Host Jacobin's @thedigradio podcast. Author of All-American Nativism from @versobooks. Organizing for housing justice @reclaimri.
Providence, RI
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I’m grateful for thoughtful profile in @guardian by @SFeldblum. It gets to the core of @thedigradio as a political project, and connects the podcast to the housing justice organizing I do in Rhode Island and my role repping uncommitted voters at the DNC. theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i…
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What a beautiful campaign. Closing flawlessly.
"Without the night shift, there is no morning."
Late Thursday night, I canvassed the taxi line at LaGuardia — and caught up with some old friends from @NYTWA.
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Every single university in Gaza destroyed and yet we’re told that the students protesting this genocide are the monsters.
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So…it turns out that many people’s support for Ukraine isn’t based on a belief in the universal right to resist occupation and annexation.
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Stay-at-home orders aren’t so much being lifted as replaced with return-to-work-or-you’ll-starve-without-unemployment-check orders.
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We will not vote for you. Absolutely revolting.
Today I spoke with Prime Minister Netanyahu to express my concern for the remaining hostages — and to note that it was Hamas’s refusal to release women civilian hostages that broke down the humanitarian pause.
We will continue to pursue every opportunity to free them.
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If Warren had done this in 2020 that would have been something. @bradlander is a class act and the model of the sort of left-liberal we need to make coalition with the socialist left.
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We’ve witnessed an Orwellian effort to describe peaceful encampments as somehow inherently violent. Now we see actual violence and it’s committed by fascist/Zionist thugs against those same peaceful anti-genocide protesters. Where are the officials condemnations?
“You stand no chance, old lady!”
Pro-Israel rioters at UCLA acting like total cartoon villains nitter.app/uncoovr/status/1785610…
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Enough people will refuse to vote for Democrats like Fetterman even though that means Republicans will win. This is simply too revolting. No sort of lesser of two evils rationalization will compel people to support Dems like this.
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Biden to young people: go fuck yourselves, I’m sticking with Israel and its genocide.
Absolutely surreal, sad, politically suicidal, grotesque.
Reporter: Have the protests forced you to reconsider any of the policies with regard to the region?
Biden: No
Apparently Biden is not swayed by the mass killing of children, international law, or an election as a growing number of Americans are appalled by his policies.
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This number is so shamefully, damningly small.
17 members of Congress calling to stop weapons (in some form) to Israel.
With US aid, Israeli forces have killed 42,000+ people: Palestinians & Lebanese; Americans like WCK worker Jacob Flickinger & Ayşenur Eygi; hundreds of journalists, volunteers, doctors from around the world
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Given the absolute bottomless evil of the Gaza genocide I’ve been thinking through why the mass Israeli terrorist attack in Lebanon feels particularly horrible and revolting in the ways that it does. A few ideas: The media framing of the attack as “tech savvy, interesting!”; 1/2
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Lyft was today valued at $27.3 billion.
That is wealth created by Lyft's nearly 1.5 million drivers, who have not only been robbed of the value they create as workers but even of the basic legal protections that correspond to being identified as an employee.
Expropriate Lyft.
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The muted response in the United States to a Jewish woman becoming the president of Mexico—a Jewish woman who is a leftist and supports Palestinian liberation—it tells you everything you need to know about the cynical weaponization of antisemitism to silence and repress the left.
Claudia Sheinbaum is the first woman, and first Jewish, president of Mexico. She was sworn in yesterday. There are over 90 articles that come up on Google News discussing it. 0 are in a Jewish publication.
I get that it's Rosh Hashanah tonight, but am also just really confused.
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Refreshing honesty: “I opposed protests against apartheid South Africa, too!”
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We’re faced with such brazen depravity. Absolutely shameless moral bankruptcy.
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It’s a good moment to consider that the left won power in Chile in significant part thanks to a militant mass feminist movement demanding, among other things, abortion rights—a right they are currently enshrining in the proposed new constitution.
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If Harris loses to Trump I know people who will blame young anti-war protesters instead of the Democratic US president that’s helping Israel commit the genocide. These people have earned your contempt.
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The United States and Israel are grave threats to peace and security everywhere.
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These professors’ actions are truly moving. Also: incredible that Columbia sending in the NYPD backfired so spectacularly that they not only ended up shutting down their entire campus but also sparked a nationwide movement…and now NYU is like, we’re doing exact same thing! Lmao
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Police are currently arresting around 20 Jewish Brown University students non-violently demonstrating for a ceasefire now!
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A genre of lib post today that’s like “can you believe INSANE LEFTISTS are siding w a group of ARABS over the US MILITARY and the free movement of GLOBAL COMMERCE?!” as though it self-evidently proves something other than that they’re racist neo-colonial chauvinists ok w genocide
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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.
