Zohran Mamdani spoke at a Rikers Island graduation ceremony honoring 57 incarcerated people who earned their high school diplomas.
One graduate, Elijah Smith, said he didn’t expect the mayor to show up, but his presence meant something: “It helped. Someone cares about the incarcerated individuals in this jail.”
Sometimes dignity starts with simply showing up.
Quick question, why are detainees working in the first place? Using captive labor to cut costs to maximize corporate profits should be illegal to begin with. Surprised they haven’t started tattooing barcodes on their forearms yet.
Apple is a $4.35 trillion corporation. It made $112 billion in profits last year & paid its CEO, who's already worth $2.9 billion, $74 million in compensation. In the past 3 years, it's spending $310 billion on stock buybacks.
Don't cite inflation. Cite the damn corporate greed.
This is extremely shameful when the whole world is silent and toothless on this.
🇦🇺 filmmaker Juliet said: I was raped by an Israeli soldier inside a darkened shipping container while handcuffed and shackled on a Gaza aid flotilla.
They also used water torture and beatings.
Anyone who says they are going to Congress to fight for the citizens of another country should be immediately disqualified from ever holding public office in America.
This is just batshit insane.
Mark Zuckerberg built a MASSIVE data center in Georgia
Just hundreds of yards from people’s homes.
Water pressure collapsed. Sinks don’t run. Toilets won’t refill. Homes shake nonstop. Power outages are common
A billionaire gets his servers — working families get steamrolled.
Teenagers have started calling AI art "boomer art" and consider it cringe, and YouTubers have stopped using AI-generated thumbnails because teenagers find them cringe and won't click on them. I honestly couldn't be happier.
to whomever made this: thank you from the wells of history and farthest echoes of indigenous screams for justice for this labor of love and justice.
their terror will not be whitewashed.
TWO people have been arrested in Texas, for posting on social media about their contaminated water. One of these people, held OVERNIGHT.
The water is BROWN and the city has made no effort to replace the infrastructure. Instead, they’re arresting their residents for discussing it
Boomers five years ago: “I DO NOT CONSENT TO MY IMAGE OR POSTS BEING USED BY MARK ZUCKERBERG FOR META, FACEBOOK, INSTAGRAM, OR WHATSAPP TO SELL MY DATA. Like and share if you agree!”
Boomers today, for some reason: “hey I just uploaded all your baby pictures to ChatGPT and you and all your cousins look like penguins isn’t this cute I’m uploading all the grandkids next”