Bronx-born Philadelphian. #Journalist. #Author of 'brilliant but disturbing' books from The New Press and Mumblers Press. No longer on Substack; find me on Medium, WagingNonviolence.org, On Watch, and an oped near you. #Disabled from 40 yrs of MS.
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LinuxAndYarn@mastodon.social - Damn, I loved Graham Greene in everything I saw him in, from Thunderheart and Northern Exposure in the early 90s* to Reservation Dogs and The Last of Us this past year. The guy was a legend. Rest in Power www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
this just feels like how Gerwig sees the world around her, one full of stories each equally important and deserving of love and attention. I can’t name another screenwriter I love as much, one that has her same level of empathy and attention to detail in expressing that empathy.
I get the sense nobody really even cares anymore. Rank and file Democrats have already given up on Schumer and Jeffries and don't consider them leaders of the party. They expect abject surrender. For fighting spirit and leadership, Dems now follow Zohran Mamdani, JB Pritzker, AOC, Walz, Wu, etc.
From Bogotá to Medellín, Colombia’s far-right is gaining ground. 10 key findings reveal neo-Nazi groups, paramilitary alliances, global extremist ties, and escalating violence against immigrants and marginalized communities. Read more:
Too young! Rest in power, dude
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That face!!
1971 - The Pittsburgh Pirates field the first all-Black lineup in Major League Baseball history in the team's 10-7 win over the Philadelphia Phillies.
watching both Barbie and Little Women back to back has gotten me dangerously close to creating a Grand Unified Theory of Gerwig
NEW: This morning, DOJ's Drew Ensign confirmed that the last of 76 children the Trump administration tried to put on planes & send to Guatemala in the middle of the holiday weekend are back in the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, the result of a well-timed lawsuit & fast-moving judge.
All tied up! I thought this game was in the trash! #phillies
Hope to see New York area fam here!
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
Rent Hike for Some Voucher Tenants Starts, Spurred by Mayor Adams www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/28/c...
Today's column for @seattletimes.com: "But for many others, Katrina affirmed what they already knew: The color of your skin and the size of your bank account determined whether you could flee or were left to die, or whether you could rebuild or were displaced." #katrina
My bride and I can't wait to see you at Baltimore Book Festival! She was mentored by you in Philly in the early 90s, and I met you in 99 or so... #olddykes
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MLB not acknowledging Labor Day is never not astonishing to me. The owners view this as a competition between one another where the players are just part of the equipment and not actually important. They don’t believe that they should have to split the proceeds with the equipment.
I did get a “Happy Labor Day” discount code email from the Phillies, which is at least something, but the overall “let’s just ignore this one holiday” vibe is very bizarre.
Charlie Jane, can't wait to see you and @katebornstein.bsky.social at Baltimore Book Festival!
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/n... we used to live nearby Hope they can sort it out
Las Vegas police immediately arrest two livestreamers when one of them insults an officer after an anti-ICE protest ("honor your oath, bitch"). "You need to learn there's rules: don't run your mouth at me."
Because I know actual human artists whose work was appropriated without consent to train these "AI" models (as of course mine was, repeatedly, for LLMs), and using an "AI" to generate pictures is like kicking them in the teeth and then laughing at them whilst they bleed
And I say it all the time because PRAXIS I am awesome I am brilliant I am not ALONE I am not part of a Chorus It’s a Polyphonic Spree We focus don talking but its the listening we suck at
theintercept - At the rate journalists are being killed in Gaza by the Israeli army, there will soon be no one left to keep you informed. We join with more than 150 other media outlets across the world to condemn these crimes. Read more: rsf.org/en/gaza-rsf-...
4/ 🧊🖕✈️ MONDAY RENDITION 🤨 👉 GlobalX Airbus 321 (tail: N570TA) – one of the planes full of kids that *didn't* fly to Guatemala yesterday – is now outbound from the Louisiana ICE hub en route to Central America 👀
Karen Bass is loving this. She’ll coast to reelection after her disastrous fire response, after endemic fraud corruption and incompetence found in her inside safe program and LAHSA, after her lawyer targeted journalists protesters and staff, after her LAPD brutalizing protesters standing up to ICE.
