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Under Eric Adams, the NYPD Sharply Increases Tickets for Low-Level Infractions New York City’s outgoing mayor has directed police to issue more civil summonses, sparking concerns the practice is undermining a city reform. Will the next mayor take a different path?

Our analysis of public data shows that thousands of people issued civil summonses by the NYPD still owe outstanding fines to the city. Leaving fines unpaid can cut people off from city-issued documentation, including vendor licenses.

The Prison Next Door - Bolts How Arkansas’ secretive plan for a new state lockup angered residents in a deep red corner of rural America—and changed how some see incarceration.

NEW: Arkansas announced plans for a mega prison in a rural town. Since then, locals are organizing to stop it.

At first they opposed it in their own town. But some now say they've taken a more critical look at how we incarcerate in the country.

make time for this new feature, you won't regret it

a reminder to folks that people *are* being radicalized, *are* waking up, *are* organizing. On a historical scale, pretty quickly for such a big country, too.

Nadler, Pillar of Democratic Party’s Old Guard, Will Retire Next Year

Wow: 78 year old congressman Jerry Nadler decides not to seek reelection, saying Biden fiasco showed need for "generational change."

“Watching the Biden thing really said something about the necessity for generational change in the party, and I think I want to respect that."

BREAKING: Nancy Pelosi has said to release the Epstein files.

Like Bill and Hillary Clinton…

Priced Out of Phone Calls Home The FCC blocked Biden-era limits on the exorbitant rates and fees charged by prison telecom companies, leaving incarcerated people and their families to fight for state-level reforms.

The FCC blocked new rules capping the cost of phone calls in prison and jail systems across the country before they could take effect.

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Cory Booker was among the Democrats in this photo with Netanyahu – and has still not said anything, nor answered our questions, about the Israeli settler killing of an American.

Booker's book "Stand" (inspired by his 25-hour speech) about "good trouble" comes out this fall.

Hakeem Jeffries again declines to endorse Zohran Mamdani, saying "I don't know him well."

CHRIS HAYES: Why are you not endorsing the guy that won the democratic primary in a contested election in your backyard?

JEFFRIES: I didn't get involved in that primary election, and I don't know him well.

New poll of New York City's general election electorate:

Mamdani 40%
Cuomo 24%
Adams 15%
Sliwa 14%

Problem for Mamdani opponents: they don't have very high to go with. See fave ratings:
—Mamdani 49/40
—Cuomo 39/50
—Sliwa 32/50
—Adams 29/70

www.filesforprogress.org/datasets/202...

How a Decades-Old Loophole Lets Billionaires Avoid Medicare Taxes Some of Wall Street’s richest and most powerful figures are using a legal loophole to avoid paying millions of dollars in taxes earmarked for health care, a ProPublica investigation found.

Billionaires are using a loophole to avoid Medicare taxes. Closing it — and eliminating other ways around the tax for wealthy business owners — could raise more than $250 billion over 10 years for the program.

(Published Dec. 2024)

Most public discourse on the deficit treats money as if it were some kind of preexisting, finite substance: like, say, petroleum. It’s assumed there’s only so much of it, and that government must acquire it either through taxes or by borrowing it from someone else. In reality the government creates money (in the US) through the medium of the Federal Reserve. Far from being a drag on the U.S. economy, the U.S. deficit—which largely consists of U.S. war debt—is actually what drives the system. This is why there has always been a U.S. debt and the American dollar is essentially circulating government debt. This again has always been true of central banking systems at least back to the foundation of the Bank of England in 1694 . - David Graeber

Don't be fooled by the Neo-Liberal lie that Government debt is the same as the household debt of ordinary citizens.

They are two separate things.

“How dare you justify a genocide on the Palestinians?”

This is the moment Belgian politician and member of the Flemish Parliament, Jos D'Haese, slammed Israel’s ambassador to Belgium and Luxembourg, Idit Rosenzweig-Abu, over the war on Gaza.

It is the 99% v the 1%

All the propaganda out there is to get all of us in the 99% to fight among each other so we don't unite to defeat the 1%.

Gaza aid sites risk chaos used to justify killings, report says A Harvard-linked report says US-backed Gaza aid sites are poorly placed, creating chaos later used to justify Israeli attacks on Palestinian civilians.