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The United States only gets mad over the killing of a US citizen if that helps legitimate killing more Arabs.
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Massive brutal police repression of students. Called in by administrators. With the Biden Administration’s vocal support. All to protect a genocide. During an election year. Morally revolting and politically suicidal.
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Harris campaigned w Liz fucking Cheney, on having most lethal military in the world, on building the wall, on big biz and fossil fuels. And yet centrists are trying to gaslight us into believing that it was woke that destroyed her candidacy god they truly want to drive us insane.
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This is the president of the Center for American Progress.
Biden has totally lost it.
I have trespassed in peaceful protest.
I have shutdown govt offices in civil disobedience.
I have made the powerful uncomfortable in their routines as I’ve dissented in peaceful but committed disorder.
Those are the American traditions of Thomas Paine, David Thoreau, Rosa Parks
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HE FAILED TO RECOGNIZE JIM TISCH?! I’m sure voters will be taking a hard second look at Zohran ahead of the general.
Tough meeting for Mamdani with the Partnership for NY (CEOs) today I'm told. Stood his ground on "intifada" language and wouldn't commit to keeping NYPD Comm. Tisch, whom this crowd likes, in the job. (Also did not recognize her father, Jim Tisch, when he rose for a question)
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These are the domestic political forces who Biden and the NYT have made common cause with. Congratulations.
A white Ole Miss frat boy dances like a monkey and makes monkey noises near a Black woman who was protesting for Palestine.
Is this heart warming? (Video: @StaceyJSpiehler)
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If anti-genocide protesters had orchestrated this sort of brutal assault against Zionist counter-protesters it would be a front page story for weeks. Because it was a Zionist/fascist attack on supporters of Palestinian liberation there’s a mainstream media blackout.
25 protesters within the pro-Palestine encampment were hospitalized overnight, a UC Divest at UCLA spokesperson said in a press conference.
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Another video sent to me by friends from Chile. The largest mass movement since the end of dictatorship. Thousands and thousands in the street demanding economic justice.
If you are a journalist and need social movement contacts for interviews in English or Spanish, contact me.
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Why would Bernie supporters back a candidate and Dem establishment that’ve vilified median Bernie supporters as cruel internet bullies? I’m not telling anyone who to vote for. I just think it’s remarkable that they expect to have any pull w voters who they’ve insulted for months.
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They can slander students, arrest them. It won't stop vast majority of young people from seeing, clear as day, that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza with the enthusiastic support of US ruling class. All this repression does is expose the systemic hypocrisy—connects the dots.
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If Democrats are suddenly worried that Biden will lose to Trump—as they should be—the rational thing to do would be to 1) make another, more popular Dem the nominee and 2) move the party away from its pro-genocide position. Blaming the left for saying genocide is bad won’t work.
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What's surreal about this all is that Zionist political forces are exercising arbitrary power in increasingly extreme ways over so many facets of American life at the same moment that the public legitimacy of this power is collapsing.
“Liz Magill has voluntarily tendered her resignation as President of the University of Pennsylvania.”
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No stronger evidence of antisemitism at Harvard than...many Jews joining pro-Palestine demonstrations? Stay tuned for more in-depth reporting from The New York Times' Ivy League anti-Zionism = antisemitism bureau.
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Democrats love to act like Republicans, lose, then conclude that the problem is that they’re still not enough like Republicans.
Could not agree more with @AJentleson here:
“In politics, winning elections is the moral imperative. You go into this business to change people’s lives for the better. That means changing policy, and to change policy you have to win.
Those who would rather lose elections so that they can feel better about themselves leave the real suffering to the people they claim to fight for. No one wins when we lose. It is time to start winning again.”
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If becoming obscenely rich tends to make someone into a fascist then that’s another good reason to make it legally impossible for anyone to become obscenely rich.
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It’s so crazy that the New York Times played an unparalleled role in constructing the mythology of rampant campus antisemitism that is now a core MAGA tool in constructing a fascist authoritarian state.
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Nothing new to say but it bears repeating: it’s one of American history’s most Orwellian obscenities to see an anti-genocide movement that is in fact one of the most Jewish mass movements in US history slandered as antisemitic by one of the key guys doing the genocide.
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Haaretz, Israel’s newspaper of record, is printing analyses orders of magnitude more intelligent than statements from 99% of US politicians.
Israel can’t imprison 2 million Gazans without paying a cruel price haaretz.com/opinion/2023-10-…
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If anyone thinks this movement is quitting and falling in line seven weeks before New York even gets to vote they are fucking kidding themselves. The planet is on fire and Joe Biden’s politics are pure arson. No to Biden. Absolutely not.
