The great Neil Young turns 80 tomorrow. To celebrate, we asked 80 artists including Jeff Tweedy, Dave Matthews, Brittany Howard, Michael Stipe, Open Mike Eagle, Jewel, Tom Morello, Kurt Vile, Allison Russell, Matt Berninger, Perfume Genius, A-Trak, and many more about their favorite Neil song:

In a normal democracy, a total collapse of party leadership would result in an no-confidence vote and immediate snap elections to find leaders who can lead

This piece is as good as people say it is. Read it to appreciate that writing isn't just about content, but style. AI can't do this.

The new, vibrant 4K restoration of PARIS, TEXAS with a packed house audience. There are a few transcendent movies for me that are time portals — connective tissue to memories of mine — this was the first time I also meditated on future encounters I‘ll undoubtedly have with the film.

Working Families Party would never

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

Just finished office hours and when I tell you every single student started their meeting by saying how excited they are about Zohran. It’s been a while since I’ve seen them so hopeful. One student said “I needed a win.”

I feel this so much. SO MUCH. FUCK!

It is exhausting

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.

much is made of mamdani's digital strategy, but all of that Posting went to proving that he lived in the real world, appealing to real people about real issues. this dynamic is something to watch as GOP (and center libs tbh) drift into the Posting ether of the X filter bubble

This line is still reverberating for me: “And yet, if tonight teaches us anything, it is that convention has held us back. We have bowed at the altar of caution, and we have paid a mighty price.”

just want to remind everyone again that zohran is the one cis candidate i am aware of that had his platform on trans rights written by trans people. i think that matters

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

gonna keep reposting this part, lol

a SPEECH

good fucking riddance!!!!

Next Week's New Yorker cover, illustration by Edel Rodriguez.

i hear people screaming with joy outside in brooklyn

OVER ONE MILLION AND COUNTING! ❤️💛💙❤️💛💙

JOY

I just howled at the moon. I love our city!!!!!!

On the campaign trail with just a few more hours before history is made You still have time to vote for both of us on the WFP line and be a part of it Let's go!! @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

Who is wise? One who learns from all people. Who is a fool? One who is content with their own limited understanding of the world. (Pirkei Avot, Ethics of our Fathers)

1st wave of poll site visibility shift is off! JFREJers starting their morning in Brooklyn & the UWS talking to voters & encouraging them to elect a candidate dedicated to creating a more affordable NYC for ALL ❤️🗽We have shifts across NYC all day: jfrej.org/field

I'll be phone banking again for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social tonight because I love this city. Join me: volunteer.zohranfornyc.com/phonebanking

And this wicked, racist, bigoted man's career has to end Tuesday night. blacksky.community/profile/did:...

Everyone will benefit from this

WHAT !!! PLOT TWIST !!! ohhhh I am GETTING one

New Yorkers vote today if you haven’t and you get this

PSA NYC there are special Halloween Early Voter Stickers! Let’s bring it home for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Polls are open today until 4pm and 9-5 over the weekend! www.nycvotes.org/how-to-vote/...

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

Just finished up a slot phone banking for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social. Grateful for every opportunity to connect with fellow NYers about the future of our city and what's at stake. Please sign up and help get out the vote! Let's bring this one home! volunteer.zohranfornyc.com/phonebanking

"Politics can be a team sport for building the New York of our dreams. That’s what Zohran is building. That’s what all of us are building." - @bradlander.bsky.social

“Again and again we were told the only way to beat the Republican Party was to become the Republican Party […] and the choice that we made was to stop listening to those experts and to start listening to you” Mamdani is so good at this

Storytelling is essential work.

Cuomo has tried to used Islamophobic & racist remarks to swing NYers at every step of his campaign. As fellow members of a religious minority, we will not stand for these disgusting attacks, & NYC voters clearly aren’t either. At the ❤️ of Zohran’s campaign is his love for his city, our city.

The day after the Chinatown raid, New York AG Tish James launches an online portal for the public to submit photos and videos of ICE activity. "We are committed to reviewing these reports and assessing any violations of law," she writes. Portal ag.ny.gov/federal-acti...

Hey tickets are up for 70mm IMAX screenings of SINNERS the week starting Oct 30th, at least in NYC’s AMC Lincoln Square for sure. Get them immediately if you didn’t get a chance before, every seat will sell out.

the whole article could have just been ten pages of “Brilliant Things Eleanor O’Brien Said,” and some gold was left on the cutting room floor, but this is such a banger of a closer and it’s so very much the theme of today

One of my fave photos from today. Loved that the folks leading the chants were regularly including trans rights. WHEN TRANS RIGHTS ARE UNDER ATTACK, WHAT DO WE DO? STAND UP FIGHT BACK!

Los Angeles came out in droves. #NoKings

An astonishingly large crowd! Chicago

Hello from No Kings Paris

DAMMMMMMMMMMMNNNNNN!

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Mamdani also calls for hiring 1,000 more teachers each year to ensure that NYC class sizes can be reduced, in accordance with a state law that he supported in the Assembly.

Wow. Sidney Reid, the DC woman just found not guilty of assaulting an FBI agent, issues a withering and gutsy statement on Trump through her attorneys. "I feel sorry for the prosecutors really, who must be burdened by Trump's irrational and unfounded hatred for his fellow man." It's a must-read:

Thrilled to have helped produce this one!

“Didn’t we already vote you out?” And before you ask, yes, I was screaming at the TV during ad 🔥