the robots will not love you back

glad to hear the mayor is managing to squeeze in some fun/self care!

Area Mayor Plays Basketball On Public Property

this is honestly invigorating—maybe because the US far right has been on the rise most of my life, maybe because it suggests why the far right being unpopular is not enough. mostly: because it gives us something we can do

compared to the usual one or two other people at the early voting site in Flatbush, today was a crowd. one guy leaving with a sticker summed up the mood when he yelled to his friend, "we got to get these racist motherfuckers out of there"

I wrote about the end of Catapult defector.com/catapult-eli...

I finally heard the Texas song, but it took going to Florida

GOP threatens media with criminal prosecution if Hope Florida TV ad runs. www.floridatoday.com/story/news/p...

New: We found cops who kept using Flock to spy on women after they left the force. One used it for five years after retirement, tracking his wife during a custody battle. Another ran searches while he was suspended (and later fired) after killing a 15-year-old boy. Free to read: wapo.st/3UEwWU7

“Raises questions”?? In this Kavanaugh Stop, ICE agents swerve to hit a US citizen, knock him off his bike breaking his arm, tase him, cuff him as he screams in pain, blame him, lie about everything, threaten to charge him for damage to their SUV. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

Last Resort, Wait and Bleed, Freak on a Leash, Down With the Sickness--middle schoolers in the year 2000, u ok?

maddening that the ny times still consistently describes "allegations" and "accusations" of Israel's conduct as genocide. i get not being ahead of the world's arbiters of what constitutes genocide, but they've been in agreement for over a year

🚨Sen. Gustavo Rivera caught two plain-clothed ICE agents who claimed to be investigating a shooting carried out by their colleagues in the Bronx. However, they appeared to conduct the investigation in highly illicit manners.

crazy how many white punk millennial writer guys turned reactionary as they got older

Former @bardcollege.bsky.social President and friend of Jeffrey Epstein, Leon Botstein, has finally resigned all his college positions after emails emerge in which he asked Epstein if a trafficked woman was “for me.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/u...

Yes, Botstein had unilateral authority to determine outcomes in Title IX cases for years, and was widely rumored to routinely intervene on behalf of perpetrators. pod.link/1696774612/e...

NOBODY IS DOING IT LIKE RODNEYSE

They cut down the "grandmother" tree.

really phoning it in with the AI Sukkah flyer, council speaker menin

Brooklyn native Terrell Eleby was 26 years old when he was convicted of a crime that he says he did not commit. Four decades later, he's still fighting his conviction. This video brings his story to life.

New: Through a series of complex agreements with cities, the White House built a massive license plate camera database accessible to the feds. The program aggregates data across license plate companies (Flock, Axon, more) & is searchable by many agencies: www.404media.co/how-cities-a...

millennials only ny-ed so zoomers could new york or nowhere

Yoooo read this banger from Marie French at Politico exposing a right wing lying fraud of a NY-based social influencer who attacks renewable energy. Great exposé work. Go read! www.politico.com/news/2026/09...

get it all off your chest, @peterbakernyt.bsky.social, but China is not a communist country

a sad way to spend your 20s www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/22/m...

wild scenes out of Springfield, Missouri. Two people were arrested for trying to voice concerns about Flock cameras. Video of it is in the story

Presented without contex

NEW: In ‘24, the FBI sought to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump eviscerated the FBI & DOJ public corruption teams. ProPublica unearthed the investigation and you can read it 👇 www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...

“It’s a huge amount of weight lifted off my shoulders,” says an American Samoan man whose family was prosecuted for illegally voting by Alaska officials, after the charges were dropped. “I’ve never been stressed out so badly.”

Police officers can rough up civilians to protect their ability to illegally park. buff.ly/V3gcol3

A reminder that a year before stadium-owning billionaires kicked Macklemore off a tour over his advocacy for Palestinian rights, public officials in NYC shut down a Kehlani SummerStage concert for the same reason. hellgatenyc.com/randy-mastro...

Joel Kupferman was right all along. Giuliani lied. Bloomberg lied. New Yorkers died

Flock is very serious surveillance technology that cops take very seriously: 404media.co/cops-search-...

I love journalism and journalists

today years old when I found out that Frances Tiafoe got into tennis because his dad was a day laborer at a construction site for a tennis center, where the family lives in the construction office after fleeing the civil war in Sierra Leone. what a story

Today, we filed a FOIA request with DHS concerning an AI-generated image the @DHSgov X account posted this morning. The image depicts a Transformer facing a South Asian man, over a caption telling "Mr. Singh" to self-deport and get off American roads. We want the prompt.

The paragraph before seems equally detached from events—this would-be stumper of a question about the Court overturning executive orders is a lot less of a stumper when the executive orders keep violating laws passed by Congress!

Mayor Zohran Mamdani is canceling a contract with T-Mobile to hook up New York City public school students’ laptops with cell service. New York Focus reported last year that the questionable contract would have cost well over $100 million.

the naked bigotry has only gotten louder since this was published defector.com/the-ground-z...

there's something extra dispiriting about the spread of AI flyers to dancehall show promotion. never has there been more of a Babylon thing than AI. and yet

ok wait I loved this piece and I’m glad someone did it but why are plane-clappers catching strays

economists are not serious people