If you live in NYC and would like to enter the lottery, you can do so right here starting on May 25th at 10am ET! regnyctix.com

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When I get to heaven, I’m gonna sign in with a one-time code.

Golden Goal launch party on June 11 at Threes Brewing! Please RSVP!! www.eventbrite.com/e/golden-goa...

Duane Peña from @nyredbulls.bsky.social understands immediately what’s exciting about The Long Game from @leanderalphabet.bsky.social -not only that the club plays key roles in the Tyler Adams chapter-and the book looks good at @sportsillustrated.bsky.social stadium and the NYRB vs NYCFC derby too.

Make the Road New York fights for workers, tenants, young people, Trans and Queer folks, our immigrant family members and neighbors, and the rights of all New Yorkers. And we will not be bullied into silence. Donate today to support our vital work: bit.ly/supportMRNY

As this World Cup assaults the fans' wallets from all angles, a few host cities are finding workarounds and ways of pushing back against the greed. Column @theguardian.com

I didn’t rob that bank and this isn’t real money.

Stay Humble.

A horror.

New York soccer starter pack. Suggestions welcome! go.bsky.app/JccnKoF

It’s true! People have been asking for this; they had to ask for it. And now it’s happening.

On June 13, @nycplan.org is hosting a Library Propaganda Fair! Would you like to share your library related art and propaganda with other New Yorkers? Our tabling application is open until 5/22: forms.gle/8yyADQGqV7jn... This is going to be such a fun event. Save the date!

Another Sunday hitting the doors alongside @nywfp.bsky.social, @jfrejnyc.bsky.social & @yuhline.bsky.social! This time in West Village. Beautiful day in the neighborhood. Only 37 days until Election Day, but who's counting? Come join us: mobilize.us/landerforcongress

Let the haters become your waiters as you shotgun a beer at the table of success.

Am now among a growing number of people to have seen the Club Eleven museum/bus and marvel at the easygoing joy and comprehensiveness of their electric kool-aid fútbol test. They also naturally reciprocated with admiration for @leanderalphabet.bsky.social’s The Long Game.

Hundreds of people turned out for the Nakba 78 march today in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Filled at least a city block as the march went around the neighborhood.

ABC News has now taken all FiveThirtyEight articles completely offline. They now redirect to abcnews dot com.politics. A needless erasure of thousands of pages of knowledge.

This was such a fun night. Get yourself to a Squawkin' Sports. The next one is on Sasquatch.

I will be talking to @leanderalphabet.bsky.social about his great new history of the U.S. Men's National Team on the @newrepublic.com Substack at 1pm today! You can join us here then: open.substack.com/live-stream/...

Here's a great look at our upcoming issue, which is available for pre-order here goldengoal.world/shop/

Cannot recommend this book highly enough—even though I am only a semi-reformed USMNT hater, I devoured it. It's the best thing written about the team—insightful, really funny, exceptionally reported. If you have any interest in the U.S. men's team at all, read this book!

Fun book, fun excerpt. I also agree with the bit in parentheses but I have to recuse myself there.

I promise Tom Morello is in there, with an acoustic, singing This Land Is Your Land, along with the crowd, at the @handsoffnyc.bsky.social anti-ICE gathering near Federal Plaza.

Wednesday night, thank you, @americanoutlaws.bsky.social for hosting this launch week Zoom conversation between John Strong and @leanderalphabet.bsky.social about The Long Game, the book about the history and present of the USMNT. Sign up, fans, at the link! theamericanoutlaws.com/events/463-q...

A new Manhattan installation has turned millions of pages of the Epstein files into thousands of bound books, creating a physical archive meant to show the scale of the documents released by the U.S. Department of Justice.

Important for us all to touch grass as often as we can, including this good-hearted and moving passage about Tyler Adams and his stepfather from The Long Game by @leanderalphabet.bsky.social in @nydailynews.com (Image captured in natural habitat) www.nydailynews.com/2026/05/09/t...

To the soccer parents out there, to the players, to the clubs, local and grassroots or famous and funded, here’s a gift link to the first excerpt from @leanderalphabet.bsky.social’s The Long Game, on Hudson Valley’s Tyler Adams, in @nydailynews.com www.nydailynews.com/2026/05/09/t...

I will pay an editorial cartoonist to create this for The Handbasket. email/msg on signal if interested.

There's an excellent event tomorrow at Bedford Library in conjunction with our Warehouse exhibition. www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/con... - It's free and open to the public. 3 to 4:30 pm. I wish I could attend but I am grading and have other work.

SQUAWKIN’ SPORTS LIVE XXI: WORLD CUP EDITION 5/14 7pm @mayor.nyc.gov @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Please join us literate footie fans at a female-owned Fort Greene beer garden & sponsored by female-owned Greenlight Books to talk ⚽️. [email protected] greenlightbookstore.com/event/2026-0...

If you know people in NYC, can you please help us to spread the word that Black Zine Fair is on Saturday and that they should register to come? pools.events/event/WFzHwJ... - It's free but donations are always appreciated. We have 4 days to let folks know about it.

Trouble in transit/Got through the roadblock/We blended in with the crowd/We got computers/We’re tapping phone lines/I know that that ain't allowed/We dress like students/We dress like housewives/Or in a suit and a tie/I changed my hairstyle/So many times now/I don't know what I look like

IT'S MY DOUBLE NICKEL TODAY, COME CELEBRATE WITH ME AT ONE OR ALL OF THESE EVENTS. DON'T MAKE ME WAVE THE DIKEMBE FINGER AT YOU! (I'll spare you the horror of the original Mutumbo joke I had.) CC: @davidjroth.bsky.social @leanderalphabet.bsky.social @donkeycommish.bsky.social @giano.bsky.social

People of Bluesky, it is MAD Magazine Week over at @flaminghydra.com and I am pleased as punch that my contribution, which runs tonight, is on the singular genius that was Frank Jacobs -- and how that genius got him into hot water that changed American legal history: flaminghydra.com/spoken-in-je...

The @bklynlibrary.bsky.social just named my book, ‘FIGHT LIKE HELL: The Untold History of American Labor’ one of the “250 most influential books in United States history” @onesignal.bsky.social 💘 www.bklynlibrary.org/america-250/...

Very last day to enter the giveaway!

It has been so heartening to see Into the Wood Chipper from @nenrich.bsky.social be greeted immediately as an important book about one of the enormous, earliest crimes of this Trump administration. And it’s The Handbasket that first put an excerpt in front of readers. We can rebuild USAID, too.

The beat goes on!

If ICE is unable to rent parking spaces in New York City, it will be more difficult for them to frighten, harass, or abduct people.

The book is such a delight. Phone books are ripped apart, goals are scored, and conceded! The game has deeper, stronger roots in American than many would presume, and Leander shares, but it’s been a scrappy, odd journey, and it continues.

Our campaign just received a major bark of approval. 🐾 Such a pleasure to earn the endorsement of Simon, the Dog Mayor of NYC. Tails are wagging all across NY-10!

Andor really is an especially good show, on May 4th or any day.

Thanks to @jfrejnyc.bsky.social for knocking doors in the East Village with me today. The mishpocha that canvasses together, wins together! Join us at the next one: mobilize.us/landerforcongress

Now: I’m at a press conference in Bushwick, Brooklyn across the street from Wycoff Medical Center where ICE violently abducted someone early Sunday morning in coordination with NYPD. Community Board Chairman Robert Camacho directly addresses cops watching nearby:

Out now boy-ohs

Elect candidates who enjoy themselves, who love where you live, and who are happy to be among people.

cc: @leanderalphabet.bsky.social