Oksana
@oksanamir.bsky.social
Rent control, social housing Русский военный корабль, иди на хуй. schlecht Deutsch & שלעכט יידיש oksana.nyc
this was such a cool translation project to work on with @bwnadler.bsky.social
Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness@tangledwilderness.bsky.social · 8mo agoThis month we have "Additional Persecution Likely" a translation by Oksana Mironova & Ben Nadler of sections of Delo Truda, a Russian & Ukrainian anarchist paper printed in exile after the Russian Revolution. Word of the month is about a town in Ukraine. Read for free at TangledWilderness.org
I followed @oksanamir.bsky.social down an anarchist history rabbit hole (not the first time), and Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness published the resulting zine.
Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness@tangledwilderness.bsky.social · 8mo agoThis month we have "Additional Persecution Likely" a translation by Oksana Mironova & Ben Nadler of sections of Delo Truda, a Russian & Ukrainian anarchist paper printed in exile after the Russian Revolution. Word of the month is about a town in Ukraine. Read for free at TangledWilderness.org
We're already seeing a spike in evictions (up 26%)! It's only going to get worse without more help!
ashley fairbanks@ziibiing.com · 8mo agoi am so tired of screaming from the rooftops that we have a looming, avoidable crisis of evictions brewing. everyone knows it, but yet government and philanthropy have no solutions. unpaid volunteers of rent funds are doing the work that the people who control the purse strings refuse to do
Less than one week until the publication of BORN IN FLAMES! It makes a huge difference if you *preorder* before 8/19! Get the book from any outlet and my press will send you these 4 beautiful stickers once you fill out the form copied below.
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A State Unknown: LGBTQ+ Advocate Talap Mamyrkanov Faces Deportation
At an Uzbek restaurant in Sheepshead Bay, we ate plov, manti, and shashlik, and talked for a couple of hours. It was summer. The chicken wings he’d insisted on ordering grew cold; I leaned back in my ...
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📢Today, CSS is in Syracuse, learning about housing in Central New York. Excited to find out about enthusiasm for Good Cause Eviction and anti-flipping legislation.
Really thrilled to have a piece in @readlux.bsky.social, just in time for the Serrano-Taylor fight tonight. lux-magazine.com/article/wome...
Left Hook
Fascism, gender policing, and the unlikely rise of women's boxing.
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I wrote about how @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's campaign used the oldest & most powerful form of political propaganda. And no, it's not vertical videos newrepublic.com/article/1973...
The Secret Ingredient to Zohran Mamdani’s Success
The way to New York voters’ hearts is through their stomachs.
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as someone who has actually been on a Soviet breadline, I am here to tell you that the experience is better than shopping at Gristedes.
Max Berger@maxberger.bsky.social · last yr.In Soviet America, bacon egg and cheese orders you
Really proud of @jfrejnyc.bsky.social working to push back against those cynical assumptions.
Lydia Polgreen@polgreen.bsky.social · last yr.The truly craven form of identity politics Democratic elites are playing against Zohran Mamdani is a fascinating real time enactment of @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social's Elite Capture thesis. Cynical assumptions, especially about Black and Jewish voters, completely rejected by the electorate.
As weirdos are starting their McCarthyite calls against Zohran, @bwnadler.bsky.social and I have a new piece about the Red Scares that got us here. Thanks to @proteanmag.com & @jakeromm.bsky.socialfor putting this out. proteanmag.com/2025/06/26/t...
Third Red Scare, Same as the First • Protean Magazine
In this deeply researched piece, Ben Nadler and Oksana Mironova explore the tactical and ideological parallels between the First Red Scare and the present targeting of Palestinian activists across the...
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@oksanamir.bsky.social and I have a new piece up on Protean Magazine where we explore how the current repression of pro-Palestinian activists echoes the First Red Scare.
Protean Magazine@proteanmag.com · last yr.In this deeply researched piece, Ben Nadler and Oksana Mironova explore the historical, ideological, and tactical parallels between the First Red Scare and the present targeting of Palestinian activists across the United States. proteanmag.com/2025/06/26/t...
Developers of LIHTC properties are generally giddy over proposed increase & changes to LIHTC in House resolution. By itself, it's good to have more LIHTC $$. But if LIHTC tenants get hit w/Medicaid & SNAP cuts, many tenants will have trouble paying rent & that could destabilize LIHTC properties.
My geriatric millennial takes are about the 1905 Russian revolution + that time the NYPD brought a tank to the Lower East Side.
🎃 scarecrowcialism 👻@swolecialism.bsky.social · last yr.Bluesky is a retirement home for 39 year old millennials who are forcibly turning themselves into history dads (nongendered) so if you have a hot take about one of the more popular history dad wars you had better come strapped
the kids are alright
It's Going Down@igd.bsky.social · last yr.Protesters + a punk band drowned out Charlie Kirk at SF State, the far-Right CEO of Turning Point USA. "Numerous mosh pits broke out [with] chants of “Free Palestine” + appeals for working-class solidarity." Member of violent neo-Nazi group was also in attendance. sfstandard.com/2025/05/06/c...
Endorse Cuomo, have the rank and file oust you one week later 💯
States’ rights to make what decisions, Sec. Turner?
We ran the numbers, and stabilized tenants would save about $500 a month in just a couple of years with a sustained rent freeze.
Zohran Kwame Mamdani@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · last yr.A new report from @cssnyorg.bsky.social finds that freezing the rent on stabilized apartments would save New Yorkers nearly $7 billion over four years. When working people have more money in their pockets, the entire economy benefits. It’s time to give tenants some relief.
Next week, we'll get a signal from NYC's rent guidelines board how much rents in one million rent stabilized apartments will go up, if at all. At @cssnyorg.bsky.social, our analysis shows that a rent freeze this year is justified:
Testimony: The Rent Guidelines Board’s Data Supports a Rent Freeze in 2025
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did they AI their Campaign Finance Board filing, like their housing plan?
Chris Sommerfeldt@c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social · 2y agoAndrew Cuomo isn't among the mayoral candidates getting public matching funds today, per a list of disbursements that the Campaign Finance Board chair just read off. Not yet clear why Cuomo's being denied. His campaign said last month it expected $2M+ in matching funds.
What herbs do i have to gather and distill to conjure up "the symbol of rent control," or as I like to call it der Symbolhaftmietendeckel?
Hell Gate *subscribe today!*@hellgatenyc.com · 2y agoIt was a big weekend for Andrew Cuomo's Mistakes Dept., with the former gov. dropping a plan for NYC's housing crisis marred with gobbledygook, to being the subject of a scathing audit finding NY spent $452M on pandemic gear that was never distributed.
New episode of the @fromtheperiphery.com podcast, with @ayoub.bsky.social. Check it out. We cover a lot of ground, provide really helpful overviews and analysis, and bring it all into context to the present moment.
Ayman Makarem@aymanmak.bsky.social · 2y agoToday marks 50 years since the Civil War started in Lebanon. It remains one of those most misunderstood conflicts of the 20th century. We commorate this occasion by doing a deep-dive episode, of the many wars that raged in Lebanon since 1975. https://youtu.be/z6QyFZGTilU