Sunday summerish cooking/prep: buffalo tofu for salads, beet juice, blueberry chia seed pudding

I.C.E. maintains a strict dress code for people seeking to visit their loved ones caged at Delaney Hall. It’s clear the strict rule is useful pretext to deny visitors entry. #ICE #DHS

Immigration camps are not untouchable federal abstractions, they depend on a lot of local infrastructure. It is up to us, neighbors, community members, and we have the actual power to shut them down.

ICE agents pepper-sprayed Senator Andy Kim of New Jersey.

We are in constitutional failure and past constitutional crisis

Thursday in Brooklyn, there will be dinner & a walkthrough of The Warehouse exhibit at the Bedford Public Library. The exhibit is inspired by Vic Liu’s book The Warehouse: A Visual Primer on Incarceration (co-written w/James Kilgore), & was created in collaboration w/our cofounder Mariame Kaba.

Consumer sentiment sinks to all-time low, with Americans feeling worse now than they did during wars, 9/11, the Great Recession and Covid-19 pandemic. https://cnn.it/4a2sliS

So psyched for you on your publication day, @kpc.bsky.social! 🙌🏽 If y’all wondered what quantum physics have to do with queerness, this is the book. ⚛️ This kind of intersectionality is my jam. And for the metal heads and makeup mavens, there’s something in here for y’all, too. 😉

Like every Mother's Day today I am asking that you consider a donation to @nationalbailout.bsky.social to help free mamas who are separated from their families by the injustices of pretrial detention systems. secure.actblue.com/donate/freeb...

The perfect gift for your mother this Mother’s Day? A subscription to Hell Gate. Survery after survey has found that mothers love us! hellgatenyc.com/gift-subscri...

Happy May Day! Our office is closed today; we’ll see you in the streets!

The labor guys have good music taste, been a long time since I heard 2Pac before stepping off

“When I meet new people, when they discover I wrote a book, when they ask what it’s about, I don’t know how to tell them.” @madelinevosch.bsky.social on writing a memoir about suicide.

The 20 new books out today include titles by Tom Perrotta, Jordan Harper, Emma Copley Eisenberg, and more!

Radical bookstores don’t just sell books. In Chicago, Baltimore, and beyond, they host book clubs, training sessions, meetings, jail support work, and organizing that can shape entire movements. New from @leftiecowboy.bsky.social

87 degrees in April means the lord can just take me now I can’t concentrate

Many of you have heard that my editor Sean McDonald will no longer be working at Farrar, Straus and Giroux. I wrote a little bit about my feelings at the end of an era.

I agree 100% with Maris here, I don’t feel a personal connection to many imprints but I really believed in what Sean and his team were doing at MCD and this feels like a repudiation of a lot of the parts of publishing I care about

I'm sure there will be no long-term consequences to all of us veering between hypervigilance over potential nuclear war and trying to go to work because none of us can afford to pay our bills and may still be trying to recover from health consequences from the pandemic we're pretending didn't happen

Ok second episode in and I’m invested in The Rooster plus Robbie Hoffman!

Since the weather has warmed up and we have a book fest on capitalism and the climate crisis today, we thought we’d bring back our Green New Deal cocktail—cucumber puree, lime, basil syrup, and now made with fascist tears (vodka).

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If you were wondering, yes The Weeknd’s Can’t Feel My Face did indeed play at the dentist office when my face was numbed. Thematic!

I got two fillings so half my face has been numb for a couple hours, but today is the pub day for NO NEW YORK! Come to an event or buy a copy in the wild 💕

After Claudia Goldin became the first woman to win a solo Nobel in economics, she got hundreds of invitations. She accepted three. One was advising WNBA players on a labor deal. She helped players land the biggest % raise in US sports history. www.wsj.com/economy/wnba...

Next week on The Music Book Podcast, Adele Bertei tells us about how she was able to be open and honest in her great new memoir “No New York: A Memoir of No Wave and the Women Who Shaped the Scene,” out now on @beaconpress.bsky.social. Listen Tuesday at themusicbookpodcast.buzzsprout.com

Let me tell you what I will never understand: PF Changs.

FINALLY some good news

Nothing that opening the window, putting Electric Feel on for 20 mins and drinking water won’t help

I cannot believe that I am current on The Pitt

it’s an ungodly amount of litter and lots of friendly people

This stunt where ICE releases people far from home with no proper clothing and no way home should be treated as attempted homicide. In this case, actual homicide. These cases are not accidental or based on misunderstandings. They are deliberate attempts to inflict bodily harm.

I don’t know if I can go back a decade but we’ll see I guess

Eagle-eyed watchers of Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show would have spied Toñita, the queen of Los Sures, AKA Williamsburg. Read all about Maria Antonia “Toñita” Cay here: hellgatenyc.com/williamsburg...

Genuinely so happy for Ricky Martin as a person

If you've given biometrics to TSA (Pre-Check and Global Entry members) and you plan to attend a protest, you should wear a medical mask.

I'm not religious but so much of what I see and read has filled my head with "there but for the grace of god go I" Whether a hairline or a chasm of experience separates you, or I, from those being kidnapped by ICE, its all circumstantial.

“I was six years old when I logged on for the first time.” @blaqueword.bsky.social on participating in Black art and community online.

NYC, this event and zine sound awesome, I just discovered it in the Center for Brooklyn History newsletter and plan to go: www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/cbh...

Heading out into the -5 degree weather to provide for my family* *buy vegan spam, go to a sample sale, and see if there’s any food left at Trader Joe’s

New England is incredible. I’m obsessed.

I am actually surprised that Gracie Mansion has no bidets, but pleased that Mamdani want to install some. Cats and bidets, living the dream

Hahaha People Mag comes out blasting

The true winner of the Golden Globes is French onion popcorn

Depressing on many levels

I fear everything is at least a little bit stupid

Wednesday’s shooting happened a day after the Department of Homeland Security announced that “the largest DHS operation ever is happening right now in Minnesota.” (via @mprnews.org)

If you have any funds to spare and want to help Minneapolis right now, getting dash cams to observers is crucially important and especially after today

Stranger Things, what a waste, but Dustin’s mom clapping for her anti-establishment valedictorian? Healing