BREAKING: @governor.ny.gov just approved Trump's Williams-NESE pipeline, hoping no one would notice on a Friday. We noticed, and we're showing up to hold her accountable. Join us: bit.ly/CowardlyKathy

Kathy Hochul @governor.ny.gov "Climate Champion" according to Time Magazine, just approved a new fracked gas pipeline. 😡 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/n...

I interviewed my dad about his new book... thegoldenhour.substack.com/p/what-my-fa...

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

Writing about Elon Musk’s pay package without leading with this is like profiling John Wayne Gacy’s booming party clown career.

"'We’re seeing a velocity of killing that can only be compared to the Rwandan genocide,' Yale lab executive director Nathaniel Raymond told CNN this week, saying sources had told his lab that thousands of people were dead." www.smh.com.au/world/africa...

Private planes make up nearly 12% of all flights. And yet even with major air traffic control safety concerns, the DOT is planning to exclude them from its plan to order 10% cut in flights at 40 major U.S. airports. People who can afford to charter flights will be fine. Everyone else is screwed.

On election night I wrote about what happens to Mamdani’s 100,000 volunteeers now that the election is over. and here's an answer! 1/ substack.com/home/post/p-...

This is a big deal, the opposite of Obama standing down his organizing base after 2008.

Was slavery wrong? Did the Nazis have a point? so many good questions coming up these days

This is a crucial article www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/o...

Let's give her the benefit of the NOPE. Not today, Satan

🚨Election Thread🚨 What do yesterday's elections mean for climate change, clean energy, and other environmental questions? Our partner reporters have answers. Starting with @fieseler.bsky.social on New Jersey:

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I did not write the headline, but I have an op ed on Prop 50 over at the @sfchronicle.com. Shorter version: the nationalization and polarization of our politics is what got us here, and it's also the most likely way out. It will take national partisan Democratic hardball to enact anti-hardball.

NYC Jews went Cuomo 2 to 1. Last year, Jewish voters nationally went Harris 2 to 1. This is really upsetting to me. A real fracture. Feels like a betrayal. www.cnn.com/election/202...

I feel sad for my Jewish community members who are counting themselves out of this moment of joy and unity because they chose to listen to the fearmongers.

whoa - almost 1.5% of NYC's population doorknocked last week?!?

Friends in Brooklyn! Thrilled by the victory and eager for MORE ACTION??? Come to the @bkindivisible.bsky.social meeting TONIGHT at 7 pm! Love this group - they DO THINGS! LOTS of things! Something for everyone, whatever kind of activism you're interested in!

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

Paging Lin Manuel

Now comes the real test. What are WE collectively willing to do with the power we've gained, to get the change we wish to see? thegoldenhour.substack.com/p/are-you-re...

this is an obvious overcorrection that misleads the polling data and will lead to disaster in the Heartland. the results of tonight show that the Democrats should moderate: adopting two or at most three of the five pillars of Islam

Basically going about as well as progressives/Democrats could possibly hope.

The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.

Now comes the real test. What are WE collectively willing to do with the power we've gained, to get the change we wish to see? thegoldenhour.substack.com/p/are-you-re...

So, wait, maybe it’s ok for Dems to be decent and compassionate and tolerant and, yes, even woke. And all that stuff about us having to meet them halfway down the hatefulness highway was just…bullshit? Odious horrible bullshit.

Populist Dems won. Moderate Dems won. We won in blue states. We won in purple states. Maybe the take is that (a) people think Trump is out of control; and (b) people like Dems when we're taking a stand and fighting for what we believe in - as we have been for the last month.

Congratulations to Mayor Elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social! We look forward to working for green and healthy schools for all NYC kids alongside your administration! 🌱🎒🎉

This is the most ridiculous, insulting, get-off-my-lawn piece of "analysis" I've ever read. It's a reverse-ageist hate crime www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n...

i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist

Why the WashPost, WSJ, and NYT all hate Mamdani. Excellent piece from @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/analysis/leg...

Workplaces across the country have been purging all minorities from their staff for the last 9 months but no one wants to talk about it because it's one of the scariest truths out there right now.

i hope to see enterprising democrats announce their intent to retire schumer and gillibrand over the next two years.

Some good news: Brazil's fight against deforestation is paying climate dividends.

Wow. 2025 NYC mayoral turnout has already exceeded total 2021 turnout BEFORE NOON.

This is cool as hell for someone of Jesse Eisenberg’s stature to do. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...

This is an excellent idea!!!

I'm looking for a beautifully written and sad scene from a novel or memoir where someone is caring for a lover with AIDS. Any come to mind?

I've had 3 editors I regularly wrote for at different publications laid off/leave in the past year, which has made it much more difficult to place articles. For remaining editors, sometimes I follow up 12 times to get feedback on pitches. It has taken months to get accepted stories moved to pub.

Millennials and Generation Z make up more of the adult population than baby-boomers, but they still hold fewer seats in Congress. nymag.com/intelligence...

Prediction: some dumb thing that happens on the subway every week will be endless front page news

Also, people who aren't used to calling out Islamophobia need to get comfortable reiterating this basic point: Islamophobia more or less DICTATES that the primary frame being used to talk about Mamdani is "fear"

Cannot say enough: the Trump administration actively chose to illegally withhold SNAP benefits in November, pretending they weren’t allowed to deliver benefits this month despite their own guidance from September 30 saying they could — guidance they deleted on October 23.

I wrote about the growing body of research showing how hurricanes continue to kill for a long time after they hit — and why it will be even worse in Jamaica.

The NYT will gladly pay a dumdum to spout humdingers like the recent little gumdrop that English speakers should have trouble pronouncing Mamdani because articulating an ‘m’ before a ‘d’ like that is not humdrum.

Happy Halloween!

Cool! @rieckhoff.bsky.social 's Youtube show is now daily! www.youtube.com/@independent...

Happy Halloween! My kid chose a privacy-protecting costume that's perfect for sharing on social media.