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It's wild, a strong message that people widely agree with because they experience it firsthand and a ground game using today's technology to old-school get people talking to their friends and neighbors about issues works.

I know something about this because I work for the app they all used to run their relational programs and win.

B) Mamdani, along with Mark Levine, Shahanah Hanif, Chris Marte, Sean Ryan and other winning campaigns (plus Brad Lander) used relational organizing and community canvassing to win. Very different policy-wise, but all had ground games that Democrats should be replicating in EVERY SINGLE RACE.

It was basically "the rent's too damn high!" And millennials and Gen X who just want to be able to afford to live in the city they love were like, thank you.

A) Mamdani did an excellent job talking about specific things that make life unaffordable and the need to address them - housing, transportation and food. He didn't talk about the economy, or your pocketbook, he talked about the specific things that eat up a huge chunk of people's money.

Now we have a Democrat talking to white working and middle class voters and every inane think piece proclaims Democrats have to disavow the victory because it was the WRONG white working class and middle class voters, and the coalition included Black and brown people, so there must be an issue. FFS.

3) Everyone seems to be missing the point about the outcome of the New York elections and the hand wringing is unreal. When Trump won, every inane think piece was about how Democrats had to learn their lesson from their defeat and talk to white working class voters.

2) We should be talking nonstop about political assassinations in Minnesota and the environment created by MAGA fascists that makes people believe they can and should gun down Democrats

Lemon is exasperated and so am I.
1) We should be talking nonstop about the giant steaming pile of 💩 bill that feckless, spineless Republicans are trying to pass

Preach!

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“There’s no such thing as an off year” - Governor Kathy Hochul
Let’s go New York Democrats

4-year-old migrant girl, other kids go to court in NYC with no lawyer: 'The cruelty is apparent' The Trump administration cut funding for lawyers aiding unaccompanied minors in court.

This is fucking child abuse.
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Lemon went to her second protest yesterday where she met many other dogs against DOGE, and dogs who, like her, support due process, including for cats!

She was such a good girl that she got to pick some new toys to destroy!

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My alma mater. It was great being st a university with a diverse, international student body. This is fucking terrible.

Lemon appears to be experiencing a rare moment of regret as she surveys the wreckage she hath wrought…which makes her far more involved than that lunatic in the White House…

Over $23,000 evaporated from our retirement in 11 days thanks to the dipshit in the White House and his overlords, Putin and Musk.

But the moment we allow our government to punish someone for the ideas they hold and have shared without breaking the law, our constitution is no longer. We cannot parse this.

We can debate those opinions, we can protest those opinions, we can even as citizens, private institutions and companies have consequences for espousing those opinions.

While there are some limits to free speech (inciting violence, engaging in slander, yelling fire in a crowded movie theater), everyone - and I mean everyone - has the right to be wrong.

Even people with whom I vehemently disagree have the right to hold and state their opinions.

Good morning

Mood…

A grateful nation thanks you @algreen.house.gov

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Yup!

...and the people who carried out this decimation of a near century of American global leadership just to show that they could.

...like the two-bit crime syndicate they are, claiming in our names that America sides with autocrats and dictators.

Let’s also be crystal clear that the ones humiliated by all of this are the American people who voted for this abomination...

...accelerated last week when Vance embarrassed himself trying to lecture Europe to please his overlord, and concluded yesterday when they brought Zelenskyy to Washington under false pretenses only to posture and scream in front of the cameras...