Tipping comes out of the New Deal where Southern lawmakers would only sign on if there were specific carve outs to ensure that formerly enslaved Black people would not earn the new minimum wage. They created carve outs for professions disproportionately held by Black people including waiting tables

Veep was a documentary

Reminder: Clear your drains, including the storm drains on your block. Let's not have a repeat of last Saturday's flooding.

Meta is pure evil, in case this somehow hasn’t occurred to you yet

Should I do this? I guess I should do this. Yikes. I am not in any way well-versed on parliamentary procedure, and the party's Parliamentarian is *such* a jerk. But I can be brave. 😮‍💨

I'm reading this en route to the BK Dems' hastily planned meeting to choose new municipal court judges. This meeting is very likely to be shitshow. We haven't even been told who the candidates are that we will be voting on. Stay tuned to this 🧵 for live updates!

OMFG transphobes are so weird and creepy WTF Why on Earth would your prospective employer need or even *want* to know what your genitals looked like when you were born??? FFS

Heads up NYC: We are likely to get another round of severe storms tomorrow, so clear your block's storm drains today!

On a related note I’ve noticed that Dan Goldman has not posted on Bluesky once since losing his primary a few weeks ago but it looks like he’s still posting regularly on Twitter.

🌹Reminder to all DSA members (nationwide) in good standing: You are welcome to join this Zoom, which starts in 50 minutes

RIP to my yet-unnamed neighbor who was killed yesterday while walking on the sidewalk when two cars collided at Franklin Ave and St Marks Ave and one jumped the curb, hitting the man. 😭 Neither of the drivers was arrested.

New Jersey says Trans Rights

A good number of these folks have been Gerrymandered out of jobs so they had nothing to lose, and still chose to Back Israel.

Stephen Miller in his cave:

Oh, this is cool: Air quality reports, not only in AQI, but also in the number of cigarettes you'd have to smoke to get the same effect.

Still at it, folks! 😂

#OtD 18 Jul 1969 Black Panthers began the United Front Against Fascism Conference in Oakland, California, alongside the white anti-racist Young Patriots Organisation and Puerto Rican street gang-turned-radical group the Young Lords stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8997...,

I’m excited to support @juliopenabk.com to be Brooklyn’s next Democratic Party Chair! It’s time to usher in a new era of county leadership – accountable, committed to reform, and ready to bring the “Fight Don’t Fold!” energy Brooklyn’s Democratic voters are demanding.

My man looks like he claps slow and hard whenever a waiter drops a glass

My man looks like he was thrown out of a casino for "inappropriate sniffing"

My man looks like he has informed opinions on chloroform

My man looks like a proud graduate of Duke University

My man looks like Evil Universe Calilou

My man looks like he's excited to open the Ark of the Covenant

My man looks like he's somehow both damp and ashy

My man looks like he owns snakes, plural.

This thread is everything 🤣

we are being led over a cliff by the most embarrassing people alive

I wore my P100 mask + goggles the one time that I went out today. Meanwhile, the streets were filled with people not wearing any masks at all. A lot of them were jogging and biking! 😱 I know I should be used to this disconnect by now, but it still feels so jarring.

HEY TERFS ARE YOU PLEASED REMEMBER HOW WE SAID THAT EVERYONE'S LIBERATION IS BOUND UP TOGETHER BECAUSE EVERYONE'S SAFETY AND THRIVING IS ONE SINGLE THING AND NONE OF US ARE TRULY SEPARATE AND EVERYONE SHARES THE SAME ENEMY Do you remember that can you see it yet, like

Our two investigations into Madison Square Garden are now unpaywalled and free for anyone to read.

hey, remember: don't eat anything and don't breathe

🎉🗳️🎉 For the 1st time in recent history (maybe ever?), the Chair of the Brooklyn Democratic Party will be chosen not by an outgoing Chair anointing a successor, but by a broad coalition of democratically-elected District Leaders from across the borough!

Poetry

If WIRED starts a "Fuck James Dolan" legal fund, I bet at least a third of NYC would be more than happy to donate

Please blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development

Found this big, jagged plastic shard in my CookUnity meal tonight! It didn't come from either of the condiment cups that accompanied my meal, so it must have broken off in the kitchen during prep, somehow found its way into my meal, and no one noticed before sealing it up 🫣

NEW: A 5-year-old girl spent months in federal immigration custody here in Connecticut while her family waited for her release. Her case isn’t unique, experts and court records show. My latest w/ @jrabethomas.bsky.social at @ctinsider.bsky.social — www.ctinsider.com/news/article... #nutmegsky

I'm rooting for both teams to lose. That's how soccer works, right?

This post aged well

🤒 HOW TO TELL IT'S CYCLOSPORA VS. A STOMACH BUG: • Norovirus: hits fast (1-2 days), passes quickly, very contagious • Cyclospora: drags on 1+ week, comes and goes, NOT contagious person-to-person. Antibiotics work for cyclosporiasis, so it is worth going to the doctor.

Taking this opportunity to remind everyone: Pokémon Go data was (and likely still is) used to train surveillance and military AI

New: the highly controversial AI music generator Suno was hacked. The hacker sent us Suno source code; it shows the company scraped YouTube Music, Deezer, and Genius. In all, Suno scraped *decades* worth of music from the internet. Obviously didn't pay artists www.404media.co/hack-reveals...

NYC's air quality is about to be quite bad for a couple of days (possibly VERY bad, depending on weather conditions). Protect yourself with a mask, and stay indoors with air filtration as much as possible!

Y’all also need to shoot anyone telling you that you can simply wash off a parasite embedded into the skin and even the folds and creases of alot of this produce. A parasite that is resistant to bleach, chlorine, and vinegar by the way. Signed, An epidemiologist

Booooooooooooo 👎 Mamdani L

You could get mad about dead senator discourse *or* you could enjoy this video of sea lions who have retaken an island with a decommissioned lighthouse off the coast of Oregon and now use the staircase as a giant slide.

Close enough, thank you!

Guys I can’t keep doing this independently. I need a job. If you know of a place—advocacy, OSINT org, think tank, left media, etc—where I could take this work in-house, pls let me know. I admire the folks making independent work for them, but I am collapsing under the weight and the lack of impact.