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AOC FOR SENATE
November 10, 2025 at 5:54 AM
AOC FOR SENATE
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remember all those hot takes during the primary about how Mamdani was the candidate for rich white liberals? a "champagne socialist" ?
yeah, about that
yeah, about that
November 5, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Trump’s pathetic miscreants are spending your $$ to engage in a (totally illegal) attempt to surge partisan propaganda on to this platform via newly opened accounts of federal agencies. Neuter their efforts by blocking their accounts and starving them of engagement. Comprehensive block list below:
October 18, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Trump’s pathetic miscreants are spending your $$ to engage in a (totally illegal) attempt to surge partisan propaganda on to this platform via newly opened accounts of federal agencies. Neuter their efforts by blocking their accounts and starving them of engagement. Comprehensive block list below:
So pleased that The Brooklyn Rail allowed me the space for this in their October issue:
brooklynrail.org/2025/10/fiel...
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brooklynrail.org/2025/10/fiel...
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Victory From the Margins: Artists Building Worker Power | The Brooklyn Rail
Much has been written about the “gig economy” over the last decade. As more and more workers find themselves unwilling members of “the precariat,” Guy Standing’s prophetic 2011 term for the “dangerous...
brooklynrail.org
October 3, 2025 at 6:01 PM
So pleased that The Brooklyn Rail allowed me the space for this in their October issue:
brooklynrail.org/2025/10/fiel...
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brooklynrail.org/2025/10/fiel...
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A 9AM call time for dress rehearsal feels like brutality
September 30, 2025 at 12:06 PM
A 9AM call time for dress rehearsal feels like brutality
Look at Labour in the UK (neoliberal triangulating coward shit) vs Morena in Mexico (massive public works and redistribution programs). One is wildly popular and a stabilizing force for democracy, the other is precipitating total political collapse. American Dems should take heed 🧐🧐🧐
September 3, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Look at Labour in the UK (neoliberal triangulating coward shit) vs Morena in Mexico (massive public works and redistribution programs). One is wildly popular and a stabilizing force for democracy, the other is precipitating total political collapse. American Dems should take heed 🧐🧐🧐
The real ‘DEI’ scandal is under qualified and underperforming people towing the rightwing line and establishing careers entirely funded by fascist think tanks and donors bc they can’t hack it in the actual market place. GTFO of here w your barely there degree and your embarrassingly flimsy résumé 🙄
August 14, 2025 at 5:42 AM
The real ‘DEI’ scandal is under qualified and underperforming people towing the rightwing line and establishing careers entirely funded by fascist think tanks and donors bc they can’t hack it in the actual market place. GTFO of here w your barely there degree and your embarrassingly flimsy résumé 🙄
Allowable definitions for infinity should include ‘a list of reasons why Charlotte airport is the dumbest airport in the country’
August 3, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Allowable definitions for infinity should include ‘a list of reasons why Charlotte airport is the dumbest airport in the country’
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Spot on. This is the clearest explanation I’ve seen. It ‘s relatable, and humanizes the issue in a way everyone can understand.
June 28, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Spot on. This is the clearest explanation I’ve seen. It ‘s relatable, and humanizes the issue in a way everyone can understand.
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People need to understand, they are governing as if they're never going to give up power again.
June 27, 2025 at 4:47 PM
People need to understand, they are governing as if they're never going to give up power again.
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Lander: "It's just gross, racist bigotry. Meanwhile he's running an optimistic, upbeat campaign for a NY where everybody belongs, and I feel proud as the highest-ranking Jewish elected official in NYC to be supporting somebody who would be the first Muslim mayor—what could be more NYC than that?"
June 27, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Lander: "It's just gross, racist bigotry. Meanwhile he's running an optimistic, upbeat campaign for a NY where everybody belongs, and I feel proud as the highest-ranking Jewish elected official in NYC to be supporting somebody who would be the first Muslim mayor—what could be more NYC than that?"
Hot take — the myriad talking heads who have spent countless hours faux-puzzling about ‘how can democrats reconnect w men/the working class/minority voters who shifted to Trump/etc???’ are studiously ignoring the fact that Zohran’s campaign effectively and decisively provided the answer.
June 27, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Hot take — the myriad talking heads who have spent countless hours faux-puzzling about ‘how can democrats reconnect w men/the working class/minority voters who shifted to Trump/etc???’ are studiously ignoring the fact that Zohran’s campaign effectively and decisively provided the answer.
