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Look, we're just as confused as you are. Within two days, the Brooklyn Democratic Party endorsed and then un-endorsed Governor Kathy Hochul for re-election. At a moment when voters are looking for clear, principled leadership from Democrats, Brooklyn’s party chair is focused on advancing her own personal agenda that seems to change from day to day. Here’s what we have been able to piece together. On January 31, Brooklyn Party Chair Rodneyse Bichotte-Hermelyn called a meeting of the party’s Executive Committee with just two days' notice. She lobbied the District Leaders to endorse Kathy Hochul for Governor and, carrying a large number of proxy votes at a meeting on February 2, she won the passage of this endorsement. Today, on February 4, the party chair invited a few District Leaders to a hastily convened Zoom meeting to discuss rescinding the endorsement they had just made. Obviously, that Zoom cannot constitute a meeting of the Party or a vote of its Executive Committee if many District Leaders had not even been told it was happening. Less than two hours later, the party announced that the endorsement was withdrawn, though we suppose the Party Chair could invite a few folks to join another meeting and put the endorsement back on tomorrow! From start to finish, this process, which purports to speak on behalf of all Brooklyn Democrats, has been driven by the whims of one person. This is a farce. And it is also a wake-up call that the Brooklyn Democratic Party needs to change. There are 42 elected District Leaders on the Executive Committee, hundreds of elected County Committee members, and a million Brooklyn Democrats who should be engaged and active members of the party. Instead, it is run as the personal vehicle of a single leader, with no democratic process and no accountability. Today, that structure allowed something embarrassing to take place.

But over the last several years, it has also had more serious costs. Democrats have been losing ground in Brooklyn because the party has no capacity to support strong candidates and win elections. The brand of the Brooklyn Democratic Party remains synonymous with insider dealing and corruption at a time when Democrats need a mass movement for liberal democracy and strong government by the people and for the people. How can we win crucial elections over the next several years with party leadership this petty and self-involved? We are supporting a growing slate of District Leader candidates who are committed to the vision of a more inclusive, more competent, more effective party. And we are still calling for more Brooklyn Democrats to run for County Committee through our partners at Rep Your Block and become voting members of the party, because the party will not change unless the people mobilize to change it. The Brooklyn Can't Wait coalition stands for change and we are ready to win the leadership seats to finally put the Brooklyn Democratic Party on a sound, strong, democratic footing. Join us.

a statement out from @newkingsdems.bsky.social with what we were able to figure out about the Brooklyn Dems' endorsement-no-wait-disendorsement of Governor Hochul

here's the basic story as best as we have it

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We're just as confused as everyone else is about the Brooklyn Democratic Party's endorsement flip-flop today.

But it does make the need for new Party leadership clearer than ever. Our full statement:

#11: Porch Side Abolition New Zine: "50 Ways To Meet Your Neighbor"

A new edition of the 1 Million Experiments zine is here! It’s terrific as usual and includes a new zine which is a treasure. To jump-start neighborly relations, try one of the 50 (mostly untried) ways to meet your neighbors. Get into some Porchside Abolition. open.substack.com/pub/millione...

Yep! They want to build a $2.3billion stadium…and said they’d pay for half

Check this with the manager of the USMNT telling players to shut up and dribble

Man. I love the Tampa Bay Rays. I’ve traveled the country to watch them, I’ve cut my hair into a Mohawk and dyed it blue for games.

Asking for $1billion in tax dollars for a stadium is a joke. Probably a blessing I don’t still live in the area because I’d fight it

Yuh-Line Niou makes an announcement to run for state senate. The announcement reads: We need bold, aggressive, truly progressive leadership right now. Leadership strong enough to fight Trump and Bring the Democratic Party back to what it’s supposed to be: standing with Immigrants, people of color, workers, and everyone getting crushed by this economy. Democrats can’t keep compromising in the face of government sponsored violence and creeping totalitarianism. Not anymore. This is our time to fight.

I am running for State Senate.
Join me:
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That was fun.
We should never do it again

Just a love tap

The Islanders are sure as hell not boring.

Give it up to the 18 year old

Keep that thing on the boards

The Isles are going to do some weird shit

Laundry ✅
Bathroom scrubbed and bleached ✅
Workout ✅
Vacuumed ✅
Email reps ✅

Schumer: "Why are some Republicans speaking so loudly trying to defend masked, secret police? ... one other very important point: since the death of Alex Pretti and Renee Good, nothing meaningful has changed about ICE's abuses."

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Accountability for ICE and CBP However bad you think the corruption and misconduct at ICE and CBP is — the reality is far far worse.

I testified Friday before Gov. Pritzker's commission studying abuses of ICE and CBP and tried to explain how the agencies went so far off track. It's actually way worse than I ever realized. Please read and share my testimony as Congress considers reform: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...

To anyone tempted to celebrate Noem's big announcement that ICE will use body cams and that it will be expanded nationwide as funding is available...

That's already been official ICE policy for over two years.
www.ice.gov/news/release....

Mayor Mamdani and DSS Announce New Single-Room Shelter Units in Upper Manhattan for Homeless New Yorkers

*more new shit!

