The Trump admin’s censorship agenda is chilling & relentless. I counted 200+ attempts in 2025 to muzzle press, protesters, public servants, judges, law firms, universities, corporations. But resistance has blunted this campaign & we must fiercely defend free speech: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/o...

NYU law professor Ryan Goodman and his nonpartisan team compiled a review that found more than 35 federal judges had explicitly stated that the Trump’s Justice Department lawyers were providing false, highly misleading, or intentionally inaccurate information in cases.

Not sure BlueSky is the right place for hip-hop, but I wrote an anti-war poem that a reader dared me to put on a beat. Don’t threaten me with a good time

moots with the new mayor of nyc

The day of the Uvalde shooting I rushed to my son's daycare, a small, in-home business like this one run by a wonderful Pakistani woman. I told her what happened & we wept while we reviewed her safety protocols. We weren't afraid of immigrants, we were afraid of young American men like these idiots.

@shayan86.bsky.social and his team are verifying video. When they post it, they *always* offer explicitly spelled-out locations, names of groups depicted, dates the events occurred and source. It's how we should all post video. Never overstate. Offer context and facts. Give Date | Location | Source

Folks, we're seeing news of protest and state violence in Iran. Most of us need expert guidance to follow events there. Don't be a sucker and share what you don't understand. My touchstone for verification is BBC expert Shayan Sardarizadeh. He speaks Persian too. Follow: @shayan86.bsky.social

Folks, we're seeing news of protest and state violence in Iran. Most of us need expert guidance to follow events there. Don't be a sucker and share what you don't understand. My touchstone for verification is BBC expert Shayan Sardarizadeh. He speaks Persian too. Follow: @shayan86.bsky.social

Unsurprising Andy Ngo has taken an interest in them.

🧵 Chris Sims (@/chrisxsims) and @/dannyrebel333 are harassing a Somali American operated daycares in Kent, Washington. The woman that answered the door told someone to call the police. The “journalists” appear to have or had an amateur porn career.

And we need to be precise here. “Grok” isn’t creating and sharing CSAM. It’s a software application. It doesn’t have agency. The people who created Grok are creating and sharing CSAM. Elon Musk is creating and sharing CSAM

let love be / at the end Lucille Clifton

The Grok reddit is just dudes giving each other advice and encouragement on how to commit digital rape. There needs to be accountability for this. I don’t want to hear “the genie is already out the bag.” This shit needs to be destroyed.

Bringing today’s energy into my 47th year like

"The Democrats" in this case are House leadership and 45 senators. Mamdani is the single most popular politician among Democratic activists and voters nationwide at the moment. If you don't believe me, go to a local party event and listen to the cheers as soon as his name is mentioned.

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I don't believe I've seen this before: FN1: " . . . Therefore, the court holds that facilitating his return in this context means providing either transportation to a port of entry or financial support to reach a port of entry."

Yes, I taught for 3 years at OLE MISS, Y’ALL.

Yes it’s been driving me up the wall!

Are we gonna talk about all these random bots liking posts?

I should add that some of Obama’s most memorable uses of history (discussing the 1953 coup in Iran, bringing up Stonewall during his 2nd inaugural) were not only moving, but also consequential. Still, they often fell short of advocating for fully formed vision for the future

One of the more interesting similarities between Obama and Mamdani is their use of history. The key difference is that the former believed there was great cultural power in just acknowledging history, while the latter explicitly uses the past to establish new political norms.

@anniemcdonough.bsky.social: "Yellow cab driver Richard Chow was on hunger strike for medallion debt relief with Zohran Mamdani a little over four years ago. Today, he drove now Mayor Zohran Mamdani to City Hall for his inauguration in his taxi." Chow's brother killed himself over his debt.

NDTV (a broadcaster in India) has an excellent short piece about this. www.ndtv.com/world-news/n...

A motorcade of taxis. Yellow cab drivers adore Zohran Mamdani like a brother. He spent 45 days camped outside of City Hall with them. He took all of his meetings and calls from the protest site. And, spent 15 days on a water-only hunger strike with them. They won and saved lives.

Congratulations to SMC member Cea Weaver on her appointment as director of the Office to Protect Tenants!! Under Cea's leadership, the Office will become an important tool in protecting the rights of working-class New Yorkers and furthering Zohran's affordability agenda.

Slashfic has officially broken containment, we feared this day would one day come.

"Has Heated Rivalry made everybody insane?" Anderson Cooper, asking the hard questions.

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does the mayor’s speechwriter listen to posting through it cc @jaredlholt.bsky.social @michaelehayden.bsky.social

Well said. It harkens back to FDR and the New Deal.

Mamdani’s speech was dogma shattering. We should appreciate just how audacious decrying rugged individualism and extolling government/collectivism is. He has a *moral* vision to sell along with his policies, and it’s precisely what the left/liberals need.

Reagan, 1981: “In the present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.” Clinton, 1996: “I say again, the era of big government is over. But we cannot go back to the era of fending for yourself.” Mamdani, 2026:

First I'm weeping at Jumane Williams's speech and Mandy Patinkin singing Somewhere Over The Rainbow with children in the afternoon, by evening I'm smiling with joy and a little schadenfreude at these executive orders. It's almost too much but keep it coming.

A lot of people are noticing the spread of AI sexual abuse material on X now, but it has been happening for years. Young actresses like Jenna Ortega and Xochitl Gomez fled the platform. Even celebrities say there’s nothing they can do to stop it. Misogynistic violence is the main reason I left X.

Today is Haitian Independence Day.

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jfc

You say “Sunday” but I call it the week of “What-day-is-this-day” Days

Zohran’s inauguration brimmed w/the energy that NYC is “a shining beacon of possibility” per @jumaane.bsky.social. Amidst the darkness of authoritarianism, inequality & hate, we have a chance to show what’s possible. That’s always been our mission as New Yorkers—it was profoundly renewed today.

That's a "handwoven silk moment with a jacquard motif from Assam in Northeast India, created by 26-year-old New Delhi–based designer Kartik." It posted itself before I could get the URL of the source in:

This Fiorello La Guardia bit is amazing though. The flower in the tie is a reference to La Guardia.

"She’s spent years compiling the best stores for thrifting in the tristate area... 'I used to have a Google Maps folder with 50 different places. There’s some great ones in Queens. There’s some great ones in the Bronx,' she tells me. 'If you have a car, New Jersey.” www.thecut.com/article/rama...

fashion is political & she rented / borrowed a lot, my heart

Mark Levine, that was a fabulous speech today! A friend and I were talking and said we had never seen you in such fine fettle! Happy New Year to you and yours! ✨✨✨ And best of luck for all of your good works yet to come! @marklevinenyc.bsky.social

Mark Levine, that was a fabulous speech today! A friend and I were talking and said we had never seen you in such fine fettle! Happy New Year to you and yours! ✨✨✨ And best of luck for all of your good works yet to come! @marklevinenyc.bsky.social

Look I'm trying not to valorize politicians too much these days... but they're adorable.

City council member @shahanafrombk.bsky.social watches from front row center.

Proud, proud parents.

Since 6:30 pm, 4 blocks. One block per hour? Unless you're a fascist, a cop, or a spy, I don't understand what I could have said that was controversial, much less offensive. Lolol.