NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

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This book just nominated for the Aspen Words Literary Prize (Sonora’s second novel in a row to receive this wonderful acknowledgment). It’s an extraordinary novel about modern romance, feminism, middle age, combating racism, and coming into your own sense of self. Read it!

The only reason we know anything about the Epstein files is because the survivors refused to give up. This release is about the the bravery & tenacity of the survivors who continue to fight for justice in a system seeking to crush, silence, and erase them.

My daughter is 15, a child with a baby face whom I won’t even put in an Uber by herself. Just utterly disgusting from the same people who have spent years demonizing trans people as predators for daring even to exist. What are we even doing right now?

Reminder: A lot of great books published this year during absolutely bonkers news & world event times. That squashes people talking about them. Keep buying books please, keep borrowing them from libraries, and for the love of all that's good, talk about them. Post about them. 📚

Just spitballing here but what if most of the people who run the world didn’t completely suck

Anyway we gon' need a whole new ass executive branch, so uh, that's fun.

most on the nose “he’s on a mission from god” reference in recorded history

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills: the emails from Landon Thomas has his New York Times signature block...he was employed by NY Times at the time. He was communicating directly with Epstein about Trump, and was given incriminating information about Trump. It's been in NYT's possession since 2015

The physical abuse of children by adult men is an actual plank of all right-wing political thought, a thing they believe in strongly and govern to enable, not just something thousands of them happen to do. Fascism is a politics of violent mastery and no one's easier to do that to than a child.

Below Epstein is talking in 2018 about his willingness to act as an advisor to Sergey Lavrov, the Russian minister of foreign affairs, about how to handle Donald Trump. (He was discussing this with Thorbjørn Jagland, who was then serving as the secretary general of the Council of Europe.)

Fascinating to hear the parallels between Robyn's new single, "Dopamine," and Jade's "Self-Saboteur," the latter being one of the very best tracks of the year

One day the US will have to face the shame and horror of what has happened here: that a cabal of wealthy people have elevated a monster into the most powerful person in the world www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

I’ve seen a few folks go for the “if you simply must watch that new Harry Potter show just pirate it” and sorry. No. Just no. Just don’t watch it. At all. Ever. Break free of it. It’s time. You’ll be ok. I promise. I know it mattered to you as a kid. Find new things, it’s healthier. Just move on.

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Official portraits from our Queen Mary 2 crossing ❤️

A reminder that this book is life-changing 💁🏾‍♂️

Wow, had no idea this existed. A 1948 radio show about A Streetcar Named Desire winning the Drama Critics Circle Award featuring scenes performed by the original Broadway cast including Jessica Tandy as Blanche. Tantalizing and invaluable glimpse at how she played it. youtu.be/wmpjP-ZKDvg?...

Because these senators don’t care what their constituents think, they think that their legacy will have nothing to do with public opinion. They can’t even conceive—due to ego or stupidity or both—that public opinion IS their legacy. And that it will be duly scathing.

Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...

Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous

My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard. We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions. We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.

Hey @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and @schumer.senate.gov: compromising with fascists is compliance. Read the room. Do your jobs. Protect your constituents.

Having to talk about AI as if it’s a serious concern and not a money laundering scheme is taking years off my life

OVER A MILLION USERS DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT EVERY *WEEK* what the fuck are we DOING here

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

No it’s important to listen to this. Because then you understand that many of them will do ANYTHING to keep power. Remember Musk got involved in the 2024 election after saying to Tucker “if she wins” I am definitely going to prison. So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.

Well this piece just won an IACP award!

Another photo of my Elphaba costume (looks Photoshopped but isn’t Photoshopped)

I write often about how private equity is destroying US healthcare. Lina Khan is a rare person who has used her position in power to fight back against private equity’s hold on the US economy. Very excited to see what she does in New York.

here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol

I do think yesterday’s results reinforced the dynamic that while much of the American leadership class is chickenshit, most of the electorate is not

I love that Zohran did not praise Cuomo in his speech. You absolutely do not have to say nice things about bad people. We should normalize that in “polite” politics: Praising bad people is not actually “civility.”

serious note: they're gonna try 5x harder to sabotage the midterms after tonight and we're gonna have to organize on a literally historic scale to stop them

Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.

I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.

If you were hoping for an even larger margin in the NYC mayoral race, please know it is an absolute miracle Zohran Mamdani pulled this off. He’s a remarkable talent with an incredible team, and they put INTENSE work into this campaign. It is NOT easy to win against establishment candidates.

so it turns out that fascism is unpopular

Bill Ackman gotta be on the third draft of a tweet longer than Middlemarch right now

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B A N G E R ALERT Every South Asian child in New York City should do a dance to this song at the next wedding they go to Singer is Salma Kausar and turns out I love her vibes src: www.instagram.com/reel/DQMjwOo...

It is worth saying that putting “Africana studies” in scare quotes as if it’s a ridiculous concept is not a political argument. It’s just racism. “Africa is not worthy of a major” is the implication. Yeah dude you’re just racist. (From Gerard Baker at the WSJ today) www.wsj.com/opinion/mamd...

We strongly condemn @CondéNast’s consolidation plans for Teen Vogue, a move that is clearly designed to blunt the award-winning magazine’s insightful journalism at a time when it is needed the most. More from our statement:

People fucking hate this guy. They fucking hate ICE. They fucking hate how much power he has. He is at 63% overall disapproval to 37% approval. That's lower than their poll after January 6th. And this poll was done before he started intentionally starving people. I wish our media would reflect this.

if not Ponzi, why Ponzi-shaped? www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

🚨 BIG 🚨Satmar Ahronim sect is endorsing Mamdani for mayor, two sources familiar confirmed. Mamdani is expected to meet with Satmar leaders in Williamsburg this afternoon. Here is more background ⬇️ forward.com/fast-forward...

Ok these two photos of me as Elphaba are giving Ethel Cain

‘I hate you. I hate New York City. If you don’t give me power your lives will be hell. Send me your daughters so I can harass them.” - Cuomo’s closing message, basically

It’s just…for the first time…I feel…WICKED