A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

Okay, why the fuck does the New Yorker want me to use face id, ffs

More Caesar the No Drama, Anti-Fascist Llama is the best character at Portland ICE protests! #iceout #portland

French bakery in Bed-Stuy offers free breakfast to SNAP card holders

An incredibly well crafted story by @vajra.me -- from 2019?!-- that feels so au courant, as if it were written through the lens of this precise moment future-sf.com/fiction/apol...

ICE is tear gassing schools

I don’t think people really understand the ramifications of Ring data being accessed by authorities. This short vid explains the dangers

Proud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the @nytimes.com today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.

Just finished The Bewitching by @silviamg.bsky.social, tearing through the last 80 pages on the edge of my seat as the three protagonists' stories intertwined. Beautifully wrought with potent imagery and emotional heft. Another banger from one of my fav writers 🧙‍♀️

What I need right now is a couple episodes of Scavengers Reign where they are just doing science and freaking out with joy over their discoveries.

Andrew Cuomo: taxpayers should pay for $60 million in legal bills for my sexual harassment allegations Also Andrew Cuomo: $60 million is too much money to spend on a pilot program to deliver cheaper groceries

ICE agents to US citizen: Turn around or you're getting the dog.

AI in education amplifies existing biases against marginalized or vulnerable groups AI in education is not evidence-based but based on speculation and proof of concept claims

Here’s what to know now about finding (and paying for) the new COVID shots in New York City 2025:

I regret to inform you that we do, in fact, gotta hand it to Hoboken

Say it often, say it loud: "Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."

UNTIL IT'S DONE, Ep. 2 When the Brownsville Clinic opened in 1916, it was the first birth control center in America. Its very existence felt impossible. For young women, it was a lifeline. 109 years later, the Clinic is long closed—but Brownsville mothers are still struggling.

Video below: “I am American. I am American.” A man pleads, “Ayúdame, ayúdame. Help me!” Meanwhile, an ICE officer pulls a gun on innocent bystanders — in Hyattsville, MD. This is happening in America. Right now. What are we doing about this? It MUST stop. @SenateDems @HouseDemocrats

For @motherjones.com, I wrote about the political pressure & coercion faced by teachers & staff at Success Academy. "They explicitly started with naming Mamdani and how he is the villain in our story," one teacher told me. "It makes me feel like we will be fired if we don’t participate."

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

My husband described my type as "scruffy Vulcan"

As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

Portland has spent billions on housing, with very little to show for it. Let's stop reinventing the wheel and instead learn from the successes and failures of other cities around the world to create something that actually works for Portland.

Just say, "who?"

Governor announces New Mexico will now provide free universal child care

Hey NYC people: As of today the governor’s override of federal guidance means you can officially get your new COVID vaccine. I’m getting mine at CVS right now

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

🚨NEW: Reversing *generations* of practice, the Board of Immigration Appeals gives ICE exactly what it demanded, ruling that any undocumented immigrant who entered illegally is categorically ineligible for release from detention on bond — expanding mandatory detention by millions of people.

It will get lost in all the other outrages of how Jessica Tisch is running the NYPD, but please read this story and fight for victims like Erasmos Huerta Gonzalez: nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/09/03/c...

I know the very nice young man at the roller rink works with children because when he saw me fall, he said, "That looked like a hard fall. Don't worry, you're still a pretty good skater."

FYI www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I think people need to understand that without universal phone bans, as per a meta study done, about half of teachers grade 6 and up can't actually get kids to put their phones away during class and they end up having to decide whether it's worth engaging disciplinary action or to continue teaching.

Also, you can see that it's simply not true that policing language loses. Ever talk to a rightwing personal about guns? They shout down anyone who isn't fluent in gun culture esoterica as uninformed and now no dem even breathes the words "gun control." Regulatory capture works

the mythical centrists everyone wants are always vaguely described but seem to be a bloc of white, straight, middle class suburbanites who've been voting gop since eisenhower. if "cosigned by cheney and ready to fund the police" didn't win them, you're left with running a republican to win them.

Right, which is exactly why policing language is pathetic loser shit. Feminists have been talk about patriarchy for at least 70 years! A person who dislikes that term has *been taught* to be offended by it. No amount of aww shucks down home language is gonna fix that

Ah, yeah, just stop using these words, then stop talking about any of the underlying issues, then make sure you signal your utter disdain for anyone affected by any of them, and THEN, just a few decades from now, democrats will be able to tackle the problems these words describe? Right, Tom?? Tom???

[Kid after seeing a picture of me as a child, when my hair was a luxuriant auburn, compared to now] "It's like all of the red got washed out" Quite.

"Asked to generate intervention plans for struggling students, AI teacher assistants recommended more-punitive measures for hypothetical students with Black-coded names and more supportive approaches for students the platforms perceived as white" www.chalkbeat.org/2025/08/06/a...

It’s really happening: 135 E.57th St is a large office building that’s been mostly vacant since the pandemic. And now it is going to be converted to housing—350 units, including affordable. 4+ million sq. ft. of conversions are now underway in Manhattan. Let’s keep this going.

Phones in class distract not just the user but the entire class. I honestly dgaf if it has no other benefits than shutting that down. Show me the study that says actually staring that your phone all day is good for you and the people around you and maybe I'll reconsider

I still maintain poblanos are never really that spicy, but if you should cut some barehanded and disagree, orange goop is great at cutting through the capsaicin burn. Not perfect but welcome after trying several other salad dressing-type, oil-and-acid combos

i know it wasn't the point, but everyone who cycles should have read this at least once: www.bicycling.com/health-nutri...

I already was

HUGE NEWS FROM HELSINKI, FINLAND Helsinki, a city of 690 000 people, has now had a full year without any traffic fatalities. None. No pedestrian, cyclist, scooter user or car deaths. This is a huge achievement for a city of our size. 💪🏻 A little background 🧵 1/ yle.fi/a/74-20174831

NEW: Report from @ajlunited.bsky.social ‬ exposes just how hard it is for passengers to opt-out of #FacialRecognition at the airport. Meanwhile, TSA + the airline industry have been lobbying hard to get rid of a face scan opt-out altogether.www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0Q0...

The storm coming today in NYC is forecast to be intense. As much as 5 inches of rain could fall between 2 and 5 pm., at a rate of as much as *3 in/hour.* This would be a storm of historic proportions for NYC. Significant risk of flooding in subway, streets etc. 1/2

Dudes rock at committing an easily trumped-up weapons charge

Worms! Worms! Worms!

Goodbye to three blocks of the Bedford Avenue protected bike lane. Goodbye to three blocks of safer streets. Good luck to anyone who rides through here after tonight, you’re going to need it and the City has shown that it doesn’t care.