Star Wars, Star Trek, et al. Now seems fantastical that we could last long enough to meet the interplanetaries.

America needs a Christian religious revival

And what did you do today @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social?

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HOLD UP. George Santos is the lead story on the @nytimes.com website on Saturday night? Not the millions of Americans protesting Donald Trump today at 2,700 events in all 50 states? Come on. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/n...

Kremlin TV, as usual, describes things accurately. US media, as usual, gets totally snowed and has no idea what's going on. How's that possible?

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Police just detained two protesters. One dressed as the Statue of the Liberty.

I wrote on Muriel Spark, perfection, and Frances Wilson's excellent new biography for @bookpostusa.bsky.social books.substack.com/p/review-ant...

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion. As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

Too many writers

Preserving Democracy Vigil today (Monday)! Thomas Paine Park in Foley Square NYC. 6-7pm. Today’s speaker will be Norman Siegel, Civil Rights lawyer, considering attempted federalization of National Guards and Indictments of James Comey and Leticia James

And now for the puff piece www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Trump has been illegally bombing boats off the coast of Venezuela. Tim Kaine and Adam Schiff forced a vote on reasserting Congress's role over war powers and ending this reckless warmongering. It failed 48-51. Murkowski and Paul voted yes. Fetterman voted no.

Ted Cruz's attack on JB Pritzker boils down to this: he is a traitor to his oligarchic class. True, but that's something admirable.

Here’s your @nobelprize.bsky.social

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

BREAKING: Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” More billionaires bending the knee.

“Paper, the stuff of ephemera, captures the bond between language and its organic human origin.” In her new Notebook, Book Post editor Ann Kjellberg reflects on the Ephemeralists and their challenge to AI and the erosion of shared cultural life. Read here → books.substack.com/p/notebook-e...

Preserving Democracy Vigil today (Monday)! Thomas Paine Park in Foley Square NYC. 6-7pm. Speakers will be Charles Warren, an environmental lawyer, on Trump Administration efforts to undermine regulation of greenhouse gases, and Norman Siegel, Civil Rights lawyer, with the weekly case overview

100,000+ veterans without citizenship. What a country.

Hakeem Jeffries still refuses to endorse the Democratic Nominee for NYC mayor but has plenty of praise for Eric Adams who, left the party, openly supports Trump, & cut a deal with Trump to disappear the DOJ’s bribery & corruption charges against him. Can’t imagine why the Dem Party has 26% approval🤔

Preserving Democracy Vigil today (Monday)! Thomas Paine Park in Foley Square NYC. 6-7pm

Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a law banning most law enforcement officers from wearing masks during some operations.

March, on the occasion of the UN General Assembly and Climate Week. Saturday, 10-2, Park Ave @46th St #makebillionairespay www.makebillionairespay.us

Did Lander have a mug shot? Did it get released? Is it on a shirt yet?

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Preserving Democracy Vigil today (Monday)! Thomas Paine Park in Foley Square NYC. 6-7pm. Featured speaker Isidro Borges!

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting shouldn’t be going out of business when 25% of the people in that room could give 1% of their net worth to keep it going.

Public service is all about one thing: who do you fight for?  @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social fights for the PEOPLE.  Andrew Cuomo is a selfish POS who only fights for himself and other corrupt elites.  I know whose side I’m on. I’m with the people. I’m with Zohran.

All these Trump letters are so bonkers.

Every time a memoirist is outed for not being honest, people wonder, "Why didn't the publisher fact check?" There are reasons, and I'll discuss them this afternoon with publisher @dougseibold.bsky.social and book critic Ann Kjellberg at @bookpostusa.bsky.social.

Preserving Democracy Vigil tomorrow (Monday)! Thomas Paine Park in Foley Square NYC. 6-7pm. Speakers: Charles Duncan Wright on Michael Beer's book on civil resistance and Norman Siegel, civil rights lawyer, with the weekly legal case overview

Why isn’t the unemployment of Black womens a feminist four alarm fire?

Mamdani: Why should I debate Trump's puppet when I could debate Trump himself? If Trump is serious about this, he should come to New York City. We can have as many debates as he wants about why he is cutting snap benefits for hungry New Yorkers just to fund tax cuts for his billionaire donors

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How it’s done @nadler.house.gov

Preserving Democracy Vigil tomorrow! Thomas Paine Park in Foley Square. 6-7pm. Norman Siegel will give the weekly legal case overview, including the expedited removal, the Maryland deportation standing order, and DC police “takeover“

@jvl.bsky.social The reason people are not in the streets like last time is that that got us here

I've clung to grim belief that 1968 would be darkest year I'd see in US. Horrific assassinations. Real (not show) military occupation in DC. Tet and MyLai. 'Police Riot' in Chicago. Nixon/Agnew. Not so certain any more. Back then 2 parties still functioned. A prez could resign for "good of nation"

White woman puts Mexican flag on her truck to waste ICE’s time.

Not breaking in the NYT — broken earlier by @thecity.nyc and although the Times acknowledges that fact, this article passes itself off otherwise as a reported piece, when it is from start to finish a largely verbatim (quote by quote) but uncredited cut and paste summary of The City’s report.

IDC back in the news! I never understood why it wasn’t more of a mark against Adams…

Over 80 Orthodox rabbis have issued a joint statement urging Israel to confront the widespread starvation in Gaza and to denounce extremist settler violence. Spearheaded by the incredible Rabbi Yosef Blau, unsurprisingly. If you have an Orthodox rav & they haven't signed, ask why not.

“.. Yikes – @EliseStefanik literally got booed off the stage TWICE at an event in her district today. She hasn't hosted a #NY21 town hall in years. Now we know why.” (via Addison Dick)