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AOC on ICE: It’s our task to figure out how to claw back what has essentially supercharged this agency into becoming a relentless domestic paramilitary that is also a blank check to Palantir to create facial-recognition scans on U.S. citizens.

Had a really reinvigorating meeting.

Things are looking up

It’s your city, from the sidewalk to the skyline. The David Dinkins Municipal Building’s rooftop is open & free to everyone, starting this June.

DHS said that the woman CBP shot in the chest in Portland was “involved” in a gang shooting.

Her ~involvement~ was that suspected gang members sexually assaulted and robbed her.

AOC on reining in ICE when it still has $75 billion even with the shutdown.

“Now it’s our task to figure out how to claw back what has essentially supercharged this agency into a relentless domestic paramilitary.”

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA FRITZ EMMANUEL LESLY MIOT, et al., Plaintiffs, Case No. 25-cv-02471 (ACR) V. DONALD J. TRUMP, et al., Defendants. MEMORANDUM OPINION On December 2, 1783, then-Commander-in-Chief George Washington penned: "America is open to receive not only the Opulent & respected Stranger, but the oppressed & persecuted of all Nations & Religions." More than two centuries later, Congress reaffirmed President Washington's vision by establishing the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program. See 8 U.S.C. § 1254a (TPS statute). It provides humanitarian relief to foreign nationals in the United States who come from disaster-stricken countries. It also brings in substantial revenue, with TPS holders generating $5.2 billion in taxes annually. See Part VI. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem has a different take.? eSec Noem I just met with the President. I am recommending a full travel ban on every damn country that's been flooding our nation with killers, leeches, and entitlement junkies. Our forefathers built this nation on blood, sweat, and the unyielding love of freedom-not for foreign invaders to slaughter our heroes, suck dry our hard-earned tax dollars, or snatch the benefits owed to AMERICANS. WE DON'T WANT THEM. NOT ONE. 6:52 PM - Dec 1, 2025 - 13.2M Views ' Letter from George Washington to Joshua Holmes (December 2, 1783). 2 Dkt. 90 (Second Am. Compl.) 1110 n.91. But see supra n.l.

So says the official responsible for overseeing the TPS program. And one of those (her word) "damn" countries is Haiti. Relevant here, three days before making the above post, Secretary Noem announced she would terminate Haiti's TPS designation as of February 3, 2026. See 90 Fed. Reg. 54733 (Nov. 28, 2025) (Termination). Plaintiffs are five Haitian TPS holders. They are not, it emerges, "killers, leeches, or entitlement junkies." They are instead: Fritz Emmanuel Lesly Miot, a neuroscientist researching Alzheimer's disease, Dkt. 90 (Second Am. Compl. (SAC)) 1 1; Rudolph Civil, a software engineer at a national bank, id. 1 2; Marlene Gail Noble, a laboratory assistant in a toxicology department, id. | 3; Marica Merline Laguerre, a college economics major, id. 9| 4; and Vilbrun Dorsainvil, a full-time registered nurse, id. 9|5. They claim that Secretary Noem's decision violates the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), 5 U.S.C. § 706(2), and the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The Government counters that the Court does not have jurisdiction, and, in any case, the Secretary did not violate the law. Plaintiffs seek to stay the Secretary's decision under 5 U.S.C. § 705 pending the outcome of this litigation. See Dkt. 81 (§ 705 Mot.). To decide their motion, the Court considers first whether it has jurisdiction. It does. See Part II. It then considers: whether Plaintiffs have a substantial likelihood of success on the merits; whether they will be irreparably harmed absent a stay; and whether a merged balance of the equities and public interest analysis favors a stay. See Part III. Each element favors Plaintiffs. See Parts IV, V, and VI.

Finally, the balance of equities and public interest favor a stay. The Government does not cite any reason termination must occur post haste. Secretary Noem complains of strains unlawful immigrants place on our immigration-enforcement system. Her answer? Turn 352,959 lawful immigrants into unlawful immigrants overnight. She complains of strains to our economy. Her answer? Turn employed lawful immigrants who contribute billions in taxes into the legally unemployable. She complains of strains to our healthcare system. Her answer? Turn the insured into the uninsured. This approach is many things— in the public interest is not one of them. For the reasons below, the Court GRANTS Plaintiffs' Renewed Motion for a Stay Under 5 U.S.C. § 705, Dkt. 81.

BREAKING: Judge Ana Reyes, in DC, issues a stay of DHS Sec. Noem’s decision to end Haiti’s temporary protected status (TPS) designation, a decision that was to go into effect on Tuesday and could have ended legal status for up to 350,000 people overnight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The gall of this cretinous plonker to invoke the safety of children.

Abolish ICE.

There’s no reforming it.

There’s no compromise.

There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.

Just emailed my reps as is daily routine gently and sternly asking them to take stricter stances while also thanking them for doing the bare minimum they’re currently doing.

House Democrats must vote ‘no’ on DHS funding tomorrow. Our country is in the middle of a five alarm fire, and we must act like it.

While ICE agents are killing Americans in the street and using five year old children as bait, we should not give that agency another dime.