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The Palestinian-led ones are the only ones that lasted and Sameer Project operates with a high level of transparency and integrity.

DJ Ushka Wants the Club to Be Your Temple DJ and activist Thanushka Yakupitiyage recommends cutting-edge spaces and leftist magazine parties in the next few weeks.

In this edition of LEAVE YOUR APARTMENT, DJ Ushka tells us where to find cutting-edge spaces and leftist magazine parties.

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From The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez
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The problem with any first sentence, said Joan Didion, is that you’re stuck with it. Everything else is going to flow out of that sentence. And by the time you’ve laid down the first two sentences, your options are all gone.

Before beginning, too many options. Then, in the next breath, none.
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Partyism Without the Party - Dissent Magazine Zohran Mamdani’s victory was rooted in organizations that took up the base-building and mobilization functions that once fell to parties.

From Partyism Without a Party by @cgmaisano.bsky.social from @dissentmag.bsky.social dissentmagazine.org/...
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Their capacity to mobilize working-class immigrants who had been overlooked for too long is formidable, and Mamdani’s victory cannot be explained without it.
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prayer rooms, and building lists through WhatsApp groups and WhatsApp rumors alike.” I had the good fortune of getting to know some of these organizers during the campaign.
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In his assessment of the South Asian surge, electoral strategist Waleed Shahid noted that the places with the biggest gains were precisely “the places where DRUM Beats and allied organizers have spent years knocking doors, translating ballot measures, convening tenant meetings in basement
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Mamdani’s faith, identity, and raw talent certainly didn’t hurt, but people on the ground have been quietly building civic infrastructure in these neighborhoods.
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Nearly half of the city’s registered Bangladeshi and Pakistani American voters participated in the election, outpacing the overall participation rate of roughly 42 percent. This historic development didn’t materialize out of thin air.
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While representing just 7 percent of New York’s registered voters, they accounted for an estimated 15 percent of actual voters in the general election.
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Based on Board of Elections data and their own models, they estimated that from 2021 to 2025 South Asian turnout exploded from 15.3 percent to nearly 43 percent, while Muslim turnout went from barely 15 percent to over 34 percent.
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Keep thinking about something a friend said recently: My wounds bear evidence for a trial that will never come.

Rest in Power to Refaat al Areer who was murdered in the zionist genocide on this day in 2023.

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There are electeds with dual citizenship with a certain state committing genocide

The whitest comment on this app. .

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A face ready to give up the past, the self, and everything there was, to be a kid again.

Excerpt from The Rope Artist by Fuminori Nakamura - translated by Sam Bett.
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All at once, her face was young. Remembering these things was not unsettling for her. Her eyes glistened in the dark as she experienced desire with an expression that retained an air of childhood. Eyes ready to abandon everything. All the trappings of society.
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Women in my line of work have extremely strong preferences. If a gross guy forces himself onto me, I’ll push back like my life depends on it. But if my boss tells me to do it, the sex will make me cum, no matter how gross the guy is. . Does that make sense?”
The dust cascaded through the room.
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It’s different for me, but all some women need is a certain look, or word, or a slight touch to make them cum. . although not anyone can make it happen. There needs to be a preexisting relationship for it to work. With someone you’d kneed down to, unconditionally. .
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“It’s sort of a conditioned reflex. . one thing connects to another thing, even though they’re unrelated. It’s second nature, so you cum almost automatically. Under the right circumstances, some women can cum with a flick of a whip.
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This feeling of mounting pleasure traveled through me. When I was like that, if he kicked me with his heel, like just below the hip, or near my pubic bone. . it made me cum. .I know it sounds hard to believe.”
“No. . I know someone like that. I’ve heard of this.”
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First they saw him, no surpirsed, but then they saw this woman cowering at his feet, totally naked, on a leash. He reminded me to make eye contact with the guests. If one of them looked down on me, like I was trash, I got so excited I could barely stand it.
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“. . . For a long, long time, he had his way with me. . One of his favorite things was to use me for a footrest. Like when he sat at his computer, to do work. He kept me on a leash made from rope tied in a loop around my neck. Poeple came to see him. They were shocked.
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Stretched out, I turned to face her bed. I realized that she’d had her eyes on me fo rthis entire time. The dimmed lights case an amber gloa over her body. Through a cascade of dust. The particles almost looked like sentient beings. The countless dead, gathering around us for a lusty tale.”
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Marc Rich - Wikipedia

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