Jazz
@justthejazziest.bsky.social
Bronx born and raised
Music, Memes, Socialism
Music, Memes, Socialism
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DSA member Zohran Mamdani was just elected mayor of NYC—the biggest socialist electoral victory in a century! Our movement is winning & growing across the country, w DSA now at 86,000 members. 📈🌹
Join us TODAY to talk abt what’s next, w/ electeds, union organizers, & more!
go.dsausa.org/WIN
Join us TODAY to talk abt what’s next, w/ electeds, union organizers, & more!
go.dsausa.org/WIN
November 13, 2025 at 7:24 PM
DSA member Zohran Mamdani was just elected mayor of NYC—the biggest socialist electoral victory in a century! Our movement is winning & growing across the country, w DSA now at 86,000 members. 📈🌹
Join us TODAY to talk abt what’s next, w/ electeds, union organizers, & more!
go.dsausa.org/WIN
Join us TODAY to talk abt what’s next, w/ electeds, union organizers, & more!
go.dsausa.org/WIN
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well they are notable to Muslims...
New York City is home to about a million Muslims—nearly a quarter of the country’s entire Muslim population. Yet epithets such as “extremist” and “jihadist” are used to describe Zohran Mamdani with such regularity that they’re hardly notable anymore.
What Zohran Mamdani’s Bid for Mayor Reveals About Being Muslim in America
The Islamophobic attacks on the candidate carry the weight of history and the urgency of the present.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 3, 2025 at 8:18 PM
well they are notable to Muslims...
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Black-led abolitionist community defense organizations are organizing against Trump’s efforts to target DC and Chicago.
Black Abolitionists Lead Resistance to Trump’s Use of Federal Police and ICE
Black-led abolitionist community defense organizations are organizing against Trump’s efforts to target DC and Chicago.
buff.ly
September 21, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Black-led abolitionist community defense organizations are organizing against Trump’s efforts to target DC and Chicago.
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If you have it to give, Maisa and her family are struggling right now quite a lot. I've donated to them in the past. I'm in for $100 today.
September 21, 2025 at 3:03 PM
If you have it to give, Maisa and her family are struggling right now quite a lot. I've donated to them in the past. I'm in for $100 today.
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"Find your people. Turn to people. And please, don’t leave anyone behind."
My latest must-reads list and my final thoughts for the week. Here, I talk about the first AI-involved murder in the US (that we know of), how the guardrails of reality are being tampered with or removed, and the need to anchor ourselves to each other if we're going to survive these times.
Must-Reads and Some Thoughts on Living on the Edge of Reality
"Will we all be sitting ducks, siloed behind our screens?"
organizingmythoughts.org
August 31, 2025 at 4:27 PM
"Find your people. Turn to people. And please, don’t leave anyone behind."
I got to just be a tourist for a few days in Chicago this month and had an amazing time! Chicago might be my favorite US city after NYC
Trump says Chicago is an undesirable ‘hellhole,’ but tourists and transplants keep coming - @thetriibe.com
Trump says Chicago is an undesirable ‘hellhole,’ but tourists and transplants keep coming • The TRiiBE
Crime is down. Tourism is up. And the city’s population is growing. Don’t let the media, or Trump, fool you.
thetriibe.com
August 31, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I got to just be a tourist for a few days in Chicago this month and had an amazing time! Chicago might be my favorite US city after NYC
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Trump says Chicago is an undesirable ‘hellhole,’ but tourists and transplants keep coming - @thetriibe.com
Trump says Chicago is an undesirable ‘hellhole,’ but tourists and transplants keep coming • The TRiiBE
Crime is down. Tourism is up. And the city’s population is growing. Don’t let the media, or Trump, fool you.
thetriibe.com
August 31, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Trump says Chicago is an undesirable ‘hellhole,’ but tourists and transplants keep coming - @thetriibe.com
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Self-accountability is key. What are YOU doing? How are YOU contributing? What are YOU responsible for?
