It is astonishingly ugly. People I once thought were decent are spouting delusional, baseless, vile stuff about what they "know" Mamdani believes and about what he's going to do. In NYC, this has turned into a real "Well, now we all know who we are" election. There'll be no bridging that rift.

Thousands of women writing and speaking for decades with all the creativity and feeling possible about the wrongness of rape can’t make sexual violence stop or even be understood as real violence but RFK Jr croaking “beef tallow is the philosopher’s stone” has the force of policy now

I cannot overstate how disgusting and appalling this is.

I watched every ad agency in NYC race to get on board the BLM train in 2020, only to now see this. Not a good look, “culture creators”

MAMDANI!!!

My brother in Christ, this looks like it will be one for the books... www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

So unused to good news

happy zohran day to all who celebrate

As a remote team, we love IRL meet-ups!! Writing Courses Manager Logan Davis recently met up w guest author for Fuck the Big Five, @briangresko.bsky.social for a dive bar beer (check out his new book, out now!) and w OA contributor @dianamheald.bsky.social for a reading at @pioneerwork.bsky.social 🍻

Reviewed @sophiegilbert.bsky.social Girl on Girl for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/were...

In my day we were so much cooler than this

ICYMI: Georgetown Law students made a 853-row spreadsheet of Trump-caving firms. It drew national headlines. Recruiters noticed some talent looked elsewhere. Firms lobbied to change their designation. An organizer tells @www.AllRiseNews.com the background www.allrisenews.com/p/skadden-st...

As we all open our phones on the boat back to the mainland

The message is: crowd large. Many politicians, administrators, and business leaders, in bowing to Trump, have drawn confidence and comfort from the perceived vibe shift. Events like this puncture that delusion.

Massive crowds of protestors around the Empire State Building #handsoff

Good signs in NYC #HandsOff

Protesters all the way down 5th Ave from 42nd to 23rd. #HandsOff

I have a bone to pick with graphic design…

In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado. 11,000 people showed up. Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.

Shot. Chaser.

Please sign and circulate this statement to show broad support for the core value of independent higher ed to a healthy democracy bit.ly/DemocracyAnd...

Ah, it’s 11:39, time for my customary evening doom scroll

The president is trying to illegally fire me. Who does this help? Does it help you? Or does it help the billionaires over the president’s shoulder at the inauguration?

I’d like to ask every single New Yorker who’s remotely left of center to get actively involved in your local Democratic Party chapter with the goal of driving Schumer, Gillibrand, Hochul, Adams, Cuomo and all the other dead wood into retirement.

Trump and Musk are taking away your freedoms but on the other hand they are also taking away your money.

Excited to see hundreds of DC school kids at Politics & Prose and 2000 of the laid off Johns Hopkins employees in Baltimore

Passengers escape to the wing of an American Airlines flight at Denver Airport, after catching fire. What number are we at now, Secretary Duffy?

Columbia has expelled the president of @swcolumbia.bsky.social, a HELU member org, for participation in Palestine solidarity activism. This comes less than 24 hours before SWC's first bargaining session. We stand with SWC-UAW against this illegal interference in bargaining. uaw.org/in-shocking-...

Call her!!!

🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave. Tell them: 1. Vote NO on Cloture AND 2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill. Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it. TODAY is the showdown. 🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121

🚨 EMERGENCY PRESS CONFERENCE Columbia/Barnard faculty, Jewish community leaders, immigrant advocates, and rabbis are demanding the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil from ICE custody. We will not be silent or cower in the face of American Fascism. #FreeMahmoud

Just who I want running the FAA www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/s...

Outstanding webinar this afternoon with Heather Cox Richardson and Simon Rosenberg. Three, among many, take-aways: 1) We need to put pressure on our elected leaders. 2) We need to act out. Trump hates protests. 3) We are are stronger than we know. @hcrichardson.bsky.social @simonwdc.bsky.social

Saturday @ Tesla in Manhattan

This feels like a sort of carnival-week funeral for the US republic. Beneath deep anger at Trump's orgy of vandalism and self-worship, I feel deep sadness. What a train wreck of a superpower.

I hate it here

Every episode of Between the Covers should be cherished. This one, feels like sitting down with the sacred and taking account.

Sad & also correct that NYT is now just explicitly part of our right wing media

can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book

Imagine being a teenage girl now. Your male peers are all watching Andrew Tate and doing Nazi salutes and every week the most prestigious magazines in the world run a piece about how it’s a social emergency that you’re not having babies in the 10th grade.

We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country. This Friday, where will you be? standupforscience2025.org

This is truly the dumbest and most embarrassing country, every 5 minutes a new horror

Do a mitzvah and help spread the news of this local Vermont protest intended to make J D Vance’s lovely ski vacation less lovely first thing tomorrow morning www.waterburyroundabout.org/opinion-arch...

I will never forget the photo of Zelenskyy’s face after he saw Russia’s war crimes in Bucha in 2022. He seemed to age years in an afternoon. Watching him constantly cross the world asking for aid that should have been thrown at him is one of the deepest shames of our age.

Remember when QAnon was hunting for sex traffickers? Then Trump imported the Tate brothers from Romania to Florida. #SexTraffickingFirst

4B

After Governor Ron DeSantis said that the Tate brothers aren't welcome in Florida, Andrew and Tristan Tate have just landed in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

what kind of shithole party boos Zelensky and cheers the Tate brothers

This is such an embarrassing country and the thoughts I have on JD cannot be uttered in polite society