Marc Lapointe

As masked federal agents target street vendors on Canal Street, THE CITY watched one street vendor being detained.

As the operation carried on, agents were confronted with a spontaneous crowd of protesters.

MORE HERE: www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/21/i...

Cool Dad Raising Daughter On Media That Will Put Her Entirely Out Of Touch With Her Generation

Cool Dad Raising Daughter On Media That Will Put Her Entirely Out Of Touch With Her Generation https://theonion.com/cool-dad-raising-daughter-on-media-that-will-put-her-en-1819572981/

Shouts out to Max Scherzer, doing it for all the guys over 40 who experience neck, shoulder and back pain because of the violent repetitive movement of their bodies, whether that's Pitching to Major League Hitters or Shifting Slightly in Bed

There's a new museum and tuition-free art college in San Francisco opening in the spring, called Art+Water.

The first exhibit will span 10,000 sq ft
and be entitled "The World Of Boots Riley".

Sets, costumes, monsters, puppets, miniatures, stop-motion, photos, drawings, notebooks, plans, etc

AHA Sends Letter to Rutgers University Addressing Threats Made to History Faculty Members The American Historical Association (AHA) expresses deep concern about recent threats made against Professor Mark Bray that extended to his partner, Professor Yesenia Barragan, both faculty members in...

The AHA has sent a letter to the Rutgers University president & chancellor expressing deep concern about recent threats made against history professor Mark Bray. “The threats & calls for his firing have no place in an intellectual community governed by mutual respect & constructive criticism.” 🗃️

Representatives Ocasio-Cortez, Espaillat, and Goldman lead a letter demanding transparency on ICE detention of school-aged children.

Letter signed by Representatives Ocasio-Cortez, Espaillat, Goldman, Clarke, Latimer, Meeks, Meng, Nadler, Tonko, Torres, and Velázquez.

ICE is using your tax dollars to target children.

A child in my district was deported days before the start of the school year.

We are demanding answers on why K-12 students are being arrested and whether the Department of Education is fulfilling their obligations to students in custody.

… on rancor when he claimed the United States faced “a war from within.” Cities led by “radical left Democrats,” he said, are unsafe places. “We’re going to straighten them out one by one,” he said. “And this is going to be a major part for some of the people in this room. That’s a war, too.”

Guys, there’s an alligator on Detroit’s Belle Isle - Detroit Metro Times Hamtramck resident Lynn Blasey couldn’t believe her eyes during a visit to Detroit’s Belle Isle on Sunday. Sunbathing on the shore was none other than an alligator.  “I made a new friend while paddleb...

Hamtramck resident Lynn Blasey couldn’t believe her eyes during a visit to Detroit’s Belle Isle on Sunday.

walking around a city that is deeply unaccustomed to the idea that people would voluntarily do such a thing is a fascinating experience

Axios Media Trends - 🏫 Exclusive: The Atlantic to offer free access to all U.S. public schools

Smart: The Atlantic plans to offer every public high school in the U.S. free digital access to its journalism. www.axios.com/newsletters/...

Thank You, Melvyn Bragg | Defector Melvyn Bragg, host of the BBC Radio 4 programme In Our Time since its very first episode back in 1998, has greeted me in the same delightfully brusque manner hundreds and hundreds of times: Hello. In…

"Melvyn Bragg, host of the BBC Radio 4 programme In Our Time since its very first episode back in 1998, has greeted me in the same delightfully brusque manner hundreds and hundreds of times." defector.com/thank-you-me...

Philosopher Alain Locke was born on this day in 1885 in Philadelphia. #botd

Locke is credited with spurring on the Harlem Renaissance with his book “The New Negro,” which ignited a cultural movement. He was the first African American recipient of the Rhodes scholarship.
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Today in history, 1974: President Gerald Ford pardons his predecessor Richard Nixon for any crimes the former president may have committed while in office. Intended to help the nation heal, Ford’s decision only further angered the American people.

😵😵😵

State of the Field for Busy Teachers: Graphic History This final installment in our series “State of the Field of Busy Teachers” features historian Walter Greason on the state of the field of Graphic History.

The final installment features historian Walter Greason on the state of the field of Graphic History. 🗃️

Purchase

Jean Arp, Two Heads, 1927 #artbots #moma
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134744

RFK Jr., American Psycho He needs to go. Now.

An absolute barnburner by @gregggonsalves.bsky.social!

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Trump escalates his attacks on cultural institutes | CNN Eleni Giokos speaks to historian David Blight about President Donald Trump’s attack on Smithsonian Institution museums, and his comments on slavery.

AHA member David Blight (Yale Univ.) was interviewed on CNN about the sweeping review of the Smithsonian ordered by President Trump. “They want to try to roll back about 60–70 years of historical scholarship. . . . They call it ‘wokeness.’ We call it good history.” 🗃️

To my 10th grade English teacher, who said, “Make the conclusion count.”

Detroit rocks

Red Wings to retire Sergei Fedorov’s No. 91 jersey in January Fans have been clamoring for years for Detroit to retire Fedorov's number.

www.nytimes.com/athletic/656...

Jackson Lears · The Righteous Community: Legacies of the War on Terror There are many reasons war fever has raged out of control, but the millenarian worldview contributed to igniting the...

‘Terrorism’: the word acquired the magical power of stopping all discussion, indeed all thought, instantaneously.’

Jackson Lears on the ‘war on terror’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

embarrassing

ELIZABETH WARREN: What Zohran is saying is 'I want people to be able to afford to live in NYC'

FABER: But raising taxes in order to do it?

WARREN: Oh my goodness! Oh dear! Are you worried that billionaires are going to go hungry?

listening to music and yelling "i win" at the end of every song

elizabeth warren constantly trolling cnbc with her appearances gives me life. its a hostile booking i endorse.

Gift of Lonti Ebers

Henry Taylor, Too Sweet, 2016 #artbots #moma
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137801

Gift of Nelson A. Rockefeller

Joan Miró, "Hirondelle Amour", Barcelona, late fall 1933-winter 1934 #artbots #moma
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135821

Opinion | New York Is Planning a Train Line to Connect Its Transit Deserts. We Walked All 14 Miles of It.

New York Is Planning a Train Line to Connect Its Transit Deserts. We Walked All 14 Miles of It. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/o...

The ADA is turning 35—and it's in Trump's crosshairs Tony Coelho, the Americans with Disabilities Act's main author, sees a new wave of threats looming for disability rights.

The Americans with Disabilities Act is turning 35 on Saturday. Earlier this year at @motherjones.com, I spoke with its primary author, Tony Coelho, about the law. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...