My book baby is an instant New York Times bestseller!! #4 zol lebn der fucking Bund This achievement owes everything to my friends, my community, the movement, and you if you want to help keep up the momentum, I’m making a list of easy ways to help 1/6

If the goalposts could speak, they'd ask to stop being moved.

to do so would entail a cursory examination of their 'business dealings' (a/k/a journalism) 😑

Americans elected the only new yorker alive who has never set foot in a bodega bsky.app/profile/atru...

Ah yes. Money is the only way to measure achievement. It’s also telling that they never did this to Bloomberg or Eric Adams

Report: Peter Thiel is spending big against Redistricting in VA- targeting Black voters with racial messages open.substack.com/pub/graveinj...

bluesky being down reminded me of us i really thought something was broken… kept refreshing instead of just slowing down and being patient i’ve grown tho. i’d handle it better now fr i miss you. you don’t have to respond

✨ May 4, 6-8pm ✨ We are thrilled to co-sponsor this timely conversation on the new McCarthyism on campus, with Mariame Kaba, Jeanne Theoharis + archivists/student journalists from Brooklyn College and WKCR 89.9FM. Join us @ CUNY Grad Center! @prisonculture.bsky.social @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social

I think there are two key takeaways for Americans from Peter Magyar’s ouster of Orbán: 1. We must rally overwhelmingly behind the 2028 Dem nominee 2. We have to be ready to send people to prison if we win My latest for @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/two-lessons-...

34,000 doormen, porters, & building workers sustain 3,500 buildings across this city. The gap between the people who serve and the people they serve has gone on long enough. I'll be proudly standing with 32BJ on the picket line. The people who power New York deserve better wages & safer conditions.

Mamdani: If the NYC apartment you keep solely for bi-yearly affairs with your mistress costs over 5 million dollars, you gotta pay more tax NYPD officer who’s been on disability since 2006 because he stomped too hard on a lady during an arrest and fucked up his ankle: This is a travesty

The brilliant Doreen St Felix on how Zendaya navigates her stardom - and her latent blackness - in an allegedly “color blind” Hollywood. www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...

Six House Republicans have broken with 47 on immigration, forcing a floor vote to restore temporary legal protections for some 350,000 Haitians living in the U.S. www.thedailybeast.com/republicans-...

Ppl probably don’t know why I built People’s Assembly and forked Polis. > LambdaMOO's main creator … set up a system of petitions and ballots where anyone could put to popular vote anything requiring administrative powers for its implementation. Assembly is that + matrix multiplication + k-means.

I really don't know what to tell folks if they think any of these proposed reforms from Yale, or anything that we can possibly do here at UW - Madison, will change the Narrative™️ from the right in American politics about universities. We're a century into this stuff. We're not the problem.

Absolute nightmare of an anything rotation! "The [NYPD] union's president, Vincent Vallelong, said the fundraiser came together after someone at The New York Post informed him that the Islanders "wanted to do something" for Duran."

“viewpoint diversity” is a right-wing political project, as lisa siraganian explores in great detail here: www.aaup.org/academe/issu...

Cute, except it's not Banksy. This is graffitied on a wall in Lyon. Removed from the image and replaced with the joke is an image of a child and underneath it says "Demain je suis grand".

Ukraine is fighting a defensive war against a bigger foreign power. Israel isn’t and isn’t. Israel has killed many civilians. Ukraine hasn’t. Dem anti-Israel sentiment is voter-driven. GOP anti-Ukraine sentiment was elite-driven. Whatever one’s opinion of either, they’re significantly different.

Will Harvard will seek “viewpoint diversity” in the Business School and some of the most popular undergraduate majors in Arts and Sciences, including Applied Math, Computer Science, Economics, Mathematics, Neuroscience, Psychology, Statistics, and the various Engineering and Biology programs?

The plane to Ethiopia below is the second private jet owned by MAGA billionaires Joe Nakash and Eli Gindi to do ICE charters. The other one, which I wrote about last month, did a third-country removal to an Eswatini prison, plus ICE stops in Liberia and Ghana. gillianbrockell.com/more-maga-bi...

