“Do you have any idea of the amount of human endeavor that has led to you, snug under your duvet as the wind howls? Whether you know their names or think of them at all, the Ancestors are part of your community forever.”

Unironically sending love and light (and this mix) 🌟

For solstice

ICE whistles work.

Good god. Unconscionable that this could be.

Ode to the Maggot by Yusef Komunyakaa

'Trump is covered... like all those other presidents — the ones who, despite their flaws, were not busy dismantling our democracy. Trump is covered with deference; with headlines and stories that often take him at face value.' Via @sulliview.bsky.social margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/america-ha...

12 hours, 130 conversations "The event, titled 'The Mayor Is Listening,' was inspired by conceptual artist Marina Abramović's 2010 performance at the Museum of Modern Art ..."

Last week, the New School issued voluntary separation & early retirement offers to 40% of the full-time faculty & the majority of non-union staff. These cuts to the bone are an ideological attempt to decimate historic spaces of critical inquiry & social justice. Share our statement tr.ee/qQBIDCpIuj

ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote: https://propub.li/3MTlm33

"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more." This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular. pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...

This is a gift. Thank you to @siembranc.bsky.social for sharing this new toolkit with what they did when Border Patrol showed up in NC: docs.google.com/document/d/1... - share far and wide especially with our comrades in MN and LA (New Orleans esp).

Every paragraph is a banger. I’m so happy right now. Sometimes you find a piece of writing just when you need it.

cc @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

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I’m speaking at and moderating an extraordinary panel of trans visionaries, activists, youth, and elders tonight for trans day of remembrance. join us 🏳️‍⚧️💕 www.youtube.com/live/BhAGltn...

Would love to see someone from the moderate, Majority Dem faction really address and wrestle with the political effects of what Labour has been up to.

Our next bath of 3D printed whistles are in process, and we have requests to supply multiple large trainings over the next 2 weeks. We’ll also hand out hundreds of whistles (for free!) in heavily immigrant communities this week.

When DHS dared to call its anti-immigrant racial profiling weekend in Charlotte, North Carolina, “Operation Charlotte’s Web,” I knew I was going to have to write about it. Tonight, at Law Dork, here it is: www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...

Commentary: After a year of volunteering weekly, my faith in the world slowly started to restore like a cup filling up again, forces for good overpowering all the sadness.

Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.

“You all, we all, deserve everything and more” Thank you Alice for being one of our fiercest ‘disabled oracles’ — and lighting the way so brightly that the dazzle and warmth of your fire is with us still ❤️‍🔥

When it’s wear purple in honor of Ruby Bridges day tomorrow and your kid doesn’t have anything purple

Just dagger after dagger

I'll be tabling at the Philly Zine Fest next Saturday Nov 1. Stop by and I will also have some free zines along with the ones available for purchase. www.phillyzinefest.org

Yesterday, @mayorwu.boston.gov signed my Surplus Municipal Property for Affordable Housing Ordinance into law. This new law ensures that when city buildings go offline, they’re first considered for affordable housing. Thank you to all the advocates and community members who made this possible!

What. Wild.

According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...

Zohran Mamdani calling it a genocide on The View and getting applause.

I wrote about Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ezra Klein, why swallowing live frogs is a bad idea, and how context and history can release you from bright-kid syndrome, the illusion that you yourself are going to have every answer or fix the world.

Hey so we're doing our fall fundraising campaign and I want to share with you why it's so important. 🧵 secure.actblue.com/donate/tap-f...

hundreds of engineers, teachers, or outreach workers sounds good. I'd like a "full force" helping of that, please

Billionaire Jeff Yass isn’t interested in justice — he’s interested in control. Yass wants a Pennsylvania Supreme Court that shields his fortune and advances his agenda — not one that protects the public.

In light of reports that the Trump Admin has asked SCOTUS to decide the merits of its effort to end birthright citizenship, I’m re-upping my assessment - reluctantly arrived at - of the majority’s likely response to Trump’s unconstitutional demand. I pray I’m wrong. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

Mamdani serves a full, nutritious meal in an era where politics is either deadly poison or vacuous junk food. He uses the tried and true "we did, we can, we will" framework that helps abate cynicism but without papering over past harms or present injustice.

That moment when @ichotiner.bsky.social just can’t take it any more

a few thoughts (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

This actually happened.

“This is all feeling awfully like home,” a friend of mine from Russia texted me yesterday evening. www.unpopularfront.news/p/this-is-it

This yesterday. And today, a “civics education” plan from DOE that consists of shoveling money into the worst of right wing infrastructure. Dark fucking times. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/u...

We don't know what's going to happen so might as well fight for better. That's really my basic political orientation.

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.

Two years ago, Patricia Hall was shot and killed in the East Germantown home she had lived in with her adult daughter, granddaughter, and younger children. (1/4)

I am not a political pawn. I am a living, breathing human being who has dedicated her life to a scientific problem that I believe matters for human health. The article below tells our story; I hope you will read it and share it www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

"When the clock broke" by @lioneltrolling.bsky.social on the foreshadowing of Trump in 90s US politics is just 99p on Kindle today. You can read my interview with him about the book here: samf.substack.com/p/when-the-c...

In Columbia Heights D.C., memorial signs are going up for residents abducted by the state. (📸 Igor Bobic)

a reminder that most of the time what appears to be hypocrisy is in fact a coherent statement of values

Worth getting through or around the paywall