“Why Mamdani frightens Jews like me,” by Bret Stephen’s, NYT, Oct. 21, 2025

This is embarrassing. I’m embarrassed for Bret Stephens. If you’re going to write why a mayoral candidate scares you, shouldn’t you name some bad things you think he’d do as mayor, not rely on negative interpretation of words he said in college?

Saudi money dividing areas of culture again, mirroring golf/LIV split (tho that context is of course different and has become somewhat normalized because of the majors & those cool with just taking the Saudi money and leaving the US and Europe money) not to dive into their other sports investments

"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the Emmys.

Good

Huge DC moment

🧵: Let's show DC and Pink Polo we have their backs.
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BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Now through this weekend, I'll donate $1 to @51st.news for each:
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Gaza Freedom Flotilla has released statement that Black labour leader Chris Smalls (Amazon Labour Union) faced violence that no one else on Handala did. He has been severely beaten in Israeli custody.

Smalls follows in legacy of Black radical tradition for Palestine. Labour must stand for Smalls.

the one thing i genuinely did not anticipate from this administration was its vicious, know nothing hostility to any and everything that might even be adjacent to science and scientific research. they genuinely one to destroy the entirety of the nation’s research capacity. and for what, exactly?

Damn that’s sad we’ve tarnished some history

Several masked and armed ICE goons raided the Super Gigante West Norriton Farmers Market in southeastern Pennsylvania, detaining both employees and shoppers at the store. One witness shouted, "This is disgusting...
These are hardworking people... You're separating families."

:(

You want to know what fascism looks like? Here it is on full display in #VenturaCounty today at a farm in #Camarillo CA. Our volunteers are there as legal observers.

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How do we get the Philly Inquirer off this list …

A white sign reads “stop fucking around, pay labor a fair wage now!”

A message from the striking municipal workers of Philadelphia:

People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid

Hope and solidarity won tonight, and will win again in November.

Congratulations, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

On Friday night, we walked the length of Manhattan, from Inwood Hill to Battery Park.

New Yorkers deserve a Mayor they can see, hear, even yell at. The city is in the streets.

white boy hooping hours

it's crazy for this to be breaking news but it to be so far down on the website. These are conscious decisions on how important a story is to the newsroom.

"To everyone who pulls me aside to whisper with the best intentions 'You have already won', I am sorry, but the days of moral victories are over. And as my father told me years ago, 'When the Right wins power, the Left writes a great book.' Those days are over too."

-Zohran Mamdani

@ritchietorres.bsky.social It's so crazy to see what happens to children every day in Gaza and compare it here. Get on the right side of history dummy

What do you think of the city's RFK deal? If somehow you haven't heard, the Commanders are planning a D.C. return. The city struck a $3.7 billion deal to bring the team back to RFK Stadium by 2030. Per the terms of the agreement, the District...

The 51st is wants to hear from the community about what we think about the new #RFK proposal. Submit your opinions here: docs.google.com/forms/d/17tm... @51st.news

RIEDL, on the House Budget:

“.. [It] will cost more than the 2017 tax cuts, the pandemic CARES Act, Biden's stimulus, and the Inflation Reduction Act combined.”

@yahoofinance.com 🇺🇸

damn this is me bait

End unfolding genocide or watch it end life in Gaza: UN experts say States face defining choice GENEVA – Escalating atrocities in Gaza present an urgent moral crossroads and States must act now to end the violence or bear witness to the annihilation of the Palestinian population in Gaza – an out...

“States must act now to end the violence or bear witness to the annihilation of the Palestinian population in Gaza – an outcome with irreversible consequences for our shared humanity”

Israel is starving us in Gaza. This is what that feels like | Aya Al-Hattab Because of the blockade, hunger is part of our daily reality now. It is deep and cruel, and there is no relief, says Palestinian writer Aya Al-Hattab

Israel is starving us in Gaza. This is what that feels like | Aya Al-Hattab

#philly #mayday

Robert De Niro Shares ‘Love and Support’ for His Daughter Airyn After She Comes Out as Transgender: ‘I Don’t Know What the Big Deal Is’ Robert De Niro is showing 'love and support' for his daughter Airyn De Niro after she recently came out as transgender.

Robert De Niro Shares ‘Love and Support’ for His Daughter Airyn After She Comes Out as Transgender: ‘I Don’t Know What the Big Deal Is’

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