Yes, this is hideous.

@mcbride.house.gov is right. It’s hard enough being a kid — and politicians don’t need to make it harder. Thank you, Congresswoman, for speaking out against the cruel Republican attacks on health care for trans youth.

The "50 Years of PUNK" show opens tonight (11/28) at the Ki Smith Gallery, 170 Forsyth St. on the LES. We got a sneak preview as John Holmstrom, the co-founder, editor, and illustrator of PUNK Magazine, and Ki Smith set up the show. Up through Jan. 11. Weds-Sun noon-6. 📷 by @staciejoy.bsky.social

#amreading A PEACE TO END ALL PEACE: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire + the Creation of the Modern Middle East (1989) by David Fromkin. Documents well Britain’s arrogant + racist “intervention” in the #MiddleEast during + after WW1. Flawed but dense with detail, if wholly from a Western POV. #booksky

HANDS OFF NYC! NO TROOPS - NO ICE! Sun, Dec 14, 1-2pm Trump Tower NYC 5th Ave was closed to traffic today creating a pedestrian-only zone. Rise and Resist took the street and sent a clear message to ICE that their agents aren’t welcome in NYC! FIGHTING FASCISM WITH ALL THE JOY THAT WE CAN MUSTER

Go, Rev. Josoma! “There are so few voices that seem to come out and say ‘no’ to this administration,” Josoma, 70, said Tuesday in an interview at St. Susanna’s rectory. “I don’t get that. I don’t understand that.” @bostonglobe.com www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/09/m... #Resist #WeStandWithImmigrants

Know your rights. Protect your neighbors. New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.

#amwatching Jafar Panahi’s subtle, funny, moving 3 FACES (2018) with Behnaz Jafari and Marziyeh Rezael playing a young woman determined to follow her dream. Filmmaker Panahi is to me a model of the artist/activist: inspiring, committed, fearless. @criterionchannl.bsky.social #filmsky #IranianFilm

Support immigrants under attack on this Giving Tuesday. With the regime escalating its attacks on immigrant communities, we’re encouraging you to support the Defending Our Neighbors Fund. Help families caught up in our increasingly draconian immigration system get the legal assistance they deserve.

Today is Buy Nothing Day!

Viola Ford Fletcher, who as one of the last survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre in Oklahoma spent her later years seeking justice for the deadly attack by a white mob on the thriving Black community where she lived as a child, has died. She was 111. https://to.pbs.org/43OHYaQ

"Macken, 63, began building the monumental 50-by-30-foot model in his Clifton Park, NY basement back in 2004." This so reminds me of my nonno, Marino Auriti, an autobody mechanic, and his Encyclopedic Palace: collection.folkartmuseum.org/people/772/m... #architecture gothamist.com/arts-enterta...

"Of the over 500 men who entered the forest, only 194 were rescued." Another library sale find, this melancholy little curio, HISTORY AND RHYMES OF THE LOST BATTALION, from 1929, by "Buck Private" McCollum, one who lived to tell. www.pritzkermilitary.org/explore/muse... #WW1 #booksky #LostBattalion

I signed this petition organized by Showing Up for Racial Justice. They still need more signatures. Can you sign and share as well? www.mobilize.us/surj/event/8...

President Trump’s response to the murder of exiled Saudi columnist Jamal Khashoggi and the culpability of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman sends a chilling message to authoritarian governments that paves the way to more human rights violations. pen.org/press-releas...

Brave young journalist Malak A Tantesh. "There were times, she wrote, when the surviving members of her family envied the dead." And then look at these beautiful, hopeful faces. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n... #Gaza

The MacArthur "Genius" Award-winner was best known as the founder of the Disability Visibility Project, which highlights disabled people and disability culture through storytelling projects, social media and other channels. n.pr/47WGe0m

Dwight Garner in @nytimes.com calls @ghoward1950.bsky.social's THE INSIDER: Malcolm Cowley + the Triumph of American Literature "sensitive, well-reported and probing" + brings home how #WilliamFaulkner might have passed into the dustbin of history w/o Cowley. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/b... #booksky

Thank you! Also featuring Siân Gibby @sianfach.bsky.social as part of a discussion with #poet Dennis Barone (www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/dennis...) and me about Robert Viscusi on "pick-and-shovel poet" Pascal D'Angelo. #ItalianAmerican #booksky

Someone needs to talk about @ghoward1950.bsky.social and Edwin Frank, founder and editor of the NYRB Classics, discussing Gerry's THE INSIDER: Malcolm Cowley and the Triumph of American Literature at @greenlightbklyn.bsky.social on Weds, 11/5 @ 7:30. greenlightbookstore.com/event/2025-1... #booksky

Found at a library sale in Kent, CT, this beautiful and powerfully spooky edition of Gustav Meyrink's DER GOLEM, in the original German. With lithographs by Hugo Steiner-Prag. Published by Kurt Wolff in Leipzig, 1915. #booksky #vanishedworld

Watch our full conversation here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqU0...

