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Sabah Munawar

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Your favorite Central Queens organizing Auntie. My friends are way cooler than me. QueensWFP I wearemalikah I QueensCB6

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Sabah Munawar @sabahm.bsky.social · Mar 1

NY Women say Hell No to Cuomo! Women deserve better than a bully and sexual harasser.

New York Working Families Party @nywfp.bsky.social · Mar 1

New York women say #HellNoCuomo #NoMasCuomo

Sabah Munawar @sabahm.bsky.social · 5d

Good Bye Eric! You could have been such an amazing mayor if you had made everyday Nyers your priority.

#PeoplesBudgetNYC #CareNotCuts @peoplesplannyc.bsky.social · 5d

#EricAdams it’s been real. We’re not going to miss your cuts to city services & terrible policies. But we are going to miss yelling at you. Shout out to all the parents, students, educators, librarians, tenants, & NYers who hounded Eric Adams at every turn to demand a People’s Budget & #CareNotCuts.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 22d

BIG NEW YORKERS AGAINST ICE rally at 6 pm, Thursday, 9/25 at Foley Square in NYC, friends! Please do come through!

If you've never been to a rally, why not start here? It's 2025 and it's time. We all gotta stand up for all of us.

Graphic reading "New Yorkers Against ICE / 6 pm * 9/25 * Foley Square" "Bring pots and pans." Image shows a pen and ink drawing of a group of protestors holding signs that read NEW YORK FOR ALL! NO TROOPS IN OUR CITIES! and ICE OUT OF NY.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 29d

Choose your fighter.

Screenshot of a headline from Jacobin magazine. It reads:

"Zohran Mamdani: “New York City Is Not for Sale

by Zohran Mamdani

At a Brooklyn town hall with Bernie Sanders on Saturday, Zohran Mamdani recounted how Bernie “gave me the language of democratic socialism to describe my politics” and called on supporters to keep organizing after Election Day. We reproduce his speech here."

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"Wealthy New York Developers Hold Meeting to Plot Mamdani’s Defeat

Some of New York’s biggest business leaders convened on Tuesday morning for an urgent gathering to support former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, saying the “time to act is now.”

There's a photo of Andrew Cuomo and another man entering a building.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Sep 8

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"

A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.

Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · Sep 1

Your pal @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social at the West Indian Day Parade in Brooklyn. Genuinely hard to take a bad picture of this dude.

That's the @nywfp.bsky.social float behind him - follow them and let's make this man mayor and get him the progressive caucus he needs to get things done, NYC!

Zohran Mamdani smiling/laughing as he walks towards the camera at the West Indian Day Parade in Brooklyn.

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Sabah Munawar @sabahm.bsky.social · Aug 25

So good to meet you @gregpak.net ! Your photos are beautiful

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · Aug 24

The vibes were fantastic. #ZcavengerHunt

cc @sabahm.bsky.social

Two Mamdani volunteers/staffers smaile at the camera. They're both wearing t-shirts that reads "VOTE ZOHRAN MAMDANI for a New York you can AFFORD"

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · Aug 24

Couple of awesome Mamdani folks including @sabahm.bsky.social at 1 Center Street on the #ZcavengerHunt!

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Rafael Shimunov @rafaelshimunov.bsky.social · Aug 21

Wouldn’t it be amazing to see @andrewrsorkin.bsky.social take up the teahuvah offered here and actually interview the plurality of Jewish New Yorkers who support @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social?

Bend the Arc used to work with Greenblatt. This would be interesting.

Bend the Arc: Jewish Action @bendthearc.bsky.social · Aug 21

Thanks @andrewrsorkin.bsky.social for starting to repair the mistake of not fact checking Jonathan Greenblatt.

If Squawkbox itself wants to visit the entire Jewish community’s feelings around @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social we and the Jewish coalition standing with Zohran are ready when you are.

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#PeoplesBudgetNYC #CareNotCuts @peoplesplannyc.bsky.social · Aug 7

What if we told you no 1 knows *exactly* what’s in NYC’s $116B budget other than #EricAdams & his budget office? That’s by design & Adams has been using it to cut services & hide NYPD overspending since day 1. Watch our convo w/ @cmalexaaviles.bsky.social on why tran$parency matters. #CareNotCuts

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#PeoplesBudgetNYC #CareNotCuts @peoplesplannyc.bsky.social · Jul 22

As a candidate Eric Adams promised to dedicate 1% of the city budget to NYC parks.

As mayor he screwed over the parks department and the workers that run it for 3 years straight.

Adam Ganser from @ny4p.bsky.social on how we can win back the green spaces NYers deserve.
#EricAdams #CareNotCuts

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Send Cuomo to Florida @notandrewcuomo.bsky.social · Jul 3

Time to raise some taxes on NY’s very richest.

