January (detail), Castello del Buonconsiglio (Trento, Italy), c. 1400

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

if we're WWII navalposting, may I humbly submit something I came across while perusing the JFK library's digital archives a couple days ago: JFK's "rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated" letter after the sinking of PT-109 during the solomon islands campaign (transcription in alt text:

Today I confronted “border czar” Tom Homan who came to Albany to do Trump’s bidding — push for mass deportations, carry out the assault on working class New Yorkers, and justify the unjustifiable detention of legal permanent resident and father-to-be, Mahmoud Khalil.

"A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."

THEY’RE CLIMBING THE POLES IN TOKYO GO BIRDS🦅🦅🦅

not enough declaration of independence-related posting imo. i think a lot of people who haven't looked at it since AP Gov would be surprised how salient it is to the current political moment

opening your chosen news provider's app like

currently reading SPQR by mary beard and i must say. thoroughly enjoying how exasperated the author seems to be with cicero. he's like the opposite of a historical blorbo. he died 2000+ years ago and he's still annoying the shit out of this woman

if you have ever spent any time in midtown you would be aware that the only thing the nypd are "working" on there is traveling in packs of 8-10, buying candy crush powerups, and placing draftkings bets

could a depressed person do THIS? (scrolls through dozens of email confirmations for solo movie tickets)

#lawsky does anyone have access the losing qualified immunity motion in mills vs connelly (middle district louisiana, fifth circuit)? a friend found the judge's decision denying QI but we need to know what happened there in minute detail

people complain about how letterboxd reviews are just the pithiest thing someone can say about a film and the site as a whole feels irony-poisoned but have you read some of the really earnest, serious reviews by laymen on that site? because they tend to be pretty bad

someone just asked me "did they even have archives back then?" about.......world war ii. what no prioritization of the humanities does to a mfer

seeing a lot of pre-emptive hating on my philadelphia despite the fact that all you sore winners are asking it to save democracy. could NEVER be me. [liz lemon voice] GO EAGLES! PHILLY RULES! BOBBY CLARKE! CHEESESTEAKS! WILL SMITH! YOUR TOWN *SUCKS!*

thinking about charles dew's apostles of disunion, a tiny slip of a book that packs a punch when read in 2024. foul, crude invective from minor men, delivered without regard to how foul and off-putting outsiders may find it, drove the nation to catastrophe, you say?

nothing worse than sitting next to a confident teenage boy on an intercity bus

under-discussed contributor to nyc noise pollution is the reliance on steam heat. fuck the sirens and jackhammers outside. there's a nonstop hissing noise in every building you won't notice is slowly making you insane until it stops and everything is TOO quiet

prefacing your comment with "isn't it true that - " does not actually make it a question. hope this helps

i like that you can tell the seasonal affective disorder is hitting hard by how existential the Posters get before they realize what's going on and start stopping themselves mid-thread