David Huyssen

Forged signatures found on Mayor Adams’ petitions to run as an independent The Adams campaign said it is conducting a review after Gothamist found signatures that were fraudulently obtained or outright forged.

Great investigative work from Gothamist.

In a functioning democracy there would be legal consequences for using forged signatures to get on a ballot. Alas.

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WU-TANG FOREVER 👐🏽

Gaza is starving. Where are the American Jewish leaders? A fear of being labelled antisemitic still deters American Jews and Jewish institutions from taking a position that is morally correct.

The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God.

Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well.
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The NYT reporting on something Rahm Emanuel said on Bari Weiss's podcast: an ouroboros of bad-faith liberalism.

Chuck Schumer in America—A Warning – Spectre Journal

Dan Berger on Senator Shmendrik and his "book"

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Perhaps most exciting of all is that Mamdani showed it’s possible to win while staying 100% true to progressive values. Instead of throwing immigrants under the bus like current Mayor Eric Adams, or abandoning LGBTQ+ people, as too many Democrats have shown they’re keen to do, Mamdani leaned in. He confronted the immigration ghouls in the federal government. He said that as mayor he would pledge $65 million to improving trans health care. He appeared on the online show Gaydar hosted by drag queen Anania to talk about the campaign. He didn’t have to prove he was an ally because he simply was one.

There's an idea, even among some self-described socialists, that electoral success requires being less "woke", focusing only on economic issues and abandoning a broader social-justice program. As Marisa Kabas says, Zohran's victory shows how wrong that is. www.thehandbasket.co/p/zohran-mam...

Context matters to NYT editors.

When grad students organize unions, the NYT calls them “students,” but when grad students provide illegally obtained private information that feeds racist attacks on politicians whom the NYT editors disdain, they’re “academics.”

STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

So do many Democrats, which stands to reason since many of their donors overlap.

the Big Beautiful Bill is extremely unpopular, fiscally disastrous, callous and cruel and devastating to Americans in need. And still we have national Democrats out on the Sunday morning TV shows criticizing their own party's mayoral candidate.

A real wakeup call. Something's gotta give.

The entire unspoken premise here is absurd: why should Zohran Mamdani be held uniquely responsible for something other people said, but he never did? How would Jeffries feel if white people kept asking him to answer for something some random Black public person said?

Ending Medicaid in order to build concentration camps. I feel, as always, there should be some kind of nonstop barrage of ads across America, every Democrat on every platform saying something like “Republicans want to end Medicaid in words to build concentration camps.”

As a fellow Gentile, when I hear Gentile politicians attacking a Muslim candidate over made-up bullshit charges of antisemitism, what I hear them saying is that they basically think all charges of antisemitism must be made-up bullshit so they don't care about the difference

Brad Lander, Unfiltered and Unplugged He didn't win the Democratic mayoral primary… but he won a lot of New Yorkers' hearts.

"They lit $20 million on fire, and all it did was boost Zohran's numbers. And in no small part because they corrupted their own souls by supporting a person they know to be a corrupt, abusive asshole. What are they gonna do now?"

@bradlander.bsky.social, the man you are.

(via @hellgatenyc.com)

“Campus leaders need to understand that their capitulations and concessions only further empower the greatest threat to higher education since the Red Scare, if not earlier.”

(The AAUP contends that this moment is far worse.)

Act Now.

Never Cave.

#DefendHigherEd

'It's a Killing Field': IDF Soldiers Ordered to Shoot Deliberately at Unarmed Gazans Waiting for Humanitarian Aid IDF officers and soldiers told Haaretz they were ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near food distribution sites in Gaza, even when no threat was present. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed, prompting the military prosecution to call for a review into possible war crimes

IDF soldiers have now themselves admitted they have been ordered to murder aid-seekers in Gaza.

Truly an atrocity built on atrocity.

