Here is Tom Steyer personally supporting high school trans athlete AB Hernandez. I don't think I've ever seen a candidate as brave as Tom Steyer in his explicit support for trans folks. It says a lot that it took a self funded billionaire not dependent on donors to do it.

One of my strongest takeaways from the Bee this week is that it was a showcase for why critical thinking matters more than ever. So much of what the kids do up there isn’t rote memorization—it’s using their insane prep to solve words like puzzles (using etymology, patterns) in real time.

Now imagine the starting QB for your NFL franchise just voluntarily decided to associate with the same figure that’s too toxic for Young MC and Bret Michaels.

Let Espaillat defend his seat in a primary. I’d be interested to see how central Harlem votes. We left after 13 years because the zombie-fication became untenable. The highest concentration of drug treatment and recovery facilities in NYC makes for an impossible situation for residents.

This is going to be a short concert. www.instagram.com/p/DY5s4J5qPR...

Love how they don’t want to get along well enough to get to the apocalypse they’re supposed to be surviving

DOJ Launches Criminal Investigation Into All Women

extremely funny that they didn't plan the meeting around the existence of Eid

For folks blessedly disconnected from the meme/story, it was especially popular in white supremacist circles. Which liked to argue that zoo officials should have just let the Black toddler that had entered the animal's enclosure die

It’s interesting watching the people who absolutely love it when Trump calls female reporters “piggy” or “fucking bitches” clutch their pearls and cry because someone called Stephen Miller an ugly fuck.

The White House communications director recently told Mike Pompeo "to shut his stupid mouth" because he didn't know "what the fuck he was talking about.“ But the language isn't newsworthy because that's Cheung's default communication style.

People enter and exit a subway station on 34th Street as the sun sets on the Empire State Building and an 89 percent illuminated waxing gibbous moon rises behind it in New York City, Wednesday evening. A blue moon is coming on Sunday #newyork #nyc #newyorkcity #sunset

my god

Young people are always told what not to do. But what should you do? Did you know that most public libraries have a Nintendo Switch to use? That parks show free movies at night? That there's a map of pickup basketball games?

i need hell to be real so bad, man

What we’re seeing is “respectable” conservatives openly moving to the position that the *only* acceptable form of Christianity is one rooted in white Christian nationalism.

Fantastic visuals. The case for California's billionaire wealth tax www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I wrote about the books that are inspiring so many heated takes right now, and how they allow us to question where we are and what our feminist ideals have become. www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-...

@nycsanitation.bsky.social I’d like to report a sweep

KNICKS IN FOUR GREATEST CITY IN THE WORLD LETS FUCKING GO

website that picks the Rothko closest to how the weather feels in your location (by Joonas Virtanen) rothko.joonas.wtf

Pope Leo quoting Tolkien in his encyclical on AI seems like a pointed reference for the tech oligarchs who have appropriated LOTR for their own ends.

it's so relieving for a politician to just come out and say it. the best we've been able to hope for is dodging and quiet support later, it feels significant that a candidate is making a clear stand in favor of trans people even on this wedge issue

Blaming Fetterman’s and Dart’s politics on brain injury is a form of ableism that allows people to avoid the way their politics perfectly align with a hegemonic vision of white masculinity.

Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class.

It really is the most unstable people you know who become therapists

1. Caste. Most people in the west don’t understand that the waves of engineers and doctors who immigrated out of India in the 70s and onwards were ‘high’ caste folks, who resented the Indian equivalent of affirmative action for caste. Caste solidarity is very powerful…/

I don’t much of the online discourse these days and do not care. But, of what I’ve gleaned, we need to institute a national home economics course for everyone under the age of 45. You know, after the revolution and all of that is buttoned up.

Just re-upping this prediction I made TWO MONTHS AGO:

everyone loved the tech industry's free music and friendship machines of 20-30 years ago. it's unclear what could be causing people to feel the opposite about the industry's new racism and insanity machine

Mamdani-era Knicks are a beast lmao

Tipping exists because of this man....George Pullman. He revolutionized transportation by inventing "the sleeping car," which is essentially the "1st class" of train travel. But the true innovation was who he chose to hire

“Ok sure you wanted to be a graphic designer or a writer or have any type of agency about your future or whatever, but what you’re not evolved enough to understand is that I, a guy who disdains all human life, think you should be generationally impoverished by my thing instead”

because I know y’all can’t click and read

"the thing holding the coalition together is a base-line eco-fascist motherhood politics that merges libertarian individualism with consumer choice and frames keeping track of it all as women’s natural, right and proper societal role" 🔥🔥

You come to me, on the day of my son's wedding, which I am not attending

There is a great little reported detail at the end of this story by @bytimgraham.bsky.social that yells louder than any headline or hot take could. www.nytimes.com/athletic/729...

Still laughing at Drake using imagery from a man also accused of inappropriate sexual relations as the cover art for an album spent responding losing a battle in which the major takeaway was the he was a pedophile. He really is not like me.

biggest barrier to AOC winning the presidency is an awful media environment; second biggest is getting sandbagged by operatives / orgs. who would rather be in the minority for 4 years because they don't think they'll get White House gigs and access

Here is a Mitch McConnell with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer and Steny Hoyer, huddled in a secure room in the Capitol on Jan 6, on speakerphone with the Pentagon begging for help from screaming mob. The Pentagon was not immediately helpful.

Bezos told CNBC there is "way too much corporate welfare, way too much corporate subsidies" the Trump admin literally JUST redirected billions in infrastructure bill taxpayer subsidies to his LEO satellite broadband company for service he ALREADY PLANNED TO DEPLOY shameless fuck

You can call me a scold or a hater or a doomer, but at least I am not a rube falling for the most obviously incapable group of idiots telling you they know what they're doing and sending them $7 to tell you how awesome Cory Booker is

I’ve never really seen a prominent Dem tie the “defund the police” concept to fiscal responsibility and I don’t know why. A message that police are wasting tax payer dollars on settlements for abuse can still be spun as “backing the Blue”. It’s simply “draining the swamp”.

The extent to which launching with "hey creatives, we stole all of your stuff but it's fair use for the good of humanity, now we're going to charge other people to replace you with it" poisoned the well is hard to overstate.

That man says he is working class because he works with his hands and has a massively appreciated asset.

I was just talking about this. AI in a robust social safety net is very different than AI in a scam economy without one.