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“At some point you just have to let go of what you thought should happen and live in what is happening.”

— Unknown

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Conservative rape culture, writ large. Punish the victim, protect the offender.

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PAUL ANTHONY KELLY Los Angeles Times The Envelope Podcast - June 4, 2026

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Freedom FROM religion is mandatory.

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I wanted to make a gifset ... but nothing would do this scene justice.

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"That’s what makes Zohran Mamdani’s election in New York so unsettling to the old order. New York City is not just another municipality; it’s a sovereign-scale entity. Its population surpasses 38 states. Its metropolitan GDP trails only Texas and California.

It is, by any metric, a small country masquerading as a city.

It governs more lives and more wealth than most nations. If democratic socialism — housing reform, public banking, equitable taxation — functions here, it obliterates the myth that such governance can’t work at scale. The fear isn’t ideological. It’s empirical. Because if Mamdani can keep the lights on, reduce homelessness, and maintain economic growth without catering to Wall Street, then the capitalist gospel collapses under its own dead weight.

What terrifies the establishment isn’t failure. It’s feasibility.

If it works in New York, there’s no reason it can’t work in Nebraska. If it works in Queens, it can work in Kansas City. And once proof exists, belief becomes irrelevant. The ship of democracy, fully refitted, will keep sailing — and no one can claim it isn’t American."

- Jackie Summers

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Zohran Mamdani is using New York City to show the world how progressive policies work for everyone. #DemocraticSocialist

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