These fascist thugs are out of control. A gestapo is being built in plain sight. We are at the cliff’s edge. Kudos to Brad Lander who walks the walk.
Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife.
While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE.
This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.
While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE.
This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.
June 17, 2025 at 5:59 PM
These fascist thugs are out of control. A gestapo is being built in plain sight. We are at the cliff’s edge. Kudos to Brad Lander who walks the walk.
This is the tipping point
June 11, 2025 at 5:26 AM
This is the tipping point
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“The Aristocrats!”
April 9, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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It was all a lie — the right was never concerned about free speech or about meritocracy. They actually loathe both of those things. It was about concentrating power in the hands of the few and shutting down criticisms of systems of oppression, full stop.
It was all a lie — the right was never concerned about free speech or about meritocracy. They actually loathe both of those things. It was about concentrating power in the hands of the few and shutting down criticisms of systems of oppression, full stop.
We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now
This is the text of the email just sent to hundreds of international students telling them that their visas have been revoked due to activism or social media posts.
March 30, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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It was all a lie — the right was never concerned about free speech or about meritocracy. They actually loathe both of those things. It was about concentrating power in the hands of the few and shutting down criticisms of systems of oppression, full stop.
It was all a lie — the right was never concerned about free speech or about meritocracy. They actually loathe both of those things. It was about concentrating power in the hands of the few and shutting down criticisms of systems of oppression, full stop.
Well done LA 🙌🐊⚜️
ELECTION COVERAGE: Louisiana voters reject 4 constitutional amendments, handing Gov. Jeff Landry a major policy defeat. @jsodonoghue.bsky.social & @greglarose.bsky.social report. lailluminator.com/2025/03/29/l...
Louisiana voters reject 4 constitutional amendments, handing Landry major defeat • Louisiana Illuminator
In a stunning rejection of Republican Gov. Jeff Landry, Louisiana voters turned down all four of his constitutional amendments Saturday.
lailluminator.com
March 30, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Well done LA 🙌🐊⚜️
They were never mad about the loss of a job-existent ‘meritocracy’ — they were mad about the (perceived) loss of power of nepobabies and entitled white men. Period.
He fired the black chairman of the joint chiefs for being woke and hired his brother.
March 29, 2025 at 4:10 AM
They were never mad about the loss of a job-existent ‘meritocracy’ — they were mad about the (perceived) loss of power of nepobabies and entitled white men. Period.
‘It’s a loss of a whole generation of science.’ Absolutely infuriating — their bigotry is endlessly destructive and ultimately affects everyone 😤
www.ky3.com/2025/03/25/t...
www.ky3.com/2025/03/25/t...
Trump administration cancels at least 68 grants focused on LGBTQ health questions
A surge of grant cancellations hit researchers focused on the health of gay, lesbian and transgender people last week, as the Trump administration continues to target what it describes as ideologicall...
www.ky3.com
March 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
‘It’s a loss of a whole generation of science.’ Absolutely infuriating — their bigotry is endlessly destructive and ultimately affects everyone 😤
www.ky3.com/2025/03/25/t...
www.ky3.com/2025/03/25/t...
Hmmmm…. it’s almost like putting an incompetent, reactionary, bumbling drunk in charge of our national defense was not a good idea… 😤
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Hmmmm…. it’s almost like putting an incompetent, reactionary, bumbling drunk in charge of our national defense was not a good idea… 😤
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Watching douchebag billionaires roll out the red carpet for fascism is going to re-radicalize me all over again 😤😤😤😤😤
January 8, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Watching douchebag billionaires roll out the red carpet for fascism is going to re-radicalize me all over again 😤😤😤😤😤
I’m so exhausted w the stupid already and it hasn’t even really begun 👾👾👾 apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump refuses to rule out use of military force to take control of Greenland and the Panama Canal
President-elect Donald Trump says he won't rule out the use of military force to seize control of the Panama Canal and Greenland as he declared U.S. control of both to be vital to American national se...
apnews.com
January 7, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I’m so exhausted w the stupid already and it hasn’t even really begun 👾👾👾 apnews.com/article/trum...
(Is this just going to be a hot takes account? Maybe…)
December 15, 2024 at 5:26 AM
(Is this just going to be a hot takes account? Maybe…)