell.bsky.social · Jun 28

The Great Khan of the Steppes is right there. We don't have to nominate fucking Newsom. We can go for Pritzker instead, and have someone who doesn't try to throw any of our people under buses.

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pollyannainhell.bsky.social @pollyannainhell.bsky.social · Jun 25

And Bove, who Trump nominated to the Third Circuit, is arguably even worse. I think he was scheduled for a Senate confirmation hearing today. Under any normal conditions the nomination would have been pulled. But these days, who knows? Shamefully, there still might be 51 party-linevotes for him.

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pollyannainhell.bsky.social @pollyannainhell.bsky.social · Jun 25

And it comes on top of Bove's firing Danielle Sassoon, and attempt to fire Hagan Scotten (who resigned first) over their refusal to follow orders to disregard professional ethical standards in the Eric Adams case. It's a pattern: the Senate has evidence-based reason to assume he'll lie under oath.

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pollyannainhell.bsky.social @pollyannainhell.bsky.social · Jun 24

This whole thread. Please. A grateful nation will thank you. DON'T RANK CUOMO.

Yuh-Line Niou @yuhline.bsky.social · Jun 24

As we head to Election Day, for folks who voted early, thank you. I know some folks have not yet made up their minds. I am making an appeal to you.

Please do not rank Cuomo. I have worked with every single one of the candidates for mayor. I will tell you he does not like us.

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · Jun 21

Do the right thing: rank me #1, Zohran #2, and DON'T RANK ANDREW CUOMO.

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ıllıllı FREE ŁINK ıllıllı @rvbdrm.com · Jun 20

I don’t see this mentioned at all about Andrew Cuomo.

He’s on Netanyahu’s legal defence team for his ICC claims.

nypost.com/2024/11/25/u...

Andrew Cuomo joins high-powered legal team to defend Netanyahu against ICC’s war crime claims

Andrew Cuomo has joined the legal team defending Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Jewish State after the International Criminal Court issued a warrant accusing him of war crimes in…

nypost.com

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pollyannainhell.bsky.social @pollyannainhell.bsky.social · Jun 20

I'm trying "Brad Lander is a Jewish Zionist, and he knows both Mamdani and Cuomo better than most of us do, and he's ranking Mamdani #2 and not ranking Cuomo. I think we can probably trust his judgment on this one."

It has the merit of all being true. We'll see whether it works.

woke stifler @yelix.bsky.social · Jun 20

i don’t know what to say to anyone who thinks zohran mamdani wants to do antisemitic pogroms in brooklyn other than “you should try being less stupid”

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pollyannainhell.bsky.social @pollyannainhell.bsky.social · Jun 16

Why I will never give another penny to the @nytimes.com , number approximately three hundred thousand.

I know excellent journalists still try to make it a good paper. I only wish they could quit en masse and create the paper they deserve to work for, free of their clueless management.

Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · Jun 16

In 2024, the NYT, a local newspaper, to the surprise of many, loudly proclaimed it would no longer endorse local candidates.

And yet today, a non-endorsement endorsement; a reverse endorsement by telling NYers to not vote for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social but instead an alleged sexual harasser.

No More Local Endorsements by The New York Times
The paper’s editorial board will continue to endorse presidential candidates, as it has for more than 160 years.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/12/business/media/the-new-york-times-editorial-board-political-endorsements.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Given those polls, however, the crucial choice may end up being where, if at all, voters decide to rank Mr. Cuomo or Mr. Mamdani. We do not believe that Mr. Mamdani deserves a spot on New Yorkers’ ballots. His experience is too thin, and his agenda reads like a turbocharged version of Mr. de Blasio’s dismaying mayoralty. As for Mr. Cuomo, we have serious objections to his ethics and conduct, even if he would be better for New York’s future than Mr. Mamdani.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/opinion/new-york-mayor-election-advice.html

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · Jun 14

We have entered the "The police is saying that if the police is at your door you are not safe call the police immediately" stage of making America great again

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Jun 14

With the tragic assassination of a Minnesota Democratic leader, I’m going to underline this point again.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Jun 13

I know there's a lot going on, but the Secretary of Homeland Security declaring that federal troops are in California and Los Angeles to "liberate" the state and city from its duly-elected leaders really is a fourteen-alarm fire.

Sylvia Chi 齊思涵 @sylviachi.bsky.social · Jun 13

It's mind-blowing how little attention this extraordinary statement has received. It's briefly mentioned in a couple news articles, but this MSNBC opinion piece is the only extended discussion of it I've seen: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

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pollyannainhell.bsky.social @pollyannainhell.bsky.social · Jun 12

Another moment where I wish a vid or podcast had been an article. I recently tried to watch Exodus, which I'd heard was hugely influential when it came out. It's a shockingly awful movie, for itself and not just its politics, and I bet this is really interesting - if you can do video/audio.

Lyle Jeremy Rubin @lylerubin.bsky.social · Jun 12

Such a pleasure to talk to @vanjackson.bsky.social and the journalist @davidgrossman.bsky.social (one of my favorite mutuals) on a film that tells us a lot about our current moment. Check it out!

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · Jun 12

Every Dem Senator: "What happened to Senator Padilla today was an unprecedented breach of constitutional government and demonstrates the scale of the threat to our republic."

Also Every Dem Senator: [Goes back to business as usual]

18 Dem Senators: [Vote for Trump's crypto bill]

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pollyannainhell.bsky.social @pollyannainhell.bsky.social · Jun 8

In all seriousness: do we think he understands what Social Security even is?

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · Jun 7

"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...

Wayne County community rally amid ICE raid at restaurant

Newswatch 16's Emily Kress spoke with people in the Honesdale community who are shaken after watching three restaurant employees get detained.

www.wnep.com

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