H. E. Pennypacker

It's like, ya know, whatever.

[Joel Braunold @braunold]

So ask yourself this question. Mamdani is not just a phenomenon of a political talent but he has learnt from Obama that patriotism is the life blood of leadership. As is joy and hope. Any National Dem could have chosen today to make a speech to the nation. Where are Jeffries or Schumer? Newsom, Shaprio, Pritzker, Ossoff et al. Nature abhors a vacuum and the mayor of NYC has taken the leadership of the opposition to the administration and will hold it until someone else does so. He is using his legal inability to run for the highest office as an advantage to be the national voice of the party through influence rather than ambition. He’s exceptionally good at it.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

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."

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Mamdani: "As we mark 250 years, what do we see? ... we see the wealthiest country in the history of the world -- one where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more ... we see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by our undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans"

[Al Smizzle @AlZeidenfeld]

This is possibly the most accurate tweet of all time.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Karl: Israel is a Jewish state. That’s in the charter. Do you support that?

Mamdani: I’ve said time and again that I support the state of Israel as a state with equal rights.

Karl: As jewish state?

Mamdani: I believe that any state that privileges one religion over another is one that I can’t tell you I support, whether it be Israel or Saudi Arabia or anywhere else. And a lot of that comes back to a fundamental belief that we should all be considered equal, no matter what our faith is.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Hasan Piker: “I don’t trust Tucker Carlson. Tucker Carlson or even Nick Fuentes want to make America Israel. What Israel has done for Jews, they want to design America in the same exact vision for Christian Nationalists, their own personal in-group. That’s still objectively fascist and I’m an anti-fascist. That’s why I oppose Israel, that’s why I oppose Tucker Carlson”

[the thicc husband & father @lukeisamazing]

seeing an American congressperson refuse to outright deny being a communist on cable news, tears in my fucking eyes

[BeshearStan @BeshearStan]

Reminder that NY-10 is *the most Jewish district in America*, and voters still rejected pro-Israel incumbent Dan Goldman by 30+ points for Brad Lander, who called Gaza a genocide and wants to cut off all weapons to Israel.

Jewish people aren’t falling for rabid Zionism

[H. E. Pennypacker @AlexStone]

@DirtyErnieDeux @BoMeltonSZN Me too pls

[Cole Sandick🌹🇵🇸🇺🇦🇸🇩 @ColeSandick]

As an NYC-DSA activist who grew up listening to WFAN, this almost makes me want to cry. You will not find a more conservative cultural medium in New York than WFAN—sports talk radio chiefly done and listened to by white ethnic boomers. Zohran is achieving hegemony, oh my god.

[Dylan Burd @Dylan_Burd]

My favorite video I’ve ever taken.

Absolutely surreal.

[Kimberley A. Martin @ByKimberleyA]

Cops mistook Tyler Kolek for a fan 😩 #alwaysknicks

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

here is Mamdani's entire speech at the Knicks parade, which is easily the best speech I've ever heard at an event of this sort

[ettingermentum @ettingermentum]

The Trump administration sends a great message of strength to the world: if you negotiate with us for 40 years we’ll just bomb you anyways, but if you fight back for a month we’ll give you everything you want

[GL @gldivittorio]

“We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism” 🧡💙

[Adam Herman @AdamZHerman]

NYC's response to the Knicks' run is an explicit rejection of Trumpism. Civic engagement is at an all-time high. Fearmongering about public safety was crushed by the hundreds of spontaneous watch parties. Unimaginably diverse groups rallying behind a sense of collective identity.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Mamdani: "Oftentimes this kind of unity comes in moments of tragedy. And to see it coming now in a moment of joy, it's something I've never seen before across our city."

[Nike Basketball @nikebasketball]

Sleep well, NY.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Aerial view of New York right now.

[NEW YORK KNICKS @nyknicks]

NEW YORK, NEW YORK 🏆