Yan Blaz

Just another _______ from Jerz. J E T S season ticket holder since 1985. K4 Krew. Healthcare’s my jam. Bedroom DJ. Not a Beastie Boy. Charles Oakley is my hero.

[Kosher @koshercockney]

Israeli former hostage Omer Shemtov gets a phone call from Norwegian Man City footballer Erling Haaland.

Beautiful from Haaland.

Respect for him has gone way up in my books.

[Reverend Jordan Wells @WellsJorda89710]

🚨Jews stood with us during the Civil Rights Movement — now we stand with them.🇮🇱

They helped found the NAACP, fought Brown v. Board with Thurgood Marshall, marched with MLK in Selma, and risked their lives in Freedom Summer (two of the three murdered workers were Jewish).

Real solidarity goes both ways.
When Jewish rights are threatened, we must stand together.
#JewishAndBlackSolidarity #StandTogether #CivilRightsForAll #NeverAgainIsNow #AlliesInTheFight

[Lisa Cusack @lisa_4_la]

“Let’s make sure we show up wherever we have to show up. And if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them. And you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.” Maxine Waters

“Please get up in the face of some congresspeople.” Corey Booker

“You cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for, what you care about.” Hilary Clinton

“No justice, no peace” BLM

The Youth of Mao’s Little Red guard tortured and killed the very teachers and party officials who trained them to be good communists. The French Revolutionaries eventually executed Robespierre.
The lesson of History is that Dr. Frankenstein almost always loses control of his monster

[Flopping Aces @FloppingAces]

The Democratic establishment deserves a slow clap here.

Really. Bravo.

They spent years building the perfect little political terrarium: NGOs, activist salaries, university grievance factories, donor cash, media protection, blue-city patronage, “equity” rackets, and taxpayer-funded do-gooder laundromats all humming along under the sacred banner of “Our Democracy.”

Then they looked at the radicals crawling around inside and said, “Surely these people will remain manageable.”

Absolutely brilliant, guys.

Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries now look like substitute teachers trying to take attendance during a prison riot. The donors are sweating through their custom suits. The consultants are pretending this is just a “messaging challenge.” The media is polishing the same old turd and calling it “youth energy.”

No, champ. This is not youth energy.

This is the bill.

You told them America was evil.
You told them capitalism was theft.
You told them police were the enemy.
You told them borders were immoral.
You told them every institution had to be “decolonized,” “reimagined,” or burned down and rebuilt by people with sociology degrees and untreated rage.

Now they believe you.

And worse, they want promotions.

That is the humiliation. The party bosses thought they were renting radicals by the hour. Turns out the radicals thought they were being trained to run the place.

Democrats built the hive, fed the hive, defended the hive, and called anyone who noticed a conspiracy theorist.

Now the hive has the keys.

Enjoy the buzzing.
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[Jesse Arm @Jesse_Leg]

I like cops, landlords, billionaires, data centers, Palantir, Amazon, Israel, and cilantro.

[Yan Blaz @Zhuru]

@NYCMayor Enough

[Not a Good Jewish Girl✡️ @estherzelda0514]

NY-15 is the West and South Bronx, mostly Latino and Black, with a minority of Whites and Asians. It is the poorest Congressional district in the US, with a median household income under 45K, and one of the youngest, with a median age of about 31. Nearly everyone there is a renter, over a third were born outside of the US, and most are employed as essential workers.

On paper, working-class, young, and majority-minority should be the prime terrain for the DSA, right? Well, that's wrong. Socialist candidates in NYC do best in young, college-educated, and economically mobile gentrifying areas like Queens, Brooklyn, or Western Astoria, not the Bronx, where the median voter is focused on their own economic survival, not the minutia of foreign policy.

Voters in the Bronx do not have aspirational and rigid ideologies. They are pragmatic, because they have to be. They prioritize voting for candidates who bring services and tangible benefits to their constituents. Earning social media points for progressive goals feels good in Queens, but in the Bronx, young families want Child Tax Credits and funding to fix dilapidated local infrastructure.

Rep. Torres himself is also not an ideologue or carpet bagger with coastal elite funding. He was raised by a single mother in the Bronx, and built his political reputation in the NYC Council hyper-focused on fixing up public housing. He has a history of delivering results directly to his own district, and that is why progressives do not appeal to his constituents.

The DSA has also not caught on that working class Hispanics and Blacks are much more socially moderate than progressive activists. Abolish the Police would poll terribly in the Bronx, where voters are much more besieged by public disorder than highly educated white people in gentrifying areas of Brooklyn.

But most importantly, and what the chattering class who are mostly progressive refuse to admit, Rep. Torres has smartly created a model of how to leverage a public anti-far left reputation into massive electoral success.

In aggressively breaking with progressives on issues like Israel, he deliberately draws fire from the far left. This positions him to gather nationwide attention he would not otherwise gain, so that he can amass a huge campaign war chest long before his primary. FEC filings show Torres raked in >6.5 million during the election, while Blake struggled to raise just a tad over 400K. This allowed Torres to flood his district with ads and completely lock down important institutional support from local unions and other Bronx political leaders, so Blake had no chance at at all. By the end of the primary, Torres still had over $14 million on hand, while Blake had less than 100K.

What political commentators miss is that Torres has created a political juggernaut of liberal success that should be replicable in any district, even heavily blue ones, that are not likely to break ultra-progressive, because he knows what working class liberals actually care about. Hint: it's not aggressive rhetoric on Israel or policing.

[Alicia @alicianieves__]

I'm going to offer an different take on the rapid DSA takeover of urban politics: in this new era of politics where small factions of college-educated young white transplants can take over Democratic primaries and nonpartisan elections, Republicans should go on the offense and invest in conservative black and Hispanic local candidates. If you know urban politics, you understand that there is an undercurrent of conservative thinking among this demographic. You don't have to spend a lot of money to test this hypothesis either.

[Jesse Arm @Jesse_Leg]

Yeah. I’m sure the self-made multimillionaire who lives in Scarsdale with his Jewish wife and talks about how much he loves Texas tax rates is a big fan of the Islamist-sympathizing socialist mayor born with a silver spoon in his mouth.

[usurp tha chef @usurpthachef]

The DSA: We’re rich, we’re white, and we know what’s best for you!

[Hoop Central @TheHoopCentral]

"There are a lot of people who have a lot of opinions, but when you prove them wrong, you don't have to say shit to them. Nah. They don't deserve it. Thank you.”

— Jalen Brunson. 🗣️🗣️🗣️

(via @NBA_NewYork)

[Jalen Brunson @jalenbrunson1]

New York !!! Where we at???

[Suzy Shofar @suzylebo]

Remember the recent San Francisco Giants Pride Night when Landen Roupp, JT Brubaker, and Ryan Walker wrote Genesis 9:12-16 on their team-issued rainbow Pride caps, and they were castigated and barred from doing this in the future?
Same thing.
This is “repressive tolerance” (Herbert Marcuse). This is critical constructivism.

[Yan Blaz @Zhuru]

@cperruna Namath bro

[Adrian Wojnarowski @wojespn]

The Toronto Raptors are finalizing a trade to send OG Anunoby to the New York Knicks for a package including RJ Barrett, Immanuel Quickley and draft considerations, sources tell ESPN.

[Yan Blaz @Zhuru]

@flaquaticfan @wojespn Certifiably awful take

[Yan Blaz @Zhuru]

@RashidaTlaib You are congress’ wembanyama

[Lee Kuan Yimby @LeeKuanYimby]

Reminder: Zohran and his family keep an extra luxury home in Uganda in a neighborhood surrounded by armed security because everyone else is so poor.