This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia. Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.” Really listen to it.

A fire heavily damaged Mississippi’s largest synagogue — the same one the Ku Klux Klan bombed in 1967 because the rabbi supported civil rights A suspect has been arrested, authorities say

It has never been more important in most of our lifetimes than now to make art that deeply offends and concerns fascists.

I drew a new flag for New York City. Enjoy.

The Blackbird of Annoyance has replaced the Bluebird of Happiness in my life

I inherited this old Yamaha turntable from my father-in-law and fixed it up (belt, needle, lube). Let me know what you think of the sound.

Common Sense, published 250 years ago today.

The explanation for this decision is that Miller is Nosferatu but less likeable, Rubio is over his armpits trying to make sense of Venezuela, Bovino is an angry muppet, and Trump might break off mid-sentence to go look out the window. JD is the best salesman they got right now.

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I went out under the sun, and ran into the president. A note about her and that other guy.

A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter. I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.

Willa Beatrice Brown gets ZERO shine... even here in our home state of kentucky where she was born! i never even heard of her until stumbling across her by acccident 5 mins ago. 1st black woman to earn a pilot's license in the U.S.; 1st to run for congress. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willa_B...

BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!

If you think learning or practicing Spanish would be helpful at this moment, I recommend the good folks at CILAC Freire. Online or in-person, they’re terrific. www.cilacfreire.mx

The money quote here is “until we do that, I guess we’re going to have it this way,” and Representative Williams ought to clarify what “this way” is. Masked militias shooting civilians in the streets?

Make it viral.

I-94 and Wilson, Chicago, IL

So, no constraints.

I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps, They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps; I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps: His day is marching on.

I wrote about starting a kind of sabbatical in Mexico at a time when it feels very strange to be leaving the United States.

If I was in, say, Harvey Milk's place and you told me how long the lean times would last after my death I'd wonder what the point even was. But I don't think he would, so I have no right to.

I just left the Venezuela briefing. It's worse than you thought. Oil company executives seem to know more about Trump's secret plan to "run" Venezuela than the American people. We need public Senate hearings NOW.

I need people to wrap their minds around the fact that here in Minneapolis, ICE broke the window of a vehicle yesterday, pepper sprayed the occupants, and arrested them, and shot another observer in the face today, and OBSERVERS ARE STILL GOING OUT TO PROTECT THEIR NEIGHBORS AT MASSIVE PERSONAL RISK

In a nation ruled by supremacy and all its many sabotages of the public good, every act of repair is a defiant act. *Every* act of repair is a defiant act.

How to Govern by Zohran Mamdani: 1) Do things that make people’s lives better 2) Take credit for it.

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Like yeah ok we talk about Kent State, we don't really talk about the Orangeburg Massacre

I'm Kent State on 4 May 1970 was called a massacre, but Jackson State on 15 May 1970 was called a police shooting, years old.

I missed this bit of hilarious baseball news

They changed our plane going to CDMX to this one with livery I have not seen before - at least not since I was waving goodbye to my dad at Port Columbus.

Now that we’re back in the empire business again, what I wrote las mt summer about Andor once again feels relevant. notesfornobody.ghost.io/andor-so-far/

Every now and then, a conversation comes up that involves a "barrel of laughs." Or "laughing barrels," and my first thought is to always say something about that origin (yes, im THAT guy) and people always feel like it's a lie or tall tale. So whenever I come across proof, I like to point it out 🧵

In a cab to JFK, the start of six months working in Mexico. Looking out the window and holding on to NYC as hard as I can.

Maybe let Ramaswamy win any office at all before we contemplate him winning the presidency? (Suddes is a pretty astute observer, and his observation that the D’s in Ohio have a weak bench and don’t seem bothered by it is spot on.) www.cleveland.com/opinion/2026...

Lately I keep thinking about how the original constitution called for the runner-up - an opponent of the president - to become vice president. And how the 12th amendment just ignored the possibility that impeachment would put in power someone with the same attitudes about criming and misdemeanoring.

Trump on why he pardoned notorious drug trafficker Juan Hernandez: “It was a Biden set up. Take any country you want. If someone sells drugs in that country, that doesn’t mean you arrest the president and put him in jail for the rest of his life.”

NYC spinning up on a damn dime every time. Fuck yeah!

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Realizing this morning that dollars to donuts have during my lifetime become favorable odds.

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Things I would not mind (an abbreviated list): - Blowout bowl games forcing college football execs to scale back the postseason tournament.

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and Rawa Duwaji on Inauguration Day, January 1, 2035, NYC City Hall! More pictures coming soon - I took a bunch and everyone was beautiful! Happy New Year, friends. We're gonna win.

Fun New Year's Resolutions: -take a class (pottery, dance, sewing, knife-making) -arrange a gathering of friends -local adventure (museum, public park, street festival) -professional development (book proposal, industry presentation, online course) -volunteering -complimenting strangers more often

Helen Frankenthaler, New Year’s Series I, (1979)

“Can’t believe NYC elected a Muslim as mayor.” In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.

Ma mitzpacti in yancuic xihuitl! (“May the New Year bring you joy” in Classical Nahuatl.)

One of the things I unironically love about Zohran Mamdani is that he wears suits. All the time. Not expensive looking suits or especially well-fitting suits, just gray suits. And he never looks especially comfortable in them. He looks like ”this is the way you dress when you go to work.”