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"Mamdani's Masterclass at the White House: Mamdani just ran circles around MAGA and the Democratic Establishment."
Filmed the video right before boarding my plane and just wrote this while flying, but I had to get it out. Let me know if you agree.
thelefthook.substack.com/p/mamdanis-m...
Filmed the video right before boarding my plane and just wrote this while flying, but I had to get it out. Let me know if you agree.
thelefthook.substack.com/p/mamdanis-m...
November 22, 2025 at 12:39 AM
"Mamdani's Masterclass at the White House: Mamdani just ran circles around MAGA and the Democratic Establishment."
Filmed the video right before boarding my plane and just wrote this while flying, but I had to get it out. Let me know if you agree.
thelefthook.substack.com/p/mamdanis-m...
Filmed the video right before boarding my plane and just wrote this while flying, but I had to get it out. Let me know if you agree.
thelefthook.substack.com/p/mamdanis-m...
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The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
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it absolutely rules that the N&O is running, and promoting, this story. newspapers in any city ICE threatens should consider doing the same.
La Patrulla Fronteriza fue captada en video interrogando a dos paisajistas que estaban decorando una casa para Navidad en el este de Charlotte.
Lo que hacer si Border Patrol llega a su casa o lugar de trabajo en Charlotte
La Patrulla Fronteriza fue captada en video interrogando a dos paisajistas que estaban decorando una casa para Navidad en el este de Charlotte.
bit.ly
November 18, 2025 at 4:02 AM
it absolutely rules that the N&O is running, and promoting, this story. newspapers in any city ICE threatens should consider doing the same.
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As far as critics are concerned, the typical American leftist is at once:
1) Downwardly mobile and worse off than their parents
2) A trust fund kid so well off from family wealth they will never have to work
3) A successful, gentrifying yuppie who wants to destroy the system that benefits them
1) Downwardly mobile and worse off than their parents
2) A trust fund kid so well off from family wealth they will never have to work
3) A successful, gentrifying yuppie who wants to destroy the system that benefits them
As opposed to existing elites who KNOW it is their birthright🙄
These kind of amoralist insinuations are so funny because:
1) No aspirational egoist in the US would ever be stupid enough to hitch her wagon to socialism.
And
2) If anything self-righteous moralism is the real vice of the left.
These kind of amoralist insinuations are so funny because:
1) No aspirational egoist in the US would ever be stupid enough to hitch her wagon to socialism.
And
2) If anything self-righteous moralism is the real vice of the left.
November 14, 2025 at 4:02 PM
As far as critics are concerned, the typical American leftist is at once:
1) Downwardly mobile and worse off than their parents
2) A trust fund kid so well off from family wealth they will never have to work
3) A successful, gentrifying yuppie who wants to destroy the system that benefits them
1) Downwardly mobile and worse off than their parents
2) A trust fund kid so well off from family wealth they will never have to work
3) A successful, gentrifying yuppie who wants to destroy the system that benefits them
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NYT had details of Trump's engagement with Jeffrey Epstein's child sex trafficking and *hid it for him*, at the same time it was crucifying Clinton as untrustworthy due to her document retention & security.
November 12, 2025 at 9:32 PM
NYT had details of Trump's engagement with Jeffrey Epstein's child sex trafficking and *hid it for him*, at the same time it was crucifying Clinton as untrustworthy due to her document retention & security.
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You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants.
We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime
Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...
www.propublica.org
November 13, 2025 at 1:28 PM
You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants.
We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
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Good news, but each of these folks will have to post a $1,500 bond. Please consider donating to our bond fund.
Judge orders release of hundreds arrested during Chicago immigration raids
Trump officials also cannot pressure detainees to agree to voluntary deportation while cases are pending, says judge
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Good news, but each of these folks will have to post a $1,500 bond. Please consider donating to our bond fund.
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NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
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THE PROPHESY CAME TRUE
ONE SNOWSTORM AND THEN...
ONE SNOWSTORM AND THEN...
November 11, 2025 at 3:44 PM
THE PROPHESY CAME TRUE
ONE SNOWSTORM AND THEN...
ONE SNOWSTORM AND THEN...
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Not that we needed more evidence that ICE is intentionally harming our communities, but if the alleged point of their actions is in the name of public safety it’s wild that the governor has to ask them to pause what they do so *children* can celebrate Halloween and Día de los Muertos
Feds Won't Pause Immigration Blitz During Halloween, Día De Los Muertos, Homeland Security Boss Says
During a news conference Thursday, Gov. JB Pritzker slammed federal agents' targeting of people without criminal records and using tear gas on neighborhood streets.
blockclubchicago.org
October 31, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Not that we needed more evidence that ICE is intentionally harming our communities, but if the alleged point of their actions is in the name of public safety it’s wild that the governor has to ask them to pause what they do so *children* can celebrate Halloween and Día de los Muertos
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I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
October 31, 2025 at 8:19 AM
I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
This is a wonderful thread.
