Endorsement: Claire Valdez for Congress (NY‑07)

This is Endorsement #12 — for Claire Valdez, running for Congress in New York’s 7th Congressional District (NY‑07).

She’s an Assemblymember, a union organizer, and a proud democratic socialist running a campaign centered on housing, healthcare, and workers’ rights.

She’s also been endorsed by labor leaders, including UAW President Shawn Fain, and by Zohran Mamdani.

Why this endorsement

• Labor movement candidate. A working‑class, union‑rooted voice who talks about corporate power like it’s real (because it is).
• Affordability first. A serious focus on housing costs, healthcare, and dignity for working people.
• Solidarity beyond borders. Clear opposition to funding forever wars, and a willingness to stand up against systems that cage and terrorize working families.

If that’s the kind of representation you want in Congress, chip in, volunteer, and share the campaign.

Great TV Shows - Part 4

Five TV picks — darkly funny crime, a classic cold-case procedural, two big Apple TV+ comedies, and a Hollywood satire.

Fargo (Hulu)

Anthology of darkly comic crime tales — each season stands alone, the casting is always great, and the tension sneaks up on you.

Cold Case (HBO Max)

Detective Lilly Rush reopens dormant Philadelphia homicide investigations — a procedural with real emotional weight and great period flashbacks.

Ted Lasso (Apple TV+)

An American football coach is hired to manage a British soccer team — funny, warm, and ridiculously easy to binge.

The Studio (Apple TV+)

Seth Rogen plays the newly appointed head of a movie studio, trying to keep movies alive while juggling corporate demands, egos, and chaos.

Platonic (Apple TV+)

Two former best friends reconnect in midlife — strictly platonic, wildly funny, and destabilizing in the best way.

Movies That Make You Think — Part 15

Four Hulu picks with that “hangs in your head afterward” quality — rights, paranoia, digital labor, and family history.

Call Jane (Hulu)

A story about how quickly “normal life” becomes an emergency — and what people do when the system gives them no safe options.

Neighborhood Watch (Hulu)

A tense mystery built around one question: if you think you saw something terrible happen, how far do you go to prove it?

American Sweatshop (Hulu)

A thriller with a very modern premise: what happens to your brain — and your moral compass — when your job is to stare at humanity’s worst content all day.

A Real Pain (Hulu)

Two cousins travel through Poland to honor their grandmother — funny, uncomfortable, and surprisingly moving as old dynamics surface.

EVERY politician should be doing this. [Video]

EVERY politician should be doing this.

His whole team was meeting with everyday New Yorkers — and they are ALL TAKING NOTES.

This is what leadership looks like: show up, listen, and document what people are actually struggling with.