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What we get wrong about the Montgomery bus boycott – and what we can learn from it | Jeanne Theoharis The movement’s success was never a given. It took much longer and required tremendous sacrifice without certainty it would work

Like @prisonculture.bsky.social, I've been worried about the ways popular myths of the civil rights movement make it hard to see how to struggle today. On the 70th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott, the things we get wrong & what a fuller history shows us: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is the natural end result of demanding 2-5 years of experience for every position, including experience with technologies that didn't exist 2-5 years ago.

Tech has completely uncoupled the skills to do a job from the job description, and now wants AI to solve the problem.

This person took this when they called the race

if you start from the view that there's a policy compromise you can make that will calm people down, you can end up supporting some very authoritarian stuff very quickly

uk labour was elected 18 months ago on a pledge to make trans peoples lives easier, now they're implementing a bathroom ban

Mississippi Democrats Break Republican Senate Supermajority, Flipping 3 Legislative Seats After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats broke the Republican Party's supermajority in the Mississippi Senate, flipping 3 legislative seats.

“Only in blue cities”

Right.

www.mississippifreepress.org/mississippi-...

good point shes def aware of her armed potentially violent constituents
and would rather aim them elsewhere

😭

Democrats are on track to win 64 of Virginia's 100 House seats.

That'd be THIRTEEN flips; the chamber is 51/49 right now.

Refreshing to have someone making the bus free instead of throwing those people under it

I have actually not seen Mamdani give a formal speech and what I’ll say is that unlike so many of his peers he is not trying to mimic anyone in his delivery. He is simply being himself and it is very effective.

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social is on @cnn.com congratulating Dems—without mentioning @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social until pressed.

As a colleague said today, those opposing this president’s anti-democratic moves should also protest an “opposition” that refuses to be a real opposition party.

I agree.

i hope this election cycle empowers everyone the next time a centrist liberal says to drop pro-trans and pro-immigrant rhetoric to enthusiastically tell them to shut the fuck up

love seeing his mom on the stage with him. love her movies

mississippi masala monsoon wedding the namesake

"Yes, aunties."

"The rights of one are as sacred as the rights of a million."

Eugene V. Debs

Salvatore EUGENE V. DEBS Citizen and Socialist EUGENE V. DEBS Citizen and Socialist Nick Salvatore UNIVESSITY SE ILLINOIS 1E35

Never thought I’d live to see a winning candidate in a major election open their victory speech with a shout out to this guy.

one thing that other candidates need to learn from mamdani is how to deliver the most cold blooded attacks on an opponent with a smile on your face

Wagner also signed the New York City Landmarks Law, and established the Landmarks Preservation Commission.

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Robert F. Wagner Jr. - Wikipedia

Wagner was the first mayor to hire significant numbers of people of color in city government. His administration also saw the development of Lincoln Center and brought Shakespeare to Central Park.

During Wagner's tenure as New York City's mayor, he built public housing and schools, created the City University of New York system, established the right of collective bargaining for city employees, and barred housing discrimination based on race, creed, or color.

John Lindsay won with over 1 million votes in the 1969 mayoral race, in which over 3 million votes were cast. Zohran received more votes today than Lindsay in 1969.

However, it's too soon to say whether Zohran will match Lindsay's 1965 1,149,106 votes.

Billionaires are spending big to stop Zohran Mamdani's NYC mayoral bid Bill Ackman, Ronald Lauder, William Lauder, Barry Diller and Dan Loeb have all made large donations to stop Mamdani. So have several non-New Yorkers.

Billionaire superPACs opposing Zohran raised over $40 million, which would have paid for a lot of free buses.

More than 1.1 million New Yorkers voted for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.

In 2021, Eric Adams won with 753,801 votes.

In 2017, Bill DeBlasio won with 760,112.

In 2013, DeBlasio won with 795,679.

they made it to my door several times

In February, 7-year-old Dolma Naadhun was crossing the intersection of Newtown Road and 45th Street in Astoria with her mother and sister when the driver of a 2021 Ford Explorer blew through a stop sign, striking and killing Dolma. One month later, New York City Department of Transportation commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez visited the crash site with other officials, met with community members demanding a traffic signal be installed, and promised to make changes to the street - including "daylighting" the intersection using curb extensions and plastic bollards. State assemblymember Zohran Mamdani also visited the scene that day and realized that something else needed to change. "When you take a step back and think about traffic violence in New York City," he said, "you start to understand that this is a systemic issue that is incentivized by the policies that we have in place with regard to the design of our streets and what kind of vehicles we allow to be on our roads." Whether a driver runs a stop sign or a red light, statistically, certain cars - namely, bigger SUVs and trucks - are more likely to kill a 7-year-old. This is why Mamdani is co- introducing legislation for a weight-based vehicle-registration fee intended to discourage people from purchasing heavier vehicles. "The car industry is pushing the sale of heavier and larger vehicles," he says. "The state has to make it clear that these types of vehicles come with a certain kind of cost."

soar above adult shoulders. But there may be another way to disincentivize the purchases of such vehicles, says Edwards. "One other potential idea would be for someone, maybe a city's DOT, to start keeping a list of the different makes and models of vehicles that are killing pedestrians and cyclists, or kids specifically, and post that publicly," he says. "That could bring awareness to which cars are more dangerous and also potentially affect insurance rates, which would possibly convince people not to buy certain cars." There's a bit of accountability in New York's bill, which would require the State DOT to track all fatal crashes by vehicle weight. But the other encouraging aspect of the proposal is that the collected fees stay local, by county, and, after the annual dedications to highway, bridge, and transit trust funds are met, a full 75 percent of the funds raised will go toward safety improvements like bike lanes, bollards, road diets, pedestrianization of streets, and raised crosswalks. This means the neighborhoods most impacted by large vehicles are likely to see the biggest changes. And that might be the most important part of the legislation, says Mamdani. "This is an initiative to make our streets safer for our children," he says. "And we are making sure a significant portion of this funding goes toward creating the very streetscapes that we know will save their lives."

Two years ago I interviewed a 31-year-old NY state assemblymember about a 7-year-old girl killed by an SUV driver in his district. I hung up the phone, astonished that I'd talked to a legislator who so thoughtfully articulated what actually needs to change on our streets.

He'll make a great mayor

I cannot stress that the work that people have been doing for years in the southeast is paying off and needs to be celebrated.

since dinkins
i was too young to vote but happy he won