Loading video...

Video Failed to Load

Go Home

🚨 New Mamdani Transition Team Member Says Cops Are “Violence Workers” and NYPD–Israel Training Trips “Pervert American Politics” Alex Vitale — author of The End of Policing, sociology professor at Brooklyn College, CUNY Graduate Center, and now officially part of Zohran Mamdani’s transition team on “community safety” — gave...

thestustustudio's profile picture

Stu Smith

35,243 subscribers

93,509 views • 8 months ago •via X (Twitter)

News & PoliticsEducationScience & Technology
LIVE

Anya Rossi• Live Now

Private livecam show

0 Comments

No comments available

Comments from the original post will appear here

Related Videos

Zohran Mamdani’s “Community Safety” team is full of activists who call cops “violence workers,” want prisons “obsolete,” and vow to shrink the NYPD. New Yorkers are test subjects in what may become the largest anti-policing experiment in the world. My latest for City Journal
3:06

Zohran Mamdani’s “Community Safety” team is full of activists who call cops “violence workers,” want prisons “obsolete,” and vow to shrink the NYPD. New Yorkers are test subjects in what may become the largest anti-policing experiment in the world. My latest for City Journal

Stu Smith

147,386 views • 8 months ago

🚨 Mamdani Transition Pick: “Police Are a Direct Interference” With “Radical Socialist Oriented Politics”… and “They Will Be Used to Stop Us” Professor Alex Vitale, now on Mamdani’s transition team, says the quiet part out loud, admitting that abolishing the police “creates political space for us to do what we need to do.”
0:30

🚨 Mamdani Transition Pick: “Police Are a Direct Interference” With “Radical Socialist Oriented Politics”… and “They Will Be Used to Stop Us” Professor Alex Vitale, now on Mamdani’s transition team, says the quiet part out loud, admitting that abolishing the police “creates political space for us to do what we need to do.”

Stu Smith

94,467 views • 8 months ago

🚨 “Kill the Cop in Our Head”: Mamdani Transition Pick Rejects Reform, Calls Policing “Violence Work,” and Advocates for "Pod Mapping" Zohran Mamdani just appointed Professor Alex Vitale to his community safety transition team. Vitale says it plainly, “Policing is about violence work, and I want to get the violence out of it, whatever we call it.” “It also doesn’t mean everything has to be under the control of the state… we can do co-counseling and we can do pod mapping. We can do that person-to-person organizing of our daily lives and our living spaces and our working spaces.” Pod mapping is the idea that small circles of friends or neighbors should take over crisis response themselves — a DIY mutual-aid system where ordinary people handle emergencies instead of trained professionals, police, or even social workers. “If we’re going to get police out of our lives… it’s also about doing that hard interpersonal work in our everyday lives.” Pod mapping is not a public safety plan. It asks untrained civilians to handle violent crises, domestic disputes, mental health breakdowns, and community conflict on their own. Vitale is literally proposing to replace police and even trained professionals with DIY neighborhood crisis cells. Prepare for some “hard interpersonal work,” New Yorkers.
1:15

🚨 “Kill the Cop in Our Head”: Mamdani Transition Pick Rejects Reform, Calls Policing “Violence Work,” and Advocates for "Pod Mapping" Zohran Mamdani just appointed Professor Alex Vitale to his community safety transition team. Vitale says it plainly, “Policing is about violence work, and I want to get the violence out of it, whatever we call it.” “It also doesn’t mean everything has to be under the control of the state… we can do co-counseling and we can do pod mapping. We can do that person-to-person organizing of our daily lives and our living spaces and our working spaces.” Pod mapping is the idea that small circles of friends or neighbors should take over crisis response themselves — a DIY mutual-aid system where ordinary people handle emergencies instead of trained professionals, police, or even social workers. “If we’re going to get police out of our lives… it’s also about doing that hard interpersonal work in our everyday lives.” Pod mapping is not a public safety plan. It asks untrained civilians to handle violent crises, domestic disputes, mental health breakdowns, and community conflict on their own. Vitale is literally proposing to replace police and even trained professionals with DIY neighborhood crisis cells. Prepare for some “hard interpersonal work,” New Yorkers.

