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to call this a crime against humanity is true but inadequate — it’s a crime against all creation

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The one silver lining of the Roberts Court is that it will destroy the credibility of the Supreme Court to such an extent that liberals can no longer believe that it will be our salvation.

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We need more poets in politics

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We're hiring an intern!

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This is such a terrific piece about the nightmarish cynicism of the New York Democratic machine

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“Beware the beast man, for he is the devil's pawn. Alone among God's primates, he kills for sport or lust or greed. Ye, he will murder his brother to possess his brother's land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home and yours. Shun him…” Rod Serling, PotA 1968

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Stage hands working on The Incredible Shrinking Man, 1957

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Reminder to NYC Democratic voters: Early voting ends tomorrow. There is no voting on Monday. Primary day is Tuesday.

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something low key racist about “black people in new york will obviously give a shit about an endorsement from an elderly south carolinian with no connection to the city or its politics”

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JUDGEMENT DAY, originally published in 1953. Comic Code Administrator Judge Charles Murphy rejected this story because the astronaut was Black. William Gaines, EC’s publisher, ran the story anyway. Art by Joe Orlando. 👩🏿‍🚀✨

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This was the Rivoli in NYC. 50 years ago this AM I was in a car with the nervous director of “Jaws” and Albert Brooks heading over there. The director wondered whether there’d be a line. There was. It went around the corner and far beyond. He really hadn’t known this could happen. What a day!

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They’re giving away copies of Kaplan’s Plot??? In this economy??? www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

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every day i think they can’t get any worse. every day i’m wrong.

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One of the greatest songs ever written about racist policing/villainous “law & order” regimes, sung by the man who wrote & recorded it 45 years ago, with backing by child street-corner buskers

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It’s time to vote 🗳️ findmypollsite.vote.nyc

submitted 9 days ago • 36 comments

Do you know where your protest is tomorrow? Find out at nokings.org (click "Attend" for the map and the search function).

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The easiest answer is just rank the 5 people who have the best chance of beating Cuomo, so some order of Mamdani, Lander, A. Adams, Myrie and Stringer.

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There are now more than 2000 #NoKings events scheduled for all 50 states, DC, Puerto Rico, Guam and about a dozen foreign countries. RSVPs are skyrocketing, which is particularly worth noting because a lot of people are very understandably dead set against RSVPing. We will not back down.

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Years ago, I made a tester account for this kind of thing. It is following only @NBA and nothing else. It has never posted or interacted with a single tweet. I just logged on to it. Here’s what the algorithm showed me as I scrolled for 30 seconds.

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In 24 hours or so I’ll be co-moderating the final Democratic debate for comptroller with two giants of the NYC interview, @errollouis.bsky.social and Brian Lehrer. Please take your vote seriously and tune in.

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This, from @rusty.todayintabs.com is the best description of the Trump/Musk fight

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Protests happening everywhere this coming Saturday. This is the big one in NYC.

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Should I eat at the 23rd St. Dallas BBQ “as a joke”?

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[game show announcer voice] who’s ready to vanish into a mysterious fog

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Yet this is life.

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Most political cartoons are terrible but the Richard Scarry homage works.

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Per below, whenever I finish the first draft of a book, the last few hours of work, I put on Purple Rain & Daydream Nation to get me through it. And now…Side One of Purple Rain. See you on the other side!

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This is a harrowing deep-dive on the “shortcomings” of Tesla’s autonomous driving technology — and the fatal accident that has prompted a federal investigation. @bloomberg.com $TSLA www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

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This passage from @michelleyoung.bsky.social’s amazing book THE ART SPY, about foreign Jews being summoned by Nazi-collaborating French police for “status review”—only to be arrested and sent off to internment camps—should sound horrendously fucking familiar to all of us living in Trump’s America.

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P.S. After seven minutes of reasonably careful googling, all I can find are responsible-looking articles from reliable sources suggesting that the em dash accusation is specious nonsense. Is there any indication that anyone who knows what they're talking about thinks that em dashes = AI?

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This is such a perfectly condensed little parable of the horrors of the bullshit machines: a completely ignorant and illiterate shibboleth against standard punctuation, born from nothing and threatening to take over in no time—meme as prion chewing holes in the brains of a generation

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finally reading The Underground Railroad by @colsonwhitehead.com and these two lines in the acknowledgements really stuck out to me

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The second day of #1000wordsofsummer is upon us, featuring a letter from the amazing writer Karen Russell, author most recently of The Antidote! 1000wordsofsummer.substack.com/p/day-2-of-1...

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Israel tells people it's safe to go and get aid from a site Israel itself set up. Then, they kill 31 people and injure 170 who are traveling to that site to get some food. Starve people, tease them with scraps of food, then kill some along the way. It's terrorism.

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Ronnie Cox, Elliott Gould, and Richard Dreyfuss at Chasen's, 1977

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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Derelict, 1982 #artbots #basquiat https://botfrens.com/collections/27/contents/5104

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new loyalty tests for federal workers www.govexec.com/workforce/20...

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Proud of the @bostonglobe.com Summer Reading package that we launched this morning. Created by humans, for humans. 75 books! Something for everyone, I hope. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/30/a...

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My sensations were strange. Let me try to explain them.

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CONCENTRATING them. Into CAMPS.

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KILLER OF SHEEP OUT ON CRITERION TODAY. it was an honor working alongside charles burnett, UCLA film & tv archive, @milestonefilms.bsky.social & others to help bring this cherished film out. purchasing works on home video is a crucial way to support filmmakers: www.criterion.com/films/34233-...

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Calvin Parham, owner/manager/bartender of the Bankside Boon Dock,“on the lower fringes of Brooklyn Heights.” Menu included barbecued ribs, yams, and live jazz. Pictured here in 1973.

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