Sam Soemardi

UNLOCKED🔓 — Zohran Mamdani Wants NYC to Own Grocery Stores. Here's Why He's Right. The market failed. Time for collective action.

...private grocery stores in food deserts through its FRESH program. These stores are not required to take welfare, undercutting their supposed purpose to help low-income families.'

www.joewrote.com/cp/166763428

AIPAC Has Too Much Influence on Congress, Says Rep. Ro Khanna The antiwar California House Democrat answers tough questions from Mehdi and a live DC audience about Trump’s attack on Iran.

Watch the full conversation:
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Zohran looking out on a victory night crowd.

In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done.

My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.

I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.

Such beauty in life

i feel bad for our country. but this is tremendous content.

Tesla employees ask Elon Musk to resign, confirm massive demand problem, get fired for it Some Tesla employees officially asked for Elon Musk to resign as they confirmed the automaker is facing a massive demand...

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A Letter to My Mother That She Will Never Read Perhaps to lay hands on your child is to prepare him for war.

A Personal History by Ocean Vuong, from 2017: “Dear Ma, I am writing to reach you—even if each word I put down is one word further from where you are.”

Two woman walking and embracing each other in front of an ICE detention center. The woman on the left is wearing a black dress and heels. The woman on the right is smiling and wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. Members of the press are in the background.

Two women standing, smiling, and embracing each other with grass, water, and the sky in the background. The woman on the left is wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. The woman on the right is wearing a black dress.

Two woman stand next to each other and hold onto one another. The woman on the left is wearing a black dress. The woman on the right is smiling and wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. In the background is the fence of an ICE detention center.

Today, our client Rümeysa Öztürk was released on bail from ICE detention in Louisiana, and she will return to New England to continue her studies.

📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro

Read the article here: https://learndirt.com/learn/hugelkultur-mistakes/

Gabriel harvests oranges in Selma CA: I earn $24 per 900lb bin. The pay hasn't changed in 4-5 years. It doesn’t justify the hard, heavy work we do. We run back and forth and go up and down a 16-foot ladder quickly picking oranges in a bag that weighs 60lb when full. #WeFeedYou

Bessent: "I wouldn't think that we would have supply chain shocks. I think retailers have managed their inventory in front of this...They know that President Trump is committed to fair trade and have planned accordingly."

Farm workers pruning grapevines

Eduardo & Antonio are pruning grapevines in Madera CA. They just earn 5 cents a vine piece rate. They say it's impossible to make a living wage. To top it they have to pay for their gas which makes it even less money for them as they carpool round trip 100 miles. #WeFeedYou

How to Enter the US With Your Digital Privacy Intact Crossing into the United States has become increasingly dangerous for digital privacy. Here are a few steps you can take to minimize the risk of Customs and Border Protection accessing your data.

With some US politicians weighing in on the Canadian election today 👀, an apt time to remind you how to best keep your digital privacy intact at the border…

If judges hold the Trump administration in contempt for defying court orders, how would that be enforced?

Vince Warren, the executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, describes how it could play out.

Yes.

They don’t care.

They don’t care that the Supreme Court ruled 9-0 to bring an innocent man home to his family.

They don’t care.

They think it’s funny.

As Trump argues that tariffs will bring jobs to the United states, Nobel-prize winning economist @josephestiglitz.bsky.social says that “his picture of bringing us back to the 1950s is never going to happen.”

The New McCarthyism Was Started by Liberals As with earlier Red Scares, Democrats laid the groundwork for the current crackdown on dissent.

"When mass protests broke out against his policy, Biden repeatedly condemned the activists as violent and antisemitic, responding to outlier actions that didn’t represent the movement. Biden’s slander helped splinter the Democratic coalition, giving Trump a potent wedge issue." shorturl.at/K4cPI

Bissau 10% Palau 10% Avalon (UK) 10% Fiji 32% Tyree (UK) 10% Isles of Ebony (UK) 10% Peru 10% Cebu (Philippines) 17% Babylon (Iraq) 39% Bali (Indonesia) 32% Cali (Colombia) 10% Beneath the Coral Sea (Australia) 10% Ebudæ (UK) 10% Khartoum (Sudan) 10% Deep Sea of Clouds 10% Island of the Moon (Madagascar) 47% The Ross Dependency (Antarctica) 10% Tripoli (Libya) 31%

Here are the US reciprocal tariffs against all the territories mentioned in Enya’s Orinoco Flow

lmao where’s Cory Booker?! where’s Mr. Filibuster?! Mr. 2028?! [Mike Francesa voice] anothah clown

Some voters got mad about people listing their pronouns, so now we're sending law-abiding, legal immigrants to torture prisons and being hit with the largest middle class tax hike in at least 40 years.

YouTube video by Monday Minute with Kim Roney #MondayMinute: your input needed on Asheville’s plan for $225-million in disaster recovery funds!

#MondayMinute: provide your input on Asheville’s plan for $225-million in disaster recovery funding by Thursday, April 3rd at www.ashevillerecovers.org/cdbg-dr/

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#hurricanehelene #climateresiliency #disasterrecovery #Asheville

"We are loud, proud, aggressive and unapologetically Zionist."

Betar US, a Zionist group, says it's sharing the names of pro-Palestinian protesters with the Trump administration to expel and deport them.

Here's what you need to know aje.io/t3phko

the very next post in this thread is "not even her lawyer knows where she is" and if you think they're gonna stop with non-citizens, I think in a year or two you're gonna be proven very wrong

YouTube video by Democracy Docket The Lawyers Surrendering to Trump | George Conway

George Conway nailed this! A must watch.

Why major parts of the legal community aren't fighting back and whether the courts can hold Trump accountable. youtu.be/2Tb6WeJPFnw

Image of a plastic spoon, with post title "A Spoon's Worth: Plastic as a Pathogenic Factor" and platform name "clinical mulch dot substack dot com".

In the latest Clinical mulch, I look at some research on plastic accumulation in the human body and speculate on ways in which Chinese medicine might understand the disease mechanism as well as aid the body in its elimination.
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Picture of a guy driving a cybertruck with custom artwork that makes it look like he’s riding a giant rocket powered dildo

Man Modifies Cybertruck To Make It Look Less Embarrassing