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The constant denial and erasure of so many anti-Zionist Jews helping lead pro-Palestine protests at Columbia and everywhere in the United States is one of the most Orwellian things I’ve witnessed in my life.
In response to “horrific” scenes of antisemitic harassment at and around campus, the Orthodox Rabbi at Columbia/Barnard sent a WhatsApp message to more than 290+ Jewish students this morning recommending that they go home until it’s safe again for them on campus:
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Shapiro states “this is obviously a very challenging situation and has been for hundreds if not thousands of years.” A make-believe story about Palestine is mainstream common sense: a since-biblical-times conflict rather than a British empire-sponsored settler colonial project.
Asked Gov. Shapiro about the Philly Inquirer/@anna_orso report on a 1993 college op-ed where he expressed skepticisim about a two-state solution
"Something I wrote about when I was 20? ... I was 20"
"I have said for years, long before Oct. 7, that I favor a two state solution"
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I’m not even 40 yet and I’m frequently the by far the oldest person in organizing meetings. We know the boomer story pretty well but what the hell happened to the Gen X left?
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We're ruled by moronic sociopaths. The world is literally on fire from Gaza to LA and all they can do is pump more oil and explosives into the flames. People feel devastated and dispirited for good reason but we can't give up: no one is safe until we stop and depose these maniacs
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I was charging my phone in the DNC hallway (I’m the alternate uncommitted delegate from RI), Jimmy Carter’s grandson Jason Carter spotted my keffiyeh-pattern stole, thanked me, and gave me a fist bump 🇵🇸
"Kamala Harris carries my grandfather's legacy. ... My grandfather can't wait to vote for Kamala Harris."
Jason Carter, grandson of former President Jimmy Carter, speaks at the DNC.
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The most under-reported on country in the world per capita is without a doubt Indonesia.
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Abolishing the Electoral College and directly electing the president would be way more democratic. More importantly, it would end Election Night television as we know it.
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This is proof that the US should never have invaded, not a reason that the US should never withdraw.
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This image will be in the history books and the people who authorized or cheered it on are going to look like shit.
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Warnock’s victory will powerfully contradict the establishment’s electability argument against the left. A Black radical pastor. In Georgia.
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I don’t think leftists fully appreciate how remarkable it is that so many radical ideas have suddenly become so mainstream in recent years and how unusual that is compared to the entire history of American neoliberal political culture.
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No one is forcing Democrats to lose our votes. This is on them. No one is making them support a genocide AND ALSO maniacally mock the majority of their voting base that is calling for a ceasefire. Fetterman is one of the most unhinged, disgusting things I've witnessed in my life.
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Not to bully you but: this is really bad take. From the perspective of a local organizer in Rhode Island, it’s incredible the electrifying effect that Zohran’s had already. A victory would be absolutely tremendously catalytic to left projects everywhere in this country. Let’s go!
I hope Mamdani wins, but I genuinely think it's super unhealthy that we're all tuned into and invested in local elections for cities we don't live.
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This is the largest US anti-imperialist/anti-war movement since the invasion of Iraq. But you wouldn’t know that from reading the NYT or other mainstream press.
There are huge protests everywhere in the US against genocide in Gaza, in solidarity with Palestinians and calling for not only a ceasefire but an end to US support for occupation. Yet, I haven’t seen a single article in a major newspaper about what is becoming a mass movement 1/
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I take zero joy in pessimists being right about Warren. I've long believed that best-case short-term the Sanders/socialist left must govern in coalition with the liberal left represented by Warren. The fact that when it came down to it, Warren stood with the establishment, is sad
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Liberals have spent twenty years hating Ralph Nader to avoid confronting the fact that Al Gore did nothing when SCOTUS and Bush stole the 2000 election. Democratic complicity in the normalization of the Republican assault on democratic rights has done incalculable harm.
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Americans’ steadfast commitment to believing that we are victims when in fact our country is the world’s most powerful aggressor is the product of a distinctly settler colonialist form of political psychosis.
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Dear @nytimes: I know space for A1 headlines is tight, so it’s curious that you would use the lengthy “Islamic Republic” instead of simply “Pakistan.”
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It’s so tragic that Bernie is vaporizing his reputation and legacy among so many young people who were first politicized and radicalized by his presidential campaigns.
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lack of even a basic expectation that US might condemn the attack or change policy as result; reminder that Western anti-Palestinian racism bolsters a more general anti-Arab racism and Islamophobia that hypothetically legitimizes the murder of hundreds of millions of people. 2/2
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The entire “antisemitism on campus” discourse is absolute libel against these wonderful young people committed to Palestinian liberation.
I went to Columbia, and was active daily in Jewish life on campus.
This gives me so much joy and pride ❤️🦁
Via @TheIndypendent:
"Jewish students celebrate Shabbat in song at the Columbia Gaza Solidarity Encampment."
