who is letting the duck in?? 🙋‍♀️🌱

Love wins.

For too long, bureaucracy kept 7 child care centers across our city empty — spaces that should have been alive with laughter instead collected dust. We've run through that red tape. This fall, all 7 will open their doors, bringing an additional 240 free 3-K seats & real relief to working families.

Imagine how much better our country would be if we prioritized the needs of the people over the whims of the ultra-wealthy.

I don’t think we talk nearly enough about the fact that corporations like Amazon, don’t pay a single cent to maintain the roads they use, the transportation system they use, the courts they use, they pay nothing for the infrastructure that is absolutely critical to their business. WE Pay for

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

Together we are stronger, more beautiful, and this video is everything hate can never be because love is also stronger than hate.

A reminder, as Obama and Mamdani come together for the first time in person, that Mamdani is everything the GOP said Obama was... but wasn't: an African-born socialist Muslim. #justsayin

More of this, less of bombing other countries (From @acyn.bsky.social )

Today, President Barack Obama and I read to a group of toddlers at Learning Through Play Pre-K Center in the South Bronx.  In between singing wheels on the bus, we discussed our administration’s vision for this City — one where New York’s Cutest have the strongest start possible.

Child: I know your name. Mamdani. Obama: What’s his first name? Child: Mayor.

The Coachella music festival is in the news with the minimum price of sold out 3-day ticket costing $549. Contrast that with "Nicolas" who is currently harvesting onions in the Coachella area and getting paid $22 for a $900lb crate. #WeFeedYou #coachella2026

"Reading how others thought through these questions can help us answer them for ourselves." — @ndiscenza1.bsky.social , co-editor of Journal of English and Germanic Philology #TalkAboutHumanities #TalkAboutSocialSciences @acls1919.bsky.social www.press.uillinois.edu/journals/?id...

My hottest “I have no data to back this up” take is that phones aren’t making young people less happy. What’s making them less happy is living in a world where everyone is having their reality defined by recommendation algorithms that can only care about whether something keeps you watching.

Someday, someone is going to make a movie about the tech-bros who recklessly dismantled the professional US administrative state and it’s going to be devastating. Gripping excerpt from “Into the Wood Chipper,” Nicholas Enrich. h/t @marisakabas.bsky.social www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usai...

Hungary’s people just sent a resounding message to its leaders and democracies around the world in defeating wannabe dictator Victor Orbán. Authoritarian regimes breed corruption and lower the quality of life. And when people stand together, they can defeat the forces of dictatorship.

Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school. Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon! 🌕 💛

Reminder that in this house we do not trash other genres of books to support the genre we like the most. One, come on, we're grown ups. Two, the bottom line is people reading and loving books. Three, every writer you know has friends working other genres, don't trash their friends, thanks.

To cap off his first 100 days in office, Mayor Zohran Mamdani walked the full 6 miles home from New York City Hall last night — greeting New Yorkers along the way. 🍎

Brutal.

If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.

Just wanted to remind folks, especially the GOP and the FDD, that Barack Obama’s 2015 nuclear deal didn’t give Iran control of the Strait of Hormuz or allow it to keep 60% enriched uranium. It sent $1.7 billion to Iran versus the tens of billions Iran will now make from tolls. 🤷🏽‍♂️

I was on CBC-KW this morning to chat about #Artemis II and got a lovely view of the waning gibbous Moon on my way in to work afterward. We have such a pretty satellite 😍 BTW, did you know NASA has a Daily Moon Guide with Moon-viewing tips & info? science.nasa.gov/moon/daily-m...

Congress must convene immediately to condemn Trump’s horrific threats against tens of millions of people and stop this unconstitutional war. We must prevent Trump from unleashing the catastrophic and illegal violence he is touting.

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” -Trump Article III The following acts shall be punishable: (a) Genocide; (b) Conspiracy to commit genocide; (c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide; (d) Attempt to commit genocide; (e) Complicity in genocide.

