To be a successful working-class woman of color comes with the territory of erasure. I’m sure the kids will find me the way I found Begum Rokeya among others.

Gotta say, I’m not so confident that you do

That blistering house editorial -- it was not an individual's op-ed -- came despite a vow by the edit page to stop doing endorsements in local elections. I wrote about that a few months ago and was told that the earlier ban suffered from "imprecise" wording. 3/ www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...

I’m not actually trying to tamp down anyone’s hope here, so much as attempting to redirect it. Do not put that hope in any elected official. If you’re feeling it, give it to where it’s safer and more deserved: in the grassroots movements that make left electoral wins possible.

This! Right here! Hell yea! 👏🏻👏🏻🔥🔥🔥

Revolutionary change does not and never will be brought about by “the electorate” acting as such but they *can* do enough to occasionally make reactionaries spend a whole day or two crying and that’s always funny.

Yesterday's election results must not diminish the urgency of grassroots organizing. First, because it is clear that Donald Trump will not leave power voluntarily. But even more importantly, because—as we saw under Biden—the Democrats will not solve any of these problems. Real change is up to us.

The Movement Behind Mamdani: Organizers & Supporters Celebrate Stunning Victory & Repudiation of Trump

Erica Deuso is the first openly transgender person to be elected mayor in Pennsylvania. The longtime Democratic advocate defeated Republican Rich Bryant Tuesday to serve as the next mayor of Downingtown. 🔴 Live election updates: www.inquirer.com/politics/ele...

This NYT story about how Mamdani dealt with the opposition by the city's elites fails to mention one particular elite institution: The NYT editorial page, which last June railed against him as "uniquely unsuited to the city’s challenges... lacks political savvy" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n... 1/

Sure registered "Democrats" won at the ballot box here in NYC, but it was an utter defeat for the Democratic Party establishment. ❌ Republicans ❌ Democrats ✅ Socialists

The question now is will the DNC continue to fixate so much on combating their left that they botch what should be a shoe-in victory for the midterms, and if they do, is the left sufficiently organized to take the reins, either thru a third party red/green coalition or on the convention floor in 28?

Legacy Papers Have Been Weird and Hostile Toward Zohran Mamdani. The New York City mayoral candidate promises radical change that editorial boards don’t want, even if voters do. Read @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/analysis/leg...

"Cheney, 84, picked an appropriate time to die." banger. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

I know that some of you #onhere have access to people with money. Get some of them to invest in Lex and the other staffers laid off from Teen Vogue.

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

Democracy Now! takes a look at a crucial segment of Zohran Mamdani’s base — working class South Asians.

While checking to see if some of these groups were on 🦋, I found this great piece from Sept by @daniarajendra.bsky.social & @rvilkomerson.bsky.social for @inthesetimes.com that hits so many of main narrative beats. Bravo! inthesetimes.com/article/zohr...

4/ Mamdani’s campaign drew on years of infrastructure built by groups like: Democratic Socialists of America Desis Rising Up & Moving CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities Jewish Voice for Peace Jews for Racial & Economic Justice These networks helped power the win.

🎧LEVER TIME: @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is the culmination of a 40-year movement that built NY’s clean elections system giving outsider candidates public money to compete with oligarchs. Now, there’s a push to replicate that system across the country. Search “Lever Time” in your podcast app.

NEW: 12 Mississippi polling places have moved and 4 have been closed ahead of the Nov. 4 legislative special elections, an MFP investigation finds. Counties also have incorrect addresses in the state system for 11 polling places, risking sending some voters to the wrong location.

People on the Open AI Sora slop app are Reaganposting

"The New York Times is an accomplice to the genocide in Gaza... Times editors have told reporters to avoid 'inflammatory terms' like 'genocide,' 'ethnic cleansing,' and 'occupied territory' — and even to avoid saying 'Palestine.'" Read the @wawog.bsky.social dossier here newyorkwarcrimes.com/dossier

If Dems Are Going to Win It Needs to Be “Some Kings” Not No Kings By Ezra Klein

My latest post for the Runrig Journal is, I think, the most concise formulation of what makes @runrig.bsky.social a distinct and much-needed contribution to the technological and food sovereignty movements.

may i present to you, my weekend project

Workers at Upstate apple farm frustrated by owner's refusal to abide by contract thechiefleader.com/stories/work...

