marysimpson.net/Tax-Talk I’m giving another tax talk! Nerd out with me about taxing the rich + how to file your taxes as a creative/gig-worker. December 16, 7pm est on zoom.

"To everyone who pulls me aside to whisper with the best intentions, 'You have already won': I am sorry, but the days of moral victories are over," Mamdani told the crowd. "As my father told me years ago, when the right wins power, the left writes a great book. Those days are over too." 🔥🔥🔥

Moms running the Mother’s Day half! 💪 @kaythaney.bsky.social

Brooklyn bus stop ads being replaced with guerilla public service announcements.

The Metro North Pleasantville station has had this arrangement of vintage chairs for years 🤎

“I know art dealers, and I am afraid to sell to them for they are people who don’t always pay.” —Courbet to his family, Paris, 1845 *For a long form essay I’m reading all of Gustave Courbet’s letters; occasionally I’ll post some of his best quotes here

By Joseph Fosano

This tool from @propublica.org is incredible. Send it to everyone who may need it projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

I love being quoted by the genius @margosteines.bsky.social in this very important conversation bsky.app/profile/marg...

@lamamaetc.bsky.social Jill Pangallo is a genius and I can't wait to see her new play @lamamaetc.bsky.social opening March 28: www.lamama.org/swallows/

Last night I was thinking about the phrase “Bleeding heart liberal” and how we got here, where having so much empathy for other people that your heart bleeds for them could be an insult. Turns out it was coined in 1938 against a bill that aimed to end lynching: www.atlasobscura.com/articles/ori...

Is it just me or is it a Gen X thing to take the random username you had in 1996 and use it as your handle on every platform for the rest of your life

Just spent 3 incredible weeks at Interlude, a residency for artists with their families near Hudson, NY 🤗 apply here: www.interluderesidency.org/residency