flaneuse

there are two types of people in this world: people who are rooting for Alysa Liu, and my enemies

Ramadan Mubarak

OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit

Williamsburg Changes, But Toñita Still Reigns - Hell Gate For 50 years, Maria Antonia "Toñita" Cay has overseen the Caribbean Social Club in Williamsburg. It's now the last Puerto Rican social club in Brooklyn.

Eagle-eyed watchers of Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show would have spied Toñita, the queen of Los Sures, AKA Williamsburg.

Read all about Maria Antonia “Toñita” Cay here: hellgatenyc.com/williamsburg...

Commenting on energy injustice is now the floor for any halftime act.

AIPAC might have just inadvertently and single handedly tanked a pro Israel candidate and sent a woman to Congress who says Palestine is the victim of a genocide

I’m actually quite moved by how swiftly she pivots away from her own grief and trauma - real and justified though it is - to remind us not to take our eyes off the women who were assaulted

"stepping down from their positions after leadership blocked a report that deems Israel’s denial of Palestinian refugees’ right of return a “crime against humanity.”"

You have to remember that Politico is owned by Axel Springer, which has an explicitly pro-Israel mission. Even their decent local reporting is steeped in the bullshit. It got too much and I ended up unsubscribing, but I’ll still read articles occasionally with filtering eyes.

Official concedes 8-year-old who died in U.S. custody could have been saved as devastated family recalls final days The parents of 8-year-old Anadith Danay Reyes Alvarez told CBS News that their daughter died in Border Patrol custody because of negligence and discrimination.

Children are dying in the US concentration camps

www.cbsnews.com/news/anadith...

Alex Pretti remembered by health care workers at a Minneapolis vigil as a ‘stand-up guy’ Health care workers brought flowers and wreaths, lit candles, and draped stethoscopes over a wooden cross as a makeshift memorial to nurse Alex Pretti.

A hard but important read from @mmolteni.bsky.social about Alex Pretti, the ICU nurse who was shot by federal agents in Minneapolis

www.statnews.com/2026/01/26/a...

“We are heartbroken but also very angry.    Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the hero term lightly. However his last thought and act was to protect a woman.    The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He has his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down all while being pepper sprayed.    Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you”

Statement from Alex Pretti’s family.

“Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man.”

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

“.. He cared about people deeply ..,” said Michael Pretti, Alex’s father. “He thought it was terrible, you know, kidnapping children, just grabbing people off the street. He cared about those people, and he knew it was wrong ..”

@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/national/202...

Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."

Beyond the obvious need for tribunals for the crimes Noem and others have committed and enabled, bringing shame back seems fundamental to the enterprise of rebuilding this country. No society can survive without a general understanding that this kind of shameless lying is unacceptable.

if you love movies and hate genocide, watch this video and donate to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund

Teen BMW driver arrested for manslaughter for 107-mph Queens crash that killed woman, 76 Police sources say Tegh Pawar, 18, was going more than twice the 50-mph speed limit on the Cross Island Parkway when he crashed a relative’s 2025 BMW M3.

All vehicles should have speed governors. This chud shouldn’t have had access to a vehicle capable of such speed. There is no need.
His parents failed as well. Boys who have nothing else going for them but “I can drive a car! I can drive a car fast!”

The actual story is that a family of American citizens trying to evacuate from a neighborhood that ICE had made unsafe, and then ICE tossed munitions into the car, causing three kids to be hospitalized and a six month old to stop breathing. DHS called the family “radical agitators”

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

seems bad

The ICE agent who shot Marimar Martinez in Chicago tried to goad her out of her car.

He said “do something b*tch” and shot her 5 times.

The ICE agent who shot Nicole Renee Good did the same thing. Stood right in front of her vehicle and yelled “f*cking bitch”.

They hate women & it shows.

“Can’t believe NYC elected a Muslim as mayor.”

In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.

the fact that there is free parking at all in manhattan is wild to me

ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.

A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social

The crowd has gone silent at Cuomo's party.

roses are red
big laughs are hearty

Shireen Abue Akieh was a U.S. citizen murdered by the IDF during the Biden years because she was a journalist documenting Israeli crimes. I think not enough Americans understand that if you or your family is killed or wrongly arrested by Israel, your own government will help Israel, not you.

Cuomo questioning Zohran’s Muslim-ness is far from the most explicitly Islamophobic thing in this election (calling him a “terrorists sympathizer” and lengthening his beard would take the cake), but this feels more insidious in a way