“I cannot overstate how much knowledge is housed in this library about literally our entire universe,” she told me. “The most expansive understanding of human knowledge about space is being packed up.” This is on the chopping block now. Contact your Congressional members, Reps and Sens to stop it!

Great article - combines so many of my favs: Modernism, Black Mountain, Progressive North Carolina!

“The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and racism. The problems of racial injustice and economic injustice cannot be solved without a radical redistribution of political and economic power.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. Speech to the SCLC March 30, 1967

Last year's arrest of Mahmoud Khalil was more than just a chilling act of political repression, it was an attack on all of our constitutional rights. Now, as the crackdown on pro-Palestinian free speech continues, Mahmoud is being threatened with rearrest. Mahmoud is free—and must remain free.

Seeing Zohran instantly getting a bunch of shit done in like a week makes you realize that politicians could always do that on some level if they wanted it bad enough and very few of them actually do.

"By God We'll Have Our Home Again is a white nationalist song sung to the tune of Rolling Down to Old Maui, a 19th century sea shanty. Its lyrics are most often credited to a U.S. fraternal neo-Nazi group." -Hatepedia

Just a reminder that George Conway is not fundraising right now to run against a MAGA republican. He is fundraising to run against progressive Democrats.

“Can’t believe NYC elected a Muslim as mayor.” In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.

I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along

I've probably photographed Brad Lander more than any other elected in NYC because the dude shows up. He's everywhere, he's incredibly accessible, and he genuinely loves New Yorkers. You can literally go up and talk to him whenever he shows up. Go ahead, try it! (I have NEVER seen Goldman ANYWHERE.)

Agreed. In college I worked at a theater and would watch films with the projectionist after they were built up - assembled out of reels onto the platter. One of my favorite experiences. Crank it up, crack a beer, no one talking.

If you ever wondered what GOP gerrymandering looks like in red states with blue cities, I present:

She shouldn't have to keep doing this by herself. She is supposedly a member of a political party and every single one of her *colleagues* should be BLASTING the fascist in chief. ALL OF THEM. Where is the solidarity???

Let *this* be the future of the Democratic Party.

@citibikenyc.bsky.social come get your bikes

@citibikenyc.bsky.social come get your bike

lmaooooo matt just told me the one korean hyundai engineer who chose to remain in the country is only doing so out of spite so he can sue the US government I LOVE YOU KOREANS

I can’t quite put it into words yet, but something is happening, a kind of global singularity—a fusion of tech/media/news/government/employment which allows the global elite to push single agendas: “You WILL care about Charlie Kirk. You will NOT care about Palestine. You WILL fear cancel culture.”

"There is a separation of white people and colored people in the United States. That separation is not a disease of colored people. It is a disease of white people. I do not intend to be quiet about it." - Albert Einstein, 1946

When Ted Turner asked Carl Sagan if he was a socialist, Sagan gave the answer America keeps failing to learn.

To my 10th grade English teacher, who said, “Make the conclusion count.”

FLASHBACK: “I say this to my Republican colleagues who are defending the indefensible: There will come a day when Trump is gone, but your dishonor will remain.”

everyone should have a handful of friends that by comparison make you remember you are a dumb piece of shit like, in a healthy way

OMG this is beautiful, A+, 10/10, no notes. Sure thing buddy, William F. Buckley's right up there with James Baldwin, in fact he's a better writer. You just go on believing that while listening to the most talented musician of all time, Kid Rock.

Including Erin today, there have been 42 hurricanes that have reached Category 5 in the Atlantic since records began in 1851. 11 of those have happened in the past 10 years. Climate change is increasing the maximum strength of hurricanes — so stronger storms now happen more often.

My friend who is an Iraq war veteran was out tonight walking his dog in DC and came up on this scene – with federal agents, including secret service, hassling a citizen and violating his rights while intimidating the public

American mainstream political culture makes a lot more sense when you realize that most people's goal is not to improve their own conditions but rather to make the people they imagine to be their enemies mad

just saw a 1-star google maps review of a community college that said "i only go to this joke of a college because it's cheap and the professors are good." what ... what else do you want out of a college my guy

Holy shit.

Are you eligible to vote as a Democrat in New York City? For the next four years, every time anyone from New York City complains to me on bluesky, I'll ask if they voted in this primary. You have choices, and those choices matter.

Someone has gone through and actually run the numbers on molestation crimes against children. The politicians who commit these crimes are overwhelmingly Republican. 67% of politicians convicted between February 10, 2023 and May 23, 2024 nationwide were Republicans. www.whoismakingnews.com

One thing that living in a city during a heat wave makes clear to you is that you live closer to the environment here than in suburbia. I’m about to go home where I will walk from an air-conditioned house to a car with A/C to a mall with A/C, but in New York I sweat on the train platform.

There is a very simple reason New York Democrats shouldn't vote for Andrew Cuomo: he is actually a Republican. When given a chance to help Republicans maintain control of his state, he took it. He actively works to keep Democrats from achieving their goals and takes money from Trump supporters.

Brad Lander showed true courage in standing up to Trump's authoritarian regime. He also deserves a top ranking on New Yorkers' ballots. @bradlander.bsky.social

Zohran Mamdani is standing up to the oligarchy and fighting to make one of America’s most expensive cities affordable for the working class. If you’re a New York City voter, I urge you to rank him #1 on your ballot by next Tuesday. @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

it takes a special brand of political incompetence to see millions of people marching against the opposition and not do anything to seize that momentum but it appears dem leadership has decided to do just that

Yelling “what’s your name???” at people getting arrested for a violation while surrounded by cameras is a great way to dox them.

just because these people live in a state that has been turned into an autocratic hell by people who have destroyed the states democracy does not mean they are less Americans or lesser people and there are a whole lot of people who would rather throw them away, then do the hard political work needed

great reminder to all of those Democrats and liberals saying that we need to abandon red states because they are gerrymandered into right wing autocracies where the vote isn’t in their favor instead of accepting that we are gonna have to fight for every American no matter where they are.

This is such a lovely tribute to Val Kilmer from Hilarie Burton ❤️

In his 1957 filibuster, Strom Thurmond said "Negroes ... are not so well qualified to vote as are the white people.” A Black senator just broke the record Thurmond set with that speech. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/cory-bo...

Another confederate monument falls into the trash can of history. History is made.

It makes a certain variety of white liberal feel good to shit on the South. If you’ve never lived here, it’s legitimately impossible to understand why Southern activists and organizers are who you should be looking to to lead us out of this fucking mess. They know US fascism better than anyone.

Sen. Cory Booker has been speaking on the Senate floor for more than 13 hours — taking aim at Trump, Musk, and America's 'moral moment'. Just after hitting the 12-hour mark, Booker said, "I am standing here because of a national crisis that is growing."

The purpose of the deportations we have been seeing has not been to fight antisemitism, but rather to use antisemitism as a beachhead to eventually do away with foreign students altogether, using Jews as a pretext for a non-Jewish political agenda.

I don’t have a fancy lesson I delivered about the #SuperBowlHalftimeShow Before I showed it, I instructed my students to write down three words and document when they noticed them: •imagery •symbolism •message We watched once all the way through, then we broke down where my students noted. +

They are seeking to criminalize integration efforts across public life. We must be clear eyed and direct about what’s happening here. We have not witnessed this blatant of a comprehensive governmental attack on integration since the Civil Rights Movement. slate.com/news-and-pol...

lol well done Atlanta!