August 26, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Self-accountability is key. What are YOU doing? How are YOU contributing? What are YOU responsible for?
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Inside DC courtrooms, judges and defense attorneys have expressed alarm at the tactics being used by law enforcement officers to unfairly charge local residents with serious crimes that carry lengthy prison sentences.
Judges Alarmed at Spree of Spurious Charges Amid Trump’s DC Crackdown
“We don’t just charge people criminally and then say, ‘Oops, my bad,'” US Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui said.
truthout.org
August 26, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Inside DC courtrooms, judges and defense attorneys have expressed alarm at the tactics being used by law enforcement officers to unfairly charge local residents with serious crimes that carry lengthy prison sentences.
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much easier to understand the sheer bloody intensity of the civil war when you have a good grasp on just how terrible slavery was.
"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.
August 19, 2025 at 11:30 PM
much easier to understand the sheer bloody intensity of the civil war when you have a good grasp on just how terrible slavery was.
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Here's my weekly must-reads list, a frontline dispatch from a D.C. organizer, and my final thoughts for the week. One thing I took away from my exchange with Shannon Clark, a mutual aid organizer in D.C., is that "having great networks already in place" has been crucial. Let's all take note.
Must-Reads and What D.C. Organizers Need You to Know
"D.C. was able to respond to defend our neighbors quickly," says D.C. organizer Shannon Clark.
organizingmythoughts.org
August 16, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Here's my weekly must-reads list, a frontline dispatch from a D.C. organizer, and my final thoughts for the week. One thing I took away from my exchange with Shannon Clark, a mutual aid organizer in D.C., is that "having great networks already in place" has been crucial. Let's all take note.
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Since @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social is so concerned about @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social housing maybe he should address his own property tax bill of just $213 a year thanks to a sweetheart deal he supported when he served in the state Assembly that will last through 2032. nypost.com/2022/01/23/r...
Exclusive | Rep. Hakeem Jeffries pays just $200 in property taxes thanks to sweetheart subsidy law
Public records show that Jeffries and his family reside in a condo unit in Prospect Heights, paying just $213 a year in property taxes.
nypost.com
August 16, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Since @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social is so concerned about @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social housing maybe he should address his own property tax bill of just $213 a year thanks to a sweetheart deal he supported when he served in the state Assembly that will last through 2032. nypost.com/2022/01/23/r...
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The capitalist class at work
August 12, 2025 at 3:41 PM
The capitalist class at work
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Dr. Danielle Spencer, best known for her role as "Dee Thomas" on the 1970s sitcom "What’s Happening!!," has died. She was 60
Dr. Danielle Spencer, child star of '70s sitcom 'What's Happening!!,' dead at 60
Dr. Danielle Spencer, best known for her role as Dee Thomas on the 1970s sitcom What’s Happening!!, has died at age 60.
amsterdamnews.com
August 12, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Dr. Danielle Spencer, best known for her role as "Dee Thomas" on the 1970s sitcom "What’s Happening!!," has died. She was 60
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And here you go. I honestly do not understand the moral cowardice that leads some of our fellow citizens to not speak out against what's going on.
August 12, 2025 at 12:12 PM
And here you go. I honestly do not understand the moral cowardice that leads some of our fellow citizens to not speak out against what's going on.
Aparna is both a tenant and labor organizer - need more of those people on city councils. check out the launch video
People are being forced out of DC. The cost of living is too high, and Trump is waging an all-out assault on the District.
It should be easier and more affordable to build a life here.
That's why I’m running for DC Council in Ward 1.
Join us: aparnafordc.com/donate
It should be easier and more affordable to build a life here.
That's why I’m running for DC Council in Ward 1.
Join us: aparnafordc.com/donate
August 12, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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That white Marine who fatally strangled a homeless black man on the subway got invited to Trump’s suite at a football game and got a job at a vc firm.
They’ve definitely told us what it is.
They’ve definitely told us what it is.
