I know everyone is being nice about #NY10 and focusing on Dan Goldman buying the seat, which is true, but we would have another squad member in Congress no matter how much he spent if @CarlinaRivera and @MondaireJones chose our families over a blip in their careers. Let us learn.
We would have had a fighter for working people in Congress if firms like @BerlinRosen didn't invade left spaces, suck up left talent and knowhow, to use it against us. To promote division for their profit. To put us in danger for their profit.
We would have had someone championing transformational change in Congress if the NYTIMES ownership wasn't in cahoots with the silver spoon sons of their friends and families to rig their own endorsement process.
Some of you have to play all this down to continue working and passing good legislation, which I get. I don't. I'm independent 100% of that and I and others can make sure we repeat it so much that it's never rewritten.
That we build process and agreements as the left on when and how to coalesce. And build in COSTS to not doing so.

That we uninvite greedy equity firms like @BerlinRosen from selling our democracy for its parts, using and abusing the most talented among us to do so.
That we question building the power of the NYTIMES when they do endorse our candidates, that we figure out how to use it, if to use it, and what it means to use it to our movements in the future. We empower them. And their owners will always betray us when it matters.
Everything Yuh-Line supporters said came true. And there have been no apologies. And even a very unapologetic and selfish "no regrets" from @CarlinaRivera, who I once campaigned and volunteered for. Who turned our energy and sacrifice for her into phone calls to GOP billionaires.
People make mistakes. I know I have. I hope we learn from these mistakes and remind ourselves electoral politics is not about careers but about a fight for the soul of this country at its most critical moment.

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Sep 5
I’d say this is peak privilege but the Temple of Dendur at The Met was ordered by Rome as a vanity project to solidify Ceaser Augustus’s rule with colonized Egypt, so it’s a tie.
It only makes sense to send your child to a temple honoring the God of the Underworld after having sent so many to the underworld to do so.
Some people spent two years bullying the Met to drop the corporate opioid addiction cartel that funds it.
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Sep 4
My daughter’s school is letting staff and classes go because of @NYCMayor’s immoral budget cuts but here’s a $48,000 NYPD Tesla at the 111th precinct. #RestoreTheCuts
250 more to go. And 184 EV Ford Mustangs, another premium high priced EV. All with no-bid non competitive contracts because NYPD Gucci.

nyc.streetsblog.org/2021/12/29/cit…
So I’m going to address the minority of people who (in good faith) think this makes financial sense.

1) “Existing NYPD cars cost more”

Untrue, the base price of those are lower. Adding things like bullet proof raises the cost. They will want to do this here too.
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Aug 23
For those trying to figure out why Hillel is trending: they posted a celebration of how welcoming they are. Jews of color + Israel questioning Jews shared stories to the contrary. They locked the post & hid comments. People shared the hidden comments and they deleted everything.
The video features people of color dancing and muted but when Jews of color shared their thoughts independently they censored them.
This is not unlike how Hillel deals with all questions. Sweep it under the rug, systemically alienate and drive queer Jews, left Jews, JOC, converts, patrilineal Jews away so they can simulate a successful inclusive community on social media to keep their funding coming.
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When I first approached Hillel, which was all white, I was asked where the pizza was because they assumed I was delivery. When I paused, dumbstruck, they repeated it in Spanish.
This isn’t uncommon, which is why Hillel locked replies to their tweet celebrating how welcoming they are.
Apparently they are also hiding replies from Black and brown Jews and Jews who were questioning the official line on Palestine.
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To believe in this, Bill Maher must believe

1) industries are white dominated simply because of supreme skills and not systemic racism.

2) people of color, queer people, people with disabilities are intrinsically unqualified.

There's a word for these beliefs.
3) people of color, queer people and people with disabilities are so bad at acting, it's just so reasonable that it takes the natural skill of a straight white able person to play people of color, queer people and people with disabilities instead.
4) white actors playing people of color are so gifted, that their many hours of practice surpass even the head start a person of color would get from living as a person of color among their families and friends for 40 years! even if they also practiced!
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Aug 5
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It's all of that AND supporting antisemitism.

1/x
It is AIPAC empowering Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes and neo-nazi loser Baked Alaska who live-streamed from Pelosi's office after storming the capitol.

2/x
It is AIPAC raising the neo nazi Kek flag, as they did during the insurrection.

3/x
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