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Sincerely sorry you have to see your Dad descend into that.

It was this or have NYPD kneecap him a la De Blasio. All that he might attempt to accomplish would be fucked with.

Yes, the only non-dystopian futures that extend from now require diminution of cop power... but Mamdani's first term is not the time to try to move that boulder.

WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.

i think people (you and me and everyone we know, everyone) have genuinely underestimated the nature of the second trump administration and the republican party in thrall to him, and all of us have had some difficulty realigning to them.

the thing about this is that a) small states do not have any interests that are inherent to their size (no less than james madison understood this) b) the senate is organized along party lines which makes the small/big distinction almost irrelevant and c) the filibuster has never been used this way

empiricism's reward

just like society itself, as it turns out

= Forward JEWISH. INDEPENDENT. NONPROFIT. Support Us A few days later came another night I'll never forget - the Israelis for Peace vigil marking two years since the Hamas attack of Oct. 7, 2023. Hundreds gathered - Israelis, Palestinians, Jews, Arabs, Americans - huddled together on folding chairs in Union Square in chilly weather, under an open sky. As part of a wide-ranging lineup, from the stage, I read a message from Liat Atzili, whose husband Aviv was killed that day; a short, piercing story by Etgar Keret; and a poem by Mahmoud Darwish that hung in the air like a spell. And there was Mamdani again, sitting quietly in the front row next to Lander. He didn't take the microphone. He didn't try to center the event on himself. He was just listening. Bearing witness. His presence wasn't performative. It was pastoral. In a city that so often divides its grief by identity, he crossed the invisible line and simply showed up. That's when it hit me: This is what safety looks like. Not fences or slogans, not solidarity-as-branding - but the radical act of standing with people in pain, without needing to own or edit it.

“[Mamdani’s] presence wasn’t performative. It was pastoral. In a city that so often divides its grief by identity, he crossed the invisible line and simply showed up.”

i love this forward.com/opinion/7805...

arson upon our episteme; we all suffer

Not only is it going to be a hunger crisis, it's going to be a farm crisis. All those gallons of milk bought from dairy farmers, all the produce, all the on sale ground beef and packs of chicken that are paid for by SNAP are subsidies to farmers who don't qualify for commodities subsidies.

“Here, then. Power resides where men believe it resides. No more and no less.”

“So power is a mummer’s trick?”

“A shadow on the wall,” Varys murmured...

SNAP is probably the most effective federal dollar we spend in terms of long term domestic economic outcomes.

that isn’t why you should support it; you should support it because it is a moral imperative to feed the hungry.

but it’s why even a growth-oriented ghoul shouldn’t oppose it.

a process that's a microcosm of living a life itself

afraid of Trump's wrath for airing it... what a sad state it is to which our society has sunk

When Albany starts to claim that they can't tax the rich, will you be DEMAGOGUED or will you demand that they tax the rich? Organized people can win demands and unorganized individuals cannot.

I tweet: "people who see 50% of their monthly paycheck go to rent don't care if a candidate eats with their hands. they want to hear what your candidate is going to do about housing." John Galt 2025 replies: "Move if the cost of living is too high."

who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.

That is amazing footage! Surprised I don't remember it, as I was pretty into sportsball in the nineties.

Thanks for sharing

among the best anecdotes I've seen in recent memory

when the veil between worlds is thinnest

Rough math: 12.3% of Americans (41.7 mil) are about to lose SNAP. Many food banks produce 3 meals per $1, so a November worth of meals for one costs $30. Round it up to $35 for asst. costs & hygiene products. If 13% of us donate $35 each to food banks, we can get everyone through Nov! #EndHunger 🥙💪

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Exercise that block finger. You provide an essential service. Your time is wasted on people who choose to complain rather than use their search engine of choice —on the computerlike device they're *already using*— to look shit up.

A friend recently told me that they didn’t think ICE would deploy tear gas in well to do neighborhoods with a high density of white people. I understood their thinking, but disagreed. Today, they gassed Lakeview. Nothing is off limits to these people.

First Shape Found That Can’t Pass Through Itself | Quanta Magazine After more than three centuries, a geometry problem that originated with a royal bet has been solved.

www.quantamagazine.org/first-shape-...

hope he's givin' a saucy wink

I wish you well in the war against staleness. Croutons, maybe?

Block with extreme prejudice. They deserve zero attention

I think it's worth recognizing that they've been doing this to the humanities for years (and there wasn't always much solidarity from other fields), but at the same time it sucks even more than the problem has expanded to once 'safe' fields.

Alas, as we warned it likely would.

eyes on the prize; thanks

You are a fucking bona fide inspiration, Marisa