Crushed to hear about Adam Hughes' cancer diagnosis. One of the best comic book artists of our generation. His Black Cat covers have been the highlight of my month. Hoping for all the best for Adam and the whole family. www.adamhughesofficial.com/post/in-othe...

Got asked an ideology question during my talk at Chicago and shared that my first question is always "Which viewpoints are y'all looking for? Folks who say I'm not human because I'm Black?" Say it with your whole chest. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

Residents in Sparta have been fighting for years to protect their property from being seized through eminent domain. https://capitalbnews.org/georgia-court-sparta-railroad-land-seizure/

"free childcare, cleaner streets, safer neighborhoods"

Quote post with something good that lasted longer than the Confederacy (1861-1865)

Guaranteed to be a wild ride

We told you it wasn’t funny when you were doing it… because it wasn’t funny variety.com/2026/tv/news...

Hold up. “I resent that bigots are doing worse punched-down weaponized ‘jokes’ of the weaponized ‘jokes’ I was doing even tho I wasn’t doing that b/c they’re using my style of jokes to hurt people I punch down at and also MY bigoted jokes dont make me a bigot.” Did I get that right? Nigga what?!?

When a fascist oligarch buys you a billboard

Oh sorry, so religion and politics should be separate? Is that what you're saying? bsky.app/profile/atru...

So the big studios are abandoning the US and turning the staff workers into contractors to get out paying for healthcare. The United States is losing one of its defining industries because of not having universal healthcare and the people are going to be even more vulnerable to the industry.

I'll be discussing this crazy book on April 28 at 6pm @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social as part of the launch of Peter Hitchcock's new book Seriality and Social Change. The event is open to the public, the next post will include registration info. 1/2

“This advert is misogyny with a marketing budget, a textbook case of sexist labour stereotypes dressed up as ‘innovation’.”

Today I introduced a joint resolution to halt all data center construction in SC. We need a responsible, transparent plan before moving forward. This is about getting it right. johnsonforsc.com #SCPolitics #Accountability

Again: for any big liberal donor who wants to funnel millions into fixing this country's politics, the ROI on buying any struggling paper and simply tasking it with doing real reporting on local news is vastly higher than the same $$ given to some group that does mass ad buys every election year.

it just lifts my heart to feel heard. thanks, ICE lawyer. 💜

it only took 130 years thehill.com/homenews/sta...

Part of the bloodbath today 🫡

Marvel™: Screwing over its artists in baroquely humiliating ways since 1939

“Everybody’s using AI for everything nowadays, and if you don’t, you’re a misfit outsider who should be stoned to death in the town square, and then resurrected virtually from your data so you can be stoned to death in the virtual town square, for infinity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...

"The December uprising is indebted to the Woman, Life, Freedom movement and, at the same time, is a regression from it — a degeneration of some of its revolutionary qualities." 

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A great number of the harms in this country would not have happened if this society protected Black & Indigenous folks the way it does white people. It covers environmentalism, education, healthcare, financial scams, workers rights, surveillance, police violence, wage theft, everything.

In related news, the US ranks 31st in the world for educational achievement, and has declining mathematical literacy.

All that self-destruction just to look like a 6. Imagine!

It just occurred to me that in this addled mad man’s brain Chicago equals violent crime and therefore the Pope from Chicago must be ok with that. He’s a racist lunatic.

It just occurred to me that in this addled mad man’s brain Chicago equals violent crime and therefore the Pope from Chicago must be ok with that. He’s a racist lunatic.

Weird question for a future column I want to write but so far utterly stymied. I'm looking for U.S. soccer (football) supporters of Cote d' Ivorie (Ivory Coast), or even better, a group of U.S. supporters. The country plays 2 games in Philly (I am attending one) and faces a Trump travel ban

I talk a lot about Animaniacs lol. it's basically my favorite cartoon. But there's one thing that stands out in the opening song: "Wacko packs with the snacks, while Bill Clinton plays the sax..." A lot of white people tell me they never got that reference! That it was just a random rhyme