Waleed Shahid

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I’ll stay skeptical until Elkind takes courageous stands against AIPAC and the oligarchs in crypto and Silicon Valley and charts a new course rooted in real change.

Generational change should reflect the substance of what this generation of voters actually wants, not just younger brands carrying water for old power. Changing drivers doesn’t matter much if the same billionaires and lobbyists still control the route.

Elkind criticizes Mamdani and is financed by Reid Hoffman (the billionaire who tried to oust Lina Khan and funds efforts to block progressive challengers). Meanwhile, AIPAC world is growing angry with Nadler over his recent shifts on Israel.

The Two-Pronged Attack on a Muslim Judicial Nominee How the smearing of Adeel Mangi became a bipartisan exercise.

This is why the Bove seat was vacant, and there’s a real throughline from the forces that defeated the previous Democratic nominee to where we are today.

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NEW POLL from @DataProgress and @imeupolicy of NYC Democratic primary voters:
• 78% say Israel is committing genocide in Gaza
• 79% support restricting weapons to Israel

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NYC mayoral hopeful Mamdani faces sharp jabs from within South Asian community The crowd on a recent evening at the Gujarati Samaj, a community center, in Queens. The audience of mostly South Asian city residents was urged to oppose Zohran Mamdani's Democratic campaign for mayor. Some of the blows and stinging vitriol have swayed voters. [ more › ]

NYC mayoral hopeful Mamdani faces sharp jabs from within South Asian community https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-mayoral-hopeful-mamdani-faces-sharp-jabs-from-within-south-asian-community

How Zohran Mamdani Should Govern Running New York City is brutal. But if he wins in November, there are key lessons from past mayors that Mamdani should learn from.

Being the mayor of New York is brutal—even if you're not a 33-year-old Muslim democratic socialist. Zohran Mamdani will have to pull off an incredibly difficult balancing act if he wins.

How Zohran Mamdani Should Govern Running New York City is brutal. But if he wins in November, there are key lessons from past mayors that Mamdani should learn from.

NEW: In @thenation.com, I look at what @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social can learn from the successes and failures of Mayor Dinkins, Bloomberg, and de Blasio and what it could take to turn a movement into a government.

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Brazilian president: "I'd like to say something to the American people; If Trump was Brazilian and did what he did at the Capitol, he'd be on trial in Brazil for violating the Constitution. He would be arrested if he had done that."

(ht: @ronxyz.bsky.social)

More than two thirds of New Yorkers are tenants. Andrew Cuomo compared them to hotel guests.

We need a Mayor who will bring our city together around an agenda to lower costs for everyone, whether they rent or own.

@SenWarren on X: CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery. America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons. Watch and share his message.

@warren.senate.gov: CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery. America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons. Watch and share his message.

Democrats remain on X because they think they have greater reach. The numbers are all fake, though. Take a look at these identical posts from Elizabeth Warren.

X followers: 6.6 million
X reposts: 1,321
X likes: 4,489

Bluesky followers: 390,400
Bluesky reposts: 1,500
Bluesky likes: 3,600

Democratic Voters Who Skipped 2024 Election Want Candidates Like Bernie, AOC New research suggests the prevailing wisdom in Washington — the idea that Democrats tacked too far to the left last year — might be wrong.

EXCLUSIVE: Democratic voters who skipped the 2024 election favor candidates like Bernie Sanders and AOC. Polling shows they believe inequality is at the heart of America’s problems and health care should be available to everyone.

Mancilla: We were the first union to officially endorse and rank Zohran Mamdani… And for us, it was simple. We didn’t want a politics of the present, which was corruption and selling off the city to the Trump administration, nor did we want the return of a disgraced governor now as mayor.

The only way you could see the Arizona congressional primary as a referendum on Mamdani is if your understanding of his win is limited to "young guy popular on social media defeats man with famous last name" – which, to be fair, might be how some journalists outside of NYC (mis)interpreted the race.

What on earth is this claim?
Grijalva is the daughter of an ex-CPC chair, was endorsed by AOC and Bernie, and beat the guy who ran as a moderate saying Democrats needed to move away from social issues by 60-14.
Mamdani made no mention of this race, and his biggest endorsers were for the winner.
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FDR, UAW, and Mamdani on "Fear of Abundance" (Or Why Economic Inequality Fuels Authoritarianism)

"[Roosevelt] curbed monopolies, taxed excessive wealth, and empowered labor unions precisely because he saw economic democracy as essential protection against authoritarian drift."
www.waleed-shahid.com/p/fdr-and-re... @waleedshahid.bsky.social

FDR, UAW, and Mamdani on "Fear of Abundance" (Or Why Economic Inequality Fuels Authoritarianism)

Today in debates over abundance, populism, and democracy, we must rediscover Roosevelt and Reuther's forgotten consensus: democracy dies when wealth concentrates into power.

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FDR, UAW, and Mamdani on "Fear of Abundance" (Or Why Economic Inequality Fuels Authoritarianism)

A year earlier, FDR warned: "Necessitous men are not free men." He knew defeating fascism abroad required confronting economic insecurity at home, stating plainly, “People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.”

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In 1945, labor leader Walter Reuther of UAW warned in the NYTimes that the US faced a crisis not of scarcity but mismanaged abundance. Without democratic planning and redistribution, prosperity could deepen inequality and undermine democracy itself.

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Unearthed footage that Fox News refused to air during the election last year shows Trump nervously refusing to commit to releasing the Epstein files.

“I don’t know about Epstein so much as I do the others.”

The Abundance Debate Is Broken. Here’s How to Fix It. Populists and abundance proponents have retreated into factional warfare. But both sides need to realize that they need each other.

Useful public diplomacy and synthesis from @waleedshahid.bsky.social:

"Lost in this polarization is the obvious opportunity: harnessing populism’s electoral resonance to win power, while leveraging abundance’s insights to govern effectively."
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It's really weird how the man Jeffrey Epstein called his best friend has flipped on releasing the Epstein files. So strange!

Ex Obama Advisor Ben Rhodes on Pod Save: "If you think you can continue to take💰from AIPAC — @RepJeffries or @SenSchumer or whomever — AIPAC is part of the constellation of forces that delivered 🇺🇸 into the hands of Trump and Stephen Miller.”

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New York may soon elect its first Muslim mayor. Yet not a single one of the New York Times op-eds on Zohran Mamdani’s primary victory were authored by a Muslim or South Asian writer.

Educators Union Rejects Anti-Defamation League, Cuts Ties The Anti-Defamation League has been a ubiquitous presence in U.S. schools for forty years, pushing curriculum, direct programming, and teacher training into K-12 schools and increasingly into universi...

The largest labor union in the United States has voted to cut ties with Jonathan Greenblatt and the ADL.

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Top House Democrats demand release of Epstein files that mention Trump Exclusive: Jamie Raskin and Dan Goldman accuse justice department of withholding Epstein files to protect Trump

Top House Democrats demand release of Epstein files that mention Trump

Exclusive: Jamie Raskin and 15 others accuse justice department of withholding Epstein files to protect Trump

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Nice shoutout here to the Mamdani broadcast media report.

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Trump’s approval rating on deportations is currently lower than his approval on the economy

www.gelliottmorris.com/p/data

it’s absurd that NYT forced him to delete these skeets, which … convey the factual information that Zohran Mamdani is, in fact, a man of South Asian descent who was born and raised in Africa, and that the pseudonymous source of the hacked material is a white supremacist eugenicist.