Should be a huge story. 18 year old died in a police precinct after an arrest on the Fourth of July. So far, family and friends say police explanations aren't credible. Monday, NYT does basic story. ⬇️ Yesterday, community rallied at precinct. (Very sad.) Local TV was there. Why no NYT follow-up?

Now is not the time to politicize a natural disaster because it might hurt Republicans. If it hurts Democrats there's no waiting period.

This was my flight approximately 2 weeks ago heading back to NYC from London. It was less than half empty when they told us that boarding was complete. I guess people really aren’t coming to the US like they used to… Of note: I’ve taken this flight before and I’ve never seen it this empty!

Your regular reminder that most people in this country can't afford to move to another state and the inclination to say they're getting what they voted for in the devastation of a hurricane or flood or whatever the hell is a failure of common sense and empathy on multiple levels.

People are showing their whole entire asses. I hope you’re not suggesting that children deserve to drown in floods because of how their state voted in an election.

Anybody I see espousing the "FAFO" sentiment about those poor kids drowning is going on my block list. No exceptions. I don't associate with shitty people who take grisly delight in the notion that there's any justice in children dying because of how some of the adults in their region voted.

Just look at the food deserts in DC where you have one grocery store for thousands of people. They don't care that there's a lack of access to food for poor Black people at all. If it comes down to it, they will indeed just close, leave people starving, & keep it pushing.

The fact we have secret police whisking people off the streets doesn’t get enough attention. It ain’t normal and we’re further down the road to authoritarianism than you think.

Between the rebrand of trickle down economics and weapons of mass destruction, I’m truly not enjoying this timeline as an elder millennial.

These are torture chambers

I remember during undergrad talking with a professor from the USSR re their politics and its societal disadvantages, i.e. "At least we in the US are free since unlike USSR we don't have to carry passports all the time just to cross into different parts of the country." - good times

I have seen so many folks with their passports peaking out of their pockets while walking around NYC lately (including the guy standing in front of me on the train this morning). This is giving police state.

Yup.

It official 💪🏾🗽✨

Smdh. Fecklessness abounds.

Cuomo got steamrolled lol

This was supposed to be a breakthrough year in the 44-year-long struggle against H.I.V. It's turned into something very different. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/h...

Sigh.

It brings me no joy to report this, but it’s been almost a full day of the Mamdani candidacy, I walked from Midtown all the way to Greenwich and back, and the city is in SHAMBLES. I saw a man doing pull-up sets on scaffolding. There was a *jazz band* playing in the park, in front of CHILDREN!

My city showed tf out!!! 🗽✨ www.axios.com/2025/06/25/z...

🤸🏾‍♀️✨

"Mamdani’s victory needn’t be a death knell for a winning Democratic party. It should be a death knell for an ossified Democratic establishment. And it should be a wake up call for non-socialist Democrats to show some of the audacity and the ability of Mamdani." www.thebulwark.com/p/wake-up-ca...

In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done. My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it. I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.

Yuck

Ahhh so the weeks of telling everyone around us not to rank Cuomo worked. That’s how community works, folks!

I woke up hopeful this morning. What a lovely feeling!

Pay attention, @democrats.org: Democratic voters haven’t become more conservative. We’ve became disengaged. Ignore that at your peril.

Considering I was born and raised in NYC and lived through tougher times here, you can’t convince us of this….

What a time to be alive✨

Sending thoughts and prayers tonight to Matt Yglesias, Jonathan Chait, Ritchie Torres, Charlie Kirk, Libs of TikTok, and many more.

"In a party divided over how to push back against Trump and what fights to pick, Mamdani offered a clear sense of direction." Read @timothypmurphy.bsky.social's initial reaction to tonight's stunning New York mayoral primary vote: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

My city showed tf out!!! 🗽✨ www.axios.com/2025/06/25/z...

“If international medical graduates can’t start their medical residencies on time on July 1, the ramifications are so far-reaching that it is really unconscionable,” said Kimberly Pierce Burke, executive director of the Alliance of Independent Academic Medical Centers.”

To do this during Pride Month shows that CRUELTY is the point. We will still continue to support our LGBTQ+ community despite what the government says because WE are the only ones who can save US. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/w...

I find myself really struggling with the news of Ananda Lewis’ passing. Everyone has the right to live their lives on their own terms, but it still can make it hard for the friends and family they leave behind. 1/ people.com/ananda-lewis...

👇👇

Salvadoran restaurant workers rendering aid to an LA sheriff's officer who got pepper-sprayed. 🤔

It’s immigration today, but it’ll be something else another day. Trump’s deployment of the US military to Los Angeles constitutes a threat of potential military occupation for any large-scale expression of political dissent. That’s what’s happening.

The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

Can’t imagine how this makes America healthy again. apnews.com/article/kenn...

Try as they might to make vaccines out of vogue, the research shows that they should always be in

This indictment is no more justified than the original charges. I will not be intimidated. My full statement:

Jay Bhattacharya lacks integrity, seems to have no moral compass at all, & is classless, clueless, out of his depth, a right wing ideologue, & a MAGA/MAHA bro. His censorship of, & political interference in, US science to push Trump's extreme right wing agenda are grotesque, damaging, & dangerous.

This will have deleterious effects for generations

I like this Gavin more than podcast Gavin.

It’s because it’s about control and not actually about caring about children

No matter what a peaceful protestor may intend, it’s police who are deciding when to use violence and whom to use it against—and nothing we saw this weekend indicates their violence was confined to those who were not “peaceful.”

The regime occupation of California is framed as restoring order, but protest is not rebellion. Peaceful dissent is a right. Rebranding protest as insurrection is state propaganda. We are witnessing militarized suppression, not enforcement of justice. This is power without consent #3E

Shameful.