The year is 2050. You’re stuck in traffic on the north bound Boring Tunnel™ bus from Sunset Park to your job at Amazon in Long Island City. You tap your Juul patch on your wrist and turn up your headphones. “YOUR HAIR ITS EVERYWHERE SCREAMING INFIDELITIES...”
Reynoso, Espaillat, and other establishment Dems love implying that Claire and Dari are newcomers compared to their own long careers in politics. Well here is what they were doing with their long careers! Trips to Israel and endorsing against AOC in 2018 while our lives got worse
@LinkofSunshine@Isolde789 The reason they are so similar is because Antonio notices that people are receptive to Claire’s positions so he follows. Why did it take him until he ran for congress to say Israel is committing a genocide?
"I'm not taking a dime from the real estate developers that have been pushing us out for so long. It's why I'm fighting for tenants' rights. It's why I'm fighting to make sure that people can live in these neighborhoods that they call home." -@claireforny is so AMAZING.🤍🌹
USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.
Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.
I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."
"They just come with the table, man."
They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.
This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.
I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.
"Did we…?"
"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."
Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.
My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."
Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.
I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.
Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.
I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.
Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.
The funniest part about the world rallying behind Zoran Mamdani is that he’s literally just doing his job, but by doing so shows us that every other politician is just lining their pockets & leaving us to rot 😭
1,000 New Yorkers won our lottery for affordable tickets to the World Cup.
Today, we celebrated in the stands for the first NY/NJ game of the tournament.
The beautiful game belongs to everyone.