Words to live by

Still dubious there is any message that would do the trick but this is a definite contender and certainly vastly better than saying “you don’t understand how the Senate works”

Good morning to everyone but especially to Lady Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, whose judgement against Rudy Giuliani for defaming them and turning their lives upside down cannot be pardoned away by the president

SEATTLE!!! We’ve now taken the lead by 91 votes! 🤯 This thing is certainly not over! Over 1,000 ballots have been challenged, so if you haven’t tracked your ballot yet get on it! Our trusty volunteers have been working hard to "cure" ballots so they count! We're so close!

I'm a SNAP recipient... for the last month I was tightening my belt, doing my best to eat cheaper and eating less so I'd have a little left over to help get me through when payments were cut. It was all for nothing. Fuck the dems who supported this.

Pay as you go is neoliberal ideology

We ask how to convert march energy to action? SNCC had busses outside! “walking opposite the Student Union at Pitt..we saw SNCC leaders talking abt civil rights. & we just had to go in there & listen to them. They said, ‘Hey, there are buses outside, & we’re going to Montgomery to march’ So we went”

To “marginally increase taxes on [those] who have benefitted most from the massive value generated by the human system that is New York..to use those revenues to fund programs that will benefit the humans in New York that generated the value” makes him “a dangerous radical” to some. Hero to most.

“What was once a reliable, repeatable pillar of her life was ripped away from her, first because she felt like an outlier among her peers, and then..the powers that be took away her right to be on the team.” The government has “targeted the fundamental social pillars upholding trans lives”. so cruel

Every word of this interview needs reading and rereading

“what happened to Jim?”..[answer is] in the very triumphs that made Watson..unrivaled for “creativity, vision, and brilliance.” His signal achievements, & the way he accomplished them, inflated his belief not only in his genius but also in how to succeed: by [uncritical] listening to his intuition”

💕💕🎉🔥

“Like so many other bits of Times coverage, the whole of the piece is structured as an orchestrated encounter. Some people say this; however, others say this. It’s so offhand you can think you’re gazing through a pane of glass. Only when you stand a little closer…”

If you’re in Boston go see the Dybbuk at the Vilna Shul downtown. Seriously: GO. This production is amazing - by Arlekin theater. If you don’t know it, The Dybbuk is an early 20th century play that is the Jewish source text for the film Corpse Bride and many other works of art

If there are not trials, the agents of this lawless horror will resurface. They always do. Our choice is complicity/consent (even after the fact, if there is an after) OR judgment. There are no other choices. If we say now he is “not my president” then we cannot later just move as if like amnesiacs.

“They came into the building understanding it was a daycare. They did not have a warrant. It is a violation of our rights. It is a violation of these children’s rights. They are terrorizing our community.” Trump’s ICE goons raided a damn daycare.

I love that Mamdani is what the right claimed Obama was: A Muslim socialist born in Africa. The right practically manifested Mamdani into existence.

Lost your keys in a dark alley? Look for them under the lamppost where the light is better

Don’t they ever tire of themselves? NYT: “For Mamdani, Winning Is One Thing. Governing Will Be Quite Another.”

Well I guess somebody can go be Mayor of Staten Island

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I knew this was coming. This is his shtick. He - and those around him - create a parallel world and then break the division between it and the real one. EG., he will get this made up prize and then say: “Did you hear?! They gave me the peace prize.” 🤮🤪

Love every word of this and it is true.

“Fatalism around the grim state of the world is often presented as wisdom by Democratic veterans, but it’s just as often an unwillingness to try if it means potentially failing. Which to be clear, is cowardice.”

Wow. Even Ackman congratulated him! 🤣

“a profound mistake to treat the 2024 presidential election as a referendum on the ideological direction of the United States or as evidence of a realignment or whatever else you happen to have as your hobbyhorse.” These are displacements of politics that declare the work over: a tactic of hegemony

the speech

Mamdani’s speech: “We have bowed at the altar of caution and we have paid the price” “May our only regret be that this day took so long to come” “Let this be the last time I say his name” “Hope is a decision” “No longer is politics something that is done to us. Now it is something we do”

if you didn't follow the VA governor race you didn't know that Earle-Sears ran like a billion anti-trans campaign ads and Spanberger didn't flinch or pull a Newsom. going all-in against trans people is a losing move, especially when the federal government has made harming and killing us a priority.

💯!!

Meet the moment.

Also bigger vote margins = bigger mandate. VOTE!!!

So great to see the humble and humbling! beginning of the campaign paired with a fast forward to where things are now — he put in the work!!

Exit, Voice, and (dis)identification, with M Gessen: “How to Be a Good Citizen When Your Country Does Bad Things”

Shameful to evade accountability. The murder of Stephen Lawrence was in 1993 (I think?). His killers not even sentenced until 20 years later and this? To suffer the loss of your offspring to violence and then be subjected further to the betrayal decades of police surveillance… unacceptable

Reading Arendt is an excellent inoculation against such credulity.

It’s a nightmare

NYT says he is “Still running as Andrew Cuomo” — lands funny when every ad I saw for him failed to mention his name & neglected to show his image. Experience at harassing women, experience at performing toughness while people die, experience at minimizing expectations… NYC: show us another way

Well at least Carney won’t have to apologize again

Groundhog Day.

A walk would do it

Not staying up til 3 this time

Hockey moment has arrived

That was not good. It’s Groundhog Day in Toronto.

NYC should be Argentina: let Trump rule or he will make things hard for the city. The best way to avoid that is to kneel before his new gold/marble toilet, vote for the hack sexist w/ the scary AI campaign who will be first in line for the toilet-kneel and this will totally pacify the officeholder.

No AI! Imagine

“Famously, the author’s rule was only to include atrocities that had actually happened. The Pinochet regime in Chile, the baby-stealing of the Argentine generals, the fear and secrecy behind the iron curtain – all went in…. “

Joining late. Can jays do it tonight?

Master class:

At the same time as they make health care / insurance unaffordable: unconscionable