Raul Rivera yelling again outside Mamdani’s presser.
Mamdani: “I want that man to be able to afford to keep living in New York City, because the day that I don't hear him yelling at me, it means he got priced out of this place.”
This scene is such a perfect encapsulation of the heart of the movie: anyone can be responsible for small revolutionary acts. The only reason Bob makes it to Willa is that normal people in his community helped him along the way. We only get out of this one together.
congrats to PTA but this is clearly a make-up win for Boogie Nights and Magnolia and Punch-Drunk Love and There Will Be Blood and The Master and Inherent Vice and Phantom Thread and Licorice Pizza and probably also some of those Haim videos too why not
New York Mayor Mamdani meets Sinn Féin TD Louise O’Reilly at Irish American Labour Coalition St Patrick’s Day lunch and quotes James Connolly,
“The cause of Ireland is the cause of labour and the cause of labour is the cause of Ireland.”
For Mahmoud Khalil, this past year has been marked by profound hardship—and by profound courage.
A year ago, Mahmoud was walking home through our city after sharing an iftar with his wife Noor when he was detained by federal agents, flown to Louisiana, and then held in an ICE facility for months. In that time, he was forced to miss the birth of his first child. All of this for exercising his First Amendment rights in protesting the ongoing genocide in Palestine.
And yet, even in the face of that cruelty, there has also been beauty. New Yorkers raising their voices in solidarity. A city refusing to look away. Mahmoud won his freedom, and a father was finally reunited with his child.
Last night, as we marked the one year anniversary of his detention, Rama and I were honored to welcome Mahmoud, Noor, and their son Deen to Gracie Mansion to break our fast together.
Mahmoud is a New Yorker, and he belongs in New York City.
the war crimes committed here are unreal. bombing the civilian energy facilities and releasing all these carcinogens onto 10 million people. just untold health impacts on its populace for decade to come. fuck everyone who brought the iran war to reality.