Best way to take NYC future Mayor @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social to the polls? A cargo bike of course!

Delighted to see TERRY DACTYL in Reads for the Rest of Us, thank you, @karlajstrand.com💕 "With themes of art, love, loss, friendship, identity and connection, this is a fierce fever dream of a book."⚡⚡⚡ msmagazine.com/2025/11/01/b...

Anyway: it’s an American tradition. www.startribune.com/trump-admini...

France should have kept its language at home then.

A haunted house but it’s just the country you live in trying to kill you.

One to knock the wind out of ya

Nestor Makhno, femboy anarchist.

No witches expected this Halloween on the Willamette - but expect to see lots of magical Portland people this Halloween on bikes! 🚲🎃🧹

This article by @schooldaves.bsky.social provides an excellent rundown on the very grim constraints of the municipal bond market that Mamdani will face. Running a state under capitalism and trying to do anything besides serving capital is very, very hard. We have to get out altogether

My father was mostly raised by two women whom he called "auntie." My siblings and I called them that too. One was his aunt by relation, the other aunt was that aunt's companion, partner, possibly lover. What ppl call the members of their own family is nobody else's fucking business.

it’s kind of funny that the New York Times, which is probably at least 50% Ivy League on the editorial side, is one of the primary drivers of contemporary anti-intellectualism, but not really funny in a good way

ah so not merit based, just racism.

This is truly terrifying, It really IS what is on the US Department of Labor Facebook page. Check for yourse.f

I like how Zohran Mamdani scandals are like "He called his old cousin his aunt one time" and Andrew Cuomo scandals are like "He sexually assaulted 13 women."

Carl Th. Dreyer's La passion de Jeanne d'Arc - Released on this day in 1928 - French release poster - art by René Péron

'I believe the President should be a unifying presence—a steady hand, yes, but also a spark. A reminder of what is possible. A moral compass in a world increasingly driven by profit and spectacle. A voice for those too often silenced. That is the role I seek to play' (Catherine Connolly). ☘️

Ireland just chose compassion over cruelty by electing Catherine Connolly, an independent socialist who fights for women, LGBTQ+ people, carers and people with disabilities. In a world sliding into far right hate this landslide gives me hope. #Aras25 🇮🇪🌈

It’s catching on.

Portland resists with whimsical improv theater, Chicago resists by screaming at weird jagoffs that don’t belong in the neighborhood. Every city brings its own strengths to the fight

"The Anthropocene marks severe discontinuities; what comes after will not be like what came before. I think our job is to make the Anthropocene as short/thin as possible and to cultivate with each other in every way imaginable epochs to come that can replenish refuge." - Donna J. Haraway

"Brilliant, endlessly funny book… The dog is Schuster’s alter ego, an arbitrary constraint of a book which is less a dogmatic treatise than a fun detour through philosophy and world literature." @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social reviews "How to Research Like a Dog" by Aaron Schuster:

its remarkable to see random suburbanites in their fucking PJs have more courage than the vast majority of america's political, social, and civil elites

Don’t leave anyone behind.

it's good to say aloud that "content" is not a synonym for "literature"

like so many days since the blitz, today was terrifying. but the terror is outpaced by the burning hot solidarity of parents blocking school streets, hundreds of neighbors walking patrol, bicyclists chasing SUVs broadcasting whereabouts, and whistling winemoms bringing the fire of one thousand suns.

W. S. Merwin

Pam Rehm

Will you speak before I am gone? Will you prove already too late?

This is why, in Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century, we prioritize the foundational importance of *caring*

Roberta Gould

The lead cut on Chrissie Hynde’s new duets record is an utterly pornographic take on “Me and Mrs. Jones” with k.d. lang that I trust some red state legislator will legislate against. Help Save the Youth of America from this sizzling Sapphic seduction.

"Burn it all down, he says, all those violent homes from which we emerged, the violence of the nuclear family itself, burn it all down before it smothers us."

Yes, delighted to review the new edition of MEMORIES THAT SMELL LIKE GASOLINE by David Wojnarowicz, one of my favorite books, for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social💥 lareviewofbooks.org/article/i-fe...

Basho Tr. by David Young #smallpoemsunday

🎶And you may find yourself protesting beside David Byrne And you may ask yourself, "Well, how did I get here?"🎶

Start reading the #OpenAccess edition here: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

"A must for anybody interested in experimental poetry." — Rosmarie Waldrop A landmark publication in computer-generated poetry, "The Complete Stein Poems, 1998–2003" collects Jackson Mac Low's last creation, an edited series drawing from Gertrude Stein's work: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255286...

Reese James for Vagabond Creations (1969) #Listen

If you don’t know what Femi (or Mayor Johnson) is referencing here, check out Black Reconstruction in America by W.E.B. DuBois. It’ll change how you see the Civil War, and particularly the role of enslaved Black people.

so here's the bit where he says it - notable that he explicitly links it to the General Strike interpretation of Civil Wars history xcancel.com/BTnewsroom/s...

This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.

The joyful commitment to our community was on full display today for No Kings Day! Thank you to everyone who showed out for our democracy in Portland, throughout Oregon and across the US. #orpol #portland #oregon #nokings #pdx

squads of inflatable cartoon anthropmorphs is what democracy looks like

J. H. Prynne

I think a lot about ACT UP. The brilliance of that organization was that anyone could work on any action they wanted. If you didn't agree with that action or didn't want to be part of it, you didn't work on it. You put your energy where you thought it was useful. Everyone just trying shit.

Protesters can now get free crochet lessons outside the ICE building.

Finally finishing the Pee Wee Herman doc one thousand years later and 1) my god Paul Reubens was done so wrong and 2) my fascination with Debi Mazar knows no bounds

Un-presidented brass band at city hall in Portland tonight celebrating the release of their clarinet player from federal custody

This conversation! #originalvoice Ravn: witchcraft trials"not a fever. More like a well laid-out campaign where the accusation of witchcraft is used by the secular authorities to train the population into becoming the sort of citizens that you need to build a state." tinhouse.com/podcast/olga...

New billboard in town 👀