Eric
@toleranceleft.bsky.social
🌹🗽 Socialist organizer in Astoria, Queens, NYC. Mostly focused on single-payer healthcare / Medicare for All, but also labor, electoral, etc. Opinions my own, reposts not endorsements.
Incoming Congress members Claire Valdez and Darializa Avila Chevalier joined the Hell Gate Podcast to chat about, among other things, how they plan on building and using power when they get into Washington. Watch the whole interview here: youtu.be/xHUt6GxVxxY?...
NEW EPISODE OF THE HELL GATE PODCAST FEAT. CLAIRE VALDEZ AND DARIALIZA AVILA CHEVALIER Talking about being a transplant, Latinidad, how the left can build power, what they said to Hakeem Jeffries, and... are aliens out there??? www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHUt...
Claire Valdez and Darializa Avila Chevalier on Building Power, AOC, and 'Squad 2.0'
This fall, Claire Valdez and Darializa Avila Chevalier will (almost certainly) be new members of Congress from New York City. We got them in the studio to ta...
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Corporate utilities are making a killing. Working people are done paying for it. Join @chiosse.bsky.social, @jabaribrisport.bsky.social, @sarahana.bsky.social & neighbors across the city on Tuesday for the Utility Ripoff Hearing! Share your story & join the fight to take back our power system.
Happy Rent Freeze Day! 🏠❄️ This month, we canvassed rent-stabilized buildings in Astoria to let our neighbors know that rents are frozen on leases starting Oct. 1 (TODAY!), their rights as tenants, and how to report violations. Organized tenants mobilized to win this. It’s up to us to defend it.
New Yorkers are proving we can put working people over shareholders. And we’re just getting started. Join us next Tuesday for New York’s first Utility Ripoff Hearing to learn how public renewables can help us take our power system back. bit.ly/utilityripoffhearing
Utility Ripoff Hearing
Our energy system is crushing New Yorkers. Our bills keep getting higher and higher every year – but when heatwaves and storms come and we need power most, our neighbors keep getting left in the dark ...
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If you've never seen Margaret Tait's film-poem based on a piece by Gerard Manley Hopkins, I suggest you take six minutes to treat yourself today. I wrote about why I think it works so well here.
Latch or Catch or Key
On a beautiful film of a Gerard Manley Hopkins poem
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- À la carte living conditions where everything is hyper personalized and you get what YOU want delivered to YOU when YOU want it. And therefore, you don't have to think beyond yourself, so you assume everything is either for you *specifically* or it's wrong.
The literacy crisis is not just referring to people's ability to literally read and write. It's also people's inability to read for context. I've been a public educator for over 20 years and I have never, ever seen it this bad.
Multiple NYC Climate Week events have been rescheduled or moved indoors due to weather. Folks,,,
"Writing can be small and wrapped, layered and touching, tight and nearly eternal in depth. Hold it between two fingers, hide it within a cove of denim beside your house key." buff.ly/UgZwq9D
First, Add No Shame
“I remembered today that I don’t have to know everything to tell you one thing. You know how doctors learn ‘First, do no harm’? When it comes to suicide and ...
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BREAKING: Over 400 New Yorkers are risking arrest in a mass anti-war sit-in outside the United Nations during Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's speech to say: Stop the genocide and stop arming Israel.
Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.
May 2025: DoorDash spends $1 million to stop a democratic socialist from winning the mayoralty September 2026: DoorDash reaches a $131.5 million settlement with NYC's democratic socialist administration and admits to massive wage theft This is what's possible when you vote DSA
New Yorkers, we have the power to save lives. Join our team and public health partners for an impactful training by the NYC Health Department on overdose prevention. This training will teach how to recognize and respond to an opioid overdose using naloxone. RSVP: PreventingOverdose.eventbrite.com
there are good and complicated reasons "quality of life" issues became the domain of the right, but the left's great failure since the '70s has been operating under the assumption that results matter less than righteous intent, despite arguing for a material politics
“If you are staring at an example of social disorder or social inefficiency, and the left refuses to explain either why it has happened or how they will fix it, then the right gets to point at someone in the immediate area and say, ‘That’s who did it.’” crazy how much Mamdani speaks my language
PMC COVlD Update, Sep 21, 2026 (US) 🔥13th COVlD wave 🔥40 states/territories with outbreaks (see Alt text) 🔥3.8 million estimated weekly infections 🔥Outbreaks in NYC 🔥Extremely high levels on the Big Island of HI Mask up and get boosted. 🧵THREAD (1/4)
Three years ago, United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain called for American unions to line up contract expirations for May Day 2028 to set the stage for a potential mass strike. How are the prospects of this coordinated action looking now? jacobin.com/2026/09/fain...
The Prospects for a 2028 May Day Mass Strike
Three years ago, United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain called for American unions to line up contract expirations for May Day 2028 to set the stage for a potential mass strike. How are the prospect...
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DTF St. Louis, episode 3, the “hostile architecture” sequence? Absolute cinema.
I am humbled by the Mayor’s support of my campaign, and by the honor of serving you in Albany. Let’s keep the momentum over the next 46 days, win this race, and start this important work together. secure.actblue.com/donate/david...
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It's official — Mayor @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is endorsing my campaign for NY State Assembly District 38! Together we'll work to fulfill the Mayor's promise that “there is no problem too large for government to solve, and no concern too small for it to care about.”
On October 23, Creative Time and the Brooklyn Museum will co-host an all-day gathering between artists, activists, and scholars as we reckon with the most urgent issues shaping contemporary political life, from migration and reproductive justice to mass criminalization and climate change.
Join us at our Astoria office on Tuesday, Sep. 22 for mobile office hours with @aoc.bsky.social's staff! They can provide support with any issues involving federal agencies, including: ✔️ Immigration ✔️ Social Security ✔️ Veterans' benefits ✔️ And more!