Stu Smith

117,691 views • 8 months ago

🚨😭CRYBABY ALERT: WOKE MAMDANI-PICKED PROF. CALLS COPS “CLASS ENEMIES” Professor Alex Vitale just joined a Democrat transition team, and immediately declared that cops are “the natural enemy of the working class.” Yes, the same cops who patrol neighborhoods where people can’t afford gated communities, security details, or “Defund the Police” yard signs. He claims police loyalty to justice is “irrelevant” and that officers are structurally wired to crush workers like they’re Robocop for Wall Street. Then he quotes Orwell like it’s deep, saying he didn’t need “details” to know he’d always side against the police. This is what you get when you tell an NYC sociology major to take care of "community safety." Mamdani is in, the NYPD is out; let's see how long it takes before Brooklyn dogs taste funny. Cheers to Tears of the Left!
1:05

🚨😭CRYBABY ALERT: WOKE MAMDANI-PICKED PROF. CALLS COPS “CLASS ENEMIES” Professor Alex Vitale just joined a Democrat transition team, and immediately declared that cops are “the natural enemy of the working class.” Yes, the same cops who patrol neighborhoods where people can’t afford gated communities, security details, or “Defund the Police” yard signs. He claims police loyalty to justice is “irrelevant” and that officers are structurally wired to crush workers like they’re Robocop for Wall Street. Then he quotes Orwell like it’s deep, saying he didn’t need “details” to know he’d always side against the police. This is what you get when you tell an NYC sociology major to take care of "community safety." Mamdani is in, the NYPD is out; let's see how long it takes before Brooklyn dogs taste funny. Cheers to Tears of the Left!

Tears of the Left

84,799 views • 8 months ago

🚨 Mamdani Transition Team Member: “Defund” Is Losing the Narrative War Zohran Mamdani transition team member and CUNY professor Lumumba Bandele just said the quiet part out loud on a recent podcast: the movement that pushed “defund the police” has spent the last five years losing, and he thinks the problem is not the policy, it’s the messaging. “What we are losing ground on is the narrative war. Think about this, just 5 years ago we had the entire country, if not saying, considering this concept, this idea of defunding police. That was only 5 years ago, y’all. Now you’re hard pressed to get anybody to say that out loud.” Notably, he glides past the 2020 riots and the public-safety backlash that followed, and instead treats “defund” as a messaging problem to be re-sold, even though some cities did adopt versions of it through budget cuts and shifting responsibilities. “Culture eats strategy for breakfast… if you’re not able to shift the culture of a people, it’s not gonna mean much.” Translation: they know “defund” became politically radioactive, and the response is not backing off. It’s rebuilding the culture and narrative infrastructure so the public buys it again
1:13

🚨 Mamdani Transition Team Member: “Defund” Is Losing the Narrative War Zohran Mamdani transition team member and CUNY professor Lumumba Bandele just said the quiet part out loud on a recent podcast: the movement that pushed “defund the police” has spent the last five years losing, and he thinks the problem is not the policy, it’s the messaging. “What we are losing ground on is the narrative war. Think about this, just 5 years ago we had the entire country, if not saying, considering this concept, this idea of defunding police. That was only 5 years ago, y’all. Now you’re hard pressed to get anybody to say that out loud.” Notably, he glides past the 2020 riots and the public-safety backlash that followed, and instead treats “defund” as a messaging problem to be re-sold, even though some cities did adopt versions of it through budget cuts and shifting responsibilities. “Culture eats strategy for breakfast… if you’re not able to shift the culture of a people, it’s not gonna mean much.” Translation: they know “defund” became politically radioactive, and the response is not backing off. It’s rebuilding the culture and narrative infrastructure so the public buys it again

Stu Smith

48,248 views • 8 months ago

🚨 Mamdani Community Safety Pick Says NYPD “Harass, Abuse, and Kill” Trans People and Pushes to Decriminalize Sex Work Meet Deborah Lolai, now a clinical instructor at Harvard Law’s LGBTQ+ Advocacy Clinic and a member of Zohran Mamdani’s Transition Committee on Community Safety. Formerly at Bronx Defenders, where she drew criticism for celebrating a police officer’s death in a friendly-fire incident, Lolai lays out her worldview clearly in this 2020 video: “The NYPD continues to profile LGBTQ people, specifically trans and gender non-conforming people. They continue to harass them, abuse them, and kill them.” “We need to do things that directly impact transgender non-conforming women of color, like decriminalize sex work. There’s a bill right now on the state level that would decriminalize sex work… and we need to be pushing for it.” She explicitly frames this agenda as part of a broader revolt that would soon become the Summer of Floyd, in the spirit of the Stonewall uprising: “It’s inextricably tied to the larger uprisings that are happening in our country right now.”
1:36

🚨 Mamdani Community Safety Pick Says NYPD “Harass, Abuse, and Kill” Trans People and Pushes to Decriminalize Sex Work Meet Deborah Lolai, now a clinical instructor at Harvard Law’s LGBTQ+ Advocacy Clinic and a member of Zohran Mamdani’s Transition Committee on Community Safety. Formerly at Bronx Defenders, where she drew criticism for celebrating a police officer’s death in a friendly-fire incident, Lolai lays out her worldview clearly in this 2020 video: “The NYPD continues to profile LGBTQ people, specifically trans and gender non-conforming people. They continue to harass them, abuse them, and kill them.” “We need to do things that directly impact transgender non-conforming women of color, like decriminalize sex work. There’s a bill right now on the state level that would decriminalize sex work… and we need to be pushing for it.” She explicitly frames this agenda as part of a broader revolt that would soon become the Summer of Floyd, in the spirit of the Stonewall uprising: “It’s inextricably tied to the larger uprisings that are happening in our country right now.”

Stu Smith

71,014 views • 8 months ago

“I grew up in the Jewish community. …I told the Israeli government from the beginning: Maximum violence to the people organizing violence, minimal violence to the people on the front end.” — Alex Karp This is a war prophet with Palantir-level kill lists and God-mode surveillance. He also mocks critics of Israel as having “Jewish derangement syndrome,” and shrugs off accusations of conspiracy by saying: “A lot of Jews are successful. It’s not all conspiracy. It’s a fact.” Then frames violence as righteous, efficient, and moral, if you believe in “the rule of law.” But whose law? Whose definitions? Palantir’s?
1:13

“I grew up in the Jewish community. …I told the Israeli government from the beginning: Maximum violence to the people organizing violence, minimal violence to the people on the front end.” — Alex Karp This is a war prophet with Palantir-level kill lists and God-mode surveillance. He also mocks critics of Israel as having “Jewish derangement syndrome,” and shrugs off accusations of conspiracy by saying: “A lot of Jews are successful. It’s not all conspiracy. It’s a fact.” Then frames violence as righteous, efficient, and moral, if you believe in “the rule of law.” But whose law? Whose definitions? Palantir’s?

DD Geopolitics

141,192 views • 8 months ago

.Zohran Kwame Mamdani wants to completely DEFUND the NYPD and ban ICE from NYC. Imagine how 9/11 would have been with no police or firefighters responding to the scene of the Islamic terrorist attack carried out by people who share Zohran Mamdani’s views. It would be nothing but pure chaos and even more death than what occurred. That’s the future Mamdani and his pro-terror, anti-police comrades are pushing for. He’s a Twelver Shia jihadist backed by Tish James, DSA communists, and he subscribes to the same ideology of the Supreme Leader of Iran that justified Hamas’s attack on Israel on October 7th as an act of “anti colonialism”. Wake up. They are globalizing the intifada!
2:52

.Zohran Kwame Mamdani wants to completely DEFUND the NYPD and ban ICE from NYC. Imagine how 9/11 would have been with no police or firefighters responding to the scene of the Islamic terrorist attack carried out by people who share Zohran Mamdani’s views. It would be nothing but pure chaos and even more death than what occurred. That’s the future Mamdani and his pro-terror, anti-police comrades are pushing for. He’s a Twelver Shia jihadist backed by Tish James, DSA communists, and he subscribes to the same ideology of the Supreme Leader of Iran that justified Hamas’s attack on Israel on October 7th as an act of “anti colonialism”. Wake up. They are globalizing the intifada!

Laura Loomer

347,068 views • 1 year ago

🚨 Mamdani’s Community Safety Team Now Includes NYU Scholar Who Calls Courts a Source of “Perpetual Punishments” and Casts Child Protective Services as Police Justine Olderman now holds a joint appointment as a Distinguished Scholar in Residence at NYU Law’s Center on Race, Equity and the Law. Before that, she spent years at the Bronx Defenders, eventually running the group as executive director. She has now been tapped for Zohran Mamdani’s Committee on Community Safety during the transition. Here is her worldview on courts and “safety”: once a criminal case ends, she says that single “touch point” in the system triggers “perpetual punishments” that keep people trapped in “various legal and non-legal, you know, punitive systems,” even when the case outcome looks good on paper. Those “punishments” include deportation, eviction, and child welfare involvement: a criminal conviction “could land somebody in deportation proceedings,” “could mean that they were evicted from their home,” and “can even trigger a child welfare investigation and lead to family separation.” Olderman describes these downstream consequences as causing “unbearable amounts of trauma and harm” that radiate through families and “pass from generation to generation.” As public defenders, she says, they operate “inside the belly of this legal beast” and therefore have a duty not just to represent clients but to attack the “systemic drivers” of system involvement. That includes redefining “policing” so that people see Administration for Children's Services as the police as well. Notice how she uses ACS to avoid people see this department as protecting children. My view is the opposite. If NYPD finds a meth lab, there are kids in the home, and the person running it is here illegally, ACS and ICE getting involved is not “perpetual punishment,” it is how a basic justice system is supposed to work. Olderman’s “perpetual punishment” worldview is now being baked into Mamdani’s vision of “community safety” for New York City.
2:57

🚨 Mamdani’s Community Safety Team Now Includes NYU Scholar Who Calls Courts a Source of “Perpetual Punishments” and Casts Child Protective Services as Police Justine Olderman now holds a joint appointment as a Distinguished Scholar in Residence at NYU Law’s Center on Race, Equity and the Law. Before that, she spent years at the Bronx Defenders, eventually running the group as executive director. She has now been tapped for Zohran Mamdani’s Committee on Community Safety during the transition. Here is her worldview on courts and “safety”: once a criminal case ends, she says that single “touch point” in the system triggers “perpetual punishments” that keep people trapped in “various legal and non-legal, you know, punitive systems,” even when the case outcome looks good on paper. Those “punishments” include deportation, eviction, and child welfare involvement: a criminal conviction “could land somebody in deportation proceedings,” “could mean that they were evicted from their home,” and “can even trigger a child welfare investigation and lead to family separation.” Olderman describes these downstream consequences as causing “unbearable amounts of trauma and harm” that radiate through families and “pass from generation to generation.” As public defenders, she says, they operate “inside the belly of this legal beast” and therefore have a duty not just to represent clients but to attack the “systemic drivers” of system involvement. That includes redefining “policing” so that people see Administration for Children's Services as the police as well. Notice how she uses ACS to avoid people see this department as protecting children. My view is the opposite. If NYPD finds a meth lab, there are kids in the home, and the person running it is here illegally, ACS and ICE getting involved is not “perpetual punishment,” it is how a basic justice system is supposed to work. Olderman’s “perpetual punishment” worldview is now being baked into Mamdani’s vision of “community safety” for New York City.

Stu Smith

30,261 views • 8 months ago

🚨 The Decarceral DA Candidate Who Wanted to Strip Power from the Police Commissioner and Push a $30–$50 Minimum Wage Is Now on Mamdani’s Legal Affairs Team Tahanie Aboushi is a former Democratic candidate for Manhattan DA. In 2021, she ran on a platform of declining to prosecute charges tied to poverty, mental illness, drug use, or prostitution, and shifting away from what she called “knee-jerk, prosecute-at-all-costs, revenge-type prosecution.” Aboushi now sits on Zohran Mamdani’s Legal Affairs transition team—bringing that same decarceral, “systemic oppression” worldview into the upcoming mayoral administration. In her telling, prisons are sites of violence and police power has to be stripped back: “Our prisons and jails are not safe and they’re not sanitary and they’re violent.” “We need to take the final determination of discipline for police officers away from the police commissioner.” She also talks like a wage-policy maximalist, saying—a few years ago—that she’s effectively on board with a $30–$50 pay floor: “I’m a fan of, you know, $30 to $50 an hour type thing… people can’t afford even some of the most basic things, choosing between trying to ride the subway and getting a meal.” You can see the CRT-inflected worldview really crystallize in how she talks about crime and victimhood: “We still criminalize communities of color to scapegoat for the powerful and privileged who get away with things… we’ve made people of color to be the face of crime in this city, and that’s why for me part of my platform is to be tough on white-collar crime.” “If I say the word criminal, what gender and race comes to mind? If I say the word victim, what gender and race comes to mind? And why do we have those notions?” Believe it or not, this is yet another failed DA candidate now embedded on Mamdani’s transition team.
3:03

