Ibaitik Itsasora
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In 1948 Albert Einstein foresaw the Israeli terrorism in Palestine that would eventually bring a catastrophe on the Jewish colonists.
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Russia is not Enemy@RussiaIsntEnemy
“Einstein said, “I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” This statement reflects the understanding that a third world war could mean the end of civilization. Today, this realization should restrain us from taking extremely dangerous actions in the international arena that threaten our modern civilization.” – President Putin
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Hasiera. ikus ondokoak:
From the River to the Sea: Ibaitik Itsasora (176) eta Zohran Mamdani (a)
From the River to the Sea: Ibaitik Itsasora (177) eta Zohran Mamdani (b)
From the River to the Sea: Ibaitik Itsasora (181) eta Zohran Mamdani (c)
Segida:
Imagine owning a cute little ferret even though they’re (famously) banned in NYC bc who’s gonna find out, only for your kid to tell New York Magazine about it, then years later have that specific section of the article blow up bc she was right next to the future mayor of NYC
@tobararbulu # mmt@tobararbulu
1-on-1 interview with NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani fresh off election … https://youtu.be/IaiHOF8C2iQ?si=JchdL10gqMUwKoxv
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@tobararbulu # mmt@tobararbulu
Zohran Mamdani and the Future of New York Politics | CUNY Forum
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Meet Zohran Mamdani’s Most Important Advisor (ft. NYC Deputy Mayor Dean … https://youtu.be/xgLTZ0Da-gw?si=QSUNQ_910NIgx6LD
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Zohran Mamdani will keep pro-Israel NYPD chief Jessica Tisch
An heiress of one of the world’s wealthiest Jewish families, Tisch has smeared anti-genocide protesters
@KeiPritsker asks if this choice will compromise the mayor-elect’s ability to fulfill his campaign promises
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1988644941556514969
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meanwhile in Queens’ 36th Assembly district, Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani is reminding his constituents about food-distribution sites during the SNAP funding lapse
Aipamena
Nick Garber@nick_garber
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Meanwhile in Queens’ 36th Assembly District, Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani is still sending out mailers reminding constituents that library branches are serving free summer meals to people under 18
Zohran was just elected Mayor and just made a video asking for donations to Starbucks workers @SBWorkersUnited hardship fund
What other NYC mayor in recent memory, or ever, supported a union so closely as to help them raise money for a strike?
Unprecedented solidarity
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For far too many families, the cost of childcare is driving them out of the city they love.
New Yorkers deserve to be able to afford to raise families here.
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1989037993588334773
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Zohran Mamdani is in East Flatbush, Brooklyn today visiting a childcare center.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani@ZohranKMamdani
Soon, we’ll oversee a budget of more than $100 billion — and every dollar will reflect our commitment to working New Yorkers and delivering universal childcare. Good thing some little New Yorkers gave me a counting lesson today!
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1989063175514517920
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Mamdani was speaking DIRECTLY to nonvoters his entire campaign. Even when he was polling single digits. He NEVER disrespected them or blamed them for the destruction of this country, a genocide they did not contribute to, or the acts of Trump supporters He made their concerns part of his agenda
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“Hi, I’m Zohran,” the mayor-elect introduces himself to a young constituent.
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1988995127327805669
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Zohran Mamdani wasn’t the only leftist who won last Tuesday. (Though he did generate the most deranged establishment cope.)
Socialists and progressives won key races across the U.S., showing that the left is no longer marginal. We’re mainstream.
Latest from me, linked below
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Narrative violation. Being anti-oligarchy is popular actually.
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New – Favorbilty poll (Democrat voters)
Mamdani: +57
Newsom: +50
Spanberger: +32
Spanberger: +31 IPSOS #C – RV – 11/7
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Tax the rich. Billionaire tears not pictured.
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Lina Khan is quietly mapping out how New York’s incoming mayor Zohran Mamdani can use overlooked city and state laws to make daily life cheaper — from Yankee stadium beer to basic medicines, Semafor reports.
People familiar with the transition say she’s identified a broad “unconscionable pricing” rule and new transparency requirements for algorithmic pricing as early tools the city can enforce. It echoes her FTC tenure, where she revived dormant statutes to pressure companies on misleading ads, predatory pricing, and deceptive gig-work claims. Business groups may bristle, but Khan’s approach could give Mamdani a concrete legal path to tackle the city’s affordability crisis, the report suggests. 
