is it because all the republicans left

On Bluesky? All of us

I’ve been on team “tear down Madison Square Garden to build the new Penn Station,” but if the stars align in this way, I would be willing to compromise and see it preserved forever as a national monument.

Everything he touches turns to shit. Knicks fans would 100% blame him if they lose.

I am sure of two things: 1. they will tell the game 3 crowd not to boo trump 2. the crowd has been waiting for decades and will do whatever the fuck it wants new york city, for one night and one night only this massachusetts native is prepared to hand it to you do what you were made to do

Quoting Kevin Kruse - C’mon, New Yorkers, skip the boos and coordinate this chant on repeat: JEFF-REY EP-STEIN (clap clap clap-clap-clap)

It's funny learning that the reason there's going to be a crippling helium supply shortage even though the United States once had a huge strategic reserve of it is literally because Republicans did the "jeff thinks the beans have to take turns lmao" thing to it

gatekeeping who can and cannot be a “real New Yorker” is some absolute loser behavior and goes against the very ethos of New York City. and the cherry on top is that JLo lives in LA now

Reminder Ken Paxton who is running for Senate in Texas pardoned his friend who was in jail for raping a boy for years. Oh well, let's move on.

The New York Post is devastated.

With my friends at the NYC AIDS MEMORIAL. 45 YEARS OF AIDS 45 MILLION DEAD THE AIDS CRISIS IS NOT OVER.

ICE is facing pressure to improve medical care in its facilities after reporting the deaths of 18 detainees in the first five months of this year. Its solution: just stop reporting deaths of newly released detainees. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

On June 5th, 1981, the CDC first officially reported on what would become known as HIV / AIDS. This Friday June 5th, ACT UP New York, Housing Works, Rise and Resist + allies will be marking the 45th anniversary: 🕯️ Candlelight vigil 🚶‍♂️ March to the Stonewall Inn 🪦 Die-in at the Stonewall Inn

📣“Say Their Names” 📆 Fridays ⏰ 5-6pm 📍 96th Street and Broadway, New York City The Rise and Resist “Say Their Names” Group will read aloud the names of those killed by I.C.E., or in I.C.E. custody. Join us! We will have signage, and you are welcome to bring your own

I would like it known that everything I did wrong from birth until 3 p.m. yesterday should be classified as part of my personal growth journey and can never be held against me. I was a different person.

Santos has always seemed to me the Ideal Trumpist in a unique way. Prissy thug, delusions of grandeur abetted by repeatedly dodging punishment for his many crimes, soul-deep aversion to honest work, good copy as a result. We'll never be rid of him.

How many times would someone need to drop "if someone broke in here I would rape them to show dominance no homo" before you stopped coming over to their house

Again, every single person involved in DOGE, including Elon Musk, needs to be sent to jail for the rest of their lives for these unprecedented crimes & constitutional violations.

“I don’t think [any] president has ended one war, uh, having to do with outside of this country.”

Most terrifying post of the day.

'we fly tiny death robots around on very long, thin strings so that the signal can't be interfered with' feels somehow *more* science fiction to me than wireless drones? something about the concrete strangeness of it.

has any man ever been more vindicated? x.com/stuartbuck1/...

Sadly, this is true: America is located above the arctic circle and is plunged into total darkness for three months of every year.

WOW. The New Jersey AG has charged an Essex County Prosecutor’s Office sergeant for allegedly stealing a photojournalist’s camera equipment while the journo was at a hospital being treated for injuries she suffered outside Delaney Hall. The bag had an air tag and was tracked to the cop's house.

Geeze there should be protests

charles darwin had agoraphobia, he took his one voyage on the beagle and then spent the rest of his life in his house anxiety pooping and writing. and yet he changed the world. inspiring

flesh-eating worms are back, sure, why not love how the news every day is just “here’s a brand new thing the trump administration has fucked up that will cause untold damage” you’d think they’d run out eventually, but no

I've worked in Democratic digital comms for a long time and pay attention to campaign metrics across platforms. Increasingly I'm seeing Dems who crosspost on X, Bluesky, and Threads get better engagement on Bluesky even with far fewer followers. Here's @jamestalarico.bsky.social's clip last night:

I don’t think we’re prepared for how insufferable New Yorkers are going to get if the Knicks win the Championship. Ungodly levels of insufferable.

Politics can be a team sport on behalf of the city we love. (I’ll leave the no-look passes to the Knicks for the rest of the series).

look at cops do crowd control without riot gear or less lethals or teargas it’s almost like this is what they’d been doing until they got tired of it. what they could’ve been doing this whole time.

Please join me in making a donation to the families of the folks imprisoned in ICE's Delaney Hall warehouse facility. Even a small amount can make a big difference to folks who are struggling with enormous challenges. The South Orange mutual aid collective provides two ways to help: (1/3)

Meet Bill Pulte, the guy Trump picked to replace Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intellegence. Here’s video of him in 2024 accepting what appears to be a pedo trophy.... enscribed with “Bill Pulte F*cks... Only the Young” 👀

Some clever culture hacker has been busy correcting ads on the NYC subway.

she did warn us

bari weiss firmly believes that she has earned this, that she is here to "do the fucking news" and that she will build CBS into a colossus of a network that makes it previous highs look pathetic it's part of why she's so good at convincing rich and powerful of her bullshit: she really believes it

It’s not generally reported on, but in many cases, when ICE snatches parents, this leaves the children in the house alone, with no idea why, hiding and waiting until the food runs out, at which point the oldest goes and knocks on neighbors doors to ask why their mommy and daddy are gone.

God-tier NYT correction: Correction (left), original (right) www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/n...

If a hostile work environment is newsroom bosses getting tough questions about sacking a quarter of the staff, said bosses aren't fit to work in a newsroom environment.

Someone actually did a study a while back that showed the most effective way to get women out of TERF groups wasn’t people trying to change their minds, it was them getting literally any benign hobby, like learning other languages or taking up needlework

happy pride 💕

I do think we fumbled a probably generational opportunity to meaningfully change police departments by not forcing out everyone who wouldn’t get COVID vaxed and then bumping salaries and education requirements while enforcing vax reqs stringently to move the needle on who elects into the profession.

Even when you've seen countless examples of it, it's still breathtaking how much criminal behavior our society accepts and indeed welcomes from the police.

Says a lot that Ambassador Shapiro feels the need to literally just straight up lie, Smotrich was part of the delegation!

We could take the same dollars, develop publicly-owned models based on consensually-gathered data, made of entirely open-source and open-weights code, and enable a thousand independent, responsible innovators to spring up instead. WTF is Bernie doing?

The authoritarian mindset in its purest form. "Don't think, just submit to Big Daddy."

We’re both proud Jewish New Yorkers. But there are sharp & clear differences between us on Israel/Palestine. For example, Dan Goldman marched alongside war criminal Bezalel Smotrich yesterday, who called it “just & moral” to starve Gaza. I did not.