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Jessie Barr⚡️ retweeted
Finally understood I am the conductor
of my own life, and will be even after I die.
I, like the trees, will decide what I become:
—Andrea Gibson, 1975–2025
poets.org/poem/how-worst-day…
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Republicans are celebrating the passage of the largest Medicaid cut in U.S. history to pay for the largest tax break for billionaires in American history.
51,000 Americans will die each year so that the top 1% can get a $1 trillion tax break.
This bill is a death sentence.
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here’s an excerpt from my book CINEMA HER WAY where Mira Nair and I discuss her film THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST and she shared with me this story about her son, Zohran Mamdani, experiencing Islamophobia post-9/11 while walking with his grandfather in Manhattan.
Jessie Barr⚡️ retweeted
Democratic leaders are fighting Zohran Mamdani way harder than they’ve ever fought Donald Trump
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Zohran Mamdani’s plan to tax the rich is a 2% tax on income over $1 million.
If you make $1.1 million, you’d pay an extra $2,000.
Watching working class conservatives and politicians completely meltdown about this is wild.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
According to his official platform, he will "champion a 2 percent tax on all incomes over $1 million ... Under this new plan, someone earning $1 million will pay an additional $20,000 in city income tax."
The tax rate would go from 3.9% to 5.9% for those earning >$1 million
zohranfornyc.com/revenue
zohranfornyc.com/platform
Jessie Barr⚡️ retweeted
Some 100 private jets will fly to Venice for Jeff Bezos' wedding, and I recycle yoghurt cup lids.
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Did Mamdani really say that if he was mayor and Netanyahu came to New York, he would have him arrested?
If he did, I'm going to have to vote for him twice.
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In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done.
My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.
I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.
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The poster for the ‘PRIDE & PREJUICE’ 20th anniversary re-release.
Returning to theaters on April 20.
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NO. At a time of massive income and wealth inequality we should not be giving tax breaks to billionaires. We should demand that they start paying their fair share.
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Signs of a healthy entertainment industry: Chappell Roan, Brady Corbet, and Sean Baker hitting the highest highs of their careers so far and openly talking about how even artists as successful as them have a hard time making money.
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Sean Baker (@Lilfilm) had *the* acceptance speech of the evening for his #SpiritAwards win for Best Director for ANORA.
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Sean Baker’s Indie Spirits speech is a must-watch about how working as an independent filmmaker is now “unsustainable” unless this industry adopts major changes
Jessie Barr⚡️ retweeted
if people are surprised by how much angelenos love their city, they weren’t paying attention. people are too busy hating on LA to notice how vibrant, beautiful,and loving it is. those of us who live here are moved by the way the community has shown up this week, but not surprised
Jessie Barr⚡️ retweeted
Now’s a good time to remember California JUST voted to keep unpaid/criminally underpaid prison labor (slavery) and that a lot of the people affected by that vote are the ones fighting to save our city right now. npr.org/2024/07/18/nx-s1-504…