Parents, raise your children to be a Derek Guy, and never a "JD" Vance.
Parents, raise your children to be a Derek Guy, and never a "JD" Vance.
JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 2:35 PM
This is a wonderful thread.
Parents, raise your children to be a Derek Guy, and never a "JD" Vance.
Parents, raise your children to be a Derek Guy, and never a "JD" Vance.
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Here are the companies destroying the east wing of the White House
October 23, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Here are the companies destroying the east wing of the White House
I don't have a gift link, but the headline says it all: John Kirby, aka the Baghdad Bob of the Biden admin's support for the Israeli Gaza genocide, is going to lead the U of C's Institute for politics.
www.axios.com/2025/10/20/s...
www.axios.com/2025/10/20/s...
Scoop: John Kirby to head UChicago's Institute of Politics
Kirby will move to Chicago to head the nonpartisan organization, which was founded in 2013 with the aim of fostering students' "passion for public service and active engagement in our democracy."
www.axios.com
October 20, 2025 at 12:48 PM
I don't have a gift link, but the headline says it all: John Kirby, aka the Baghdad Bob of the Biden admin's support for the Israeli Gaza genocide, is going to lead the U of C's Institute for politics.
www.axios.com/2025/10/20/s...
www.axios.com/2025/10/20/s...
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The deportation order is based on Vedam’s conviction for murder—a crime he did not actually commit and for which he’s now been wholly exonerated. He entered the US at 9 months old and was a legal permanent resident before his conviction. We are so, so, so far from the light of justice.
After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation
Depraved.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Depraved.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him
Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.
www.miamiherald.com
October 12, 2025 at 1:35 PM
The deportation order is based on Vedam’s conviction for murder—a crime he did not actually commit and for which he’s now been wholly exonerated. He entered the US at 9 months old and was a legal permanent resident before his conviction. We are so, so, so far from the light of justice.
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UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
October 11, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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We are living under an aspiring fascist regime that has not yet fully consolidated. This is not difficult to understand unless you get paid to muddy the waters.
If we were living under fascism, none of you would be here daring to post things. You'd be erasing your social media accounts and keeping your head down; you'd know that peacocking your faux-bravery on a network would expose you to being disappeared.
You have no idea what "fascism" really means.
You have no idea what "fascism" really means.
the regime is zip tying toddlers and ripping them away from their mothers unclothed... calling it fascism upsets this neo-con.
October 5, 2025 at 4:56 PM
We are living under an aspiring fascist regime that has not yet fully consolidated. This is not difficult to understand unless you get paid to muddy the waters.
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October 4, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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Barbara Gomes Marques is documentary filmmaker who risks imminent deportation to Brazil. Loud voices in the film community could be especially helpful right now.
Horrifying— Barbara Gomes Marques went with her US citizen husband and lawyer on 9/16 to a green card appointment at USCIS office in downtown LA where she was tricked into walking down a hallway away from them, was snatched by ICE and never came back. She now faces imminent deportation in Louisiana.
Los Angeles man demands answers after wife was detained at scheduled green card meeting
A man is speaking out and asking for help after his wife was detained by federal agents at the end of a scheduled green card hearing in downtown Los Angeles in early September.
www.cbsnews.com
September 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Barbara Gomes Marques is documentary filmmaker who risks imminent deportation to Brazil. Loud voices in the film community could be especially helpful right now.
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The point of recognizing that the main power we have is speaking as much as possible with precision & accuracy is to set us free from calculation: the BS that ranges from online performativity & machismo to spin to the fundamental violations of human solidarity urged by the consultant class.
September 28, 2025 at 2:39 PM
The point of recognizing that the main power we have is speaking as much as possible with precision & accuracy is to set us free from calculation: the BS that ranges from online performativity & machismo to spin to the fundamental violations of human solidarity urged by the consultant class.
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jolly_good_ginger Retired Army Vet Dropping Facts
September 27, 2025 at 9:33 AM
jolly_good_ginger Retired Army Vet Dropping Facts
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He's doing such a great job "protecting" 🇺🇸, ain't he?
To the 🇨🇦 tourist: we love you. He doesn't represent all of us.
REPOST. PLEASE.
To the 🇨🇦 tourist: we love you. He doesn't represent all of us.
REPOST. PLEASE.
September 27, 2025 at 4:16 PM
He's doing such a great job "protecting" 🇺🇸, ain't he?
To the 🇨🇦 tourist: we love you. He doesn't represent all of us.
REPOST. PLEASE.
To the 🇨🇦 tourist: we love you. He doesn't represent all of us.
REPOST. PLEASE.
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coates is genuinely a generational writer
September 17, 2025 at 4:50 AM
coates is genuinely a generational writer