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Andrew Cuomo’s campaign just posted — and quickly deleted — this AI-generated ad depicting “criminals for Zohran Mamdani.” Features a Black man in a keffiyeh shoplifting, an abuser, a trespasser, a trafficker, a drug dealer, and a drunk driver all declaring support for Mamdani.

Meta *literally just* fired 3600 people earlier this year so they could "focus on AI," and now they're firing *600* of their "AI" people? That does Not sound like a company that knows what the fuck it's doing. www.cnbc.com/2025/10/22/m...

Food shortages in poor communities leads to ppl engaging in survival tactics. The State frames this as senseless crime. They criminalize poor, hungry folks for trying to live. They send in troops and put folks in prisons, lining the pockets of private prison owners. Wash, rinse, repeat.

You tell me it's about class, not race, yet 300,000 Black women, many of whom clawed their way to a higher economic standing, lost their jobs. But on the flipside, the government has been hiring borderline unemployable working class mostly White people to work

lets do this another way... who ISN'T a Nazi?

I surrendered and got a cat

He will demolish the entire White House. Mark my words.

Twenty years ago Nazi tattoos were bad… 15 years ago … Nazi tattoos still bad Yesterday… Nazi tattoos still bad Today … nazi tattoos still bad There is no period of time where Nazi tattoos are good

You will not be surprised to learn that the Society of Architectural Historians is not happy right now. sah.org/2025/10/16/s...

So, Thomas Jefferson's university is planning to re-segregate.

Hold on, lemme check my IG DMs, LinkedIn mail, gmail, multiple discord servers, Discourse, slack workspaces, WhatsApp, Messenger, iMessage, Germ, Session, Matrix, signal, IRC, GitHub issues and PRs, Clickup, and bsky DMs and get back to you

I think that people should genuinely engage in a thought exercise wrt how the party that’s supposed to be in opposition to Republican authoritarianism keeps finding themselves with Fettermans, Sinemas, Liebermans, and potentially but hopefully not The Nazi Tattoo guy while fascists never break rank.

The International Court of Justice just dealt genocidal Israel another major legal blow. Four highlights from its ruling today ⬇️

We’ve had nearly a decade of discourse over the “basket of deplorables.” But nobody has more disdain for Trump voters than Donald Trump.

I don't want your brother in the senate either... see how that works????

Abundance is never a justification for greed. The witch looks around the corner of the now and harvests the hedge for tomorrow's ailments. She has no temptation to take the birds' share, nor the Faery's tithe. The witch's way refuses rapacity. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

Israel returned 195 mutilated Palestinian bodies showing strangulation marks, torture, gunshot wounds to the head, and missing limbs and organs. Israel has been doing this for 30+ years. Read their history of organ theft and trafficking. mondoweiss.net/2025/02/a-br...

It's October and next week the clocks go back as we slowly slide towards the days of shorter light. So we're delighted that next week we'll be launching our Wintering Well Boxes, which are FREE loanable kits containing SAD therapy lamps, activity guides and other resources.

Can you hear the giant sucking sound of those with wealth sucklng up all assets?

Wait you’re saying all the worst internet people are terrible? But more seriously anyone defending a Nazi tattoo should never be taken seriously again

HE HAS A LITERAL NAZI SYMBOL ON HIS BODY AND HAS ALLEGEDLY MADE PRO RAPE COMMENTS, WHAT IS WRONG WITH YALL?!?!

⚡️NEW: 460 Prominent Jewish Figures Call for UN Sanctions on Israel: “We bow our heads in immeasurable sorrow as the evidence accumulates that Israel’s actions will be judged to have met the legal definition of genocide.” Famous Jewish figures, including... Full letter is below ⬇️ 📸 Photo: Haaretz

Fascinating world of ancient #glass! This marvellous blue #Roman glass vessel with a white base and white handles dates back to the 3rd/4th century AD. It was found in an early medieval burial from the 6th century AD. in Hüfingen - already an antique piece at the time. 📷 @almbawue.bsky.social 🏺

After the debate, Zohran Mamdani went to shake Curtis Sliwa’s hand, and then Andrew Cuomo gave both the cold shoulder

People who worship power don't care about accountability or hypocrisy.

