A dive into how right wing oligarch Elon Musk killed hundreds of thousands of people from former USAID global health official Nicholas Enrich. He explains the catastrophic human toll of DOGE's cuts to the agency via @currentaffairs.bsky.social. www.currentaffairs.org/news/how-elo... #InvestigateDOGE

To our dismay, the artist and author Marjane Satrapi has passed away. As she wrote, ordinary Americans and Iranians have more in common with each other than we do with either of our governments, which have far too much in common with each other. We honor her memory and oppose the war.

I’ve now seen one story since the NYC power grid added just a massive amount of renewable energy on Monday. About 20% of the city’s grid is now renewable energy! Should be a huge good news story! Share the news 🎉🎉🎉 www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/06/03/c...

Bro do you even uplift queer voices?

📚🎧 #CurrentlyReading Legendborn by @tracydeonn.bsky.social A contemporary Arthurian fantasy with a secret society of mages and a protagonist discovering her own Black Girl Magic tied to ancestral power. Mystery, grief, and magic colliding on my hometown college campus. #BookSky #YAFantasy

⭐️⭐⭐⭐⭐ Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism by @harshawalia.bsky.social I want to spike this book in a metaphoric end-zone. Someone articulated all the connections at once. It is all one problem & we can throw it out and build something else 🤩 #BookSky

📚 May 2026 reads: - Hope in the Dark by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social - Elite Capture by @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social - Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow - Chain-Gang All-Stars - The Killing Fields of East New York - The Edge of Space-Time by @chanda.blacksky.app

At least 46 (some saying 63) people were arrested by NJSP last night and are still being held in custody more than 12 hours later. NJSP kettled people half a mile from Delaney Hall, made press leave under threat of arrest, and then aggressively moved in on those who remained.

⭐⭐⭐⭐☆ The Edge of Space-Time by @chanda.blacksky.app My TBR grew significantly from all the cool quotes referenced. I finished wishing for more. More string theory! More loops! What does it all mean? Maybe I’ll take Chanda’s encouragement & discover the answer myself. #BookSky #Physics #Cosmology

🚨EXCLUSIVE: A top anti-Delaney Hall organizer confirms to SC that NJ state police & ICE coordinated last night b4 police attacked protesters w/ flash bang grenades, tear gas, & horses. The organizer received a call from NJ AG's office about 15 minutes b4 police attacked... bsky.app/profile/stat...

on this day 105 years ago in 1921 the Tulsa Race Massacre began when white supremacists destroyed Tulsa's Greenwood district. This group of citizens destroyed 35 blocks of "Black Wall Street", killed 300, and left 10,000 Black citizens homeless.

📚 #CurrentlyReading The Edge of Space-Time: Particles, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream by Dr Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (@chanda.blacksky.app) A fcharming exploration of cosmology and space-time weaving together particle physics, poetry, and Afrofuturism. #BookSky #Physics

Shrey spelling 32 words in 90 seconds to win the Spelling Bee is the new greatest athletic accomplishment of 2026. I don’t even know how he said the letters that fast. Got a “Holy Mackerel” out of @minakimes.bsky.social

I have a new piece out Reflecting on 20 years of migrant struggles, it goes into what abolish ICE does - and doesn't - mean; merging of immigration enforcement with policing & military power; and how fascism is made through bordering. Despite resisting it for so long, I also now define the border.

I didn’t enjoy how the story The Killing Fields of East New York was structured by the author, but I can’t stop laughing at this quote from early in the book. “But it was.” 💀 #BookSky #KillingFieldsOfEastNewYork #Nonfiction

NEW: An investigation by @thecity.nyc, based on a database of more than 1,200 lawsuits, shows that ICE agents in the field have seized Latinos in numbers that far exceed their share of the undocumented population.

Real public safety means investing in people before tragedy strikes: summer jobs, mental health support, community programs, safe streets, and trusted messengers who grew up in our neighborhoods. Watch the full video here: youtu.be/huD67kN5csU

Can't stop listening to @whereismuna.bsky.social's latest album "Dancing on the Wall". Every song is a catchy, dancey heartbreak of unrequited sapphic longing and I 😻 #MusicSky

⭐⭐⭐⭐☆ Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah 📚 A brilliant meditation on the prison industrial complex, modern slavery, and the dual nature of humanity as a deeply loving and deeply violent species. A brutal but essential read. #BookSky

I stand with the LIRR workers on strike!

