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Favorite film in haiku Grief and love persist Through space and time, memory Ascribing meaning

Druid Loving This Cloak Weather

Being in @socialists.nyc the week Convention delegate voting is active

Today my book ‘Playing the Victim: How the Powerful Deny and Attack Survivors of Violence, from Domestic Abuse to Genocide’ comes out! My book draws the connections btwn domestic abusers’ tactics (particularly DARVO) and imperialism, Zionism & state violence. Link/more on it below:

Now is the time to care about everyone, not “once we win” The time to care about everyone is always always always now

Unfortunately there are people who care about trans people having rights who are not trans people themselves and I’m sure that the number will suddenly grow exponentially post election when candidates have lost and you’re looking for someone to blame that isn’t the candidates themselves

Last week, New Yorkers raised over $1M for Palestinian refugees at the Gaza 5K. @jabaribrisport.bsky.social and I joined to let participants know about the Not On Our Dime! Act, our legislation to end tax-exempt status for organizations that fund Israeli war crimes. Free Palestine! 🇵🇸

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.

HADOUKEN

From the dumb mind that brought you* this back in 2020 comes this tonight * East Bay DSA comrades, who loved it when projected at a general meeting and created a monster for my occasional slapdash “memes” that will never even get to the level of Photoshop

Wasn’t planning on writing something like this but I just read the news that a special needs aka disability classroom was targeted in Oregon.

What had happened was I had left both of my lighters out on the deck chairs out back because it had been sunny earlier but then it rained all night as you know so skipping ahead through a whole evening of a person’s normal life next thing I was clicking the gas stove on to light a cigarette

Account now restored but 90 min of censorship, & who knows how much algorithmic suppression, is proof positive that letting a few billionaires control what we see/say/know is - perhaps - not the best plan. California - these fuckers are trying to keep you from passing Prop 40 & tanking 41 & 42.

There’s a couple on the subway in costume as like cartoon bank robbers (striped shirts, etc.) and they have two little dogs dressed as 💰 but the *many* $100 bills overflowing from their harness pockets look REAL and… Look, it crossed my mind is all I’m saying Good luck to them

Call Chuck Schumer and tell him to defend Ilhan Omar publicly or resign. (202) 224-6542

I have always stood up to him and that will never change. The pedophile protector will never silence me.

Thank you to everyone who stood with me over the years. It’s been a scary journey but I have always been grounded in my work and ability to provide exemplary service to my constituents. Trump and his administration have been after me since I arrived in Congress.

I interviewed 83-year editor & sound designer Walter Murch, a legendary figure. The Godfather trilogy, Apocalypse Now, The Conversation, Ghost, The Unbearable Lightness of Being...and The English Patient, which turns 30 this year. Info on a free zoom talk included. www.rogerebert.com/interviews/t...

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

A statement by the National Political Committee, DSA's highest leadership body between conventions, demanding ICE out of NYC! 🌹

Ok this is classy

EMERGENCY PROTEST IN NEW YORK TONIGHT 5:30PM FOLEY SQUARE. ICE shot a man with his 5 year old in the backseat. We cannot let this be normal. Be there.

Today, women & survivors are rising up across the country for a day of rage. We are rising up because we are sick of it all. Sick of the cover-ups. Sick of the injustice. Sick of the good ole boys club. Swipe through our demands & find an action near you today at: womensmarch.com/stop

Whoa, was not expecting the Slow Horses to kill Ted Lasso in the finale

Holy shit.

Incoming Congress members Claire Valdez and Darializa Avila Chevalier joined the Hell Gate Podcast to chat about, among other things, how they plan on building and using power when they get into Washington. Watch the whole interview here: youtu.be/xHUt6GxVxxY?...

NEW EPISODE OF THE HELL GATE PODCAST FEAT. CLAIRE VALDEZ AND DARIALIZA AVILA CHEVALIER Talking about being a transplant, Latinidad, how the left can build power, what they said to Hakeem Jeffries, and... are aliens out there??? www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHUt...

Corporate utilities are making a killing. Working people are done paying for it. Join @chiosse.bsky.social, @jabaribrisport.bsky.social, @sarahana.bsky.social & neighbors across the city on Tuesday for the Utility Ripoff Hearing! Share your story & join the fight to take back our power system.

NYC-DSA’s statement on the Cornell 7

Happy Rent Freeze Day! 🏠❄️ This month, we canvassed rent-stabilized buildings in Astoria to let our neighbors know that rents are frozen on leases starting Oct. 1 (TODAY!), their rights as tenants, and how to report violations. Organized tenants mobilized to win this. It’s up to us to defend it.

New Yorkers are proving we can put working people over shareholders. And we’re just getting started. Join us next Tuesday for New York’s first Utility Ripoff Hearing to learn how public renewables can help us take our power system back. bit.ly/utilityripoffhearing

If you've never seen Margaret Tait's film-poem based on a piece by Gerard Manley Hopkins, I suggest you take six minutes to treat yourself today. I wrote about why I think it works so well here.

I’m so excited that a new PFT set is in my future

Multiple NYC Climate Week events have been rescheduled or moved indoors due to weather. Folks,,,

"Writing can be small and wrapped, layered and touching, tight and nearly eternal in depth. Hold it between two fingers, hide it within a cove of denim beside your house key." buff.ly/UgZwq9D

BREAKING: Over 400 New Yorkers are risking arrest in a mass anti-war sit-in outside the United Nations during Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's speech to say: Stop the genocide and stop arming Israel.

Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.

May 2025: DoorDash spends $1 million to stop a democratic socialist from winning the mayoralty September 2026: DoorDash reaches a $131.5 million settlement with NYC's democratic socialist administration and admits to massive wage theft This is what's possible when you vote DSA