ICE still FROZEN at Centre St & Howard in lower Manhattan right now as calls continue circulating for people to join. NYPD arriving with barricades.

Keep this story in the news. "Man Detained by ICE Found Dead, Hanging With Hands and Feet Tied—Attorney" www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...

“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”

those of us laid off from Teen Vogue were really fortunate to complete our fundraising goal — the laid-off staffers at VIBE deserve the same support, as Black media outlets and journalists continue to be targeted and discriminated against in “austerity” measures

I think I would enjoy a film called “Knives Out” a lot more if it was the title of a documentary about Joyce Carol Oates’s brilliant social media takedowns of our most hideous villains.

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.” aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

He should have died in The Hague.

My latest essay in "Recording Memories," my new memoir-ish Substack about Gen X, music, nostalgia, and memory — a true labor of love, written on stolen time. This one is about the the virtuosic treasure that is @kdlang.bsky.social kb12979536.substack.com/p/kd-lang-st...

NYMag blew up its story about ICE's increased presence at 26 Federal Plaza, and pasted it on a wall a few blocks away on Broadway

Trump saying out loud that he no longer feels bound by even the pretense of civil law is a staggering admission for an American president writes @themaxburns.bsky.social

One of these guys is running for Congress on an explicitly pro-LGBTQ platform. Hell yeah. www.advocate.com/politics/dyl...

In early September, I went out to L.A. to interview the hilarious, genuinely wonderful Leslie Jones. Before we knew it, hours had flown by & we were talking like we’d known each other for years. The result is now live in the @nytimes.com Styles section (and will appear in Sunday's print edition).

The president has declared war on Chicago, sending in masked ICE agents and National Guard troops to incite violence, hoping protestors will take the bait. Under Pritzker and Mayor Johnson's leadership, Chicagoans know just what to do. From @themaxburns.bsky.social for us

It’s pronounced cyclist.

Love you #Portlandia! #resist #iceicebaby

This is a federal agent pointing a weapon at a person recording them. ICE has become Trump’s personal military that he is using to terrorize communities and cities that don’t support him. And some say we shouldn’t call him a fascist? Open your eyes.

Today in @damemagazine.bsky.social, the great media critic @parkermolloy.com on CBS's huge mistake in hiring Bari Weiss

Every coherent (using the term loosely here) word out of his mouth is an admission.

Feels worth noting that this phase-out is for kindergarten through 2nd/3rd grade, where there’s a separate gifted track that doesn’t rely on pre-k teachers nominating students

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

I am excited to share my inaugural post for my new Substack, "Recording Memories," about Suzanne Vega, whose music about alienation and torment managed to make my young tormented, alienated self feel a lot less ... alone. : kb12979536.substack.com/p/in-the-fri...

Why is he declaring war on Portland, Oregon? Was he injured by a Willamette Valley Pinot Noir?

My Rapture look (wish I had thought of this much earlier had they given us a heads up that it was a-comin’ so I could’ve had it made in time): a T-shirt with Debbie Harry on one side, Anita Baker on the other …

I’ve started a substack about music, memory, and Gen X. Check it out. This is the intro essay — more to come in the next couple weeks.

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

Please read and share this gutting, urgent piece by one of DAME's most searing writers. @brynntannehill.bsky.social is one of our "Cassandras" who has been warning us for years about the devastating impact this administration would have on trans people. Tragically, she's been right every time.

Well, AI drinks our water, raises our electric bills, and tells kids to off themselves, but at least it’s making us dumber

Psychedelics hold the tantalizing possibility of being effective drugs to treat chronic mental health issues like depression and anxiety. @moxieluhu.bsky.social reports for us on the possibilities and potential drawbacks.

This is great. I would add Belinda on White Lotus as another exemplary character

I had the pleasure to publish the award-winning Canadian TV (e.g., Baroness von Sketch, Schitt's Creek) and fiction writer @zoewhittall.bsky.social in @damemagazine.bsky.social, who offers expert advice on how to write fat characters. Writers, have this bookmarked. It's really helpful.

