In 1855 Elizabeth Jennings Graham brought a suit that initiated the desegregation of NYC transit. Raised by politically active parents (her was mother formerly enslaved, her entrepreneur father was awarded a patent in 1821) Ms. Graham was a teacher, organist, & kindergarten founder.

I'm babysitting two cats and a dog this week, and I'm going to spam enough of their photos to be everyone's problem.

Page One in Cincinnati: “.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.” #ICE

“Moi?" (American Red Squirrel) 🌿

For the last 24 years, the overall rate of maternal mortality has remained steadily high in New York City, and extreme disparities between racial groups persist, according to health department (DOH) data.

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c'mon, mamdani! we need your administration to fix this, too.

Founders on LinkedIn still seem to be struggling with the difference between telling people about their humble beginnings and admitting to straight up committing fraud.

Snowy Egret next to San Francisco Bay Trail. Emeryville, California. #birds #nature #eastcoastkin

Thanks Charlotte & Zach from ROCC NYC for the incredible work they are doing with Ibrahima and so many other remarkable young people. Really giving me hope in the future of our city.

Tonight, Albanian New Yorkers joined us in the People's House to celebrate Albanian Independence Day and their immense contributions to our city and country! 🇦🇱

Done and amplified! If folks need some language, here’s what I wrote

Our Executive Director, Ben Furnas, has been appointed to Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's Transition Committee on Transportation, Climate, & Infrastructure!

Related: arXiv is currently hiring an Engineering Director to guide these funds: blog.arxiv.org/2025/11/24/w...

So very proud of my Brooklyn College colleague Alex Vitale who is an renown expert in policing with his scholarship and especially his famous book:

This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...

BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling. 🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states. This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺

A fabulous pre-code gag from "Wonder Bar" (1934)

Trying to get 50 more people to send a letter to your City Council member in NYC demanding that they increase and stabilize public library funding. actionnetwork.org/letters/city...

full list of appointees here!

All the independent journalists out there need to save this opinion. It gives you a road map on how to handle denied or ignored FOIA requests if you don’t have access to a legal department to do it for you.

Brandolini’s law: “The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandol...

(By way of reference, this is AOC’s door)

Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw. The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.

Here’s the plaque at West Point with the relevant text highlighted

winterizing (in case i actually leave the house at any point) thanks for the merch, @cola.baby ! good to wear our hearts on our sleeves. the new virtue signaling.

Also these get less excitement usually but I also have a whole bunch of plushie friends up for adoption, most of which are baby-safe (no plastic parts) and all of which have a lifetime stuffie repair guarantee just in case ☺️ measuredandslow.studio/shop?categor...

Malicious failure to provide livable conditions is often an attempt to get rid of tenants so the building/land can be sold to developers. This makes me think even more that the owner called ICE on the tenants.

Good news! We open sourced the Pebble mobile app today -> github.com/coredevices/mobileapp Now all the software that powers your new Pebble is 100% open source. Read the full scoop on my blog ericmigi.com/blog/pebble-...

The Department of English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro invites applications for an assistant professor position in creative writing (poetry), to begin August 1, 2026. For more information and to apply, visit buff.ly/YXi1Y4L, click on “Faculty,” and select position #1460

NEW — ABC is bringing its “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” to Chicago for the first time — and Chance the Rapper is co-hosting live from Navy Pier. thetriibe.com/2025/11/chan...

In the running for "Overreaction of the Year Award," CEO Brian Niccol has barricaded his office to avoid striking baristas getting anywhere near him. No matter. We'll be waiting right out front when you're ready to talk, Brian!

Four Legal Aid Society leaders — Twyla Carter, Adriene Holder, Meghna Philip & Alice Fontier — have been appointed to Mayor-Elect Mamdani’s transition team, bringing vital insight on housing & the criminal legal system for New Yorkers. https://legalaidnyc.org/news/mamdani-transition-team/

An absolutely unbelievable TD from Jameis Winston and that Lions defender is catching hell in film study this week

Our Executive Director @AnnemarieGray.bsky.social on joining @ZohranKMamdani.bsky.social's transition: "Bringing down the cost of living, especially the soaring cost of rent for working New Yorkers, has been the core of your campaign and the heart of my career in housing."

The energy transition happens often in unlikely places at unprecedented rates. Take Nepal: Over the past year, electric vehicles accounted for 76 percent of all passenger vehicles and half of the light commercial vehicles sold in Nepal. Five years ago, that number was essentially zero.

nyc should have chair charging! and e-bike, obv.

Moments ago: tenants of the South Shore apartment building that federal immigration agents raided at the end of September held a presser to announce they're forming a tenants union. They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration. More updates TK.

BREAKING: Judge rules Lindsey Halligan's appointment was not valid, thus, she had no authority to present the James Comey or Letitia James indictments and the indictments are dismissed without prejudice.

Imagine all the crime you could get away with right now if you were a ham sandwich

Wow! @lollardfish.bsky.social & @profgabriele.com going all in on a new study using pollen to document biodiversity at & around the Abbey of St Gall in the Carolingian Age. buttondown.com/ModernMediev... #MedievalSky #interdisciplinarity

THIS THURSDAY ON TGS: I’m joined by David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social to get justice for Laura 700 years after this weirdo first wrote a poem about her.

What’s fascinating is that in trying to find this article, my Google search yielded two seemingly-identical articles written two years apart from IFS: Do they just have an annual “won’t anyone please think of the childless men” article?

Incredible reporting on the 1930s-style union-busting going on at Starbucks, including Schulz’s personal complicity and the company’s SHOCK, SHOCK I TELL YOU that $15.25/hr part-time with hours kept just under the threshold for benefits isn’t enough to satisfy some “partners”

Uh…. Was this his Dirty Dancing interview reel? I’m calling it an official prequel

🥗 Volunteer at our Food Pantry! Are you looking for ways to give back to immigrant communities in NYC? Our team is currently looking for bilingual volunteers to help staff our weekly food pantry in our Brooklyn and Queens locations! Submit your application to bit.ly/MRNYVolunteer

there will eventually be a new Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue. in the meantime, they've got just 3000 manuscripts available, view-only, no download. *sigh*

Some more footage of the ride over to Queen’s Park: Loved seeing everybody pass by the “You save this bike lane” banners by @cycletoronto.bsky.social

BREAKING: For years, directly impacted people, advocates and experts have raised the alarm on the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision's (DOCCS) culture of violence. With @nytimes.com, we just made public two decades of DOCCS officer misconduct + disciplinary records: