The juxtaposition of the Knicks win/celebration and what’s happening in DC couldn’t be more distinct. Diversity, community, spontaneity, populism vs. tax dollars spent on Trump’s allies, friends and business partners.

If you need a palate cleanser from the paved-over concrete bloodsport where Abraham Lincoln used to live, I recommend watching Keke Palmer clearly flirting with the Hot Ones guy and him having no idea she’s legit interested. They’re now apparently dating. youtu.be/gs9SjDzf3Sw

I've had some luck finding spaces for events/meeting through Bluesky so here goes. @nycplan.org is exploring organizing an event in October in the Bronx or Staten Island. Anyone have any leads for free or cheap spaces? Or perhaps local organizations we might partner with?

It seems, as I read the situation, that the WH decided not to disclose MOU terms tonight to avoid criticism spoiling UFC event; so Iran is disclosing phony terms that are even worse; which is infuriating WH folks, who want to respond; but they can’t get permission b/c principals are at the UFC thing

Joyce Beatty is why the name came off the Kennedy Center. Her focus and tenacity... It should escape no one that she's also a Black woman.

Not sure how an arrangement between the USA and Iran can do much about Lebanon where the USA is not a combatant.

The side by side with the JCPOA is not gonna look super great. Putting aside paying them more money and the global oil shock for no reason, there is no way to memory wipe the big stick Iran has and can use at will with the Strait. Just the dumbest self own I can think of in modern foreign policy.

Trump keeps trying to justify his bad deal….

Not believing in science really comes back to bite you, doesn’t it?

LOL. LMFAO, even.

I think she's going to do great

Well this seems totally stable and not ripe for getting screwed up rapidly. "Ironically, the very move that endangered the deal — the bombing in Beirut, ordered by a man who opposes the agreement, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — hastened its signing and improved it for Iran."

Everyone who is scared of cities and multiculturalism is a loser.

New York City is the most perfectly "American" place in the nation, just one wave of newcomers after another, gradually building up the culture, one remarkable cultural collision after another. MAGA chuds hate NYC not because it's awful but because it disproves every lie they tell about immigration

LOL "But, as we understand the details, the deal is really just an extension of the cease-fire for another 60-days. The most important and intractable issues — the status of Iran’s nuclear program and the U.S. sanctions on Iran — are deferred for the next phase of negotiations."

andrea dworkin's "right wing women" posits that right wing women understand the evils of patriarchy, but are merely cynical about it. dworkin, i suspect, was not adequately cynical about human nature. or, as kotkin says of the bolsheviks, "the secret is that they were really communists!"

The pornbots keep breaking sill.social trending, and it's really messing up my morning news read.

Scattered severe storms possible late this afternoon and evening Damaging gusts, hail possible in strongest storms; isolated tornado can't be ruled out Timing: 5-9p window most likely Beltway area Some areas may get missed, esp in western half of area Details: www.capitalweather.com/sc/

Bobcat fight! 🙀 #cats #bobcats #caturday

NEW: The Kennedy Center is a reminder that we can win, it will be messy, and Trump will be petty. The illegal effort to put Donald Trump's name on the Kennedy Center has always been a metaphor — but, this weekend, it became a story of how we get through this. Tonight, at Law Dork:

People are honking on Wilshire. Did a thing happen?

Oliver is so good at this. Absolutely devastating account of how Rufo and DeSantis destroyed a college and fucked up its students’ education. youtu.be/jFMc07F1UUU?...

Religion aside: Gill calls Talarico's reference to God as nonbinary "blasphemous," but while that term has a modern context, belief that God is beyond gender is super common in Christianity. E.g., the Catechism of the Catholic Church: "In no way is God in man's image. He is neither man nor woman."

So far we've had Paxton and his slow eye, Cruz and his Grandpa Munster beard, and this puddingfaced weirdo lecturing Talarico on the appropriate way to be a man. They're sending their best, too.

it's very funny how the right is re-inventing a chud version of wokeness "diversity stress" this is literally just Microaggressions For Racists

Assuming this killing was done in Venezuela with the consent of the government there, the possible *US domestic laws* it likely violated are the Assassination Ban of E.O. 12333 and the murder prohibition in UCMJ Art. 118. If anyone still cares about such things ... .

They're gonna have to put up a tarp to hide the taking down of the tarp.

Bluesky watching scaffolding together

When Hitler fell, the purging of that mindset wasn’t de-Hitlerification, it was de-Nazification. When Saddam fell, it wasn’t de-Saddamification, it was de-Baathification. When Trump falls, it will be de-MAGAfication, not de-Trumpification. The entire movement’s hatred and corruption must be purged.

Hit dogs holler.

And here’s a link to Cowie‘s book, which includes helpful charts that illustrate the New Deal order as an “interregnum between two Gilded Ages,” as @pkrugman.bsky.social has put it. I use this as a required reading for my “New Deal to the Age of Reagan” seminar. press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

This chart from Thomas Piketty illustrates what Jefferson Cowie calls “the Great Exception,” the period of the New Deal Order from the 1930s to the 1970s when inequality was low, and rates of unionization and federal marginal tax rates were high.

I want to highlight for psychiatric clinicians some lines from Trump’s failed emergency motion to the DC Circuit seeking to keep his name on the Kennedy Center. “The name ‘Kennedy’ is still on the Building, but in a much stronger form,” Trump writes. (That is, below his.) 1/5

Tarp truthers are thing now, huh?

Photo by Cliff Owens for AP.

It’s funny that they tried to hide the Trump name removal process because all it does is reinforce how much this is about his feelings.

Goodnight. Never change, Bluesky. Never change.

So, if they have to drape 6 or so more of these things to hide the old man's shame, it's going to be hours before they actually remove a letter.

I'm sure a drone would be highly illegal in this situation but it sure would be hilarious.

So can someone slip one of these guys gopro and a couple hundred to get the goods under the tarp?

Booing the tarp. SHAME!

As a li'l treat while we wait for the letters to come down, here's a video of Trump's name being removed from a series of NYC apartment buildings in 2016

Wait. So this cowardly shit stain is gonna delay until the wee hours and then slip them off behind some tarps so the cameras can't see?

This is the apparent white tarp that it has been speculated will be put up to block viewing.

Beatty's lawyers said Trump and the Kennedy Center had two weeks to comply with the order to remove Trump's name and "only need an extension because of their inexcusable delay."

Trump famously concerned about work place safety and labor protections.

How high does the thing need to be?

Punk is mad at the viewing numbers.