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  SHARED FOR EDUCATION AND INFORMATION THAT DEMONSTRATES WHAT  PEOPLE CAN ACCOMPLISH WHEN THEY GET INVOLVED, ORGAIZE  AND SPEAK  OUT!  IMPRESSIVE WIN! I want you to be one of the first to hear it from me: This week the independent Rent Guidelines Board voted to freeze rents on one-year leases and, for the first time in the history of New York City, on two-year leases, too. For more than two million New Yorkers in rent-stabilized homes, the rent will not go up. Let that sink in for a second, because I'm still sitting with it myself. This is the relief that working people across our city deserve. It's a single mom in the Bronx who can breathe a little easier next month. It's a retired teacher in Queens who isn't lying awake doing the math. It’s relief that working people can feel in their own homes, in their own bank accounts, starting now. And, I need you to know that this was your victory. It belongs to every New Yorker who testified and organized to show up at...

  Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Zohran’s big night Three primary victories in New York cement the new mayor’s power The Ink Jun 24 Tonight New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s preferred candidates swept three congressional primaries in the city. If you’ve been reading The Ink all along, you won’t have been the last to know. Read and watch this space, and you’ll always be one step ahead. And subscribe to support this work. ESSAY: Zohran's smile Anand Giridharadas · November 3, 2025 Read full story Pre-order Anand’s next book, Man in the Mirror: Hope, Struggle, and Belonging in an American City . Available September 29, 2026.

  Western Backlash to Ireland’s New President Over Israel The outspoken new Irish president on Israel and NATO was inaugurated today and already the knives are out for her, writes Mick Hall.  Read here... excerpt:  A s Catherine Connolly was inaugurated as Ireland’s 10th president in Dublin Castle today, efforts intensified to undermine the country’s neutrality as it weighs moves to punish Israel for genocide.  Connolly, 68, was elected after winning over 63 percent of the vote in a landslide victory last month, her robust defence of anti-war and anti-genocide positions resonating with the Irish electorate, while causing alarm in Western corridors of power. These are signs that the victory of the anti-imperialist left has served to galvanise establishment forces, both at home and abroad. A former White House national security advisor, Robert C. O’Brien,  writing  in  The  Wall Street Journal  last week ,  warned the Trump   administ...