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Director of dramaturgy & new works @ American Conservatory Theater. Co-founder thekilroys.org. Dorkily earnest about multiracial democracy, well-designed public spaces, & the civic function of art. Oakland grown.
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"Tuesday night, Democratic voters said they were ready to move on. That kind of coalition is there for the taking in many places for the politicians who recognize how to build it."

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Brad Lander told NY1 at Mamdani’s party that what Democrats need to decide right now is whether to be “fighters or folders” and yes he should immediately mount a primary challenge to Chuck Schumer

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Congratulations to the 13 brave women who risked their careers and reputations to stand up to Cuomo’s sexual predation

submitted 18 hours ago • 19 comments

♥️

submitted 18 hours ago • 11 comments

If you're about to post something mean about Andrew Cuomo, I urge you to pause, take a deep breath, and think of something even meaner.

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Imagine if the Democratic Party actually helped Zohran instead of trying to kneecap him at every step. A better party is immediately possible if they stop shoving money into the anti-trans combination Racism Dial/Money Toilet and instead get behind candidates people actually want.

submitted 18 hours ago • 199 comments

NY Democratic machine genuinely befuddled after the charismatic, talented person with good ideas defeated the sex pest fuck-up with name recognition

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Zohran: This is not my victory, it is OURS!

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pretty much all of bluesky rn

submitted 18 hours ago • 9 comments

bill clinton you must commit seppuku you old fuck

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a reminder of what Mamdani overcame:

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He's been doing this for YEARS and not in front of cameras. That's why it comes off as authentic because it's true to what he's been doing all along.

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Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal theonion.com/think-t...

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FREAKY TALES: 105 minutes of dope music, happy actors, pop culture debris and Nazis getting their shit rocked. It seems to exist for no reason other than its own delight at doing so. And it made me feel very happy to be alive. I needed this movie today. Thanks, movie.

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Every time I post this picture, he goes up five more points in the polls.

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US Embassy Thailand - All who are applying for an F, M or J nonimmigrant visa must adjust the privacy settings on all of their social media accounts to 'public' for vetting.

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Again this is explicitly the goal. A less educated populace is more easily manipulable. Or, to quote Donald John Trump, “I love the poorly educated.” (Yes he did actually say that.)

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The "big, beautiful bill" weaponizes working-class reliance on debt to finance the college dream with such intensity that not only will it push millions to the financial brink, it will push them out altogether. Whatever schools survive are likely to be populated only by society’s wealthiest.

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I want to buy this home at this price but for it to exist in Oakland can someone help me figure that out?

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People are going to focus on the free speech/ institutional neutrality issues but I want to emphasize here that a paper *cannot* make those arguments with fidelity to the relevant source materials, so this is *not* a case of “academically meritorious but politically unacceptable.” 1/

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There needs to be our version of the Nuremberg trials after this.

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VP Vance just called California Senator Alex Padilla “Jose Padilla” during his press conference in Los Angeles.

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It should but we've been talking for a few years about why it doesn't.

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What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? Food systems are the #2 contributor to climate change, the #1 driver of deforestation, the #1 driver of biodiversity loss on land, and the #1 user of freshwater. (It follows that food systems contain many solutions to these problems.)

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Remember: the Pinkertons were evil. Not just "bad." *Evil*. And Kate Warne never saved Lincoln. The only evidence for the "plot against Lincoln" was in Allan Pinkerton's head. Tell you what: I'll do the Pinkertons thread tomorrow morning.

submitted 8 days ago • 10 comments

Not only does the new VA policy allow doctors to refuse to treat patients. It allows the VA to fire doctors who they dont agree with. 🧪

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A US judge has ordered hundreds of terminated research projects at the US National Institutes of Health to be reinstated, calling the processes that led to their cancellation “bereft of reasoning”. https://go.nature.com/4kOmXDy

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Now that we’ve seen the full Senate text, we can say for certain: either the House or the Senate version would be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history. Each have the largest Medicaid and largest SNAP cuts ever. And each give huge tax cuts to the rich.

submitted 8 days ago • 117 comments

Yum, cancer 🤤

submitted 8 days ago • 75 comments

🧪 ! 🙉 🙈 🙊 pen.org/banned-words...

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The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered. Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again. Their inaction is deadly.

submitted 8 days ago • 747 comments

I see the Senate continues to be the butane torch to the House's trash fire, as our founders so wisely intended.

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She is not “likely dead in the eyes of the law.” She is dead both legally & in the sense her body cannot even perform basic functions like breathing or sustaining a heartbeat without invasive intervention. They are animating a corpse to let cells multiply in it. It is horror worse than Frankenstein.

submitted 8 days ago • 45 comments

again, don't rank cuomo. just the shittiest, pettiest, laziest person.

submitted 9 days ago • 10 comments

The Atlantic should be ashamed of publishing this nightmare piece from Liz Bruenig, whose callous dismissal of Adriana Smith's dignity is one of the most shocking things I've ever read.

submitted 9 days ago • 537 comments

Total anecdata here, but: I routinely saw more Confederate flags in public when I lived in central PA than when I lived in Montgomery, AL. All regions contain multitudes

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

political press is doing a real disservice by basically not reporting the nuances of public opinion on deportations, and creating the appearance that most americans support the stephen miller-style gestapo tactics

submitted 10 days ago • 258 comments

Imagine being this divorced from consequence. I swear to god, once you reach a certain level of wealth, it’s like acquiring a severe perceptual disorder. It can be overcome, but it takes effort and practice.

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one huge problem with institutions like the NYT or the Democratic Party is that most of the people who succeed in these places are overly deferential to authority and wedded their personal success to American exceptionalism and thus can’t see the collapse of the US around them

submitted 9 days ago • 27 comments

So Trump is making ICE a pure weapon of partisan war: a free ride for MAGA corporate farms and donors while using it to create a police state in Democratic cities.

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The Minnesota assassin appears to be a hate-filled right winger. So can we stop walking on eggshells about MAGA's legitimization of political violence? Yes, Republicans have also been the target of inexcusable violence, but this isn't a "both sides" issue. 1/ A🧵on the danger.

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We know things that aren’t online. That’s right, youngsters, not everything is digitally accessible.

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I'm so glad someone clarified/debunked the "3.5% rule." Read on:

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