Reyna

We are devastated to see 20% of our beloved colleagues laid off by the same leadership who have yet to recognize our union.

We demand that leadership at Sesame Workshop bargain with us over the terms of these massive layoffs. Consider letting them know that you expect the same.

Communities are being attacked in our city. Hochul, as the rest of the Democratic Party that cares more about procedures and decorum, are complicit in this fascist take over.

A screenshot of a headline from the BBC News website that reads "Sweden searches for answers after country's deadliest shooting". The picture heading the story is an image of a young Kurdish man named Ismail Moradi, who was a witness to the shooting. The caption reads "Ismail Moradi told the BBC he fears there was a racial element to the shooting"

Mediawatch: this is how the BBC chose to illustrate its coverage of a mass shooting in Sweden, by a white Swedish man, that left 11 people dead.

This is horrific.

This sounds like dystopia

While the impunity of Mayor Adams has dominated our attention, there's another crisis of accountability playing out at his NYPD.

Misconduct complaints are the highest they've been since 2012 but many are dismissed without investigation because of staff and funding shortfalls.

Eric Adams sold nyc for a pardon. Get him out of office.

Eric Adams sold nyc for a pardon.

Lucky for NYC mayor. Groveling to a dictator gets you a pardon.

The wealthy have more solidarity among themselves than the working class…

Thanks to our austerity mayor

We never made classrooms COVID safe.

Schools were hotbeds of COVID transmission. Kids died. Teachers and other school staff died. Family members living with kids died.

Many who didn’t die—including kids—got long COVID.

THAT is what we didn’t reckon with. All we ever hear about is harms of closure

"Affordable housing" in NYC means something totally different than in smaller cities. Why? Standards for "affordable" are tied to area median income—so affordable units in expensive cities might match (or exceed!) market rates in other neighborhoods! More on this complexity: https://bit.ly/3PQPBpT

She is the moment

People who were forced into parentification as children often become emphatic and caring adults. Yes this is troubling to some extend, but so many incredible people share this experience.

Gatito Shinji looking mysterious and dramatic

Gatito Shinji

The Mystery of Food Deserts They didn’t materialize around the country for no reason. Something happened.

1. The conventional explanation for food deserts—that these places are too poor or too rural to generate enough spending on groceries, or too Black to overcome racist corporate redlining — fail to grapple with a key fact: food deserts didn’t used to exist. My new piece in The Atlantic.

Important PSA

New York City is under its first drought warning in decades — and these kids from 1980 have some good advice.

Absolutely. Probably has been for a while. Definitely to non racial and gender comforting people

The only way America can keep a “middle class” is by safeguarding the upper class and perpetuating a lower class.
Policies solely focusing on the middle class, thinking it will trickle downward, are not only unfeasible, they’re immoral, especially at a time of broadening social equity.

Migrating here because I just don’t think the internet has enough of my data