August 12, 2025 at 12:10 PM
That white Marine who fatally strangled a homeless black man on the subway got invited to Trump’s suite at a football game and got a job at a vc firm.
They’ve definitely told us what it is.
They’ve definitely told us what it is.
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Narratively speaking, the tightest ending to this screenplay is probably the freed J6 protestors storming the White House to demand the release of the Epstein files.
July 13, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Narratively speaking, the tightest ending to this screenplay is probably the freed J6 protestors storming the White House to demand the release of the Epstein files.
Taft-Hartley marked the beginning of a long-term strategy to isolate, weaken, and demobilize organized labor in the US.
Taft-Hartley Act Still Undercutting Labor 78 Years Later
Taft-Hartley marked the beginning of a long-term strategy to isolate, weaken, and demobilize organized labor in the US.
buff.ly
June 29, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Which is what identity politics as coined by the Combahee River Collective, was intended to do. Be the center of a critical politic that builds solidarity within and across identities that share that questioning of power, not a replacement for that critical politic.
Mamdani does what I've been calling constructive politics: appeals to identity as a building block of solidarity rather than a replacement for it. love to see it
Mamdani turned up at BAYO at Barclay Center yesterday and said he was going to fight to get Haiti off the travel ban and he said Haiti correctly
June 29, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Which is what identity politics as coined by the Combahee River Collective, was intended to do. Be the center of a critical politic that builds solidarity within and across identities that share that questioning of power, not a replacement for that critical politic.
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If he wins in November, he's going to need many competent progressive people who wouldn't touch city government with a ten foot poll to join city government. A long bench is needed. that's a lesson from Chicago.
June 25, 2025 at 1:21 PM
If he wins in November, he's going to need many competent progressive people who wouldn't touch city government with a ten foot poll to join city government. A long bench is needed. that's a lesson from Chicago.
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Comrades, if Zohran wins in Nov, please release a first 100 days Zine IMMEDIATELY. Y'all have our addresses. Hard copies mailed to us & then social media sharing. Lay out the immediate plans, the obstacles to those plans, and CALLS TO ACTION THAT YOU NEED FROM RESIDENTS especially to pressure Hochul
June 25, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Comrades, if Zohran wins in Nov, please release a first 100 days Zine IMMEDIATELY. Y'all have our addresses. Hard copies mailed to us & then social media sharing. Lay out the immediate plans, the obstacles to those plans, and CALLS TO ACTION THAT YOU NEED FROM RESIDENTS especially to pressure Hochul
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I wish Brandon et al had done this in Chicago. Immediately kept people in the city informed about what they were doing, where trouble lay, and importantly what help they would need from city residents. Then a CONSISTENT communication directly from the 5th floor.
Comrades, if Zohran wins in Nov, please release a first 100 days Zine IMMEDIATELY. Y'all have our addresses. Hard copies mailed to us & then social media sharing. Lay out the immediate plans, the obstacles to those plans, and CALLS TO ACTION THAT YOU NEED FROM RESIDENTS especially to pressure Hochul
June 25, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I wish Brandon et al had done this in Chicago. Immediately kept people in the city informed about what they were doing, where trouble lay, and importantly what help they would need from city residents. Then a CONSISTENT communication directly from the 5th floor.
Seems like Trump’s most powerful advisor being a white nationalist should inspire greater alarm than the possible mayor of new york being pro palestinian rights
June 25, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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A reporter from The City had overheard one agent say to another minutes before Lander’s arrest, “Do you want to arrest the Comptroller?”
www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/17/b...
www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/17/b...
Brad Lander Detained by Masked Federal Agents Inside Immigration Court
The arrest came in his latest visit to the courthouse to speak with migrants there.
www.thecity.nyc
June 17, 2025 at 5:20 PM
A reporter from The City had overheard one agent say to another minutes before Lander’s arrest, “Do you want to arrest the Comptroller?”
www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/17/b...
www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/17/b...