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The Grand Cuomo Humiliation Tour continues, as Cuomo makes one of his first ever visits to any Muslim space in his entire political career. Upon arrival (via car, of course) Cuomo was greeted with shouts of “You are a liar.” “You defend a war criminal.” “Shame on you.” “You are a criminal.” “Vote for Zohran.” and “Free Palestine.”

Rich Azzopardi, the spokesman for the Cuomo campaign, claimed that this is clearly a setup by the Mamdani campaign because Cuomo is threatening his territory. Azzopardi stated,

”They violated a sacred space... Where'd they get the merch?”

The Zohran campaign has been asked for a response to these allegations and has since responded:

• No, the Zohran campaign was not involved in the mosque at all

• Cuomo must confront his shortcomings in engaging with the Islamic community

• Cuomo must confront the rhetoric he spread about Mamdani as a Muslim

•Cuomo must confront the reality of his support of Netanyahu

•Zohran said Cuomo should visit more Mosques

•The Zohran campaign does not sell merch, so the idea that the gathering was astroturfed is not based in reality

As usual, it’s Cuomo projecting. No wonder he would come to the conclusion that Zohran is astroturfing his campaign events: Cuomo did exactly that in his 2018 campaign, when he sent a bunch of people in Cuomo merch to harass his opponent during her campaigning in Buffalo.

Honestly very funny that it’s so shocking to Cuomo that people just organically love Zohran. That’s what happens when you are not a serial sexual harasser and horribly evil politician.

Will it be 26's female cub or hall of famer 128 grazer (2023 and 2024 fat bear winner)'s cub

YOU DECIDE

CW: little bears hugging each other

Edit: VOTE HAS ENDED, 128 Grazer, reigning champion whose young was killed by absolute chonker 32 Chunk last year, had her child win pretty strongly over the hugging bears. 26's cub (female) will face off against her tomorrow. She has a funny face that I enjoy

Semi-interesting article from jacobiña.

I do hope seppos discharge debt through crypto, it would be fucking hilarious

Zohran youth mandate remains 🔛🔝

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Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist who won the mayoral primary, said the department was racist and homophobic in a social media post.

its true tho

Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City, said on Thursday that he intended to apologize for comments he made in 2020 calling the New York Police Department “racist, anti-queer & a major threat to public safety.”

He said that the remarks, which he wrote in June 2020 in a social media post in support of the defund the police movement, were made after the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis a month earlier.

The comments were made “at the height of frustration,” he said in an interview with The New York Times, and were not reflective of his current campaign or “my view of public safety and the fact that police will be critical partners in delivering public safety.”

Mr. Mamdani’s post from 2020 has been recirculated by his political opponents, who have used his previous criticism of the police to portray him as weak on issues of public safety. Mr. Mamdani, a New York State assemblyman, is far ahead of his three rivals, who include Mayor Eric Adams, a former police captain who has consistently placed fourth in recent polling.

When he was asked if he should apologize to the city’s police officers, he paused noticeably before answering. He then went on to explain how his views had changed. After he was asked again if he owed officers an apology, he said, “Yes.”

Mr. Mamdani’s statements on Thursday came amid recent attempts to reach out to the police rank-and-file, an effort to address one of his biggest political vulnerabilities. His past criticism of the police has fed the skepticism and even hostility expressed by many police officers, who are wary of the changes he plans to make to the department.

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dude you have like a 20 points lead, stop capitulating

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This backpedal comes right after meeting with AOC and Bernie Sanders. The two have rubbed their shitlib off on him. Previously he seemed to not be totally for or against (could have generously been seen as "hiding his power level") but now clearly against the phrase.

I still hope Zohran wins though. Him losing would be a big win for the pieces of shit in the media and in power looking to prove that even suggesting Israel might be doing something wrong is forbidden.

https://www.kshamasawant.org/

Both Democrats & Republicans serve warmongering billionaires.

I'm running for Congress against Democrat Adam Smith, who has fully backed the genocide in Gaza & has blood all over his hands.

Just as I used my City Council election campaigns to build momentum to win the first major-city $15 minimum wage (which is now the nation's highest at $20.76/hour), the Amazon Tax, and unprecedented renters' rights, I will use my Congressional election campaign to help build the antiwar, anti-genocide movement and to launch a historic fight for Medicare for All.

Just as I did in my decade as a representative of working people in Seattle, if I’m elected to Congress, I will accept only the average worker’s wage and donate the rest of my six-figure salary to workers’ and social justice movements.

https://www.kshamasawant.org/why-im-running/

Also she is running against a zionist

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A crowd gathered around mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani on Saturday as he lay on his back struggling to bench-press 135 pounds at the annual Men’s Day in Brooklyn. He couldn’t do it.

Mayor Eric Adams derided him as “Mamscrawny” — but Mamdani’s fans didn’t care.

Weightlifting isn’t a requirement to serve as mayor.

