Di saydvoks fun Nyu York (1899 Yiddish parody of The Sidewalks of New York) I wouldn't call this a parody so much as a clear-eyed rebuttal... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LofGnB61Oyg

He Was an Awful Jerk (Another Hurricane Fran saga) Another singalong song for my granddaughter, conveying a practical life lesson... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJcxXiX9Wkg

One Species Are We Since the birth of my granddaughter, last New Year's Eve, I've been on the lookout for songs appropriate for family singalongs, say, 8 or 9 years from now... [ You are urged not to comment unless you've listened to the whole song] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVG5ZFMUTxQ

Stop Saying the Confederacy is Returning Tad Stoermer, Resistance Historian "The Confederacy wasn’t a break from the Republic of the Founders. It was a fight to keep it going. There’s a straight line from the Declaration of Independence to the Dred Scott decision to Appomattox, and the […]

The 2026 Public Song Project | WNYC Digital | WNYC "The Public Song Project invites anyone to record their own musical adaptation of a work in the public domain. - GET FEATURED BY THE INTERNET ARCHIVE AND WNYC IN OUR OFFICIAL PLAYLIST - GET INTERVIEWED ON WNYC - GET YOUR SONG PLAYED ON THE […]

Old People Aren’t The Problem A new book argues that America is becoming a “gerontocracy” and we need to restrict the power of older Americans. But the problem is not age, it’s wealth. https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/old-people-arent-the-problem

What Congress Did Another Time the Supreme Court Came for Civil Rights The Court’s VRA ruling deserves more than alarm. Tad Stoermer’s Reconstruction lesson: “They built the coalition…They got the votes.” And “the pretense that nothing can be done” is “a choice, not a fact that the rest of us […]

Supreme Court deals a death blow to the Voting Rights Act With an authoritarian president now in the White House and the Voting Rights Act a dead letter, America may become a democracy in name only once again. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/supreme-court-louisiana-vra-callais/

Scriptorium: Master of Manuscripts A game I might play. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p632Tz4FUw

Fractures Emerge Between GOP’s Pro-Pedophilia, Extremely Pro-Pedophilia Wings In-depth reporting from the people poised to bring you the new, improved InfoWars... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaZPiwxPqO4

Coyote vs. ACME I'm really hoping this turns out to be a good movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-43VeYGiPM

Instagram "Council Member Chi Ossé was just arrested while defending his constituent, Carmella Charrington, from eviction. This is the result of deed theft and the ongoing displacement of Black homeowners in Bed-Stuy. Our office is closely monitoring this situation and will provide updates as […]

@SocialCoop ICYMI: **Open Social Awards** Announcing the launch of the first Open Social Awards, presented by New_ Public, PublicSpaces, and Waag Futurelab. These awards showcase leading projects by those seeking to develop alternatives to Big Tech products and platforms, leveraging any of […]

Arnold Schoenberg and That Ol' Atonal Music: A Conversation When Kulturwelten collide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK2ZBp9_hbE

‘Seeking connection’: the video game where players stopped shooting and started talking In a post-apocalyptic landscape of cutthroat scavengers, surprisingly peaceful players are opting to team up and open up – a phenomenon that’s intriguing game developers and psychologists alike […]

F-Droid, home to thousands of free and open-source Android apps, calls Google's developer verification an "existential threat." An estimated 85% of F-Droid apps could face distribution issues because their developers signed through F-Droid, not through Google. @keepandroidopen #KeepAndroidOpen […]

The Permanent Campaign Mayor Mamdani's first 100 days — and the next 1,359 that will define him. "Mamdani, dare I say, is incapable of truly alienating his base; for the Mayor is armed with genuine core principles and a coherent, democratic socialist worldview that anchors him through storms […]

Has there been any substantial movement online to refer to Donald Trump's posts to his "Truth Social" platform as #trumpths? Asking for a friend.