Now: Hundreds assembling in the Chicago Loop for a march and rally to demand the National Guard leave town. Folks chanting "Donald Trump you racist clown! You're not welcome in this town!"

If death must come, it can find us in Gaza City – the place where we were raised and where we took our first breaths and our first steps. #eiGazaDispatches

Thx. I talked to them, it was fine. I go to this church whenever I am in this city. As @prisonculture.bsky.social says we have to be in relationship with each other, so that we have soft places to land when we inevitably have conflict or accidentally hurt each other bsky.app/profile/tuck...

Billionaires need as many of us in prison as possible to make sure their precious profits keep going up

In our book we call them a few things: synthetic media extrusion machines spicy autocomplete a racist pile of linear algebra mathy maths stochastic parrots Systematic Approaches to Learning Algorithms and Machine Inferences (or SALAMI, thanks Stefano Quintarelli) thecon.ai

If you told me I could have a great review of my new book from the NYT or from Cory Doctorow, I'd take the latter in a heartbeat pluralistic.net/2025/09/23/o...

Finally Mastodon's terrible "DM" design is having good results. (For those that don't know, Truth Social is a fork of Mastodon from like 5 years ago, with all the activitypub stuff removed)

GOAT is #HIRING a Community Manager to help plan the 2026 Gathering for Open Agricultural Technology, please share! forum.goatech.org/t/job-openin... #jobs #remotework #parttime #freesoftware #opensource #foss #agtech #food #farm #tech #career #eventplanning #conference #communityengagement

"I’m not afraid of the fallout of last week’s news because everything bad that might come out of it was already being planned." open.substack.com/pub/margaret...

We’d be in a much stronger position right now if mainstream Democrats had taken a common sense stand for First Amendment principles instead of piling on undergraduate standing up for Palestine.

The family of Demartravion “Trey” Reed is seeking an independent autopsy following the Delta State University student’s death on Monday, when his body was found hanging in a tree on campus. buff.ly/4tv2FgO

Clay Higgins sent a letter to Bluesky and other social media sites threatening investigations if they don't censor speech critical of Charlie Kirk. They don't even know who Jay is because they addressed her as "gentleman." clayhiggins.house.gov/wp-content/u...

🌈 The 3rd Nyéléni Forum saw the first Assembly of the Gender and Sexual Diversities and Allies take place. Hear from Maggie Cheney from Rock Steady Farm and Paula Gioia from La Via Campesina on the importance of this space. Video 📽️ credit: Real World Radio #Nyeleni2025

Recently there has been a lot of dividing & heated discourse about ActivityPub and AT Protocol. Yesterday at the Social Web CG meeting, I proposed releasing a statement on this discourse, you can read the full statement here: github.com/swicg/genera... #activitypub #atprotocol #atproto #SocialWeb

Me getting polemical about "scalability" 🔥

AI is a net information loss. It extracts more knowledge than it can ever put out b/c it only synthesizes, never creates. The hallucinations are just prompts to feed it more info that only we can produce. Its owners know this. It's how they plan to sell us more crap while they burn the world down.

only you can prevent pants on fire

Transgender studies professor Dr. Susan Stryker tears Gavin Newsom a new one while accepting the Transgender Legacy Award from the California state legislature 🔥🔥🔥 @susanstryker.bsky.social

It’s weird to me that people keep starting new Substacks and still don’t know that Substack is extremely bad news Please get off Substack 😭 www.anildash.com//2024/11/19/...

same guy lmao

I have a PhD in Genome Sciences and 16 years of experience as a science communicator And my job has turned into copying and pasting citations into pubmed to check if they're AI hallucinations How is this increasing efficiency??? Watching the destruction of science makes me want to cry

We’ll be making an announcement soon on our blog, but here’s some new functionality we’re testing out on Mirlo for our upcoming Nashville fundraiser! 🐦‍⬛ nashville.mirlo.space Have you got a project or idea that you'd love to create a Mirlo fundraising page for? #Fundraising #Features #OpenSource