Robyn’s latest “Dopamine” is exquisite, composed in a way that’s perfect for remixing—can’t wait to dance to it at the gay bar!

Thanks to @literaryhub.bsky.social for publishing this excerpt from TERRY DACTYL, which takes the form of a frantic list... "Suddenly it felt like so much was going on, even though nothing was going on. But actually, something was going on."💥💫⚡

What joy! Ana Patricia Rodríguez's eagerly awaited new book, Avocado Dreams: Remaking Salvadoran Life and Art in the Washington, D.C. Metro Area, is now available from the University of Arizona Press! 30% off with code AZFLR, uapress.arizona.edu/book/avocado...

can’t do just one: City of God, Gil Cuadros Playing in the Dark, Toni Morrison Disidentifications, José Esteban Muñoz My Brother, Jamaica Kincaid Empire of Signs, Roland Barthes The Women, Hilton Als Tendencies, Eve Sedgwick

Assistant Professor of 20th-21st Century British Literature (with an emphasis on literatures of the diaspora) at UMass Amherst. careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...

Lots going on but from outside it seems that at least part of the calculus was that flight disruption for middle class and up travelers matters more than life disruption for untold numbers who’ll be deprived of health care.

John Fetterman’s memoir comes out on Tuesday, so if the phone calls don’t work you can always tell him how you feel while he’s on book tour.

The man is sleeping during press conferences and meetings. He is going to the hospital and not divulging what's happening. He is continuing to post in unhinged ways. He's 1000% UNFIT to work anywhere. Who would hire an 80 year old man who was displaying this kind of behavior for ANY job at all?

The regime despises poor people, yes. And importantly it does not fear poor people as a political force. It's important to take both of these together to understand what they are doing with SNAP. They do not believe that they will incur lasting political costs for their current actions.

I’ve come to believe that we need to gather considerable forces and a campaign to demand the removal of face masks by ICE, Border Patrol, FBI and police. It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.

Buried in the Big Beautiful Bill were changes to food assistance that demanded “any future change be cost-neutral. Translation: no more benefit increases, even if food prices skyrocket.” The result was “institutionalized hunger.” @kristencrowell.bsky.social www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

so far this year I’ve read 171 books. let’s see if I can read 200 by year’s end.

this was a great week to be a New Yorker

UT Austin is discussing eliminating or consolidating our departments of African American and African Diaspora Studies, Mexican/American and Latino/Latina Studies, and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Here is what AAADS alumni have to say. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

if you are in NYC, go buy one of the last two copies of my book at the Strand. You won’t regret it!

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

Peter Berkery, executive director of @aupresses.bsky.social, with a letter in CHE on unis that close their UPs becoming "free riders" in the scholarly ecosystem--extracting without putting in. (Headline is sort of misleading--the problem is unis not UPs) www.chronicle.com/blogs/letter...

tempted to submit my resume to be on Mamdani’s Arts and Culture team—a dream gig!

saw In Theory, Darling at Strand bookstore! My book’s in the perfect section, too: Gender and Sexuality.

to know I am one amongst those 1 million who turned out for Mamdani, to be one amongst so many who know this city can be better, can be for working people.

need to get my hands on one of these today!😭

a beautiful, sunny morning here in Mamdani’s New York City.

Mamdani: "We believe in standing up for those we love. Whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many Black women that Donald Trump has fired from a federal job ... your struggle is ours too."

Mamdani: “NYC will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants and as of tonight, LED by an immigrant!” 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥

Resign.

Already crying profusely!

I know I am going to UGLY CRY at Mamdani’s speech, I just know it.

The oligarchy came out in full force against Zohran Mamdani's fight for a more affordable NYC. It didn't matter. Let his victory in the face of Big Money serve as a reminder that people have the power.

Votes are still being counted, but it's been called. Congratulations @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social! A big step in the right direction of what's possible. Thank you for helping light another flame of hope in dark a** times. #NYCelection #MyMayor

I am so so happy to say that Zohran Mamdani will be my mayor!

Don't forget that Zohran Mamdani spent his entire campaign standing proudly beside the trans community. He went to trans rights rallies just to show support. He proudly waved trans rights flags without hesitation. He refused to back down in support of trans rights. That makes me happy.

Young people in NYC absolutely showed out and there should be 1000 articles and profiles about this. Because we have had to put up with 1000 MAGA diner stories for years now.

AP calls it for Mamdani!!!

BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani is projected to win the New York City Mayoral election, reports @decisiondeskhq.bsky.social

Zohran!!!

ZOHRAN MAMDANI

Decision Desk has called the New Jersey governors race for Mikie Sherill. Yet another state where millions of dollars in anti trans ads didn't work.

voted for Mamdani & now time to go carouse/spiral at the gay bar until the election results come in…

All day I’ve been wandering & re-experiencing the streets of this city which I have lived in for 15 years. There is so much Zohran energy on the streets. So much faith in each other, so much hope in what this city can be.

the sheer giddiness I felt voting for Zohran Mamdani today!

I don't think people outside of NYC fully see how incredibly RACIST Cuomo's campaign has been. It rivals any of the most racist campaigns of the 20th century. Just racism all the way down.

NYC is going to have the world's biggest media-manufactured crime panic in history the second Mamdani is elected. They aren't even going to wait until he is inaugurated. Whether or not you like the guy, you need to start preparing now for the fire hose of disinformation that is about to activate.

“This is the party right now.”

Mamdani come hang at West Village or Hell’s Kitchen gay bars next, please and thank you!

Hakeem Jeffries is so bad at his job that he’s had months to come up with coherent sentences in response to questions about Mamdani and still doesn’t have any

anytime I see Hakeem Jeffries open his mouth he literally makes himself more & more irrelevant.

grading essays. No AI use detected. The distinctive writing style & grammatical quirks of each student comes through—a delight!

Zohran canvassers came to my door & I EAGERLY told them I’m voting for him on Tuesday.

I'm sure countless people have noted the irony but did any of these folks actually read the novel or remember or know how this novel's plot ends? Same for the "Roaring 20s"....