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Lover of singing, socialism, climate action, the moon… Supremely queer She/her

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Zohran looking out on a victory night crowd.

Zohran looking out on a victory night crowd.

In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done.

My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.

I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.

25.06.2025 05:54 — 👍 68255    🔁 9433    💬 1610    📌 1023
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Money Pours In for Cuomo and Mamdani in Mayoral Race Former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and Zohran Mamdani, a progressive state lawmaker from Queens, are leading the mayoral candidates in fund-raising.

Our campaign raised nearly $845,000 this filing period.

We did it from 10,988 individual donors across almost every NYC zip code. And with $500,000+ matching eligible, we expect another $4+ million next month.

We have the movement, the momentum and the money to win.

17.03.2025 12:53 — 👍 474    🔁 76    💬 9    📌 13

I am begging blue state governors to have lunch this week with your adjutant general of the National Guard.

Cannot stress enough how important this relationship is going to be in the near future.

16.03.2025 22:52 — 👍 33830    🔁 8754    💬 625    📌 790
Inside the White House, officials discussed whether to order the planes to turn around. On advice from a team of administration lawyers, the administration pressed ahead.
• "There was a discussion about how far the judge's ruling can go under the circumstances and over international waters and, on advice of counsel, we proceeded with deporting these thugs," the senior official said.
• "They were already outside of US airspace. We believe the order is not applicable," a second senior administration official told Axios.

Inside the White House, officials discussed whether to order the planes to turn around. On advice from a team of administration lawyers, the administration pressed ahead. • "There was a discussion about how far the judge's ruling can go under the circumstances and over international waters and, on advice of counsel, we proceeded with deporting these thugs," the senior official said. • "They were already outside of US airspace. We believe the order is not applicable," a second senior administration official told Axios.

Ignoring a court order on the grounds that “ah-ah-ah, the law doesn’t apply once you get to international waters!!” is absolutely sanctionable. 8th grade-ass lawyering. Completely unserious.

16.03.2025 23:18 — 👍 13153    🔁 3030    💬 593    📌 207
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Meanwhile over on the other place, rightwing free speech warriors (this guy is a former DeSantis campaign staffer) are calling for me to be denaturalized and deported because they don’t like my political speech. This is what fascism and racism looks like, folks.

16.03.2025 21:21 — 👍 63520    🔁 14064    💬 2220    📌 613

The eventual fate of the GOP

16.03.2025 01:02 — 👍 47514    🔁 7843    💬 2025    📌 498

Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House.

We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.

They own what happens next.

14.03.2025 23:18 — 👍 129987    🔁 25388    💬 5738    📌 1541

Cool so what happens if GOP attach a national abortion ban to a CR? You'll vote for that too?

🚮

14.03.2025 22:50 — 👍 86421    🔁 13912    💬 5091    📌 823

You know things are fucked up when the blue wave emoji accounts and the communist Garfield accounts are exactly as pissed off about the exact same thing for the exact same reason

14.03.2025 21:01 — 👍 7255    🔁 1136    💬 92    📌 25

destroying everything they can in a fruitless effort to find the wokeness button

14.03.2025 18:46 — 👍 2540    🔁 499    💬 49    📌 11

Chuck Schumer literally makes up white people to be upset on behalf of… dear god.

14.03.2025 19:00 — 👍 422    🔁 87    💬 15    📌 1
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"We must not take any action to influence the course of events now so that we can preserve a hypothetical ability to influence the course of events at some point in the future" is not bad politics because it is not politics at all.

14.03.2025 13:16 — 👍 1396    🔁 210    💬 24    📌 13

KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN.

☎️: (202) 224-3121

Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid.

The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING.

Call retiring Senators too!

14.03.2025 14:59 — 👍 66908    🔁 19740    💬 3013    📌 1102

Things are moving quickly, but it looks like these Sen's especially need calls from *constituents* to vote NO on cloture:

Angus King (ME)
Amy Klobuchar (MN)
Jacky Rosen (NV)
Brian Schatz (HI)
Maggie Hassan (NH)
Jeanne Shaheen (NH)
Gary Peters (MI)

Capitol switchboard is 202-224-3121.

