Clay Schudel

Fireworks over Grand Army Plaza

BREAKING: Explosions felt across New York City as full socialism begins

that wave of fierce exhaustion that washes over you when you look at a japanese sentence and it keeps going and going and going and going and maybe it's half the page and you're like "where do i even start to translate and chop this up into something digestible in english???"

I know a lot of footage and commentary is swirling about today but it’s important to convey that the people who gathered outside that ICE garage in lower Manhattan were *so* ten toes down focused.

This person who gets maced and just calmly flips the bird & keeps going is *quintessential.*

mamdani standing next to a seated trump in the oval office

this looks like an after school program where young people help out seniors at home

Zohran Mamdani petting a bodega cat.

Happy Caturday! It’s a beautiful day in Brooklyn to show some appreciation to your favorite bodega cat.

My statement on Donald Trump's threat to deport me and his praise for Eric Adams, who the President "helped out" of legal accountability.

Miami Herald editorial board:

“Daddy Cuomo”? Is this that parasitic brainworm syndrome?

Great thanks to #weillcornell ❤️ kidney transplant team

My husband Ken just became a Living Kidney Donor, to help a much loved friend. As an "Advanced Donation", Ken’s left kidney went to an unknown recipient, and when our friend Ei needs one, he will be scheduled for his own transplant.
So - his donation saved two lives. Ken’s home & feeling great.

Promo movie still from Masahiro Shinoda's 1964 film Pale Flower, a hand with lacquered nails holding 3 hanafuda cards

RIP Masohiro Shinoda died today at 94, one of Japan's great New Wave film directors. His ice cold and pitch-black gangster noir Pale Flower (1964) has been a favorite of mine for many years.

An owl perched on a shovel in a cemetery,by Caspar David Friedrich

“Owl in Cemetery”. Seeing a very nice collection of work this morning by Caspar David Freidrich at the Metropolitan Museum.

A young boy kneels and shines a man’s boot.

In today's breathless article explaining how our President Musk stands to make billion$ in government contracts for his private Space X company, the NY Times says "his supporters say he has the best technology". I'll bet they do, that's why they're called his supporters, THANKS, senile news org!

If you live in the NYC Metro Area, help spread the word about the S_onewall Action. Download, Print and Post the Action Flyer everyone in the NYC Metro Area (and don't forget LI, Jersey, Westchester and.. and...)

#Stonewall

See you on Saturday.

learn about the Black Panther Party free breakfast program

learn about the Zapatista uprising

learn about Jane

learn about the Kensington Welfare Rights Union

learn about STAR

learn about Act Up

learn about the Battle of Blair Mountain

learn about the Spanish Civil War

we are not the first

Jane Collective was a women’s group providing underground abortions in Chicago embryo.asu.edu/pages/jane-c...

The Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1954)

Landmark avant-garde masterpiece depicting a ritualistic costume party. Seldom has a film taken such delight in its own freakiness. Paved the way for John Waters and David Lynch.

Starring Marjorie Cameron

Directed by Kenneth Anger - BOTD in 1927

Chappell Roan on a pink pony

Chappell Roan's Pink Pony Club extravaganza at the Grammy's made me smile from ear to ear. West Hollywood rodeo clowns in assless chaps with KISS makeup is the energy we need. I am also so happy for Beyoncé's wins, Cowboy Carter was MY album of the year.

Also, did you see Chappell's Pink Pony Club extravaganza? West Hollywood homo energy and vogueing Rodeo clowns in assless chaps and KISS makeup. Made me very happy!

Surreal photo montage of tortured faces from film The Beast Must Die

Criterion Channel has a gorgeous series up called Argentine Noir. Six stylish, twisty Perón-era films. I love 1950's B&W films with Expressionist lighting, social commentary and complicated psychological mayhem and these movies have it all. This still is from 1952's "The Beast Must Die". #filmnoir

Cowardly, feckless, pearl-clutching Democrats could learn something from dim witted GOP turnip Tommy Tuberville!!! Just resist!

This is exactly how I imagined your life in the Wild Pacific Northwest, pardner!

I will say that, as a member of a minority that is simply a natural human variation, it does comfort me some that the fascists could drive every single last one of us out of public life... and we'd just keep being born and creating new subcultures and undergrounds.

We always have, we always will.

Mexico President Sheinbaum claps back at Trump, suggests America Mexicana as new U.S. name President Claudia Sheinbaum proposed using the 17th century name in response to President-elect Donald Trump's comment he'd try to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico.

The President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, suggests that instead of renaming the Gulf of Mexico we should rename the USA “America Mexicana”. She’s got a good point!

www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

GOP House voted yesterday to ban trans women from school sports; NCAA president says there are "less than 10" trans women among >500,000 college athletes. So, most "federally funded trans athletes" being banned are just kids eager to play with other kids at school. Cruelty for it's own sake.

I love the idea of vulnerable kids getting support from GSA. I was briefly a 10 yr old Boy Scout (my Mom thought it would help me – a not trans but a lonely semi-sissy kid - make friends in a new town). It was a brutal Lord of the Flies type troop, the bullying leaders as bad as the meanest kids.

2025 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From! This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!

Girl Scouts provide a safe & welcome space for trans kids. Here’s a short list of trans scouts selling cookies

www.erininthemorning.com/p/2025-trans...

Seeing Igor Levit perform Bach, Brahms, Beethoven this afternoon at Carnegie Hall. Levit is not only one of the world’s great pianists, he’s also a very outspoken pro-democracy & human rights activist. A great example of “artist as human being”.