they say crows hold grudges for 17 years. that’s what i call “a good start.”

Didn't even need to read up-thread to know who this is about.

wait I didn’t know this??????? I thought it was just like “Ol’ Mississippi”???? hooooly shit I mean my best friend taught there for 10 years during the “do we take down the huge racist statue at the front gate y/n” battle so I have no illusions but I did NOT know that was the origin of the name

Absolutely crucial this year #nzpol

New Year, New Muslim American Mayor of NYC. Despite facing an unprecedented barrage by billionaires, Islamophobes, GOP racists, and the Democratic establishment, Mamdani has defied all odds and ascended to becoming the 112th mayor of NYC. thelefthook.substack.com/p/new-year-n...

94% of Americans will pay into Social Security the entire year. Here’s when the wealthiest Americans will stop paying into it on Jan 1st: Musk - 12:00:28am Ellison - 12:00:29am Page - 12:00:58am Brin - 12:01:05am Bezos - 12:01:45am Dell - 12:02:09am Huang - 12:02:18am Scrap the cap.

One underrated thing Mamdani has going for him is that he has always known he is ineligible for the presidency The profession of elected official attracts a lot of people with delusions of grandeur and an agenda built around getting to the job they want rather than doing the job they actually have

So hard to pick one, but this is usually the first one that comes to mind

One of my faves (out of hundreds):

Every veterinary clinic should have this one!

I still remember how *hard* I laughed the first time I saw this one, and I've only grown to love it more thanks to all the friends and relatives whose reaction to it is basically "It's OK, I guess."

Forty-five years of The Far Side! In terms of sheer impact, this one forever transformed the weekly shopping list in our household (and I’m sure many others):

A new era begins for The Big Apple!

Sorry, know I'm posting a bit here, but there's an absolute shift in an alternate frame for government here running through this speech. "We will restore that trust by walking a different path. One where government is no longer the final recourse" Proactive, not reactive. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Oh and this one "taxing the wealthiest few" ... actual tax reform, seriously. I know this may make the least sexy & most boring policy lecturer on the planet, but reversing the trend towards flatter & flatter tax tiers is just so hot. You listening, Aotearoa New Zealand? bsky.app/profile/atru...

Really listen to this rhetoric: "Here, where the language of the New Deal was born, we will return the vast resources of this city to the workers who call it home". Yes, proof will be in the actions of course, but that focus on "workers" is important. bsky.app/profile/acyn...

To me this speaks to REALLY taking a different yardstick to politics, a different vision of what things are being measured against. More often than not our voting choices are just between colours of neoliberalism, flavours of centrist capitalist incrementalism. Not actual alternate critical lens.

"We will replace the fragility of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism" ... love this line even more.

🧵 ... Tautoko ❤️🙏🏾✊🏾

In Europe, fireworks are increasingly being used as weapons to attack police, fire and ambulance crews, and members of the public. When is the awful AoNZ government going to recognise we are on that same trajectory here if we don't ban fireworks NOW. #nzpol www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/...

No cheating - reskeat with the most recent picture of your pet

I would like it if any of the people who wrote the "Bluesky is a bubble, unlike the free marketplace of ideas on Twitter" to grapple with the fact that Elon Musk integrated a harassment and child porn generator into the site with no apparent safeguards

The way the crowd cheered when she said you best know me from the voice saying "please stand away from the platform edge"

The cynics already turning on Mamdani for being suspiciously good-natured can take a long walk off a short pier. The time for eye-rolling and wanking-off motions in the face of sincerity and truth are fucking over.

Putin’s Nazis are busy!👇 lnginnorthernbc.ca/2026/01/01/t...

Again, the man who’s next in line for the presidency after this walking corpse has said he’s deeply influenced by this outright Nazi, so maybe we could get a little more attention on that?

Great article in Stuff ft., my school buddy (and our Dux!) @mojomathers.bsky.social, about the discrimination people with disabilities face when job hunting

A tiny human (1?) is being flipped upside down by his chuckling Mum. Mum's roaring, "Look at those little abs! I'M GONNA TICKLE 'EM!" While Tiny Human gurgles with laughter. Tickling is imminent! (3)

🧵Spotted at the Beach on New Year's Day in Aotearoa New Zealand: An entire huge family rushes en masse into a choppy sea. Shrieking, laughing, splashing, roaring. Half of them running straight back out again. Grins and goose bumps as they head for a big pile of towels and toys on the sand. (1)

Mandy Patinkin and the PS22 school choir singing "Somewhere Over The Rainbow," notably written by blacklisted socialist writer Yip Harpburg

Whew. That Mamdani has an exceptional speechwriter and is one of the most compelling politicians I’ve seen.

Sweeny makes a really insightful suggestion here that I haven't previously considered: that anti-trans stories were a bone being thrown to right wingers that wouldn't scare off most liberals. I saw local far right fascists do the same thing in the antivax groups they ran during the pandemic.

part of the genius of his major campaign ideas is that they can be deployed fairly quickly as tangible deliverables. they can help him build trust with voters as someone who does what he says he will do. and trust goes a long way!

When most mornings are doomscrolling the descent into hell, watching Mamdani's inauguration was a nice change-up. Here's to 2026, then.

Was just awesome ... AOC and Bernie just great ... lotsa lines to remember ... like "... was elected as Democratic Socialist and will govern as Democratic Socialist" ... here's hoping ♥️

They say pictures are worth 1000 words, but some are worth a decade of your life, and decades to come.

Mamdani GLOWING as Bernie Sanders talks about taxing the rich and chants of "Tax the Rich" break out at his inauguration

He’s the exact antithesis of Trump and while some people think we have to be halfway towards what Trump represents even Trump himself was like damn this is pretty great

In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.

Any society where some sleep on the street while others live in homes like this is profoundly broken. Tax the Rich

What a weird name for a dog. But sorry for their loss.

I hope Hipkins is listening #nzpol

I hope other politicians are listening and taking the lesson.

Louie eating an apple slice. Just what we need

After Mamdani finishes speaking, CNN reporter says “can progressives govern??” and as I’ve told you 1000 times, if @wutrain.bsky.social was a Republican, she’d be talked about as a top presidential contender, but she’s a progressive Democrat so our national media pretends she doesn’t exist

This is my song.

"For too long those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty." - Mayor Mamdani.

This would be so popular at the national level if centrist Democrats let us use those words in that order