The Supreme Court Asks Why It Shouldn’t Gut the Voting Rights Act truthout.org/articles/the...
He’s providing them with valuable mulching experience though.
MIT Review did the math on the climate cost of data centers www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...
I’ve tried googling to figure out what Lisa Cook’s sorority defending her on the mortgage fraud allegations has to do with any judge recusing from a case. Doesn’t seem to be any connection, as far as I can tell.
Whether or not these people are actual foreign agents is almost irrelevant. Their actions are observationally equivalent to & indistinguishable from the actions actual foreign agents would be taking. The consequences of our total Article I constitutional crisis, right here:
Dear anyone who supports Trump— what do you think when Noem blatantly lies to your face?
I hate that the media just carries on the interview after these people spew lies and insanity
Kristi Noem: "I do know that LA wouldn't be standing today if President Trump hadn't taken action."
@chrisblue.bsky.social I just posted an article on my domain. I’ll post it here for you to read. If you don’t have a NYT acct - I made it free for anyone to read. Hope you have a good Labor Day & fight like hell if you’re taking action tomorrow! www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
for real though he’s going to try and ruin her life with lawsuits and I hope she’s doing okay, even if the person in the other car is pure evil and it was 100% his fault this must have been scary may she take him for whatever he’s got left that he didn’t already fork over to those two poll workers
I want only good things for the 19-year-old girl in the vehicle behind him, who I presume used Divine Smite to make a melee attack with her car and therefore gets an extra 1d8 damage against his creature type
i think some of what’s happening here is many cishet white leftists inadvertently revealing their belief that LGBTQ people only care about ourselves and that progressive policy is a zero-sum game. marginalized people who are accustomed to banding together for survival often don’t see it that way
rabbijill.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy - They loaded up those planes with children - some as young as 10. I don’t believe they had a safe place to go in Guatemala. And the government did not care. This admin is the least compassionate of any in my lifetime.
Wildly at odds with Rudy’s goofy statement. (He hasn’t been “Mayor” for decades).
ZEUS!
ZEUS!!! #phillies
Id heard that Cantor Fitzgerald, the Wall Street firm formerly run by Commerce Secy Lutnick and now run by his sons is one of the big buyers of these refund rights. Turns out it’s already public back in July when they were buying them at 20 to 30 cents on the dollar. www.wired.com/story/cantor...
Yeah sorry if I seemed to be minimizing
Anna has had excellent coverage of this developing case in which the Trump administration tried to use the holiday weekend to secretly and illegally deport children.
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Don't forget rising costs coming in various construction trades too -- roofing, remodeling, etc. Also landscaping and other yard work. cmsny.org/importance-o...
Anyway, you can't really have it both ways. Either we can have low wages/prices, or we can have less immigration. So enjoy the further food price inflation, along with the racist authoritarianism.
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
We just bought one of those Hondas. That 19 yr old girl is my hero
Here’s the police statement. Marisa Kabas got it. Of course his spokesperson lied.
Phillies plan for Walker Buehler to start Sept. 12 vs. KC. They’ll try a six-man rotation down the stretch. He’ll start once at Triple A. They’re also calling up Garrett Stubbs tomorrow when rosters expand.
darcher@hachyderm.io - It doesn't exactly repeat, but it sure does rhyme, and it sure has its rhythms. hyperallergic.com/1035989/we-a...
They don't really face a "labour shortage" except in the immediate moment given the supply shock due to the shamefully racist immigration policies. They now face a market telling them that their supposedly "very aggressive" wages are simply not high enough. There a solution to that... 🤔
Truck drivers, bus drivers, factory workers, restaurant workers. The solution to not being able to find enough employees is a Churchillian conundrum. A riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. Yes, that may mean your business is non-viable, but hey, that's glorious capitalism. No? Oh, well...
Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & well, here we are, hundreds of miles on the interstate past the Goldwater-Rhodes exit that we already should have taken. bsky.app/profile/mcop...
micchiato.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy - “A year after Houston welcomed evacuees, an overflow crowd at a Houston church confronted then-Mayor Bill White, demanding that he cut off evacuees' assistance and ship them back to New Orleans.” #otd #history #Katrina No, Katrina evacuees didn't ca...
