District 3 is my home and I would be proud to serve it in City Council. Stay tuned for more.

The whole world is NOT cowed by Trump. With the same courage as they took w Israel at the ICJ, South Africa condemns the US: "unlawful, unilateral force of this nature undermines the stability of the international order & the principle of equality among nations" businesstech.co.za/news/governm...

It is kind of wild living in the United States after rap went mainstream, while having a working memory of what it was like before that. Doubly so because while a lot of vernacular like “baby mama” was popularized, the stigma attached to the communities closely identified with it remains.

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

Mayor Festivus

I unfollow anyone who posts “AI.” It is theft, ugly and unhelpful, *especially* “just this one thing that’s funny.” I unsubscribe from any publication or writer who uses it and will never read or cite any scholar who uses it to make graphs or visuals.

Porn and erotica are important and societally valuable forms of speech, and the defense of them, in the face of state and church attempts at repression, is a necessary political act.

On the Athens metro for morning rush (unusual for me) and half the commuters are masked. Something I love about this city: almost every eating occasion is outside, and many people still wear masks on the subway.

The president cannot send U.S. forces into another country and seize its leader WITH Congressional authorization either, ffs!!! Enough imperial thinking!!!

today is the 10 year anniversary of me and @samtlevin.bsky.social starting at @us.theguardian.com aka the most important double hiring of half-Chinese/half-Jewish Bay Area alt-weekly staff writers in journalistic history

The whole world is NOT cowed by Trump. With the same courage as they took w Israel at the ICJ, South Africa condemns the US: "unlawful, unilateral force of this nature undermines the stability of the international order & the principle of equality among nations" businesstech.co.za/news/governm...

On March 14, 2021 Biden nominated Neera Tanden to lead the budget office @brian-goldstone.bsky.social & I left the Democratic Party. I joined the DSA. 5 years later, Brian is a leading voice on the housing crisis & DSA has taken over the biggest city govt in America www.reuters.com/world/us/bid...

Michael Charney, ¡Presente! With sadness, we share the news that Michael Charney died on Friday. He was a passionate educator, political strategist, and labor organizer. Charney, and his wife C. J. Prentiss, played a big role with ZEP for many years. Read ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/michael...

As head of a few federal agencies and Viceroy of a would-be colony, Rubio is having a very 18th-century, Victorian-British-Empire-era career

Tonight’s viewing, for something I am working on: the original 1966 version, not the Tarantino adaptation—available for free on YouTube! youtu.be/D6L7DY75Lu8?...

Always listen to Naomi Klein. Also, I ak reminded of seeing Francesca Albanese in South Africa and her rightful fear abt how the US has dominated so much of the Middle East & Africa. It’s trying to dominate Latin America, too.

The weak response from Can, EU and UN to Trump's flagrant crimes in Venezuela is striking. It exposes that much of the world has been cowed. Most notable exception: the Latin American left. That is why the Trump Admin has gone to enormous lengths to defeat the left across the continent. 1/3

I cannot recommend this story enough...free gift link via @ajbauer.bsky.social. It's not often I geek out on craft, but this is an excellently written story, and funny, which reveals a lot of important information about US/Greek/EU/China politics, sexual politics & my home (??) city of Athens

She is…not very liked by Americans or Greeks www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/w...

it certainly does not mean I secretly like the roaches and want them to carry on infesting my house if I were happy with the roaches infesting my house I wouldn’t be mad at my shitty exterminator

if I hire an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he instead presents me with a list of reasons he is incapable of doing so while asking for more money so that he can maybe handle it later, I am not angrier at the roaches, I am in the market for a better exterminator

This is very well said

the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches

as I find myself asking over and over again these days: "how is this legal?" followed quickly by: "who the fuck is going to stop them, though?"

For no reason, no reason at all, sharing a photo of my dad, circa 1985, holding a sign saying “SALVADORAN WOMEN & CHILDREN RAPED, TORTURED & MURDERED WITH US MILITARY AID”

Again: Ta-Nehisi Coates was not wrong - people who do not draw a line at genocide, will not draw a line at democracy. They are extremists by their nature.

The average child sexual predator looks like the average, church-going husband or father—the very person many faith communities think is safest and most worthy of significant power over others.

[atomic bomb falls on tuesday, begins nuclear winter which will wipe out humanity] “this is just a wag the dog distraction from the 5th anniversary of january 6!!!!”

Miami DSA joined our US Hands Off Venezuela Coalition comrades last night to say NO WAR ON VENEZUELA and to REJECT THIS LATEST ACT OF AGGRESSION! Now is the time to stand up to American imperialism — no new US war on Venezuela!

Did you know Sarah Marshall @yourewrongabout.bsky.social has made a 16-part @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social podcast called “The Devil You Know” about the satanic panic? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

trump and bush are the bad cops in the "bad cop, good cop" routine of western governance. a lot of people are pretending like the good cop who leaves the room while the bad cop beats the shit out of you is someone not in on the routine, that it's not in his interest for the bad cop to beat you up

Even from Tokyo the message from the people is the same....FREE FREE PALESTINE ありがとう日本

The casual way so many USians feel they have a right to an opinion about who runs another country (“I don’t like Maduro, but”)—in the congress, in the press, just amongst random dipshits—shows how imperial our mindset is. What happened in Venezuela is all our failure & all of our responsibility

He can’t ever be president—thus, he acts more courageously (more “presidential,” if you will) than cowards who imagine they can lithub.com/why-its-a-go...

They killed 21 members of his family in a single strike. As a medical student, he had to step in to do things no one should ever have to do. But finally, at Al Shifa hospital, he became Dr. Ezz Lulu. www.instagram.com/reel/DTENmdH...

donkey meat and cracker pie

I always do this for friends’ and colleagues’ books. When I lived in America, I’d have a shelf of brand new books to give away. Then, when I was going to a birthday party, I’d just go to the shelf and pick out a gift from a friend for a friend :-)

Tonight’s viewing: “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,” a 2003 Irish-Venezuelan documentary aimed at American viewers about the 2002 abduction of Pres. Hugo Chavez. Tom Brokaw sounds like he could be broadcasting TODAY. Free on YouTube youtu.be/iH5nzZU0qCc?...

words from lexi alexander, who had been suspended from this platform for being palestinian

Congratulations to THE Kathleen Chalfant, who just won Best Actress from the National Society of Film Critics in my favorite American movie of the year, Familiar Touch

HELL FUCKING YEAH!!!!

I have a hard time thinking of this as a “Trump operation” when the entire United States power structure—business, the courts, the legislature, the news media, the major political parties, the capitalists and the electorate—have made Trump president. Twice. (And failed to impeach. Twice.)

be that bitch

okay i am sorry to be that bitch but the one word you can't use to describe this is "unprecedented."

A lot of people forget how in 2004 the Bush regime kidnapped the democratically elected President of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and dumped him in Africa.

List of demonstrations around the country here: www.answercoalition.org/venezuela

wild to see every news outlet use the term "capture" to describe what happened. we're not at war with venezuela! this is *objectively* an illegal kidnapping of a sovereign country's leader

Not trying to be a troll, but isn’t part of the crisis here that such actions are not war crimes under U.S. law because of decades of bipartisan renewal of the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) which allows a POTUS to kill like this withOUT having to go to congress 1st? Our 9/11 legacy?

this is the hardest I have laughed in years