I was going through my scrapbook during lunch because I was trying to remember what show i had seen at hammerstein theater and came scores these bad boys. The top was comped because I knew how to get radio tickets but the bottom one was $40 about $ 75 in today's dollars

Untold numbers of migrant youth aged 21 and under have come by themselves to NYC, hoping to gain asylum, go to school, and find stability—instead, they're treated as adults by the City and shuffled around from shelter to shelter.

@oliviabensimon.bsky.social reports: hellgatenyc.com/teenage-migr...

"We are dealing with the reality of the criminal legal system. It’s not optional. Once you or your loved ones are implicated in that system, you have to confront it. You also have to foster that sense that we can build something different—but until we’ve destroyed these systems, it’s a both/and."

You used to call me on my self-own

I know the Blue MAGA grifters make all kinds of noise about grand plans that will fix everything if you just give them or their PAC or whatever more cash, but real and meaningful change comes from deep, resilient grassroots networks that can sustain pressure and withstand state attacks.

Well, a lot of organizers "bleating" on here right now are saying and have been saying that now is the time to build out local relationships and community alliances to materially support vulnerable communities and pressure local politicians into noncompliance with Trumpian overreach.

I can't talk about the emergency meeting that kept me late at work yesterday for confidentiality reasons, but just know that educators take more psychic damage than about anyone and we have the least training to actually deal with the awful shit we see.

They all act like there’s some Trump voter out there who was like “I’m just really interested in the intricacies of his brilliant tax and trade policy proposals” and fuck, there fucking isn’t. They want us to suffer and die, in that order, and they expect he will live up to his promises to do so

Trump has revealed in stark relief what a flawed democracy we have.

*blows airhorn* Abortion funds on Bluesky

"92 million low-income people in the U.S. states—everyone whose income is less than 200 percent of the federal poverty line—have some basic aspect of their lives decided by AI"

www.techtonicjustice.org/reports/ines...

this is a damning report

Trump has named Russell Vought to run the WH’s budget office.

Last month, ProPublica + Documented released prev unreported speeches that detail his vision for a Trump term, including:

- Deploying the military in response to domestic unrest
- Defunding the EPA
- Putting civil servants “in trauma”

Nothing like seeing your ex at your local bar making out with someone sobers you up quicker. Holy hell that was a long night (and thank god I know the bartenders cause my Negroni tab would’ve been through the roof, folks!)

NEW KENDRICK LAMAR ALBUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

learned about the Kendrick album drop on bluesky. maybe this place /does/ have the juice