New York City Mayor Mamdani just gave one of the most amazing speeches you will ever hear:
"We are told that America is exceptional because we are richer, stronger, and more powerful than everyone else.
"The truth, my friends, is that America is exceptional because here, nothing is fixed into place. The frontier may be closed. We may have walked on the moon. But the work of fulfilling the values first enshrined in the Declaration of Independence — that work endures, and it belongs to us all.
"It belongs, too, to our newest Americans: those standing here with me today, all of whom were recently naturalized. Nearly a decade ago, I, too, felt what you feel: the joy of no longer being just a New Yorker, but an American, too.
"You each hold a special power: the power to determine what America means.
"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."
Jennifer Welch: “What happened in New York last night are the citizens standing up against corporations, against fascism, against MAGA, against corporate Democrats, against establishment Democrats, and this is hopefully going to sweep the entire country. Not wanting to fund a country that intentionally targets children is not radical in the least. It is radical, homicidal, and genocidal to kill kids and then to call the people who oppose that antisemitic assholes. This is the biggest bunch of gaslighting fuckery on the planet”
⚡️ NEW from @DropSiteNews: Despite Denials, AIPAC Now Funding Campaign of Ala Stanford In Philadelphia
The pro-Israel group has been secretly routing money to her campaign directly, and into a super PAC supporting her that backs candidates who are involved in science or medicine. The structure allows Stanford to distance herself from the group’s increasingly toxic political reputation, while still benefiting from its cash outlays.
The super PAC 314 Action Fund, as of April 21, had spent more than $2.6 million boosting Stanford, according to the latest filings. The group’s most recent monthly filing reveals a $500,000 donation from Kimbark Foundation, a group whose only other donation is $500,000 to EDW Action Fund, another PAC that has previously acted as an AIPAC shell organization.
In 2024, AIPAC used EDW Action to secretly funnel money to support Maxine Dexter, also a pediatrician, in her race against progressive Susheela Jayapal in Oregon.
314 Action has reported just $2.8 million in independent expenditures, meaning their support for Stanford ($2.6 million) represents the bulk of their independent spending so far.
🎥 Full report by @RyanGrim and @JulianAndreone is linked below. Video by @Popstonox shows Stanford arguing that calling Israel’s genocide in Gaza a genocide was tantamount to using the “N-word.”
Ala Stanford, AIPAC funded candidate for PA-03, freezes during candidate forum when pressed to say "genocide"
After answering with a story about COVID-19, she says, "I can say genocide if you'd like me to say it.
For those who have been a victim of a genocide, whose families are still suffering, it's hurtful for them.
For Israelis who have been accused of committing it, it's hurtful for them.
I have only given, all I have ever done is to give. It's selfless."
Drop Site News confirms 314 Action Fund, the PAC backing Stanford, has received $500,000 from the Kimbark Foundation, a shell company used by AIPAC to obscure funds