This photo deserves a Pulitzer Prize.
Not only does it represent our current state of politics but it mirrors many photos of past which confirm the ugly truth about progress…
It must be fought for by every generation.
Mamdani: 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.
And yet today, too many of our leaders do not believe in a vision of this nation as an asylum for the persecuted-but rather as one that persecutes those seeking asylum.
As we mark 250 years, what do we see?
We see a city of contradictions within a nation of contradictions. 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 monopolies that dominate every industry and oligarchs who buy elections. We see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by our undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans. We see a nation whose immense wealth has been built by those with calloused, dirt-streaked hands —those who toil on factory floors and chisel into stone —and we see a nation that has allowed so much of that wealth to be held instead in the soft hands of a precious few.
people love saying "history will not judge us kindly" as if history books aren't just like "Genghis Khan epicly killed 40 million people. what an absolute legend"
Tamar Shirinian, who was a professor at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, claimed in a lawsuit that the school violated her constitutional rights after she criticized slain Charlie Kirk.
She and the university reached a $1.9 million settlement. https://t.co/7jAwPTMzNX
BLOCKBUSTER: The Boston Celtics have agreed to trade Jaylen Brown to the Philadelphia 76ers for Paul George, two first-round picks and two second-round picks, sources tell ESPN.
People hate the Lakers so much they gonna say every move we make is a bad one. Traded for Luka and gave up skittles and they said trading AD was bad. AD has not played a full season yet since that trade. Okay🤣Now every move Rob makes in free agency is bad. Okay🤣
Its not that hard not to listen to this nigga either. I have not played his music in years and nothing has changed. When his music comes on my brain immediately goes to “this man raped children” and I am repulsed.
Its so crazy to me how people don’t make the connection that his sexual music are about children. He is a pedophile. He is not attracted to grown women but children therefore you are listening to music inspired by his abuse of children. Eeeeeeyuck.
You claim to love your people. You would die for them, go to jail for them. I should be able to ask you to turn R.Kelly off w/o it causing so much friction 😭
Lmfao i remember my hg was throwing a party and r Kelly came on and one of the dudes there just kept repeating “this song is about an 11 year old girl” until she turned it off and it was so effective 😭
In January, our administration inherited a $12 billion budget deficit — a fiscal crisis greater than the Great Recession.
Today I am proud to announce that our balanced budget has cleared the final step and passed the New York City Council.
We balanced the budget by taxing the rich and making government more efficient. We did not balance this budget on the backs of working people, and we never will.
Every year that follows will build on these principles: Honest budgeting. Fiscal discipline. Transparent government. And an unwavering belief that working people deserve a government that delivers for them every day.