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

We're just past 3000 letters now! And I did make good on my promise. I'll be emailing raffle winners tomorrow. Please keep sharing the letter if you live in NYC [after signing one yourself].

A tween-looking young lady is singing Sia’s “Titanium” in the Union Square subway station. She has a good voice but she sounds SO defeated and sad singing it, it’s giving aluminum foil :(

Yeah a Big Mac is like $6.99 or something now

How the fuck was any of it legal lmao

The guy at my local deli makes me “the usual” which is a club sandwich with jerk chicken instead of regular chicken. It would be ironic to throw jerk chicken at ICE but they don’t deserve it.

New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.

Chicago!

In my lectures on the early Greek philosophers this summer, I discussed how scholarship on Ancient Greece is deeply skewed by ideology, because the fantasy of Ancient Greece is a pillar of European racism. Here’s an example from a surprising source: Saussure’s Course in General Linguistics

A green card holder is being indicted for basically having zines in their car. This is incredibly alarming.

I checked and my settings were like this. Mods on this app getting way too excited

Just for context most US bases fly in 100% of their food from the US at enormous expense and on the base the standard currency is the US dollar. Most soldiers on base probably don’t have any euros and would not know how to shop at a German grocery store if they did.

heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.

When I read an article by an Italian scholar I read it with an Italian accent I can’t help myself

Kidnapped* inside a daycare while the children watched *Let’s not dignify this brutality by calling it an “arrest.” This person was hauled off by masked goons with no due process. That’s kidnapping.

There really needs to be a word two grown men can use to refer to each other that isn’t “bro” “dude” or “bud.” “Hi friend!” is just a little too Quaker Oats for me

As much as I love New York I think the US was a healthier place when more cities here had what Henry James calls “society.” I don’t think it’s good for the rest of you to be so obsessed with us simply by default.

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We've found DHS is giving local cops a new facial recognition app to find immigrants. Point camera at face, tells the cop to detain person or not. The app is available on Google's Play Store. Google took down apps that report ICE sightings but now hosts this app www.404media.co/cbp-quietly-...

I am super excited for all the nice bourgeois liberals who called me a sociopath 10 years ago for saying literally exactly this to starting ripping off my brand.

People who think DSA are Communists are in for quite a shock when the real revolution starts ☺️

Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a party in the US people wanted to vote for instead of just the Murder Death Party and the We’ll Murder You 5% Less Party that people vote for every 8 years when they’re sick of being death-murdered

I just called my City Council member! Took 90 seconds.

I want us to be optimistic and hopeful but now that the election is over our job is to hold the mayor accountable and not to be his fans or cheerleaders.

Transgender surgeries for immigrants is a slam dunk policy choice

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“We would prefer for this not to be the case 🥺” lmao gtfoh Whose “electoral dynamics” do you “influence” specifically? Citation needed.

That’s enough internet for today.

No group of USians is content to accept their lot as a divine decree anymore. Whether they think society should be transformed by taxing the rich or by killing half of us, ALL of the old platitudes are broken and useless. People want real change not just a new pig with a different shade of lipstick.

OK so just hypothetically what if I stay until the midterms

New York is alive

I came back to say that it’s really moving to hear a speech that clearly names the people who actually make up New York and isn’t just a cobbled-together appeal to “diversity” or “members of every religion.” We need hope and hope is good. I hope the Mamdani administration lives up to this moment.

California voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly passed Proposition 50 in a race called by the Associated Press before a single ballot was counted—a reflection of decisive support in a victory that significantly boosts Democratic chances of retaking the House of Representatives next year.

Congratulations NYC! Glad I was here long enough to see this happen, and I truly hope tonight lives up to its promise. Gonna log off before the discourse starts good night

Andrew Cuomo to join Harvard’s Institute of Politics

Friends there are 1 MILLION VOTES uncounted in NYC. 1 MILLION - there are going to be fluctuations but the basic fact is that Zohran will be the next Mayor of NYC. You can go to bed if you want now. LOL

The problem is that a 0% score on RT is extremely camp and so it will just be seen as a win and fuel more Ryan Murphy shows. He cannot be stopped, he’s a self-enclosed positive feedback loop of garbage

Had to go back from mustache to beard bc the shittiest straight men have mustaches now. I truly hate the fag hag to douchebag aesthetic pipeline. She hangs with the gays then goes home and styles her idiot boyfriend like us but she can’t tell him where she got the idea or he’ll freak out.

Wait wait I completely missed this race and the fact that the Republican candidate is one letter away from being a serial killer from Twin Peaks 😭

🤩 #octopia

Not a lot of folks are talking about it this way but I think that, now that we’ve all lost faith in national electoral politics, the NYC mayor’s race will tell us if there’s even any point in local electoral political.

This is really bad.

That was the day I finally understood Tina Turner’s “We Don’t Need Another Hero” 😞

Holy shit I just took a quick look and she’s 100% off her rocker. Truly rotted.

I cannot concentrate today.

These are truly the weakest and most pathetic men in human history