Forget the polls. Take nothing for granted. And let's work our hearts out these next seven days. Vote now: zohranfornyc.com/vote Canvass + phonebank: zohranfornyc.com/gotv

I almost wrote "unbelievable," but all bets are off with the insanity of the t administration and the hatred, stupidity, and violence they sow in the world. #booksky

"As the operation carried on, agents were confronted with a spontaneous crowd of protesters, who heckled them to leave New York City and called them Nazis." This is the #NYC that I love. #WeStandWithImmigrants

"The future is always being written at every moment, and hope and faith and even an irrational belief in literature’s primacy in and importance to the human prospect is the cure for despair." Terrific piece in the @nytimes.com by @ghoward1950.bsky.social #booksky

Enjoy 4 great renditions of “All You Fascists Bound to Lose” Woody's original! www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwcK... Nina Hagen! www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMDg... Billy Bragg! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq75... Resistance Revival Chorus + Rhiannon Giddens! www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWUa... #Antifascist #Resist

Enjoy 4 great renditions of “All You Fascists Bound to Lose” Woody's original! www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwcK... Nina Hagen! www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMDg... Billy Bragg! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq75... Resistance Revival Chorus + Rhiannon Giddens! www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWUa... #Antifascist #Resist

I'm attending No Kings's event, “Mass Call: What's Next After No Kings?” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

There are more of us than there are of them. Thank you for a truly historic day of peaceful protests across America. #NoKings

Careful at those #nokings rallies. I hear they’re full of radical Antifa thugs.

Massive crowd at New York's Times Square for the #NoKings protests

#amreading ONE WAY OR ANOTHER by Leonardo Sciascia (translated by Sacha Rabinovitch) which chucks out the conventions of a #whodunit for something much more refractory and mysterious, a sort of meditation on power and culpability. #booksky

If you're headed to a No Kings protest this Saturday, make sure you know your rights and others do too. Download a Know Your Rights phone screen background, protest sign, and more.

I am seventy-five years old, and I guess I am cursed for the rest of whatever life is left to me to try to figure out how the genuinely stupidest people on earth came to be able to control the once greatest country on earth. To have been born in 1950 and for things to come to this, well, fuck me.

Your daily reminder that Indigenous people predated Columbus in the “new world” by — wait for it — 23,000 years. #IndigenousPeoplesDay 🪶🪶

Very excited to see this #documentary "Steal This Story, Please!" about fearless, brave, beloved Amy Goodman, my longtime #hero, who is always fighting the good fight. deadline.com/2025/06/stea... @democracynow.org

The Trump administration is aggressively attempting to use every legal artifice it can to exert authoritarian control.

 🪧NO KINGS NYC 📍 47th & Bwy 📍  The red steps 📆 October 18th ⏰ 11am 📣 Sign up to volunteer at NoKingsNYC.com This is a peaceful, nonviolent march. There is no rally. The march will start at W 47th St & Broadway. The march route is south on 7th Ave, dispersing at 14th St. Spread the word.

Terrific #documentary, “The Piccirilli Factor,” by Eduardo Montes-Bradley, about six #Italian #immigrant stone carver/sculptor brothers working in the Bronx who made some of NYC's most beloved sculptures. www.montesbradley.com calandrainstitute.org/events/the-p... @calandrainstitute.bsky.social

Ite, Papae! And keep on going, dude! #WeStandWithImmigrants

#amreading CONUNDRUM by Jan Morris. Only a writer of such style, wit, and singularity would write of her sex change: "It was inevitable and it was deeply satisfying - like a sentence which, defying its own subordinate clauses, reaches a classical conclusion in the end." #booksky

Rest in power, Assata Shakur. ASSATA: An #Autobiography is one of the most moving autobiographies I've ever read, with a canny structure of chapters moving back and forth between the present + past until the narrative meets in the middle. #booksky #Assata www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Congress can end Trump’s Epstein cover-up: act.indivisible.org/sign/epstein...

Most Holy Redeemer, an #EastVillage #Catholic church of surpassing beauty, is on the chopping block. It was built in 1851 to serve the #German immigrant community. Sign GVSHP's petition - p2a.co/k1lzcji - to keep it from the fate of Dorothy Day's Church of the Nativity. evgrieve.com/search/label...

I'm so sad to hear that Bluestockings is closing. This was a great bookstore as well as a community gathering place. They will be missed. #booksky bluestockings.com

It's a bit like shooting scungilli in a barrel - and so very mean of me! - but I write about #Netflix's #Nonnas on my blog, #forteegentile, with a wider aim of pondering the reductive and undying cliches around a certain kind of #ItalianAmerican #nostalgia. forte-e-gentile.com/2025/09/18/n...

Just lovely to see that Ben Ratliff's thoughtful, generous, sui generis RUN THE SONG: Writing About Running About Listening made the National Book Awards Long List for Nonfiction. Go Ben! @graywolfpress.bsky.social #nationalbookaward #booksky www.nationalbook.org/2025-nationa...