Over 377,000 people, half of them children, are missing in Gaza since Oct 2023, says Harvard-linked report, pointing to a far higher death toll than reported.
www.newarab.com/news/israel-...

Think about the implications of calling for a *Zionist* Palestine

Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada may as well have called for:

A ‘Confederate’ Atlanta

A ‘Jacksonian’ Navajo Nation

A ‘John A McDonald’ist Haida Gwaii

Absolute scumbag behavior

If we want to see more election results like this, we should be praising the campaign volunteers at least as much as the candidates.

If you door-knocked or made calls for Zohran you're my best friend. You're my pal. You're my home-boy, my rotten soldier. You're my sweet cheese, my good-time boyeh

A reminder that the @nytimes.com told New Yorkers to not rank Mamdani at all, & instead endorsed former hedge fund manager Whitney Tilson.

Tilson sits at a whopping .8%.

Corporate media trust is dead. They killed themselves by failing to fulfill their promise of holding the powerful accountable.

I can't wait for all the NYT pieces that are surely incoming about Zohran voters in small-neighbourhood bodegas and how we need to understand them and their concerns

Israeli attacks kill more than 30 people in Gaza, including 3 near aid site Gaza authorities say at least 549 Palestinians killed near aid sites since GHF began operations one month ago.

Gaza authorities say at least 549 Palestinians killed near aid sites since GHF began operations one month ago.

Dear Israel Apologist Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):

Dear Israel Apologist

That’s why your old tricks have stopped working, you know: all you have is words. We have truth, facts and morality on our side, and you have a bunch of words.
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/dear-israe...

Just read that this platform is regularly suspending Palestinian 🇵🇸 accounts.

Is that anyone’s experience?

Defiant Khamenei says Iran will ‘never surrender’ to the US Supreme leader says US strikes on nuclear sites ‘gained nothing’ in first comments since Israel ceasefire agreed.

Supreme leader says US strikes on nuclear sites ‘gained nothing’ in first comments since Israel ceasefire agreed.

House War Powers Resolution Thomas Massie (R-KY) Chuy Garcia (D-IL) Delia Ramirez (D-IL) Veronica Escobar (D-TX) Ro Khanna (D-CA) Val Hoyle (D-OR) Nydia Velazquez (D-NY) Gwen Moore (D-WI) Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) Mark Pocan (D-WI) Lateefah Simon (D-CA) Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) Summer Lee (D-PA) Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ) Sara Jacobs (D-CA) Don Beyer (D-VA) Jim McGovern (D-MA) Paul Tonko (D-NY) Betty McCollum (D-MN) Greg Casar (D-TX) Ilhan Omar (D-MN) Becca Balint (D-VT) Joaquin Castro (D-TX) Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) Chris Deluzio (D-PA) Mark Takano (D-CA) Senate War Powers Resolution - Tim Kaine (D-VA) Senate No War Against Iran Act - Bernie Sanders (I-VT) - Peter Welch (D-VT) - Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) - Jeff Merkley (D-OR) - Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) - Ed Markey (D-MA) - Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) - Tina Smith (D-MN)

UPDATE — At least *37* members of Congress have now signed on to efforts against the Trump-Vance administration's moves towards war on Iran.

+5 since yesterday.

A new Economist/YouGov poll shows Americans strongly disapprove of US involvement in the conflict between Israel and Iran: 16-60

People who say things like "we achieved racial equality through MLK doing peaceful protests" tend to ignore three major facts:
1. We never achieved racial equality.
2. There were literally hundreds of violent race riots in the 60s.
3. They killed MLK. They fucking shot that dude anyway. Come on.

Debt: The First 5000 Years
An extract.

Afeni on Fighting the Bipartisan Fascist Consensus Afeni is an activist and lead organizer with Herb and Temple in Washington DC. She joins us from Oakland to discuss politics in the U.S. and how the people can fight the fascism produced by the politi

@factsandfire.bsky.social joined me on @blackagendareport.bsky.social to discuss how the people can escape bipartisan fascism in the U.S.

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When the Senate returns Monday their first priority will be a crypto bill that enables Trump’s corruption.

While Republicans attempt to throw millions of Americans off health care, some Democrats are working with them to pass the “Genius Act.”