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Black and white photograph showing a two story synagoguge building engulfed in flames, with a large crowd gathered outside observing the scene.

Interior of the damaged Synagogue, showing debris-covered floors and damaged arches.

Black and white historical photograph showing people passing by the damaged storefront with broken windows and debris visible.

9-10 November 1938 | The November Pogrom – a pogrom against the Jews throughout Nazi Germany. Hundreds were killed (or died by suicide), 30,000 men arrested and incarcerated in concentration camps, over 1,000 synagogues burnt, over 7,000 Jewish businesses destroyed or damaged.

I’ll bet he thinks people who faint are suckers and losers.

I think a good campaign slogan would be “More square footage for all.”

In this age of darkness - of insecurity, hatred, and despair:

New York has lit the torch of hope.

Thank you @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social - and to the movement that secured this historic triumph.

Zohran Mamdani: a victory for the global left In an age of resurgent fascism, the left can fight back and win

The victory of Zohran Kwame Mamdani is a victory for the global left.

Taking on the elites on behalf of the majority - that's the alternative to fascism.

New post! 👇

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😐 This emoji sums up all of the reactions I’ve seen in the last 24 hours to Dick Cheney’s death. 😐

The Empire State Building flanked by two buildings, under a broken cloudy sky.

Sometimes you just gotta look up and marvel about the things that human beings have built together.

Three hours left.

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Messaging is NOT the problem!

I feel sad for the National Symphony Orchestra.

Relics from ancient Assyria and Egypt show that Herr Trympënführer isn’t the first leader to build monuments to his own glory, employ sycophants, retell history, and claim to have been annointed by God. I wonder what his mausoleum will look like. #BritishMuseum

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We have GOT to get out the vote for Zohran.

🌹 We can not be complacent!!

🗳️ Vote early if you can! Otherwise, make a plan to vote for sure on Election Day! 🗳️

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‼️Engage with Zohran on his socials (comment, repost!)

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How I learned that having enough food to eat should be a right, not a privilege Blissful ignorance.

The parade of cars and people and cans and boxes of food, and back in Washington D.C., the SNAP program, even with its struggles, amount to living proof that this country has a soul. Even with all its struggles, that soul is a good one.
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I once worked as a “police report typist” which can probably be done by AI today. Most came to me on micro-cassette, but important ones were dictated to me live by the arresting officer. Sometimes I had to prompt them things like “Did you draw your service weapon?” “Oh, yeah, I did! Put that in!”

Forget the polls. Take nothing for granted. And let's work our hearts out these next seven days.

Vote now: zohranfornyc.com/vote

Canvass + phonebank: zohranfornyc.com/gotv

Zohran at the podium looking to the left.

Zohran, Bernie and AOC holding hands on stage.

Zohran on stage with people seated on the sage behind me.

"No longer should we think about our political process as settling for the lesser of two evils. We can demand a greater good.

And in doing so, we can make City Hall a place from which New Yorkers expect change, not failure."

Bernie, Zohran and AOC on stage.

Thank you, New York City.

Now let’s win.

US citizen here, lived in London for 7 yrs. I love Owen and his reporting. I’ve lived most of the rest of my life in NY, and truly dislike Andrew Cuomo. Now I live in this dark year 2025, and Mamdami gives me hope. Other lesson here for candidates: project your voice! Don’t rely on amplification!

Me either.

Andrew Cuomo at this point is the second least likable person in the country.

NYC Mayor’s Race: Mamdani unveils plan to root out ‘duplicative’ education spending at city’s public schools | amNewYork Democratic mayoral nominee and frontrunner Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday rolled out a plan to overhaul how the city's Education Department inks contracts with

NYC’s Dept. of Education spends around $10 billion/year on contracts.

Many provide essential services to our schools, yet with over 3,000 active contracts, DOE faces major efficiency challenges.

DOE needs procurement reform.

Yesterday I announced my platform to deliver it.

Federal agents descend on Chinatown in apparent raid The raid follows recent federal arrests at a Midtown migrant shelter, part of what officials call a broader push to “restore law and order” in New York City.

Federal agents from ICE and HSI—some in military fatigues and masks—descended on Chinatown today in an aggressive and reckless raid on immigrant street vendors.

Once again, the Trump administration chooses authoritarian theatrics that create fear, not safety. It must stop.

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"White Europeans have a tradition of genocide" - Yanis Varoufakis

He’s very dislikeable!

Don’t Look Now
Psycho
The Exorcist
Night of the Living Dead
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Friday the 13th
Basketcase
Re-Animator
The Evil Dead
Carnival of Souls
Suspiria
Halloween
The Omen
Phantasm
Quartermass and the Pit
Rosemary’s Baby
The Abominable Dr Phibes
Candyman (the original)

New test: reach for a beer can 15 times, press a button on a TV remote 32 times, and walk one lap around a mall within 1.5 hours.

I was about to start myself a countdown to October 21st … then, d’oh! It’s today!!!

Poland warns Putin's flight to Hungary for Trump talks could be diverted to The Hague "I cannot guarantee that an independent Polish court won't order the government to escort such an aircraft down to hand (Putin) over to the court in The Hague," Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikors...

⚡️ Poland warns Putin's flight to Hungary for Trump talks could be diverted to The Hague.

"I cannot guarantee that an independent Polish court won't order the government to escort such an aircraft down to hand (Putin) over to the court in The Hague," Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said.

No British prime minister has discarded their claimed beliefs and policies so comprehensively or so swiftly.

The biggest political conman of our age.