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- The throughline of Mamdani’s campaign was a willingness to meet people where they were, in physical and ideological ways. For a democratic socialist, that meant trading dogma for a slate of unavoidable policies tied to unavoidable things: free childcare, a rent freeze, fast and free buses, and city-owned grocery stores. His hopes and policy prescriptions were things that every voter deals with, or knew someone struggling with. The message was so unavoidable that Democrats everywhere else in the country kept going off-message to argue with it. Mother Jones
- The Internet Archive might sound like a thriving organization, but it only recently emerged from years of bruising copyright battles that threatened to bankrupt the beloved library project. In the end, the fight led to more than 500,000 books being removed from the Archive’s “Open Library.” Ars Technica
- Californians overwhelmingly backed Proposition 50, the crucial redistricting measure that Democrats have said is essential to safeguarding democracy and pushing back against the Trump administration. The Guardian
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani: ‘Tonight we have spoken in a clear voice: Hope is alive. Hope over tyranny. Hope over big money and small ideas. Hope over despair.’
The prisoners' rights association Antigone has collected thousands of appeals in a new dossier supporting a campaign for “a comprehensive reform of the prison system,” launched with a petition to Parliament and the government.
In Havana, leaders have no doubt that U.S. intervention in Venezuela and Colombia would open up the scenario of a direct attack on Cuba. Setting the stage for this dangerous scenario, a relentless social media war against Cuba has been underway for months.
Tel Aviv is trying to reap as much benefit as possible from its current occupation, to the point of dumping dozens of trucks loaded with waste and construction materials from Israel into the area.
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Bashir Bashir and Amos Goldberg call for ‘political and substantive equality’
Micol Meghnagi, Simon Levis Sullam‘The egalitarian binationalism we propose starts from the fact that the entire area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea today constitutes a single political space shared by two communities.’
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