“[Trump] is equal parts reckless and stupid, and it’s hard to know which is at play at any given time—if not both. When it comes to the Venezuela facility strike story, either Trump revealed a covert operation or amplified an internet lie. Regardless, we need to know which one it was.”

The real problem, then is the increased abdication of choice, the feeling that some broader lack of agency is controlling our lives a type of which we can call nuance where, if nothing can be right or wrong, no true decision can be made. we forget that not choosing is also a choice

Those roving patrols and racial targeting that Kavanaugh allowed? This is what they led to. www.propublica.org/article/immi... (from Oct)

I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:

BREAKING: Instacart is ending all price testing on its platform in the wake of this report.

Today was a ten train day.

This box of Chanukah candles was supposed to last just one year but has instead lasted for eight.

Stumbled upon this beautiful little street park on a walk during COVID. It's such a gem, but it should really just be one of a thousand little midblock parks like it. Imagine the city we would have today if they expanded from this pilot since 1969 rather than leaving it a one off.

Ballot measures are akin to proportional representation; the fact that they are trying to turn it into a single member constituency to stymie the will of voters is instructive in how our governance is meant to function more broadly.

Two must-read perspectives on Zohran Mamdani/Jessica Tisch: "Mamdani's NYC can't afford NYPD Commissioner Tisch" by Spencer Ackerman: www.forever-wars.com/mamdanis-nyc... "If we want Mamdani to beat the NYPD, the Left must build power" by Jon Ben-Menachem: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Disgraced ex governors would rather ruin cities than go to therapy. How many more times must the people crush their megalomania?

“Those directly involved in the strike could be charged with murder under the UCMJ or federal law,” said Todd Huntley, a former Staff Judge Advocate who served on Joint Special Operations task forces, using shorthand for the Uniform Code of Military Justice theintercept.com/2025/12/02/h...

I have no idea how someone who’s never used NJT would’ve been able to navigate it today. The windows are so blurry you can’t see anything resembling a platform station name. There were no audio announcements, and no visual stop displays. I guess iykyk, and if you don’t, you wind up in Long Branch.

Now it seems Barri Weiss is running an unskippable ad on Curb 🤮

Now that’s a lede. Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social. Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

This is a sharp bit of analysis about *why* self-avowed radical leftist politics have had so much trouble getting off the ground. (And why they so routinely get mired in questions of authenticity, purity and moral fortitude rather than results.)

NEW: Federal agents busted into an Elmhurst apartment early last Thursday morning and pointed guns at a woman and her four children, according to video and an account from the family.

New York to the haters: Drop Dead in this week's Groove, @dmey.bsky.social makes the case that while the billionaires and conservative crybabies wail and gnash their teeth, New York is, in fact, at the start of a new golden age: nygroove.nyc/nyc-golden-a...

I think it was maybe 2 years ago I was lamenting that there seemed to be no clear challenger to Adams stepping up. My worry was that he would coast to reelection virtually unopposed and we’d be in for another 6 years of incompetence and corruption. Never could have guessed what would unfold!

Hollywood blacklisting Jewish actors again

I listened to the Supreme Court's oral argument today so you dont have to With the notable exception of Alito & Thomas carrying on like 'what if aliens were gonna destroy the world and the only thing that could stop it was a tariff,' the Court seemed Not Into It ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/learn...

Turns out putting your faith in Christo-fascists was a bad strategy after all

Electoralism is not a realistic strategy for opposing capitalism, white supremacy and imperialism. However, if there is to be a strong mass movement to oppose those things, it’d be surprising if it wasn’t also evidenced by election results. The key is to distinguish good signs from actual victories.

Zohran’s primary win was jubilation. His general win felt like relief. The difference between launching into flight and landing the plane.

Cuomo spent the last few weeks of his campaign trafficking in unabashed bigotry to make himself more palatable to the average GOP voter. And it almost worked. With Trump's endorsement, Cuomo peeled off about half of Sliwa's support; I don't think Sliwa ultimately carried even a single precinct.

a delightful political obituary www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This the brilliance of the Mamdani campaign: it lays bare the kinship and alliance between fascists and rightwing Dems. It forces them on to the same side of the debate, which should be clarifying for everyone watching.

Unmentioned: the secular Hillquit's skepticism of Zionism. He argued the Balfour Decl. threatened Palestinian self-determination & he hoped universal socialism would secure Jewish liberation. By 1930, he supported unrestricted Jewish immigration to Palestine but not creation of an exclusive state.

I took this graph of NYC early voting turnout by age group and converted it to a cumulative area so we could see how the totals stacked up over time.

Very heartwarming and well deserved profile of @streetfilms.bsky.social from @hellgatenyc.com

For the love of all that is good in NYC, get out and vote for Mamdani as soon as humanly possible! Take nothing for granted!

NYC: Vote YES on ballot props 2-4. We at DSA' Social Housing campaign @housethefuture.bsky.social support them to move affordable and social housing along at the city AND state levels.

This OpEd is admittedly inadequate as an outline of anti-fascist federalism. (I've a much longer essay on this broader concept that I'm trying to place now.) There are myriad gaps and reasonable objections, but it points in the direction I think we need to go. 3/ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Trump administration is once again seeking to meddle with our streets to make buses slower, worsen congestion and pollute our air.

The answer to this is nearly every other Italian that ever lived. I think the harder question is which Italian is *less* deserving. Mussolini? Nero?

The liberal zionist consensus is gone now. This is the chance for the Jewish anti-Zionist left to chart a new path for American Jews www.theguardian.com/world/commen...

🚨 The federal watchlisting center is quietly implementing NSPM-7 amid a 300% increase in domestic terrorism cases by the FBI www.kenklippenstein.com/p/secretive-...

News you can use: NYC ballot questions, explained www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/06/b... via @thecity.nyc

Moral actions are symmetric: what you do impacts others, but also reflects back onto yourself. LLMs and the pernicious tech oligarchs who force them onto us obviously deserve our scorn. But it’s good to remain cognizant of how our interactions—even with inanimate objects—condition our own behavior.

this reactionary turn is one part disciplining labor for having the temerity to talk back and one part trying to arrest a perceived social reproduction crisis by disciplining elite institutions.

"Armed federal agents in military fatigues busted down their doors overnight, pulling men, women and children from their apartments, some of them naked, residents and witnesses said." www.wbez.org/immigration/...

Charging parking permits or vehicle registration fees by weight seems to be catching on. At least a few Montreal boroughs, DC, and Zurich to my knowledge. Short of directly regulating vehicle size (which should obviously be done), this is a good step. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

The Global Sumud Flotilla seemingly breached Israel’s blockade of Gaza while provoking an Israeli response that triggered anger and reprisals from various governments. It’s one of the most successful acts of civil disobedience in recent history.

Fascism: assigning blame for all the problems caused by capitalism to minorities in order to defend the interests of the capitalist class. Et voila.

Fortunately that's all in the Streetsblog story that just went up: nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/10/01/t...

Out of curiosity, is anyone keeping a running list of the trump regime’s flagrantly illegal and impeachable offenses? Seems like something that will be useful later.

This is a VERY well crafted lawsuit. 1) Plaintiff is natural born. 2) He was detained 2X in a fast-growing part of Alabama, not in a city that Brett Kavanaugh could be easily duped into believing was all migrants. 3) Unwarranted detentions were on private property. 4) He showed Real ID both times.

Mamdani “doesn’t allow that there’s a conflict between emphasizing economic populism and taking on Trump’s authoritarianism.” As @gregsargent.bsky.social suggests, there’s no reason to assume this synthesis wouldn’t work just as well in swing territory newrepublic.com/article/2011...