this is all true. but also, I am totally fine with a purity test that consists of "no nazi tattoos".

ICE conducted raids in Manhattan's Chinatown this afternoon and returned to the federal building during rush hour. Residents gathered nearby to voice disapproval. NYPD says it wasn't involved in the raids but now is running counterprotest operations. Current "sanctuary" laws only get you so far.

Turns out the internet isn’t as forever as we thought

I think once Mamdani is formally the winner of this race people will be more willing to admit it, but the truth is that the real issue isn't the lack of endorsement from Schumer and Jeffries, it's that Schumers, Jeffries, and everyone else has made racially charged unfulfillable demands of Mamdani.

fuck

Last night, on Diwali, I had the pleasure of accompanying @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social to two different temples, where he was asked to light the pradip and was given a kautuka. 🪔 One of the priests also asked him if he wanted to modify his past statements criticizing Modi, and this is what he said.

You have to be willing to walk away from these guys if they let you down, just as a matter of basic self respect. It's not a fandom. You're hiring them to do a job or not.

that guy was giving fetterman vibes even before the nazi tattoo, honestly. still, what a fucking waste. and now the best option is we get stuck with another fucking octogenarian centrist.

WELL HOW ABOUT THAT "A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

all of these people would do well to learn something about “cheap” and “costly” grace. no one is saying that platner is irredeemable, but that some things are a bridge too far for someone seeking a public trust. if he feels truly contrite, he can work on himself and his community and try again.

honestly a lot of liberal and left commentary here and elsewhere proceeds as if trump didn't suffer a resounding electoral loss in 2020.

Given the location of the Jackson Magnolia (which was removed back in April due to previous damage & deteriorating health, though a sapling descended from it was planted in its place), it is unlikely that it was actually removed as part of this desecration of the People's House.

the guy's kind of an old-school fascist but he also a better understanding of democratic politics than a lot of mainstream republicans and democrats in 2025.

Hadn't realized they just released a new trailer for one of my most anticipated films this year.

so jealous of people in Chicago who will get to see UNDER THE SKIN projected and hosted by @scotttobias.bsky.social. One of the top 10 movies of the century and I'd be first in line if I were in Chicago. thereveal.film/email/ba933d...

Again thinking about the fact that Bovino has been in CBP for 30 years and was like this the whole time, just waiting for his time to shine.

the greatest heist film of all time.

watched THE MASTERMIND and my immediate thoughts are: 1. this is Reichardt's greatest film (so far) 2. I'll be very surprised if I see a movie I like more this year.

I do! (Because they like Trump and what he’s doing)

Very disappointing of Mubi, which has links to the Israeli occupation www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

uhhh... what?

Can report back from the Charlotte No Kings that "free Palestine" is now, if not the normie lib position, then at least fully accepted among the normie libs. Lots of signs and flags scattered about, no apparent drama at all.

this was very lightly policed in new york as well, and I was at the big midtown one. some cops there obviously, but not a lot, and corralling etc. they kept it very open.

Hell yes, Pittsburgh. Love Yinz. No Kings.

This graph from a new AP-NORC poll out this week highlights a crucial point: The Democratic Party's favorability rating is so low today (when compared to the GOP's) because _Democrats_ are upset with the party, not because swing voters rate Ds more negatively than Rs. 1/3

watched A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE and (spoiler, I guess) Bigelow is a talented filmmaker and very good at esp. this kind of thing. but man, you have to commit to an ending or else what are you even doing. the thing that elevates FAIL SAFE e.g. to greatness is precisely the final scene. this falls short.

is it like the world series or something? my bluesky feed is totally useless right now.

i wrote about the art of making mix CDs for people you love, whether they like it or not (ft. @nikostratis.com whose writing on this very subject has been a huge inspiration) www.patreon.com/posts/141463...

The civil rights movement was an iceberg. It was huge, and mostly invisible. No Kings, right now, is a building—it's pretty big, but we can see it all. If we compare the size of the tip of the iceberg to the size of the building, and we declare the building bigger, we misunderstand both.

The fight against fascism in America—the real mass fight—is in its early stages. We have a long road ahead of us. We need to think seriously about where we are and where we've been in order to engage that fight effectively.

1. New York City Public Schools has announced that it will defy Trump's demands to ban trans students from bathrooms, funding threats be damned. Instead, it has launched a lawsuit against the admin and declared it will not throw trans students under the bus. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

He did sign an AI safety bill that has been hailed by the NYT and elsewhere as "sweeping" but in reality it is toothless, byzantine, and doomed to be ineffective. It requires the biggest AI companies to post their safety protocols on a website and voluntary report "catastrophic risk." That's it.

guy's a total loser and while it's kind of cute he thinks he can be the dem presidential nominee it's also completely delusional.

people who stand on the left side of escalators need to go to reeducation camps. this applies to all escalators, including those in malls.

give me a niche topic and I'll come up with a niche ethical stance in about five minutes.

we have got to start killing billionaires. is the first line that the villain speaks in the novel im writing. really though, in the real world, we have to kill these people. he continues

amazing opening www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/p...

all of this is just code for "we would love to ride the bus/train if it weren't full of poor people.". and seriously, fuck these guys. stay in your dumb suburbs.

I get that some people are worried about transit crime. The right response isn't to reallocate agencies' (already stretched) budgets toward public safety. It's to help the public understand that there is nothing to fear -- and to loudly condemn those like USDOT Sec Duffy who are spreading lies.

everyone has the memory of a fucking goldfish. it's not been two decades since we went through this exact fucking thing with MOOCs. anyone remember how that turned out?

tfw your 1,000-word tweets aren't working

“I was hung from the metal shackles on my wrists and ankles and beaten in the stomach, back, face, ear and skull by a group of men and women guards, one of whom sat on my neck and face, blocking my airways…Our cell was awoken with threats of rape.” Crickets from the State Department. Awful.

We’ve met with Greta Thunberg and others in the flotilla. They describe hours-long scenes of torture and sexual harassment in Israeli captivity. Experts conclude that they have been subjected to serious crimes – Sweden’s foreign minister believes they have themselves to blame. tinyurl.se/crR

“I announced…I’m a journalist, I’m press.” The woman to my left hissed, “We don’t give a fuck,” and the other dug her nails into my scalp and pulled me by my hair across the port.” U.S. allies abducting and torturing American journalists isn’t a problem to this administration.

this is the first time I've ever wanted to visit albany.

Empire State Plaza - Albany, NY r/brutalism

Mills entering the race against Planter: totally fine Gillibrand, Schiff and Kelly backing a centrist septugenarian over a chud-coded progressive while strong-arming Kleban into droping out: something I'm actually angry about

To be clear: LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government. The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency. This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.