Zohran Mamdani just forced Jeff Bezos to pay New York City $9 million in fines his company owed.
This is exactly why we elect politicians who aren’t bought by corporations: they actually hold powerful people accountable instead of protecting them.
In 1998, I was fired from my corporate job while 9 months pregnant because and I quote, “my priorities would be elsewhere after the baby is born.”
The lawyer I hired told me I didn’t have a case because discrimination like “that” was almost impossible to prove.
So I got pissed.
Took the LSAT. Went to law school. Passed the bar. Had 3 more kids.
Twelve years later, another woman from that same company was fired for the same reason. She sued them for a million dollars, and won, partly because I had kept every piece of evidence from what happened to me years prior demonstrating a systemic pattern of discrimination against women.
That company no longer exists. My law practice is thriving. And that baby they said would derail my priorities? She’s a brilliant attorney now working at my firm.
Turns out my priorities were indeed, elsewhere.
I WATCHED MY COWORKER CRY IN HIS CAR FOR 20 MINUTES, THEN WALKED BACK IN SMILING LIKE NOTHING HAPPENED. PEOPLE REALLY BE FIGHTING SILENT BATTLES EVERY DAY. PLEASE BE NICE TO PEOPLE
Mamdani closed a $12B deficit in 132 days, fixed 100K+ potholes, secured millions for gig workers, fined corrupt landlords millions, raised snow workers to $30/hr, and violent crime hit historic lows.
THIS IS WHAT A LEADER DOES!!
IMAGINE 😳 being a GROWN ADULT & your whole personality still DRAMA , SHADE, JEALOUSY & GOSSIP. still WORRIED about people who moved on from you years ago... still bringing up OLD STUFF... still stuck in the SAME ENERGY . NO HEALING. NO GROWTH. no accountability... 30+ & still unhealed & messy ... 🙅🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️✌🏾
TRUMP TO SCHOOL KIDS: “Iran was two weeks away from having a nuclear weapon and killing you.”
ENOUGH. It’s one thing to watch him lie to the American people but lying to and propagandizing kids on national television is TOO FAR.