Wild times

Today in things that make me proud to be Mayor: PS 889's Hyper Pigmentation became 2-time Minecraft champs at the City's Annual Video Game Festival. Gaming doesn’t have to be a male-dominated industry. NYC is a top recruiter of gaming jobs & we want the next gen of hires to look more like our city.

Double amputee Rodney Taylor revealed the horrific conditions he endured in ICE detention: “They refused to feed me for 3 weeks because they expected me to walk the length of a football field to get some food." https://atlanta.capitalbnews.org/double-amputee-rodney-taylor-released-from-ice-custody/

Toad went to the store. He bought two big ice-cream cones. Toad licked one of the codes. “Frog likes chocolate best,” said Toad, “and so do I.”

AOC could absolutely flex her power and influence in more races (especially congressional) but partnering with the face of unjustly spurned Arab-American Democrats is exquisite coalition building.

AOC is right to say this, and anyone who attacks her for it is wrong. And AOC should under no circumstances be labeled antisemitic.

it’s pretty wild how american evangelical christianity has abandoned even the pretense of the christianity part

Yeah and she sucks.

wild stuff e360.yale.edu/digest/china...

“Leaning... leaning... safe and secure from all alarms. Leaning... leaning... leaning on the everlasting arms.”

This spring, turnout in the California city of Whittier doubled from recent city elections. A slate of challengers endorsed by immigrant advocacy groups and the local Democratic Party swept local contests, flipping the city council to a liberal majority.

Happy 226th Birthday to John Brown, the only white boy to ever truly understand the assignment

Extremely on brand for Worcester tbh

kinda amazing in hindsight that this dude was significantly cooler than any of the actual supervillain billionaires we wound up getting

He’s a white nationalist.

The thing about the appealing things that Graham Platner manages to say and do is that other nationally prominent Democrats could do them and most simply choose not to

New York is the Roku City of America

IDF soldier who participated in the mistaken killing of three Israeli hostages in Gaza City in Dec 2023 confirmed to his mother what was widely reported at the time: they killed the men, who were waving white flags, because their unit was under orders to kill all Gazan men they encountered.

It's been interesting how Gov. Cox, when in DC, leads chin-stroking forums on how the parties can work together; and when in SLC, is working to pack the state court to delete the new Democratic seat. Probably a lesson there (you can be full of shit)

AOC on possibly running for the Senate or President: They assume my ambition is a title or a seat. My ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country. Presidents come and go, elected officials come and go, single payer healthcare is forever.

Mississippi's Edward Blackmon Jr. was part of a generation of Black Americans across the South who fought to dismantle barriers to voting and achieve political representation. He is now resigned to the fact that the fight of his youth is not yet over.

The thing that really grinds my gears isthat the Dems passed the VRA the right way. They passed the redistricting the right way. It’s the courts that decided they were above the rules that they could get rid of laws they don’t like. A lot of folks seem to be missing that point

reduce violence in your community with this one weird trick (fund social programs) www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

What say you, Bottom?

I hate being too tall for most plane seats, but also being too cheap to do anything about it.

A mostly good week! #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

What the fuck is the point of being the speaker of the house if you’re just gonna cave IMMEDIATELY

I love how "there weren't enough days" is always a ruling in favor of Republicans, never Democrats in any election related judicial case in the past 10 years... Side eying in -my governor just cancelled an election after ballots were already sent out-

Pretty bad to exist in the timeline where republicans can pretty much just gerrymander however they want and Dems can seemingly only get away with it in California.

trump and hegseth are presiding over one of the great Ls in american military history.

CHONKERS HAS A PLUSHIE. I NEEDS THE CHONKERS.

youtu.be/7uC3fQsfxfQ?... Wes Anderson soundtracks are always so nice.

I really really liked this movie.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO MR. FREEZE

Project Hail Mary is so fun and I’m looking forward to seeing it again.

Still the best film adaptation of The Odyssey

A lot of people think that underpaying politicians is a good idea, actually And it’s an awful idea!

Unserious.

found this guy on Tiktok who has discovered carpenter's speed squares make an insanely satisfying noise when you bounce them off tires or wood, called @lostcoastedc on there

Watching Mulholland Drive for the first time.

The early 00s where we just started putting ungodly amounts of food dye in everything

Honestly my biggest takeaway from this clip is that Obama is very consciously elevating Mamdani (whom he cites unprompted as an example of the right way to do this) as a model while other top Dems still shirk him.

I really hate waking up with a headache.

Anyone talking about voting for fucking Susan Collins during YEAR 6 of Trump being president isn’t a fucking democrat.

Jesus, it’s really been 20 years since Strickland won.