“America, if you ask them, becomes less the more people it welcomes...How small they are...How weak, how unoriginal... those who led through exclusion and isolation have tried to win power for themselves by turning us against one another.” Mamdani July 4th Speech

A Democratic Socialist born in 1997 just beat a Democrat who first took office in 1997

🧵🧵🧵 Take this quiz: Which of these quotes are Republicans talking about Somali immigrants and which are Nazis talking about Jews? 1/ They’re “garbage. These are people who do nothing but complain.” 2/ “Public pests … vermin … leeches.” 3/ “They’re all crooks.” 4/ They’re “criminal-minded people.”

Musicians have lived like this for twenty years. That's not to say "poor us"... it's actually to say... let's talk to each other about how it can work without needing 38-hour days

“We’ve only had 114 years to do something, let our kids sort it out!”

This past week Jesse Watters referred to ‘the Jewish question’ & said Trump/Vance are sending a message to ‘the Jews’. This past week, 3 anti-genocide Dems, including a Jewish Dem, won NYC primaries. Guess which of these 2 the media is focused on as proof of rising antisemitism?

"If Israel is forced to stand alone, Israel will stand alone." - Benjamin Netanyahu Sir, your terms are acceptable.

You can go through the strait free, but it takes 2 days, or you can subscribe to Hormuz Plus.

RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter

liberal democracies will never be safe with musk this powerful—they must unite to break him my latest with @newrepublic.com c/a @gregsargent.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2119...

Ray Hudson was the GOAT. I'd listen to him call a tee-ball game. His magisterial calls are the missing ingredient in the World Cup... that and a basic level of humanity from the Trump government.

Brunson left $113million on the table for the good of the team. Socialism wins championships.

One of my fave things in nyc is biking around at 6am. Before all the capitalism and hustle, there are people that clean the streets, deliver food, and do the things that aren't glorious but must be done. Simple work. That's what I see in the Knicks. Amazing, dignified people.

Amazing basketball

A FIFA referee has spent more time in federal custody for being Somali than anybody on epstein's list for raping kids.

"...I considered, instead, describing the little pools of saturated ink in the manuscript poems of Emily Dickinson, where she paused and rested her pen while gathering thought for her next astonishing turn." @dchiasso.bsky.social www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Boycott the World Cup.

Read, rinse, repeat. Sorry... but what else you gonna do at this point?

I hope there's an anthology of these somewhere

Tbh, people here are taking this pretty well... and we should. Thank you, @kenklippenstein.bsky.social, for the bankshot: challenging convention and reminding people that harm reduction voting is a thing. Whatever else one thinks... this is happening.

A guy claiming to be Jesus tried to shoot another guy who claimed to be Jesus.

heard a guy say "you have to access it through the portal" and i was momentarily struck by how sad it is that what he said is so boring :( "accessing it via the portal" should be wonderful. we deserve that at least. it should be cool to access it via the portal and instead it sucks shit

“You can't earn a billion dollars.” @aoc.bsky.social This is true.

Eliminate all the other horrible stuff. On the basis of his Covid fail alone, Trump should have been banned from public life.

Palestinian photographer Saher Alghorra was awarded the 2026 Pulitzer Prize in breaking news photography for documenting Israel’s genocide in Gaza. His photos are worth seeing, so here’s a gift link:

An agenda for Supreme Court reform: - 18 year term limits - Expand the court to 13 Justices - Binding ethics rules - Congressional limits on what the Court can rule on per act of legislation We need to change the composition of the Court, but also its role. The Court has far too much power.

Congress has an urgent job to do: Reform this corrupt, off-the-rails judiciary with court expansion & term limits. (2/2)

"Benches are where optimistic visions of civic life meet reality. To remove them, or to curate who gets to sit, is to abandon the work of defining a civic ideal and determining, together, how to live up to it." NEW: Why benches are slowly disappearing from public spaces — and why we need them back:

Both Jennifer Welch and I have had it with the billionaire bed wetting. Go cry us a river about a modest new tax on your $5 million second home. Or just live in it!

1/ This week the @workingfamilies.org launched the Working Families Guarantee: a bold agenda built on the conviction that in the wealthiest country in history, everyone should be able to afford the basics.

"Only six of the 202 articles covering Kushner’s diplomatic role mentioned his financial conflict of interest with the Saudi government. That means more than 97% of the coverage ignored Kushner’s conflict." popular.info/p/the-media-...

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"A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess." A. Philip Randolph, born on this day in 1889

Keep on. Vote, organize, vote, rinse, repeat. Turn the volume up!

If someone yells in the street “that man stole my purse,” and you see a dude running away, are you gonna stand there shouting “innocent until proven guilty!” while he runs?

That moment when they use the Epstein files to distract from Iran. Who can tell the the dog from the tail anymore 🤷🏻‍♂️

It would be ludicrous to try and make rational sense of the Trump/GOP "strategy" or goals in foreign policy, but it would be even more ludicrous to overlook the market manipulation aspect of this presidency and its enablers.

Trump's "Praise be to Allah" comment is disgusting religious mockery, and on Easter nonetheless. It's appalling to real Christians, but it's amusing to fake Christians, who worship Trump over Jesus.

In London for a few days, where Americans are once again practicing an age old tradition: pretending to be Canadian.

Read and take heed

There should be a button on every Zillow rental listing that lets you send the landlord to jail

The ability of terrible people like Candace Owens and Jesse Watters to make big bucks in the media gets me down. To retaliate, I’ve listed the 25 worst people in the news media. I call these dishonors “the Worsties.” See if you agree. (Anyone who reports, analyzes, or disseminates news is eligible.)

sometimes you see something so stupid and so funny that it feels like god is giving your brain a high five

The most tedious bullshit... I spent a lot of time with Jewish, Palestinian, and other students at Harvard 2021-24. This is the ploy of a desperate president made possible by the incomprehensible capitulation of a Harvard administration that refused to navigate the political environment in 2023.

The Trump Administration attempted to make an example of Minnesota during Operation Metro Surge. Instead, Minnesotans set an example for the rest of the country that decency and compassion will always triumph over fear and division. www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

FIFA just rejected banning Israel from competition, saying that "the final legal status of the West Bank remains an unresolved and highly complex matter under public international law." …But in 2024, the International Court of Justice ruled that Israel's occupation of the West Bank is illegal.

"Imagine a sports bar... but make the men *more* unfuckable!" They should call it Birth Control.