Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

Moonlighting as filial tech support for my parents has made compiling my third-year review materials seem positively joy-filled by comparison. (I may have brought this upon myself--I went with my mother to purchase the new computer that I am now in charge of setting up. I have regrets)

Friends, if you or someone you know has published awesome work in disability studies (defined *broadly*), please let me know! I'm updating my "Disability: A Democratic Dilemma" course and would love to include some newer work (both academic and otherwise).

Same energy

It is time:

A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty: My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media. Huh? When did I say that?!

The largest provider of "mental health services" in the US is the injustice system, and many "mental health facilties" ostensibly focused on patient care are actually carceral.

They won't ever let it go, the Crows. This has gone on for 1000s of years. Just because a Heron once said something rude about them looking like Goth pigeons.

the power went out in SF yesterday due to a fire at one of the PG&E substations. No one at Waymo thought to program their cars for a power outage. It went about as well as you’d expect. (And they want to bring these things to Detroit)

I am home in SF, so my Christmas present to myself is a ticket to the 10th anniversary screening of Carol feat. a discussion with Todd Haynes and Christine Vachon. It is being held in partnership with 4 queer bars (Rikki's, Jolene's, El Rio, and Mother), The Barb Shop, and Peaches Christ. I 💗 SF.

I just introduced my parents (both Montrealers, now living in SF) to this classic (my grandmother lived on Sherbrooke, so they of course could identify the exact location)

i don't think this is even a real statistical anomaly anymore. it seems like there's someone in the crowd at every mass shooting who has been through it before. this doesn't have to be our shared cultural experience.

Brown’s student newspaper is posting updates about the shooting at its campus. www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...

Respectfully, Alan, now feels like NOT THE TIME to be posting this article. What a stunning false equivalence.

Relatable Corvid

Michigan student have made a “snow squirrel” on the Diag (there will be no maligning the Rubenesque squirrels, thank you). They have also started a Reddit thread entitled “Mason Hall roach glamour shots.” Welcome to the end of the semester, folks.

I have had 6 MRIs. All took extensive documentation to get ok'ed by insurance and were for clear reasons (a back issue that turned out to be a broken femur and a pituitary adenoma). They do do preventive MRIs if you're at high risk for breast cancer, but full-body preventive MRIs are mostly a scam

The *tiny afghan*.

YES. Also: there are so many awesome mocktail brands and recipes (there are even dedicated NA stores, like The New Bar in SF). I've also become a huge fan of shrubs and this blackberry, lime, and star anise syrup from instagram: www.instagram.com/reel/DNZFFsd...

My feelings about this are best summed up by the good Dame Emma Thompson (video below). In short: MAKE IT STAHP.

Perhaps no one I trust less for cooking advice.

new on @carceralhistory.bsky.social: distinguished historian @madameclair08.bsky.social pitches her new @beaconpress.bsky.social book, TELL HER STORY: Eleanor Bumpurs & the Police Killing That Galvanized New York City carceral-history.ghost.io/authors-pitc...

I'm sorry Ryan Lizza, Chris Clizza and Olivia Nuzzi thats too many z names for me to keep straight

Today, @alybatt.bsky.social kicks off a symposium on her book, *Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature* The idea of the free gift, she argues, can give us a deeper understanding of the environmental problems that plague capitalism. It can also help us better understand capitalism itself.

Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.

OMG this kicker in the Harvard Crimson article!! College journalism kicks ass, again

"Frankie, a four-month-old Caribbean Flamingo whom Mr. Woolcock described as “aloof” and “quite a character,” left the zoo sometime around 8 a.m. on Nov. 2, when a staff member noticed she was missing from her flock." spoiler: Frankie relocated to a beach in France 🦩

I never met Alice Wong in person, but she was fierce, funny, and unapologetic voice within the disabled community—especially online. When I say I miss twitter I’m largely referring to the vibrant community of activists and intellectuals that made the site their home, with Alice as their lodestar

Yes, and often their deaths are attributed to their disabilities and not medical neglect, ableism, or financial hardship. That’s not to say that people don’t die of their conditions but I’m tired of reading obits that say something to the effect of “they died of Cerebral Palsy.”

‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’ —Alice Wong

They did say Portland was "war-ravaged"

Big Children of Men vibes: youtu.be/wrALRx95mHs?...

Somewhere between reading the UVA letter and the [redacted] NYT profile I decided that the remainder of today would be much better spent going to the grocery store and meal prepping for the weekend/week (thrilling, i know). BUT, if you have packable lunch recipes, pls. Send them my way.

paging the Dataviz folks, because…um…👀

Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

This paragraph will haunt me. She was saving money to get braces. BRACES. (from Michael Schmidt's devastating NYT article on Matt Gaetz's 17yo victim, gift link here: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...)

Here I was agonizing over every comma and exclamation mark in my correspondence, oblivious to the fact that an alarming number of extremely powerful, rich, and ethically bankrupt public figures (ahem, Larry Summers) were firing off emails that are borderline gibberish (with a side of ellipses).

For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files: splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app

It feels a bit weird to post right now in light of what has happened to @teenvogue.com and so much of the incredible team there. What sources shared here is important, & I’m grateful I got to work on this. I reported on how young people are being impacted by delays to SNAP: “It’s about survival.”

Well this is adorable: Vladdy is shown wearing Marie-Philip Poulin's game-worn Team Canada Sweater. Poulin, known as "Captain Clutch," led has led Team Canada to 3 gold medals (She's also the captain of the Montreal Victoire, so there's a little hometown pride in there, too)

People of Canada. You have one job. For the next 24 hours you have to get Drake as far away from Rogers Centre as possible. And keep him there.

"He’s been dead since at least 1896. How long until we give him a second chance?"

Have some poverty as a little treat (with a soupçon of gruel, of course)

While the feds continue to play stupid games, SNAP recipients are set to lose food aid for the next month. In the Bay Area, a growing number of restaurants are stepping up to help, and we're maintaining the list. Share with anyone who needs it. www.coyotemedia.org/these-bay-ar...

As a San Franciscan and fairweather Giants fan, I cannot root for the Dodgers. As the child of Montrealers raised on a steady diet of "The Hockey Sweater" I am also somewhat ambivalent about the Blue Jays. But everyone referring to Vladimir Guerrero Jr. as Vladdy is downright adorable.

Every $1 invested in SNAP generates $1.80 in economic activity. It’s not about the money, Trump just wants Americans to go hungry.

I'm sorry, but baseball is a ridiculous sport. What do you mean you're at the bottom of the 17TH INNING?!!

"You can't mutual aid state capacity" I need this on a banner. Might hire a skywriter.

Amazing sign being held by a small child