🚨 The Decarceral DA Candidate Who Wanted to Strip Power from the Police Commissioner and Push a $30–$50 Minimum Wage Is Now on Mamdani’s Legal Affairs Team Tahanie Aboushi is a former Democratic candidate for Manhattan DA. In 2021, she ran on a platform of declining to prosecute charges tied to poverty, mental illness, drug use, or prostitution, and shifting away from what she called “knee-jerk, prosecute-at-all-costs, revenge-type prosecution.” Aboushi now sits on Zohran Mamdani’s Legal Affairs transition team—bringing that same decarceral, “systemic oppression” worldview into the upcoming mayoral administration. In her telling, prisons are sites of violence and police power has to be stripped back: “Our prisons and jails are not safe and they’re not sanitary and they’re violent.” “We need to take the final determination of discipline for police officers away from the police commissioner.” She also talks like a wage-policy maximalist, saying—a few years ago—that she’s effectively on board with a $30–$50 pay floor: “I’m a fan of, you know, $30 to $50 an hour type thing… people can’t afford even some of the most basic things, choosing between trying to ride the subway and getting a meal.” You can see the CRT-inflected worldview really crystallize in how she talks about crime and victimhood: “We still criminalize communities of color to scapegoat for the powerful and privileged who get away with things… we’ve made people of color to be the face of crime in this city, and that’s why for me part of my platform is to be tough on white-collar crime.” “If I say the word criminal, what gender and race comes to mind? If I say the word victim, what gender and race comes to mind? And why do we have those notions?” Believe it or not, this is yet another failed DA candidate now embedded on Mamdani’s transition team.

Stu Smith

68,412 views • 8 months ago

THIS IS WHAT THE "BROWN PEOPLE" IN NYC ACTUALLY BELIEVE. He says with Mamdani is in charge and so are the brown people - Whatever the brown people say goes now, so if you are an American citizen and don't have a VISA then get out of his Uber. The Uber driver says the police are going to come and whip his A$$.
0:59

THIS IS WHAT THE "BROWN PEOPLE" IN NYC ACTUALLY BELIEVE. He says with Mamdani is in charge and so are the brown people - Whatever the brown people say goes now, so if you are an American citizen and don't have a VISA then get out of his Uber. The Uber driver says the police are going to come and whip his A$$.

BelannF

69,144 views • 1 month ago

The OFFICIAL preview with returning guest, Father Chad Ripperger “The battle maybe isn’t over the country, not even over the world. It’s over our souls and over our mind. If the battle is within your mind, and demons have access to your mind, and angels have access to your mind, this is no longer a battle of ideas. This is a battle of good and evil. Satan and the demons are gaining much greater ascendancy over the world. As they influence the world more and more, they will use people and the things of this world to go after the one religion that they know is true. You can shuffle the chairs on the deck of the Titanic, but it’s still going to go down if people don’t address this in a spiritual manner.”
6:02

The OFFICIAL preview with returning guest, Father Chad Ripperger “The battle maybe isn’t over the country, not even over the world. It’s over our souls and over our mind. If the battle is within your mind, and demons have access to your mind, and angels have access to your mind, this is no longer a battle of ideas. This is a battle of good and evil. Satan and the demons are gaining much greater ascendancy over the world. As they influence the world more and more, they will use people and the things of this world to go after the one religion that they know is true. You can shuffle the chairs on the deck of the Titanic, but it’s still going to go down if people don’t address this in a spiritual manner.”

Shawn Ryan

222,846 views • 29 days ago

🚨 SCOTT JENNINGS INFURIATES CNN WITH THE TRUTH "The unacknowledged undercurrent here of violence and radicalism is going on, but the DEMOCRATS are playing with fire, and it needs to be discussed — a lot of violence!" "This whole idea of demonizing a people who've been successful, it's a powerful thing right now, but I think one unacknowledged point...there's a dark undercurrent of rage and violence that comes with this." "You look at the Luigi killing of the United Healthcare CEO, the guy who burned down the Palisades in LA, he told the police, he was doing it to get back at the billionaires, they were saying, we're going to surround all the rich people in the country and we're going to sl*t their throats." The left is dangerous.
0:50

