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[themuffstuff @TheMuffStuff]

When the shuttles don’t want to take you home so you have to walk 6 miles on a bridge. #ULTRA #UMF #UltraMusicFestival #ultra2019 #fyrefestival

[themuffstuff @TheMuffStuff]

@angouma_la @joshhart Rage bait

[LeBron James @KingJames]

No, THANK YOU! Truly a honor to wear the 💜💛 while trying to continuing the greatness & legacies that came before me! Hope I made a few proud during my stint. 🙏🏾🫡👑

[Polling USA @USA_Polling]

DSA candidate, Melat Kiros, has defeated a 29-year incumbent in her primary for Colorado's 1st House

She will head to congress in November as the seat is a safe Democratic seat

[Sophie Cunningham @sophaller]

🤷🏼‍♀️

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

“They are stealing our jobs.”

Yes Billy, who failed high school, Rajesh the astrophysicist has stolen your job.

[Laura Sabino @mylaura_m]

Alemanha e Japão eliminados hoje.
Me sinto em 1945

[Acyn @Acyn]

Karl: Republicans are going to make you the poster child for the Democratic Party.

Mamdani: Let them. We don’t have to ask ourselves what life looks like if a socialist wins. I won last November, and over the course of these last six months, what we’ve delivered for working people are the very things we were told were impossible.

We’ve delivered free child care for two-year-olds for the first time in New York City history. We’ve delivered tens of millions of dollars back to tenants who were taken advantage of by bad landlords. We’ve delivered 165,000 potholes being paved. And we’ve done all of these things while also delivering the lowest recorded crime in our city’s history.

That’s what it looks like to have democratic socialism. And what you’re seeing is that New Yorkers experienced this for six months and made the decision that they wanted to see more of it on the national stage as well.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

THE POLITICAL ESTABLISHMENT IS GETTING NERVOUS 

The political establishment — Democratic and Republican — is getting nervous. So are the Oligarchs and the corporate media they own.  

The world they dominate is beginning to shake beneath them. Change is coming.  And they don’t like it.

What we saw on Tuesday in New York, what we are seeing all across the country, is that ordinary people are getting involved in the political process, are taking on establishment candidates, and are winning. What is particularly frightening to the establishment is that many of the candidates, and their supporters, are young. The future belongs to them and they want that future to look very different from what it is today.

It’s not complicated. Progressives and democratic socialists are winning elections because the vast majority of the American people understand that status quo politics and policies are not working.  You don’t have to be a PhD in economics to know that in America today the very rich are getting much richer while the vast majority of our people are struggling to pay for the basic necessities — healthcare, housing, food, education and utilities. You don’t have to be a sociologist to realize that the younger generation will likely have a lower standard of living than their parents.  You don’t need to be a political scientist to understand that we have a corrupt campaign finance system that allows billionaires and their super PACS to buy elections, undermine democracy, and protect their privileged positions. 

The American people, across the political spectrum, are rejecting the establishment’s  uber-capitalist ideology, value system and priorities.  They want an economy and a government that works for all, not just wealthy campaign contributors. 

More and more Americans refuse to accept the current reality that:

One man, Mr. Musk, owns more than three times as much wealth as the bottom half of our society.  That billionaires and large profitable corporations often pay an effective tax rate lower than truck drivers or nurses. They are demanding that the billionaire class starts paying their fair share of taxes.

We are the only major country not to guarantee health care to all as a human right. They want Medicare for All.  

Tens of millions of workers are earning starvation wages. They want to raise the minimum wage to a living wage and make it easier for workers to join unions.

Big Tech and the wealthiest people on earth are aggressively pushing AI and robotics, the most transformative technologies in history, without public input. They want these technologies to benefit all, not just the handful of billionaires who own the industry.  

Nearly 800,000 Americans are homeless, and more than 20 million households are spending 50% or more of their limited incomes on housing. They want a freeze on rent and the construction of millions of units of low income and affordable housing.

[The Green Dragon Tavern @greendragonhq]

So Mamdani got landlords to fix their properties, balanced the city budget, lowered crime, froze rent, taxed the rich, and launched a free day care program and y’all still saying socialism will fail.

Ignorance.

[AIPAC Tracker @TrackAIPAC]

The AIPAC era is over.

[GenXGirl @GenXGirl1994]

THIS IS WHY THEY’RE FREAKING OUT.

[𝘽𝙡𝙖𝙠𝙚 @Arealmfngl]

What’s wrong with being the minority? Are minorities treated like second class citizens or something?

[Hassan Mafi ‏ @thatdayin1992]

Americans realizing it is illegal to touch water in public but if you touch children on private islands you will become the president of the US

[Polling USA @USA_Polling]

Amazing frankly

[Marc Luino @GiraffeNeckMarc]

The Mets have given up. Steve Cohen, David Stearns, Carlos Mendoza and the players have given up. They don’t care, neither should any Mets fans. Citi Field should be empty the rest of the season

[Pat 🇩🇴🗽 @pat__ny]

I love how NYC politics is just pure anti-aipac now. I love my country New York.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

LESSONS FROM THE ELECTIONS IN NEW YORK CITY

Last night, voters across New York delivered a powerful message: the era of status quo politics is over.

From Buffalo to Queens, grassroots candidates ran bold campaigns focused on the struggles facing working people and won decisive victories. Not only did Brad Lander, Claire Valdez and Darializa Avila Chevalier win their Congressional primaries, but progressives won downballot as well. Adam Bojak, Christian Celeste Tate, Eli Northrup, Illapa Sairitupac, Samantha Kattan, Eon Huntley, Diana Moreno and David Orkin all won their New York state assembly races, while Aber Kawas and Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas won their State Senate races.

These victories occurred despite the fact that Super PACs funded by AIPAC, the crypto industry, AI and other billionaire-backed groups have spent tens of millions of dollars trying to defeat progressive candidates and crush a movement that threatens their economic and political power.

They happened because ordinary people knocked on doors, made phone calls, organized in their communities, and demanded a government that works for working families instead of wealthy campaign donors.

The American people — in New York and all across this country — are tired of a rigged economy that allows the very rich to become richer while working families struggle to afford housing, health care, child care and education. They are tired of a political system dominated by wealthy donors and corporate interests. And they are tired of billionaires and their Super PACs attempting to buy our elections.

Last night showed that when working people stand together, organize, and fight back, they can defeat establishment politicians and enormous amounts of money and political influence.

We’re making progress. The task before us now is to build on that momentum.

If Democrats regain control of Congress next year, they must listen to the people who put them in office. Status quo establishment policies are not enough. We must be bold.  We must take on Oligarchy. We must represent working families and create a government that works for all, not just the few.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

The irony of Republicans controlling all branches of government while

bankrupting the country, starting a war, sending money to fraudulent programs, violating the Constitution, giving corporations immunity...

but arguing that the biggest problem we have is “stolen elections.”

[DSA @DemSocialists]

Election update: Socialists Won