Peter Feld 🍉

Will Zohran's NYPD also intervene to prevent ICE watch direct actions?

As immigration courthouse ICE arrests have dipped over the past several weeks, seemingly random ICE arrests appear to be on the rise. Attorneys are calling it “a coordinated campaign of race-based stops in largely Hispanic and immigrant neighborhoods in New York City."

Sidewalk Arrests Seize New Yorkers in ICE’s Latest Surge Activists and legal advocates are tracking seemingly random detentions of immigrants on the streets in what they say is a campaign of ethnic profiling.

“I considered myself a strong person, a resilient person, but I’ve never gone through something like this... Leave your family out of nowhere, the uncertainty of what’s going to happen to you."

www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/26/i...

The British Public Thinks Immigration Is Up. It’s Actually Down, Sharply.

The problem with center-left parties embracing xenophobic politics is that they are a race to the bottom. There is no point at which the racists that you are pandering to will be okay with the level of immigration. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/w...

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How Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral win in NYC could impact national politics Mondoweiss interviews political consultant Peter Feld about how Zohran Mamdani’s historic win will impact beyond New York and how the Israel lobby will respond.

Mondoweiss interviews political consultant Peter Feld about how Zohran Mamdani’s historic win will impact beyond New York and how the Israel lobby will respond.

mondoweiss.net/2025/11/how-...

#Palestine #Israel

He was a vicious war criminal who spread mass death across the Middle East. "Restrained and proper yet charged with quiet energy"? This is fucked!

What ICE did to this family is abhorrent.

Also, given that the mayor plans to keep the current police commissioner once he is sworn in, she should probably instruct NYPD to stop being so friendly with ICE every time they're seen together.

They tried aiding them in Bensonhurst last night too...

As ICE Street Raids Ramp Up, New Yorkers Stock Up On Whistles Taking a cue from Chicago, community groups have distributed thousands of whistles in recent weeks — a grassroots system people in other cities have adopted to help neighbors sound the alarm.

Taking a cue from Chicago, community groups have distributed thousands of whistles in recent weeks — a grassroots system people in other cities have adopted to help neighbors sound the alarm.

As ICE Street Raids Ramp Up, New Yorkers Stock Up On Whistles Taking a cue from Chicago, community groups have distributed thousands of whistles in recent weeks — a grassroots system people in other cities have adopted to help neighbors sound the alarm.

The code is not complicated. Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.
www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/17/i...

How Randy Mastro Killed the Kehlani SummerStage Concert—And a Whole Lot More With Mayor Adams thinking about his next act, the former first deputy mayor to Rudy Giuliani is now "guiding every conceivable aspect of this administration."

Kind of a big deal that @hellgatenyc.com can confirm that NYC First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro used his position to cancel Kehlani's SummerStage concert in order to punish the artist for their political speech on Palestine:

hellgatenyc.com/randy-mastro...

Against Mamdani’s Wishes, Gen Z Councilman Plans to Challenge Jeffries

Hakeem Jeffries is about to get a primary challenger.

@chiosse.bsky.social will reportedly make an announcement about this in the coming weeks.

it's not just AIPAC it's the genocide.

Ugh. Let healthcare skyrocket, it'll be a political win to elect more Spanbergers next year maybe. Dems held it together for 40 whole days—what more can we expect? This was great messaging! (Esp. the cave—that'll show Dems it's worth turning out.)

The smart counterintuitive folks will not save us.

Making a cynical bet that he and the establishment can shank and tank Mamdani, and that the non-endorsement will look retroactively good.

No process excuses (50 Senators) for failure will ever fly. Look at Trump, he just does. He bullies GOP into unanimity and acts unilaterally if they won't. That's why he gets away with dementia. You may have no complaints but voters last November and in 2022 sure did.

If you didn't care about the Child Tax Credit and not driving 4 million kids into poverty overnight, yes. What happened to paid family leave and expanded Medicare? Did they raise the minimum wage, flat since 2009? This is what people cared about. Bipartisan Infrastructure was politically worthless.

They ditched BBB in Nov. 2021, caving to Gottheimer and delinking it from BIF because they thought a bipartisan bill signing would save them after McAuliffe lost. That ruined the admin, so did rejecting court expansion.

It wasn’t so much what Zohran Mamdani said. It was how he said it. “We’re going to stand up for Haiti, because you taught the world about freedom!” the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York exclaimed to an elated crowd at a Haitian music festival in June, fresh off his upset victory in the primary. Mr. Mamdani pronounced the island nation’s name “AH-ee-tee” — near-perfect Creole elocution. “When I heard him say that, I smiled,” recalled Brian Purnell, one of Mr. Mamdani’s former professors at Bowdoin College. He also noted that Mr. Mamdani’s reference to freedom was a nod to Haiti’s status as the first republic founded by former slaves. “That’s straight out of the lessons from the Haitian Revolution that we teach in Africana studies,” said Dr. Purnell, who is now the chair of the Africana studies department at Mr. Mamdani’s alma mater. “I will claim that,” he added with a laugh.

Finally someone bold enough to ask, is new york ready for a mayor who opposes slavery? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...

Ideally no one who worked for Biden will ever be anywhere near power again.

The Republican Plan to Reform the Census Could Put Everyone’s Privacy at Risk A little-known algorithmic process called “differential privacy” helps keep census data anonymous. Conservatives want it gone.

NEW: Republicans are targeting the census -- again.

This time, they're going after a little-known algorithmic process called “differential privacy” that helps keep census data anonymous. This would impact a number of vulnerable people, immigrants included.

read @telliotter.bsky.social:

Andrew Cuomo is a Nihilist Who Hates New York City Near the beginning of his mayoral campaign, an eagle eyed observer noticed Andrew Cuomo’s car parked illegally and snapped a photo of it for social media. It wasn’t the worst of Andrew Cuomo’s offense...

I wrote a column about Andrew Cuomo: www.elizabethspiers.com/andrew-cuomo...

cf. Macklemore

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meaning it needs to be done.

Governor @gavinnewsom.bsky.social too busy posting corny all-caps Trump parodies that don't land and podcasting with wingnuts to defend diversity.

And her predecessor picked her as LG to be mousy and unthreatening.

Nice article but the Dems' big bet on security moms is a complete disaster. Not the mom part, the security. I'm convinced the gratuitous Navy pilot reference in every Sherrill ad is actively repelling voters. There is no persuadable voter who cares about a military or CIA background.

This is a good article but I think the Dems' big bet on security moms is disasterous. Not the mom part, the securi

You wrote it so it's not too long, didn't read.