Work in Progress: How we're tackling Sidewalk Sheds (with John Wilson) #mayormamdani introduces an unexpected aspect of his approach to urban governance: #scaffoldsocialism #understandmamdani https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oohRn36CWhs (and for those of you unfamiliar with John Wilson […]

AOC’s 85% Victory: Why DSA Just Re-Endorsed Her For 2026 (Majority Report/Emma Vigeland) This is a good discussion, suitable for passing on to orthodox acquaintances who seem not to retain a firm grasp of how poltical power works in the American landscape. In the context of what currently […]

Hasan Piker Threatens the Establishment. That’s Why They Want to Destroy Him. Critics are leveling baseless charges of antisemitism and bigotry at the mega-streamer. But they’re really scared of the challenge he poses to their power. Piker is not an antisemite. But he is a trenchant critic of […]

Smile: Municipal Grin "There are smiles that make us happy, There are smiles that make us blue..." #understandmamdani #mayormamdani #zohranmamdani https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdeBCRevBms

Tad Stoermer, historian of resistance, offers in these videros an uncommon perspective on the relation of mass protest to the necessarily larger project of resistance. Is “No Kings” a Loyalist Rally? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inW479ct4Kc Tired of "No Kings"? Me, too. But give another […]

The Jewish canary in the liberal democratic coal mine "The reason Israel, Zionism, and the Jews have come to occupy center stage is [...] not that the state is an outlier in a world of secular liberal democracies, nor that it has committed a genocide in recent years. It’s because secular […]

Steal This Story, Please! "Undeterred by armed soldiers, smooth-talking politicians, and riot police, journalist Amy Goodman has reported some of the most consequential stories of our time. From the front lines of global conflicts to the organized chaos of her daily news show Democracy Now! […]

Four Strategic Patterns Now Visible in the Iran War I would prefer not to have to talk about (or think about) war at all. Given the current state of the world, however, this would be irresponsible. The people whose thoughts and opinions I normally turn to when I seek clear thinking about […]

Trump administration estimates Iran war cost at over $11 billion in six days, source says | Reuters "That figure, from a closed-door briefing for senators on Tuesday, ​did not include the entire cost of the war, but was provided to ​lawmakers as they have clamored for more information about the […]

Left theorizing (and praxis) has mostly failed to incorporate the insights and lived experience of the last 30 years of open-source development, ownership, and distribution—leaving the field largely shaped by a kind of humanist libertarianism: strong in its expression of democratic individualism […]

"Finally, it’s the billionaire simulator you and your friends have been waiting for! In the board game Billionaires & Guillotines, 2-5 players will take on the roles of rival plutocrats, competing to accumulate the wealth of the world before their actions trigger a revolution and they all lose… […]

The Iran War Is Unfathomably Depraved "The moment calls for moral clarity: our country is engaged in a mass murder campaign. It must be stopped. It is depressing to see so many debates around strategic end-goals, congressional authorization, or the consistency of the justifications. They take […]

TRUMP LAUNCHES REGIME CHANGE IRAN WAR Neither my American citizenship nor my Jewish heritage compel me to in any way support the catastrophic bellicosity undertaken this morning. I renounce and reject this war on Iran and the people most immediately responsible for it. I will seek ways to […]

Your Individual Boycotts Aren’t Helping "Boycotts against corporations can be powerful tools. But they have to be waged as part of larger collective struggles with real plans to win — not simply as acts for frustrated individuals to take on their own." […]

I am a little surprised that nobody had anything to say about this post: https://social.coop/@baslow/116071549803498135

**Such Interesting Aunties: Queering Care** *Joel is the only non-parental member of a queer parenting collective; Cody is a trans man who’s been mistaken for his chosen niece and nephew’s dad* My son Joel is one of the subjects of this Substack post from Lisa Sibbett, who writes **The Auntie […]

