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.
If you called her "the goat," I think you'd get one of the most withering staredowns in history. But the truth is the truth. Happy 94th to Elaine May. Long may she reign!
Iggy Pop on stage in green light, Seattle,WA - July 2025
Happy birthday, Iggy
“Sometimes It Snows in April” Prince and The Revolution — Parade: Music From the Motion Picture Under the Cherry Moon (1986)
Ripped headline from Wisconsin Public Radio "Evers calls Trump's order restricting mail-in voting 'bulls----' The governor says the order is illegal and 'we'll see President Trump in Court'
We should be working to make voting as easy and as accessible as possible—not making it harder for eligible voters to cast their ballots.
And that's why we're going to court to stop him.
You guys. A goose is nesting under the Spoon Bridge and Cherry. This is our Romulus and Remus moment. We already became ungovernable. Now we become myth. #Minneapolis.
MSP's airport authority, the MAC, met today; I, on behalf of MN50501, along with labor and faith leaders, asked the MAC to pause funding for a proposed Delta lounge, so the airline would meet with community members and discuss good corporate citizenship.
... it didn't go well 🧵👇
An Old Hollywood (pre-January 1942) gathering with Clark Gable, Carole Lombard, Marion Davies, Douglas Fairbanks Sr and Jr, and some other famous folks standing on a stairway in what looks like a fancy house. There is a mural of a European scene to their right
As much as I hate to interrupt this, um, cinematic achievement, the NOT Going to the #TCMFF is all set. DM for details ^PG #TCMParty #ACountessFromHongKong
A magnificent essay by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social, which every progressive mind should read RIGHT NOW.
I mean it: NOW!
As a former StoryCorps facilitator, this is fucking disgusting.
End the project already, Dave.
You created a good model: you encouraged people to sit and do oral history for 20 yrs.
Turning StoryCorps into a surveillance capitalism nightmare is not worth the money to keep the project going.
This is perfect–thank you! 💜
hormuz
Iggy forever! 🖤
Oh man
this is it right here. AI violates Vonnegut's number 1 rule for writers: "Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted." AI shifts the burden of effort from the writer onto the reader/audience and that is unacceptable
bumping again so people can have some space fun this weekend maybe!
National Theatre print on a wall in a stylish room
New in.
The National Theatre joins my Brutalist Collection.
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/brutalist-co...
I learned so much in that outro.
That last line? 👌
Thank you, @eddiemuller.bsky.social.
#NoirAlley #TCMParty #HisKindOfWoman
I still say this is screwball noir. #tcmparty #HisKindOfWoman #noiralley
+ monkeymanweb 42m Does Trent Renor have someone who goes on tour just to put powder on his clothes, or does he doing it himself? 10 Q4 G treznor V now ... I do it myself. 3 View activity >
Trent and Mariqueen noticed you across the room and they don't need your fucking slob-ass anywhere near their dark and terrible power. Please leave their sight, no, leave the room.
It’s hard to express how important Iris was to ACT UP’s scientific development. She was the catalyst who started it all. Iris Long, Scientific Mentor to AIDS Activists, Dies at 92 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/h...
Barack Obama and Zohran Mamdani sing ‘Wheels on the Bus’ to kids in NYC
Holy SHIT someone found the test pressing of Robert Johnson's Cross Road Blues and it is clear as a PIN www.openculture.com/2026/04/reco...
"She tutored the activists on immunology and virology and schooled them in the intricacies of the Food and Drug Administration’s approval process and pharmaceutical research protocols."
[Gift article]
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/h...
NEW, FROM ME: The organizers with Community Solidarity Project, a local LA mutual aid group, organized from their main hub at Bernies Coffee Shop for years. Now, they've been asked to move, and are asking for the public's help. They've set up a online fundraiser and Goodbye Party tomorrow, April 19
Black dotted Swiss lace gloves, a purple wrist corsage, and fresh bingo cards awaiting their destiny.
It’s rainbow bingo prom night here in the West Sea.
American Rivers is saddened by the Senate passage of H. J. Res. 140, which, if made law, will strip protections from the headwaters of the Boundary Waters and reopen 225,000 acres in the Superior National Forest to toxic mining activities, threatening all downstream flows with acid-mine drainage.