And next game is in our house!
Walker Buehler is signing with the Phillies and will be eligible for the post season. I didn't see this coming. Can't hurt!
Let the Matthew Broderick jokes begin
Everything here seems true to me but I wonder how SCOTUS and Trump v Anderson (2024) might fit into this. States are supposed to run their own elections. Colorado correctly identified that Trump was ineligible to appear on their ballots under the 14th Amendment. SCOTUS intervened. Why not again?
Ours are Samsung, both top loader, none of that other crap
Why is our government deporting children? They are *children*. Are we going to say these are hardened criminals who threaten national security, ffs?
This is what leadership looks like.
"The question before the court is whether the 2024 map with the additional Black-majority district will be used in 2026 and subsequent elections. If the high court strikes down the 2024 map,it will [be]effectively destroying Section 2 of the VRA." truthout.org/articles/the...
"The image of the Guard is no longer one of neighbors helping fill sandbags and issuing warm blankets after a storm. It’s soldiers standing post on city streets, functioning as police by another name. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Tragic, avoidable, irresponsible. If this was a human, they would be in jail awaiting trial; because it is ChatGPT it will be in the courts forever. I don't know why immediate injunctions were not sought, bc this is clearly dangerous. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...
It's a class war, not a culture war.
Serial plagiarizer and MAGA mouthpiece Benny Johnson recently claimed he fled DC after “my home was burned to the ground” and that “people were murdered in my front yard.” Neither of those things actually happened @kenbensinger.bsky.social found www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/b...
Rent Hike for Some Voucher Tenants Starts, Spurred by Mayor Adams www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/28/c...
Some Phillies thoughts on Trea Turner’s season, a notable change to Cris Sánchez’s changeup, and a possible September addition: www.nytimes.com/athletic/658...
' “Trump once said he wanted the generals that Hitler had,” Dr. Josephson wrote. “He’s certainly working on getting the science that Hitler and Stalin had.” ' www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/s...
Shocking. 😒 #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsACriminal #FuckTrump www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
Trea knew the assignment
Tre Turner knew the assignment.
Life for Palestinians in Gaza has gotten worse under Trump, not better. So where are Jill Stein and Cornel West now? They aren’t leading protests in DC outside the White House, no rallies. Almost like the whole 2024 thing was just performative.
"the national guard is picking up trash and putting down mulch, not stopping crime" sounds less like clown behavior and more like an actual propaganda effort at winning the hearts & minds of DC residents, so they became habituated to and even fond of the troops' presence
I'm so sorry. What a beauty!
i genuinely cant help it i was exposed to too much vocabulary at a young age
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AI sucks www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...
About Benny Johnson @bennyjohnsonn.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/b...
Well said. No need to actually read the article, guize
Hate both of them, but what a cock-up by 4547
The privatization of Medicare is on its way. HHS won’t say what companies will receive the pilot contracts. So, deception from the get-go. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/h...
D.C. flag sales soar amid Trump’s federal crackdown on the city www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Dynastic diplomacy ended when the 3 East European empires collapsed after WWI. Nobody told Trump. Because Modi won't push for Trump's coveted Nobel Prize, Trump raised tariffs on India to 25%, and then to 50%. India & Pakistan have fought 4 major wars since '47. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/u...
Today, the New York Times published this exceptional opinion piece by Robert Lee Williams. Incarcerated at Eastern NY Correctional Facility, Robert — in addition to his work as an essayist — is a full-time Bard student enrolled through BPI.
The link says it's $7.79 though
Wow! The deadline for getting yourself a free e-book copy of Hello, Cruel World has been extended to June 30th. Tell your friends, tell your enemies, tell your whole extended family! (yes I know the website still says the 25th. That should be sorted soon) www.sevenstories.com/blogs/381-fr...
Well done helping the rest of us appreciate why the decision to honor an insurrectionist is damaging both to our military and our society, @markhertling.bsky.social.
I definitely won't have equal rights with the GOP in control of all 3 branches. It may or may not improve with Democrats. There's a very vocal, well funded effort underway to ensure that it will not.
pork, cheese, broccoli rabe 
