William Chan
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William Chan
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August 9, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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At a comedy show, Mahmoud Khalil told Zohran Mamdani, “I am excited about the possibility of raising my son in a city where you are mayor.” It was a stunning moment, Hanif Abdurraqib writes.
Zohran Mamdani and Mahmoud Khalil Are In on the Joke
What it feels like to laugh when the world expects you to disappear.
www.newyorker.com
July 13, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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The Working Families Party has fought for a more affordable New York for decades. I am honored to lead their slate as their first choice for Mayor.

Our city is done with the corrupt politics of the past and ready for a new generation of leadership. Let’s win it together.
As NYWFP works to consolidate support around its slate of candidates, we're proud to rank @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social #1 🥳

To give voters clear guidance, we're ranking a full slate of 5 candidates. When we unite, we can defeat Cuomo & elect a mayor who fights for us. Let's get this done!
May 31, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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I’m asking for your donation. But it’s not for me.

To defeat Andrew Cuomo and turn the page on corruption, we need strong candidates in this race like Speaker Adrienne Adams.

NYC, give what you can before Monday night’s deadline!
May 19, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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The Trump-Vance admin just deported two families, including three US citizen kids ages 2, 4, and 7.

Both families were detained and then blocked from communicating with attorneys or family members.

One of the moms is pregnant. One of the citizen kids has cancer. Both deported without medical help.
April 26, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Exclusive: Days before masked ICE agents detained Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk to deport her, the State Department determined that the Trump administration had not produced any evidence showing that she engaged in antisemitic activities.
No evidence linking Tufts student to antisemitism or terrorism, State Dept. office found
An internal memo, prepared before Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk was detained by ICE, raises doubts about the Trump administration’s claims that she supports Hamas.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 14, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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The U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services has repeatedly claimed: “If you’re healthy, it’s almost impossible to die from an infectious disease in modern times.”

That is dangerously false.

www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
Experts Push Back on RFK Jr’s Infection Comments
The new Secretary of Health and Human Services has made claims about measles and other communicable diseases that could lead to sickness, and even death, his critics claim.
www.medscape.com
April 11, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Time is now. Not a few months before the next presidential election. We need a lot of people running for office, supporting candidates, holding politicians accountable. At all levels of government.
April 13, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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This morning, while I was still in Albany, a group of our incredible volunteers and election attorney Ali Najmi submitted petition signatures of 36,966 voters to get my name on the ballot for New York City mayor.

From the bottom of my heart, thank you.
April 3, 2025 at 9:44 PM
The VA gave me a lifeline when I needed the most. Through care and expertise, the healthcare professionals taught me tools to care and love myself and in turn to do the same for others. I’m very thankful for who I am today.

No cuts to education, healthcare, civil servants, infrastructure, …
March 24, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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This is how Israeli settlers and soldiers – supported by the entire Republican party & much of the Democratic party – is responding to a movie about peace:
BREAKING: Yuval Abraham, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," says Israeli settlers beat his co-director Hamdan Ballal, injuring his head and stomach — and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him.

Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.
March 24, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Hungary has banned pride events and is allowing authorities to use face recognition to find the people who attend.

THIS is exactly the future we’ve been warning about as a movement to ban government use of face recognition has been working tireless to ban it at the local and state level.
Hungary's new anti-LGBTQ+ law bans Pride events and sparks protests
The law, supported by Orbán’s Fidesz party and their minority coalition partner the Christian Democrats, was pushed through parliament in an accelerated procedure after being submitted only a day earl...
apnews.com
March 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Jewish students at Columbia university today organized a demonstration in solidarity with anti-war student organizer Mahmoud Khalil and to denounce Trump's attacks on public education and protest. Photo via @/Columbia_psc
March 11, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett — who headlined an event at Columbia right before Mahmoud Khalil was detained — just joked at a Harvard event that he would give exploding pagers to students protesting his visit
March 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Cuomo paused to listen to my question about Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian activist arrested by ICE this weekend — but he didn’t answer, just saying “I’m sorry”

He was absolutely surrounded by aides fighting to keep reporters away as he left the union endorsement event.
March 10, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau regarding Trump’s tariff war, “At the same time, they're talking about working positively with Russia and appeasing Vladimir Putin, a lying, murderous dictator. Make it make sense.'

… Make it make sense.
March 5, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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If you wonder how countries slip into dictatorship, it’s like this.

Amidst another flurry of news, an official adds at the end that Trump has signed an Executive Order saying that “only the President or Attorney General can speak for the US…as to what the law is.”

What?!

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February 18, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Snow def not stopping us from canvassing for Zohran Mamdani NYC Mayor 2025!
February 9, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I’m not a believer in a religious sense, but I believe in people even if I find them mostly annoying 😂.

if our ancestors can overcome all the shit they went through, we can totally deal with Trump and President Musk. We just got to put in the work!
February 5, 2025 at 9:27 PM
President Cheney. President Musk.
February 3, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Over the last 15 months, artists have mobilized against Israel’s attacks on Palestinian civilians — here are some of the most impactful moments of artistic protest for Gaza since October 2023.
15 Months of Protest Art for Gaza
Hyperallergic looks back at the visual expressions that defined the movement as Palestinians return to the devastated region after a temporary ceasefire deal.
hyperallergic.com
January 28, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Building the multiracial working class today in the Bronx with @aoc.bsky.social at our DSA 101.
January 26, 2025 at 1:26 AM
I’ll also be the first to tell you if the United States is beyond help, but it is not. Democracy still works if we teach ourselves and use the mechanics of our government. Our biggest enemies are apathy, privilege, and lack of knowledge.
January 27, 2025 at 7:04 PM