The transition committee for Zohran Mamdani is building a team of public servants dedicated to improving the lives of New Yorkers. If you’re passionate about public service and interested in contributing to this work, you can share your resume using the portal below. www.transition2025.com/apply

2/2 PS: I finished writing & describing the visuals for the book in early 2024, or I'd have used that chryon in a panel in the framing or disinformation chapters (sneak peek 👇). Back end process of graphic novels is lengthy, but stay tuned for pre-order links from @23rdstbooks.bsky.social!

1/2: #MediaLiteracy Pop Quiz: share WTF is wrong with 👇, below: Btw, tools in "It's Not You, It's Media," my forthcoming ML graphic novel: *Identifying target audiences *Understanding how stories are framed *Legit news source or propaganda? *Arming yourself against disinformation and conspiracy

1/2: #MediaLiteracy Pop Quiz: share WTF is wrong with 👇, below: Btw, tools in "It's Not You, It's Media," my forthcoming ML graphic novel: *Identifying target audiences *Understanding how stories are framed *Legit news source or propaganda? *Arming yourself against disinformation and conspiracy

💖story from @jennpozner.bsky.social that shows the value of volunteering for Zohran today. She met a young man who was vaguely aware of the election but didn’t plan to vote. His mom runs a food bank & he spoke re the value of serving the community. They talked for 15 minutes! He’s voting Zohran!

Again for the night owls: HEY NYC, Do you like to sing? Want to elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social? Get in touch ASAP! Seeking a few more folks to sing this 👇funny anti-Cuomo/pro-Zohran parody song during a poll site visibility shift in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn. DM for lyrics/time/place!

SEEKING SINGERS! Pls share: Like to sing? Want to elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social as NYC mayor? Me & @jfrejnyc.bsky.social need singers for 👇 parody song for election day poll site visibility, 3-7/8ish-pm, Brooklyn! ***We need a "Cuomo" soloist--is that you? Let me know ASAP DM: lyrics+location

100% agree w this. Have lived in Calif (20+ yrs), Texas (4+ yrs), Wash state (2+ yrs), DC (long time) MA and MS and GA and outside US (long time). Not NYC. No one outside NYC spends ten seconds caring who the city elects as its mayor. But you can recognize political talent, which ZM surely has.

SEEKING SINGERS! Pls share: Like to sing? Want to elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social as NYC mayor? Me & @jfrejnyc.bsky.social need singers for 👇 parody song for election day poll site visibility, 3-7/8ish-pm, Brooklyn! ***We need a "Cuomo" soloist--is that you? Let me know ASAP DM: lyrics+location

This is fabulous, funny, and factual. I love this city and the smart, sarcastic souls who make it what it is

I think I contributed a line or two to this song. 😂 That was a really fun @jfrejnyc.bsky.social neighborhood group meeting.

Transformative work of the day, especially good at expectorating edition

pretty great political filk!

Hope you enjoy #NoCuomo!, a pro- #Zohran "Gaston"/Beauty & the Beast #parody I produced+cowrote for @jfrejnyc.bsky.social! Share to replace hate+disinfo with humor+joy! @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social got majority of Jewish primary votes. We'll do it again! #LFG #NYC #Mayor #Election2025 #Cuomo #GOTV

I helped write this @jfrejnyc.bsky.social parody earworm of all the reasons not to vote Cuomo. May it be stuck in your head longer than it takes to defeat him. Vote Zohran!

Was any Disney villain ever more like Cuomo than Gaston? Nah, man. But @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social "a hottie and smarty" with chutzpah and great ideas! So proud of this parody, put together w/no $ and no rehearsal -- we @jfrejnyc.bsky.social folks sang it maybe 3x just before filming! VOTE, NYC!

Love how this parody goes over why NYC should vote for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social !!

If you have friends/fam who aren’t on here but are at risk of voting for Cuomo, send them this insta link to the video www.instagram.com/reel/DQW2FLi...

Hope you enjoy #NoCuomo!, a pro- #Zohran "Gaston"/Beauty & the Beast #parody I produced+cowrote for @jfrejnyc.bsky.social! Share to replace hate+disinfo with humor+joy! @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social got majority of Jewish primary votes. We'll do it again! #LFG #NYC #Mayor #Election2025 #Cuomo #GOTV

If you like to sing, want Zohran to defeat Cuomo & have a few hours in Manhattan to spare Sunday please join us

Urgent ‼️ NYC

Oh My God. Belle would approve of this and so do I. (And note the request for help)

HEY NYC #skyfriends (pls share): Urgent call for singers for an anti-Cuomo, pro-Zohran PARODY SONG VIDEO filming SUN. 11/19, 3-5:30/6pm. DM for location. Returning to Bsky after 6mos bec. I cowrote this for @jfrejnyc.bsky.social & some of our singers got sick. We need a few more! Can YOU join us?

I don't often share these because it's rare to know whether they're legit, but I trust @lecagle.bsky.social and I believe in mutual aid.

