New: Mayor Zohran Mamdani and a group of his friends have been secretly using the NYPD Police Academy’s gymnasium in Queens to play pickup basketball — scrambling some operations at the facility.
w/ @grahamrayman.bsky.social & Joe Anuta www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
My favorite part is how it rests on top a hill surrounded by trees and you can see it for miles. Pure "Porky Pig inherits a haunted house and under the terms of his uncle's will has to stay their overnight" vibes
Mahalia Jackson’s voice helped inspire a movement for freedom and equality. On her birthday, we honor her legacy at the Obama Presidential Center, where “Take My Hand, Precious Lord” fills the museum soundscape and the café bears her name, thanks to the Judy and Peter Blum Kovler Foundation.
This is a BIG WEEK for avian taxonomy! This week, the newly revised 2026 avian taxonomy is released. Look for 202 newly updated species profiles; an in-depth explanation of all the changes; and an upcoming "What's New in Avian Taxonomy” webinar. birdsoftheworld.org/bow/home.
Anti-trans Democrats are spreading poison when we can least afford it, during elections in this ongoing fascist takeover.
As a strategy, it’s a recipe for failure. As a moral stand, it’s reprehensible.
PS I’m the father of young trans woman and I’ll never forgive anyone who makes her life harder.
I've mentioned before I've updated my contracts to make sure everything in the production of my books is done by humans and not "AI"; if you're wondering what such a thing looks like, here's a clause covering that from a recent contract.
Ultimately, if you only have time to know one thing about all of this, just know that not a single solitary tech oligarch, tech company, or tech-backed politician has a single solitary serious commitment to the existence of Black political power or economic security in their plans for the future.
We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps:
-It’s ‘sleight of hand’
-It’s ‘bated breath’
-It’s ‘lo and behold’
-It's 'buck naked'
-It’s ‘brass tacks’
-It’s ‘free rein’
-It’s ‘toe the line'
Psyche Delhi-san, the mascot for the shopping district in hip and alternative Koenji, Tokyo, is a mysterious psychedelic creature with glowing eyes and a protruding tongue.
DESTROYING ANGEL (1982)
Acrylic on Canvas - 34” x 24”
All of the concepts I submitted for the 1982 Year’s Best Horror Stories cover were strong. If I had tried to guess which one would be chosen, the concept that became this painting would have been my last guess.
#bookssky#horror#art 🪐📚
My song “The Leopards Ate My Face” has pulled in millions of views, but I'm not the originator of this iconic phrase! Lucky for you I did brief musical history of the leopards meme along with a round up of some of it's most famous victims, in front of a LIVE AUDIENCE!
Three years ago, my dad said that all fish are the same shape.
Out of spite, I decided to draw all 478 families of bony fish listed in Nelson 2016. There's still some stuff I need to edit and some fish I want to redraw but, after 985 days, I finished my big dumb fish project last night.
FWIW, the Lefty Cheat Sheet also shits on Fuse Washington's Progressive Voters' Guide (which did not endorse Ron Davis ro Hannah, notably) by putting out misinformation about it. The PVG is another great guide to local elections and I'm not sure why LCS is putting out false info about them.
This is especially true when the groups you're shitting on (I'm talking now about the Stranger and Fuse) are known entities whose leaders and endorsing individuals are known and public, and you're doing all the shit talking from behind a cloak of anonymity.
When you're starting a group that makes "lefty" voting recommendations, it's pretty weird to focus your energy on shitting on other groups and organizations that make endorsements and suggesting they're corporate, bullshit, bought and paid for, etc.
10 teams, $1M on the line.
Start with 100K, kill other teams to take their dog tags and cash, exfil to keep it 🚁
Welcome to DMZ, done MrBeast's way.
#MW4 DMZ Early Access is live TOMORROW
📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM21...
I am a one-person outlet covering the minutiae of local politics and policy (PubliCola.com for those who don't know) and "who's behind this voter guide/activist group/PAC" is a standard question that is firmly in my wheelhouse. That asking that question has resulted in days of attacks is bizarre.
The attacks have been relentless, often personal (junior high speculation about who I'm "friends" with) and have only piqued my curiosity about why a group saying they are the true progressive alternative to the Stranger won't say who they are