Two nights ago, I said Trump had been using our troops as pirates in Iran and a Republican got mad. Well… the president just admitted it. He literally bragged about doing piracy.

May I offer you luqaimat? guide.michelin.com/ae-az/en/art...

My biggest conspiracy theory is that telling working class people that engagement in the arts is a middle / upper class thing and to do so makes you a class traitor is a psyop to make them disengaged with themselves and the world and the beauty of being human, so that they accept worse treatment.

Dude learned nothing from the pandemic about zoom staging

It’s the “ill will.”

In the past we had “Jim Crow“ laws. The next phase should be called “John Roberts” laws

Love the Men’s Saloon photo accompaniment

It just hit me that the second side of Ziggy Stardust—which I probably heard first when I was 12?—was the first step in the desuburbanization of my mind.

Every day is dumber than the day before

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I love this story so much. The moral of the story is: Don't start cheering until you cross the finish line. Congrats Joshua Jackson. 👑👏🏾🌱

Hey, Brooklyn! Something to add to your #MayDayStrong plans! @bkindivisible.bsky.social is gonna picket some corporations in the Atlantic Center Plaza area before the NYC May Day event! Check it out and join up! www.mobilize.us/indivisiblen...

Because we have made terrible life choices, @tlecaque.bsky.social and I spent the last couple of days analysing Palantir’s techno-fascist listicle. Our annotated (and intensely annoyed) version is up at @religiondispatches.org now:

Uh, oopsie? “NEVER F**KING GUESS!”

“don’t be evil” my ass (no paywall) www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/u...

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Film you’ve watched more than six times with a gif

I want to live in a country where: - the president isn‘t a fascist - the political media don’t collaborate with fascism - political violence and mass shootings aren’t a regular occurrence - there is a democratic method to depose the head of state if they’re a corrupt, demented pedo

Live music options in NYC, Spring 1976

"Who would you be without us?" Dedicated to the so-called liberal order youtu.be/EdFlJFXPNZU?...

Last month, the City Council passed two bills related to the right to protest. Today, I am letting one go into effect, and vetoing the other. I’d like to take a moment to explain why. As Mayor, I will always make sure the right to protest, prayer and protection are guaranteed for every New Yorker.

This is monstrous. Just profoundly shameful behavior by our government. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/w...

You’d file Meat Loaf under C?

Sunday music: the complete Philip Glass Piano Etudes via UMS. It will stay up till April 28 10 Pianists: Timo Andres Inon Barnatan Janice Carissa Vicky Chow Aaron Diehl Lara Downes Lisa Kaplan Daniela Liebman Christian Sands, and Justin Snyder www.youtube.com/live/e5VUO7a...

This sounds AMAZING. Listen now.

“Surveillance culture: It sucks.” So why do you try to drop a few hundred cookies on me for reading an article you promoted @stereogum.com ?

Silence won't protect you from Donald Trump. So you might as well fight back.

Grijalva to RFK Jr: "You apparently once cut the penis off a roadkill raccoon"

Lincoln Center announced Summer for the City today and globalFEST is proud to present a pan-African triple bill on Saturday August 1: Elida Almeida (Cabo Verde), Sinkane (Sudan/US), and Saha Gnawa (Morocco/US) I’m coming in for it www.lincolncenter.org/series/summe...

I’m sharing first, listening later. Because like Spike Lee films, whether it works fully or not, the ride will be worthwhile. (Also I’m out to dinner)

The American people do not want our tax dollars being sent to Netanyahu’s government that massacres innocent people in Lebanon and Iran, covers up a genocide in Gaza, and drags the US deeper into an illegal war. The days of Congress sending blank checks to the Israeli military are over.

40 Senate Democrats voted for Sen. Sanders’ bill to block arms sales to Israel, a 50% increase in Democratic support from the last Senate vote. But in yet another act of failed leadership, Schumer voted against the bill — along with Blumenthal, Coons, Cortez Masto, Fetterman, Gillibrand, and Rosen.

Eating a beautiful greens , seeds, coriander and citrus salad, slow corked pork and mashed potatoes and Greek wine in an almost empty family restaurant in Gaza, Athens, while the music changes from Coleman Hawkins Smoke Gets in Your Eyes to Gil Scott Heron, Lady Day & John Coltrane.

Do you know Suoi Tien Cultural Theme Park in Ho Cho Minh City, the world's first Buddhist waterslide park? www.atlasobscura.com/places/suoi-... @faineg.bsky.social seems like your kinda place.

Mamdani: When I ran for mayor, I said I was going to tax the rich 
Well, today we're taxing the rich...

After two rounds of reading kneejerk toxic comments in NYT articles, this piece by @thenationalnews.com’s EIC Mina Al-Oraibi in Time rings more like the UAE I live in time.com/article/2026...

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“A Christ-like figure”

The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.

RIP-

Here’s a picture of me as a doctor.

A view from here. On the UAE and the US. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/o...

Here is @aoc.bsky.social thankfully telling everyone exactly what to do to stop a concentration camp from being built where you live. Please take it to heart and take action.

Sadly things don’t change much. John Berger, 2003, in “Let Us Think About Fear” as he talks about how the fear post 9-11 was used to manipulate the public "Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich,” Peter Ustinov the playwright recently observed with succinct clarity.

AI footage in the quote post. However it's a real fact, with real footage available (See my link below). Now people who believed it have a false image of how octopus act, and people who recognise it as AI question a real observed scientific fact. Utter bullshit. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN9B...

Buttigieg: The purpose of transportation is to connect. But there are so many cases where transportation was used to divide We have the phrase "Wrong side of the tracks." That tells you everything you need to know about how a piece of infrastructure can be used as a dividing line

Repost for the later shift. The Berlin '76 show: it was quite the evening.

TBH I always thought Dropkick Murphy were the other kinds of skinheads (if I thought about them at all) and the lyrics of the song could be read a little opening. But the more I read about them after seeing the video the more the respect grows

Would there be interest in a literary journal focused on works from nomadic communities (Mongolian, Tuareg, Romani, etc)?