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[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

When we came into office, we uncovered a $12 billion budget deficit.

Today, I’m proud to say we brought it down to zero.

We didn’t close the gap on the backs of working people.

We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets and making historic investments in public housing.

Call it Pothole Politics. Call it Democratic Socialism. It's government that delivers for the people who make this city run.

That’s what New Yorkers deserve. And that’s what we will keep fighting for every single day.

[Tony Windsor @TonyHWindsor]

NSW Governor Marie Bashir was special guest at a Walcha Timber celebration.The community had organised an open horse drawn dray for her. It was pouring rain but she insisted on using the dray.Afterwards, drenched she purchased a new outfit at the local store .
Go well Great Lady.

[Colm Nugent @Wigapedia]

@ByDonkeys @realDonaldTrump You'll be laughing on the other side of your face when 'Melania' wins Best Picture, Best Director, Best Sound and Lifetime Achievement awards at the new FIFA Oscars.

[stranger @strangerous10]

On ABC RN this morning, Malinauskas says he has “no regrets” and was “happy” to use his position to pressure Writers’ Week to drop Randa Abdel-Fattah — and that he’d do it again.😳
Hard to find a clearer example of a leader so openly “happy” to influence independent institutions

[Governor Gavin Newsom @CAgovernor]

🚨BREAKING NEWS FROM 1955: Get the polio vaccine.

[Ronni🧂Salt-WhoWroteGunnawahYeahThatOne @RonniSalt]

And the key point here is that it's not a "reasonable person" in the court's usual interpretation. It will be a reasonable person test from within the specific group that claims to be targeted

Does a reasonable person think the wearing of a keffiyah is threatening? Of course not

Does a reasonable person from inside the pro-Israel lobby think it's threatening? Why, yes, they do

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

James Talarico: “Instead of posting the Ten Commandments in every classroom, why don’t they post money is the root of all evil in every boardroom? Why don’t they post do not judge in every courtroom? Why don’t they post turn the other cheek in the halls of the Pentagon? Or it’s easier for a rich man to pass through the eye of a needle than to get into the kingdom of heaven on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange?”

[💕 Brittany Belle 💕 @BrittanyinTexas]

Trophies will be accepted tomorrow at the White House from 9–5.

[Antifa_Ultras @ultras_antifaa]

One of the most important figures in women’s football, Hedvig Lindahl, recently announced that she refused an invitation from FIFA to join the FIFA Legends team for a promotional match ahead of the upcoming Women’s World Cup.

She said she did not want her image and public profile to be used to legitimize FIFA’s so called Peace Prize.

“I need FIFA to clearly condemn actions that kill footballers. For example, the financing of a genocide and the genocide itself. Hundreds of children, women and men who love football have been killed,” she said.

Hedvig Lindahl is one of the football figures who has taken a clear and public stand against the genocide in Gaza.

[Irlandarra @aldamu_jo]

Jewish-American actress Hannah Einbinder says Judaism should not be used as a weapon to justify the killing of Palestinians in Gaza

[Kangaroo Court of Australia - Shane Dowling @Kangaroo_Court]

Dear Prime Minister Anthony Albanese @AlboMP, you have not responded to the question below. Please respond ASAP. #auspol

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

He’s living his best life.

[Village Gossip @maldux]

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[stranger @strangerous10]

Bridget McKenzie tells Sky News she understands the concerns of the Jewish community because she is a “Zionist”.

Is that a personal identity now, or just a political brand anyone can adopt? 🤔

[Deepcut News @deepcutnews]

Next on the Zionist hit list - ABC journalists @TheLyonsDen and @latingle.

We obtained a new email campaign shared in a pro-Israel WhatsApp group complaining about their withdrawal from Adelaide Festival.

You can read the email in the story. https://t.co/luUd5VldZ4

[roweafr @roweafr]

spineless..@FinancialReview

[Nick Feik @NickFeik]

“Malinauskus was regularly agitating for Abdel-Fattah’s cancellation... Eventually, the board relented. They had seen what had happened at Bendigo, and they did it anyway."

New: On the background to the Adelaide Writers' Week debacle

https://t.co/zL9z8F0wg4

[Barbara Pocock @BarbaraPocock]

Thankyou to every writer - so many - who stood against censorship, racism and political interference in WritersWeek2026. Your resistance matters. Standing together matters. Clear eyes matter - especially when SA’s political leaders fail us.

[Mike Carlton @MikeCarlton01]

So all Australia’s writers, authors, poets, editors and publishers are wicked, deluded and dangerous leftist anti-semites. Except the small, gilded elite who work for that nice Mr Murdoch…

[Francine @francinepinnuck]

@MichaelWestBiz @kwingerei The fact that a Jewish woman was the director of writers’ week and included a woman of Palestinian heritage should be an example of social cohesion and tolerance. But no, like Zionist Israel in Gaza total destruction is required! And they ‘bombed’ the best writers’ festival in OZ

[Sarah Ferguson @FergusonNews]

Returning to Sydney today - on Adelaide: withdrawing from festival role as interlocutor.

AWW and Louse Adler created a place where debate flourished - with respectful conversation including on our most difficult subjects - that should be defended in our cultural life.