My Current Affairs article on the closing of my dear alma mater @hampshirecollege.bsky.social I wrote about the gorgeous, splendid utopian school in all its quirky, flawed, granola glory. Its demise is a catastrophe for higher education.

On May 3rd, Sing in Solidarity, the choir of @socialists.nyc, invites you into an evening of music drawn from the deep well of socialist feminist struggle. Get your tickets early! www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket... Illustration: @mollycrabapple.bsky.social

Happy birthday Nina SImone, The Legend Of Zelda, and the Communist Manifesto

“When I speak about making our city more affordable, my vision is not limited to the homes that we live in or the child care that we’re making universal — it’s also a vision where we make it possible for working people to afford lives of joy, of art, of rest, of expression.”

I love the @metmuseum.org. It enriches the lives of NY’ers and visitors from across the world. That’s made possible by the people who make the Met run — the curators, educators and museum workers seeking to join @uaw.org Congrats to Met Museum workers on filing for this historic union election!

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

Lex did such incredible work under extraordinarily difficult working conditions, and it’s an absolute outrage that this is happening to them and the other good folks who got got today

I saw Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists. I only jeered the 30 min (!) fascist speech after someone else started. I had failed a test, how can I break the rotten system if I can't even break theater decorum? Thanks for the article @annierlevin.bsky.social @currentaffairs.bsky.social

This New Yorker piece about the Irish Famine has several paragraphs I found literally jaw-dropping (positive). This is a book review!! Good god!!!

Really amazing how official Democratic discourse is suppressing the central role of direct and illegal complicity in genocide in destroying the Democrats’ chances