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dissatisfied by the New York Times coverage of Zohran Mamdani? great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com

if you see that AI-generated video going around, of some NYPD officer telling an ICE officer what he’s doing is against the law, one straightforward way to tell it’s AI is this will literally never happen

I had a 45 year old rideshare driver tell me recently that he uses AI for therapy. I asked him which one. He said “Grok— I like the voice it uses, the tone doesn’t talk down to me like ChatGPT’s does.” He bragged that he had a 4 hour “therapy session” talking to Grok. Chat, are we cooked?

have to hand it to the federal government of Nigeria for S-tier trolling if nothing else

We're seeing in real time that many people are already in hell in that they carry hell with them wherever they go. Those making fun of people on SNAP are already in hell.

A certain housecat is contemplating stealing my Nutella crepe.

Here’s my my pitch for why you care about your state attorney general. The entire conservative judicial machine *depends* on conservative state attorney generals. John Roberts can’t take a case asking to destroy voting rights if a state attorney generals doesn’t bring it.

There's no question that the @nytimes.com has ACTUALLY openly campaigned against Mamdani. Everyone in the city saw it. Why would they be trusted to report honestly on anything if he wins? The answer is they would not.

If you dress as Oasis for a Halloween party in Bed-Stuy there is an enormous chance that people will assume you’re doing racially uncomfortable Run-D.M.C. cosplay. You live and you learn!

my high school teacher mom is individually raising money to help cover the expense for the kids who are losing SNAP coverage at her school and members of Congress make roughly 2-4 times the income of the average high school teacher in America

I canceled my own "hometown" paper and subscribed to the Inquirer at the beginning of the year. They are covering local and also national news well in my opinion.

Because they couldn’t sell them, they’re giving the ugly ass things to the cops

It's the "old people" part that is perfect.

They hate us for things it wouldn’t even occur to me to notice.

Hakeem Jeffries is so bad at his job that he’s had months to come up with coherent sentences in response to questions about Mamdani and still doesn’t have any

Ok! Educate those young men abt affirmative consent & safer sex. Make abortion & contraception free & available everywhere. Enforce sexual assault laws actually. Create media that cultivates sex positive respect & care for everyone. Get ppl who don’t suck in office. Culture change is possible!!

what else is there to say really

Pantsuit girl boss ad exec, Work from home apparatchik, Skittle haired, Soy faced, Abolitionist Nasally voiced, Soros funded, Adderall dog mom consultants Obese, Hipster trust fund socialist We didn't start the fire

Ezra Klein is out of ideas and he has to keep writing as his job and that must be excruciating...

This still shows that a lot of people in the country don't really know who they need to be mad at in this instance. One party controls ALL OF THE CURRENT LEVERS OF FEDERAL POWER, FOCUS.

I distributed all 150 copies of Megan's "How to Report ICE Philly edition" at Philly Zine Fest yesterday and at least 5 people returned to ask me if it was OK for them to print their own copies to distribute. I responded with an enthusiastic YES - that's the point and I hope everyone does so.

Been thinking a lot lately about the strange affect of billionaires; how unworldly they seem, how lacking in self awareness or interest in others, how their gaze always seems to be looking very far away.

you cannot sit motionless in the heart of these perils, because the boat is rocking like a cradle, and you are pitched one way and the other, without the slightest warning

I look forward to Sliwa's long tenure as the Special Parade Assistant in the Mamdani administration, where he can affirm each and every parade's right to exist

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Eman. Before this she stayed home with her children Nabil, 7, Muhammad, 4 and Taim, 2 and her husband was a barber. Her husband was shot in the foot trying to get aid and Nabil is suffering from severe skin infections from contaminated water.

The Twitter reaction to Zohran is truly insane. You’d think Mohammad Atta was the Democratic nominee

I think about this often and I think it's because Democratic voters expect wonkish, fleshed out policy responses even if they don't understand the policies. GOP voters DO NOT CARE. This is borne out by years of political engagement.

Is Jeffries the future? If yes, then things are going to get bleaker.

So this is an AI-created video. Watch the mouth. This has been pointed out many times and yet the post is still up. I highly recommend blocking people who post this shit and don’t take it down when corrected

That hast by tyranny these many years Wasted our country, slain our citizens, And sent our sons and husbands captivate.

