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Zohran Mamdani and Mahmoud Khalil Are In on the Joke What it feels like to laugh when the world expects you to disappear.

At a comedy show, Mahmoud Khalil told Zohran Mamdani, “I am excited about the possibility of raising my son in a city where you are mayor.” It was a stunning moment, Hanif Abdurraqib writes.

The Working Families Party has fought for a more affordable New York for decades. I am honored to lead their slate as their first choice for Mayor.

Our city is done with the corrupt politics of the past and ready for a new generation of leadership. Let’s win it together.

I’m asking for your donation. But it’s not for me.

To defeat Andrew Cuomo and turn the page on corruption, we need strong candidates in this race like Speaker Adrienne Adams.

NYC, give what you can before Monday night’s deadline!

ICE Deports 3 U.S. Citizen Children Held Incommunicado Prior to the Deportation Families disappeared and isolated without legal access; one child with cancer deported without medication and pregnant mother deported as well FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 25, 2025 CONTACT: media@aclu.org New Orleans, LA – Today, in the early hours of the morning, the New Orleans Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Field Office deported at least two families, including two mothers and their minor children – three of whom are U.S. citizen children aged 2, 4, and 7. One of the mothers is currently pregnant. The families, who had lived in the United States for years and had deep ties to their communities, were deported from the U.S. under deeply troubling circumstances that raise serious due process concerns. ICE detained the first family on Tuesday, April 22, and the second family on Thursday, April 24. In both cases, ICE held the families incommunicado, refusing or failing to respond to multiple attempts by attorneys and family members to contact them. In one instance, a mother was granted less than one minute on the phone before the call was abruptly terminated when her spouse tried to provide legal counsel’s phone number. As a result, the families were completely isolated during critical moments when decisions were being made about the welfare of their minor children. This included decisions with serious implications for the health, safety, and legal rights of the children involved – without any opportunity to coordinate with caretakers or consult with legal representatives. These actions stand in direct violation of ICE’s own written and informal directives, which mandate coordination for the care of minor children with willing caretakers – regardless of immigration status – when deportations are being carried out. Both families have possible immigration relief, but because ICE denied them access to their attorneys, legal counsel was unable to assist and advise the…

The Trump-Vance admin just deported two families, including three US citizen kids ages 2, 4, and 7.

Both families were detained and then blocked from communicating with attorneys or family members.

One of the moms is pregnant. One of the citizen kids has cancer. Both deported without medical help.

No evidence linking Tufts student to antisemitism or terrorism, State Dept. office found An internal memo, prepared before Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk was detained by ICE, raises doubts about the Trump administration’s claims that she supports Hamas.

Exclusive: Days before masked ICE agents detained Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk to deport her, the State Department determined that the Trump administration had not produced any evidence showing that she engaged in antisemitic activities.

Experts Push Back on RFK Jr’s Infection Comments The new Secretary of Health and Human Services has made claims about measles and other communicable diseases that could lead to sickness, and even death, his critics claim.

The U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services has repeatedly claimed: “If you’re healthy, it’s almost impossible to die from an infectious disease in modern times.”

That is dangerously false.

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Time is now. Not a few months before the next presidential election. We need a lot of people running for office, supporting candidates, holding politicians accountable. At all levels of government.

This morning, while I was still in Albany, a group of our incredible volunteers and election attorney Ali Najmi submitted petition signatures of 36,966 voters to get my name on the ballot for New York City mayor.

From the bottom of my heart, thank you.

The VA gave me a lifeline when I needed the most. Through care and expertise, the healthcare professionals taught me tools to care and love myself and in turn to do the same for others. I’m very thankful for who I am today.

No cuts to education, healthcare, civil servants, infrastructure, …

This is how Israeli settlers and soldiers – supported by the entire Republican party & much of the Democratic party – is responding to a movie about peace:

Hungary's new anti-LGBTQ+ law bans Pride events and sparks protests The law, supported by Orbán’s Fidesz party and their minority coalition partner the Christian Democrats, was pushed through parliament in an accelerated procedure after being submitted only a day earl...

Hungary has banned pride events and is allowing authorities to use face recognition to find the people who attend.

THIS is exactly the future we’ve been warning about as a movement to ban government use of face recognition has been working tireless to ban it at the local and state level.

Students hold signs at protest reading "Fuck Fascism" and "Jews Hate ICE"

Jewish students at Columbia university today organized a demonstration in solidarity with anti-war student organizer Mahmoud Khalil and to denounce Trump's attacks on public education and protest. Photo via @/Columbia_psc

Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett — who headlined an event at Columbia right before Mahmoud Khalil was detained — just joked at a Harvard event that he would give exploding pagers to students protesting his visit

Cuomo paused to listen to my question about Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian activist arrested by ICE this weekend — but he didn’t answer, just saying “I’m sorry”

He was absolutely surrounded by aides fighting to keep reporters away as he left the union endorsement event.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau regarding Trump’s tariff war, “At the same time, they're talking about working positively with Russia and appeasing Vladimir Putin, a lying, murderous dictator. Make it make sense.'

… Make it make sense.

If you wonder how countries slip into dictatorship, it’s like this.

Amidst another flurry of news, an official adds at the end that Trump has signed an Executive Order saying that “only the President or Attorney General can speak for the US…as to what the law is.”

What?!

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Trump administration wants to un-fire nuclear safety workers but can’t figure out how to reach them The workers, whose agency oversees the nation’s nuclear stockpile, had been fired on Thursday and lost access to their federal government email accounts.

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Snow def not stopping us from canvassing for Zohran Mamdani NYC Mayor 2025!

Glad to see you making a step in the right direction. I appreciate this. The world condemned the attacks on Oct 7 as they should and the world have now ask Netanyahu and Biden to take accountability for the ethnic cleansing since. We can only have lasting peace when there’s justice for all. ty

I’m not a believer in a religious sense, but I believe in people even if I find them mostly annoying 😂.

if our ancestors can overcome all the shit they went through, we can totally deal with Trump and President Musk. We just got to put in the work!

Totally support remembering the lessons of the Holocaust and fighting antisemitism today, but can we have some balance? Trump and Netanyahu are talking taking over Gaza and not allowing them to come back to their home. We can apply the lessons of WW2 to be critical of Israel’s war crimes.

Trump suggests permanent resettlement of Palestinians from Gaza, US takeover President Trump on Tuesday suggested Palestinians should be permanently relocated out of the Gaza Strip and that the United States should take over the territory after it was reduced to rubble by m…

unconscionable

President Cheney. President Musk.

15 Months of Protest Art for Gaza Hyperallergic looks back at the visual expressions that defined the movement as Palestinians return to the devastated region after a temporary ceasefire deal.

Over the last 15 months, artists have mobilized against Israel’s attacks on Palestinian civilians — here are some of the most impactful moments of artistic protest for Gaza since October 2023.

Building the multiracial working class today in the Bronx with @aoc.bsky.social at our DSA 101.

I’ll also be the first to tell you if the United States is beyond help, but it is not. Democracy still works if we teach ourselves and use the mechanics of our government. Our biggest enemies are apathy, privilege, and lack of knowledge.

sad but also expected :(

I would like more political candidates who are agnostic or atheist.

(to be clear, I’m all for protecting everyone’s right to practice their religious beliefs)