May is NYC Small Business Month, but supporting our neighborhood businesses is a year-round commitment.   Whether you're opening a barbershop, ice cream shop, bodega, or anything in between, NYC SBS is here to support you.   Call the SBS Hotline: 888-SBS-4NYC (888-727-4692)
Visit: nyc.gov/business

context for that, in turn: jacobin.com/2023/09/the-...

New York City, we have no excuse to be bored this summer. The map at Nyc.gov/summer is full of free and affordable stuff to do -- sports, music, arts, movies, video games and more -- in every borough.   The city is your backyard. Get out there and enjoy it.

It’s worth studying the slaughter unleashed by ex Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte. He killed up to 30,000 poor people in a futile attempt to wipe out drugs & his main communications vector was Facebook. Watch Nobel laureate @mariaressa.bsky.social explain how it was used to silence opposition.

EU citizens: Please tell your leaders to stop this despicable "migration deal", protect immigrants and refugees, and not legitimize the Taliban!

We did this at Swarthmore when I was an undergrad there, and I am glad to see other Jewish students doing the same: forward.com/news/824410/...

i think if billionaires wanted to receive more respect and deference from the population at large they wouldn't say shit like this

🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) has allowed Alabama to select a different map for this year’s congressional elections in a stunning, last-minute move to interfere with another state primary election that has already begun. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

DOGE-linked Jennica Pound publicly warned anti-ICE app GTFO ICE would "learn the hard way," and hours later nearly 18,000 users received messages claiming their locations and contacts were forwarded to the FBI, ICE, and Homeland Security. Totally normal data security stuff. 1/2

#OpenAccess from @journalrep.bsky.social - Danish vs. Muslim: (Re)Imagining the Citizen through Terror Law Prosecution - https://cup.org/4cSULg7 - @kerstincarlson.bsky.social#OpenAccess #FirstView

George W. Bush catching up with Michelle Obama iHollered‼️

In Springfield, Ohio, people are preparing in advance of a “large deportation” promised by the president. To all appearances, the city is two or three days from a federal ethnic cleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis.

Last week, we announced a plan to make child care universal. Today, applications are open for pre-K & 3-K. If your child is turning 3 or 4, apply now for the fall at: myschools.nyc

I want to coin another term, "Pyrrhic Productivity." When AI-coding agents promise speed by removing human effort but end up slowing work by breaking the feedback loops that produce understanding and shifting skilled work from doing to specifying and controlling. 1/9

Stemmekøb ér forbudt af straffelovens § 117, men udenlandske stater kan falde udenfor, pga. straffelovens § 12, som vagt henviser til folkeretten. Det er ikke klart om de kun mener diplomater, eller om der er en løs adgang for regeringen til at holde venner fri. #dkpol #dkjura #strafferet #grønland

This, combined with the case before SCOTUS on whether mail-in ballots have to arrive by Election Day (or as in 18 states only have to be ‘postmarked’) can change the results of the midterms.

"Tincher [a US citizen] has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours, where she saw about seven other detainees." www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

What have you found to be the most useful definition of racism? Ruth Wilson Gilmore defines racism as ‘the state-sanctioned or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death.’

New York City, I can see a future with you. And it’s one we can afford. Our new ad just aired during The Golden Bachelor.

Hostility towards #academia and #immigrants is widespread. #Denmark is no exception. Under political and media pressure, earlier this week @roskildeuni.bsky.social decided overnight to close its Master's degree in Business Administration and Leadership (BAL) from 2026. 🧶 1/20

“Samsam was a Danish asset who had been abandoned by the state he served and wrongly convicted.” One of the wildest stories ever published at JiC, by @kerstincarlson.bsky.social How a State Agent Wrongfully Convicted on Terrorism Charges won his case: justiceinconflict.org/2025/09/10/v...

“Every political movement in history, including the most bloodthirsty, has condemned political violence by its opponents. The only real test is whether you also oppose political violence by your allies. This is a test Trump has repeatedly failed.”

i am once again posting this article for no particular reason

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

Good morning! I'm in Uganda to visit family and friends. But depending on your perspective, don't worry or I'm sorry: I'll be back by the end of the month. See you soon, NYC.

"Air strikes left 30 dead at a seaside cafe and gunfire killed 23 others as Palestinians tried to get desperately-needed food, witnesses and health officials said." www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-4...

We know what we have to do to save our city from Andrew Cuomo. We're cross endorsing 🤝 @bradlander.bsky.social

I’m joining the war on woke… on the side of woke, and this is the general I’m serving under. Super inspired by this project!

we went in under a year from the whole world being aghast at israel bombing a hospital and then denying it profusely to israel bombing hospitals as a matter of course and no one saying jack shit

It's a high bar, but this from @radleybalko.bsky.social might be one of the most fucked up things I've read in the new Trump era. For context, this TX lawyer had just had an informal conversation with a family caught up in ICE raids. Seriously. Read this. radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-courag...

This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic www.crabmuseum.org/visit 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

They are trying to murder Rumeysa Ozturk. For writing a fucking op-ed.

Funny how that worked out. interc.pt/43EvQtQ

The U.S is the wealthiest country in the history of the world. We should not have the highest rate of child poverty of nearly every major country on earth. We should have the lowest.   It's time to end this international embarrassment & create an economy that works for all.

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www.zetland.dk/historie/sxG.... What we missed while the US has been taking all the oxygen…

“Knowing fully that this moment transcends my individual circumstances, I hope nonetheless to be free to witness the birth of my first-born child.” inthesetimes.com/article/mahm...

What a treat it was to spend two days in Copenhagen debating the future of human protection in the changing global order. A discussion led by @chiara-defranco.bsky.social and @ligelot.bsky.social with plenty of strong and diverse contributions.

🇨🇩 #DRCongo [opinion] - Is there a role for #InternationalLaw in what’s happening in North Kivu, and more generally in international peace, at a time when #Rwanda is seeking to extend its control in the DRC. By Kerstin Bree Carlson - @kerstincarlson.bsky.social t.co/XFRcFEpFzG

"This is not just about genocide. It is also about legicide – destroying the whole notion of legal limits in war – as well as the mass destruction of the moral lives of soldiers, their souls and consciences." — Rob Howse novaramedia.com/2025/01/02/n...

After almost a decade of thinking, researching and writing... this came in the post today. 🤓 🥂

criticallegalthinking.com/2024/12/12/s... Critiques of violence risk collapsing into reaction celebrations of the existing social order unless they are capable of perceiving and rendering explicit the violence that passes as daily life.

Cathay Pacific apologises over inflight Family Guy episode with Tiananmen Square scene

“Studying itself, being able to focus amid the sound of screaming, bombardment and drones, and the constant feeling of hunger and weakness is nearly impossible.” Nour Elassy writes from Gaza. www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...