Having watched this horror unfold in front of me for a year, I hope that finally, FINALLY, this means that something against these assholes will be enforced and that they’ll have to be on the retreat for once.

Usually, a college would call on a linguistics professor to do this. And they would happily do it! But we’ve gutted everything that doesn’t fit into the STEM-slop investment machine so there probably aren’t even enough capable announcers left. Still, anything would have been better than this.

I am a white guy who moved to Bed-Stuy in 2013, and except for 7 months when I lived 1 block into Crown Heights, I have only lived here, and I consider it home. I fell in love here, got married here, and yet I am being forced out now too. There is a lot going on. Please let me try and elaborate 🧵/

The problem with trying to cover “If I Should Fall From Grace With God” is that Shane McGowan left a fist-sized piece of his liver on the stage every time he sang that fucking song and unless you’re willing to get a LOT closer to death, you simply can’t capture what he expressed with that track

🗃️ You’re mad that Nolan’s Odyssey includes people of color. I’m mad that Nolan’s Odyssey doesn’t include the insanely tacky rainbow of colors that were used to paint everything in Ancient Greece. We are not the same.

It’s been almost 5 years since I went to my first AA meeting. The part that saved me, was realizing there were other physical people, who I had little in common with except that they genuinely understood my deepest and most regrettable vice. To try and take that away is shameful and disgusting.

Wild how the device used to kill people changes the headline. After a mass shooting it's "Deranged Lunatic Shoots up a School" not "Gun used to kill dozens." When an intoxicated man kills 2 innocent pedestrians, his car apparently becomes a ghost. And yet nothing will be done about either problem.

From New York, it's relatable. Julius Randle can really piss you off when you need him to be good.

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.   Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.

"I was eventually called to testify. While her colleagues were in Albany negotiating the budget, the Party Chair and the party’s lawyer grilled me about my handwriting and how I gathered signatures. I had done nothing wrong, but I had to prove it in court to protect the voices of my neighbors."

Academic departments deserve to be saved, supported, resourced, allowed to grow even if they're not "best in the country," "first in the REF," "top-ranked," "at a Russell Group uni," or whatever other austerity-brained nonsense senior managers have been using to flimflam you out of solidarity

A whole lot of men believe this and I have to tell you after having to hear this shit over and over again over a lifetime from men dumber than me it's a goddamned miracle I'm not in jail.

$12,000 from Palantir in 2026 is ****ing reprehensible @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social. Really unsure how you are meant to adequately represent me, and all of my neighbors while still accepting donations from companies like Palantir...

Broken Social Scene & Boards of Canada dropping their first new albums in years in the same month?! 17 year-old me feels pretty amped: As artists I used to love continue producing new material after long hiatuses tend to do though... Please don't be meh. 🤞

Centrism isn't change -- not even incremental change. It is *control*. Over yourself and the world. Exercise it.

When I first moved to NYC 15 years ago I went to the Family Dollar near my apartment to buy a can opener. I found one for $1. When I tried to open a can at home it broke immediately. Dollar stores are a fucking plague in our cities and no one should be so desperate as to have to shop there.

Exactly. More people than ever are only *finally* beginning to talk about this because so many brave students and faculty stood up to their college administrations, and even the police, and said "Fuck. This."

It's not enough just to elect more Democrats. We must elect better Democrats — and make the Democratic Party better, from Brooklyn to NYS to the DNC. @newkingsdems.bsky.social has been fighting for a better, more accountable Democratic Party for nearly two decades. (1/2)

I can agree with this in theory. However, I despise the idea that we (people who don't totally suck) are supposed to work tirelessly on sites that suppress anything we say and where most people are hostile. It's ok to mostly use whatever platform you prefer to "have fun." And to me, that is NOT X.

🗃️ In grad-school, I learned how to read (albeit extremely slowly) Judeo-Spanish, AKA "Ladino." Linguistic history is fascinating. I wish I had the patience to research it on my own. Still, I love reading and learning about it. It's also really something that should be funded more!

I work at a college. So many people who are asked to speak at commencements, or who write big checks to colleges telling them what to do, have literally no fucking idea what students are thinking. This might be my favorite example of that phenomenon in action yet.

Too many people don't understand that our immigration system has always been deeply unfair. It is, by any measure, more cruel and unfair than it was two years ago. But its being reprehensible is not new.

This is very well put, and a reminder that I should pick up “The Overseer Class.” The same phenomenon that Bowser represents is endemic in Brooklyn politics. The “overseer class” here is so locked up that it has ceased to function as a political entity. All they do is work to keep others out.

All good picks, but I’m afraid the correct answer is “Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell.”

Everything in this statement is true, and the sooner we all acknowledge it, the better. A truly equal future for everyone in this country would look fundamentally different than what we’ve grown used to. But that is a good thing. True unity requires tough assessments. Especially for white workers.

I am constantly amazed by what people are willing to say on the record when they didn't have to agree to be interviewed in the first place. God forbid you see a homeless person near your house in... Manhattan... Brian. Why should the world be a better place if you can just ignore it?

