Astra Taylor

This is a story about how America’s world-leading cancer and dementia research system was destroyed by frauds and naifs who broke the law.

There must be consequences.

Lex McMenamin Lex McMenamin is a writer, editor, and organizer from Philadelphia, based in New York.

redid my personal site post-layoff :)

my contact form is open! if you're looking to talk to or commission someone with expertise in covering and analyzing social movements, prison and police abolition, trans politics, climate organizing, cultural criticism... reach out! (my DMs are cursed rn, lol)

I checked out Trump's glowing post about meeting Mamdani on Truth Social and the response from his followers there is overwhelmingly negative and confused. Loomer had a meltdown. Vance made a sad attempt at a joke. Is anyone on the right happy about how it went yesterday?

Laughing at Donald Trump saying he'd definitely feel comfortable living in Zohran Mamdani's New York on the same day that half the consultant brain-poisoned Democratic party voted to condemn socialism

A Charlotte pastor said Border Patrol came into his church and made an arrest in front of children. They cried “a lot,” he said.

“We are trying to clean the property. We didn’t know this is gonna happen.”

#borderpatrol #charlotte #nc

Students at Olympic high school in charlotte, NC walkout to protest ICE defying the principal.

Young people are waking up to the injustices of this administration, they won’t tolerate being lied to for much longer. ICE isn’t here to protect. Young people need to realize how much power they hold!

Baristas are locking arms in front of lines of trucks.

This distribution center is Starbucks’ largest on the East Coast, which is why we’re showing up to send a message. We're ready to continue escalating our ULP strike until Starbucks does the right thing.

#NoContractNoCoffee

OpenAI made a free version of ChatGPT for teachers OpenAI's ChatGPT for Teachers is a secure version of the AI assistant designed for school employees.

Free shovel to dig your own grave.

Tonight, as the sun set in Durham, while hundreds more joined patrols in Charlotte, courageous local officials, people of faith, and community leaders gathered to say: Enough is enough.

Loser throws up a white power symbol while talking to the Vice President, who chuckles and responds, "I like this guy!"

Share far and wide, since the media refuse to call out the reality of what this administration represents.

We Used to Read Things in This Country | Noah McCormack Technology changes us—and it is currently changing us for the worse.

“The elites are ecstatic about imagining a vast, uneducated, and unproductive population forced to pay companies like OpenAI to access the written word and to approximate thought.”

Must read piece by Noah McCormack with too many quotaboe lines to select one! thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...

I got the video. We shouldn't get acclimated to this racist, edgelord shit.

truth

We need more honest language:

Theft Tech (AI)

Grift Tech (crypto)

Death Tech (automated weapons and military surveillance)

The AI bubble may be about to bust.

Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.

We all need to say this very clearly:

NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!

Expropriate their asses instead.

They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.

They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3

Zohran Got New Yorkers to Hope. What’s the Plan to Deliver? Organizers who brought him to the verge of victory are looking ahead to the challenges of democratic governance.

“New Yorkers allowed themselves to hope that the impossible could be made possible.” --Zohran Mamdani

For @hammerandhope.bsky.social I wrote about what comes next.

hammerandhope.org/article/mamd...

Absolute must read on the AI bailout-in-progress: apparently it's not enough that lifetimes of human ingenuity and creativity have been stolen and enclosed to create generative AI and balloon billionaire wealth - much more public looting is in store...

YouTube video by BlazeTV FULL EVENT: JD Vance & Erika Kirk Speeches + Q&A with Students at TPUSA Ole Miss | (10/29/25)

1:35 or so if you want the source www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN8-...

Youth turnout, 2021 to 2025 (and 2025 as pct of 2021):

NJ Gov 20% to 29% (+145%)
VA Gov 27% to 34% (+126%)
NYC Mayor 11.1% to 41.3% (+372%)

Sources: CIRCLE circle.tufts.edu/latest-resea... and DDHQ

Torturing myself by watching Vance's Ole Miss q&a. Everyone got riled up about the hug, but look at this kid flashing a white power symbol and Vance guffawing.

AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge "Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."

The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort:

www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

Trump, Musk, Rubio, and the DOGE boys should always be inseparable from these hundreds of thousands of kids they killed

Zohran Won Main Street—Now He Must Face Wall Street Mamdani will face a looming threat to his progressive agenda: debt

this great article by @debtcollective.bsky.social lays out really clearly what's been on my mind all day: everybody better get real familiar with municipal finance real quick

www.inthered.org/p/zohran-won...

Hey you!!! Very true

Greg Abbott v @GregAbbott TX Join me for a moment of silence for NYC. Thoughts & prayers. 6:36 PM • 11/4/25 • 419K Views

Lmfao

Larry Krasner has won his third term tonight against D->R former judge Pat Dugan by a larger percentage (50% > 44%), and by far a larger vote margin (168K > 95K), than he won four years ago against the criminal defense lawyer who had a section on his campaign website titled "The Girl In My Bathtub."

Lots of great things about it, but Mamdani’s victory is also an encouraging win over the evil AI hate slop that Cuomo was tossing at the virtual wall at the end there. Deepfakes are dangerous but they are also a sign of despotic desperation.

Bucks County’s ICE-Loving, MAGA Sheriff Fred Harran Got What He Deserved: A Pink Slip From Voters on Election Night - Bucks County Beacon Sheriff-elect Danny Ceisler, a 33-year-old Democrat from Bristol Borough, was in many ways the crest of the “Blue Wave” that washed away local Republican office holders.

Bucks County’s ICE-Loving, MAGA Sheriff Fred Harran Got What He Deserved: A Pink Slip From Voters | Sheriff-elect Danny Ceisler, a 33-year-old Democrat from Bristol Borough, was in many ways the crest of the Blue Wave that washed away local GOP office holders, writes Editor @cmychalejko.bsky.social.

BREAKING: Democrats just broke the GOP supermajority in the Mississippi Senate!

In a stunning victory, Democrats gained seats in court-ordered special elections and will now head to Jackson to represent and fight on behalf of their constituents.

Immigration Raids at This Home Depot Got More Aggressive but Less Effective. The LA Tenants Union Knows Why. The union’s daily presence tries to give the city’s most vulnerable immigrant workers a measure of safety and gum up Trump’s deportation machine.

“If I’m gonna die, I’m gonna die protecting my people,” said Jorge, a former day laborer. “I’ve got blood family, but these are my people, too. These are my neighbors.” h/t @hammerandhope.bsky.social