🚨 SCOTT JENNINGS INFURIATES CNN WITH THE TRUTH "The unacknowledged undercurrent here of violence and radicalism is going on, but the DEMOCRATS are playing with fire, and it needs to be discussed — a lot of violence!" "This whole idea of demonizing a people who've been successful, it's a powerful thing right now, but I think one unacknowledged point...there's a dark undercurrent of rage and violence that comes with this." "You look at the Luigi killing of the United Healthcare CEO, the guy who burned down the Palisades in LA, he told the police, he was doing it to get back at the billionaires, they were saying, we're going to surround all the rich people in the country and we're going to sl*t their throats." The left is dangerous.

Eric Daugherty

84,363 views • 3 months ago

🚨On Mamdani’s Committee on Worker Justice Team, Bhairavi Desai Sees Genocide, Chaos, and Capitalism Everywhere Bhairavi Desai, founding member of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance and now on Zohran Mamdani’s transition team for the Committee on Worker Justice, frames the current political moment in stark moral and structural terms. She opens with the bleak assessment that “we're living in really terrible times,” adding that “since October 2023, the world has just felt really dark” and that it’s hard to look away “when you know you're living through a genocide.” For Desai, the urgency is structural: “That's the nature of capitalism. It's chaos and cruelty.” “Poverty and militarism” are the reasons Desai got involved in union work, but it doesn't end there. "I look at issues of racism and, you know, sexism and, you know, other forms of bias as really just extensions for me of capitalism and in particular imperialism." Drawing on her membership’s global background, she argues that many taxi workers come from nations “destabilized by the militarism of the U.S., whether it's been dropping bombs or… the overwhelming presence of U.S. military bases.” She links mass deportations to economic restructuring, asserting that deportations target “immigrant workers that are primarily service workers and low-wage workers.” “Immigration is just another way of trying to divide the working class.” Desai insists that defending immigrant workers is integral to the labor movement: “Immigrant rights are workers’ rights. That Trump's immigration policy is a labor policy. "The existential duty of the labor movement to be on the front lines” of these battles." She also delivers a sharp critique of the Democratic Party, saying it is “really hard for a Democratic party that's been the face of a genocide… to now anoint themselves as the safe keepers of democracy.” She argues that “democracy isn’t just about who is able to vote,” but about “equity in our economy,” and that the U.S. has failed to confront “that oligarchy, you know, the extreme consolidation of wealth… is an issue of democracy.” Apologies for the video not being the prettiest, but what a wild speech. A total doozy 😵‍💫
3:56

🚨On Mamdani’s Committee on Worker Justice Team, Bhairavi Desai Sees Genocide, Chaos, and Capitalism Everywhere Bhairavi Desai, founding member of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance and now on Zohran Mamdani’s transition team for the Committee on Worker Justice, frames the current political moment in stark moral and structural terms. She opens with the bleak assessment that “we're living in really terrible times,” adding that “since October 2023, the world has just felt really dark” and that it’s hard to look away “when you know you're living through a genocide.” For Desai, the urgency is structural: “That's the nature of capitalism. It's chaos and cruelty.” “Poverty and militarism” are the reasons Desai got involved in union work, but it doesn't end there. "I look at issues of racism and, you know, sexism and, you know, other forms of bias as really just extensions for me of capitalism and in particular imperialism." Drawing on her membership’s global background, she argues that many taxi workers come from nations “destabilized by the militarism of the U.S., whether it's been dropping bombs or… the overwhelming presence of U.S. military bases.” She links mass deportations to economic restructuring, asserting that deportations target “immigrant workers that are primarily service workers and low-wage workers.” “Immigration is just another way of trying to divide the working class.” Desai insists that defending immigrant workers is integral to the labor movement: “Immigrant rights are workers’ rights. That Trump's immigration policy is a labor policy. "The existential duty of the labor movement to be on the front lines” of these battles." She also delivers a sharp critique of the Democratic Party, saying it is “really hard for a Democratic party that's been the face of a genocide… to now anoint themselves as the safe keepers of democracy.” She argues that “democracy isn’t just about who is able to vote,” but about “equity in our economy,” and that the U.S. has failed to confront “that oligarchy, you know, the extreme consolidation of wealth… is an issue of democracy.” Apologies for the video not being the prettiest, but what a wild speech. A total doozy 😵‍💫

