The Times' op-ed section was really eager to work with me when I got laid off at Vox, and I wrote a few pieces for them. I am proud of those pieces, and the editors I worked with were fantastic. And also any time I pitched a piece on queer or trans life, it got turned down or ignored. Ah well!

If someone from the FBI visits you about your algae posts the correct thing to do is to say you won’t talk with them. Please do not talk to the FBI. Like, at all. They have no sense of humor and they will take your stupid joke and charge you with lying to an agent.

a zine in every driveway and a zine in every pot

make zines and share zines until they are ubiquitous to the point that there is no stopping or criminalizing them

I agree with @prisonculture.bsky.social's assessment here. Also makes me think that making Mamdani hold to his promise to fund libraries at 0.5% of the city budget also would force other key decisions - like NOT raising the police budget. hammerandhope.org/forums/mamda...

I really appreciate that @daniwelch.bsky.social threw her hat in this race. She actually tried to unseat this awful elected official and had almost no money but got 20% of the vote. Thank you Dani for not just complaining and trying to offer a better option.

Get rid of the two-party system and the left will get out of Democratic primaries. But for now? We’re not invaders or interlopers. We ARE the Democratic Party, as much has Hakeem Jeffries.

On the Subway. Remembered my knitting… But forgot the pattern

Thank you all. For everything. Please don't let anyone say that the results of the NY-03 primary prove that a progressive candidate can't win. I started absurdly late. No ads. No mailers. I spent the last 4 months afraid that I might get <100 votes. More than 5,200 people—20%—voted for change.

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I very much appreciate this statement of solidarity by Muslims for Just Futures about the Prairieland Sentencing. www.muslimsforjustfutures.org/blog/mjfstat...

Two ICE agents tracked down a woman *inside a polling place* yesterday. Why? They demanded that she take down an Instagram post in which she named Jonathan Ross as the man who shot & killed Renee Good (after the Star Tribune identified Ross). www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

...I've held my nose and voted for centrist Dems more times than I can count because I didn't want the opposing Republican to win. centrist Dems who won't do the same when a progressive is on the ballot are giving away what side they are really on

Samizdat! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samizdat

make zines and share zines until they are ubiquitous to the point that there is no stopping or criminalizing them

Does this news outrage you? Does it make you want to make zines? Do you want to know how, even without a computer? Here's an easy step-by-step guide by @thorazos.bsky.social. Print out the pages below or purchase copies cheap at the link. www.etsy.com/listing/6936...

NO PROGRESS ON URGENT HOUSING FOR TRANS FAMILY THAT WILL HAVE TO GO BACK TO TEXAS

Massive high five to @comixaction.com's own @edidin.bsky.social, who testified brilliantly before the @council.nyc.gov today, pushing for an "A.i." moratorium in the schools! cc @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social

Fuck the reflecting pool. This has not gotten nearly enough coverage or generated the proper outrage. People thrown in prison for 30-50 years for the "crime" ofmaking zines and belonging to a book club!! This is straight-up totalitarian atrocity. Political prisoners thrown in a gulag to rot.

We, the Free Des Support Committee, remain steadfastly by Des’s side. We’ve been there from the beginning, & we’re not going anywhere, until he & the other Prairieland defendants go free. Zines are not a crime. Solidarity is not a crime. Free Des Revol. Free them all. freedes.net @free.des.revol

The kids are not just alright, they are extremely fabulous.

Hi, I’m selling these stickers and will donate 100% of sales to legal fees and bail funds for the Prairieland defendents. I will be sure to post reciepts! $4 each, DM to order, and please help me spread the word!

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And the New York Times - which has obsessively covered minute aspects of the gender affirming care fight - chose not to cover this, or a major study finding anti trans laws increase calls to suicide hotlines, or many other stories that don't fit their agenda.

Older lady peeped the rainbow flag on my bike, asked in a thick Russian accent “It’s your Pride?” She told me her youngest grandchild is “not she berry or he berry but no berry.” I said “Nonbinary?” She got so excited. Yes! Yes! And “Is a secret, but they are my“ *looks around, whispers* “favorite.”

Seeing as this is getting formal with serious looking graphics take a moment and listen to black forager about why this is NOT the thing to do. youtube.com/shorts/0ybh5...

Christ. This is death camp shit.

Scientific American is 180 years old. The most eminent science magazine for the general public. And today, sold off as scrap to stop the staff from unionizing. Many top editors I've worked with for a decade on several articles have been fired. What a disgrace @sciam.bsky.social

Liz Soto and Savanna Batten are 2 of those sentenced to 50 years in prison for Prairieland. I visited them in a north Texas jail—11 months into their incarceration over a July 4 noise demo—to meet the Trump admin’s “Antifa terrorists”. from behind glass, Soto said, “They didn’t like my book club.”

She just won her primary. Woo!

My brother, if we win the Democratic Party primaries then we ARE the Democratic Party

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One of today's political prisoners. Cartoonist & zine maker Daniel Rolando Sanchez Estrada wasn't even at the ICE protest. He was accused of "moving" a box of anti-Trump zines THE NEXT DAY. A rightwing judge sentenced him to 30 years! Just for possessing zines. The darkness is descending.

The sentences doled out in the Prairieland case today are horrific. Des was sentenced to 30 years in prison for moving a box of zines. There is no pretense of "justice" here. The judge said, “the state wants to send a message to anyone who shares a similar ideology.” crimethinc.com/prairieland

Lord, I see what the feral hogs have, and I want that for giraffes

reminder that tomorrow is the day again

It is Primary Day, NY! Around 4 months ago, the internet was full of folks begging someone to primary Tom Suozzi after his disastrous choice to support more ICE funding right after Renee Good's murder. I did. Please go vote for me. Please tell any dems you know in NY-03 to go vote for me, too.

"Associating with a group that opposes LGBTQ+ and reproductive rights should be disqualifying. Praising Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, who operates the notorious CECOT prison where ICE detainees were transferred and tortured, should be disqualifying." -me votewelch.com

A cartoonist named Daniel "Des" Rolando Sanchez Estrada was tried as a terrorist and sentenced to 30 years in prison for having anti-Trump comics in his car. Prosecutors connected him to a 2025 anti-ICE protest he didn't even attend because he was in the same book club as others who were.

In NY-03 (which partially covers NYC), Tom Suozzi (one of the two Dems who recently launched a 'we are capitalist, not socialist' pledge) is facing a challenge from the left by Queens-based public defender Danielle Welch (@votewelch.bsky.social).

"Muralidhar said that by targeting children, Israel was undermining the capacity of the Palestinian people to exist and to determine their future."

They refer to themselves as concerned parents because if they admit that super PACs are paying them to utilize their boredom and bigotry for political and financial gain, the super PACs will stop funding them.

I keep seeing book banners framed as concerned parents. I've talked with dozens of political operatives who ban books, not a single one of them has been a parent of a child in said district. If they have offspring at all, they're 47 years old, and have been no contact since the divorce.

rainy day @teaberryblue.net

RALLY AND TESTIFY FOR A FULL MORATORIUM ON "AI" IN NYC SCHOOLS! Tomorrow (6/24) at City Hall Rally at 12 PM Joint Education and Technology hearing at 1 PM Register to testify at the hearing here: council.nyc.gov/testify/

As a podcast host, I emphatically second this.

Well, shit. I just found out that Nicole Hollander died in April. What a bleak year for the women whose books defined my childhood.

there's something remarkable how on a scientific level we're performing what would essentially be miracles and on a cultural/political level, we're going in reverse