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I feel like I say this every year but I really need people to hear it. Halloween is the best American holiday. Just kids outside welcomed into their world, marching around together, showing off their costumes to the elderly, parents meeting parents, neighbors catching up with neighbors.

At this point I think it’s fair to say that most of the criticisms being lobbed at Mamdani are not out of genuine anger or surprise at any new revelations about him but are rather a transparently bad faith smear campaign to punish him for being a successful politician while Muslim

Zohran at the podium looking to the left.

Zohran, Bernie and AOC holding hands on stage.

Zohran on stage with people seated on the sage behind me.

"No longer should we think about our political process as settling for the lesser of two evils. We can demand a greater good.

And in doing so, we can make City Hall a place from which New Yorkers expect change, not failure."

If your first thought as a reporter when racing to the scene where an invading fed paramilitary of murderous freaks are blanketing yet another neighborhood in chemical weapons after kidnapping people is to count how many objects are thrown at them, just quit. Just quit

Broadway Musicians Vote Yes On Strike If Deal Not Reached Broadway musicians of AFM Local 802 have voted to authorize a strike if needed, as it is currently in contract talks with the Broadway League. Learn more here!

The vote count was 98% in favor of strike authorization. www.broadwayworld.com/article/Broa...

desperately trying to connect with my father by sending him new yorker articles and interviews on the leftist thinkers i align with

New Yorkers deserve change they can measure in their own lives.

Our new Affordability Calculator shows exactly how much our plans would save your family on childcare, rent, and bus fare.

Check your savings → zohranfornyc.com/calculator

I tell you what, learn a little bit about cancer and people who think you can cure cancer with diet or supplements do look very silly. This is why cancer biologists have such a hard time not being snarky.

i dont believe for a second that there is so much noteworthy stuff happening in the world of foxes that they deserve their own news channel

The national gaslighting about Charlie Kirk Another pattern of censorship that only hurts the left—and emboldens political violence.

Since Charlie Kirk was fatally shot, people on the left have been censored, punished, and targeted with more violence for telling the truth about Kirk's legacy. The cycle continues: mainstream whitewashing of violence begets more violence and the victims are blamed.
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i don’t like matcha but i like it enough to take a lil sip out of someone’s drink when they say it’s gooooood matcha

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

The Trump administration will come as close as possible to saying “we are going to kill you” and people are like don’t be ridiculous. Killing is illegal

Kennedy Center Workers Move to Unionize Amid Trump Administration Shake-Up Kennedy Center staff are pushing to unionize in response to program cuts and layoffs under the Trump administration. The UAW is backing their effort, citing concerns over transparency, job security, and political influence.

More than 90 administrative staff members cite partisan interference, layoffs, and program cuts in effort to form Kennedy Center United Arts Workers. www.broadwayworld.com/article/Kenn...

So many people who romanticized the Parkland kids in 2018 are now in favor of this.

I don't fully trust Hogg, but the party's reaction to his time as Vice Chair proves the point he's trying to make.

someone already asked when the new Lou Malnati's is opening in Vatican City 😭😭😭

Film poster for ‘Conclave.’

Pope Francis.

‘Conclave’ viewership increased by 283% following the passing of Pope Francis. (via Variety)

I promise to quit drinking if they give me the job.

Avignon 2.0, let’s go

Learning to play the harmonica so I have something to do after eating beans

Two puffins!

A puffin posing with snowy coastline in the background, while a other disappears into a burrow.

A puffin yelling.

Puffin colony on grassy headland above the sea.

This is a puffin fan account now

TLC Musical CRAZYSEXYCOOL, New Adaptations of DAMN YANKEES and PAL JOEY Will Play Arena Stage in 2025/26 Season Arena Stage Artistic Director Hana S. Sharif and Executive Producer Edgar Dobie have just announced the company’s diamond anniversary season. The season includes the world premiere of CrazySexyCool, from TLC, written and directed by Kwame Kwei-Armah and choreographed by Chloe O. Davis; as well as a revival of Damn Yankees, in a new adaptation by Will Power and Doug Wright, additional lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, and direction and choreography by Sergio Trujillo; the world premiere of Freemont Ave, by Reggie D. White; a new revival of Pal Joey, with a new book by Richard LaGravenese, co-directed by Tony Goldwyn and Savion Glover.

TLC Musical CRAZYSEXYCOOL, New Adaptations of DAMN YANKEES and PAL JOEY Will Play Arena Stage in 2025/26 Season

"I asked ChatGPT and..."

that's cool, I asked my heart if you were a good person and it said no

'Abusers are enforcing abortion bans on their victims' Reproductive coercion is a growing threat to abuse victims.

I interviewed @kylietcheung.bsky.social about her essential work (and upcoming book) detailing how abortion bans are a state-mandated tool for abusers to entrap and coerce their victims—as she put it, “If we lived in a direct democracy, abortion would be legal.”
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i’m feeling very post-mockingjay after finishing sunrise on the reaping

I’m halfway through Sunrise on the Reaping and I’m still baffled that people seem to miss that Suzanne Collins is doing some of the most poignant and deadly rebellious writing about specifically American capitalism, capitalism informed by the entertainment and tech industries, today.

Well, I finished Sunrise on the Reaping

As a centrist (between liberalism and communism) i believe in higher taxes on the wealthy and a robust welfare state! I’m not beholden to the pieties of the left or the right!

This is a definition of good political writing for the theatre; not about one side vs another, but what political forces do to human nature.