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🗳️ Bronx Teacher Launches NY-15 Campaign to Unseat Ritchie Torres Andre Easton, a public-school English teacher in the South Bronx and father of three, announced his run for Congress in New York’s 15th District (NY-15) in late October. He describes himself as a socialist running as an independent, focused on housing justice, workers’ rights, and opposition to corporate and pro-Israel donor influence in politics. Easton’s campaign enters one of the country’s more densely populated and poorest districts, where incumbent Ritchie Torres (D) faces intense criticism from the left, particularly for his support for Israel’s genocide. Former state assemblyman Michael Blake is also running in the Democratic primary, while Jose Vega joins Easton among independent challengers. ➤ NY-15 covers much of the South Bronx, one of America’s poorest urban districts, where housing insecurity and rent burdens dominate local politics. Easton’s platform calls for new public housing and rent capped at 20% of income — and he’s made Palestine a central issue in recent interviews and videos, like below: 👇🇵🇸

Andre Easton @AndreEastonBX As a father, a teacher, and someone raised by Jamaican immigrants, I’ve always felt connected to the Palestinian struggle for freedom. My campaign to unseat Ritchie Torres in NY-15 goes beyond my disdain for organizations like AIPAC. We need to recognize the humanity of everyone who’s been held back by the system, from the Bronx, to Palestine, to the entire world.

🗳️ Bronx Teacher Launches NY-15 Campaign to Unseat Ritchie Torres

Andre Easton, a public-school English teacher in the South Bronx and father of three, announced his run for Congress in New York’s 15th District (NY-15) in late October. He describes himself as a socialist running as an independent...

Day 34 of the shutdown, SNAP benefits just ran out, and the financial system's plumbing broke heading into the weekend. But sure, let's have another Mar-a-Lago party. Just another normal week in America! #UNFTR

Watch the full video: youtu.be/yBbKUrtA6G8

People are outraged that this administration using a Signal group chat to make military decisions. I get it.

Americans *should* be outraged that this administration is violating Article I of the Constitution by carrying out airstrikes in Yemen without congressional approval.🧵

Trump here is is referring to pro-Palestine protests so you won’t hear a peep from conservatives or even pro-Israel liberals. But just imagine if this was Biden referring to ‘illegal protests’ by conservative students or pro-life groups. Free speech brigade would be going mad!

YouTube video by UNFTR Media Getting Money out of Politics: How to end Citizens United

It took 180 years to get money into politics. It's going to take 20 to get it out if we do everything right. No easy task. We can change, improve, fight, all of it. But little will fundamentally change until we get money out of politics. Are you in for the long haul?
#citizensUnited #oligarchy

Provide a solution. Don't just "resist"

Americans don’t want to see healthcare cuts and tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy. That’s what the GOP wants.

Where the Democratic Party loses people is just opposing that without providing an alternative vision.

Tax the ruling class, pass Medicare for All for the working class.

CANADA TAKES HOME THE FIRST 4 NATIONS FACE-OFF CHAMPIONSHIP IN OVERTIME 🇨🇦🏆

I agree with Bill.
Time to eat the rich!
The 1% have gotten too big for their britches.

Agreed, pass it on.

This is why you fight these cowards.

The moment you stand up to them, they crumble.

Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights.

He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

hakeem jeffries is so much worse at his job than nancy pelosi it's making me question my war on the gerontocracy

This is what oligarchy looks like.

Democratic Party voters are fed up with the party’s excuses.

If Republicans can stop Democrats from getting things done, then Democrats can stop what Republicans are doing now.

Cost of extending the expiring Trump tax cuts for the rich: $4.6 trillion

Cost of cutting corporate tax rate to 15%: $1 trillion

Both Trump proposals will explode the deficit and be used as an excuse to gut programs that millions rely on.

It's reverse Robin Hood.

Democrats are being weak.

Just like they were weak on not passing Build Back Better.

Just like they were weak on not codifying Roe when they had the majority.

It’s time for new party leadership at the federal level.

Democrats should be staging rallies and townhalls in light red GOP districts with their best communicators with an emphasis on education.

Reach out to voters. Let them know what’s going on.

Americans don’t need Sen. Schumer chanting “we will win” in DC.

It’s all theatrics and performative.

Trump creates the problem or challenge.

Trump then offers a fake fix or solution to the fake problem or challenge.

Trump sycophants then cheer him as a genius and a political leader and problem-solver for the ages.

Rinse and repeat.

Theatrics. That’s it.

Raptors fans boo the hell out of the Star-Spangled Banner (video via the Toronto Star)

Why does the world’s richest man, a man no one voted for, have access to my Social Security number?

The Gaslighter-in-Chief is quadrupling down saying the EU is next calling what they've done on trade "an atrocity." Even as his precious markets get hammered he persists. Only this guy could have me rooting for Doug Ford in Ont. who just canceled a Starlink contract. We're living in the Upside/Down.

People can’t afford rent and groceries already, the President of the United States should not be dragging us into a trade war with Mexico and Canada.

"Immigrants are flooding across the borders to take advantage of our free social services!"

Really? Let's count what undocumented immigrants can't get.

youtu.be/dfP0kmhd0nM

#Immigration

Watching this on repeat how is your day going?

Must've talked to hundreds of federal officials this week. One motivating factor in them reaching out, I'm told, is feeling like Congress is useless

Maybe the DNC should democratically appoint a candidate instead of forcing them upon us?

To recap, Trump:

-Forced out the FAA chief at Musk's insistence
-Imposed a hiring freeze that reportedly included air traffic controllers
-Fired the TSA head and gutted a key aviation safety committee
-Blamed the DCA crash on DEI

This is disastrous leadership.

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.

Opportunities are everywhere.

Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