Kate Powers

O the fragility of Mayor McCheese, constantly targeting, obsessing over smart, capable women of color who refuse to be intimidated by his petty, brief authority.

We need to stand with Ukraine, for Ukraine, and for us, too. @schumer.senate.gov @schiff.senate.gov @reptimkennedy.bsky.social @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social @chrismurphyct.bsky.social

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

Just singing "Mr. Brightside" with County Executive Mark Poloncarz at #NoKings today. As one does. #VoteEarly

#LFG #DontBooVote #VoteEarly

I love me some Bills, but phew. This is Ugly Ball.

We're a week out from No Kings: Vote Early. This is where we say what happens next. This is where we hold the line. #NoKings #NoCrowns #DontBooVote

I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.

It's October, which means the return of Sabres hockey, pumpkin spice lattes, and Buffalo DSA's COFFEE WITH COMRADES weekend socials! Join the social nearest you to hang out with fellow members, neighbors, and the socialist-curious while enjoying a damn fine cup of coffee.

And accountabilities.

Mark Carney: “I would now like to inform you that the teleprompter has ceased to function. Unlike a certain world leader, I do not view this as a conspiracy.”

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Henry Street Overpass

Spare a thought for the White House ketchup bottles tonight.

We are Keon Coleman days away from the start of the #Bills season. #BillsMafia #GoBills #GameDay

I don't ever need to see a photo or footage of the Twin Towers ever again. I will never, as long as memory holds a seat in this distracted globe, forget that morning, those sounds, that smell as the wind shifted towards uptown.

People are stating a fact.

For years, New Yorkers have demanded access to City records about the lasting health impacts of the horrific September 11th attacks. For years, they have been denied and ignored. That ends today. nyc.gov/sept11docs

You know who actually did show up at Ground Zero? Canadian emergency rescue crews.

I've seen a lot of "saying AI is useless is hyperbolic" but the flipside hyperbole is denying that AI still has serious deficiencies. Bullshitting is inherent to the ways LLMs work. Whatever the form—erroneous facts, mangled data, fake cites, or the plagiarism here—it's impossible to fully mitigate.

True North, friends. www.instagram.com/reel/Dcmt0lT...

‘Lake America’? These Upstate New Yorkers Aren’t Letting Go of ‘Ontario.’ — “Next they’ll be calling Canada geese ‘Donald ducks,’” he said. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/n...

(h/t to Burning River Brigade) Eight locks, twenty-seven miles, all of it in Ontario. There is no other route. $26.3BN of American trade depends on gates we don't own. "The United States has the clear leverage," the White House posted yesterday. Somebody get this idiot a map.

Lake Release the Epstein Files, is it now?

Thank you, @markpoloncarz.bsky.social; this was a good decision. Thank you, neighbors, for making the calls to shut this Gestapo hiring fair down.

"It's given a lot of people permission to be themselves, to not dream it, be it, which is the motto of the movie, really. I would like to be remembered for that." Farewell to Tim Curry (1946-2026) #RIP

The Vera Institute is conducting a confidential, anonymous survey to better understand the specific costs people face after incarceration, in order to develop a tool to better support people during reentry. Any returned citizen is eligible to participate. vera.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

1st day of classes yesterday. Introductions: one student mentioned that this is her 6th Kate class, and she cannot understand why the university won't let her have a minor in Kate Studies. 🤭

Reinforcing the stupid and the greedy right here, right now.

On 9/11, US airspace closed, Canada launched Operation Yellow Ribbon. Gander, a town of 10,000, received 38 airliners. Residents immediately sheltered, fed, clothed, and supported stranded passengers for days, providing this hospitality free of charge. interestingengineering.com/culture/oper...

Sending love to our Canadian neighbors. I hate that the First Occupant has broken our allyship. I know it's always like sleeping with an elephant, but this attack is unprovoked, unjustifiable, and an own goal into the very lousy bargain. Elbows Up, eh.

What are you doing, gents? Abolish ICE is the absolute baseline. @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social

Blood on Elon's hands, Rubio's hands, and the First Occupant's tiny, tiny bruised hands.

A feeling is not a fact. A grift is not medical understanding. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

In there somewhere, behind the 'be.' wnybb.org #WNYBB

Hey, friends and neighbors, come join us at the cookout and solidarity grill tomorrow in MLK Park on the East Side. Free food. Good folx. Great conversations.

In what way, and by whom, was this unexpected, exactly?

Jim Henson didn’t muppeteer a tiny green frog that was singing and playing the banjo, with rubber gloves while totally submerged underwater in a airtight aluminum tank just so you could tell me that AI is “inevitable”.

This is the tragic yet logical result of a decades-long project—undertaken by rightwing politicians and “business-minded” administrators alike—to distort the meaning of higher education, to deny the intrinsic value of the pursuit of knowledge, to deprive us all of richer, more purposeful lives.

Our Town Board just unanimously approved a local moratorium on data center development. This reinforces Gov. Hochul's Executive Order and goes a bit further. We the people made this happen.

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This is a story about the President and several of his hand-picked appointees all committing crimes and blatantly lying to the public while stealing public funds and abusing the criminal justice system, but the NYTimes describes the situation like they're recapping a soap opera.

@mossmallfarm.bsky.social Hello, Mohammed and friend!

One estimate "CloudFlare, the Internet security and performance giant used by millions of websites worldwide, says the crossover occurred in June, with bots generating 57.5% of webpage requests." fortune.com/2026/07/23/d...

#TeamFauci

10 years ago today Americans nominated a woman for President but America lost its collective mind and now women die from... miscarriages.

Anthony Fauci should sue Peter Navarro for defamation. I’m not saying this hyperbolically, I mean it.