Governor Kathy Hochul @governor.ny.gov · Jul 3

Let's break it down:

Reps. LaLota and Garbarino voted to kick 96,000 constituents off their health care.
Rep. Malliotakis? 52,000.
Rep. Lawler? 31,000.
Rep. Stefanik? 44,000.
Rep. Langworthy? 35,000.
Rep. Tenney? 31,000.

They may have turned their backs on New Yorkers, but I never will.

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New Yorkers Against Cuomo @nyersagainstcuomo.bsky.social · Jun 23

¡Neoyorquinos! ¡El día de las elecciones es el martes 24 de junio! Estamos aquí para decirle a nuestra comunidad:
¡No clasifiquen a Andrew Cuomo! Se postula para representar a los ricos, no a la gente de Nueva York.
#AndrewCuomo @maketheroadny.bsky.social @dreamnyc.bsky.social @nychange.bsky.social

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

"What Brad did was engage in that very moment of courage. He showed us what leadership can look like. And for that, he was arrested."

Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · Jun 17

Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani, another mayor candidate who has cross endorsed Lander, speaks to crowd.

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Senator Mike Gianaris @sengianaris.bsky.social · Jun 17

The routine arresting of elected officials opposing government action is a hallmark of fascism, and it is happening before our very eyes.

@bradlander.bsky.social must be released immediately

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Sabah Munawar @sabahm.bsky.social · Jun 17

Release @bradlander.bsky.social
He is among the best of us and shows up for folks of his city day in and day out even when not on the clock.

Rana Abdelhamid @ranafromqueens.bsky.social · Jun 17

Just days ago, Brad Lander called me to interpret for an Arabic-speaking asylee whose case was approved, yet ICE was still harassing him inside the building. Brad personally escorted him out to safety. He does this kind of work quietly, every day.

Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · Jun 17

Lander just got detained by federal agents as he tried to escort a man out of the courtroom. Lander was taken in an elevator with masked agents, along with one member of his NYPD security detail.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Jun 17

As for so many across this country, Bernie Sanders has been the single most influential political figure in my life.

As Mayor, I will strive to live up to his example by fighting for the working class every day and hopefully make Brooklyn’s own proud.

A graphic of Bernie and Zohran smiling. Text reads “BERNIE ENDORSES ZOHRAN.”

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · Jun 14

My husband showed up to the @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social canvas he leads this morning expecting to see the 30 people who had signed up. THERE WERE EIGHTY people. On a rainy Saturday. I HATE THIS HOPE IM FEELING.

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Sabah Munawar @sabahm.bsky.social · May 29

So much bad with Cuomo

Dylan Lyons (he/him) @dylanlyons.bsky.social · May 29

When people ask you “what’s so bad about Cuomo?” send them this and make sure they don’t rank him anywhere on their ballot. #HellNoCuomo #RankTheSlate

“New Yorkers Are Still Paying for Cuomo’s Bad Deals” - When Cuomo was governor, NYC rents went up 52%, he tried to cut $2.5B from Medicaid, Homelessness went up by 41%, his budget cuts decimated hospitals & mental health services, he cut $840M from NYC public schools

Don’t Rank Cuomo - last day to register June 14, early voting June 14-22, Election Day June 24

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · May 28

We're now 8 points away from sending Andrew Cuomo back to the suburbs.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · May 6

He's scared.

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Sabah Munawar @sabahm.bsky.social · May 2

And A 💩

Sabah Munawar @sabahm.bsky.social · May 2

You think your rent is too damn high right now? A pac for Cuomo is literally raking in money from real estate bros, they will make sure as Mayor he raises the rent and only works for them. Don’t Rank Cuomo! Great work @nyersagainstcuomo.bsky.social

New Yorkers Against Cuomo @nyersagainstcuomo.bsky.social · May 2

NEW: Our analysis shows that 74 PERCENT of the $6M+ given to Cuomo's "Fix the City" PAC is from REAL ESTATE (44%) & FINANCE (30%). Cuomo is bought by the same people that are INCREASING RENT & making NYC UNAFFORDABLE. In @politico.com today, by @jccoltin.bsky.social: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

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Matt Gonzales @matttheg.bsky.social · Apr 29

Andrew Cuomo doesn’t ride the MTA like most New Yorkers, so he will never have to experience the impact of his failed policies.

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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · Apr 14

Like I said, I was, for a time, this guys staff who oversaw housing. He doesn’t care and he isn’t smart.

Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · Apr 14

NEW:

Andrew Cuomo used ChatGPT to help write the housing plan he released this weekend, which included several nonsensical passages. The plan even cites to ChatGPT on a section about the Rent Guidelines Board.

hellgatenyc.com/andrew-cuomo...

Andrew Cuomo Used ChatGPT For His Housing Plan

"Addressing New York's Housing Crisis" features garbled text and a citation from ChatGPT.

hellgatenyc.com

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