Lander has dropped the $40M in Israeli bonds from the NYC pension fund which was the only foreign sovereign debt held by the city, which Lander calls a politically motivated exception made only to favor Israel by previous comptrollers.
Big props to the unions who took a risk and stood by working people by endorsing Zohran:
DC 37, UAW 9a, Doctors Council SEIU, CIR/SEIU, UNITE-HERE Local 100, IATSE Local 161, PSC-CUNY, OPEIU Local 153, and Teamsters Local 804
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Watch live as former Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil is released from an immigration detention center in Louisiana. A federal judge on Friday ordered the U.S. government to free Khalil from the detention center where he has been held since early March while the Trump administration sought to deport him over his role in pro-Palestinian protests.
Louis Theroux’s “The Settlers” (2025) — full documentary.
This is a must-watch to understand how Israel was built, the people that come from all over the world to take land and what is currently happening due to its expansionist mentality.
"Because feminism that does not speak when women are starving under siege is not feminism. Feminism that does not weep when girls are pulled from rubble is not feminism. And feminism that cannot name Gaza is not feminism. It's performance."
If a mob of people in New York were chanting "death to Jews" while attacking pro-Israel demonstrators, it would be the top story on every outlet.
But chants of "death to Arabs" will be ignored because, as US foreign policy demonstrates, some lives matter more than others.
@SenSanders 8 years teaching and barely passed 60k, and my job is getting reduced down next year because of budget cuts. And buying supplies out of my pocket for the classroom to be able to function.
⚡️BREAKING:
Israel just carried out an airstrike targeting journalists’ tents in Khan Younis, Gaza. One journalist was killed, and journalist Hassan Aslih was severely injured.
Footage shows the tents burning with a journalist trapped inside. They couldn’t save him… https://t.co/Hw3klEInsd
Happening now: Students at Barnard College launch a sit-in of the dean’s office to demand two students expelled for disrupting a class about “the history of modern Israel” in January be un-expelled.
Via anon on the scene:
Why is news that 70,000 men were found in a group chat about raping their own wives and girlfriends not a bigger story?
Why does society pander to misogyny so much it ignores a huge bombshell like this?
Women aren’t safe in their own homes. Gisele Pelicot wasn’t an exception.