“We always seem to have money for war. But not to feed the poor. -Tupac” -Zorhan

Herman Jessor designed Co-Op City, Starrett City, and more housing units in New York than any other architect—so why don't more people know his name? hellgatenyc.com/the-unrepent...

For the first time after 12 years biking in NYC, I was hit by a driver. Some off-duty cop with a placard on the dash and obscured license plate who made an illegal left from the center lane on a red arrow. Fortunately I was able to walk away just a bit banged up, but still an infuriating experience.

Kind of crazy how the people arguing against birthright citizenship are more racist than the Supreme Court that decided Plessy v. Ferguson.

As a Cuban American traveling with a recent aid convoy, I witnessed the daily hardship sanctions produce. Washington must lift its devastating blockade.

In a handful of cities across the United States and Europe, Jewish socialists are reviving a storied early-twentieth-century institution. progressive.org/latest/the-b...

I've said before that there are only two good things in the USA: breakfast and birthright citizenship. Hoping that we don't shoot ourselves in the foot (again) today.

Rubio, probably: “Frankly, I’m offended that you would suggest that our oil blockade has anything to do with their oil shortage”

BREAKING: Israel's Knesset has passed a law to execute Palestinian detainees. Death by hanging. Mandatory sentencing. No pardon. 90 days to carry out. It applies through military courts with a 96% conviction rate. It does not apply to Israelis.

Journalists Fatima Ftouni and Ali Shaib were killed in southern Lebanon after an Israeli airstrike hit their vehicle while reporting. Ftouni, a reporter for Al Mayadeen, was killed alongside her brother, cameraman Mohammed. Shaib, a correspondent for Al Manar, was also killed in the strike.

Tell congress to end the blockade on Cuba! secure.everyaction.com/4NjHQpuiJkiz...

This is the second fatal crash of a US airplane in 14 months. Duffy needs to be fired.

"Donors from China have already given 5,000 “household” solar energy equipment sets for installation at three Cuban clinics and a home for the elderly, Chinese official news agency Xinhua said on Thursday." www.scmp.com/economy/chin...

We must lift the US oil blockade on Cuba. This is economic warfare designed to suffocate an island. Food is spoiling. Water supply is compromised. Healthcare services are disrupted. End the blockade now. Grateful to all those helping deliver humanitarian aid!

My fellow cyclists, our long municipal nightmare is over!

Nothing can undo the harm that the US is inflicting on Venezuela, but it's still great to see some symbolic retribution in the WBC!

Every time Moynihan comes up in some book about NYC’s history, he’s making some absurdly racist claim. Pretty awful that we’ve recently dedicated a train hall to him.

Long live the Cuban Revolution. A tiny island nation 90 miles from the belly of the beast that’s defied the US through nearly seven decades of sanctions, blockades, threats, terrorism—without flinching. A beacon to the rest of the world.

Tarrytown Lighthouse, Sunnyside Manor, Ellis Island, Clearwater Revival, ice skating at Rockefeller Center, Martin Guitar Factory, Les Mis on Broadway…

ICE has killed someone new.

Lord, I’ve seen what you’ve done for others…

Cool project I saw mapping all the free museums in NYC: chxrdata.github.io/Free-NYC-Mus...

This is a little too on the nose

Margot and Anne Frank died in Bergen-Belsen as a typhus epidemic killed 17,000 people

It is still happening. No country is stepping in. Cuba has helped so many movements and people around the world and they are being abandoned to die

My decision to rent an EV for the first time on my upcoming trip is starting to look pretty good.

A great article on rent freeze economics that distinguishes between infrequent cases of genuinely distressed buildings, where operating expenses exceed rental income, and the vast majority of cases where “landlords’ speculative overborrowing” leaves them unable to pay their debts.

Another victory for New Yorkers, and another loss for the Trump regime. This is why we don't comply in advance; when we fight, we win!

NO WAR WITH IRAN! NO TO IMPERIALIST WAR, YES TO THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE IRANIAN PEOPLE! 🌹 Read DSA's statement on the US-Israeli attacks on Iran (1/5)

BREAKING: The death toll from a strike that hit a school in southern Iran has risen to 85 people, an official says on Iranian state TV. Follow AP's live updates for more.

Just read Baldwin’s “Notes of a Native Son”, and this line rattling around my head is now more apt than ever. Maybe my version is less sublime than the original passage, but I think: if Americans cannot stop their government from committing atrocities, who, under heaven can?

“How many of these gentle people have I helped to kill just by paying my taxes?" June Jordan, 1984

🇲🇽 🇨🇦 🇨🇺 Mexican Pres. Claudia Sheinbaum confirmed this morning that the US Supreme Court ruling has removed the tariff threat against Mexico over oil shipments to Cuba. Asked whether exports would resume, she said her gov't is reviewing the development & would share an update. Meanwhile, Canada...

The Ford Pinto had a death rate of 85 people for 10 million cars sold. The Cybertruck hasn't sold 10 million, but the fatality rate so far maths out to 1,452 people killed per 10 million sold. The Cybertruck may be the deadliest road car, for the occupants, ever sold. fuelarc.com/evs/its-offi...

Today, in honour of WEB DuBois's birthday in 1868, the @publicdomainrev.bsky.social features the hand-drawn infographics DuBois made with his students to depict the conditions of African-American life in 1900. Arts-based pedagogy all those years ago! buff.ly/3kdWqRD

Wrote this after our last blizzard a decade ago transpophile.com/2016/01/23/a...

"When it comes to cars blocking the paths of plows, Montreal has no tolerance and tows about 9,000 vehicles during each snowfall. That works out to 30,000-50,000 vehicles each year." The tow trucks blare a siren as the plow approaches and any remaining car will be removed. This is the way.

The US cutting off oil to Cuba is truly one of the most depraved acts it is possible to imagine. Hospitals will close, food production will collapse, people will starve. It is urgent for US citizens, and every sane person, to oppose this barbarism with all their might.

Southernizing MLK is a comfortable story. Examining his participation in northern struggles against racism—rent strikes, school strikes— complicates this history.

The Montreal Canadiens are playing the Minnesota Wild in Minneapolis tonight. The players have been recommended to stay in/eat at the hotel, take the team bus to the arena, and carry passports. Perhaps we shouldn't be hosting the World Cup and the Olympics...

I was on a 5 in the Joralemon Tunnel when this happened, and they actually reversed our train back to Borough Hall. Never seen that happen before. We wound up on the Brooklyn-bound platform of Borough Hall Station.

"MPR News has learned that the police chief in the small southern Minnesota city of St. Peter intervened Thursday afternoon to prevent federal immigration agents from arresting a local resident" who had been observing federal agents. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

I think it's good for right-wing boomers to be reminded that their idols despise them.

🇻🇪 Leaked audio from Venezuelan interim President Delcy Rodríguez revealed that in the minutes following the kidnapping of Maduro, U.S. officials explicitly threatened her life and that of other ranking Chavista figures if they did not cooperate. "The threats began from the very first minute they...

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

ICE just murdered another person in Minneapolis.

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

Been thinking about this again with the further escalations of ICE/DHS thuggery, along with the perpetual discourse that frames this dialectical contradiction as mutually exclusive stances.