Executive Director @middlesexdems Fmr Campaign manager Joshi for Mayor, Karabinchak and Stanley for Assembly @pallonefornj Rutgers Alum. Co-chair @samPACnj
Lol yall like mcnutty too much for me.. 😂 he was movin crazy and got qimma shot...had his sons following a known drug dealer in the grocery store . Idk man
I think Democrats need to stop taking the loudest most unstable characters online and using them to develop how they understand certain factions of the Democratic Party. Zohran is correct here.
Mamdani: There is a term so often used to describe our nation and those who have shaped it: American exceptionalism.
American exceptionalism, the conventional wisdom tells us, makes our freedom a little more free, is how we dug the Erie Canal and irrigated the West, is why children in far away lands grow up dreaming of one day moving here.
And yet the irony is that the story of America has so often been written by those who were told by others with power and influence and wealth that they were anything but exceptional.
For generation after generation, we have been told that when the world has sent its people to our shores, it has not sent its best. It sent Puritans and Sikhs and Quakers and Muslims and Jewish people who were banished for praying the wrong way, worshipping the wrong Gods, angering the wrong people. It sent peasants and serfs from who were treated as less because they hardly owned clothes, let alone land. It sent immigrants for whom power was something someone else had.
We are told that America is exceptional because we are richer, stronger, 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, my friends, 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.
When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.
The mayor of my town’s phone number is listed on the website. Whenever I have an issue I stopped trying to talk to the people in the office because they never answer the phone, when you go in person, the lines are out the door and if you wait nobody cares. When I call the mayor, things are fixed that day. Now that i think about it, I stopped having issues with the city since I started to do this. I highly recommend this tactic.
An objectively wild career move and one I couldn’t be happier with or prouder of. The world needs more local reporters more than it needs more national ones and even if I go back to national reporting one day, I’ll be a much better reporter for this experience.