A new CLOWN SOLDIER mural on the rotating 2nd Ave wall: the Statue of Liberty being stopped & frisked by ICE agents. #nycstreetart

Tears for Fears release “Shout” 41 yrs ago today. The ‘80s, said Roland Orzabal, brought “a lot of fear, a lot of political tension. .. It’s really about empowerment — about refusing the roles you’ve been told to play. It’s an invitation. It’s saying: if something is wrong, say so. Say it loudly.”

If it's a handful of oligarchs versus the rest of us, then it's CLASS WAR! says the artist CASH4. #nycgraffiti #classwar

Otto blesses your feed this Caturday morning.

Artist MR NEVER SATISFIED understands the spirit of these times. #eattherich #nycstreetart

Great new THEY LIVE piece by muralist BKFOXX on the rotating 2nd Avenue wall. 'Oligarchs (they live, we sleep)' #nycstreetart #muralism #theylive

Blackout in Grand Central

Since 2023, translators and interpreters have seen work dry up, rates plummet and their jobs reduced to editing AI-generated output. Some are leaving the field, others are considering bankruptcy. All despite any major upgrade in translation quality. This is how AI is killing translation work:

A Japanes woman at Casio hand coded the Sleng Teng riddim that formed the basis for dance hall! It's an amazing story www.nippon.com/en/japan-top...

“You sound real corny being scared of the subway.” www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-subway...

Banner drops by CLIMBITJUSTICE seen on billboards in Queens, NYC.

Monstrous

This September, I’ll be directing “The Waterfront Journals by David Wojnarowicz” during #PhillyFringe2025. True stories plucked by David from friends and strangers at the piers, street corners, and late night diners of the 1970s/80s. Tickets available now: phillyfringe.org/events/the-w...

Very good work. Read it and act. www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-secret...

If you're reading this, whoever you are & whatever you're doing to try to make this world better, whether it's calling, protesting, providing mutual aid, making art, raising awareness, training & teaching people new concepts & skills, journalism, surviving through it all, or whatever else: thank you

I had high expectations for the PBS documentary on Hannah Arendt, which premiered last night. www.pbs.org/wnet/america... They were exceeded. "Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny" excelled in doing just what the title says. Facing it. If you watched last night, feel free to share your reactions.

“Words can be like tiny doses of arsenic: they are swallowed unnoticed, appear to have no effect, and then after a little time the toxic reaction sets in after all.” Victor Klemperer, LTI: Lingua Tertii Imperii, 1947

Amazon boss, Jeff Bezos, is facing continued problems ahead of his wedding in Venice as protests continue in the Italian city.

There really is something special about what Zohran and Brad are showing the rest of the world what it still means to be a New Yorker and an American. A Jew and a Muslim modeling a politics of mutual respect, rejecting cynicism. Human decency has been taking a beating but she's not out just yet!

More signs New Yorkers are adamantly opposed to Cuomo as mayor. #adtakeover #arrtnyc #nocuomo #dreamfornyc

More signs New Yorkers are adamantly opposed to Cuomo as mayor. #adtakeover #arrtnyc #nocuomo #dreamfornyc

Timeline cleanse. #catcontent

Seen in Brooklyn: an adtakeover by ARRTNYC reading KEEP FAMILIES TOGETHER CHINGA LA MIGRA. #adtakeover #arrtnyc

"I was never a Sauron fan. Did I facilitate Sauron's rise to power by donating most of Isengard’s resources to his reconquest campaign and persuading my legions of Uruk-hai followers to support him? Sure, but that doesn’t mean I agreed with him on everything."

Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio tried to give a press conference to announce his lawsuit against DOJ. Much to my surprise it turned out to be the greatest press conference of all-time.

Once again, for those in the back: immigrants not only belong here, they built & build this country! #immigrantswelcome #immigrantsmakeamericagreat #adtakeover #arrtinadplaces #arrtnyc

Early voting starts in ten days and these street art postings have done more to raise awareness of Cuomo’s record than a single mayoral campaign ad.

Process shots of @scooterlaforge.bsky.social and @haafwit.bsky.social creating what is now the 8th pride mural to go up at 2nd Ave and Houston. What an honor to curate this wall for pride and once again bring #queerart to the street. @queerstreetart.bsky.social #pride #queersky #streetart

Recently photographed a series of fun ad takeovers in Brooklyn by Artists Rapid Response Team (ARRT) NYC - all specifically encouraging voters not to rank Cuomo.

Germany trumpets its reckoning with its Nazi past – except when it’s inconvenient | Hanno Hauenstein

My article is in the @bostonglobe.com !! Dora Richter, and a story of remembering #transgender #history www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/18/o...

Between catching up on ANDOR and diving into MURDERBOT, it's Skarsgård central over here.

Love graffiti? “Gordon Matta-Clark: NYC Graffiti 1972/3” at White Columns is not to be missed.

NYC: Don't rank Cuomo! hyperallergic.com/1010728/anti...

My brother wrote a piece for the Boston Globe about gardens to visit on Mother's Day: www.boston.com/uncategorize...

Make sure to stop at the dinosaur bodega this morning for your dinosaur commuter needs nygroove.nyc/grand-army-p...

90 years after the death of groundbreaking German physician/sexologist/LGBTQ advocate Magnus Hirschfeld, join @brookfiles.bsky.social & @bschillace.brandyschillace.com for a talk abt Hirschfeld's legacy w @noahisenberg.bsky.social at the Goethe-Institut on May 15: www.eventbrite.com/e/through-sc...

On this day in 1997, we first met Mr. Sparkle.

This piece was so deliciously mean, I adore it. pitchfork.com/thepitch/kat...

After the Nazis came Nuremberg.

This conversation about artist/collector Martin Wong (moderated by @hrag.bsky.social) is well worth a listen! Ngl I love listening to LEE tell stories. #martinwong #museumofthecityofnewyork #hyperallergic

More than 130,000 government pages have gone dark in a purge that one scientist likened to a “digital book burning.” A group of librarians and archivists is fighting back.

Went to my local Walgreens yesterday. In lieu of Peeps & Mini Eggs, the central store display featured... a giant pyramid of toilet paper. Are people stocking up ahead of tariff-related paper shortages?

If you have elderly, Boomer parents, please talk to them about phishing, bitcoin and gold bar scams. Don't assume they are savvy enough to navigate increasingly sophisticated scams.

“The cruel and unlawful detention of Mahmoud Khalil is targeted, retaliatory, and an extreme attack on the First Amendment,” says NYCLU Executive Director Donna Lieberman. Free Mahmoud now.

The artist DROID907 recently sent me a photo of a freight car he painted. The slogan BEHIND EVERY FORTUNE IS A CRIME strikes me as quite appropriate for this era of oligarchs.

‘Free Luigi’ billboard has gone up in lower Manhattan the evening before his next court appearance. Sent in anon.

There’s a GoFundMe for the family of Sam Nordquist—the Black trans man who was brutally murdered by five people in New York— to travel there to collect his body, and for funeral expenses. gofund.me/3dacca50

Perfect Heine quote for our times, update as needed. www.deutschestextarchiv.de/book/view/he...