Rummler’s aunt said he was left with a fractured skull and shards of plastic, glass, and metal stuck all throughout his eyes and face, and would have died if not for the six hours of surgery he went through. newrepublic.com/post/205280/...

Having seen several abductions up close, it is really hard to convey how much the thing they’re doing is roaming in military convoys until they see someone who is alone and isn’t white, and then jumping out in large numbers, pulling them into a van, and screeching off, all in 90 seconds or so.

".. The reporter, Hannah Natanson, has spent the past year covering the Trump administration’s effort to fire federal workers and redirect much of the work force to enforcing his agenda." @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...

The response by everyday Americans is eerily reminiscent of the response of northern communities to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which was anger and defiance www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...

To them we are all Black now

The resident dean who was fired was given only ten days to vacate his housing. @harvard.edu is putting a Black family — with a newborn baby — out on the street because of comments opposing white supremacy. Please donate to their gofundme: www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

This administration is now treating those it perceives as its domestic enemies as America has treated Black people, and tolerated the treatment of Black people. Clarifying.

it is the policy of this government to treat democratic-led states as conquered territories and the people therein as something like hostiles or even enemy combatants

68,000 people are being detained this month, an all-time high. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

A dispatch from the Democratic Socialists of America’s national convention in New Orleans, where I learned more about the people and movement gaining sway in the Democratic Party www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/o...

“His favorite saint is Archbishop Óscar Arnulfo Romero, the Salvadoran who championed the poor and was assassinated as he said Mass in 1980” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...

US jobless rate for Blacks and teens surges in November reut.rs/49gilCM

“White women especially seem concerned with holding on to a sense of social power and status,” Emma Goldberg reports www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/s...

White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross

Totally normal behavior www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/u...

A few thoughts from me on Zohran Mamdani’s disarming of the president. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...

Tough evening for Democratic moderates

“Vance is simultaneously prominent and marginal, a highly visible figure with nothing better to do than idle near the edges of American politics.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/o... @jamellebouie.net

NEW: We’ve uncovered the first known example of taxpayer money flowing from DHS to businesses controlled by Kristi Noem’s allies and friends. It’s part of a money trail that’s been shrouded in secrecy—and involves $220 million, a mysterious Delaware LLC & a horse named Gill.

The practice of large numbers of Americans learning about the history of White Supremacy is a serious threat to the far right movement in the United States. Like many college-educated millennials, I saw this in the classroom and on campus firsthand. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

This @maragay.bsky.social piece is a terrific companion, arguing that the politics of a dignified life for all can work for Democrats everywhere. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/o...

The instinct to treat Mamdani as a local phenomenon ignores the reality of the Americans behind his win. He won Black, Hispanic, middle, and working class voters. A similar coalition elected Obama.This is the heart of the Democratic coalition, not its fringe. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/o...

“…crucial to Mr. Mamdani’s success was a group of voters with the six-figure salaries and college degrees that were supposed to insulate them from feeling economically precarious.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/n... @elizashapiro.bsky.social

Mamdani announces transition team: All-female team led by Elana Leopold, a known Dem strategist; also Melanie Hartzog, who once led the NYC’s health and human services and budget offices; former dep mayor Maria Torres-Springer, and Lina Khan, the former FTC commissioner who campaigned with Mamdani

The way my taxi driver stepped on it just now when I told him he was taking me to see Mamdani in Queens

A Little-Noted Element Propelled Mamdani’s Rise: Gen Z Loneliness www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n... @emmagoldberg.bsky.social

“Hope is alive,” Zohran Mamdani tells supporters in his victory speech in Brooklyn. “Hope over tyranny.”

One week ago the owner of my local bodega told me he didn’t do politics. Tonight he was wearing a NYC “I voted” sticker, saw me and smiled. “I changed my mind,” he said.

A pro-Cuomo flier outside a public housing complex in Brooklyn. Just straight paternalism.

What city does Cuomo think he’s running to represent?

“It means believing that racism is not a natural condition of poverty but a political weapon that rich men use to constrain poor people’s political power.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o... @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

Again, not the most important here, but I'm begging for a journalist to figure out how/why NPS put up a Confederate statue DURING A GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN. How is this "essential" when food stamps are not?

A friend reports that he was turned away this morning at a poll site at 212 Tompkins Ave. in Bed-Stuy because the site had no power. …so it begins

@umich.edu faculty call for an honorary degree for Trump “We have proven that we have no hard moral principles and no hill on which we will die.” www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...

The racist Cuomo ad whipping up fears about Mamdani comes one month after a man was charged for telling the candidate to go back to Uganda before someone shoots him in the head. Important context. queensda.org/texas-man-ch...

Here are the companies destroying the east wing of the White House

Over the past week, the president said the DOJ should pay him a quarter billion dollars, bulldozed half the White House to build himself a gaudy ballroom, bragged about murdering civilians in international waters, pardoned some more criminals, directed federal prosecutors to indict his opponents ...

ICE will not have fun in New York City. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/ice-vs-nyc

The pressing question is what Mamdani would do to make housing affordable for the millions who don’t live in rent-stabilized apartments www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...

“It turns out Trump likes some aid, and he’s good with white refugees.” @nickkristof.bsky.social is a real one www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/o...

“You’re familiar” with the idea that a law has to be followed after it’s passed? Errol Louis to Andrew Cuomo. NYC passed a law to close Rikers in 2019.

Cuomo wants to build new jails on Rikers Island. Good to know.

Genuinely curious about how Mamdani came to the conclusion that the key to fixing the city’s schools is to end mayoral control