Previous account (@BenBurgis) was hacked, please follow me here! Columnist @jacobin Host @gtaa_show Co-author of "The Blueprint" (Sept. 29th from @VersoBooks!)
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The mini-book tour for The Blueprint starts in Los Angeles next Tuesday!
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The Amazon box that came tonight.
He barely fits in it, but he's not going to let a minor detail like that stop him.
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This line from @ryan_zickgraf's latest for @damagemag, while of course it makes more sense in context, also just works on its own as a perfect summation of a lot of intra-left controversies right now. Also it made me laugh out loud when I read it.
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Mamdani has multiple big wins like this now, yet still there are leftists who insist his first year in office should have instead been spent waging a war against a very powerful NYPD, which would likely be mostly fruitless & derail the entire rest of his agenda
Give him time
DoorDash reportedly spent $1.4 million trying to stop Mamdani from becoming NYC Mayor, only for him to win and force them to pay $131.5 million for underpaying 264,000 delivery workers
That's around 100 times what they spent against him
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From a text from a friend on the ground--posters going up in Baltimore to promote our event a week from today at @redemmas.
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War criminals are not welcome in New York City.
I stood alongside a diverse set of Jewish New Yorkers and allies — at several protests today organized by @jvplive, by @truahrabbis & @jstreetdotorg, by @israelispeaceny — to say no to Israel’s ongoing destruction of Gaza, no to settler violence, no to human-made famine, no to U.S. tax dollars bombing entire families, and no to Netanyahu.
ALT Standing with a large group of demonstrators to protest Netanyahu
ALT Standing with a group of protesters holding up signs condemning Netanyahu.
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i log onto Twitter to blast Zohran for having the NYPD arrest DSA elected leaders and Democratic nominees that protest Netanyahu. hours later, i return to Twitter to call the entire process a photo op and call those that were arrested frauds. this is how i advance socialism.
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Mamdani is planting trees and giving away opera tickets, while Netanyahu is screeching about "likes" on Instagram at the UN. I think it's fair to say the latter's savvy about US political society and media has lapsed.
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You all do get that the protesters WANTED to get arrested right? Like that was their intention right? Am I having stroke or why is Netanyahu’a visit turning into a “how can I take a shot at Zohran” contest instead of, you know, focusing our fire on the generational war criminal?
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Perfect answer.
Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed responds to a visibly upset Iranian-American student at the University of Michigan, telling him that U.S. military interventions, sanctions, and regime-change wars often advance corporate interests and harm civilians, rather than promote democracy and freedom.
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People surely understand that sometimes the point of a protest is to get arrested, right?
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🚨🇺🇸🇵🇸 BREAKING — Mamdani Fires Back:
“Netanyahu Is the Architect of a Horrific Genocide Against Palestinians.”
“His military just killed an 11-year-old boy in a 'safe zone' in Gaza”
🚨🇮🇱 BREAKING — Netanyahu vs Mamdani:
“Mr. Mamdani — You Tried to Stop Me From Coming to the United Nations — You Tried to Silence Me...”
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if we're measuring in "proportionate 9/11s" then in Gaza Israel would have killed 14 million Americans, or 4,600 9/11s
Benjamin Netanyahu says October 7th was the equivalent of "sixteen 9/11s."
"Proportionately," the death of 1,200 Israelis is "equal to" the death of 40,000 Americans, he says.
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Five days!
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Mr. Netanyahu, you do not speak for New York’s Jewish community.
Your government arrests hundreds of innocent yeshiva students each week, while we in New York practice our faith and live freely and safely.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani is a friend and ally to our community
You are not.
Netanyahu: The anti-semitic mayor of New York—shame on you. Mr. Mamdani, since you were elected mayor of this city, many Jews no longer feel safe in New York. They talk to me. They tell me.
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A response from Mamdani here
"Mr. Mamdani, since you were elected mayor of this city, many Jews no longer feel safe in new york," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says in UN General Assembly address, following through on suggestion a few days ago he would talk about the NYC mayor.
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