The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on.

So who would want a pitch on how both Hegseth and Pope Leo are both well within the Christian tradition? Indeed both are drawing from traditions of apocalypse

While Trump is eroding civil liberties, NYC cannot expand police discretion over when and where people can speak and organize. Today I voted against two bills that would require the police to plan buffer zones where protest would be restricted outside of schools and houses of worship.

Toni Morrison said she didn’t want to be out in the streets protesting. And said she chose cultural work—editing—as her political contribution, to help keep a record of the struggle. And she didn’t condescend to protestors or minimize her work. She understood it was different but equally important.

Kathy Hochul almost singlehandedly tried to sink congestion pricing... Folks should read this piece for a taste of her fecklessness. We deserve better leadership in NY: nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/01/06/h...

NEW |Spain has received the first Palestinian ambassador after Madrid officially recognized the State of Palestine

Live in NYC? Now's your chance to tell the city that you don't want children taught using lesson plans generated by AI, that they should not be forced (or even allowed) to use it for "research" or "creative" projects, and wow the environmental concerns are nowhere to be found in this survey.

hi, cis folks! it’s been a little over a month since the 2 biggest private hospitals in NYC ended trans youth care. some folks thought this was resolved with a judge’s ruling or a letter from the NYAG. care has *not* resumed! there’s a simple ask ⬇️ for you, if you’re willing to fight with us. 🧵

It's here, and right on time! Issue #4 of 1/6: The Graphic Novel is available now in print, timed to support #NoKings rallies around the country. This one's about The Resistance! Get yours on Amazon or at www.OneSixComicsStore.com #RememberOneSix

Another instance that makes me think that the term for academics rushing into AI is “scabs.” I know many feel no ill intentions. They think they’re forward looking. But they’re failing to look around *right now,* & thus betraying colleagues & those who never got to be colleagues.

We all have forests on our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each one of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone.

I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Harvard: Stop erasing Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims! . Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/harv... @harvard.edu @harvarddivinity.bsky.social still being racist, even after driving out as many POC as they could.

“I am political,” Ms. Rachel told me of her new effort to free kids from ICE detention. “It’s political to believe that children are worthy of love … and that our care shouldn’t stop at what we look like, our family, at our religion, at a border. Mr. Rogers was very political.”

Imagine if "big tent" meant accepting trans people instead of transphobes.

It enrages me that the Iran fiasco had basically relegated Israel’s absolutely horrific assault on Lebanon to a sideshow which barely gets noticed. That alone should be a crisis that grips the urgent attention of the entire world and nobody even notices.

Do you know that our Warehouse Exhibition about mass incarceration opens on April 4 at Bedford Library and that everyone is invited to join us that day and through June 27? Well it's true: www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/war... - Free and Open to the Public!

This is a great @99pi.org on #NYC 311 system. @mayor.nyc.gov you should give it a listen podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/9...

like, yes, is the Israeli government happy that the diaspora is getting attacked in their place because they think it will drive more people towards them? I’m sure they are but to watch a whole bunch of folks on the left happily take up that cause fucking sucks! this is shit I expect from the right

Ramadan has officially ended. Eid Mubarak! Hoping that we take the lessons of Ramadan into the year and that we offer more compassion to each other and commit to lessening suffering how we can.

The second is by futurist @husseinrashid.com, who writes, as Ramadan ends, about how this holy month of introspection, fasting, and faith can help us envision a more just reality: www.zocalopublicsquare.org/ramadan-invi...

Grateful to @jasmansky.bsky.social for asking me to write for Zócalo about #Ramadan as a #futurist practice. www.zocalopublicsquare.org/ramadan-invi... #MuslimFutures

Last day of this @kickstarter.com. We've already made the minimum, so you will get the books. Support us b/c you believe in it. Check out MUSLIM FUTURES by Karim Ahmad on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/mus...

Creativity is not a talent. It's a process and a practice available to everyone.

If there’s a takeaway from the Illinois primary results, it’s that we need to act NOW to banish dark money from our politics. (1/4)

hyperallergic.com/your-go-to-g... - Black Zine Fair is included.

Leqaa Kordia has been a victim not just of Trump’s deportation agenda but the criminalization of Palestinian identity for which the Biden admin and university leaders bear considerable blame. What a relief that she is free and shame on everyone who helped put her in that cell

After year of ICE detention— Leqaa is finally. She was detained for protesting a genocide. She had multiple seizures inside. She wrote to her cousin how she thought she’d be free here. I don’t know what justice looks like, but it starts with abolishing ICE and freeing Palestine

Columbia University has a hell of a lot to answer for.

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We need both: expanded funding for physical security (like the measures that helped keep the Temple Israel preschoolers safe) AND whole-of-government policies that build resiliency to hate and extremism in the first place.

We've got a week to go on this. #MuslimFutures If you've been mulling it over, now is a good time to commit. The project is done with the writing and illustration, so I can tell you how awesome it is. Check out MUSLIM FUTURES by Karim Ahmad on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/mus...

My heart breaks for our siblings at Temple Israel in Michigan. Today's attack on the nation's largest Reform synagogue is an attack on all of us. To Michigan's Jewish community and beyond: you are not alone. We stand with you. Antisemitism is a sin, and silence is not an option.

I contributed a piece. I love what I wrote and all the other pieces are so much better. #MuslimFutures

There's a kickstarter currently running for an anthology featuring an all Muslim writing team you should check out. I did a cover as well as contributed art for one of the stories. It has 10 days to reach It's goal. please consider backing it. www.kickstarter.com/projects/mus...

@nycplan.org is calling on the @council.nyc.gov to fund at our public libraries at 0.5% of the city's expense budget. Please send them a letter if you live in NYC supporting this demand: actionnetwork.org/letters/city...

I feel this strongly: I don't care. I am DISGUSTED that 175 little girls are dead and that thousands are dead across the region and that 1 million people are displaced in Lebanon alone. THIS IS EVIL.

For the record, Leading Jewish Group JFREJ is very much in favor of Mayor Mamdani hosting Mahmoud Khalil and his family for Iftar.

It's all three, but there's also something else: weak, atrophied brains. Typos are one thing but elite messages go beyond that, they show an inability to communicate beyond mere urges and feelings, and the reason they can't communicate beyond those is because they can't think through those.

Thanks so much @comicbuzz.bsky.social for uplifting the launch of the MUSLIM FUTURES anthology! 🤎🤎🤎 Folx can check our the campaign and order a copy here! www.kickstarter.com/projects/mus...

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This was such a nourishing chat, and if you want to read Nijla's story (in prose or comic form!), snag your copy of the MUSLIM FUTURES anthology now at: www.kickstarter.com/projects/mus...

I'm sharing some pics from the comic story here and if you wanna read the whole thing, you can pick up a copy of the MUSLIM FUTURES anthology at this link! www.kickstarter.com/projects/mus... ❤️❤️❤️

Huzzah! The #MuslimFutures anthology is a #ProjectWeLove on Kickstarter! Check it out and snag a copy at: www.kickstarter.com/projects/mus...

Check out an excerpt of my #ShortStory for #MuslimFutures anthology, read by moi. You can support the @kickstarter.com project here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/mus...

This is hilarious. Also, completely enraging.

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This stupid war isn’t just an indictment of the Trump administration, it’s an indictment of the entire machinery of DC warmongering, think tanks, journalists, lobbyists, Republicans and Democrats, who have spent decades inflating threats. We need to smash that machinery.