After Eric “I would marry Israel” Adams, the firm stance that Zohran Mamdani took against Israel’s violence in Gaza was refreshing to some of his voters. But whatever the new mayor's personal views are on Israel, not much has changed when it comes to the institutional relationship between NYC and the Jewish state, particularly when it comes to the NYPD.
If the NYPD’s boots are laced by the IDF, as Mamdani once said, then he’s letting them wear shoes in his house. https://t.co/irlZWWgGYG
Keisha Golden is a darkskinned Black woman who killed her abuser during a domestic violence incident while she was 8 months pregnant.
She’s on trial and the state wants her to go to prison
SHE WAS 8 months pregnant.
Abolish prisons!!
https://t.co/XABUj9k6eo
🚨 BREAKING:
UK public broadcaster Channel 4 News aired a documentary exposing how Israeli settlers seize Palestinian land.
From the documentary: A Palestinian father is shot by Israeli land grabbers, while his son is arrested.
Stephen Miller said a Chicago apartment building raided by immigration agents was “filled with terrorists.”
So why is it that not a single person arrested that night was charged with a crime?
This is the real story behind the midnight raid: https://t.co/QMtw3OCEfi
Eman Mabrouk calls anti-Blackness in Arab society “the Jim Crow Arab edition,” challenging Arabs who speak about Gaza while remaining silent about the oppression of Black women. “The call is coming from inside the house,” she says. “The culture of denial and silence allows anti-Blackness to continue.”
The underrated actor Michael Wright has passed. His wife made an announcement on IG. He was know for his incredible roles in the films The Five Heartbeats (1991), ‘’ Streamers (1983) for which he won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor, and Sugar Hill
(1994), and for his television roles Elias Taylor in V:
The Series (1984-1985), [2) Omar White in Oz (2001-
2003), and Lazarus Prime in Black Lightning (2019). Prayers to his family and fans.
"These were not probes into antisemitism accusations, but they were efforts to dismantle higher education brick by brick," says Columbia professor Marianne Hirsch about the Justice Department's so-called inquiries into alleged antisemitism at U.S. colleges and universities.
NEW — Campus activism on Israel-Palestine is back.
Cornell "Students Not Bombs" announce new campaign.
Demands include:
—Divestment from weapons manufacturers
—Severing ties with Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
—Redirecting investment to prioritize student affordability
A federal appeals court ruled that an acting U.S. attorney in New York was serving illegally when he issued subpoenas to New York Attorney General Letitia James. https://t.co/Ys1QQBkwfR
Josh Kushner, not Jared, was actually the first billionaire Kushner.
Corporate media loves to describe him as a liberal, but he's actually a vulture venture capitalist who created a healthcare company with the highest denial rates of any ACA insurer.
He's also a slum lord, an AI weapons investor, and now the new owner of the Lakers.
Trump: “If I were a community, I would want the data center.”
This has been completely underreported but the reason Trump is pushing data centers is that he is profiting from them.
His financial records show he holds or has traded millions of dollars in shares of companies supplying infrastructure, software, and cooling systems for data centers—including Arista Networks, Equinix, Trane, and Amphenol.