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The Zohran campaign also has canvassed nearly 100K homes in the past 6 days

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During its summer meeting next week in Minneapolis, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) will vote on two competing resolutions connected to Israel and Gaza. Resolution 18 calls for recognition of a Palestinian state, a ceasefire, an arms embargo, and a suspension of military aid to Israel. Resolution 3, which was introduced in response to Resolution 18, simply calls for a ceasefire…

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Fateh campaign says, ‘We’re going to win’

3:30 p.m. - Omar Fateh’s co-campaign manager, Graham Faulkner, said in a statement Thursday that “28 mostly out-state, establishment Democrats, including many Frey donors and supporters, met privately and voted to overturn the will of Minneapolis residents.”

“Our campaign sees this for what it is: disenfranchisement of thousands of Minneapolis caucus-goers and the delegates who represented all of us on convention day. The establishment is threatened by our message. They are scared of a politics that really stands up to corporate interests and with our working class neighbors,” he said.

Faulkner said the revoked endorsement will not slow Fateh’s campaign down: “We’re going to win.”

• Ryan Faircloth Appeal could be coming

3:18 p.m. - The Minneapolis DFL could appeal the decision to the state executive committee, according to a party official.

The Minneapolis DFL had no comment Thursday. Chair John Maraist said he hadn’t seen a copy of the report and would have nothing to say.

Minneapolis DFL has stood by process amid questions

3:09 p.m. - Former state DFL chair Mike Erlandson said he heard from several people that the state party would revoke Fateh’s endorsement.

Erlandson was among those filing challenges to the convention.

On Thursday, he said it was an “effort by a few to step on democracy.”

Erlandson said he doesn’t know if the committee’s decision will lead to an investigation of the Minneapolis DFL, which was among his requests, or if anyone associated with the Minneapolis DFL convention will face consequences.

Minneapolis DFL Chair John Maraist, who has defended the convention against the numerous challenges, had no comment Thursday.

The Minneapolis DFL leadership has stood by its endorsement of Fateh, writing in response that the delegates were in charge and acted in accordance with the rules they adopted.

There was an error with duplicate votes, but it was corrected, Maraist has said.

The party also acknowledged that a mayoral candidate, DeWayne Davis, was mistakenly bumped from contention after the first ballot due to a miscount of votes. The discrepancy wouldn’t have changed the overall outcome, they argued.

• Matt McKinney

July convention fell into disarray

2:51 p.m. - Fateh won the Minneapolis DFL’s support in the convention’s final minutes when a raise-your-hands style of vote was called after it appeared many of Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey’s supporters had left the convention floor.

Earlier in the evening, Fateh beat Frey 328 to 227 in the first round of balloting, coming short of the 60% threshold necessary to secure the endorsement.

The convention fell into disarray after the first ballot because an electronic voting system overseen by head teller Amy Livingston bogged down, according to witnesses and the Minneapolis DFL.

A secretary to the Minneapolis DFL’s executive committee emailed others after the convention to report that data generated by Livingston’s spreadsheet was “obviously faulty.”

Former DFL chair Mike Erlandson said the process “failed any sense of democracy” and filed a challenge over the convention’s results.

• Matt McKinney Fateh ally calls decision ‘a kind of betrayal’

2:43 p.m. - Losing the endorsement means Fateh will no longer be identified as the DFL-backed candidate in the race and he won’t have access to party lists of voters and other resources.

State Sen. Jennifer McEwen, DFL-Duluth, said she thinks the party’s decision to revoke the endorsement from Fateh will hurt the party more than it will hurt him. She endorsed Fateh’s campaign for mayor.

“It really is a kind of betrayal,” said McEwen. “I worry about people just leaving the party, or I worry about a fissure within the party.”

• Ryan Faircloth Minnesota DFL declined to comment

2:38 p.m. - The move is expected to deepen the schism between the party’s progressive left flank and its more moderate members, who have been battling over the direction of the Democratic Party.

In Minneapolis, more liberal members have been reshaping the City Council but have been unable to oust the more moderate Frey, who is seeking a third term in the mayor’s office.

The Minnesota DFL declined to comment on Thursday.

• Ryan Faircloth

I ask because in the US, the media has been obfuscating the Democrats unpopularity and loss in 2024 to things like manosphere influencers to being too “woke” to lack of enthusiasm among voters for ephemeral and unknowable reasons. These are all BS of course, but there’s enough lack of clarity on these issues to confuse people.

But the incredible levels of unpopularity that Labour and Starmer are experiencing seem much more stark. I mean, they just won an election and their popularity has nosedived. The only things the government seems to be doing is loudly proclaiming support for Israel, proscribing PA, destroying everyone’s privacy online, and imposing austerity. I don’t think anyone could possibly accuse Labour of being too far left since the election.

How is the media covering this? Is everyone just trying not to bring it up or ask why Labour has become so unpopular? Are they pinning it on Starmer being an unlikeable twat? I’m assuming the media won’t dare suggest Labour is doing very unpopular things, especially in relation to Gaza… but it feels like at least from my POV the elephant in the room is now just too big to ignore.

Appalachian Zohran.

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Not that this is a surprise to anyone, but it's very funny.