# #mayormamdani puts his pen where his mouth is on immigration > "This order is a sweeping reaffirmation of our commitment to our immigrant neighbors and to public safety as a whole. We will make it clear once again that ICE will not be able to enter New York City property without a judicial […]

# I Ran The Military's Grocery Stores. Our Prices Are 25% Cheaper. _What#mayormamdani Can Learn From The US Military_ > The question is not _Can the government run grocery stores?_. They do. The question is _Who's going to make this happen and who's going to stand in their way?_ […]

# Mayor Mamdani Makes a Child Care Announcement with Chancellor Samuels Never let it be said that #mayormamdani is unwilling to share the spotlight...today, with _**New York's Cutest**_ , announcer ng a new RFI #zohranmamdani #understandmamdani https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Altodsq6q2o

# Mark Kermode reviews _Melania_ > It's a heist movie about a crime family breaking into the seat of power and stealing the cutlery whilst destroying democracy. > > I have never felt this depressed in my life in the cinema https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTyUni8dbkE

@pluralistic I don't want to throw the term around recklessly, so I'll ask first: Do recent developments at the Washington Post qualify as enshittification?

# A Message from the Mayor on Temporary Permanent Status for Haitian New Yorkers #mayormamdani #zohranmamdani https://youtu.be/IznRkI_LNJw?si=ILOy5Wr-7BjfWiwh

Why ICE Treats Phones Like a Deadly Threat > as more and more videos filmed by courageous citizens standing up to ICE come out of Minneapolis and directly contradict their narrative, the Trump administration is learning that Americans will believe a good guy with a phone over a bad guy with a […]

1775 vs. 2025: The Epstein List and the Founders This video was recorded 6 months ago...and it is even more evidently pertinent today: The founding fathers, since mythologized and canonized, made up the Epstein List of their times. #originalism #makeamericagreatagain […]

When we evaluate a new mayor, we are usually taught to separate “style” from “substance,” and to treat visibility, symbolism, and public presence as distractions from the real work of governing. That distinction feels natural—but it is also historically specific, and it may no longer describe […]

Opinion: Millionaires must pay their fair share to ensure NYC’s affordability By John Liu and Phara Souffrant Forrest > the Fair Share Act, legislation we introduced... would authorize New York City to enact a modest 2% surcharge on incomes over $1 million. > > It’s entirely fair and […]

FWIW: As of 2:45 pm EST, this guy is livestreaming a walk through snow-covered midtown Manhattan, answering posted chat comments in real time. Who knows how long he'll be able to keep it up. Surprising number of people -- tourists? -- are walking around. I, however, am sitting the next week out […]

# Democratic Socialism as Public Action _Municipal Politics as Praxis_ Over the past year, many of us supported Zohran Mamdani because we believed he represented more than a set of policy positions. He seemed to be pointing toward a different way of doing politics—one grounded in […]

# Mamdani and Sanders Join Picket as N.Y.C. Nurses’ Strike Enters 2nd Week _Here’s what to know about the walkout by about 15,000 New York nurses. On Tuesday, Mayor#zohranmamdani and Senator Bernie Sanders lent their support._ > Mr. Mamdani framed the strike as part of his administration’s […]

Laura Jedeed in Slate magazine: "You’ve Heard About Who ICE Is Recruiting. The Truth Is Far Worse. I’m the Proof. What happens when you do minimal screening before hiring agents, arming them, and sending them into the streets? We’re all finding out." […]

# What do Democratic Socialist victories mean for NJ? In our effort to #understandmamdani, now that he has been elected #mayormamdani, we will be expanding the scope of what we publish here. New Jersey is not New York...as residents of either state will be happy to confirm. So the success of […]

#ZohranMamdani has posted an Instagram announcing the decision about where he and his wife will live once he is sworn in as #MayorMamdani: Gracie Mansion Given the level of elevated security concerns raised by the first Muslim mayor (and a […] [Original post on pub.seniorsforzohran.nyc]