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Read @lizrhoffman on what the heck Lina Khan is doing in New York City
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Chris Sommerfeldt@C_Sommerfeldt
New: The City Council is putting its weight behind Zohran Mamdani’s call for the state to pony up more money for childcare programs in the Big Apple — and laying out a series of suggestions for how he could make the system as a whole more effective.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani@ZohranKMamdani
Starbucks workers across the country are on an Unfair Labor Practices strike, fighting for a fair contract. While workers are on strike, I won’t be buying any Starbucks, and I’m asking you to join us. Together, we can send a powerful message: No contract, no coffee.
Aipamena
Starbucks Workers United@SBWorkersUnited
aza. 13
As of today, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we’re prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON’T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
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Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is visiting a pre-k school in Brooklyn this morning.
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1988992724263961078
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The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
@weeklyshowpod
Jon and @linamkhan discuss how Mamdani and Trump both have recognized a populist frustration, but only one is cast as a radical. New episode out now!
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1988953905678737866
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Zohran Mamdani says his vision for the Elizabeth Street Garden is housing and Eric Adams moving the land to the Parks Dept will make it “nearly impossible” to implement.
Zohran Mamdani’s message discipline continues this morning at a childcare center in Flatbush. “We need a lot more houses,” he told a table full of kids.
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1989011415630250381
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Outlook on Mamdani’s Big 3:
1) Expanded childcare funding — Hochul & state leg leaders are on board
2) Freeze (stabilized) rent — Timeline depends on whether Adams does lame duck appts to Rent Guidelines Board
3) Fast & free buses — Hochul doesn’t seem interested at the moment
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Chris Sommerfeldt@C_Sommerfeldt
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New: The City Council is putting its weight behind Zohran Mamdani’s call for the state to pony up more money for childcare programs in the Big Apple — and laying out a series of suggestions for how he could make the system as a whole more effective. https://nydailynews.com/2025/11/13/nyc
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warning property managers: don’t come after zohran’s housing policies on linkedin if your own tenants don’t have heat 
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Among Democrats – Net-Favorables:
Mamdani: +57%
Newsom: +50%
Spanberger: +32%
Sherrill: +31%
Ipsos / Nov 12, 2025
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Lina Khan was the best thing to come out of the Biden WH and it’s a great move on Zohran Mamdani’s part to have her on his transition team. The pure panic being expressed by rich corporate New Yorkers at the mere mention of her name is just so wonderful to see.
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More Perfect Union@MorePerfectUS
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CNBC says that rich New Yorkers started “looking for therapy” when they heard that Lina Khan will be co-chairing Zohran’s transition team.
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1988623079040590299
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NEW: Zohran Mamdani built the multi-racial, working and middle-class coalition the left has always wanted. Mamdani resoundingly won young men, Black and Latino voters, renters, and tens of thousands of immigrant Trump voters. How did he do it?
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Zohran Mamdani is now among the most popular politicians in the country among Democratic party base voters. Centrist disinformation efforts have had no effect whatsoever.
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Katie Wilson for Seattle Mayor@wilsonformayor
Thanks, Zohran. I’m proud to be in the fight with you for a democracy on the terms of working people: affordability, housing, safety, and more. From NYC to Seattle: this is your city. #thisisyourcity
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani@ZohranKMamdani
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Congratulations to Seattle’s Mayor-elect @wilsonformayor!
Seattle voters made their voices heard: they want a new kind of politics — one that rejects corporate PAC money and delivers for working people. From one Mayor-elect to another, wishing you the best. Seattle is in great hands.
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It is really something to see NY’s mayor (elect) loudly standing with labor like this.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani@ZohranKMamdani
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Starbucks workers across the country are on an Unfair Labor Practices strike, fighting for a fair contract. While workers are on strike, I won’t be buying any Starbucks, and I’m asking you to join us.
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Jack Cocchiarella@JDCocchiarella
Zohran has the Mandate of Heaven
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BREAKING: Kathy Hochul is considering raising corporate taxes to help fund Zohran Mamdani’s agenda.
I think you can tell a very interesting story about approaches to campaign messaging by comparing and contrasting these two differing captions of the same photo.
Politics & Poll Tracker 
@PollTracker2024
Bloomberg: New York Governor Kathy Hochul is considering raising corporate taxes as part of broader efforts to close a potential budget shortfall and help fund some of Zohran Mamdani’s agenda as New York City mayor.
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NEW: Zohran Mamdani met with Brad Lander in mid-October and told him two things: He would likely not be first deputy mayor, but Mamdani would be very supportive if Lander followed through on a run against Rep Dan Goldman.
That and much more w/@boreskes
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Honestly any politician who can lower the cost of going to a sporting event by 20% will have the Mandate of Heaven and a 1000 reign. If this can become a real thing my great grand son will be voting for President Zohran VI
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Read @lizrhoffman on what the heck Lina Khan is doing in New York City
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Congratulations to Seattle’s Mayor-elect @wilsonformayor!
