… and the work of standing up for all of our rights and what is right. The women whose names we don’t know, the women who are not famous, the women we never thank, but who play an integral role in our collective progress. Thank🙏🏻you.
On International Women’s Day, let’s acknowledge, uplift, thank the women who defy sexism and misogyny by showing up and doing the work. The work of community, civic life, getting out the vote, caring for their families, neighbors, strangers …
“You set rules and then you break them of course”
The rules about women and age should always be broken. news.artnet.com/art-world/ca...
Jesse Jackson was the first person I ever voted for—in the 1988 Pennsylvania presidential primary days after I turned 18. I voted for him because of the hope, inclusion & possibility core to his message & campaign. May Jesse Jackson rest in power & may hope, inclusion & possibility guide us on.
Happy Presidents’ Day! Love🫶this⬇️from #NBAAllStar2026 yesterday🏀
“More and more I come to loathe any dominion of one over another; any leadership, any imposition of the will.”
— Virginia Woolf
Nonsense outrage over Bad Bunny performing the Super Bowl halftime show and U.S. Olympic athletes exercising their constitutional right to free speech underscores maga’s total and willful misunderstanding of our Constitution, culture, and commerce. Bad-faith outrage from bad-faith patriots.
A wonderful museum where I live. Definitely worth checking out in its 40th year! ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...
Two great films about The Washington Post and the role of journalism are 2017’s “The Post” and, of course, “All the President’s Men” but if you want to see a terrifying (and exceptionally well made) film about media, see “Network” Made in 1976 and fiction, this film lays out how we got here.
ICE must leave Minneapolis and every one of our communities now.
ICE must be abolished.
The president and all “the president’s men” must be impeached, prosecuted, and imprisoned for their abuse of power. 4*
This administration and its violent enforcers acted and reacted with calculated cruelty and lethal force. Their actions are not just wrong, they are abhorrent, unconstitutional, and an absolute disgrace. 3/
Yesterday, tens of thousands of people exercised this right to shut down Minneapolis, and religious leaders engaged in civil disobedience with moral courage and dignity.
These Americans are not the enemy, they are patriots standing up for our rights and for what is right. 2/
Trump and ICE are not targeting the “enemy within” — they are the enemy within.
For weeks Minnesotans have exercised their constitutional right to peacefully protest. 1/
One bleak year on from the presidential inauguration, I still feel sadness, anger, fear…and a glimmer of elusive hope. The inauguration of the first woman Governor of Virginia Abigail Spanberger on Saturday and of new New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill today helps with the hope.
The Department of Homeland Security appears to be moving ahead with a new immigrant detention facility to hold as many as 1,500 detainees in Chester, New York — just over an hour from New York City.
Win or lose, there should be no debate about Venus Williams getting any wildcard. Exciting, watchable tennis every time she plays. Her love for tennis is clear and meaningful. And that she’s closer to me in age than any other player is both inspiring and affirming.
Greenland should not become part of the U.S. but looking at the protest pictures, I would really like to visit Greenland and Copenhagen.
In general, I’d like to think about countries as places I want to travel to and not as places my country wants to take over.
Five* years
Smart⏬️bill that should be enacted in New York State and someday the full country. Four years on and I still find it shocking that it happened and future generations should learn + understand what really happened and not maga revisionist history. qns.com/2026/01/liu-...
Perhaps my resolution for 2026 is to visit these five sculpture parks ⏬️ www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/t...
Matthieu Blazy’s first Métiers d’Art show, staged in an abandoned NYC subway station was thrilling in a way Chanel, fashion, our city hasn’t dared to be in years. Chic, smart, unapologetic, defiantly optimistic + aspirational — needed inspiration right now! www.wallpaper.com/fashion-beau...
I remember reading, rereading, then reading out loud “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead”. Witty, clever, lyrical, rhythmic, of “Hamlet” but totally original to Hamlet. A testament to Shakespeare, yes — and the brilliance of Tom Stoppard. RIP.
AOC to @pabloreports.bsky.social : A swastika is one of the clearest symbols of hatred in all of humanity… to remove that designation… indicates a possible collaboration with those very elements, which I think is genuinely frightening to any American.
Got home this evening and “The Birds” was on TCM. Made 60+ years ago, meanings open to interpretation, unclear ending, but still excellent filmaking, terrifying, compelling, and relevant, maybe more so, today.
I'm seeing people wonder why ICE is going after Charlotte.
ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018.
We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:
I hope some of the MANY candidates running in primaries have policy platforms to help small / local businesses and combat trump’s economic policies.
Communities are not economically sound or livable without small business. 2/*
At the community board city services committee meeting last night we heard many restaurant owners say business is tough. I ask one when this started, he said “nine-ten months ago” — hmmm what happened then? 1/
This was before the federal food stamp act of 1964.
My point is this: my Mom’s family depended on the kindness of a ghostly stranger because there was no safety net. Today, we have one — and it’s our president’s job to protect it not use it for political leverage. 3/*
When her mom (my grandmother) opened the door there was nobody there but bags of groceries to make Thanksgiving dinner. They heard no car and saw no footprints in the snow — but someone, somehow, made sure they would not go hungry. 2/
