When "homeless working adults with minor-aged children" becomes a distinct administrative category—not an anomaly, but a recognized population requiring its own eligibility framework—you know something is very, very broken in our society.

NEW — My first true foray into AI haterdom is about how those of us not convinced by AI’s inevitability are a real constituency worthy of a voice. Give it a read:

On June 13, @nycplan.org is hosting a Library Propaganda Fair! Would you like to share your library related art and propaganda with other New Yorkers? Our tabling application is open until 5/22: forms.gle/8yyADQGqV7jn... This is going to be such a fun event. Save the date!

Mayor Mamdani came in $97M short of what he promised for libraries *repeatedly* on the campaign trail and in early Jan this year. Libraries are an essential service in this city and this is frankly super disappointing from a socialist mayor. We want what was promised: just 1/2 of 1% of the budget

It's been a collective and community effort to press the Mayor to honor his campaign promise to public libraries. We're still not there yet. Please follow @nycplan.org if you live in NYC for next steps in the ongoing process to actually fully fund public libraries in our great city.

Thanks for tagging me folks. Just to let everyone know that this isn't an *increase* in the library project. This just brings the proposed budget back to FY26's level. It reverses the Mayor's preliminary budget cuts. HOWEVER, it does not meet the 0.5% benchmark AND it does not keep up with inflation

I keep thinking about the ease with which they cancelled elections over the last 24 hours

This is such a good idea. We should do this in NYC. "All Chicago Public Schools students now have access to nearly everything the city’s libraries have to offer — including physical items like books as well as extensive digital resources." blockclubchicago.org/2026/04/08/c...

My latest is a reflection on the cycle of dread, disaster, and temporary reprieves we’re all navigating, what that cycle is doing to us, and how we can avoid losing ourselves to it. This edition also includes a roundup of must-read pieces that have helped me think about this moment.

Wrote a little thing in my newsletter this morning about the way people talk about AI and writing, and the devaluation of labour www.anxietyshark.ca/solve-for-wo...

yes you fucking morons free preschool for everyone or it becomes just "free preschool for the poors" and then you call them leeches and ask for tax breaks when really we want free preschool for everyone because we want smart well adjusted kids why is this so hard? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/n...

not “house” and “field” being the first two options in your little “guess what these words have in common” game @linkedin.com 😭😭😭😭😭

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

omg www.theverge.com/tech/883089/...

✨ It’s a yes or no question ✨

The fundamental breaking of the social contract of neighbors helping neighbors feels evil in a way that's very hard to articulate.

This piece is nasty all the way down. Good for the principled new grad who wasn’f interested in feeding their original reporting into the slop machine (a shameful premise shamefully argued). www.cleveland.com/news/2026/02...

Holy moly: Seattle’s millionaire tax, passed last year, is expected to bring in $115 million in its 1st year, way more than the $50 million anticipated. The funds will go to the city’s new social housing developer publicola.com/2026/02/11/t... (Is NY Gov Hochul paying attention?)

As someone who has had active Epstein-Barr for three years and had my life fundamentally changed for the worse by it, this makes me want to cry

The athletes' messy personal drama threatens to eclipse the sports in Milan and Cortina. www.vox.com/culture/4789...

No Kings includes Draft Kings

I feel like Los Angeles is a place where people expect ICE to happen because the kidnappings have been happening to my home city for decades, so there’s less media attention to it now. and I want folks to see that in LA, Latine students are organizing major protests & the police are attacking them

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

Elizabeth is a Columbia Heights fourth-grader who loves volleyball, learning English and giggling in the halls with her friends. She's been held in the Dilley Immigration Processing Center for nearly a month, and she and her mom have both fallen ill. sahanjournal.com/education/co...

Here's the full post in the Star Tribune liveblog for posterity since it doesn't have a stable URL to link to:

This needs to be at the top of every story about the ICE body-cam thing. They already have body cameras.

Okay! This has already inspired a bunch of DMs, so I made a page on the website. If you have 50,000+ Skymiles and would be willing to book flights to get someone home, please fill this out.

CHOTINER: And the pizza place, what’s it called? ME: Dominos. CHOTINER: Right. And you can order from your laptop? ME: Yeah. Well, I can also use my phone. Sometimes that’s quicker. CHOTINER: And all the food in your fridge and pantry. When do you eat that? ME: Now hang on a second,

Minneapolis has seen a stunning 1,646% spike in calls from families who can't pay rent because they're afraid to leave their homes to work. This is state violence manufacturing housing precarity in real time. People should not be facing eviction when their city is under occupation.

This is a speech designed by someone who thinks you are stupid. He’s explicitly promising to keep the *recently tripled* budget of the DHS gestapo if there are “reforms” that, behind closed doors, their lawyers admit are unenforceable, irrelevant, and even harmful.

I want everyone to understand that Democrats are proposing not one thing that will meaningfully constrain ICE--and several things that will make it worse. But they also have absolutely nothing to say about the massive, daily violence of the DHS bureaucracy. Chris Murphy just ignores this stuff:

I am introducing the Cut It Out And This Time I Really Mean It bill. It provides an additional $57 billion to the murder goons but they will agree to wear business casual Monday through Thursday and if they do any murders they have to put a dollar in this jar.

I know this is small potatoes in the grand scheme of things but these guys are paid with your tax money and have no real job. ICE isn't necessary. They don't get rid of criminals. They just terrorize communities. And THAT'S why they should be abolished. No need for reins. It's not a job!

From a FB post about Alex Pretti:

I can't put into words the feeling of watching our government, a hive of evil antisocial filth, the absolute worst humanity has to offer, colliding with the best. Ordinary people trying to help each other, risking everything to stand up for what's plainly, unambiguously fair and right. It's unreal

Media: do not lead with the false government framing of what happened

ICE just shot another one of my neighbors. They had the person on the ground, being beaten by several agents, and then fired multiple shots. In front of the donut shop where we like to get donuts for our kids.

Appears this is also true for fascism.

Nothing complicated or subtle or hard to understand about what is happening: -"forcibly entered homes without a judge’s warrant" -"interrogated people because of their ethnicity or accents" -"broke windows and dragged occupants from their cars" -"used force on people who were already restrained"

As clergy pray, arrests begin

I've talked to people on the ground about the strike here tomorrow, and the single thing everyone brings up is just how shockingly wide the support for the strike is. Businesses that no one would have expected to support it are doing so.

this is a good essay about how ai slop is here in part because we were already making slop ourselves

From @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social website: "You can also call my office in Washington DC at (202) 225-5936 or my office in Central Brooklyn at (718) 237-2211"

We have unlimited money for paramilitary forces that kidnap people off the streets but also have something called "school lunch debt" what are we doing here

There is no need, as a reporter, to let him--or any person in power--say this without interruption. We have all seen the video. We all know what happened. We can all see what's happening. You have to challenge their every word.