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This afternoon, ICE shot and hospitalized someone in Marble Hill, in my district. There is no reforming a terrorizing, unaccountable militia. Our neighbors are not targets. Abolish ICE NOW. Not one more life should be harmed to its guns or its prisons. gothamist.com/news/person-sh…

Darializa was just arrested while peacefully protesting Netanyahu's speech at the United Nations. Our government has unlimited funds to arm a genocide against Palestinians but tells us there's nothing left to feed and house our own people. Stop arming Israel!

Twenty-five years ago today, our city, and our country, were changed forever. Nearly 3,000 people woke up as if it were any other day. They went to work, met friends for breakfast, boarded a plane, or answered an emergency response call, and never made it home. Today, I am thinking of the families who have carried that loss for 25 years: the children whose parents were never able to pick them up after their schools were evacuated, the spouses who called their partners endlessly but could only reach an answering machine, and the brave first responders who gave their lives trying to save New Yorkers and protect our city in its time of need.  Honoring the souls we lost that day – the families, and the survivors from Ground Zero – requires more than remembrance, it requires accountability. Thousands of people were exposed to toxic dust and chemicals in the months after the attacks because city officials told them the air was safe when they knew it wasn’t. Many have suffered chronic illness or premature death as a result of those lies. This is a betrayal by leaders who knew better, and who used the lives of people killed that day to call for war, but never to heal the people 9/11 and its aftermath left behind. We owe these families full, permanent funding for the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund, and the World Trade Center Health Program, and answers as to why this hasn’t happened sooner.  September 11th was an attack on everything New York represents: a home for people of every background, a city where Greek food sits next door to a taqueria, and around the corner from a halal Brazilian steakhouse. Our people are what make New York what it is and we have proven time and time again that when we come together as New Yorkers, we are the greatest city in the world.

Espaillat thinks if he files donations late, we won't notice who's in there. Adriano Espaillat is taking AIPAC donations. From the same people who fund Republicans. Not only is Adriano Espaillat selling us out to AIPAC & Republicans, but he's trying to slip it past us.