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🚨 NEW: Zohran Mamdani to invest $122M in NYC public schools, hiring 1,000 additional teachers.

Mamdani closed a $12B deficit in 132 days, fixed 100K+ potholes, secured millions for gig workers, fined corrupt landlords millions, raised snow workers to $30/hr, and violent crime hit historic lows. THIS IS WHAT A LEADER DOES!!

I don’t get what the gay kid doesn’t understand. If he went to Gaza they’d murder him for being gay. Doesn’t seem that complicated.

What's your favorite part of The Odyssey? For me, it's a tie between 1: Odysseus visiting Achilles in Hades expecting him to be happy ghost, only to have Achilles tell him no, being dead sucks and he'd rather be a slave to the poorest farmer in Greece than king of the dead, and--


A global hunger emergency is looming. High prices and ongoing conflict linked to the Middle East crisis are pushing food beyond reach for millions. At the same time, rising costs have already forced WFP to stop assisting 1.5M people. ➡️Learn more

Member of the Black Panther party explains why they’re opening a clinic in Chicago, 1969.


Countries where May 1st is a public holiday


“Last March, a fog took hold in my head and never left. It settled there somewhere between the moment a DHS agent asked me, ‘Are you Mahmoud Khalil?’ and the moment I realized that I would miss the birth of my first child,” writes Khalil. A year ago, the Trump administration unlawfully arrested Khalil at his home and detained him for 104 days. “I walk free now, only after an army of lawyers sued the administration for targeting me because of my pro-Palestine speech. But the government is relentless in targeting me,” he writes. “So when I walk, I watch my back.” “When strangers approach me and ask, ‘Are you Mahmoud Khalil?’ — the same words in the same expectant tone the DHS agent used before the handcuffs — I do not know if they want to shake my hand or spit in my face. I do not know whether they will say, ‘Thank you for what you're doing,’ or follow me through midtown aggressively shouting, ‘Am Yisrael Chai.’ Both have happened. At first glance, I can never tell them apart.” In a new essay, Khalil writes about grappling with these two truths: “That I walk through the city afraid and that the city, in small and persistent ways, tells me I am welcome. That I am watched and that I am seen.” Read it in full: nymag.visitlink.me/tM03B5

Donald Trump has fired the entire National Science Board, all 24 members, all at once. The board was responsible for deciding which scientific projects America should pursue and helping to direct the nation's technological future.

Shakespeare mind cloud created by Allysa Gray.