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These are unspeakably dark and horrific times. Going out today and standing with people who are demanding that this country become better than it is feels so small. But also, and crucially, it feels better than doing nothing.

submitted 1 hour ago • 27 comments

The "I'm worried he hates Jews" whisper campaign against Mamdani is real, including among people who really should know better. I will enthusiastically use my vote to nullify one (1) of those voters. Voting starts tomorrow!

submitted 14 hours ago • 6 comments

I don't think I've ever seen a New York City political ad quite like this one.

submitted 15 hours ago • 25 comments

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

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

They're not mean, and they're not trolls, but I'm going to start blocking the compulsive "Nothing will change, nothing will ever get better" repliers. I get that depression is tough, but you have an ethical responsibility to work hard not to spill it all over people and to find a better way to cope.

submitted 23 hours ago • 9 comments

It will be an unalloyed good for the world when Rupert Murdoch...how to put this politely?...moves into the post-Rupert Murdoch phase of things.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

It took the literal physical assault of a United States Senator to get Democrats on a war footing. Not a moment too soon.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

I'm proud I don't have Andrew Cuomo's record of corruption, scandal and disgrace. And the name is M-A-M-D-A-N-I.

submitted 1 day ago • 566 comments

Democrats in Washington should unite in doing whatever is in their power to bring this government to a screeching halt over this.

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

"I am way too heterosexual to know anything about Broadway musicals, ha ha ha ha ha please laugh" says man sitting in the Kennedy Center and daydreaming about Sweeney Todd.

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

Gavin Newsom just gave a strong speech laying out the stakes for democracy in blunt language that too few powerful Democrats have been willing to use. I know the huge problems with him. But at this awful moment, playing the "Sorry, he's dead to me" game with Democrats seems an unaffordable luxury.

submitted 3 days ago • 67 comments

If these people persist in seeing me as less than human, I will respond in kind. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/u...

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Moran is 65 and his contract was reportedly set to expire on Friday, so whatever this performative toadying by ABC News derives from, it will not buy the network what it hopes to obtain, any more than the $15 million in extortion the network paid to the Trump "foundation" will.

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

I'll be about 30 miles from the nearest protest on Saturday. When I saw Trump's statement, we made driving plans.

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

I'm starting to believe that this result will be determined by turnout, and I give you my blood oath that the Cuomo-rankers in my UWS neighborhood who "liked his father" and have voted in every primary since 1948 will show up to vote. So young(er) people, PLEASE: Do your thing and nullify them!

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments

One thing I've come to believe is that Democratic leaders have to start talking about Republicans the way Republicans talk about Democrats. No more "Our friends on the other side of the aisle" more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger pieties, which everyone hates. Say what they are over and over. It matters.

submitted 4 days ago • 31 comments

oh my god 😆 iykyk (sound on)

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Not sure I believe a poll that has Cuomo at +8 with women and -6 with men, but this is still encouraging. Early voting starts Saturday! Don't rank Cuomo!

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

Jesus Christ! The "distraction" argument has become absolutely pathological. What is happening is real. Human lives are at stake. Democracy is imperiled. Attempting to minimize it as a feint or a maneuver because you want to talk about something else is morally and politically indefensible.

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments

"The Tonys are never going to attract a mainstream audience with content like that" is the pop-culture version of "Democrats need to move to the center to reach real Americans" and should be handled with the same skepticism.

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

[quietest possible voice] don't use your phone for this

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

Well, Cole Escola winning a Tony and thanking someone from Grindr just vaulted into my ten favorite moments in Tony history. Actually, in history.

submitted 5 days ago • 14 comments

If you didn't watch the Tonys pre-show, you missed the announcement of the Gavin Creel Fellowships, to help struggling young actors without means on their arrival in New York City. Text GAVIN to 44321 to support.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

My God, that Hamilton cast. What a number!

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

Fix your mics, Tonys!

submitted 5 days ago • 11 comments

Tonight my husband fulfilled a lifelong dream--to utter the words "getting railed" on the Tonys pre-show. It was for a good cause!

submitted 5 days ago • 13 comments

Learning, alongside so many other gay men today, what Pluto TV is.

submitted 5 days ago • 14 comments

Journalists have to make judgments based on the available evidence all the time--about character, about honesty, about consistency, about motivation. It's disingenuous to pretend that doing so is wildly outside the bounds of a reporter's job, or that "objectivity" means never expressing an opinion.>

submitted 5 days ago • 24 comments

Important to know that the very footage that is appalling all of us--rows of faceless men in riot gear, protestors running, clouds of gas--is what Trump and Miller and the MAGA-sycophant anti-city press have had a collective hard-on for since the campaign. This will be wall-to-wall on Fox all week.>

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

For many decades in mainstream journalism, gay people and lesbians were seen as a "them"--a problem (societal, cultural, moral, municipal, religious) that needed to be solved by an "us" (straight people and publications) I don't mean hateful press--this was the approach of SYMPATHETIC publications.>

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

My deeply researched box office theory for this weekend: If you want to make a ton of money, maybe don't call your hardcore action movie BALLERINA.

submitted 7 days ago • 13 comments