Benny Stanislawski

[Bronx Borough President Vanessa L. Gibson @bronxbp]

Yesterday, we stood alongside Congressman Ritchie Torres, 1199SEIU members, clergy, and community leaders to stand in solidarity with TPS holders following the Supreme Court’s decision allowing the termination of Temporary Protected Status for Haitian immigrants.

This decision puts countless families and lives in jeopardy, deepening fear and uncertainty in communities that deserve protection, not displacement.

Our immigrant neighbors deserve dignity, stability, and compassion, and we will continue to speak out in support of Haitian immigrants and anyone else who has been impacted.

The Bronx stands with our immigrant communities.

[Herbie Ziskend @HerbieZiskend]

Graham Platner should have dropped out *months* ago - long before these brave women came forward.

[Benny Stanislawski @bennystanis]

Happening now — @RepRitchie rallying with @1199SEIU in defense of TPS

[Democratic Capitalists of America @demcapitalism]

LION.

[tré easton @treeaston]

Graham Platner needs to drop out YESTERDAY. He knows it. His team knows it. Every minute he doesn’t is time wasted trying to beat Susan Collins.

Thanks for letting me come rant @SymoneDSanders.

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

Definitely think the smart play here is for Dems to replace Platner with the single most Platner-linked politician in the state on the advice of Platner’s consultants (who don’t want to lose the $$$) and the senators who vouched for him.

https://t.co/BhsVsX4Ggs

[Ritchie Torres @RitchieTorres]

The ancient Greeks were often right: character is destiny. Hubris is one’s undoing.

The warning signs in Graham Platner were there in plain sight. Many chose not to see them. Others extended him a presumption of grace they would never have given to their ideological enemies.

This is a moment not for schadenfreude, however tempting, but for self-reflection.

[Ritchie Torres @RitchieTorres]

@MortonAKlein7 Questioning the citizenship of the first and only Black President, as you have done, is racist.

Calling Arabs “filthy” is racist.

You are a disgrace to the cause you claim to champion.

[Yemisi Egbewole @yemisi]

This may be hard for people who are not my skin tone, Jewish, or just decent humans to grasp, but the line was the Nazi tattoo. The “new information was brought to light” posts don’t absolve you. They just mean you arrived late to what was always blatantly obvious.

[José @josecanyousee]

hard to believe that a self described ww2 buff with a totenkopf tattoo who claimed he had no idea what it meant when he got it would turn out to be a liar

[Dean Phillips @deanbphillips]

They didn’t misjudge Platner.

They just accepted it.

[Ritchie Torres @RitchieTorres]

I have no endorsement to rescind.

Graham Platner should drop out.

[Isaac Chotiner @IChotiner]

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[Cait Conley @CaitforNewYork]

Yesterday was about celebrating America's pursuit of a more perfect union over 250 years. A country that is a beacon to the world for freedom, equality, and justice for all. White nationalists' attempts to stoke fear and hatred in America's Capitol is the most un-American display one could make. We are one nation — regardless of how one prays, the color of one's skin, or who one loves. That is America. And yesterday's actions are a reminder that we have to fight to make sure that America continues. I believe America's best years are still ahead of us, and hate has no place in that future.

[Ritchie Torres @RitchieTorres]

The Declaration of Independence may be one of the most dangerous documents ever written. Dangerous in the most magnificent sense of the word.

When the Declaration of Independence proclaimed equality to be a self-evident truth, it planted the seeds of every great human rights movement that would follow: from abolition and Civil Rights to women’s suffrage and LGBTQ equality.

The American Revolution began in the eighteenth century but it did not end there. To me, the Revolution is not a single event frozen in time. It is the constantly unfolding story of remaking America into an ever more perfect Union. It is a revolution that never stops revolutionizing the nation it founded 250 years ago. The staying power of the world’s oldest republic is a paradox: it is as much a product of change as it is of continuity.

The genius of the Founders, deeply flawed men, lies not in creating a perfect nation but in designing a nation capable of perfecting itself—of continually reshaping itself in the image of its radical ideals, whose power to inspire has never diminished. Two hundred and fifty years into the American experiment, the world has never seen anything quite like it.

[Jubilee @jubileemedia]

Wes Moore vs 20 Non-Voters, this Sunday on #surrounded @iamwesmoore

[David Weigel @daveweigel]

A "Great American State Fair" was a fine idea. One of the perks of campaign reporting is dropping into big state fairs; farm animals, butter sculptures, rides, beer halls, non-Euclidian fried objects, etc. The half-assed execution stinks

[TMZ @TMZ]

Rep. Ritchie Torres claps back at Lauren Boebert, telling @hicharliecotton that she should show more compassion toward Tom Kean during this time.

[Benny Stanislawski @bennystanis]

@benjamin_biko Just look at yourself tho Benjamin

[Ritchie Torres @RitchieTorres]

As someone who has lived with depression, I have deep sympathy for anyone struggling with mental illness. I might not be alive today were it not for a prolonged hospitalization and proper medication. I know the value of taking a medical leave firsthand.

At the same time, public office carries a duty of transparency. When a public official is absent for an extended period, the public has a right to an honest explanation.

Transparency deepens the public’s empathy, whereas secrecy breeds suspicion. When in doubt, err on the side of transparency. Tell the truth, and tell it early. The public is often most forgiving of those who level with them.