Spent Saturday with President Obama and New York's Cutest — turns out my first name is Mayor and I need to be doing more squats.
Here’s to building a City where families can thrive and every classroom is full of this much joy.
I’d say I feel the pain, but I’m numb to it now.
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Do NOT get me started.
Dearly Beloved
In February 1777, General George Washington ordered the first mass immunization campaign in American history by mandating that his troops be inoculated against smallpox. He protected the Continental Army from an epidemic that was deadlier than British forces.
249 years later, we have this idiot.
To be fair, it’s required for any djt nominee to deny his core lie of lies.
Say what you will about the worst members of the Roberts Court, but they all make sure their wives are in on the grift.
Jane Roberts, Martha Alito and Ginni Thomas are equal partners with their husbands in the grand project of destroying the United States and enriching themselves in the process.
You can’t blow up a team, create massive new weaknesses and somehow think you’ve got a competitive, not to say playoff-bound, squad.
If this was a rebuild, it’s reached the jenga stage. This is wilpon-era cluelessness, just on a larger scale.
Monday morning timeline cleanse
Here’s to the phisher who texted me a complaint about dropping my trash too close to their door.
Would have been more compelling if the area code wasn’t from across the country. #needswork
To understand #scotus and its power grab, a must-read.
The ruling is a major victory for a group of lawmakers who say they were terrorized by Trump and his mob on Jan. 6, 2021. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
The fact there was a mass shooting with EIGHT dead today and it barely made the front page of any news site tells you everything you need to know how fucked up we are as a country. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/us/shreveport...
A smart, sweeping look at how the war is affecting Asia-Pacific now and the global economy later. What the #NYT still does best.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/w...
I am in Barcelona today to help unite progressive parties from around the world in a defense of democracy and a war against corruption. A first of its kind event. Necessary to beat back the forces of fascism.
Gotta love David Byrne using Minneapolis footage of ICE during his show: Life During Wartime:
youtu.be/Kn1vsMJk260?...
Today is day 139 of the ICE occupation of MN.
If ICE hasn’t come to your city or town yet, let us tell you: NOW is the time to organize.
Build trusting relationships. Get folks into Signal groups now, based on trust and connections. It will make what comes next so, so much easier.
Two other women, including the gunman’s wife, were also shot and sustained serious injuries, police officials said.
does preferring the older, smaller version make me a bad person?
I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.
a thing i've been thinking about (as part of reading this very good book) is how some of what looks to us like a delayed response or inaction to the kind of stratospheric wealth accumulation our tech executives have managed is that this is basically an entirely new problem in human history
Seeing as how the House speaker invoked the doctrine without apparently knowing anything about it…
Tie this to affordability - make this a kitchen-table issue. #midterms
Have been citing this since at least the mid-teens.
The TL;DR is that recently-leaked internal memos from 2016 reveal that John Roberts and the court's conservatives invented the shadow docket because of nakedly ideological opposition to Obama's Clean Power Plan.
Unbelievable corruption right in front of our faces.
I’m actually ok with this.
Curious tuna crabs in the Pacific show their inquisitive side as they investigate a diver. Nature’s wonders never cease to amaze us.
