This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system. I am not fearful — I am fearless. We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

Letitia James has my utmost respect. We stand with you, Tish!

Powerful words of truth and solidarity from Council Speaker Adrienne Adams today. We have your back, Tish James.

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion. As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

this is good

I love that he keeps proving other Democrats wrong about trans and socialist policies being unelectable, while he gains more popularity than any of them

Reminds me of a quote that has lived rent-free in my head for 8+ years & counting: "We lost an entire generation of people [of color] due to deaths and incarceration. I guess the 'crackheads' didn't need help, but these hipster junkies deserve our sympathy." — Cyd Sheldon Robinson, Oct. 26, 2017

Today my daughter's preschool is holding a farewell assembly for one of her classmates whose mother has no choice but to self deport. The school is hoping it will be joyful in tone, so we might make this less upsetting for this 3 year old. There's just no words for the uselessness of this cruelty.

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Black history is taught like: Lincoln freed the slaves. Somehow about a century passed and Rosa Parks wanted a better seat on a bus. There were some bus and lunch counter protests. MLK had a dream. Then everything was equal forever. Problems solved. 🙄

If you all would have included truthful Black History as part of American History, you wouldn't be so "shocked" by what is happening right now. In fact, what is happening now likely wouldn't be happening because you would have been able to see it coming with knowledge of history.

Black folks have seen all this before. The late-night attacks by masked men, the disappearances of people, the demands for "papers", the racial profiling, the beatings, the unarmed getting shot. Yup. We've been fighting white folks like ICE for 400+ years.

English, Anthropology, Sociology... removing these options for the majority would of course help the class war substantially, by preventing most people from learning more in understanding and appreciating the real diversity of humanity, culture and its communication

"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage." I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.

If you're the praying sort, throw one up for Dolly Parton. Word is she's not doing well, and fuck, this world needs her goodness in it for a while longer.

“The greatest danger to our future is apathy.” Jane Goodall Good night Jane. Your jungle life taught us humanity. I am truly grateful.

Today, Oct.2nd, is the anniversary of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder by Saudi agents.

If you're in the military and the president tells you to attack the American people you have to know that is wrong

Reading book that mentions early detection of COVID-19 in sewage that includes summary of early days of detection, outbreak. Brought me back to those days like a tide and I thought wow, I lived thru that. And I had this sudden soothing thought: Someday these days, too, will be in a history book

NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats. Version of original on left, updated on right:

Honey, wake up: New unconstitutional extortion just dropped. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

"This is extortion, plain and simple.... The only solution is solidarity and collective action against this effort at federal control over higher education." A sobering analysis of the illegality of the administration's "compact" and its stakes for higher ed. 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

It's Obamacare health insurance prices — and how much help 24 million Americans will get with their premiums — that are in dispute.

Just so we’re clear:

‼️ @joybella.blacksky.app: “…some things can't be learned via elite, exclusive institutions. They can only be learned via lived experience.”

Some people who identify as smart (and it’s important to note they IDENTIFY as smart as if is an ethnic group), are angered beyond reason by the fact that there is knowledge that can not be acquired by reading about it. Angrier than they understand or will ever admit. And they think we can’t see it.

What I know from being Black my whole life, and poor for the majority of it, is that politely ignoring a root issue to attend to one closer to the surface is like robbing Peter to pay Paul. It’s a band-aid on a gaping wound, and it will not hold your flesh together for long. The US needs stitches.

The conversation between Klein and Coates showed me that a lot of people who screech about “infighting” on the left aren’t aware of the fact that marginalized people have been forced to learn how to regulate their emotions during conflict, and so, are better able to hear what’s actually being said.

One job. ONE.

Black American chef opens a soul food spot in Paris?? I'm IN! 🫡

(((Claiming for us all))) 🙏🏾🙌🏾

Same with recessions, almost always under a Republican president. Its almost like those motherfuckers dont know how to run a country.

The government is officially shut down. Make no mistake: Republicans control the House, the Senate, and the White House. This is THEIR shutdown. They had every tool to govern and chose chaos instead. The American people are the ones paying the price.

President Trump and Congressional Republicans just shut down the government because they refused to stop your health care costs from rising. Let me be clear: Republicans are in charge of the White House, House, and Senate. This is their shutdown.

It sure would be nice to live in precedented times for a change.

The basic infrastructures that allow women to be participants in public life—birth control & abortion access, no fault divorce, childcare access & affordability, civil rights law in employment and public accommodations, the minimal efforts to mitigate sexual and domestic violence—are all crumbling.

The revolution won’t be televised but the treason sure is

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hi, federal judge expert here! this is not funny. conservative, Reagan-appointed district judges only use epistolary framing devices in their opinions when they are in extreme distress.

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

In a sane country with competent leadership, the 50 highest-ranking Democrats would call a press conference to denounce what just happened as a threat to the republic and demand Trump's immediate impeachment and removal from office. I don't know he could make his intentions more clear.

I have never seen such a blistering rebuke of a President by a federal judge. He is telling us clearly to stand up for our liberty against a dictator. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

On the bright side, it was McCarthy's decision to go after the military that led to his downfall.

I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this

Not if you have living relatives who were around for Jim Crow.

RIP, Jonathan Lear. Only knew him through his writings, but he seemed like a once-in-decades combination of insightful and deeply humane.

Safe travels to Professor Jonathan Lear, whose words and thoughts transported so many of us. His radical hope remains.

"Colonel Kim was recognized for delaying the entry of Special Forces troops into the National Assembly by 42 minutes through three instances of withholding or refusing emergency flight approvals." That detail made me emotional. One person doing what they could, the importance of those 42 minutes!!

it may feel a little like homework, but i genuinely think people should read the lincoln-douglas debates to see what the practical politics of anti-slavery looked like in an environment where the public was neutral to hostile to the question of emancipation