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Q: So I wonder what you think about that, about the phrase “globalize the intifada” and what we've seen as some anti-semitism coming from the left-wing protesters. A: The first thing as you were saying is anti-semitism is a real issue in our city and it's one that can be captured in statistics, the ones that you're citing. It's also one that you will feel in conversations you have with Jewish New Yorkers across the city. And I remember one conversation I had with a friend of mine after the horrific war crime of October 7th. He was telling me that he went for Shabbat services at his temple and he was facing forward when he heard the door open. And he turned back with a chill going up his spine because he didn't know who was coming in. And that's more than a year ago. And then just a few weeks ago, I had a conversation with a Jewish man in Williamsburg who told me that the same door he would keep unlocked for decades is one that he now locks out of a fear of what could happen in his own neighborhood. And I think that this is something that has to be the focus of the next mayoral administration, is not just talking about it, but tackling it. And these are the conversations that have informed our commitment around increasing funding for anti-hate crime programming by 800% in our Department of Community Safety. To the question of language that's being used. I am someone who I would say am less comfortable with the idea of banning the use of certain words and that I think it is more evocative of a Trump style approach to how to lead a country. And-

Q: Does that just make you uncomfortable? Like the phrase globalizing intifada. And like the phrase from the river to the sea, does that make you uncomfortable? Or do you think- A: Okay, those are different. Those are super different. Q: They're not really. A: Those are like different genres. Q: I'm sorry, I'm asking so wrong. Then they're not really different to me. And to some people they are not different. A: I know people for whom those things mean very different things. And to me, ultimately, what I hear in so many is a desperate desire for equality and equal rights in standing up for Palestinian human rights. And I think what's difficult also is that the very word has been used by the Holocaust Museum when translating the Warsaw ghetto uprising into Arabic because it's a word that means struggle. And as a Muslim man who grew up post-911, I'm all too familiar in the way in which Arabic words can be twisted, can be distorted, can be used to justify any kind of meaning. And I think that's where it leaves me with a sense that what we need to do is focus on keeping Jewish New Yorkers safe. And the question of the permissibility of language is something that I haven't ventured.

I feel like I'm losing my mind. Here is the transcript of what Zohran Mamdani actually said about the phrase "globalize the intifada." This is his "refusal to disavow it." This is what has people terrified. Just fucking read it.

Source: podscripts.co/podcasts/the...

The closure of CLL at York is a huge loss, as Joe says — I also had a wonderful experience co-teaching there with @earlymodernemma.bsky.social during my PhD. We were supported so well by Centre staff and learned a lot from the brilliant students who attended. Very sad and frustrating news.

This should be much, much bigger news in Germany. It should be a lead item on the national news.

"A four-year-old Black boy died in a fire in a house in Wilhelmshaven occupied exclusively by people of recent immigration background...The public prosecutor's office is now investigating the arson."

This is correct. They tell us that the great replacement is a "conspiracy theory, yet we can look at New York City and see it happening right in front of our eyes. Stephen Miller @ @StephenM • 10h The commentary about NYC Democrats nominating an anarchist-socialist for Mayor omits one point: how unchecked migration fundamentally remade the NYC electorate. Democrats change politics by changing voters. That's how you turn a city that defined US dominance into what it is now.

So, these people are white supremacists of a very specific, American kind. The idea that the right to govern belongs only to a select, racially defined group was *the* political theory of the antebellum and redeemed south. Ask who is being replaced and why that’s a problem, you’ll see it.

Zohran Mamdani's all but certain upset in the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City reverberated from the five boroughs across the nation on Wednesday, as the political system acquainted itself with a startling new reality. The primary results were not expected to be finalized until next Tuesday. But attention almost immediately turned to November's general election and to the impact a far-left Democratic mayoral nominee could have on midterm races across the country.

It's so bizarre to see the Times describe Zohran as "far left" when they would never use "far right" to describe Trump and his MAGA goons, even as the latter are currently destroying the political structures and assumptions that have anchored America for nearly a century

It took a liberal-Left alliance to defeat Cuomo. Big props to Lander for being a man of principle who refused to punch Left

At the same time, Zohran smartly rejected a widespread leftist tendency to treat liberals and liberalism only as ideological competitors to be fought

Its worth noting that in Britain, Mamdani would have thrown out of the Labour Party by a small room full LinkIn weirdos and then replaced by a former private healthcare lobbyist who would go on to lose by 5,000 votes to a Reform candidate who was a convinced sex offender.

This NYC primary election result is “mindbogglingly” HISTORIC. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

It is neither necessary nor inevitable that we split into weird little gated paranoid ethnostates! Multiracial democracy is still very much a thing with lots of people who believe in it!

People who need people are STILL the luckiest people in the world!

I love you so much New York. 😭

There really is something special about what Zohran and Brad are showing the rest of the world what it still means to be a New Yorker and an American.

A Jew and a Muslim modeling a politics of mutual respect, rejecting cynicism. Human decency has been taking a beating but she's not out just yet!

the reaction to Mamdani's campaign is clear proof that centrism is a reactionary ideology, and has nothing to do with a pragmatic desire to win.