This is the ideal female body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

Has anyone else noticed that the amount he is demanding in personal damages from his own DOJ ($230 million) is about what it is costing to build his palace (aka “ballroom”)? The one that is built with “private” funds? Is this a way to get around legal curbs on spending and processes of approval?

Bernie never won Black people with his vision because he always tried to slick talk his way out of actually confronting race & now look at him being an actual Jewish man who thinks supporting Nazis is politically expedient.

People be having long COVID. Hordes of people. I notice in my professional & personal life, the brain fog & the toll it's taken on people's bodies, they're not admitting why they've never been at their best since that last of many COVID infections.

I WAS RIGHT

Goodnight from the Palace of Play amusement arcade, whose manageress is struggling to shutter the premises due to a cohort of art college students all wanting a go on the new Witch-Hunter console. Goodnight from Ethie Hathaway, making new moon intentions. Goodnight from Hookland.

One thing I will say about going back outside post open-heart surgery, so many public spaces are inaccessible. No elevators. Bathrooms in obscure basement locations. No consideration of space needed for wheelchairs, walkers, and other assistance devices. Existing in public shouldn't be a privilege.

NEW — 27 members of Congress press Marco Rubio & Mike Huckabee to free Palestinian-American teen Mohammed Ibrahim from Israeli detention. They also note Israeli settlers killed Mohammed's cousin, Sayfollah, a 20-year-old US citizen, in July — and Israeli authorities haven't arrested anyone for it.

Again, most people in the US like each other! ♥️👍🏿 Most Black people, most Hispanic people, most Asian people, most Indigenous people, and about 48% of White people, like the majority of Americans, and want to enjoy life with them. When you say you "love America," that's who you should mean.

The 27 members pressing the Trump admin to free an American teen from Israeli detention cite a similar case as warning: 17-year-old Palestinian Walid Ahmad, like Mohammed, was detained for months without charges, facing abuse & poor conditions. In March, he collapsed and died.

"My paw paw used to show up to Black college parties and burn a wooden lower case t on their lawns for "time to go home" when they were up too late. Paw paw really cared about education and didn't want them to miss class becauase they stayed up too late partying."

🔴 REPORT | 11 Days After Ceasefire Declaration Only 520 Trucks of Food Have Entered Gaza: WFP 🔑 Gaza Aid Assessment: 🇺🇳 World Food Program says aid deliveries into Gaza are increasing but remain far below target, with just two crossings open. No crossings are open into the famine-hit north, and...

Hey everyone. My mother-in-law, Judy Graham, died quite suddenly on Sunday morning. She was diagnosed with progressive multiple sclerosis at 28, and worked her way up as a journalist, BBC television producer, and health editor. She was truly remarkable.

If you're upset about what Trump's doing to the east wing of the White House, wait till you find out what he's doing to the Constitution.

“But they can grow and change “ okay so how are you helping us survive them and heal Or are we just supposed to accept the carnage, the evidence that these people will switch up given power And the FACT WE GOT A MILLION OTHER OPTIONS

I'm so glad the "ClAss NoT RaCe" wh*te folks are being exposed.

16-year-old Palestinian-American Mohammad Zaher Taysir Ibrahim, detained by Israel since February, has described to his lawyer with Defense for Children International–Palestine the grim, inhumane conditions inside Ofer prison where he is being held. He said dozens of children are packed into...

The Gaza Health Ministry confirmed it received an additional 30 bodies of dead Palestinians handed over by Israel on Wednesday, bringing the total number of bodies received since the ceasefire went into effect earlier this month to 195. Some of the bodies show signs of abuse, beatings...

