Rabbi @abbystein.bsky.social & @lilygreenbergcall.bsky.social recite the mourner's kaddish at #ReneeNicoleGood's memorial. This is the place where she was murdered by ICE.

You have to be so deep in an epistemic bubble for this to not reach you and horrify you. Abolish ICE. Burn it to the ground and start over.

Grocery store shelves are emptying rapidly and FreshDirect is sold out on deliveries for the whole weekend. NYC reacting extremely calmly to this impending snow!

“Democratic politicians and business & technocratic elites should be shamed and humiliated by how normal people have met this moment while most Democrats pretended it was business as usual and many elites openly curried favor with the regime instead of resisting.” www.thebulwark.com/p/how-the-me...

One of the big trends in opposition activism during Trump 2.0 has been the localism of protest. This level of organizing is pretty astonishing to watch, and anyone who insists that there haven't been any protests against Trump is simply ignoring it www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

For people asking “why isn’t there a general strike?” earnestly, and not just to be a judgmental prick

Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."

This lineup is exactly what the Academy votership overhaul several years ago was going for: More room for genre. A year when the huge, popular movie with the black cast ISN'T the surprise "Oops" omission. And a more international look--nineteen nominations for foreign films this year.

Anyway what’s amazing is that it’s a vampire movie but the real monster is the inescapable labyrinth of the Jim Crow economy. www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

someday every schoolchild in America will be taught about the siege of Minneapolis Meet the Minneapolis neighbors standing up to ICE by the thousands www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Hell yeah, Oscar nominee Delroy Lindo!

I picked a hell of a week to visit Europe, and Switzerland, at that.l I’ve spent three days at an international gathering, and, Americans: everybody else is deep into planning a post-US world. We are only worth considering as an opponent. New alliances are being formed. We are being left behind.

the western alliance was born in the fires of the most catastrophic conflict in the history of the world. republicans are spitting on the graves of the dead. these men and women are human filth.

I sat in a meeting last night about how to best protect the people who use our church building from ICE and at one point I thought about this pastor. I don’t think church services should be interrupted lightly but neither should daycares and schools 🤷‍♀️

completely unironically, this is how we'll know

butchering Adam Serwer's quote but "everybody who voted for Trump wanted somebody to get got, they just didn't realize that they were that somebody to somebody else"

mystifying why people like this guy more than chuck schumer

They call him the Hiphopapotamus, his lyrics are bottomless…

The thing is, Mamdani never ignored the other stuff going wrong, but was very good at tying it back to an affordability message. Even David Shor gets that “They took money away from your healthcare to fund jackbooted thugs killing moms in Minnesota” is a stronger message than just “prices too high”

This is the future liberals want

The downside of following the Brooklyn feed here is that I now know way more about the Beckham family drama than I ever wanted to know

Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools

because from my vantage point, the white house does not have a win condition. like so many past occupiers, it seems to believe that a sufficient show of force will deter opposition. but like most occupations, the only thing you get with more force is greater resolve.

Happy MLK Day!

Minneapolis has already mounted stronger opposition to a fash federal government than any city in Russia. The fact that they're doing this primarily *without* the help of the opposition party, the natl press, or practically any institutions at all makes it that much more remarkable.

January 18, 1911: Danny Kaye [David Daniel Kaminski], comedian and actor is born in Brooklyn, New York.

For example, we don't want a perpetual cycle of purge and counter-purge in the civil service every time there's a new administration. But those protections can't be reestablished and strengthened until there is a purge of all the corrupt Trumpists and criminals now in place. They have to go first.

There's no return to status quo normalcy the day after Trump (or Vance) is gone. That is only the start of a period, for some years, of reconstruction to establish a new constitutional settlement. And that means, by necessity, extraordinary measures not necessarily intended to be permanent features.

An excellent excuse to repost this banger from 2020

I would read a self-reflective essay from any Harper's Letter signatory. Why did you sign the letter? What have you thought since then? What have you reconsidered? Where were you wrong?

This is the same judge who tried to get abortion drugs banned in the US, and the go-to for forum-shopping MAGA chuds. His “history” of free speech is as bad as his science

(A) it’s meaningful that he’s doing this with the Speaker, giving her some shine, and (B) compare and contrast their comfort with being on camera. Mamdani is just really good at this.

Had the privilege of designing the cover for the VERY long-awaited album by Souled American, whose music has meant more to me than I can explain Releases 4/17 but there’s a song out now & you can advance buy/presave etc Thank you to Chris and Joe for the trust, the cover painting, and the music.

you know this guy is a FOR REAL photographer because he's telling the story of his brutal, unconditional arrest by federal goons and can't help but slip in a gear review

Extremely cinematic precipitation in Brooklyn rn

Looks like the NYT was waiting to verify the attribution of these words to Ross before printing them, because they’re on the record now: “The video shows the car careening down the street. Mr. Ross can be heard muttering, according to a Times audio and video analysis, ‘Fucking bitch.’ ”

The standard for “cultural revolution” according to centrist and right wing commentators is “liberals being loud about their opinions” whereas Trump is making prosecution, regulatory, and funding decisions based on the politics of the speaker but that’s also libs fault for making him mad

Also, if you want to know why certain hidebound American Jewish institutions like ADL and AJC are facing a legitimacy crisis among younger Jews, I suspect Gaza is only half of it, and the other half is their silence on what is very clearly an ethnic cleansing attempt within our own borders.

Ridiculous that you can’t get a Testament of Ann Lee promotional deal at Shake Shack

Exactly. Dems keep trying to pivot the conversation back to affordability but what is their signature policy on this issue? Once we’re finally talking about it they have nothing to say.

i have been reading Tom Ricks’ “Fighting the Good War” which is a military analysis of the civil rights movement, and one thing that comes abundantly across is that movement leaders and ordinary people made it a practice to refuse to fall into despair and cynicism.

Evergreen: “The men who were less-skilled at the game and performing worse relative peers—made frequent, nasty comments to female gamers. In other words, sexist dudes are literally losers.” www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-int...

JFK: the airport that dares to ask “what if arriving at and leaving from the airport could be the worst part of your trip?”

My flight to SFO had the entire first season of THE PITT available to watch. My flight home on the same airline does not. I demand a refund!

We recently tested ~ a dozen public statements from a diverse set of Democratic elected officials on the murder of Renee Good and this was the top testing one

An important way to help people under attack in Minneapolis!

🧵1/Locating a trial in an African country where you give one population access to a vaccine at birth and refuse to give another population that vaccine is, indeed, like the Tuskegee Experiment. You experimenting on a vulnerable, racialized population. This is abhorrent.

It’s disgusting that Tony Kushner had to stand up to a man who was saying Renee Good got what was coming to her. But without that happening we might never have known that he needlepoints pillows with scenes from The Shining