From seemingly AI-generated videos to the recirculation of old footage, TikTok, Instagram, and X did little to stop the onslaught of misleading posts in the wake of the US invasion of Venezuela. www.wired.com/story/disinf...

Dec. 21 is the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. Susan Cooper, who wrote the solstice poem "The Shortest Day," collaborated with illustrator Carson Ellis on a new picture book. From the NPR archives.

I feel like we may need to crowdsource a “provide me the will to meet another day” playlist. Start with “Flash”. Then, I’m thinking “What’s Up Danger”.

You do have to wonder

Everybody has been trying to make us become numb to hurting babies. Taking their food, lives , human instruction and safety ,Palestine to Pittsburgh , Sudan to Sunset Park. And BILLION dollar institutions kept caving or funding And the SCHOOL BOARDS? are saying NO And we’re backing them

Oh and we need to have a long talk about this. Because they came in insulting and taking out Black Women and folks rested on their laurels . When do we stop using time frames that ignore Black woken and start recognizing how long this has been going on And start doing the work

I’m no monster it’s been 12 hours ride the high. AND They been holding it down in Chicago with a young Black mayor. Al Green stood up alone. Mamdani himself Leticia James was KEY and trans issues were non negotiable Folks need to be HONEST about why this took so long

As horrified as I’ve been by the New York Times, Washington Post, New York Post, Wall Street Journal, etc., this election cycle’s been a great opportunity to invest in outlets like @thecity.nyc @hellgatenyc.com @boltsmag.org and so many other local and wider mags charting a better path for media

I am taking particular pleasure in the complete collapse of trans-as-unbeatable-wedge-issue narrative this morning. It might be an 80-20 issue in voters minds, but it has to be on voters minds to matter. The results in VA demonstrate that it is very much not on voters minds.

Didn’t even take 24 hours for billionaires to decide they aren’t leaving New York after all.

He'll make mistakes and be imperfect but when it's sabotage, name it loudly. Don't let people forget who is really screwing them. The robber barons can't abide hope. So hope. Remember what tonight feels like and keep it alight. Keep showing up when they screw with buses and zoning. Hold the line. 3/

From bitter experience, capitalism will cheat, bribe, set traps, and flood the zone with stories of 'ordinary people's dissatisfaction'. This win is a beautiful and hopeful thing and the energy that drove it must be kept up now. He'll need your support even more now. Hold the line. 2/

just want to remind everyone again that zohran is the one cis candidate i am aware of that had his platform on trans rights written by trans people. i think that matters

The big Democratic night in Pennsylvania continues at all levels of the ballot:

this was fun. let’s do it again.

Friends, please sign up for the 11/15 @handsoffnyc.bsky.social Day of Community Action in NYC right now. Pushing back against ICE and feds in our cities is about protecting our neighbors -- but it's also about protecting our future elections. www.handsoffnyc.com/nov15

Me to all the immigrant millennials getting roasted in the family group chats tonight:

one thing that other candidates need to learn from mamdani is how to deliver the most cold blooded attacks on an opponent with a smile on your face

i hope this election cycle empowers everyone the next time a centrist liberal says to drop pro-trans and pro-immigrant rhetoric to enthusiastically tell them to shut the fuck up

Mamdani going so hard for trans right and winning is some juicy proof that every dem that abandoned us didn’t do it for politically advantageous reasons. They did it because they’re transphobes and they will lose for it

the sort of headline we're seeing all over: www.syracuse.com/politics/cny...

BARS

Wait, so how many languages did Mamdani do campaign ads in, and this has got to be some kind of record, and the only reason that people aren't making more of a big deal about this is the racism, presumably? I keep seeing -- more languages -- and it's really, really impressive tbh

“But we need to give up on fringe issues” We have to have a white working class and speak about abandoning everyone in code Or WE COULD WIN

If we learn nothing else tonight, please PLEASE let's learn that the American people were NOT won over by an absolute firehose of the most vile dehumanization of trans people. Please @democrats.org, for the love of God and all that's holy, let's FINALLY start refusing to throw ANYone under ANY bus.

😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎

Me, getting out of all of my organizing meetings to the news:

What we know, 12:10am [Now in 2 parts] —Prop 50 wins —VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG —Dems flip ≈13 seats in VA House —Dems defend NJ-Gov + Assembly —Dems win NJ+VA trifectas —Mamdani wins —PA Dems win supreme court —ME vote-restricting measure loses —GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices —Krasner & Bragg win

Jeepers

What could it all mean, one wonders

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.

Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.

Just because we beat them doesn’t mean we should continue to let billionaires spend whatever they want on elections.

Mamdani's entire speech was a shitpost. We did it Bluesky

We have friends everywhere

just typed “ttyl” to a friend realizing it’s officially a relic from an era where the internet was a destination not an omnipresent force

EXACTLY THIS👇🏽 Ppl are so inured to U.S. anti-Blackness they refuse to even make connections re how systems visible to them NOW—like fed- & state-sponsored targeting, abusing, & disappearing of innocent ppl—are same ones they refused to see & supported when ONLY &/or maj-Black ppl were impacted😶

America maintained hold of the World Series Championship because we attracted the skilled and willing from abroad. Dodgers players this year were born in Japan, the Dominican Republic, Venezuala, Cuba, and South Korea, as well as in the US (including Puerto Rico). Let's keep America attractive.

People on here will post anything. 'Baseball games have 9 innings.' No they don’t. That isn’t true.

Quality K-Pop Demon Hunters costumes this year. Good job, kids.

Reading the words “synthetic data” in an academic or research context makes me so angry-sad.

what if I told you that you could ride a self-driving car at 320 kilometers per hour without stopping for streetlights or city traffic, slamming back tallboys the entire time

"Those who forget 38% of their history are condemned to repeat it."

CBS News has reportedly disbanded its race and culture unit, which was formed in the wake of George Floyd's murder in 2020 NBC News eliminated its editorial teams for NBC Asian America, NBC BLK, NBC Latino and NBC OUT earlier this month

Rest in power, Miss Major. www.advocate.com/news/miss-ma...

Let me tell you right now, I love Friday Foster DOWN! Love her BAD. Would crawl over glass to reboot the series. But to me it is not a black work. STUNNING work by Jim Lawrence and Jorge Longarón. But decidedly not black.

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> If you can’t leave without losing something important, the platform has no incentives to respect you as a user. A fendi fact.