New York City Mayor Mamdani just gave one of the most amazing speeches you will ever hear:
"We are told that America is exceptional because we are richer, stronger, and more powerful than everyone else.
"The truth, my friends, is that America is exceptional because here, nothing is fixed into place. The frontier may be closed. We may have walked on the moon. But the work of fulfilling the values first enshrined in the Declaration of Independence — that work endures, and it belongs to us all.
"It belongs, too, to our newest Americans: those standing here with me today, all of whom were recently naturalized. Nearly a decade ago, I, too, felt what you feel: the joy of no longer being just a New Yorker, but an American, too.
"You each hold a special power: the power to determine what America means.
"The powerful have always known their answer. America, in their view, is an arena of supremacy where only a select few are allowed freedom; where not all are created equal. America, if you ask them, becomes less the more people it welcomes. America, they will tell you, belongs only to those with the right accent or the right shade of skin. The rest of us, they insist, should be grateful for merely being allowed to visit.
"How small they are. How weak. How unoriginal.
"At every moment in our past, those who led through exclusion and isolation have tried to win power and enrich themselves by turning us against one another. Division is the oldest trick in politics — and the cheapest.
"But time and again, including 250 years ago, those forces of division have been vanquished by the forces of progress."
when i was 18 one of my friends brought out this doohickey while we were rolling up and we laughed so fucking hard he prob debated killing himself that night. later after we smoked all the blunts we freestyled and almost every bar was about him and that gadget
(Texting friend a pic of the fattest guy I’ve ever seen) Your dad lol
[no response for 2min]
just playing Lol not your dad
[no response for 5min]
I am so sorry. Your father has a Lion’s heart. He raised a champion
HAYES: Do you think last night was about the Democratic Party not doing enough to oppose the actions of the Israeli government over the last several years?
MAMDANI: I think that played a major role, and it played a major role because New Yorkers have had to watch as tens of billions of our tax dollars have been spent on bombs that not only shred international law, but also the lives of civilians. And what they’ve seen is that while it is a Republican administration that is doing it now, it was also something that was bipartisan and continues to be.
And I think there is a desire to see a politics of life be at the center of what we are fighting for. And, you know, I think if you’re looking at Brad and his race and his candidacy, he led with such humanity and, in many ways, an embodiment of what Mr. Rogers would speak about in the actions of a good neighbor. And he would speak about the fact that he is going to Congress not only to fight against bigotry, whether it be antisemitism or Islamophobia, but also to make clear that he is going to fight against the occupation, against the genocide. He’s going to co-sponsor the Block the Bombs Act to stop our federal government from sending those kinds of shipments to the Israeli military.
And I think that’s what’s in line with what so many New Yorkers are desperate to see. And all of this is all the more difficult for a New Yorker to accept when, at the same time, they’re having trouble affording life in the nation’s most expensive city. At the same time as we’re greenlighting tens of billions of dollars for Netanyahu’s wars, we’re being told, “Sorry, we just can’t help you make it a little bit easier to afford your rent check or your groceries or your childcare or even your public transit.”
And I think what we saw is that New Yorkers were fed up with the status quo of our politics, where we’re stuck explaining why this is the best we’re going to have, as opposed to advocating for the working person who’s being left behind by that same status quo.
Even @Morning_Joe has had it with the false claims of antisemitism: "If you want to blame anybody for what happened last night, you have to blame Benjamin Netanyahu."
"The idea that you're going to be able to brutalize children and women in Gaza with bombing that looks indiscriminate on TV day in and day out for years, that you're going to be able to level half of Lebanon, that you're going to be able to continue to allow thugs to run wild in the West Bank, and brutalizing Palestinians, brutalizing Christians in Bethlehem, brutalizing Christians across that area along with Palestinian Muslims, especially Palestinian Muslims, blowing up Catholic churches in Gaza... You can blame all of this on Benjamin Netanyahu."
@LTSports80@DezBryant Yeah draft a PG after signing Trae Young and already having guards in Tre Johnson and Bub Carrington and waiting on the bench. Great take
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