Beth Huang

Headline from nyt of Cuomo resigning from office.

This day in history, an abuser resigned in disgrace. He will never hold such power again. We won’t let him.

Your Prime Day reminder that half of Amazon warehouse workers struggle with food & housing costs.

A third have had to rely on government assistance like SNAP — which is about to get cut.

If Bezos can spend $50M on a wedding, Amazon can afford to treat its workers with dignity.

BS: How was that? How long were you in jail? MM: One night. They let you make one phone call, and I called the Ugandan Ambassador in Washington, DC, talked to him, and he said, “What are you doing interfering in the affairs of a foreign country?” I said, “What? We just got our independence! This is the same struggle. Have you forgotten?” Anyway, he got me out. Two or three weeks later, I was in my room. There was a knock at the door. Two gentlemen in trench coats and hats said, “FBI.” I thought, “Wow, just like on television.” They sat down. They were there to find out why I had gone – because this turned out to be big – it is after Montgomery that King organized his march on Selma. They wanted to know who had influenced me. After one hour of probing, the guy said, “Do you like Marx?” I said, “I haven’t met him.” Guy said, “No, no, he’s dead.” “Wow, what happened?” “No, no, he died long ago.” I thought the guy Marx had just died. So then, “Why are you asking me if he died long ago?” “No, he wrote a lot. He wrote that poor people should not be poor.” I said, “Sounds amazing.” I’m giving you a sense of how naïve I was. After they left, I went to the library to look for Marx. So that was my introduction to Karl Marx.

rare W for COINTELPRO from a legendary conversation between Bhakti Shringarpure and Mahmood Mamdani (h/t Silke-Marie Weineck)

This photo says: I’ve been visited by the devil, and I said yes.

Supreme Court limits lower courts' power to block Trump The rising number of nationwide injunctions has exploded under Trump.

BREAKING: Supreme Court limits lower courts' power to block Trump

MVP partners just helped put NY State Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani on track to win New York City’s mayoral primary — offering a blueprint for winning elections and rejuvenating the Democratic Party. Read the full story: movement.vote/blog/2025-06...

Shout out to
@lindseyboylan.bsky.social who put it all on the line four and a half years ago and then was hitting the pavement hard since Cuomo got in the race and through today. A portrait in bravery.

People immediately pivoting to slot Lander into a progressive primary challenge are missing the implicit deal in the cross-endorsement: he's going to be deputy mayor, essentially COO of New York City. He's going to use his experience with the inner workings of government to help Mamdani deliver.

There are a lot of Dems—electeds and staffers—out there who want to win elections, a lot who want to stand up to Trump more aggressively than the national party leadership, and a lot who want to run progressive issue-based campaigns.

All three (overlapping!) groups got a powerful boost last night.

Zohran’s victory is an earthquake. The left everywhere must dedicate itself to an insurgency against Dem incumbents. The Dem establishment has lost credibility w/ its base in the face of fascist threat. The base is looking leftward for new leadership. We are the opposition party.

He was smiling with that eye dimple all the time! Having fun! Telling the story of working class NYC!

Zohran ran the most joyful, authentic campaign.

And it’s sadly ironic that the only people who can viably run as independents are the most establishment sycophantic Democrats.

Let's go @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social! Six months ago, I couldn't have imagined that Zohran would be in striking distance of winning the NYC primary by running the most joyful, big-hearted campaign.

Join @demsocialists.bsky.social to make more runs like Zohran's possible! dsausa.org/join

Five things to remember about war:

What happened to congressional approval of going to war?

Because what Rosa Parks was doing—and what Brad Lander was doing—was refusing to accede to unjust state action. That's not a stunt, that's exercising your moral rights as a human being.

I want to say a little more about this. If we call what Lander did a "stunt," it seems to me that we have to call what Rosa Parks did a stunt too, and that seems to me to be patently ridiculous.

And honestly, the fact that so many high-ranking elected Dems don't know that there's a difference between a "stunt" and throwing your body on the gears with the cameras rolling—and that the latter is what our moment calls for—is a big part of the problem in the party right now.

I don't think it's useful to call a politician putting himself in the path of getting arrested by Trump's ICE agents a "stunt."

Putting your body on the line isn't simply a stunt. Confronting the agents of the state in order to protect an undocumented New Yorker isn't simply a stunt.

A Trump supporter attempted to murder two Democrats and their families to tip the Minnesota state legislature—and it’s somehow not an enormous scandal for Trump.

The both-sidesing of fascist violence is a massive failure of both parties, and the national political media.

Wealth surtax may generate $3 billion in Mass. Massachusetts’ 4% surtax on household income greater than $1 million, approved by voters in 2022, is on track to bring in nearly $3 billion in this fiscal year.

The Fair Share Amendment in Mass generating more revenue than expected is my favorite genre of news article. www.nbcboston.com/news/local/w...

Missouri Supreme Court defies voters, halts abortions in the state Despite passage of a constitutional amendment last fall, the ping-pong battle over "reproductive freedom" continues.

One might have thought that last November, when Missourians voted to enshrine “reproductive freedom" in the state constitution, that would have been the end of the conversation.

Alas, the Missouri Supreme Court doesn’t seem to be inclined to listen. This week, the court halted abortions.

incredibly, wildly funny the new Pope has a VAN record (that has since been removed)

North Carolina GOP judge finally concedes after six-month effort to steal the election Fails Democrat Allison Riggs wins the North Carolina Supreme Court race, but the GOP scheme to overturn the election will do lasting damage to democracy.

Our national nightmare, aka the 2024 election, is finally over. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Peter Dutton, leader of the right-wing opposition in Australia, lost *his own seat* today — amid his broader loss to the Labor Party that won reelection.

Just like on Tuesday, when Pierre Poilievre, leader of the right-wing opposition in Canada, lost his own seat — amid his party's broader loss.

I’m proud to join the great Cyndi Lauper in the fight for women’s rights & healthcare. Go to www.bonfire.com/girlswantrights2025 to get a shirt and learn more about the #GirlsJustWantToHaveFundamentalRights Fund. @tidescommunity.bsky.social

NEW: Columbia pro-Palestinian activist Mohsen Mahdawi walked out of court today after a judge ordered his immediate release from ICE detention. His words to Trump: "I am not afraid of you."

w/ Liz Crampton

www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

Bring Our Local 100 Brother Home Please take a few minutes to send a pre-written letter to your representative and senator: Tell them to demand SMART apprentice Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia's return to the United States! Background ...

Now is the time to be even louder for Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

Write Congress and tell them to bring our SMART Union brother home NOW!

I'm seeing a lot more of my far left friends posting things like "both parties aren't the same after all" and "there are meaningful ideological divisions even amongst capital/the right/etc". which is good! We should move with the times. but I'm seeing less contrition about it than I'd hope

Photo of Senator Chris Van Hollen with Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.