I think in my own lifetime The Great Gatsby has gone from being thought of as a really great novel to in particular being a sort of gawdy celebration of Jazz Age culture? It's weird. Sort of like how Jane Austen is treated as embodying Regency culture when it's just, like, when she lived?

WUSTL (WashU, Washington University in St Louis) is OUT!! So uhhh, seriously, Vanderbilt is out alone on an island when it comes to private institutions. www.studlife.com/news/2025/10...

Adding him to the list

Both of my brothers were in the military ... and somehow missed out on the Nazi tattoos

Is there a term for what we would call it if someone were permitted to publish a 'Why [Jewish Person] Frightens Muslims Like Me' op-ed?

THIS ISLAMOPHOBIA IS AWFUL

It’s so interesting to see certain white men in media who fretted about and decried Zohran Mamdani’s alleged antisemitism have nothing to say as the Cuomo campaign dials up the racism, Islamophobia hate

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I just don’t think a lot of this stuff should be happening.

Bonus panel here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/dedica... #smbc

🧛 Though it has “fangs,” the tufted deer is an herbivore that feeds on vegetation. Only males sport their signature tusks, which are used in combat over territory and mates. This species is most active at dusk and dawn. Photo: Николай Усик, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

🔴 In the past 24 hours, Gaza’s Health Ministry reported an additional 5 killed (4 of whom were recovered from the rubble) and 4 injured arriving at hospitals. This brings the recorded death toll from the Israeli genocide in Gaza to 68,234 and 170,373 injuries (likely 3-5x higher)

Bigotry is palatable if and only if you are a person that is not affected by said bigotry also and let me be clear.... HELLO??????

🇺🇸 U.S. Expands Extrajudicial Killings to Pacific Waters The U.S. military launched two more strikes on alleged drug-carrying boats in the eastern Pacific, killing at least five people in 48 hours — the eighth and ninth such attacks since September. The operations mark a shift from the Caribbean...

I only even felt the need to address this because the guy in Maine who just got his Nazi tattoo covered, which means It’s Fine Now was perpetuating this stereotype online after allegedly doing totally normal stuff like conducting field studies on Black people back when he used to bartend.

The Nazis believe it is a Nazi symbol

"I'm being cancelled for my skull and cross bones tattoo!" - oh no! You mean your pirate one? "No not that one" - ah, your danger hazard warning sign one? "No not that one either" - huh, then which one? "Oh, you know the one"

Remember when we got mad at. Kellyanne Conway for putting her feet on the sofa?

A poem that's been kicking around my head for a few days

It's Thusday. Let's go to Italy for our eel history! In the 10th C the monastery at Monte Cassino -- home of St. Benedict! -- got a rent of 6,000 eels per year from the town of Terracina, & another 600 eels from other rents. 'Cause the house (of St. Benedict) always wins. 1/2 🗃️🧪

On a cross country train trip. Ended up on a train full of streamers in my sleeper car going back to the east coast from TwitchCon. I am having the time of my life from Los Angeles to NYC. This is like summer camp 😂 I've done cross country on Amtrak several times this WINS

This project is an example of @alexhanna.bsky.social's vision for DAIR, she said she wanted to make researchers organizers and organizers researchers (something to that effect and I believe there's a related quote from someone else).🧵

I think it’s fine when fighting fascism to not include Nazis

Today is Robert Rauschenberg's centenary; a wildly inventive & influential artist, he was born on this day in 1925. To mark the occasion, a thread celebrating his love of animals. First up, Rauschenberg working in the studio with his dog Laika, in about 1968. Laika looking really chill here

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Cuomo is SO BAD at this. So so bad at this.

The firings and SNAP failures are just a reminder that Republicans are willing to let people starve so they can continue to deny people healthcare.

Trump finished the job for Bin Laden.

Again we aren’t fighting fascism fully because a large section of people who should be coordinating it . DO. NOT. WANT . TO They are using Trump and fascism as a triangulation to make sure we do what the want. The accelerationism , the “identity politics” the class only ?