Yes! Music+Laughter via @kerabolonik.bsky.social “As soon as David told people to come over, I muscled my way in and didn’t leave until he kicked us all out,” said Mr. Marino, who has a karaoke room in his home. “I wouldn’t let anybody else go to the mic,” which is how he became MADJB’s lead singer.

My recent NYT Style dispatch from the Gen X files: a profile of the Middle Aged Jam Band, a group of comics & writer friends who got together during the pandemic and the writers’ strike to play music together. Comedy & rock are a perfect pairing, & anyway, who doesn’t wanna be a rock star?

Such an important piece, by @ashadore.bsky.social, in today's DAME.

Autocracy, Fascist, Kleptocracy. There are plenty of ways to describe this government. But, there's one concept that fully encapsulates the policies of the White House and its servile GOP: necropolitics. 🧵

Rep. @aoc.bsky.social on ny1 : “People are going to get sick and go hungry… They’re giving people crumbs and taking away the whole loaf… One of the saddest days in 🇺🇸 history.”

I'm hearing a lot of "Jews in New York are scared" today. So, a couple of thoughts: 1) Jews should be angry, not scared. We were targeted with a relentless, heavily funded barrage of lies playing off of real fears of antisemitism by a man who came within 7 points of winning. That reeks of contempt.>

$25 covers the purchase and shipment of a pair of femme tucking garments to 1 trans youth. $50 covers the purchase and shipment of brand-new chest binders to 3 trans youths. $100 covers the processing and postage to mail garments to 35 trans youths. DONATE: secure.givelively.org/donate/point...

For the NYT, I met with Canadian comics Meredith MacNeill & Jennifer Whalen, from Baroness von Sketch, to discuss the absurdity of aging & peri/menopause, and their rare ability to tap into the internal monologues & inside jokes many of us have & share w/ friends. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/s...

Nothing sums up the state of affairs for transgender Americans quite like the US Supreme Court denying trans people life-saving healthcare at the same time that the Trump administration shuts down suicide prevention programs for LGBTQ people. These bastards want us all dead.

“We will find ways to keep fighting … We’ll fight in state court. We’ll lobby Congress. We’ll lobby our state legislatures, and we’ll organize in the streets. As we’ve always done.”- Chase Strangio, the ACLU lawyer representing the transgender kids and their families.

🧵New Yorkers--time to call, email, or testify (IRL or remote): they want to bulldoze historic Luna Park and replace the ❤️ of Coney Island, Brooklyn with a friggin' casino to bleed NYers dry. '80s: I grew up in Brighton, junior high in Coney. 2023: campy engagement pics! lunaparknyc.com/no-casino/

This is in dead-red Florida. Hurricane season is starting. Veteran weatherman John Morales is rightly concerned that federal cuts to NOAA and the National Weather Service means we’re flying blind into the storm — literally — and people are at mortal risk. Thank you for your courage, John.

As we round out Mental Health Awareness Month (which I have not seen talked about nearly enough), I would like to point out this essay. Grief leading to depression is what sent me on my 10 yr spin. I didn't know I was depressed. I was angry. So TL;DR folks: depression isn't just being sad.

I write to seek answers and sometimes to work through my mishegas, and I publish my work to start a conversation. But it took me awhile to write after my dad died last June. Here, my first piece in a year, in the NYT Well. Depression is a beast. Grateful to have emerged from the worst of it.

Such sad news. I edited Victoria Brownworth’s work at DAME for years, but was a longtime reader of her work in the LGBTQ press as a fellow queer journalist/writer before that. Victoria fought so hard in every part of her life. May she finally R.I. peace & power. My heart goes out to all who love her

New York City Is About to Make a Huge Mistake Andrew Cuomo, who leads in the mayoral polls, has a Trumpian belief in his own spurious talents and triumphs. His election would likewise be a disaster for everyone subject to his rule. newrepublic.com/article/1949...