‘Mr. Rogers but with a steel spine' is the kind of energy I want to see from the Democratic Party.

Mamdani got the rent freeze

Centrist democrats and Republicans are against people being able to afford their rent.

Property owners can't keep dangerous things off their own property is just a weird thing for the Founders to have thought, man.

Two-year rent freeze approved for stabilized apartments in NYC! That’s 1 million apartments and almost half of renter-occupied apartments in the city. Once again, folks, better things are possible!

this is ...totally intentional, friends. and next he's going to start casually mentioning in passing that literacy tests for voting weren't the worst idea and he also has been thinking about separate water fountains a lot lately

You know who else has never assimilated? Everyone who keeps flying that fucking Confederate flag.

I really need someone to actually ask The Vampire Lestat team if Velvet Goldmine was an influence on how they handled Lestat’s music. Because The Loneliness is spot on not just for real glam rock, but for Brian Slade and I can’t get over it.

Tell Congress: Don’t turn the internet into an age checkpoint. Take action NOW to protect Americans’ web browsing and private messaging. act.eff.org/action/tell... (8/10)

🚨THE KIDS ACT IS AN INTERNET SURVEILLANCE BILL🚨 Congress is rushing the KIDS Act toward a vote. This blend of KOSA, the SCREEN Act, SAFE Bots, and other bills is a single package that is a threat to privacy and free expression for ALL internet users. 🧵(1/10)

We are closing in on 800 submissions, which means there are 200 spots left! I'm told that in 2024 we got close to 300 submissions in the final 72 hours so NOW IS THE TIME!!!! We haven't hit the limit since 2020, but we might hit it this year... (must be that bluesky bubble I keep hearing about)

If someone from the FBI visits you about your algae posts the correct thing to do is to say you won’t talk with them. Please do not talk to the FBI. Like, at all. They have no sense of humor and they will take your stupid joke and charge you with lying to an agent.

Submitted a consult on writing fight scenes to @romancingthevote.com wondering if there’s a market for a Cat Rescue 101 consult (less for writing and more for ”how do I do this where I live re tools, best practices, cat health/biology/behavior). holler if you think that’s a thing you’d be into

The Supreme Court's decision in the Temporary Protected Status case proves the Supreme Court *is* racist. They don't merely affirm Trump's racism, they endorse it. And while that's not "news" for anyone paying attention, it's still outrageous. My latest in @thenation.com

They gave US zinester Elizabeth Soto *50 fucking years* in prison for publishing a zine that supports an anti-fascism stance. Prosecutors also used her feminism themed zine, and an anti-AI zine as evidence against her. This is unprecedented.

...I've held my nose and voted for centrist Dems more times than I can count because I didn't want the opposing Republican to win. centrist Dems who won't do the same when a progressive is on the ballot are giving away what side they are really on

When many Haitians are forced out of NYC due to the TPS decision, there’s going to be a massive land grab in the ungentrified parts of Crown Heights and Flatbush that will significantly impact housing prices. Not only does Trump want a white America, he very specifically wants a white NYC.

IMPORTANT to know that the vast majority of Haitians with TPS entered the country legally at ports of entry, not illegally. The majority have NEVER violated the law. The admin stripped their status by breaking the law, but today SCOTUS says courts can't do anything about that.

I wrote about the Prairieland defendants and the urgency of opposing the extreme sentences handed down on Tuesday. And they likely will not be the last.

The TPS decision will absolutely shred the community I live in and is going to create additional deep, deep trauma and chaos in the process.

Seeing a lot of “calm your relatives down by reminding them these radical Mamdani-endorsed victories are just in a blue primary in a super blue district in a super liberal state” and no. Actually, let’s not do that.

It’s not jut the DSA folks upending the party establishment in NYC. Entrenched Dems are freaking out for broader reasons and pinning it all on the DSA anxiety because they know American voters are terrified of the word “socialist” - hellgatenyc.com/morning-spew...

A cartoonist named Daniel "Des" Rolando Sanchez Estrada was tried as a terrorist and sentenced to 30 years in prison for having anti-Trump comics in his car. Prosecutors connected him to a 2025 anti-ICE protest he didn't even attend because he was in the same book club as others who were.

