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While a 29-year-old detainee with severe mental illness was on the brink of death in his Rikers Island cell last month, a medical staffer stood outside his door spraying air freshener, according to an oversight report obtained by THE CITY.

1. This is not proof of anything. 2. A good time to remind you that having bought #SCOTUS, the institutional US Roman Catholic Church, & 1/2 of the legislative branch, Leonard Leo has movies & television & streaming in his scope. #fascism #christofascism

Farmworkers at Windmill Mushrooms are fighting for just conditions: Sign this petition and demand that Instar and Windmill recognize the union and stop harmful labor practices. #BoycottWindmillMushrooms act.seiu.org/a/windmill_i...

comhghairdeas !

Scenes from a gas pump graveyard. I’ve been saving them for a special occasion, but may the wind blow your troubles—and your unfinished “projects”—away.

JD Vance is unhinged & decompensating too, in the manner of the dictator he once characterized as a “Hitler.” We’ve got a VPOTUS who thinks it’s permissible to call his critics “dipshit” on social media. Though the least of his depravity, it’s still stunning…

Israel strikes Yemen's Sanaa a day after Eilat drone attack reut.rs/3VwjrCV

1/“In Miller’s ideological architecture, immigration policy is not a lever of competitiveness but a litmus test of loyalty. Economics – GDP growth> .https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/09/24/sinead-osullivan-fee-of-100000-for-h-1b-visas-is-a-crack-in-the-system-that-made-ireland-flourish/

It’s hard to believe how the fundraiser —I mean funeral — forgiveness performance turned in by Erika Kirk is being understood by folks who ought to know better. It’s obviously cleanup for / walking back of Erika’s “the evildoers will pay” speech. 1/

Some pundits praise Erika Kirk for her forgiveness, calling it an example for all. This is witless. One needn’t question the *sincerity* of her statements to do the basic work of reading public politics as such, by asking “what does *she* mean? What do her followers hear?”

“Sincerity” has been the sand trap of American public life for a century. So many conflate it with virtue in itself; so many others, encountering ugly politics, focus on what they then imagine must be their lack of sincerity, rather than the facts of real, sincere, brutality.

“Some important context for this. He’s not really talking about “Christianity.” Christianity has, in a sense, been redefined in recent years, in the US by integralist & dominionist Christians.” 1/ www.mediaite.com/media/news/b...

It’s happening. The takedown of Jimmy Kimmel is likely the start of a campaign to use the murder of Charlie Kirk as a pretext to use the power of the White House to wipe out Trump’s critics and his political opponents. But we aren’t powerless. We can mobilize and organize. Now.

He’s gotten to the Washington Post , LA Times, 2 Late Night Talk show hosts (I don’t watch them but lots of voters do). 1/

Another court has ruled against his attempts to get officials he dislikes on mortgage fraud so he’ll fire the judge. 1/ abcnews.go.com/US/trump-poi...

Our (#NYC ‘s) Comptroller & Public Advocate were atrested by NYPD & ICE while trying to inspect holding cells run by ICE. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/n...

These legal victories bring legally-binding UFW contracts closer for farm workers at two agricultural employers in NY. Full statement: www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

"Arturo" and "Omar" are setting up irrigation pipes to water the lettuce plants. The weather has been extra hot in Soledad CA and the plants needed extra watering to grow into the healthy lettuce bunches we expect to purchase at our local supermarket. #WeFeedYou

"Ana" harvests strawberries on CAs Central Coast. She shares, "I earn two dollars for a box of 4 big plastic baskets. Harvesting strawberries is very difficult. You have to work quickly to make many boxes. I spend the entire day hunched over." #WeFeedYou

Summer 2026

BREAKING: Trump asks the Supreme Court for an emergency order to remove Lisa Cook from the Fed's board.

Smoke from climate-driven wildfires will kill nearly 2 million Americans by 2055, a new study concludes.

Let them know you're filming them and keep asking the key questions: "Do you have a warrant signed by a judge? Show me." "Do you have a badge? Show me." "Do you know how pathetic you are? You showed me."

Chris Rufo is now calling for the military to occupy college campuses.

Whoa. Read this thread. Judge Kelly is not a liberal. He's a Trump appointee. And he rightly slams the Trump Administration here. What they did is outrageous.

Friends, it’s not that he “didn’t know”; it’s not that he’s “dumb.” It’s that he wanted to pretend he didn’t know, as a means of saying he didn’t care.

My fucking god

To fascist accelerationism I want to respond with democratic deceleration. But not at the expense of accuracy. This is of utmost danger. Trust Chris & other legal minds before me, but I fear this has potential to be something like Soviet Article 70, such that "antifa" is whoever regime says it is.

1/ “Mere weeks before his death, Kirk reveled in Trump’s deployment of federal troops to DC. ‘Shock and awe. Force…We’re taking our country back from these cockroaches.’ > www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

I too am available to be paid millions of dollars to share milquetoast opinions that nobody could disagree with and that don't move the needle in a politically meaningful way which doesn't matter because really my focus is squarely on my own personal enrichment. Slide into my DMs.

Scoop: Status has obtained the termination letter The Washington Post sent to @karenattiah.bsky.social, in which it informed her that she was being fired for social media posts "about white men." Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/karen-atti...

If you’re writing liberation theology from the academy, I’m not saying you shouldn’t be devoted to rigorous and informed scholarship but I am saying you should make your work accessible to the poor people you write and theologize about

I have four new poems in the just-launched Summer Issue of Blackbird, link below:

In the 70s and 80s, South Africa hit Zambia, Angola, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique. Israel’s struck 8 nations this year.

While it is understandable when parents are skeptical about mental health screening in schools, children have rights to mental health care. & we should trust RFK’s thinking on conscientious families as much about as much as we trust the wrestling lady/Ed. Secy on education/child development.

For months, $9.7 million worth of birth control meant for women in low-income countries has sat stranded in a Belgian warehouse — apparently destined for destruction — as a result of the Trump administration's freeze on foreign aid.

‘𝘋𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮 𝘊𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵 is a product of Adichie’s more ambivalent African feminism. The novel is written entirely from the perspective of women, but their primary interest appears to be their relationships with men.’ Gazelle Mba on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s latest: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

This is helpful.

GROYPER EXPLAINER: Part 1 🧵👇🏼 Fabulous intro into the worldviews of the state-driven Christian Nationalism of Charlie Kirk vs the base Nick Fuentes taps into: incel forums, gamer chat, crypto cynicism, & edgelord memes. Otherwise known as Black Pill Accelerationists. A Cy Canterel explainer.

Today is Mexican Independence Day. This crew of farm workers celebrated it by wearing the colors of the Mexican flag as they harvested peas today on CAs Central Coast. #WeFeedYou

1/This is horrific. “Jonathan Zimmerman, a University of Pennsylvania professor who studies the history of education, said this is the latest installment in the Trump administration’s unprecedented interference with the nation’s civic institutions —> www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

The American people deserve to know who is trying to influence their elections. It's time for Congress to pass the DISCLOSE Act and shine a much-needed light on the billions of undisclosed campaign funds corrupting our politics.

1/ We in the US have a new Poet Laureate! Congratulations, Arthur Sze! “Sze says he intends to focus on promoting translated poetry. ‘As laureate I feel a great responsibility to promote the ways poetry, especially poetry in translation, >

“So I think that my job as a poet is to not lose the amazement, not lose the wonderment at the world.” — Thx & Brava, Ada Limon! apnews.com/article/ada-...

O, this essay is beauteous!