14.03.2025 15:48 — 👍 2555    🔁 1629    💬 134    📌 151
Biggest Federal Employee Unions Says Shutdown is Preferable to Elon/Trump CR Federal workers obviously don’t like government shutdowns. Most of them are furloughed....

There are so many betrayals in Chuck Schumer's vote for the CR, but perhaps none worse than going against the request of the federal workers who've been most harmed by the on-going coup.

The largest federal workers union asked @schumer.senate.gov to vote against the CR and he just ignored them.

14.03.2025 01:16 — 👍 834    🔁 293    💬 13    📌 11

"bbbbbbbut what if they say the shutdown is our fault, what then"

Then you tell them why you pitiful loser, you spend actual energy and time making sure people know

14.03.2025 00:38 — 👍 512    🔁 70    💬 12    📌 2
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Ocasio-Cortez mobilizes Democrats against Schumer plan as colleagues privately urge her to consider primary challenge | CNN Politics Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Thursday that she plans to mobilize her massive base of followers to oppose what she described as an “acquiesce” by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to accept th...

There are many Democrats who don’t agree with some or many of AOC’s policy ideas. But what she gets and more conventional Democrats do not is that political fight can be catalyzing and transformative. You can change the shape of the playing board in ways … www.cnn.com/2025/03/13/p...

14.03.2025 02:47 — 👍 6187    🔁 1016    💬 145    📌 87

I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable.

Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.

Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.

14.03.2025 02:46 — 👍 132463    🔁 24530    💬 5014    📌 1469

A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill.

Do not let anyone play games with you.

14.03.2025 02:52 — 👍 95465    🔁 16715    💬 2249    📌 586
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Beshear: Between Trump and Musk. I'm not sure which one is Thelma and which one is Louise, but our economy is that car and they are driving it off the cliff.

14.03.2025 01:44 — 👍 3965    🔁 848    💬 82    📌 38

New Yorkers: Call Sen. Gillibrand’s office to vote NO on cloture and NO on the Republican Spending Bill.

They vote in the morning.
☎️: (202) 224-4451

14.03.2025 00:56 — 👍 31203    🔁 7935    💬 1024    📌 453

Quite something that Schumer had his NYT op-ed justifying his surrender ready to go tonight while not informing the public (including his constituents) of his plans. He seems to think this is just an old-school pr battle. He's never been more wrong.

14.03.2025 01:57 — 👍 10056    🔁 2106    💬 334    📌 120

excited to hear the ADL's defense of this one

14.03.2025 02:11 — 👍 4824    🔁 807    💬 111    📌 17
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📌BREAKING: Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer just announced that he plans to vote to advance a government funding bill, which is a green light for Musk/Trump to continue terrorizing Americans.

📌I am calling for him to step down immediately. He is no damn leader.

13.03.2025 22:56 — 👍 5441    🔁 1572    💬 723    📌 315
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Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them WASHINGTON—With the elected officials trying their hardest not to move a muscle, reports confirmed Monday that top Democratic leaders in Congress were standing real still in hopes that the American pe...

Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them

14.03.2025 02:25 — 👍 36340    🔁 7330    💬 687    📌 552

The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.

13.03.2025 22:23 — 👍 78898    🔁 15216    💬 3518    📌 1492

Imagine this: On the evening of March 8, you and your spouse unlock the door to your apartment building. As you step inside, two men—not in uniform—push their way in behind you. They tell you your visa has been revoked and that they are there to deport you.

12.03.2025 18:46 — 👍 16134    🔁 4472    💬 523    📌 469
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Mahmoud Khalil should be at home with his pregnant wife.

Instead, he's been illegally abducted & had his constitutional right to free speech & due process stripped.

We're demanding his immediate release and we cannot allow this abuse of power to go unchecked. #FreeMahmoudKhalil

11.03.2025 18:28 — 👍 23173    🔁 5982    💬 438    📌 265
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NASA begins mass firings of scientists ahead of Trump team’s deadline Top advisers in the Office of the Chief Scientist are among the first to go amid downsizing effort.

One of the employees fired from NASA told me how much their career meant to them: "Prior to everything happening today, NASA has been an incredible place to work — to dream big, to innovate, to do things that I never thought I could have done.”

Words by me. 🧪

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

11.03.2025 13:13 — 👍 856    🔁 352    💬 22    📌 28

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