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just finished a 7 week training to be a teacher........... this year has really felt like my foot is on the gas and the brake at the same time cuz wdym 😵‍💫

I’m so hungry, I'm not ashamed to say that .

If you’re scrolling, PLEASE leave a dot . it's just a dot
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With the awful news from the last couple hours, this post from the political optimism subreddit helped to break through a bit of the despair fog. Repubs know this is political suicide, ICE's support is crumbling despite the budget increase, and there's a myriad of ways to fight back. Keep strong.

Zohran Mamdani is saying things like “poverty is a policy choice and politicians have a duty to their constituents to make their lives affordable” and it is making a lot of politicians very very scared that they may actually have to start doing some actual service in their public service jobs.

India Walton's Advice for Zohran Mamdani "I think that for him, the race 'til November needs to be staying on message—we can't start to water it down because we think it's going to attract a more moderate Democrat."

The last time a DSA-backed upstart overthrew an establishment Democrat in a NY mayoral primary, what happened next wasn't pretty. India Walton has some hard-won advice for Zohran Mamdani about what to expect, and how to handle it:

hellgatenyc.com/india-walton...

Good morning NYC! Everyone get out and vote and encourage everyone around you to NOT RANK CUOMO

Damn right!!!

Progressive Group: 50,000 New People Have Signed Up To Run For Office Since Nov.

More than 50,000 new people have signed up to run for office since Trump's election in November, an unprecedented spike in young Democrats interested in seeking public office for the first time, says the progressive group Run for Something. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Yeah lol and when Mamdani gets the democratic primary Cuomo's probably still gonna run.... as an independent
It's 99.9% probably gonna be Mamdani v Cuomo until November

This is why I keep journaling. When this is all over, whether we're all here or not, my journal will live on as memory of these times. Primary sources matter. Books matter. Creativity matters.

I hate Jeffries so much. Like, to a degree I didn’t think possible. More than pelosi

Noteworthy, I think, that the Democratic establishment are putting much more effort into stopping Mamdani than stopping Trump

Mamdani's position here is excellent, and it's notable that he's become a major voice in lib-left FP just because the national power vacuum is so hard and the media demands statements of Muslims

I am incensed. This is all so heartbreaking and despicable. The Iranian people do not deserve this violence. We do not deserve this governance. The world does not deserve this. These outrages must end.

Andrew Cuomo Used ChatGPT for His Housing Plan The Democratic mayoral frontrunner's "Addressing New York's Housing Crisis" features garbled text and a citation from ChatGPT.

ICYMI when we broke the story in April, but Andrew Cuomo used ChatGPT to come up with his housing plan.

(Earlier in his career, he was the HUD secretary)

hellgatenyc.com/andrew-cuomo...

the energy is so great, i have high hopes. knock on wood ofc but ive never felt anything like it before.

They have made the world living hell for no reason whatsoever. People will ask why this happened in a decade and there will be tremendous effort to make it more complicated than “they were evil, stupid, and bored”

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." 

-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

Khalil is now leading a march up alongside his supporters up Amsterdam Avenue and towards Columbia.

Right now in Morningside Heights: Mahmoud Khalil is speaking to his supporters after being released from ICE detention on Friday.

they’re assembling the pervert megazord

oh i definitely will 😭 i think the way im entering into it is also making it chaotic... like they're putting me in bootcamp ive never taught a class before and they're putting me in a summer school in 2 wks cuz they need trainee teachers that bad 😩

“My commitment is about delivering a city that is not only affordable to each and every New Yorker, but is one that each and every New Yorker feels proud of living in.”

Democrats could write a bill right now that reverses everything in the current GOP bill & run on that. They could take their own "Big Beautiful Bill" to the people & promise to pass it first thing if they regain power. It would be clear to everyone where they stand on those issues. They won't do it.

and sometimes the things we offer to our communities looks different than what we expected. but what matters is that we try and that we give it our all, and that we apply it to something beautiful

no one starts out knowing anything. this jupiter in cancer situation feels really potent. i feel buoyed in our collective ability to care and be of service to each other. i wish i could remember who said this but humanity is such a group project

my chart ruler is in the 6th, so the material reality of what i do in my day-to-day matters! and in a fixed sign to boot... i feel like those paths are still open to me, but teaching just feels really right. i have to bust my ass tho bc im sooo not where i wanna be skills-wise. but that's okay!

pivoting from social work to education has been such a wild journey. i've wanted to be a clinical therapist & astrologer since 2018 when i first started studying human services, but i feel so called to teaching.