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Congratulations @_GetKonnected on it's 15th anniversary and thank you @ColettePhillips & her team for including me in this celebration. I am honored and humbled to be selected to be part of this awesome group. #GetKonnected #bospoli events.r20.constantcontact.c…
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I'm not running for office. But if I were, these are some of the lessons I'd take away from what happened in NY yesterday.
1. Authenticity is measurable. Voters can smell a focus group from a mile away.
2. Endorsements from the current Democratic leadership now read like warnings. The establishment wing of the party is no longer a sword. It's a question mark.
3. Conviction beats caution. The candidates who said hard things about rent, about who pays for what, about Gaza, they won. The triangulators lost.
4. Cost of living is everything. Everything else is wallpaper.
5. The middle is not a strategy. It's an empty room. Voters reached past the establishment to grab someone who actually believes something.
6. Don't fear the base. Court it. The Democrats who ran from their own voters lost. The ones who ran toward them won.
7. If you want to lead a party you have to be willing to fight inside it. Mamdani didn't ask permission. He took the field.
The lesson under the lessons: the country is tired of being managed. People want to be led.
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Congratulations @DarializaforNY on your stunning upset and for standing clearly against the staggering income inequality and genocide in Gaza.
Not a good night for AIPAC or dark money groups.
Decision Desk HQ projects Darializa Chevalier wins the NY US House 13 Democratic Primary
#DecisionMade: 9:49 PM EDT
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🚨 News: I checked in with @UnidosUSAF on the ground they tell me “most of the Latino precincts we are monitoring in Philadelphia have ALREADY surpassed their total E Day turnout from 2020.”
They report extremely high Latino support for Harris. Will monitor.
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Gov. @maura_healey expresses support for Puerto Ricans in Mass., condemns “hateful, divisive and disgusting language that Donald Trump and JD Vance foster” after MSG rally.
Her veterans sec, @IamJonSantiago, was born in PR. He welcomed his 2nd son yesterday, she says #mapoli
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This is Ryan Routh, the man who allegedly tried to assassinate Trump today.
He voted for Trump in 2016.
He apparently supported a Haley/Vivek ticket in 2024.
So, when MAGA world says "they keep trying to assassinate Trump," what they apparently mean is "Republicans keep trying to assassinate Trump."
Congrats and best of luck to my good friend Dr. Orellana @CynthiaKO82 #mentorship #WomenEmpowerment #LeadershipMatters #WomenLeaders massmentors.org/blog/mass-me…
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Javier Marin, the founder of El Planeta, says there are a lot of important lessons to be learned about racial stereotypes in the new movie “American Fiction.” commonwealthbeacon.org/arts-…
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NEW: I spoke with Columbia students who were chemically attacked on campus.
They've gone to the hospital. Their eyes burn, heads ache, chests hurt. They say administrators haven't reached out to them.
Students allege the perpetrators are tied to the IDF. theintercept.com/2024/01/22/…
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WATCH LIVE: South Africa opens the oral argument on its request for the indication of provisional measures in the case #SouthAfrica v. #Israel before the #ICJ: webtv.un.org/en
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I met with a coalition of faith leaders across my district to discuss our collective calls for a ceasefire in Gaza.
With over 22K Palestinians killed & thousands more slowly dying from hunger & disease, we need a permanent #CeasefireNow to save lives.
Claudine Gay: What Just Happened at Harvard Is Bigger Than Me nytimes.com/2024/01/03/opini…
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When white people are hired in any position, the automatic assumption is they were the best person. When Black people are hired, it’s assumed we got there because of affirmative action — which by the way doesn’t mean under-qualified. If affirmative action never existed, a lot of white people would still believe deeply in their own superiority because that is what they’ve been taught.
Considering there have been 30 presidents at Harvard and Claudine Gay was the only Black one in history, she had to be extremely qualified to even be in that position.
But don’t let me interfere with your racism. Go off.
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Our dear Gotham fan, Myra, whose last wish was to attend a Gotham FC game last season, has passed away after battling cancer. We're so grateful to have fulfilled her wish by welcoming her to Red Bull Arena. Myra is forever part of #GothamFC. 🖤
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Biden Political Appointee from the U.S. Department of Education, Tariq Habash is the latest to resign in protest over what he described as the administration’s “blind eye to the atrocities committed against innocent Palestinian lives…” His full resignation note:
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This is infuriating. This was never about plagiarism or anti-semitism. It was about anti-Blackness and humbling Black leaders who don’t show up in ways others feel necessary. This is not surprising. thehill.com/homenews/educati…
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Thank you to @CllrKendraLara for leading the effort on this and the 7 other councilors who voted for it yesterday! #bospoli
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Huge loss. Great person. Many of us learned so much from him. Prayers and condolences to his family. #mapoli #bospoli #TogetherWeCan
Today we lost the incredible John Walsh. His memory lives forever in the legions of us he inspired, taught and cared about.
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