Hey, pick up a phone. It'll help. Be kind to the staffers. You'll probably be speaking to an intern, if someone answers. They didn't do this. They very possibly agree with you if you call a DC office. But let your senators and representative know that Trump's genocidal threat cannot stand.

NASA isn't why the US doesn't have universal healthcare, or a social safety net. The US doesn't have those things because politicians with the power to provide them choose specifically not to (with varying levels of support from voters). Enthusiasm for human spaceflight doesn't drive that choice.

We could be providing universal healthcare, student aid, a universal basic income, but no... We have to cut everything to pay for Trump's stupid oil war. www.militarytimes.com/news/pentago...

Print this, frame it www.thehandbasket.co/p/refusing-t...

Someone sent me this.

Sigh. If only. I don’t think the dream of the 90s is even alive in Portand anymore.

Ha ha April Fool. You've actually been having a bizarre dream and it is in fact 1996 right now. We are all going to go watch the new Coen Brothers movie 'Fargo' later. I will call you on your phone that is attached to a wall and can't make you insane later.

Check out my review of The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes by Tatiana Țîbuleac, tr. Monica Cure (@deepvellum.bsky.social) and then go order a copy from your favorite indie bookstore like @newtonvillebooks.bsky.social or @brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social necessaryfiction.com/reviews/the-...

It's Trans Day of Visibility, a day that brings incredibly complicated feelings during a hard time. But TNN exists because we believe in the power of unrepentant trans defiance. Not cleaned up for the cis or assimilated into a dying empire. Trans survival and joy as they exist now. Today. Proudly

Excited to share this review of a compelling read you should add to your bookshelf!

The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes by Tatiana Țîbuleac, tr. Monica Cure (@deepvellum.bsky.social). Reviewed by @memonteith.bsky.social. necessaryfiction.com/reviews/the-...

I was at a #NoKings rally yesterday and rather than writing another essay about why this matters I will just say that it is pure joy to meet the people who want to stand out and the people who are doing the work. Thank you.

250 years ago Boston had its first Town Meeting after the British evacuation on March 17, 1776. Records survive in City Archives, showing Boston's long history of democracy. As we celebrate 250 years of American Independence the Election Department will share more historic moments from City records.

Beyond the theft, the technology is absolutely there to capture sources for attribution. That these companies lean toward obscuring sources is telling.

Iran has elections, but to its great shame, it has an unaccountable council of ayatollahs that overrules the elected representatives. Here’s why we’re nullifying the Voting Rights Act. by John Roberts

Social movement scholar here again. So, why protest? Nihilists were out yesterday arguing that "protests don't do anything." A short 🧵:

"When I go into that voting booth, I think about three important things: What the man on the pamphlet looks like, what the name of the man on the pamphlet is, and whether or not that man is trapped in the pamphlet and needs help to get out."

What are you using your power for, for good or for greed? A powerful perspective point.

I think often of a New York Times photo of a little Iraqi girl tending to her parakeets in a bombed house, probably from 20 years ago now. I will think of this man and his sweet dog often now too. People just want to love what they love, care for their little beings, and instead we do this to them

Tomorrow the weather all over the country will be sunny and pleasant. So come out and show America and the world you’re for freedom and fairness & against corruption, chaos and cruelty. It’s fun! I’ll be marching in Manhattan. www.nokings.org

It’s been fun the past few years, having people lie or be useful idiots about how Anti DEI is just about merit and not a backdoor whites only policy and then insist those of us who saw that clearly are shrill or paranoid

He doesn't regret it, mind you, he's just bored of the war he started just a month ago www.ms.now/news/trump-i...

Admin at The New School are threatening the cancellation of 23 academic programs. Students, faculty, & staff are fighting back, demanding a public meeting & an end to the manufactured austerity crisis. Check out this powerful song produced by TNS students: @newschoolaaup.bsky.social