The first principle of a lot of the American upper class is impunity for their own, and #MeToo violated that.

Most of the derangement about Mamdani is for the obvious reasons but part of it is also that a surprising amount of people were committed to the Cuomo rehabilitation project because they hated the idea that anything could have consequences for men of the right class.

went back and grabbed the full video of her intro. absolutely incredible 🇮🇹🍝👩‍🍳🤌🇮🇹🍝👩‍🍳🤌🇮🇹🍝👩‍🍳🤌🇮🇹🍝👩‍🍳🤌

Today I have written @senjohnmarty.bsky.social and Kelly Moller, my state reps, not as a reporter but as their constituent. I urge my fellow Minnesotans to contact their reps today. Yes, it's the holidays, but payroll was due today for these companies.

You've probably been following the story about fraud in MN. I wrote about the people who provide services who are being driven into bankruptcy, thanks to the Walz' administration decision to hire Optum AI to screen all payments. It's a disaster.

I *need* the clip of them pushing the stage back off the field 😂

Watching The Roosevelts (as all the cool kids do) and lol just tell me you subscribe to the great man theory of history Ken Burns

My "Teaching in Higher Ed" class is gonna be something

Please read. www.startribune.com/mn-daycare-f...

partied too hard with the yassified lamb chop our neighbors got him last night ☠️

Thomas Paine began 1776 with _Common Sense_ and the call to reject monarchy, and ended with _The American Crisis_, warning that "these are the times that try men's souls." Like many in my field, I've spent the last dozen years preparing for 2026, sure that the fullest histories serve us best. 1/

I am serious about the invite - especially if you are junior or a grad student I enjoy schmoozing with the future of econ

College football fans, let me explain what's going on, as some other anti-racists and I had a big part in what you're describing as chaos: 1.College coaches aren't as important as you thought they were 2.College athletes are more important than you thought they were 3.Pay them more. Treat them well

Jan 1: this is the year of new Me Jan 12: [eating shredded cheese directly from the bag] new years resolutions are a bourgeois construct for disciplining bodies into productive units for capital

Also our Girl Scout just informed us she wants to go to Girl Scout sleep away camp for the first time this summer so the cookie sale goal just went way up: digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/clara8...

I was wondering what Mamdani's first executive order would be, and I'm not disappointed by this. He has wiped off the books EVERY Eric Adams executive order issued on or after September 26, 2024, the day Adams was indicted on federal bribery charges.

Lots of great insights in this article. Here's just one:

The mayor is officially the mayor! Huzzah!!

I present the #cat semi colon (Cc @bcdreyer.social)

In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing. You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics. That is all.

We haven't seen an Indiana squad turn back an Alabama offense this decisively since Antietam

Well I hope this makes it into one of the issues I read

Me explaining to bae that Merlin will ID birds incorrectly based on sound so we need visual confirmation

I've seen a couple of people asking if the three main campaign promises are achievable. And the answer is yes. 1. Freeze the Rent - The Mayor controls the Rent Guidelines Board, which votes every year on how much rents go up for over 2.4 million rent stabilized tenants.

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and Rawa Duwaji on Inauguration Day, January 1, 2035, NYC City Hall! More pictures coming soon - I took a bunch and everyone was beautiful! Happy New Year, friends. We're gonna win.

One of my favorite works this year was this illustration of a pigeon on a hero's journey, commissioned by my MFA program as this year's student/staff shirt. I later made a risograph print of the image!

This has stalled and they really need to meet their goal. Please support and share.

Yes and-ing this to say, I absolutely love that his speeches do not sound like he studied Barack Obama recordings as if they were the zapruder or game film. He talks good but does it in his own way.

I remember and it continues to be one of the most extraordinary things that has happened in my lifetime

Me and my policy friends acting like the arsenio audience after this line

A List of Predictions Made in 1926 About 2026 🧵

I don't think Chuck even voted for him! Zohran should have like all these chairs on the dais for his supporters and one Dunk Bozo booth for Chuck to sit in. $5 a throw. All proceeds go to funding the campaign of his primary challenger

The hater becomes a waiter at the table of success

Mary Sheffield was sworn in as Detroit’s 76th mayor, becoming the first woman to hold the office in the city's 324-year history

New Mamsterdam

Oh shiiiiiiiiiiit (Watch us somehow wind up with a live goat)

Mamdani arrives to his mayoral inauguration at City Hall in a motorcade of NYC taxi cabs—workers he went on hunger strike with in 2021.

My married-in waymo relative says the company is prepared for operating in New Orleans during Mardi Gras because they've worked around events "like the Rose Bowl Parade"

I keep telling people Dutch higher ed is not gonna be a refuge. Shared some article recently highlighting their language moves and why these types of curriculum decisions would be happening. If I find it, I'll share in a reply.

Garden birds zooming into the new year 🪶

New Year's pour. My best pour, life-to-date.

as both an alum of the Village Voice and a former advisor to Greedhead Records (the label Das Racist used to be on), is that the reason Zohran volunteered for Ali is because he read an interview with Heems in the Voice that plugged Ali’s campaign. Zohran’s rap fandom indirectly led to this moment.

Good luck nyc friends! Hoping for good governance and strong constituent accountability. But, even if that fails, we'll always have the jams.

Yes it must age with us

Happy new year from the east coast! Wishing you love and peace and spite-fueled victories over your enemies!

This was our ball drop

Some great jazz standards enter the public domain in an hour or so. Ellington, Mood Indigo. The Gershwin's I Got Rhythm. Plus, Body and Soul, Love for Sale, & many more. peterspitzer.blogspot.com/2025/12/tune...

pour one out

Watching cats jump in slow motion is truly a gift

do NOT make a lemon pig. the lemon pigs CAUSED THIS. you are messing with forces you DO NOT UNDERSTAND and CANNOT CONTROL.