i think there actually is a new very politically activated group of middle class people right now who oppose fascism in the US and want socialized medicine, humane immigration policies etc, who dont oppose neolib imperialism, who currently overlap re spaces and demands with the anti imperial left

Republicans cut your healthcare to pay for a federal invasion of Minneapolis. ICE isn’t making us safer — it’s terrorizing our communities.

losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?

"what are we going to do with 20,000 ICE agents if we abolish ice" well to start with I think we should all literally spit on them in public for the rest of their lives

In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.

Berlin puppet museum highlights

If the internet still worked like it did in 2017 I’d post “cast Kelli O’Hara as Helen in Death Becomes Her it works if you really think about it you COWARDS”

I lost a job for calling Charlie Kirk a Nazi, but this is cool.

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.

if i had a time machine i would find whoever invented the staged reading and slip ‘em some arsenic

The only way forward is to inflict as much financial AND publicity damage on Disney as possible as swiftly as possible. Cancel streaming subscriptions, boycott products, picket, encourage politicians and entertainment figures to shout about this from the housetops. Demonstrate the cost of cowardice.

Federal immigration agents were seemingly forced to retreat from a roofing job site in Rochester, NY, after being confronted by more than 100 protesters The workers stayed on the roof and agents drove away in a Border Patrol SUV on four flat tires, which had been slashed

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

I need Democratic online types to understand that because of this, Newsom is dead to me. Dead. I'd sooner vote for an actual corpse. There is no hope, none, that he'll win me over, *because he has established he is a bad person*. There's no coming back from this. Take my advice and move the fuck on.

9 Aug 25 -- NYC opens the country’s first city-funded shelter for transgender and gender-nonconforming people experiencing homelessness. Ace’s Place, in Queens, offers 150 beds & is a collaboration btwn the city and an LGBTQ+ nonprofit. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes

A tactical retreat only works when you are building up strength to take a stronger stand later. That's not at all what this, and there's nothing to suggest they actually have plans to stand on principle for something else. What line do they plan to hold, if they are willing to sacrifice children?

there's an actual genre of analysis that acknowledges that for generations people used to buy and sell other humans, aided by a comprehensive system of apartheid that continued for generations later, but nevertheless blames the resurgence of open bigotry on a decade or so of cringe Tumblr posts

Things I have to not think too hard about otherwise I just feel so much rage: such as how my naturalized citizen tax money is going towards ICE locking up immigrants and genocide in Gaza, instead of to Medicaid, NPR, PBS, or the NEA. Our money is going to destroy lives instead of enriching it

With the updated RCV totals just released by the Board of Elections, our campaign has officially earned the most total votes in a primary in New York City history.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

In a June Democratic mayoral primary, Zohran Mamdani received more votes than 22 sitting US Senators received in their most recent general elections.

Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.

it took me a solid five minutes to figure out that the feeling i had upon hearing the concession was Hope

I know the Democratic establishment is cooked and useless but how do you not look at those numbers and recognize you have a huge rising star on your hands

We have gone from the margin of error to the margin of effort. On the day before the election, we stand on the verge of toppling a political dynasty and winning a city we can afford. But we can only do it with you. zohranfornyc.com/gotv

Cuomoworld flying a goddamn “infatada” banner up and down the Hudson on the last day of Early Voting in NYC. Fuck these people bad, man.

The claims that McIver, Padilla, and Lander were committing assault should make you question every other time LEOs claim assault or resisting arrest, if you weren’t already.

As for so many across this country, Bernie Sanders has been the single most influential political figure in my life. As Mayor, I will strive to live up to his example by fighting for the working class every day and hopefully make Brooklyn’s own proud.

"the widely accepted 'germ theory'" come on, do better, you don't have to hint that there might sorta be two sides here Like this: RFK embraces an entirely discredited theory of disease, completely disregarding centuries of medical knowledge

I am so ready to direct a production of Les Mis rn

It will never fail to enrage me that we exist in a ghoulish system that assigns a persons value and right to continue living based off of how much wealth that person can generate for someone else.

This election is in your hands. But only if you’re registered to vote in New York City. The deadline is Saturday. zohranfornyc.com/vote

When you see Cole Escola take the stage to accept an award for an SRO B'way play that has now run for almost a year and sold $50 million in tickets, maybe your first thought, other than delight, should be that "the center" isn't precisely where it was the last time you looked. It does tend to move!

kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes

Sarah Meahl as the Liza body double on the Death Becomes Her Tonys performance is gay history

Zohran Mamdani’s momentum had already made him Andrew Cuomo’s closest competitor in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary competition by the time he had a strong debate showing and then secured AOC’s endorsement. Mamdani is surging at precisely the right moment.

Dave Malloy/Jen Silverman/Sonya Tayeh is sort of my Avengers

Zohran folks, no one at this level

Caryl Churchill “Theatres used to say they couldn’t manage without tobacco sponsorship, but they do. Now it’s time they stopped helping advertise banks that support what Israel is doing to Palestinians," www.thestage.co.uk/news/exclusi...

I want Zohran to win but I’m fully prepared to experience the consequences of a political ally being given this madness rune

Don’t rank Cuomo!

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about MeToo and how the immediate response was “haven’t the men been punished enough already???” when mostly the men not only got off scot-free but continued to harass and persecute their accusers

Marvelous Oz by M Sloth Levine is due for a revival.

We're now 8 points away from sending Andrew Cuomo back to the suburbs.

Let Me Not Be Myself on June 8th at 3pm. Yearn like a werewolf on a rainy full moon before you go watch the Tonys. www.bricktheater.com/event/t4t-fe...

Dear Mr. Clegg I have started a business, selling the contents of your house I knew when I launched I did not have legal access your house Without this access my company will not be profitable Others have told me I have a flawed business model, but I disagree Please advise how I should proceed