Tareq Saghie

Nonprofit Legal Service Employees Strike, As NYC Politics Take a Pro-Worker Turn - City Limits Hundreds rallied in Foley Square Tuesday, including over a dozen local politicians—Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for mayor among them—in a strong show of support for the striking workers, who...

Hundreds rallied Tuesday, including over a dozen politicians—Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic mayoral nominee among them—in a show of support for the striking workers, who include attorneys representing low-income tenants in housing court.

via @tareqsaghie.bsky.social: bit.ly/4f3bTQT

‘Abolishing FEMA’ Memo Outlines Ways for Trump to Scrap Agency In a newly revealed March memo, officials proposed ways to dramatically curtail the US government’s disaster response role, such as by ending aid for smaller disasters and cutting housing funds for su...

SCOOP: DHS Sec. Kristi Noem directed the Federal Emergency Management Agency to prepare a memo on how to abolish itself and create a re-branded, radically smaller disaster response organization, according to a copy of the document reviewed by Bloomberg News. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Two images of Zohran. On the left is the original from the campaign which shows a close cropped beard. On the right is a version used by Cuomo’s SuperPAC with an artificially longer, darker beard.

Andrew Cuomo is afraid he'll lose, so his donors want you to fear me.

His SuperPAC just sent out a mailer that artificially lengthened and darkened my beard.

This is blatant Islamophobia—the kind of racism that explains why MAGA billionaires support his campaign.

Comptroller Frontrunners Would Invest Pension Funds in Affordable Housing, But Approaches Vary - City Limits Justin Brannan wants to focus on constructing affordable housing specifically for city workers in a program modeled after Electchester, while Mark Levine wants to produce 75,000 affordable units by he...

Justin Brannan wants to focus on constructing affordable housing specifically for city workers in a program modeled after Electchester, while Mark Levine wants to invest $2.5 billion to help developers build 75K affordable units.

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South Brooklyn CM @justinbrannan.bsky.social wants to invest in the construction of a new affordable housing development specifically for city workers, a plan he compared to Electchester, a large Queens co-op established in 1949 for electricians

Manhattan BP @marklevinenyc.bsky.social proposes using $2.5bn of pension funds to finance private developers to construct 75k units of affordable housing

Comptroller Frontrunners Would Invest Pension Funds in Affordable Housing, But Approaches Vary - City Limits Justin Brannan wants to focus on constructing affordable housing specifically for city workers in a program modeled after Electchester, while Mark Levine wants to produce 75,000 affordable units by he...

The two leading candidates for comptroller have some interesting proposals to leverage their role to create more affordable housing.

Read about them in my latest for @citylimitsnews.bsky.social
citylimits.org/comptroller-...

WATCH: Sen. Padilla pushed to the ground, handcuffed for demanding DHS not lie

If a broker you didn't hire tries to insist you owe them a fee to move into a new apartment, you can report them to @hellodcwp.bsky.social, which could lead to a fine, or to the NYS Department of State, who could suspend their license

Caught in the Fields: The H-2A Visa Workers Who Feed America — and the System That Traps Them — palabra. The broken H-2A visa program traps migrant farmworkers in cycles of debt and dependence while growers claim they can't farm without them. The human cost of America's food system—and why immigration…

“Labor leaders argue that farmers prefer H-2A workers, despite their costs, because they are easily exploitable.” Great reporting from @tareqsaghie.bsky.social‬ www.palabranahj.org/archive/caug...

Social Housing Supporters Revive Push to Boost Nonprofit & Community Ownership - City Limits The social housing proposals, known together as the Community Land Act, are the latest attempt to create affordable housing by removing real estate from the speculative market.

If distressed properties or city land were in the hands of community groups, rather than private developers, they would be used for the benefit of the community, the bills' supporters say. bit.ly/3SzXvoZ

And another from @carlinarivera.bsky.social called the Community Opportunity to Purchase Act would require individuals selling residential real estate to offer it to qualifying nonprofits before listing it publicly

Another bill introduced by @cmrestler.bsky.social called the Public Land for Public Good Act would require the city to prioritize nonprofits when searching for outside parties to develop affordable housing on public land

Social Housing Supporters Revive Push to Boost Nonprofit & Community Ownership - City Limits The five social housing proposals, known as the Community Land Act, are the latest attempt to create affordable housing by removing real estate from the speculative market.