Nigel, we know you ate all the brie last night. We had artist, Luis Egidio Meléndez watching the fridge! The evidence he presented is undeniable. 👍🏛️🍑🧀 #MuseumBums LE Meléndez' "Self portrait with academic drawing", 1746, from the Louvre 😁

Steve Bannon being invited on Newsom’s, a SITTING GOVERNOR’S, podcast and Newsom trying to espouse him having SOME good points is insanity. It is insane.

Stanford is prosecuting 11 pro-Palestine protesters on felony vandalism charges & demanding $300K+ in restitution. Consider signing this petition to drop the charges: actionnetwork.org/forms/suppor... Unsurprising although disgusting to see my alma mater on the wrong side of genocide.

We've been a little quite lately, and that's because we've been beavering away on something very special. We'd like to welcome you inside with our fanny-tastic new Inner Circle patron scheme... www.vaginamuseum.co.uk/patron

LMAO brother this country is cooked. Speaking out against Nazism is now a purity test.

Reading a book currently in preparation for publication I was amazed to find the author retrospectively referring to the US DoD in the 80s as ‘The Department of War’ - is this kind of retrospective naming now expected of historians?

I moved across continents seven times before I was eighteen. three times in middle school. & I was told I was lucky to live this expatriate life. but now I have a kid & I think about what a move to even another state would do to her & I realize my childhood was very traumatic.

I'm working on a set of maps for an edited collection of essays on the history of common spaces and commoning. One thing I love about my job is that I get to learn a lot of new things, as I hand-draw maps for other people's research. This is one of my favorite maps from this collection:

Pieces of paleopoop provide precious proof of past plights plaguing people. 🏺🧪

I know you lying to me!

Korea was their standard bear . It was at every conference … their AI textbooks lasted four months restofworld.org/2025/south-k...

UVA agreed to the "Guidance for Recipients of Federal Funding Regarding Unlawful Discrimination" (link down thread). UVA pays nothing and does not get an outside monitor (unlike Columbia). Critically, this doesn't stop the feds from opening new inquiries. federalinfo.virginia.edu/sites/federa...

The mispronouncing of Mamdani by both these old white men is actually exactly fitting for this moment.

Well said Eimer. The conversation needs to be about male violence against women - with or without immigration there has long been a crisis of gender based violence - against women and children. #speirgorm

This is definitely the kind of comment we should hear more of from players compelled to play against “that country I don’t even want to mention.”

Sinema!!! I remember how many Dems and yes Leftists were SHOCKED and appalled when immigrant students were following her into bathrooms Because she wouldn’t have meetings and wouldn’t take petitions ABOUT IMMIGRATION and we had clocked her racism and were told She’ll change

Drop Site’s Abdel Qader Sabbah reports on Gaza’s olive harvest season: x.com/translatingp...

⚖️ NEW: The International Court of Justice ruled today that Israel must allow UN agencies, including UNRWA, to deliver aid into Gaza, finding that Israel failed to present convincing evidence to support its claim that Hamas had infiltrated UNRWA—and that even if true, such infiltration would not...

I'm tired of people saying "oh obviously the Omelas story is about <something other than how maybe you should reject the imposition of suffering for the greater good>" cos, like, even if you're right and the story is about whatever you say there - it's definitely not obvious, you're just being smug.

A stereotype is not harmless. It’s offered as the justification for hating Black people. They call us violent to justify using violence against us.

Project Esther, the right-wing blueprint to dismantle Palestinian solidarity, is happening. Now. And we’re tracking every move.

The American Democratic Party wants you to believe that the future of this country depends on you embracing Nazism and fascism-lite. That you HAVE to come together with the same people who want you dead. Don’t believe them.

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I’m sorry does that mean Cuomo thinks the women he victimized should just accept what he did as the ‘mature’ thing?

Don’t worry yall will believe it when it’s said by a white person

Sorry, posted wrong comic. Posting something much stupider shortly.