The impulse to diversify canonical works like The Odyssey is the whole concept of a canon doing what it’s supposed to do — serving as broad cultural patrimony rather than as a curious foreign story. www.slowboring.com/p/a-diverse-...

Mike Johnson thinks the Congressional salary is too low. Here's the same advice he gives working people: •Get a Second job at $7.25/hr •Go to college w/an 8% loan •Split rent on a studio apt •Dont buy avocado toast •”Find something new” •Make coffee at home •Move in w/parents •Learn to code Be Best!

As of midnight, the Long Island Rail Road has officially halted all service due to a worker strike. After contract negotiations between the MTA and a coalition of five unions stalled over wage increases, a deal could not be reached. See more here: https://bit.ly/4dg9IKF 

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📚🎧 #CurrentlyReading Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Multiple perspectives means characters reveal their own complicity in the system. Incredible. I’ve read a lot of nonfiction abolitionist literature, and this is a classic example of FICTION teaching thru imagination. #BookSky

I am yet again begging anyone who loves a pregnancy-capable person (that's everyone!) to order pills TODAY and keep them on your shelf. We need as many already in our hands as possible.

📚⭐⭐⭐⭐ Hope in the Dark by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social reminded me that victory isn’t binary and history tips on a single grain of sand. I caught the “God is Change” flame from Parable of the Sower last month, & this fans it intensely. Not my all-time favorite, but a must for friends stuck in despair.

A reminder that this is why we make fun of The Odyssey. The book would not exist if Odysseus was not such a complete chaos goblin who was busy causing problems for himself by arguing with Gods and being a shit navigator. There is no way to make an extremely serious movie out of this material.

Mifepristone is safer than tylenol. Mifepristone is safer than viagra. Mifepristone is safer than childbirth.

My decade on film sets is yet again super relevant to AI.

Workers’ rights = immigrant rights. Labor & immigration aren’t separate fights—they are one movement against exploitation, exclusion, and authoritarianism. #MayDay

📚In April I read: - Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler (5 ⭐️) - Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction. By Arundhati Roy (4.25⭐️) - House of Monstrous Women by Daphne Fama (3.25⭐️)

happy may day! every right you have as a worker was written in blood ❤️

A little Black girl born today has fewer reproductive and voting rights than her grandmother. I don't have words for the rage.

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.

People rallying inside @governor.ny.gov’s NYC Midtown office are reading testimonies from New Yorkers across the state who are at risk of losing their health insurance from Trump’s cuts which they are calling on Hochul to stop. As they rally, 1 unit of SRG has mobilized outside.

i bet part of the reason the US is getting its stupid fascist ass handed to it is that Iran can accurately predict what the US is about to do by watching polymarket for a whole bunch of large bets at the same time all of a sudden

I went to the #dentist for a reg cleaning in Dec. Doc said a filling needed replacing. In four months, replace old filling -> pain from crack in tooth -> install temp crown for crack -> need root canal before permanent crown installed. I've left every visit with MORE tooth pain than before 🤬🦷🤕

Pauli Murray's autobiography 'Song in a Weary Throat' is one of my favorite books and a must-read if you are interested in US & women & Black & queer liberation history. Pauli was involved in founding *every* 20th C social justice movement. Beyond remarkable.

Climate change is making the world’s oceans, which have absorbed more than 90 percent of the excess heat trapped by greenhouse gas emissions, more hospitable to Vibrio. Here's what you should know. Via @grist.org @statesnewsroom.com #ncpol

House of Monstrous Women by Daphne Fama ★★★¼ Fama tells a vivid story. The house is eldritch, the dread is real. But 60%+ is backstory before the game begins, and she shows then immediately tells throughout the story. Trust your writing, trust us. Full review: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/cb5d...

Readalong "Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism" by Harsha Walia with me on #StoryGraph: app.thestorygraph.com/readalongs/3... #CurrentlyReading #BookSky #nonfiction

We're launching the national Working Families Guarantee. We can win a real agenda for working people — but only if we fight for it. wfpus.org/guarantee

Since @governor.ny.gov won't listen to working class New Yorkers, we found the only people she *does * listen to: The Rich. So take it from @patrioticmillionaires.org: taxing the rich's second homes is just the start. It's time to Tax The Rich and stop Trump's cuts for good.