Thanks again to @heatherataylor.bsky.social and @jabariii.bsky.social on participating in the #VirtualHappyHour #VHH roundtable last night. Quite fun and informative. Already lining up the guest(s) for May! Come join, why don't you. virtualhappyhour.eo.page

It's #VirtualHappyHour day, 4-6pm PT/7-9pm ET! Come join me and my friends @heatherataylor.bsky.social and @jabariii.bsky.social as they partake in a Q&A roundtable for the first hour. 😀 DM me for the link. Get future emails with the link on the #VHH landing page. virtualhappyhour.eo.page

Heads up, the next #VirtualHappyHour #VHH will feature a roundtable session with @heatherataylor.bsky.social and @jabariii.bsky.social for the first hour on Monday, 20 April, 4-6pm PT/7-9pm ET! Get on the email list for the Zoom link and future updates. virtualhappyhour.eo.page

During Tuesday’s meeting, Council President Marqueece Harris-Dawson described the chief’s comments as “disturbing” and “wholly unacceptable. The full story: lataco.com/city-council... By @shoton35mm.bsky.social

We’ve been trying to tell y’all for years.

literally why are they on twitter

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

I remember the phrase "they can't be allowed to melt back into society" re: the de-Baathification of Iraq after the war there. Like everything about that experience, the attempt was cynical, stupid, and botched. But there really should be a plan about what we do with guys like these in the future.

The CBS 60 Minutes Doc confirms what we knew: The U.S. is currently using our tax dollars to imprison brown people with no criminal record in torture camps overseas. It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

Conservatives rebranded bigotry and every time the media uses “wokeness” as a euphemism they are helping a movement that it quite literally erasing the history marginalized people’s role in American life.

Watching flight tracker to see all the billionaires supposedly leaving!!!

I'm happy that Mamdani won. But I won't let that get in the way of my celebrating Cuomo losing.

The most important thing to remember about Bad Bunny performing at the Super Bowl is that Puerto Rico is a colony whose residents are US citizens and pay taxes but don't get to vote for the president, have no voting representation in Congress,

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

if you’ve ever even quietly thought “i would just move,” now’s your chance to pony up and make that possible for not just someone but three someones.

I have not seen one Spirit Halloween but plenty of empty properties... spooky but not the fun seasonal kind!

More workers were abducted today than pretty much any other single day over the course of the months-long federal occupation of Los Angeles. We are still under siege. There is no other choice but to organize and fight back. Look out for one another and defend your neighbors!

““Every one is hungry, malnourished, has lost their home and loved ones, and every one is scared. We have not got enough of anything.””

I heard the trumpets of the rapture today (listened to the first 8 seconds of Hips Don’t Lie).

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

What if the Hannah Montana transition music played during the rapture.

In the last two years, I have photographed four different representatives from the U.S. voting no to a ceasefire.

Yes, this. You aren’t changing minds, you are merely participating in engagement farming which benefits them more than it does you. It also sends an unfortunate message that their ideas are worth treating with *respect* and therefore socially *acceptable*. It suggests they offer a *legitimate* pov.

Thinking about the phrase "political violence" and the number of people who've died on Rikers Island in just the last month.

Do it. Search your name. Take their money. It’s yours anyway.

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

heard google is measuring the success of AI overview partially based on whether people click on any links on the search page after querying so i’ve been clicking links even if i don’t need to, to show my displeasure.

something you may not know about me is that i am a hurricane katrina survivor. this year is the 20th anniversary of the hurricane and i am honored to be co-curating a film program at MoMA that takes a look at new orleans before, during, & after the storm. learn more: www.moma.org/calendar/fil...

I will remind folks those images of Nazi book burnings aren't burning just any books. They're burning the library of Magnus Hirschfeld; a gay, Jewish doctor who created an institute dedicated to LGBTQ sex education and healthcare. And a man who pioneered gender affirming care surgeries.

Just said Gracie Abrams when I meant Stacey Abrams.

Abolish ICE. Abolish "A.i." No arms for genocide. Protect trans kids. Shut down the concentration camps. Abolish tariffs. Fire RFK, Jr. Boycott Avelo & Tesla. Delete Twitter. No crypto. Care over punishment. Vote Mamdani. Primary every do-nothing D. Protect vaccines and SSRIs. No fascism. #NoKings

Yes. But before we get to the primary process we should be thinking about who we don’t want to *end up* with. The way you end up with someone rather than choose is having “mean posts” stick in peoples minds and not “hates homeless people, doesn’t care about trans people”

“I’m sick of these purity tests. NO CANDIDATE is perfect. Newsom may not care about homeless people or trans people but he’s the ONLY ONE hiring social media posters to ask ChatGPT to talk like Trump”

Oh do people love cartoons? You wouldn't know it by how cartoons are treated

Fighting rising housing prices by running through the neighborhood in the middle of the night like the Weapons kids.

Mayor Pete, what can you say about Israel's ongoing assassination of journalists? Pete Buttigieg: I think that that's a profound question that arouses a lot of the biggest problems that have happened with Israel's survival, Israel's right to survival, in the diplomatic scene.

A new poll from a progressive research group that accurately predicted Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral primary victory found that his criticism of Israel resonated with an overwhelming majority of Democratic voters and may have helped mobilize a wave of first-time and younger supporters.

This baby was evacuated from Gaza and treated for starvation. He will never be the same physiologically as he would have been without being starved. But, even so, notice his attempt to smile in the photo on the left. That spirit shows why it is CRITICAL for us to fight to save these precious souls.

Pay attention.

Call your reps. Demand they stop funding for Israel until Israel stops the blockade and allows food and aid to reach Gazans. The airdrops are a cruel joke. Find your reps here: reps.fyi

To be clear, Clinton isn’t telling Israel to stop starving and killing Palestinians, which she could easily do, she is saying they should be fed before their execution.

nope.

Drop the Epstein Files over us like they drop leaflets over North Korea.

Quoting myself is not the norm, but today I am again thinking this.

The distance between what is in happening Gaza, fully backed with US dollars and political support, and the reaction of American politicians who by and large just don’t seem to care or support it is just completely brain-breaking. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/w...