i cannot believe that “mamdani calls a close adult relative an ‘aunt’ even if they are not literally their parent’s sister” is what counts as a “scandal” these days

I think SNAP money running out and health insurance vanishing might swing votes, but largely because it contributes to a sense of political crisis that becomes unavoidable. But plenty of people undergo personal financial catastrophe - caused by policy, even - with no commensurate political shift.

The worst part emotionally about this apocalypse Is how FUCKING annoying it is we are in a god damn circus of a time and everything is beige We don’t even have a fun Weimar period because these people are so boring AND god damn we’re starving children because our presidents a putz

Been mostly off most socials for the last few weeks and I’m not sure if I’ll ever fully return. It’s the bad place out here. Whew!

My friend told me that her 14 year old son started doing laundry on Sundays for some of his elderly neighbors. He doesn't charge for the labor. And now he is the most popular person in the building and has non stop pies, cookies, and cake. The 14 year old should be our model of modern masculinity.

1 niggas learned how to fuck from Porn 2 niggas don’t ask women what they like 3 women don’t be telling niggas they can’t fuck

looking to talk to folks who are fighting data centers in different parts of the country for a story or two. gimme a holler at [email protected]

I want our young people to know that there is a path forward, that a better world is possible. I don't want them to give up, to become cynical. They deserve to be young and full of optimism. They are owed a world that supports and sustains optimism.

Do not assume that everything they set out to do is inevitable. They have been successfully fought on multiple fronts, from courtroom wins that have actually stuck to city and state governments that haven't backed down, to activists in the streets organizing against their violence.

“My first instinct is to laugh, but I remember that American history is filled with men and women who were as lethal as they are ridiculous,” Ta-Nehisi Coates.

I caught up with Melissa Russo in Queens to talk about our plan to make the slowest buses in the nation fast and free. Watch the full story at @nbcnewyork.com.

I would like a refund for every movie and book who told me the fascists would be evil geniuses when they are, in fact, utter fools.

One of the questions I wrote in the 2026 Sidereal Astrology Guide asked how might the moment we're in require you to change your relationship with social media. I also wrote a lot about privacy for 2026. The online landscape is about to shift majorly.

On holding multiple truths: Miller says the administration will use Kirk's death to dismantle leftist orgs, and people are being targeted professionally. The people who said this would be used against folks were right. AND there were also already plans to dismantle leftist orgs (see Project Esther).

Top *eight* articles on NYT devoted to Charlie Kirk, top one asks if he will be remembered like MLK. This is a man who only a tiny percent of Americans had even heard of before his death, whose views are too nasty for NYT to detail. But they are trying so hard to turn into martyr.

Unfortunately Ugandans have also become anti vaxxers

Black gay boys don’t need to be perfect to be cared for and protected. (Re: Lil Nas X)

CRAFT FAIR FOR GAZA! Tomorrow! 629 Nostrand Ave. 12-6 PM

The lack of mainstream coverage of regular huge protests reminds me of a talk from a Twitter employees who explained that they had to drop BLM off the Trending Tags section because otherwise it would have been there permanently. The modern media environment has no appetite for sustained movements.

AI companies warn their tech will wipe out huge numbers of jobs. But what are workers finding? This week @bcmerchant.bsky.social is back to chat with @parismarx.com about whether the AI bubble is bursting and how bosses are using AI hype against workers. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/292_...

Nothing seems to upset billionaires more than the fact that despite all that money, they’re still mortal just like the rest of us. That their lives are finite too. And no amount of money can turn them into immortal Gods.

“Forgiveness” as christian principle developed to cull revolutions

NEW: “Arrested in the Office of DEI” - On the New Racial Regime with Alana Lentin millennialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/arrested-in-...

Someone asked me what victory against the forces seeking to occupy Chicago looks like. Obviously, those forces being repelled is the goal, but there are layers to what success looks like in these deteriorating conditions. The first is to successfully resist the normalization of military occupation.

I wrote a poem today open.substack.com/pub/kemigish...

Forgive yourself and move on.

I see you just posted something inspirational. First time on the internet?

I actually wouldn't buy anything outlandish if I won $500MM. All I want is for my house to be comfortable (including my backyard and garage), my family not to struggle financially, and to get a bunch of worker cooperatives off the ground

Getting yelled at on the internet is not what turns people into fascists.

There are no words to describe what it's like to be at the #PeoplesConferenceforPalestine the same weekend as the 20th anniversary of Katrina when my heart broke into a million pieces as I watched Black folks in a community I am connected to deliberately left to die & then criminalized for surviving

I saw the greatest minds of several generations destroyed by Immanuel Kant

In this News Brief, we detail recent "updates" pro-Israel crybullies have pressured media outlets to make (some more willing than others) that give readers the distinct impression emaciated children in Gaza aren't really an urgent humanitarian crisis if they have rickets, cancer, or cerebral palsy.

- RSF drone strike reported on Higleig oil fields in S. Kordofan yesterday; several civilians reported killed & injured. - This is the 2nd attack in the past week; "the first occurred on August 26, killing 5 people and injuring 7 others." (Sudan Tribune) #KeepEyesOnSudan

Aalaa is in the final stretch of a long and arduous journey that started with evacuating her family and getting them critical medical treatment. Please help her close out this campaign! gofund.me/332481ed #KeepEyesOnSudan

IMO it should be a crime for a landlord to only provide one washing machine for an entire apartment building

What's the opposite of sending healing vibes someone's way?

there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...

Ever notice how the oppressive capitalist ruling class are never divided by skin colour, sexual orientation, or any other petty culture wars bullshit? They're very united in their pursuit of profit, their exploitation of the working class, and imperialist and genocidal ambitions.

Here's something I think a lot of folks don't yet understand, but 16 states' worth of CVSes refusing to give out Covid shots *is* actually preventing people from accessing them. They are the biggest pharmacy chain in the country and they own Aetna insurance, often forcing those clients to use CVS.

Newsom threw trans people under the bus and is so hyped about clearing homeless encampments that he's taken up the work with his own hands. You won't beat fascism with Diet Fascism.

What does gentrification have to do with authoritarianism? I talked with @xandrewleex.bsky.social about how displacement, surveillance, and “quality of life” policing function as tools of social control—and why housing struggles are class struggles.

zohran mamdani is making me filled with too much hope for the future whatever happened to the good old politics of “everything must be dog shit”

People do this thing regularly online: "this word is just made up" and it's always so funny to me because every fucking word is made it. That's language. It changes all of the time. That's why the dictionary adds words REGULARLY.

You cannot disappear "intersectionality" - it's an actual theoretical concept. For the rest of your life, that word and concept will be in use.

Zohran has made me miss NYC so much 😭😭😭

The scavenger hunt is using NYC mayoral history to paint Mamdani as firmly within the mainstream of that history. On age. On DSA membership. On public transportation policy. It's such a smart way to launch the general election campaign.

the #ZcavengerHunt is apparently so popular that campaign staff have run out of the cards you’re supposed to get stamped at each location, which means that tomorrow the NYT & the Post will definitely have headlines about how Mamdani is already overwhelmed & failing to meet the needs of New Yorkers