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[Cameron Kasky @camkasky]

Ro and I visited the destroyed village of Zanuta and the site of an EU-funded school that got burned down by settlers.

It was here that we got intercepted and captured by settlers wielding American-made rifles. The IDF showed up to back up the settlers, not the U.S. congressman.

[Ronak Shah 🟢 @datapopulist]

The pedestrian bridge between Red Hook and Carroll Gardens DESPERATELY needs to be plowed. It is completely impassable for strollers, wheelchairs. @NYCMayor @nyc311 please help! https://t.co/Dy8TdUkvid

[Heidi N. Moore @moorehn]

honestly, I'm not sold on the idea that he's "pivoting." I think a lot of people thought he would be socialist Santa and practice some perfect form of lab grown leftist politics, but he's working within the system.

To me, it's pretty obvious that his opening gambits exist to disarm the most vengeful narcissists who could interfere with his agenda. Hochul, Trump, Jeffries.

If he shuts them up, he has a lot more room to do what he needs to do. If he doesn't shut them up or is openly hostile, they're going to kneecap him at every turn.

[Ronak Shah 🟢 @datapopulist]

Absolutely insane that she has this stance after being extremely clear eyed about Zohran Mamdani. There is a path to re-election for her, but being this lukewarm centrist won't energize voters.

[Emma G. Fitzsimmons @emmagf]

Gov. Kathy Hochul, under a palm tree in Puerto Rico, is greeted with chants of “tax the rich” when she enters.
“I hear you,” she says, adding that she’s the type of person who: “The more you push me, the less I’m going to do what you want.”

[Eric Migicovsky @ericmigi]

More perspective on why I started following the mayor of NYC? He just won a majority with an incredibly charismatic campaign. Easy follow.

But as a Canadian (who is currently enjoying taxation without representation in Cali) I'll say that
a) I love buses and transit in general
b) childcare is incredibly expensive, anyone talking about solutions to this is worth listening to. Canada has started doing $10/day childcare but it's not widespread yet
c) on average I support full single payer healthcare, but I understand that's basically an impossibility at this point in US so I love hearing people put forward other ideas

[Michael Blake @MrMikeBlake]

@camkasky Done!

https://t.co/sL2MUg6Uvm

[Evan Roth Smith @TheRealERS]

Enough is enough. I was with Zohran on September 11th 2001. We were 9 years old at school in Morningside Heights.

By 9:30AM we realized something was really wrong, because the teachers looked scared and they had paused classes. They had us call our parents to come pick us up.

I remember looking at Zohran on his dinky Nokia phone with his dad, as I was on with mine. We both had the same look on our faces because we were realizing our dads were also scared. We were wide-eyed, frightened kids who didn't know the world was changing around us in that moment. We could hear fighter jets flying low over the Hudson.

I went home and got under the covers in my parents' bed. I bet Zohran did the same. The jets kept flying overhead as I watched the towers burn on TV, then collapse. The memory of that day is indelible, as it is for every New Yorker.

You can say whatever you want about Zohran and his politics. I have, both good and bad. But the sickening weaponization of September 11th against Zohran, who was just another scared kid on that day, isn't just beyond the pale. It's a betrayal of every child and adult who spent that day dizzy with fear and confusion.

No apology or retraction is sufficient.

[Zohran Kwame Mamdani @ZohranKMamdani]

The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as any other New Yorker.

And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows.

No more.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

This Labor Day, thank unions for:

✔️weekends
✔️8-hour workdays
✔️a minimum wage
✔️paid overtime
✔️breaks during work
✔️the right to strike
✔️child labor laws
✔️workplace safety standards

Now, let us grow the trade union movement and win more for workers.

[Brandon Stanton @humansofny]

“When I entered Gaza the Israeli military had a rule: I was only allowed to bring in three kilos of food. As I was weighing out protein bars, trying to get under the limit, I said to my husband: ‘How sinister is this?’ I’m a humanitarian aid worker. Why would there even be a limit on food? I’ve worked in many places with extreme hunger, but what’s so jarring in this context is how cruel it is, how deliberate. I was in Gaza for two months; there’s no way to describe the horror of what’s happening. And I say this as a pediatric ICU doctor who sees children die as part of my work. Among our own staff we have doctors and nurses who are trying to treat patients while hungry, exhausted. They’re living in tents. Some of them have lost fifteen, twenty members of their families. In the hospital there are kids maimed by airstrikes: missing arms, missing legs, third degree burns. Often there’s not enough pain medication. But the children are not screaming about the pain, they’re screaming: ‘I’m hungry! I’m hungry!” I hate to only focus on the kids, because nobody should be starving. But the kids, it just haunts you in a different way. When my two months were finished, I didn’t want to leave. It’s a feeling I haven’t experienced in nearly twenty years of humanitarian assignments. But I felt ashamed. Ashamed to leave my Palestinian colleagues, who were some of the most beautiful and compassionate people that I’ve ever met. I was ashamed as an American, as a human being, that we’ve been unable to stop something that is so clearly a genocide. I remember when our bus pulled out of the buffer zone. Out the window on one side I could see Rafah, which was nothing but rubble. On the other side was lush, green Israel. When we exited the gate, the first thing I saw was a group of Israeli soldiers, sitting at a table, eating lunch. I’ve never felt so nauseous seeing a table full of food.”

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Aqsa Durrani is a pediatric doctor and board member of Doctors Without Borders USA, with nearly twenty years of experience in humanitarian projects. During our interview Aqsa repeatedly expressed a desire to center the voices of her Palestinian colleagues. To this end I’ve spent the past week collecting stories from the Palestinian staff of Doctors Without Borders in Gaza. I will be sharing these stories over the next several days. I’m so grateful for the time that these people gave me; they were sleepless, hungry, traumatized, and often working 24-hour shifts. Because of the unreliable internet connection their images are sometimes grainy. Their words, however, will be crystal clear.

[Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein]

New York Democratic officials who've declined to endorse Zohran Mamdani (updated):
- Gov. Kathy Hochul
- Sen. Chuck Schumer
- Rep. Hakeem Jeffries
- Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand
- Rep. Gregory Meeks
- Rep. Ritchie Torres
- Rep. Laura Gillen
- Rep. Tom Suozzi
- Rep. Dan Goldman
- Rep. George Latimer
- Rep. Adriano Espaillat
- Rep. Grace Meng

[POLITICO @politico]

Gillibrand apologizes to Mamdani over ‘jihad’ comments https://t.co/Y3A9i36Ghb

[Ashley Reese @offbeatorbit]

Gillibrand has proven herself to be a virulent racist and unapologetic Islamophobe. She’s not supporting Mamdani, the Dem mayoral nominee of the largest city of the state she represents. Why should we trust her as chair of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee next year?

[barbarism critic @barbarismcrit]

This is the most racist, absurd, unhinged thing a democrat senator not named Fetterman has said in a long time. Absolutely revolting. In a just world she would be forced to resign.

[Francesca Hong For Governor @FrancescaHongWI]

"vote blue no matter who"

[Ronak Shah 🟢 @datapopulist]

@Appyg99 My wife was reading this on our first date. Then I read it. You're right.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

WHO KEEPS SHOOTING THEM??

[Ronak Shah 🟢 @datapopulist]

Absolutely insane to openly admit that you think he's corrupt "he's Indian."

[Bayan @BayanPalestine]

Children were burned to death tonight in Gaza.
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