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Local Paper Opines on Mayor's Race The Wall Street Journal's incredible Zohran obsession.

America's best performance art is the Wall Street Journal Opinion section's truly staggering obsession with Zohran Mamdani. A catalogue:
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How the "Working Class Republican" Scam Works A brief description of how this is all gonna go.

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Trump is quite literally the biggest union buster in American history. Every single Republican who supports Trump is anti-union, including Vance and Hawley and the other mythological “we love workers” ones. You are all lying rat cowards.

Support Los Angeles Times journalists fighting for a fair contract The newsroom staff of the Los Angeles Times, represented by Media Guild of the West (NewsGuild-CWA 39213), has been bargaining a new union contract for more than 18 months. In that time, the company h...

Many of you have been watching our contract fight at the L.A. Times and asking how to help. Now's the time.

Tell our managers that you'll honor the picket line if negotiations drag to a point where we're forced to call a strike. You can sign here:

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Illustration of two acrobats hanging over a crowd, against an American flag backdrop. The text reads "In These Times" and "American Narcissus."

Dropping in mailboxes now:

@kimkelly.bsky.social on the American narcissus
@sarahlazare.bsky.social on deadly uranium
@ajamonet.bsky.social on art, Maroons & love
@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social on the campaign trail w/ Mamdani

Cover: @mollycrabapple.bsky.social & Rachel K. Dooley

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UNIONS: All workers should be well paid.
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: All workers should be poorly paid in order to allow their employers to win a race to the bottom among companies all trying to pay their workers the least in order to maximize profits for investors.

Make your choice!

Strong union contracts raise a company's labor costs relative to non-union competitors. The proper response to this is not "the union is bad," but rather "unionize the competitors."

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We’re not going to have people killed in our cities even if it means killing every last person in our cities.

Eugene Debs and All Of Us In Terre Haute with the keepers of the flame.

‘In every age, it has been the tyrant, the oppressor, and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism or religion or both to deceive and overawe the people.’

Eugene V. Debs

Shout out to the GUTS bus drivers at Georgetown U— unionized with @1199seiu.org. Got to hear from them today about the university’s ongoing attempt to turn them into subcontractors. Bad! Contrary to Jesuit values! Just like adjuncts, they’re fighting for decent full time jobs. Solidarity on campus.

Yes

Eugene Debs and All Of Us In Terre Haute with the keepers of the flame.

"Looking backwards from today, it is impossible not to be struck by the fact that we seem to have completed an entire political cycle since the time of Debs. Now, we are back to re-fighting the same battles that he tried, and failed, to win at the turn of the last century."

Bernie Sanders, speaking Saturday night:

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Eugene Debs and All Of Us In Terre Haute with the keepers of the flame.

Bernie, AOC, Sara Nelson, Eugene Debs, striking casino workers, and the "concept of human solidarity." A report from Terre Haute, Indiana:

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DC peoples, come through and talk about the labor movement with me tomorrow night. 530 PM at Georgetown, free.

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As Israel Bombed Gaza, Amazon Did Business With Its Bomb-Makers The Intercept has learned that Amazon sold cloud services to Israeli weapons firms at the height of Israel’s bombardment of Gaza.

SCOOP: I obtained internal documents showing Amazon has been selling cloud computing and AI services to the state-owned Israeli weapons manufacturers whose bombs and missiles have ravaged Gaza.

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ICE vs. NYC The feds will not have a good time here.

"They will not be able to order food in a restaurant without having it spit in. Who do you think works in New York City’s kitchens, fuckos? Don’t miss the spit bagels, spit hot dogs, and spit pastrami sandwiches of our fine city. You sad little clowns." — @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social

In other words CNN is going to become state media.

Trump will have essentially destroyed CBS, Washington Post, and CNN as credible news outlets before his term is up.

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ICE vs. NYC The feds will not have a good time here.

"Building inspectors, yes. And safety inspectors. Is the water in the ICE office clean? Cut it off, to test it. Fire drills. Tickets on their parked cars. Brake light violations. Health inspections. Sidewalk construction. Street closures. More fire drills. More fire drills!"

ICE vs. NYC The feds will not have a good time here.

NYC residents can protest ICE agents and make them miserable, but there is also an entire universe of creative legalistic and bureaucratic harassment that a Mamdani administration could do to gum up the gears of ICE operations. BUILDING INSPECTIONS DAILY baby.
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ICE vs. NYC The feds will not have a good time here.

ICE will not have fun in New York City.
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Andrew Cuomo is just “I like the Knicks. And the other sports teams. Anybody like hot dogs? I do. Empire State Building is my fave! I guess you could say ‘I Heart NY’ haha. I am not dangerous to women and death to Palestine. Go Yankees/ Mets!”

This Post Should Have Been Shorter My favorite political blog post of all time was published by Jim...

“when the dark history of the Trump era is written one day in our smoldering, dystopian future, I think that the most prescient assessment of what was coming for us all will stand as: ‘Go fuck yourself.’” talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/this-...

This Post Should Have Been Shorter My favorite political blog post of all time was published by Jim...

For @talkingpointsmemo.com I wrote about the one journalistic skill that bloggers did better than any other writers, which was to get to the fucking point.

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The Time That Martin Luther King, Jr. Was Almost Assassinated in St. Augustine, Florida A little known incident that could have changed history.

The Time That Martin Luther King, Jr. Was Almost Assassinated in St. Augustine, Florida. Dr. King said at the time: “We have worked in some difficult communities...but we have never worked in one as lawless as this.” www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-time-t...

Just NYPD

Cops and protesters both 100% peaceful since I’ve been here. Strictly yelling.

Hundreds of people protesting ICE in downtown manhattan right now. Reads and Broadway. NYPD cops in riot gear on scene.

The Time That Martin Luther King, Jr. Was Almost Assassinated in St. Augustine, Florida A little known incident that could have changed history.

I grew up hearing my dad, a historian, talk about the civil rights history of my hometown. But recently he told me a mind-blowing story I had never heard before: how Martin Luther King, Jr. was very nearly killed by a local crank in 1964.
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