The Insurrection

Tarrytown New York’s Effie Phillips-Staley is running to represent New York’s 17th District in Congress this November, a seat currently held by GOP Rep. Mike Lawler. She spoke to streamer Hasan Piker about two trips she took in the past year: one to her mother’s home country of El Salvador, and another to Hebron in the occupied West Bank. There, she recalls a Palestinian farmer whose fields had been burned by toxic substances dropped by Israeli drones, telling her that “the only thing that can stop this is pressure from the United States.” “It felt so terrible to look at him and think of how much time it’s going to take to turn the gear so that the United States can do the moral thing and actually apply that pressure, she said. “And is he going to be alive?” Phillips-Staley is the daughter of a Salvadoran immigrant mother and a U.S. veteran father. Democrats see the Hudson Valley seat as a top pickup opportunity this November. Nonpartisan analysts have shifted the race to a “toss-up” @effie4congress | @hasanthehun

Honored to meet @BernieSanders in the Bronx today. #taxtherich

Great turnout at the rally today to save the Tony Dapolito Rec Center! Thank you @SommerOmar1 @villagedems @DIDNYC @GrandStreetDems @CB2_Manhattan + all other cosponsors, supporters and participants. Go to villagepreservation.quorum.us/campaign/14863… to tell @NYCMayor + city officials repair now!

Lots of people have protests on their mind today. Join us as we take a look back at the long arc of protest history in our neighborhoods as told through our historic image archive: villagepreservation.org/2026/01/12/in-…

Rally info: villagepreservation.org/campaign-updat…

The Tony Dapolito Center is at risk of demolition. This is history, community, and a Keith Haring mural. Not disposable. Sunday 1PM, 7th Ave South & Clarkson St. villagepreservation.org/tonydapolito #SaveDapolito #WestVillage #NYCHistory #KeithHaring #Preservation

Just released: our latest historic image archive collection of the Village Halloween Parade in the 1980s. It’s an incredible time capsule of this beloved event 40 years ago when it first moved to Sixth Ave.! Relive the memories or learn how it went down: villagepreservation.org/campaign-updat…

@ChazNuttycombe Attributing party to voters in states without party registration, based on primary participation, is problematic because lower-turnout voters tend not to vote in primaries at all.

I like L2 and their data, but I don't think this is right.

Nancy Mace gives Dems the votes to pass the War Powers resolution. Meeks said go talk to Republicans. Prem talked to Mace, I talked to Davidson. The votes are there. If Dems don’t put it on the floor now it’s because they don’t want it to pass now.

Look at AIPAC. They’re so mad! 😠 😠 Piss them off even more: abdulforsenate.com/contribute

A pastor, an imam and a rabbi wrote an op-ed opposing the City Council’s “security perimeter” bill cityandstateny.com/opinion/2026/0…

Progress on our campaign to repair + restore the landmarked 1855 P.A.L. building at 34 1/2 E. 12th Street, which was the city’s first school for girls. @CB2_Manhattan and @HarveyforNY are joining us in calling on the city to take action. You can help!: villagepreservation.org/campaign-updat…

The City Council just voted to effectively ban protests near schools and houses of worship. As Trump and ICE escalate their attacks on New Yorkers, we need to resist more, not less. I oppose the buffer zone bills, and will defend our right to protest against fascism.

What's really sad is because they're so hard to track population wise, scientists didn't even know they were going extinct until recently and now they're almost all gone.

#OTD in 1911, award-winning and groundbreaking playwright Tennessee Williams is born. A native of the American South, with which he is most closely associated, #GreenwichVillage nevertheless played a hugely important role in his life. We explore how: villagepreservation.org/2018/03/26/ten…

This piece is paywalled, and I would never ever give the Atlantic a dime, but the essay begins its claim that Canadian Jews are being "purged from public life" with the story of a Jewish professor of medicine who quit teaching because he was offended by students' and colleagues statements about Israel. That's not being "purged from public life." That's deciding you can't tolerate criticism of a foreign country to which you have an irrational attachment. By the way, as a half Palestinian, I can assure you I've had to hear MUCH worse about Palestinians and Muslims at workplaces and at school, and it never occurred to me to quit and cry victim.

Christopher Columbus was so infamously cruel that the Spanish crown paid to send someone to Hispaniola in 1500 to investigate. This resulted in a 48-page report detailing the testimony of two dozen witnesses, and the investigator himself, of how Columbus had mismanaged the colony, cut off ears and noses, tortured colonists that questioned his authority, paraded women naked, and sold natives into slavery. He was arrested, tried, and stripped of his titles. Some people that witnessed his barbarism, who had initially supported and participated in his colonization efforts, became so disgusted by Columbus's behavior that they also published accounts of his atrocities and began advocating for the rights of Indigenous populations. In particular, a contemporaneous Pope, and many other lesser Catholic figures, condemned Columbus explicitly, viewing his behaviors as grave offenses against G-d. Matt, you are literally more of a cretin than people that died before 1600 BCE. I wouldn't call you a conservative, I would call you a barbarian.

Join us THIS Sunday at 1pm for a rally to save the landmarked Tony Dapolito Recreation Center! The City still wants to demolish, but we have PROOF it can be saved + reopened. Join us to demand repairs + preservation. Details + more ways to help: villagepreservation.org/campaign-updat…

Apparently the Triangle Building @ 675 Hudson St. (which we got landmarked in 2003) has a new claim to fame: it’s where #Banksy was arrested for “vandalism” 25 years ago, leading to the revelation of his identity this past week. More: facebook.com/share/p/1B6kzu…

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