Rest in peace to a beloved icon in our community.

"I got Blacker" -- Al Jolson

1. When they protested (which is more than you did) they were arrested and beaten and expelled, and you insulted them for it the whole time 2. Several of the largest protests of all time have happened since Trump took office last year and students were at them

Reminds me of when I discovered the existence of Bob Hearts Abishola after 5 seasons.

dealing with criminal charges. Some of you on here are CLUELESS.

I was invited last summer by some young people here in NYC to be part of a multi-day convening. The vast majority of the young people were college students or had recently graduated. They spoke about the Gaza protests in searing ways. Many were TRAUMATIZED and cried as they spoke. Some were still+

I think the reason might be the expelling, illegal detention, and deportation of campus protestors under this administration. could it be that?

“I am fine, I just needed to get out of here,” she said, according to the report. Another officer described Perrotta at the time as “visibly hysterical (crying & breathing rapidly) and had blood all over her uniform,” the report said. A cop w/ white woman tears? That brother didn't stand a chance.

Immediately disqualifying for the job for which he has been nominated. The 4th Amendment specifies it’s “the right of the people,” not of citizens. We cannot allow someone who doesn’t understand the 4th Amendment to be the head of DHS.

Here's the thing: once people realize that they can get by without you, it's hard to make them come back. I still don't buy gas at Shell stations because of anti-apartheid boycotts from the 80s.

I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

Kobe didn't have the record! In what world is having the 2nd most of anything considered the record? I'm losing my mind.

Maybe I'm being uncharitable in disliking this paragraph? Like, something about this movie works well, and I think it's reasonable to expect a good critic to be able to identify why it works or why it doesn't.

I don’t think people have grasped what it means to have a WH & a military who commits mass murder over and over for the sole purpose of committing mass murder.

There are no restraints on them and they can live out their greatest fantasies. And what they fantasize about most is murder. That's their greatest desire, to kill as many people as they possibly can.

Israel is bombarding, literally bombarding, two Middle East capitals, Beirut and Tehran, killing 100s of civilians, and yet the US and UK media continue to portray Iran as the threat to the region. Israel has nukes, but Iran is the nuclear threat. We live in Orwellian times.

this sounds like half a joke, but Jay-Z bragging about not writing his raps and people taking it as the way to be set us back a lot too. it lowered a standard for the sake of his reputation

Fantastic article from @abebeame.bsky.social defector.com/lost-recipes

There's such a heavy unreality about this war. There's no justification for it, no plan or objectives, the deaths and bombings are feel sort of abstract from here.

This goes back to Dan Yankelovich's 7 stages of public opinion from the 1990s:

damn rest in peace Bob Power

That's what he's working himself up to. He wants to drop a nuke for kicks.

My people

A core memory is the time my mother made liver and onions for my sisters and me, and we threw it in the garbage when she left the room. When she came back, we lied and said that we ate it. She made us get it out of the garbage and eat all of it. Can't be a picky eater in an environment like that.

I know many of you already know this because it’s obvious but you can absolutely take a survey of an opinion desk’s output over time and pretty accurately surmise the views—or at least the intentions—of the people who are in charge of deciding what gets published. I thought we were all adults here

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

Some of the best memories of my life happened here. gothamist.com/arts-enterta...

I told y'all before this album is IT.

Maybe it’s because I’m a colonial historian but so many of these white nation states seem to behave exactly like they did in the 19th century: ‘your leaders aren’t right for you,’ ‘we’re only killing you/colonizing you/installing puppet leaders for your own good’

On the one hand, the presidency is a fundamentally broken institution. On the other hand, Congress is a fundamentally broken institution. On the third hand, the Supreme Court is a fundamentally broken institution.

What the genocide in Gaza reinforced is that there are no "civilians" when it comes to Israel and the United States. The rest of the world learned the same lesson and the consequences are going to be felt across the world.

Just stating the obvious here, but we have to build a government that doesn't starve and bomb the planet for kicks.

no no no no no, not god bless america, god damn america

settler colonial murder suicide pact

I saw a TikTok where a guy said that New Yorkers aren't rude, it's just that we don't have cars and all of our road rage takes place on the sidewalk. As a NYer, that gave me such a profound understanding of road rage.

I was just thinking about this game. One of a tiny, tiny handful of regular-season games that managed to sear itself into my memory.

Democrats are gonna respond to being called "weak" with renewed tough-on-crime initiatives 🙄

It's really important for people to internalize that, in the eyes of Washington DC's foreign policy establishment, the biggest sin of the Obama presidency was concluding a deal with Iran that objectively satisfied the demands that Washington DC pretends to believe in.

This is why you can't really collaborate with the feds under any circumstances. If your policy is "we will only collaborate with them when it's unrelated to civil immigration enforcement" then the Trump administration will just lie about what they're doing!

I have tried harder than anyone to like Atlanta, and I still don’t see the appeal. It’s not even majority black anymore, but even when it was, DC was the clearly superior black city.

How did we have an entire news and discourse cycle about the statements politicians were making about this, but there’s so little interest in the actions cops are taking in response?

Have any NYC organizations that backed the mayor spoken out about this? @socialists.nyc? @workingfamilies.org?

So the mayor clearly hasn’t ordered a halt to the criminal investigation. Effectively this seems to mean that the political football is being passed to Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s desk…

Okay Mr. Mayor, was it just a snowball fight or was it a criminal attack? Because your cops are proceeding as if it’s the latter!

His friends are about to publish so many "moral panic" essays.

The Knicks have been such a frustrating team to watch this season.

People really want to believe the issue with policing is “purity tests” and “woke activists” who are just too naive to know about the real world and not y’know the police.

There was never going to be a middle path on this and I hate we had to pretend their would be