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Jesus Christ, Bill de Blasio is cooking here. nymag.com/intelligence...

submitted 2 hours ago • 24 comments

Huh, that’s weird, I just developed a policy that says I don’t have to pay federal income tax, I’ll be sure to tell that to the IRS when they show up

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

bars. someone set this to music

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

This is a really hard concept for Westerners to grasp, but here goes; Disliking someones government is not a valid excuse to blow up their hospitals, starve their people, bomb their wedding parties and burn their kids alive

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

I am watching Sen. Alex Padilla talk on the Senate floor about being assaulted last week, as I watch New York City controller Brad Lander get assaulted at immigration court. In between reports on the two MN Democrats shot, one murdered, last weekend. But both sides, people, both sides.

submitted 3 days ago • 45 comments

you cannot just vote this kinda fascism away, folks.

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

“Since you have no authority to arrest US citizens, where are you taking me? And with what authority?” Actual NYC democrat primary mayoral candidate @bradlander.bsky.social has been detained by ICE.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

what is it called when people who aren't cops and don't have a warrant drag you away, because I don't think "arrest" is the word

submitted 3 days ago • 60 comments

ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds. He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings. He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights. This is political intimidation.

submitted 3 days ago • 1169 comments

NYC Comptroller Brad Lander was just arrested by Trump’s ICE agents because he asked to see a judicial warrant. This is fascism and all New Yorkers must speak in one voice. Release him now.

submitted 3 days ago • 152 comments

Lander just got detained by federal agents as he tried to escort a man out of the courtroom. Lander was taken in an elevator with masked agents, along with one member of his NYPD security detail.

submitted 3 days ago • 123 comments

more than 8,000 journalists have been laid off since 2022. That's 9% of the industry.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

A lot of responses I get about ChatGPT and similar products is that they’re probably smarter/better than the average person. This kind of thinking is extremely disturbing to me. It’s the exact kind of anti-human rhetoric the AI companies want to encourage. Eugenics-style thinking

submitted 3 days ago • 23 comments

A decade later I still don't understand how the response to stuff like this isn't "What the hell is wrong with you?"

submitted 3 days ago • 101 comments

"Things might be tough but it's great for artists! They'll create more!" You might not believe me but going through a lifetime's worth of stress Every Single Week for years and years- is actually not the optimal set of circumstances that inspires artists to create

submitted 146 days ago • 303 comments

I asked Zohran what he thought about the NYT saying the subways are scary. He talked up his plans to put mental health teams out on the trains. But also said he rides the subway every day. Very diplomatic.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

submitted 9 days ago • 597 comments

"Dems are not capitalizing on Trump’s failures and retreats now that the public has soured on his sadistic immigration-enforcement priorities." There are a few exceptions here (Gavin Newsom especially) but that from @brianbeutler.bsky.social is correct: www.offmessage.net/p/why-democr...

submitted 4 days ago • 50 comments

only just getting to this Erika de Casier record and it’s a doozy. banger after banger tidal.com/browse/album...

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Nonviolent mass protests only work if they are sustained and not just one off every three months. If you actually want your nonviolent movement to work, you can’t go back to work on Monday. You actually have to sustain the protest for months or until you oust the fascist leader.

submitted 4 days ago • 33 comments

It will forever anger me that so many NY State Democratic leaders are backing a known sexual predator to lead New York City just to protect Big Money and corporate greed — and then will continue saying they will “fight for women.” Don’t rank Cuomo.

submitted 5 days ago • 137 comments

the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president

submitted 5 days ago • 218 comments

One thing that stood out really powerfully in last night's mayoral debate is that Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander both operate from the premise that New York City is a wonderful and beautiful and precious place. Andrew Cuomo does not.

submitted 7 days ago • 46 comments

this is the other part of it, like why would anyone want a leader who actively despises the place he wants to lead. We already have a great example of what happens when you do that

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

“What if we wrote about events in Trump’s America in the way that Western media describe African and Middle Eastern countries?” Compelling read, Prem. Your article is chilling. And accurate.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

BREAKING: Mamdani and Lander will cross-endorse. The partnership, which is being announced one day before early voting begins, would effectively turn Mamdani and Lander into something of a joint entry. They hope that one of them will eventually accumulate many of the other’s votes as a result.

submitted 7 days ago • 27 comments

Fun fact: in the 1960s, Civil Rights protestors were given literal classes on nonviolent protest; they didn't all just spontaneously know what to do. So, if you're planning on showing up, this weekend: read this comic. And if you're staying home, signal-boost it/link it around.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Chuck Schumer, it’s time to shut it down. Whatever imaginary red line you had, it was crossed when they indicted a Congressperson. It was crossed when they deployed marines to Los Angeles. It was crossed when they handcuffed a Senator. It’s time to shut it the fuck down.

submitted 8 days ago • 34 comments

In the past week, a union leader has been arrested, a U.S. Rep charged with a crime, a U.S. Senator violently handcuffed, and reporters shot with rubber bullets and detained. There is no ambiguity. This is a regime operating as an authoritarian. Americans who believe in liberty must oppose it.

submitted 8 days ago • 392 comments

If they can do this to a US senator, what will they do to you?

submitted 8 days ago • 29 comments

NONE OF THIS IS NORMAL. Thank you Senator Padilla for defending your constituents and showing exactly what Kristi Noem and this administration stand for.

submitted 8 days ago • 95 comments

Everyone I knew who covered disinformation got laid off, their bosses got bullied into firing them, or they changed their beats from actual Nazi harassment campaigns. It cannot be stressed the damage the paid-for Substack “free speech” guys did in the service of fascism and against real free speech.

submitted 8 days ago • 105 comments

dude this party is such an echo chamber. it's just friends hanging out and chilling and having a good time. you need to invite some people over who want to kill you with hammers

submitted 9 days ago • 392 comments

I mean Ursula le Guin published the first Earthsea book in like 1968 or something

submitted 9 days ago • 14 comments

It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence. They are in charge.

submitted 9 days ago • 504 comments

You have no obligation to defend or explain the behavior of random street protesters. We have a lawless government that is flagrantly violating its legal, moral, even philosophical obligations to us. Everything else is secondary

submitted 9 days ago • 50 comments