The greater idiot ever scolds the lesser

White europeans literally forced Black Africans into slavery, and depended on the Chinese to build the west of America-- so as to have these groups do the lions share of backbreaking manual labor to build this country. So.. uh... good luck with that, America.

there's about a ten-year arc after a site whose brand was established by its users gets injected with rot spores by its owners under cover of "innovation" et al. in this ten-year arc those users pretend they can will the good old days back into being. we're in year one over here

People in KY seem to like their Dem Governor and he's not throwing everyone under the bus. Why aren't the very serious people flocking to him to ask what his secret is?

NYC, today is the last day of early voting. Go out to vote today and save yourself the stress of Tuesday voting.

Nothing but respect for how fast “Sister Christian” gets to the MOTORIN’ part. Give the people what they want, I say!!!

You know what? All these where's Zohran pop ups of just being a New Yorkers across all communities where New Yorkers gather like Waldo is hella adorable and good politics.

when people respond to Black folks who live in or near Maine by talking about how Platner’s tattoo etc make them feel without any curiosity about why we have the analyses that we do, what’s happening is an actual disregard for learning something about our living conditions, which is racist

Only two more days of racist attacks on Mamdani’s campaign, and then, God willing, it will be time to pivot to corporate media’s steady barrage of racist attacks on his administration! (Being a hopeful realist, here.) (God willing actually he’ll do such a great job that it’ll spark Some Things…)

I find it deeply meaningful every single time I see someone using what they have to support others. I really do. We don't all have $1 million but we can give something by thinking creatively.

What gets me in this video is that people are skeptical: "Is this for real? Is there a catch? Are you rich? Why are you doing this?" And more than anything, this tells you as much about where US society is than anything else... bsky.app/profile/card...

The New York City marathon is the absolute best day of the year here. Everybody goes out on the streets to yell and cheer and ring cow bells for thousands of strangers doing something hard. The most immaculate vibes known to man, absolutely never fails.

Joining a local ICE watch group > posting your 10th Luigi meme in a stranger's mentions

Sometimes my cat gets really hungry but also she won’t eat, and instead meows constantly. Me: Do you want to play? Katya: I’m HUNGRY Me: Do you want to eat? Katya: NO I’M HUNGRY Me: Will you please eat? Katya: MY HUNGER IS DEVOURING ME AND NOTHING WILL SATISFY IT

Explaining the time change to my dog, who lives and dies by the promise of a bowl of kibble at exactly 6 PM.

The weary sun hath made a golden set

I have Voyager on. It's the episode where they all have to go into stasis for a month, and I am so jealous. Sleeping for a month sounds awesome.

Maybe I was lucky as a kid, but my English teacher had us read books about the inhumanity of cruel manual labor conditions (I.E. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair”) Or farming during the Great Depression (The Grapes of Wrath”. ) Theres an ahistorical danger in romanticizing body-crushing labor.

Great, now we are going to have to also deal with Ai generated fanfic about the cops????? Get me off this ride.

oh just inaugurate him already come on

It has been nearly three weeks since I was laid off and not having written anything this long feels weird. I might start blogging again because I can't do any freelance writing unless I donate the money to charity (annoying) or work for free (not happening).

“Is this my first rodeo?” I asked, waking up after getting kicked in the head by my horse

I don‘t know if I agree with Shay Stewart-Bouley‘s (Blackgirlinmaine’s) approach to the Graham Platner situation but as a fellow Black Northern New Englander, I can say that Shay is has absolutely earned the right to be seen as authoritative in her analyses, incl by commentators from elsewhere.

Every dude who looks like this has an “easy” mile pace of 4:34 but will always offer to run with you whenever

I brought this up repeatedly at the journalism conference yesterday organized by the New York Press club, including asking @sulliview.bsky.social about it.

Did the government shutdown include the Commanders??

I love marathon day in NYC because there is something incredible about supporting friends running it, seeing other people support their friends and family run it, and also seeing thousands of people loudly supporting total strangers run it too.

With only a few days to go, this is still my favorite video from Zohran Mamdani's campaign, because it is such a great blend of platform points, informational comedy and genuine heart: youtu.be/-VEuPsobr3Q?...

The gay man who restyles himself as an arrogant bully because he's spent his entire life trying to prove that he's worthy of the company of straight homophobes is a very familiar type to me. I went to college with this one. There are many like him, although, happily, infinitely more who are not.

Mike Johnson is holding the House hostage to normalize his actions and let everyone know that while it’s probably illegal and definitely unconstitutional, he’s able to prevent any member from being sworn in. Johnson will do this again if Democrats somehow take the House back.