My first for @citylimitsnews.bsky.social on a package of bills in the city council that aim to de-privatize future affordable housing by, among other things, creating a city land bank
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Social Housing Supporters Revive Push to Boost Nonprofit & Community Ownership - City Limits The five social housing proposals, known as the Community Land Act, are the latest attempt to create affordable housing by removing real estate from the speculative market.

"Every politician talks about Mitchell Lama 2.0, but we won’t get there unless we have the authority to actually build that type of housing," said @chrismartenyc.bsky.social. "We are putting the building blocks together through these bills and resolutions." bit.ly/3SzXvoZ

Hundreds of thousands of workers come to the U.S. under the H-2A visa program to fill temporary agricultural jobs. While the program is essential to the country’s food supply, some workers and advocates say it can create conditions ripe for abuse and exploitation. www.palabranahj.org/archive/caug...

Farms rely on seasonal workers and undocumented immigrants, but the Republican’s plans to fill the gap would ‘legalize oppression’, advocates say
By @tareqsaghie.bsky.social edited by @disolis.bsky.social

Los trabajadores agrícolas temporales con visas H-2A, de quienes la industria depende más que nunca, ya son vulnerables a la explotación. ¿Trump eliminará las pocas protecciones que tienen o los eliminará de la fuerza laboral?

Lea mi primer artículo para @elpaisamerica.bsky.social

Some Republicans want to lower wages and remove housing requirements for seasonal farm workers on H-2A visas, a move advocates say would facilitate their exploitation and further decrease jobs and union power for permanent workers.

My first for @us.theguardian.com

Criminal-Probe Pretext for NYPD ICE Cooperation Alarms Immigrant Advocates Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said providing Palestinian activist Leqaa Kordia’s file to the feds was “standard” exception to city sanctuary laws as Trump administration claims it’s investigating ...

Earlier this week NYPD Commissioner described the "fairly standard" process by which the NYPD shared a 4-page report on student protester with the feds who told them they were investigating money laundering...

www.thecity.nyc/2025/05/07/l...

NYC Mayor Eric Adams to reporters:

“What I’m finding surprising is the level of support you’re all displaying [for Mahmoud Khalil], but I didn’t see that support for me.”

NYC deputy mayors who resigned told Adams they needed to make their immigrant parents ‘proud’ Two of Mayor Adams’ top deputies who stepped down this week wrote in resignation letters that they found themselves unable to serve in city government if it doesn’t make their immigrant…

Maria Torres-Springer and Anne Williams-Isom, two of Mayor Adams’ top deputies who are stepping down, both wrote in their resignation letters to him that they can't serve in city government if it doesn’t make their immigrant families “proud."
www.nydailynews.com/2025/02/18/n...

Mahmoud Muna | A Bookseller and Many Journalists I was shelving some books when the American journalist walked in. Many international reporters have come to Jerusalem...

Israel doing everything it can to outlaw dissent, arresting the bookseller who wrote this important piece today
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2023/no...

Making sure everyone understands: Afrikaners—Elon Musk’s people—built, enforced, and thrived under the apartheid system they created. Not just “white-ruled segregation”—it was systemic racial oppression to keep the white minority in power.

They don’t deserve refugee status—they were the oppressors!

Israel occupies new Syrian territory following Assad’s collapse Benjamin Netanyahu announced Israel’s intention to violate its disengagement agreement with Syria, as Israeli forces invaded and occupied several positions inside Syrian sovereign territory, including...

Benjamin Netanyahu announced Israel’s intention to violate its disengagement agreement with Syria, as Israeli forces invaded and occupied several positions inside Syrian sovereign territory, including the summit of Mount Al-Sheikh.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/12/israel-occupies-new-syrian-territor…

Said to be mulling NYC mayor run, Andrew Cuomo joins 'dream team' to defend Netanyahu Lawyer Alan Dershowitz convened the team to defend the prime minister of Israel as he faces international war crime charges over Israel's actions in Gaza.

“It's hard to imagine anything more sordid than our disgraced former governor teaming up with Donald Trump's impeachment lawyer to defend a war criminal, but apparently this is the company Andrew Cuomo wants to keep."
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"Just minutes after President Biden announced that a ceasefire agreement had been reached, an Israeli airstrike once again hit in the heart of Beirut," NYT reports.

"It appears the fighting is set to continue until it formally goes into effect at 4 a.m. local time in Israel and Lebanon."