Seattle voters made their voices heard: they want a new kind of politics — one that rejects corporate PAC money and delivers for working people. From one Mayor-elect to another, wishing you the best. Seattle is in great hands.
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I don’t think it’s mentioned nearly enough that Zohran, who was spectacularly successful among young voters, never used memes in his social media posts.
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Jon Stewart asks Lina Khan about millionaires supposedly “fleeing” New York. Lina: “ The question that Mayor-elect Mamdani was asking was, well working people are already fleeing New York, they’re already having to leave New York because they can’t afford to live here, and shouldn’t we care about that too? Right? And his campaign has been explicitly to make this a place where bus drivers, janitors, security guards, teachers, people who are keeping the day-to-day running of the city, where they have a chance as well.”
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1989417555824443878
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Did you think he was just kidding around when he repeatedly said that he stands with organized labor and workers’ rights for the last year+ or were you just not paying attention?
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The next mayor of NYC is boycotting a business with 200 locations in his city. Good luck, New Yorkers.
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I hope @ZohranKMamdani puts these two to work.
New York Lacked an Affordable Housing Portal. So These Teenagers Made One.
(https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/realestate/affordable-housing-rent-stabilized-website.html)
Two “children of the pandemic” did something the grown-ups who run the city have never managed to do.
By Dan Levin
Nov. 14, 2025
When Beckett Zahedi was in the fifth grade, he’d accompany his recently divorced father and younger sister on a grueling New York City ritual: the hunt for an affordable apartment. On weekends, they’d trudge through fruitless viewings in Brooklyn, jostling through crowds and sidestepping cockroaches until the elder Zahedi finally found a place to rent.
“I wanted to make sure that they felt comfortable in the place, and it’s hard to find something, so he had this experience over and over of being rejected,” Caveh Zahedi said of his son.
As he got older, Beckett leaned into his entrepreneurial spirit and tech savvy, designing a website where he could sell toys, and hawking T-shirts online. But he never forgot how trying those apartment hunts had been, both emotionally and financially. So last year, as his economics class at the Brooklyn Friends school studied the national housing crisis, he and a classmate hatched an idea for an online housing platform that could help people find homes they could afford.
First, he taught himself to code. “I basically spent the first two months of summer in my room, learning from YouTube and A.I.,” said Beckett, 17. “Those are my teachers.”
In July, after countless bleary-eyed hours on bedroom computers, he and Derrick Webster Jr., his classmate, launched Realer Estate, a website that combines public data with real estate listings, allowing users to search for below-market and rent-stabilized apartments — something the grown-ups who run New York City have never managed to do.
“This is basically the tool that my family needed,” said Beckett, a lanky high school senior with a mop of wavy hair and perhaps the quintessential marker of modern youthful ambition, a LinkedIn profile. “We’d just see, like, one good apartment a month that we can afford. I thought it might be faster, instead of wasting more years, to just create an algorithm that would do that for me.”
The site has already attracted more than 27,000 visitors, along with adoration from local officials, including Adrienne Adams, the New York City Council speaker. During a Council meeting in October, Ms. Adams said she was “so impressed with Beckett and his commitment to helping fellow New Yorkers secure affordable housing.”
At first, Beckett and Derrick aimed to create a nationwide platform, manually listing properties as far afield as Idaho and Texas. “It was way too much for us to handle,” Beckett said on a recent evening, sitting beside his mother, Amanda Field, in their Brooklyn apartment, as his sister’s loft bed loomed over the dining table. So they decided to focus on New York.
“They’re children of the pandemic,” said Ms. Field, who watched Beckett and his friends develop their digital skills during Covid lockdowns and remote schooling. “They were living their real lives in the digital world.”
The curious may wonder why two kids who aren’t old enough to vote would even need to create such a platform — as opposed to, say, New York’s vast bureaucracy.
A tenant can officially find out if their unit is rent-stabilized by submitting a request to New York State Homes and Community Renewal. But there is no public database of rent-stabilized apartments in the city, only a government website with PDF lists of buildings containing at least one such unit. And those lists may be inaccurate or outdated.
The city’s affordable-housing lottery, NYC Housing Connect, typically receives around 500 applications for each unit listed, according to the city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development. Competition is fierce and waits can take years.
“There needs to be a more uniform, streamlined way for people to be to be able to find affordable apartments,” said Leah Goodridge, a member of the City Planning Commission. “New Yorkers suffer for it.”