I have been away for a few days so I haven't commented on anything on Bsly for a while -- came back to say please read @bradlander.bsky.social's 🧵 here.

🧵I keep seeing/hearing mention of QAnon's "Satanic sex-trafficking pedophiles" conspiracy & hand to God it makes me feel like I'm taking crazy pills that NO ONE MENTIONS THE ANTISEMITISM. They are talking about Jews. They are talking about Jews. They are talking about Jews. HERE LET ME HELP:

What a pleasure to be able to stump for a truly funny candidate with an excellent policy agenda. Too often the latter is wrapped in "eat your vegetables" messaging, but Mamdani has perfect comic timing. Humor helps so much in reaching people, esp. folks who've checked out of traditional politics.

"Vote for me for mayor! I love NYC so much that if I lose, I will move far away and never step foot in your city again! Wait, maybe that means I hate NYC? Oh...." (Only two types of NYers move to FL: elderly liberal Jews who want to retire in the sun, and hostile right wingers who hate our values.)

We loved recording this episode with Brad Lander! We talked everything from the media attacks on Zohran Mamdani, how ranked choice voting created an opportunity for the progressives and left to defeat Andrew Cuomo, and how shocked he was to get arrested by ICE agents. youtu.be/cSIJBednlpU?...

Some good news out of Kentucky.

WGA statement on Paramount’s decision to cancel the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

Reminder: I'm willing to devote more time than most to anyone engaging in good faith about media issues -- whether you have 200K or 11 followers -- but if you condescend, explain my job to me, or insult? Instant block. Buh-bye, rando w/bad ideas and 11 followers. I gave you more than you deserved.

🧵1/ FURIOUS! CBS canceled @colbertlateshow.bsky.social and is scrapping the franchise, an influential part of US culture and politics since 1993. We knew this was a possibility re. Skydance merger, but I'm both devastated and deeply worried as a media critic, comedy nerd, Colbert fan. Here's why:

What am I doing to challenge authoritarianism? *Wrote the first-ever critical media literacy graphic novel (2026, First Second Books) *Joined @jfrejnyc.bsky.social, will be organizing w/ them for the foreseeable future *Seeing as much live comedy as possible What are you doing? I'd love to hear.

If you’d told me a decade ago that the NYT and WaPo would roll over for a Republican president going full fascist while the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal went on the attack — and that Bill Kristol was pressing the attack harder than Nancy Pelosi — well, I’d have had you committed.

The “financial reasons” are so Paramount’s owner can sell the company for $2B. She needs government approval so she’s gonna do whatever 47 wants to make that deal happen 😑 youtu.be/7zdtFFOpW7s?...

I don’t think it’s really tenable to have a situation where the president can sue someone as a supposedly private citizen but can’t be sued while in office.

I posted a 🧵 about this earlier, but here's the video:

CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery. America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons. Watch and share his message.

This is bad for a million reasons, mostly the unemployed comedy writers, but it's also hard not to read this as a political casualty of this merger. Trump has wanted this dude off the air.

🧵1/ FURIOUS! CBS canceled @colbertlateshow.bsky.social and is scrapping the franchise, an influential part of US culture and politics since 1993. We knew this was a possibility re. Skydance merger, but I'm both devastated and deeply worried as a media critic, comedy nerd, Colbert fan. Here's why:

Neglect of infrastructure from the former governor continues to harm NYC public transportation.

"There is no real answer." Except: -Giuliani, then Bloomberg, ransacked rent control/stabilization that made NYC affordable for working class families -So: Bring back aggressive rent control for housing (& +small biz again, too) -Sex pest/Covid killer/primary loser could take *no* for an answer.

🧵1/ If @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is smart (and he is) he'll make campaign vids pairing subway flooding w/reminders that Cuomo let this infrastructure crumble to dangerous effect. Unsafe, and unsustainable. NYC grinds to a half w/out the subway: staff can't get to hospitals, Broadway, groceries--

"There is no real answer." Except: -Giuliani, then Bloomberg, ransacked rent control/stabilization that made NYC affordable for working class families -So: Bring back aggressive rent control for housing (& +small biz again, too) -Sex pest/Covid killer/primary loser could take *no* for an answer.

There is currently an NWS flash flood warning in effect for all five boroughs of NYC. But no City agency has posted it on this platform. Please help spread the word. “If you live in a basement apartment or low-lying area, be ready to move to higher ground.”

You all know what it means when one of the most influential of the remaining legacy newspapers installs a new opinion editor who declares (ie, will require) "Advocating for free markets," right?

Here’s the full memo:

Watching mainstream media outlets cozy up to AI companies is like watching a slasher movie where the victims are desperately trying to impress the knife wielding killer who is actively attempting to murder them

Not a bad night so far... #WeirdAl concert, with my pals @danpasternack.bsky.social and Tara. (And ran into Dan's friend Dave, who you might recognize.) Currently listening to Puddles Pity Party singing Stairway to Gilligan's Island (hilarious), surrounded by a sea of Hawaiian shirts.