The Husband, who regularly does Wallace Shawn impersonations around the house: Imagine Wallace Shawn knocking on your door to talk to you about Zohran in that Wallace Shawn voice

Thinking about singing “Sandstorm” at karaoke as a bit.

This is a photo of a man who divides a bottle of gin between twenty orphans after a hard day of pickpocketing on Tottenham Court Road

This Google-suggested news story I just got hfjdkke it's not even election day yet and Google's like aight I've seen enough

My baby gave me a sweet and half-awake smile after her middle of the night diaper change, even though she’d been fighting me minutes before. I got teary and scooped her up for a kiss, telling her how lucky I am to have her. Then I sat down to give her the rest of her bottle and she farted a lot

Come hither, crack-hemp.

Everyone's supposedly polyamorous these days, but I didn't see even one throuples costume this weekend. Where's your dedication, people?

The economy, unfortunately for all of us, seems like it's going to worsen not improve in the short and medium terms.

I spend way too much time thinking about what world we’d live in if Biden had picked Harris for AG instead of VP

the rest is silence.

Thread from Broadview ICE yesterday

If there were a competent opposition party in this country, the only message we’d get is that a starving, desperate country where your only hope of safety is blind allegiance to a violent, capricious autocrat and prosperity exists for only his inner circle is what GOP governance looks like

Every time I refresh my timeline, Mamdani is live, somewhere else in NYC. There’s only one explanation.

At this point, since our “leaders” have failed to regulate this— I’m envisioning a future where people have to go into no-tech rehab centers to help cope with their emotional dependency on LLMs. Like alcohol and other drugs, some people really might not be able to handle AI responsibly.

Deleting cuz I don't want to relitigate 2020. I don't think Biden wins without the energy and people activated by the movements that emerged. That's all.

Look, reality is fucked right now. My moments of calm sometimes seem a little less thab calm just so you can define calm a bit wider and thus find more of it. You're welcome.

hammerandhope.org/article/trum...

Now I'm just scrolling through videos of this old man proud of his cooking, laughing but hungry as shit

today's first moment of calm...

This is me hearing about this.

This is true but I’d argue that he has always had this fundamental blind spot, as he also consistently underestimated white resistance and backlash to his existence.

Every time I go cheer for other people at the NYC marathon, I remember if I tried to train to run it, I would absolutely hate it, and it is fine to not sign up to run several times a week for two years and then run for five straight hours.

Final shot of Suddenly, Last Summer.

If the fascist can call her "low IQ," then she can point out that he's addle brained.

God some of the anti Black stuff coming out of people around SNAP is so gross

The dog woke up this morning like “It is NOT 8:30 it is 9:30 and the bladder knows so I will NOT be eating breakfast first I will be going out first THANK YOU.” (He’s very expressive.)

the campaign is keeping track of the doors knocked so far today here: www.zohranfornyc.com/marathon And they are still accepting canvassers.

Mamdani at Papi Juice in Brooklyn making me tear up: www.instagram.com/reel/DQishN3...

Around Nantes today with @annvandermeer.bsky.social

Polls can be useful in letting you know what some people think about particular things at a specific point in time. That's really it.

The problem with having AI boyfriends is that these platforms are still programmed by men… the biases are baked in. Deepseek assumed I was a guy for three days.

Honestly this is an impressively diverse list for the heritage foundation, he genuinely seems to hate a lot of different kinds of people instead of the more traditional one or two kinds

I try not to post rage bait but lord people with disordered eating they want to pass on to their children are fueling so much of the MAHA stuff and now they’re moving on to SNAP.

if you wanna help you can Venmo or cash app me — to cover every kid they’d need about $4000 more Venmo @ lexi-McMenamin Cashapp $LexiMcmenamin

One good thing from being trapped on a very crowded uptown 4 train for 70+ minutes today was I held Max for about 40 minutes on my lap, and many people commented on what a good, calm, quiet dog he was being. It made me feel like the years of (tedious) training we've done together have been worth it.

I’ve thought about this a lot. ChatGPT becoming people’s personal diaries now.

Our first line of defense against tires

I can't keep track of everything happening across the world and am not trying to do so. I have limited bandwidth so I am focused deeply on a few things. That's it.

1 hour left in early voting NYC. Get out there if you can.

If we're dissatisfied with how certain publications cover local politics, good thing we live in one of the most saturated media markets in the US. We're spoiled for choice here; Bluesky actually is a referral traffic engine; might as well support good coverage and ignore the bad coverage