New York is home to roughly a million rent-regulated units, but the city does not offer a tool for residents to search for available apartments considered affordable. Credit…Lila Barth for The New York Times
At a time when the median rent in the city is about $4,000, finding one of the roughly one million rent-stabilized apartments often comes down to luck, pluck and patience. Amateur sleuths will pore over obituaries for clues; hunters will bribe landlords with “key money” to obtain a coveted lease. Online, the quest has fueled a cottage industry of tips and advice.
“If you’re explicitly looking for a rent-stabilized apartment, then you have to be a big-time hustler,” said Matthew Murphy, executive director of the Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy at New York University.
Beckett and Derrick are trying to make the search easier. While Beckett built the platform over the summer, Derrick, also 17, worked on creating an email system for users.
Collaboration was “really, really important,” Derrick said. “Sometimes my new update to the project would crash something that he would make, and he would have to call me at midnight, saying, ‘Hey you messed up something.’”
Beckett quickly discovered that building the site was “much harder problem-solving than in my math homework.”
“It was just failing, getting every single line wrong until it all fell into place,” he said.
His algorithm scans active sales and rental listings, cross-referenced with all rent-stabilized building addresses, and calculates affordability by comparing against similar properties based on categories including bedrooms, bathrooms, amenities and price per square foot. Users can search specifically for rent-stabilized units, or for apartments that the site calculates as affordable. Listings determined to be at least 15 percent below market are saved as “undervalued” on the platform, which links to StreetEasy.
“It’s not a perfect estimate, but it helps renters get a better sense of how good of a deal an apartment is,” Beckett said.
While Beckett, right, built the Realer Estate platform over the summer, Derrick worked on creating an email system for users. Collaboration was “really, really important,” Derrick said.Credit…Graham Dickie for The New York Times
To gauge accuracy, he consulted his father’s real estate agent and initially launched the site on Reddit, making tweaks based on the barrage of feedback he received. In the months since, Beckett and Derrick have earned about $2,600 (enough to cover computing costs) from subscribers who have signed up for email alerts for new listings.
One local agent, Tiger Liu of Compass, was impressed enough to give the teens $1,000 to advertise, and said his first client from the site recently went into contract on an apartment. “It’s very helpful to people because the current resource is just not enough,” he said.
Another backer is Audos, an entrepreneurship start-up, which agreed to invest up to $25,000 in the project — with some oversight. “We’re not handing a 16-year-old kid $25,000 and letting him go crazy,” said Andres Zubillaga, an Audos founder.
The company has worked with businesses focused on moving and interior decorating, but “in terms of actually helping you with the apartment search, this is the first we’ve seen,” Mr. Zubillaga said.
While the website is largely automated, running it still consumes much of Beckett and Derrick’s time. “Right after school, you make sure you get all your homework done, and then it’s your whole entire night,” Derrick said.
The website remains a work in progress as Beckett and Derrick operate it as they handle other responsibilities.Credit…Realerestate.Org
Indeed, Realer Estate is a work in progress. Some neighborhoods have few listings, and the affordability scores are not for all budgets. The wrinkles are being ironed out between college applications, schoolwork and extracurricular activities. Beckett has been attending community board meetings to beef up on housing issues, and chose to forgo playing on his school basketball team this year. (“I’m not super good,” he admitted.)
But like a lot of kids his age, what he is good at is the internet. Plenty of adults have tried to tackle New York’s affordable-housing problem with limited success, so why not give two high school students a chance? After all, Derrick noted, the housing lottery email notification feature that the City Council will require is similar to the alert system he already built for Realer Estate.
“What we want to do is see how we can be more involved with the city, learn from them, take our experience and give back,” Derrick said. “There’s a lot more people we can help.”
Dan Levin is a Times reporter covering American youth. He was a foreign correspondent covering Canada from 2016 until 2018. From 2008 to 2015 he was based in Beijing, where he reported on human rights, politics and culture in China and Asia.
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Geure herriari, Euskal Herriari dagokionez, hona hemen gure apustu bakarra:
We Basques do need a real Basque independent State in the Western Pyrenees, just a democratic lay or secular state, with all the formal characteristics of any independent State: Central Bank, Treasury, proper currency1, out of the European Distopia and faraway from NATO, being a BRICS partner…
Euskal Herriaren independentzia eta Mikel Torka
eta
Esadazu arren, zer da gu euskaldunok egiten ari garena eta zer egingo dugun
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MTM: Zipriztinak (2), 2025: Warren Mosler
(Pinturak: Mikel Torka)
Gehigarriak:
MTM klase borrokarik gabe, kontabilitate hutsa da
1 This way, our new Basque government will have infinite money to deal with. (Gogoratzekoa: Moneta jaulkitzaileko kasu guztietan, Gobernuak infinitu diru dauka.)
