Damn. Good riddance.

The Onion doesn’t miss. We need the Living Wage for Musicians Act NOW!

The only way to see the US as a historically white country is if you pretend Indigenous Americans don't exist and you ignore the fact that African Americans have been in this country longer than most of its white people. The way US history is taught from k-12 affirms the lie of white supremacy.

Some big implications for journalism, too, where reporters often mistake trending posts as a reasonable reflection of public opinion.

This book is so awesome!!

Quick! What are you favorite violin/piano pieces by a trans composer?

this is fucking epic, and i do not use that word lightly. holy shit. @sadqueer4life.bsky.social

Through her creative platform, Saint Heron, Solange has launched The Saint Heron Library, a digital archive dedicated to making rare and out-of-print works by Black authors, poets, and artists accessible to all. 🔗 library.saintheron.com

Feels a bit egregious to post about awards two days in a row, but I have just found out I was nominated for – and have won – an independent journalism award for my reporting following the Supreme Court decision in For Women Scotland for @wearequeeraf.com Thank you!

MN SOS Steve Simon has said Minnesota law doesn't allow him to share the voter data. DOJ files suit against six states that refused to share voter data minnesotareformer.com/2025/09/25/r...

Amid a flurry of disinformation and non-science-based medical advisories from the Department of Health and Human Services, a Democratic lawmaker Haley Stevens has indicated she is readying articles of impeachment against HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Republicans can’t win on their policies, so they are trying to dodge accountability by rewriting the rules. These lawmakers are going out of their way to silence the will of the people and deliberately undermine our democracy.

Absolutely spot on - and also completely in line with their essential purity/taboo ideas of sex. Tale as old as time: this kind of sex is dirty, but I want it, therefore the dirt 'belongs' to the object of desire, who can be sectioned off and disposed of as contaminated, while I remain clean.

Anyway, scientists should get the fuck over being whiny little wretches who are scared of female bodies, because menstrual stem cells appear to be industrial printers compared to bone stem cell little desktop printers and you don’t have to drill into bones to get them. www.gavi.org/vaccineswork...

Go see the movie The History of Sound. Gay history of ethnomusicology in Appalachia is about as good a description as I can do.

UCLA’s funds reinstated after yesterday’s court order! Thanks to the brave researchers and their amazing counsel, including Dean Chemerinsky, who brought suit. This is just another turn in the ongoing fight, but a great result for now.

My employer New York Public Radio just announced that it is offering @onthemedia.bsky.social, @radiolab.bsky.social, and other programs to at-risk public radio stations for free! More info: current.org/2025/09/wnyc...

Same! Loving the students this year.

Ireland just released a report showing the huge success of the unconditional basic income it provided to artists. Each $1 spent led to society gaining $1.39. Artists' earned incomes went up more than their side job incomes fell. And they were happier and used less welfare www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

The thing about being neurodivergent is that I Like It. What I don’t like is that the world imposes numerous taxes on me for being like this. I don’t view it as a Me problem.

we didn’t need a Rosh Hashanah version of Nancy Pelosi in kente cloth, but now we have it regardless

ME, AFTER A LONG DAY, NORMALLY: hello how was your day DARLING WIFE: have you seen Eric Adams' Rosh Hashanah outfit?

More of this, yes.

📢 Our open letter reminds public higher ed leaders + administrators that their actions must follow the law, not political rhetoric. The First Amendment protects the teaching of controversial topics. Executive orders and legislation to the contrary cannot override this constitutional protection.

Did we all take organic chemistry & the MCAT & miss the social part of our early 20’s and work 80 hours a week for 3+ years for the brain worm guy who doesn’t know what a p-value is to destroy our nation’s public health system? No. Time to lean into our expertise and speak up.

To be clear: this entire “we’ve got to run more pro-lifers” insanity is because literally a week ago polling showed that Democrats would prefer politicians like AOC and Mamdani over Jefferies and Schumer by, let me emphasize this, a 20 point fucking margin. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

From a white supremacist perspective: Being professional = quietly accepting racism at work Being unprofessional = calling out this racism

Anti-fascists (Antifa) storming the beaches of Normandy.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs a lot less to house people.

JUST IN: The law, opposed by police organizations, was aimed by lawmakers at immigration agents and will test state powers over the conduct of federal officials.

Joy: Twenty 6-8yos doing gymnastics to kpop demon hunters

Disney has lost nearly $4 Billion in three days from combined stock price collapse and cancelled subscriptions.

Happy to share my latest publication with you. African Women's names are special, but what about when they are set to music? "Songs and female names in contemporary Nigeria: a mother’s prayer or men’s muse?" Download for free on the following link today! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/BZQXH...

underneath all the doom and hideous stuff happening at the top of our country is a more inspiring story: regular Americans are not buying all this crap. and they're still willing to call the government out on it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Colin Kaepernick is funding an independent second autopsy for Trey Reed, the Black student found hanging from a tree at Delta State University, after the Mississippi State Medical Examiner ruled the death a suicide. buff.ly/i9CsjMK

This story is so absurd and so appalling. It’s so debasing for society that the anti-trans panic has some people thinking that it’s their business what’s in anyone else’s pants.

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

Canceled 4 subscriptions I was already on the fence about. Alas, mid research meeting today, I realized my studio no longer has a functional CD player. Must remedy.

Only Congress holds the authority to change the name of federal departments. Full stop. America hasn’t had a “Department of War” since WWII. If you're talking about having been nominated to work for the Department of War, you're 78 years too late.

🚨BREAKING: Rep. Ro Khanna just motioned to SUBPOENA FCC chairman Brendan Carr in the House Oversight Committee to stop the intimidation of private businesses and assault on free speech

Congratulations to @teamsters.bsky.social Local 210 workers at Perrigo in the Bronx on your strong new contract. Workers shouldn't have to strike to win dignity and respect on the job — but sometimes that's what it takes.

This is what really stands out to me about the widespread cowardice on display in this moment from corporate and college leaders: the people they're capitulating to while visibly quaking in fear are absolutely hated by an enormous majority of the national population.

The man who was rage tweeting at 3:30am about how unfairly he is being treated was born a millionaire, spent his life receiving handouts & free passes and will sleep tonight in Windsor Castle after being feted by the King of England. Life’s a bitch.

On June 24, I began my Election Night speech by quoting Mandela: “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” That's the spirit of this campaign, and our city. This is "Until It’s Done,” a new series about New Yorkers who refused to accept that a worthy goal was impossible.

"submissions from UK-based entrants aged 18 to 30 inclusive, the prize invites new and unpublished writing that connects with Professor Stuart Hall’s ideas and impacts broad public discourse."

How's it going?

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

I was listening to an old Casey Kasem American Top 40 (I find this soothing these days) from 1985 where he told the story of Wendy Carlos, who scored The Shining and Tron, and her journey to becoming trans. Casey got all the pronouns right and it was presented as a slice of life, feel good story

Shot, chaser Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men