There's a LOT to be angry about here. Hochul using a delayed budget to force votes and reduce legislation days that could have been used to fight back. Removing fracked gas from the state's calculations of emissions. The new deadline of 2040 is NOT a requirement, unlike the 2030 deadline. Disaster.

**Turnout breaks maps.** My new motto after listening to @elienyc.bsky.social on the @joyannreid.bsky.social show. Gerrymandering is based on math that assumes certain percentages hitting the polls. If turnout exceeds assumptions, if it breaks the math, it will break the maps *even in the South*

"The only way to lose is to stop fighting, and this battle is far from over."

🧵MAY DAY IS FRIDAY! If you can: No Work. If you can: No School. If you can: No Shopping (or: necessities only). If you can: Attend/Plan an Event. Here's a participation guide ⬇️ Do what you can. Be willing to stretch your comfort zone. Then on Sat & Sun, shower ❤️ on good, local, indie businesses.

The most important thing I learned during the George Floyd protests was to date the USA's start not to 1776, but to the Voting Rights Act becoming law. Before then, it wasn't trying to live up to even a basic standard. So today, we're not a country anymore. But I believe in our hearts and potential.

If you haven't stopped your money going to that Vichy rag, do it today.

There are people still living who fought — and watched their compatriots be murdered — for the passage of this act and to attempt to democratize America. To see it completed felled in the span of their OWN lifetime is just absolutely devastating.

The Supreme Court did not strike down conversion therapy bans today. Not nationwide. Not in Colorado. Not anywhere. Here's what actually happened in Chiles v. Salazar—and why the coverage you're seeing serves the conservative legal movement more than it serves you.

Gooood news!

@cityandstateny.bsky.social Please stop quoting Eric Adams in your newsletter. He's a crook and a bootlicker, his administration was a massive embarrassment for the city, and his opinion is now irrelevant. Trolls are not news, pls stop treating him like news.

Somebody got his favorite enrichment this week #caturday

We need a new film of Ulysses, the book. Starring: Colin Farrell as Leopold Bloom, just trying to be kind and get through his day. Robert Sheehan as Stephen Dedalus, big brain floating around, looking for his heart. Barry Keoghan as Buck Mulligan, too damned cheerful by half.

The new Gorillaz album is so goddamn beautiful I cried. And Black Thought is still the GOAT.

It just got that much harder for all of us to stay sane so... what are your favorite podcasts for sanity? (Context: Long Covid wrecked 80% of my life, now my job is to stay sane. I can't watch movies or TV so for 2 years I've been living on podcasts and audiobooks.) My top 10 podcasts are:

When it comes to opposing cuts to the good things in the city budget and opposing homeless encampment sweeps, Z is our target. But our *enemies* are the billionaires + centi-millionaires who control electeds like Hochul. Let us take care to weave this distinction into our strategies and messaging.

I provide this assessment in order to suggest a course of action: Yet, let us fight hard against austerity for the many, maintenance of the PIC complex, racially disparate impact in taxation, and homeless sweeps. But as we do so, let us also be clear in distinguishing our targets from our enemies.

Jesse Welles' Under the Powerlines should have won.

So sad to hear Catherine O'Hara died. She could cheer me up out of any slough of despond and have me cackling and belly laughing. I highly recommend the interview she did with Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, here's the link: lemonadamedia.com/podcast/juli...

Hot damn, that's good news!

I love the name of this action!

The original image is 18,200 pixels across. Bluesky allows a maximum image size of 2,000 pixels. Here's what a randomly selected, 2,000-px portion of the entire image looks like. There is ONE obvious Milky Way star in this portion.

Here's another deep field image from JWST. There's something pretty amazing hidden within it, which I'll talk about next. But open up this image and lose yourself in this almost impossibly vast view of our Universe. The six-pointed features are stars in the Milky Way. Everything else is a galaxy.

Courting the Wild Twin, by Martin Shaw. Best folklore book about doing shadow work I've ever found. Blindboy Boatclub just interviewed him, which led me to the book. Go find it... i especially recommend the audiobook...

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

If you read or share only one article today, make it this: HOW TRUMP HAS POCKETED $1,408,500,000 (Historically, one thing that has helped bring down authoritarians is public awareness of their use of the power of the office for self-enrichment.) Gift link:

NEWS: The Social Security Administration has referred two DOGE employees for Hatch Act violations after discovering contacts with a political group seeking SSA data to overturn election results. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

Word is that @nyccomptroller.bsky.social is going to start buying Israeli bonds again, while Israel is violating the ceasefire. Bonds directly support the growth and plans of a genocidal government. Shame on you, Levine, for sending #NYC funds over to kill Palestinians and build on their land.

Happy New Mayor :)

Wrote about how disappointing it is that Jon Stewart punched down on people masking at @motherjones.com, when people should mind their own business and leave mask wearers be. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Omg the happiest tears

The real epidemic was the tech lords we made along the way.

Watch this from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

Insomnia thoughts: Somewhere there's a video of a woman in a kitchen with her two cats. One cat, a void or a dark tabby, is stalking around the kitchen floor, yelling. The other, a big orange, is being held like a baby, wistfully staring into the middle distance, like a Pieta,

End of year Life and Soul Improvement recap: . Started the Blindboy podcast from episode 1. I'm nearly 1 year in . Always listening to a Pratchett novel or waiting on one from the library . Read Waging Nonviolence articles . Scheduled phone calls with friends 3 times a week + more calls other days

Rob Reiner had one of the most wide-ranging audiences of any American filmmaker. People rewatch his films with nostalgia and joy. They quote them with parents and pass them down to children. Ignore the other one's commentary. It's like a black hole commenting on the sun.

Rob Reiner seemed to radiate kindness to me. One of the last people on earth I would have imagined would die this way. This after Brown U... after all the Trump administration cruelty this year... America needs serious help. My heart goes out to Mel Brooks especially, how awful he must feel.

It just hit me that Murder on the Orient Express starts in Aleppo, which means even the benign first pages are soaked in blood... Aleppo was a major site of deportations (by train) and massacres in the Armenian Genocide. I wonder if Christie did that consciously, or was Aleppo just tourism for her.

Brooklyn! This will enrage you, and explain some of what's wrong with the Brooklyn "Democratic" Party. Seddio is still in control of it through his hand-picked successor. There is only one way to break this machine: sheer numbers. Join Rep Your Block to get it done. hellgatenyc.com/frank-seddio...

A small cry over this. how wonderful

@profanity.accountant What's my mouth count? :)

Have you considered topping your pies with regime crumble?

In all seriousness,I have been that lonely where one person seems to bring the sunshine back, and then they're gone. It's gonna hit him. He'll probably react. I wish we're in the timeline where tomorrow he fires the entire Cabinet.

Trump DID turn the volume up!

Hey I just met you And this is batshit But here's my number Call me fascist

In other news, House Democrats just voted for a resolution condemning effective leadership. Same as it ever was.

This

So Trump is using Mamdani to try to look normal. Best possible outcome. It won't last past the press conference. Mamdani is handling him like the weirdo uncle at the table, which is fine. No change in agenda or promises.

This podcast ep about Thiel and the tech bros' reach for divine powers is smart and actually hopeful about being able to defeat them.

This is an especially brilliant episode in a podcast that already sets a high bar. The last ten minutes critique the rich to perfection. I'm not sure if Peter is intact by the end of the episode, though. Someone send him a casserole.

GREAT. That weird ass non apology he gave before teaching a class reeked of entrenched entitlement. Clean out aaaaaaall the trenches.