I feel this. I’m more “left-wing” than almost anyone I’ve donated to, canvassed for, or helped get elected. But it’s still part of the solution, at least in the short term, making sure better people get elected. Large-scale worker organization is the long-term solution. But both things are good.

I’ll admit this is more creative than I anticipated, and this is about Louisiana and not Virginia, but the cookie cutter giving ask at the end is as shameless as it gets.

Yesterday, in the same building, on the same floor as photographed below, I watched two ICE agents in masks kidnap a woman whose case was not dismissed by the judge. Maybe this rule wasn't implemented immediately, but it should be. And it will also need to be enforced, which I hope to see.

I work on helping to get grants for a college for a living. This couldn't be more true. While I'll always be frustrated that it has to be this way (education & research should be publicly funded), we miss out on the production of so many bright minds because they never learn how to do this.

Can't wait for the inevitable ActBlue text I'm about to get from Mark Kelly or some shit saying they're all "born fighters" and are fighting for their lives and desperately need my money.

I actually can’t earn that much for a lot of reasons. The biggest of which, though, is that I’m enough of a human being to recognize that no single person NEEDS that much.

Must read from @hellgatenyc.com's package on the role that District Leaders play in the judicial selection process in Brooklyn. This is one big reason why we're supporting a slate of DL candidates who are committed to transparency, accountability, and new leadership for our party.

@psc-cuny.org is the first labor union with reliably progressive electoral politics to make an endorsement in this race. I'm glad PSC has intervened and are backing Alex, for two reasons: • There are many PSC members in NY-12; and • PSC is an affiliate of NY WFP, which may weigh in soon.

Tired of this "we have to dumb it down" narrative always being the focus for Democrats. In NY's election last year I probably got over 20 people to vote yes on the ballot proposals by saying "Wait! let me help you understand the ballot proposals!" after they had already brushed me off. 1/

@dianaforqueens.com is right. If you actually care about rising antisemitism, and increasingly more hate crimes occurring in NYC, you NEED to take it seriously. Doing what New York always does (throwing more cops at the problem) will not make this better. And to believe it will is deeply unserious.

This tracks. No one working at these purported "elite institutions" gets paid a livable wage, especially in NYC. I know this, because when I worked for the org that sells its gala as "The Met Gala's little sister," I barely made enough to buy food.

@bradlander.bsky.social gets it. The NYPD and its commissioner will keep toting the line that *Technically* the NYPD is not helping ICE detain people. BUT, I watched them deploy a literal army at 2 am on Saturday just to help ICE kidnap one person more smoothly. That IS coordination.

Wait. Any time I did cocaine, all we did was talk about how great it was and how we needed to get more cocaine. AI's biggest fans only talk about AI, how great it is, and how we need to get more AI. This analogy is perfect.

I saw this last night. It’s fucking disgusting. *Technically* the NYPD is not helping ICE detain people. BUT, if you have the audacity to try and help your neighbors, they will mobilize a literal army to make sure ICE can kidnap someone as comfortably as possible.

It’s always so damn cool to be included in this. Much love to @americanstudier.bsky.social for taking the time to compile all this week after week after week too.

The people asking this question are rarely asking a good faith question with curiosity. They are trying to cynically demean college students.

This is true in all of higher-ed, and ESPECIALLY in NYC. Photographed here is the NYPD's response on Thursday to a protest commemorating the 2 year anniversary of when the NYPD raided a pro-Palestine protest encampment at the City College of New York. The cops outnumbered the protesters.

Arturo Enamorado leading the chants for @psc-cuny.org, which had a MASSIVE crowd at the May Day march.

Listen to the students, not the police and the special interest groups funding them. Protesting is a right. New York’s City Council Speaker and weak-willed Council members do not get to decide what we are allowed to say. Uphold @mayor.nyc.gov’s veto of Intro 175-B.

I’m picking this up. Admittedly, the only thing I’ve actually read so far from @lollardfish.bsky.social is his least “public” work, Sacred Plunder. But I admire him for pushing this incredibly important point, public scholarship is incredibly important. We need not look down on it.

The Timberwolves are about to knock out one of the best teams in the NBA with straight up default NBA 2K sounding players like “Terrence Shannon Jr.,” along with Rudy Gobert, and a geriatric Mike Conley. Unbelievable. Greatest playoffs in years, and it’s only round 1.

I am very upset that the Hawks traded Trae Young because there really isn’t anyone memeable enough on the team to outdo this Chris Paul joke.

Academic freedom and free speech is under attack everywhere. But it has been especially bleak watching this happen at a public university, in a blue state, in an even bluer city. My colleague, @oliviawood.bsky.social points out the oppression, the hypocrisy, and what is required to fight it. 1/

I was in my early 20s in the same city at the same time, but I didn't smoke. And this whole thing they're nostalgizing about SUCKED. You're nostalgic for your 20s, not the smoking. This is also clearly written by someone without parents who smoked. I can't really stress how much that sucked too. 1/