For absolutely bonkers reasons of NYC is ancient and has haphazard infrastructure, I only pay a water bill - which is unmetered and based on my frontage - once a year. It’s perfectly fair as a cost, but whew having to do that whole chunk of change at once is not a great time

Older lady peeped the rainbow flag on my bike, asked in a thick Russian accent “It’s your Pride?” She told me her youngest grandchild is “not she berry or he berry but no berry.” I said “Nonbinary?” She got so excited. Yes! Yes! And “Is a secret, but they are my“ *looks around, whispers* “favorite.”

Let’s check in on how Jared and Ivanka’s luxury Albanian resort is doing…

the bread is $13.50 and all the circuses are subscription based

New - I wrote about progressive Jewish ascendancy in Mamdanistan:

Okay so someone quote tweeted me and was very upset that I didn't know that Mamdani had a very incendiary speech about the Democratic Party, and they were right, I had not watched Mamdani's speech about the Democratic Party, just seen clips. So I found it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV0i...

Worked with my personal trainer at 11, hung out in the recovery boots for a half hour at 12, went back to the rink at 7 to skate, go back to the rink tomorrow morning to skate at 9:30am. I am unhinged.

But it behooves Jeffries to remember that Mamdani does represent more people than any congressperson and most US senators, so there's that. (All the states in green have fewer people than NYC.)

I am so confused by this rhetoric. Mamdani endorsed people, a thing politicians often do, and they won, and you don't like that result. In what way is the party blown up. It still seems to exist. Other, different politicians also won last night.

After today, centrist Democrats legit just seem to be Republicans who are less horny for hate. It’s just completely embarrassing.

Democrats asking other Democrats to atone for winning primaries is the literacy crisis for politics.

the DOJ's counterterrorism messaging named "Antifa", "Anarchists" and "pro-trans extremists" as major threats. nearly a third of the 22 Prairieland defendants are trans. Autumn Hill and Meagan Morris, sentenced to 50 yrs each, have been held in men's prisons, even denied hormones in the last year.

Fairly willing to bet that “anarchist tattoos” were just tattoos. Also know there has anecdotally been a chilling effect on tattoo demand since the CECOT mess. The government will read any tattoo as evidence of gang, anarchist, or terrorist affiliation if it feels like it.

This is some "heretics trying to avoid Catholic Inquisitors" level stuff

A thing that has been true for me and helpful to me is: “Your trauma is real. The conclusions your trauma draws are not.” (Pattern recognition around your experiences is important and true, but the trauma caused by those experiences will lie to you) Perhaps this can also be helpful to you.

there is no ideological equivalent on the left to the tea party, wanting universal healthcare is not the same as wanting a nation of sovereign citizens

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

Ty Cobb, Trump's former lawyer posted in a comment on LinkedIn yesterday: "RFK JR, killing people around the world daily" RFK Jr. and Mehmet Oz are targeting Medicaid waiver programs that pay family caregivers between $13 and $15 an hour in roughly a dozen states. 247wallst.com/personal-fin...

To borrow a phrase from @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social, “I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win.”

The study was her big gesture to indicate that she wasn't an anti-trans crank, so now that the study *she recommended* is under attack by the people she sold out to, she's realising just how deep in the sauce they are and admitting what we already knew. Actually Wakefield 2.0

BREAKING: Federal judge grants patients' request to block DOJ from seeking or obtaining patient information via grand jury subpoena as to any transgender people who received gender-affirming medical care in New York City (including NYU Langone). More to come:

Every creative act is open war against The Way It Is. What you are saying when you make something is that the universe is not sufficient, and what it really needs is more you. And it does, actually; it does. Go look outside. You can’t tell me that we are done making the world. ~Jerry Holkins

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One last little thing: there's a side conversation about how you have to run moderates in order to peel off voters from blah blah blah And I think this really misunderstands why people are voting for the GOP.

Historically speaking, European resistance to Nazism was also framed as an extremist position so maybe let’s have less shuddering regard for dudes sitting in front of a ring light insisting the universal application of ideals in our founding documents is somehow extremist.

The owner of Utah’s only queer bookstore talks about the LGBTQ+ authors they love handselling and how their customers are “pushing back” against statewide book bans.