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Emily Cunningham
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Climate, justice, abolition, labor. Co-founder of
Amazon Employees for Climate Justice (she/her).
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This really was a case of organized people over organized money.
prospect.org/politics/202...
In one of the most stunning results in Democratic politics in years, Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani is poised to come from nowhere and pull off a major victory over former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the establishment’s overwhelming choice for the job. With 90 percent of the results in, Mamdani had captured 43.5 percent of the vote to Cuomo’s 36.3 percent. The final results with all allocations in the ranked-choice process will be announced next Tuesday. The win is a shock considering what Cuomo and his deep-pocketed allies threw at Mamdani in the late stages of the race, including tens of millions of dollars in Super PAC ads, endorsements from former president Bill Clinton and kingmaker former House leader Jim Clyburn, and a flurry of media rage. But as Mamdani said on Stephen Colbert’s show this week, while Cuomo had organized money, he had organized people. Cuomo conceded that late Tuesday evening with a de facto concession speech in which he praised Mamdani’s campaign. The margin, which virtually no pollster predicted, matches the excitement that canvassers have seen throughout New York for weeks and saw again on Tuesday. A near-record heat wave had some convinced voters would stay home, especially after Gov. Kathy Hochul announced a state of emergency for 32 counties on Sunday, including for all five New York City boroughs. But the results speak for themselves.
June 25, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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THIS PART
June 25, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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Mike Bloomberg alone spent more money on Andrew Cuomo’s campaign than @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social raised and spent *in total.* Mutually supportive principled leaders w a dedicated base of people who care can beat back the billionaires & machine pols. People power FTW www.nyccfb.info/VSApps/WebFo...
NYC Campaign Finance Board: Independent Expenditures Summary
www.nyccfb.info
June 25, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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taniel.bsky.social
Two big results for liberal, Working Families Party-championed mayoral candidates in New York.

No, not Mamdani.

Here are the results in the Buffalo and Syracuse races: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...
June 25, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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shantini.bsky.social
Israel has burned northern Gaza’s last remaining hospital. And kicked out its patients, including neonatal and ICU patients. I picked a western news source since y’all seem more likely to believe those. I don’t know how else to get people to care.

www.nbcnews.com/news/world/h...
Israel burns northern Gaza’s last functioning hospital; patients and staff forcibly removed
Isreali military vehicles surrounded the hospital, the Palestinian Health Ministry said, and communications had been cut off.
www.nbcnews.com
December 27, 2024 at 2:21 PM
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Tomorrow, senators will vote on whether the U.S. should block $20 billion of arms sales to Israel.
www.democracynow.org/2024/11/19/h...
Senate to Vote on Resolutions to Block U.S. Arms Sales to Israel
United States senators will vote Wednesday on whether the U.S. should halt $20 billion of arms sales to Israel. Bernie Sanders introduced the Joint Resolutions of Disapproval as the Biden administrati...
www.democracynow.org
November 20, 2024 at 4:32 AM
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Disabled people, aided by the Black Panthers, staged the longest sit-in in American history in 1987, winning 504 protections. Just 3 years later we orchestrated the capitol crawl, in which many wheelchair users crawled and pulled themselves up the steps of the capitol to win passage of the ADA.
rosalarian.bsky.social Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · Nov 9
Please don't leave disabled people behind in your revolution. Please do not see us as sacrifices for the greater good, or dead weight. Please see our lives as worth saving, too.
November 10, 2024 at 10:44 PM
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Did you know that 10.7 million people have been uprooted from their homes in Sudan?

The country now has the highest rate of internal displacement in the world, even surpassing Syria’s 7.2 million.

This grim record should be a wakeup call.
Sudan Conflict Fuels World’s Largest Internal Displacement
Last week, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported that 10.7 million people have been uprooted from their homes in Sudan, including 9 million displaced internally—two-thirds sinc...
www.hrw.org
February 1, 2024 at 10:04 AM
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Devastating.

Just horrifying to see how organized labor is changing lives.

Something must be done.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Lindsey Rogers, 27, and her husband, Jared, public school teachers in Baker City, Ore., saw their household income double at the start of this school year, rising by around $48,000, because of mandated salary increases in their new union contract. Their school district in rural Eastern Oregon in previous years struggled to fill open positions, but started this school year without a single vacancy because teacher pay jumped significantly, said Erin Lair, superintendent of Baker School District. For the Rogers family, the pay increase means they can afford the $750-a-month child-care costs for their new baby. “We sat down at a union meeting on Zoom, and they pulled up our new pay scale and it was life-changing,” Rogers said. “I was in shock. We were both in tears. We were going to be able to provide a great life for our kid. We were actually going to be paid like professionals.”
February 2, 2024 at 2:01 PM