Stu Smith

26,244 views • 8 months ago

🚨 Mamdani Transition Team Member Treats Delivery Work as the Moral Center of Society This is Ligia Guallpa of Los Deliveristas Unidos and the Worker Justice Project, and she’s on Mamdani’s transition team for Worker Justice. Her worldview treats delivery drivers not as one part of a complex city economy, but as the central moral engine of the city, with everything else reframed around their grievances. “What was won today was fought in the streets to transform this industry in jobs that are dignified and that their humanity is respected.” She talks about deliveristas as if they are the most important cog in New York. And yes, it can be a very dangerous job, amplified by the city’s density, traffic, and the pressures of app-based piecework. But can we have an honest conversation about risk, incentives, and tradeoffs, or will drivers’ lives just be used as a political bludgeon? Because “danger” here is not just traffic. Delivery workers are routinely targeted for robberies and assaults, including theft of e-bikes and phones. And the city’s soft-on-crime posture, light consequences, and revolving-door enforcement only makes that problem worse for the very workers activists claim to champion. In her telling, deliveristas survived COVID and are now facing “masked men” in an “anti-immigrant era,” with the looming threat of ICE raids. So what does governance look like here? Another sweeping City Council mandate, like a citywide rule banning parking within 20 feet of all intersections, sold as “deliverista safety,” with Mamdani ready to sign? If the work is truly that dangerous, the adult answer is a mix of enforcement, practical safety changes, and eventually reducing human exposure through delivery automation.
3:54

🚨 Mamdani Transition Team Member Treats Delivery Work as the Moral Center of Society This is Ligia Guallpa of Los Deliveristas Unidos and the Worker Justice Project, and she’s on Mamdani’s transition team for Worker Justice. Her worldview treats delivery drivers not as one part of a complex city economy, but as the central moral engine of the city, with everything else reframed around their grievances. “What was won today was fought in the streets to transform this industry in jobs that are dignified and that their humanity is respected.” She talks about deliveristas as if they are the most important cog in New York. And yes, it can be a very dangerous job, amplified by the city’s density, traffic, and the pressures of app-based piecework. But can we have an honest conversation about risk, incentives, and tradeoffs, or will drivers’ lives just be used as a political bludgeon? Because “danger” here is not just traffic. Delivery workers are routinely targeted for robberies and assaults, including theft of e-bikes and phones. And the city’s soft-on-crime posture, light consequences, and revolving-door enforcement only makes that problem worse for the very workers activists claim to champion. In her telling, deliveristas survived COVID and are now facing “masked men” in an “anti-immigrant era,” with the looming threat of ICE raids. So what does governance look like here? Another sweeping City Council mandate, like a citywide rule banning parking within 20 feet of all intersections, sold as “deliverista safety,” with Mamdani ready to sign? If the work is truly that dangerous, the adult answer is a mix of enforcement, practical safety changes, and eventually reducing human exposure through delivery automation.

Stu Smith

13,884 views • 7 months ago

Context: Tonight’s clashes were not easy to report on. We try our best to understand what the violence is about and who the crowd are. But media are not welcome, as you can see in this video taken by a member of the public. It isn’t possible to engage with the people involved.
0:44

Context: Tonight’s clashes were not easy to report on. We try our best to understand what the violence is about and who the crowd are. But media are not welcome, as you can see in this video taken by a member of the public. It isn’t possible to engage with the people involved.

Paul Brand

833,250 views • 2 years ago

The deranged hatred in this country has gotten out of control. Today I was run off the road in Rocky River, and the life of me and my family was threatened by a person who proceeded to show a Palestinian flag before taking off. I have filed a police report with Capitol Police and the local police department. We know who this person is and he will face justice. As a Marine, a proud Jewish American and a staunch defender of Israel, I will not hide in the face of this blatant antisemitic violence.
1:24

The deranged hatred in this country has gotten out of control. Today I was run off the road in Rocky River, and the life of me and my family was threatened by a person who proceeded to show a Palestinian flag before taking off. I have filed a police report with Capitol Police and the local police department. We know who this person is and he will face justice. As a Marine, a proud Jewish American and a staunch defender of Israel, I will not hide in the face of this blatant antisemitic violence.

Max Miller

1,256,069 views • 1 year ago