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Owning the libs is fun (and even important!) for leftists. But if you make *hostility to liberalism* rather than *socialism* the foundation of your political ideology, it will lead you to increasingly strange and bad places.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates on DNC: “Despite the appeals of Palestinian American delegates and activists, no Palestinian American is scheduled to address the convention from the main stage. I suspect this is because of what such a speaker might feel compelled to say” vanityfair.com/news/story/dn…
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It was uncommitted voters and student protesters who first demonstrated to Biden that he was at high risk of losing reelection. It remains true that there is a critical mass of Dem voters in Michigan and nationwide who can and will condition their vote on ending genocide in Gaza.
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The energy on the Democratic base is on the economically populist left and there are very few Democratic leaders who understand that.
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This won’t save NYT editorial leadership from being forever judged for its profound complicity in this genocide.
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I can’t overstate how profoundly alienating it is for so many people to discover that there is zero evident limit to the scale of genocidal mass murder that Biden, the Democratic Party, and really the entire American political system will accept and continue to arm and fund.
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Amazing that Pelosi took a look at the state of the world and decided “there are not enough crises to bring us to the brink of apocalyptic cataclysm yet.”
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Fetterman is becoming another Sinema. Do unfortunate fashion choices ultimately drive formerly progressive politicians into becoming the most freakshow versions of "independent maverick" imaginable? We cannot rule this factor out.
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The US government practices torture. If it were happening in another country, we would use this sort of sadistic abuse as a pretext for regime change.
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The NYT just states that Corbyn’s Labour Party was antisemitic as though it’s an uncontroversial truth when in fact it is a lie. In reality, anti-colonialism is what anti-racism looks like as geopolitics. Smearing it as antisemitism is a central mystification of our time.
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Joe Biden and every single liberal politician or media figure who demonized anti-genocide protesters as anti-semitic extremists, who called for or engineered mass repression of the campus encampments, is deeply complicit in Trump’s repression today. Absolutely shameful.
NEWS: Last night, DHS detained a Palestinian who helped lead Columbia encampment.
Agents told him his visa was revoked. He said he had a green card. They were confused—then said that was revoked too.
His attorney demanded a warrant. Agents hung up instead.zeteo.com/p/breaking-dhs-det…
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Absolute freak show global ruling class.
Argentinian President Javier Milei shows up at #CPAC2025 to hand Elon Musk a chainsaw that he immediately starts swinging around.
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All these smears that Bernie voters cost Hillary the election and we’re basically the only people defending Joe Biden on Afghanistan right now.
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Key figures in the Michigan Democratic establishment are uniting to isolate Rashida Tlaib. I cannot emphasize how important it is that we defend Rashida and defeat her enemies.
.@RashidaTlaib, I have supported and defended you countless times, even when you have said the indefensible, because I believed you to be a good person whose heart was in the right place.
But this is so hurtful to so many. Please retract this cruel and hateful remark.
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I just heard BBC Newshour refer to Hamas’s attack on October 7 as “brutal” and Israel’s military response as “sweeping.” There is so much ideologically loaded Zionist propaganda packed into these adjectives.
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We live in a world where one of the most powerful air forces on earth, armed to the teeth by the United States, isn't hiding these atrocities from journalists...it is proudly publishing photos of its flagrant atrocities on its own Twitter feed. This is so fucking dystopian.
Dozens of fighter jets and helicopters attacked a series of terrorist targets of the Hamas terrorist organization throughout the Gaza Strip.
So far, the IAF has dropped about 6,000 bombs against Hamas targets.
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Bernie is within striking distance of winning Iowa, New Hampshire, and California. You wouldn’t know this from reading mainstream media, which means that the political establishment and corporate elites won’t realize that Bernie might win until it’s too late. We can do this.
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What geniuses advising Elizabeth Warren thought it was a good idea to start 1) pushing the message that she is the only candidate who can bring left and center together while 2) simultaneously entirely burning her relationship with the left? It’s a very weird and bad strategy!
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Spoke to a Bernie 2016 supporter who became a hardcore Marianne stan and is now firmly in Buttigieg’s camp. I tried to convince her that Pete had no Marianne energy but to no avail.
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At this point, imo: don't bother to ask or pressure Schumer, Gillibrand, and Jeffries to endorse. Zohran doesn't need them to win, and them refusing to endorse will make them easier to primary.
Mamdani now has the backing of the:
- Governor
- Lt. Governor
- Attorney General
- Senate president
- Assembly speaker
- NYC Council speaker
- NYC Comptroller
- NYC Public Advocate
- Every Dem borough president
- 5 NYC House members
Missing:
- Schumer
- Gillibrand
- Jeffries
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