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prisonculture.bsky.social
I thought this was lovely.
"A few years ago I received a DM from Zohran Kwame Mamdani. Only recently did I discover its existence. It was a very unusual DM—especially coming from a local assemblyman who would soon be running for higher office. He had very little name recognition at the time, and could have benefited from publicity. But unlike the thousands of messages I’ve received from people with something to promote, Zohran did not ask to be featured on Humans of New York. Instead he asked if he could introduce me to taxi drivers that were struggling beneath the burden of debt. Coming from a man with political ambitions, this self-denying request was so strange as to be almost singular. I don’t endorse politicians on Humans of New York. But I’ll endorse a good man. And it was a good man who cleared 30 minutes from his schedule yesterday to swing by Grand Central and visit Dear New York’s Vanderbilt Hall Exhibition. Nearly fifty-student artists were visiting that day with their families, and I thought a surprise visit from this widely-loved future mayor would be a special memory for all of them. Before Zohran’s arrival I was convinced I’d made a terrible mistake. The exhibit was filled to capacity with adult visitors. Dear New York is self-funded so there was very little staff and security for crowd control. In the crush of people I was almost certain this special day for the kids would devolve into thirty minutes of selfie requests. But everyone rose to the occasion." black text on white background "Hundreds of adults quickly cleared the room and stood outside the exhibit. Eleven very notable adult photographers are also featured in the show, but even they took a step back, so that these students could briefly have the stage to themselves. Each child stood by their work and Zohran was able to meet all of them, one at a time, and honor their contributions to the most-visited art show in New York City. Thanks to everyone who ceded the stage yesterday to make this moment possible. Thank you Zohran for literally sitting down on the floor so that these young artists could feel so tall. Thanks for continually centering other people in your life and work. And thank you, for being such an important part of Dear New York." A large group of children and adults pose together indoors in front of a sign reading "DEAR." A man in a suit sits cross-legged in front, surrounded by smiling kids. The background features an ornate architectural detail.
October 13, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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josie.zone
This essay, by an Egyptian-American former New Yorker staff fact-checker, is an incredible read

And incredibly damning

Huge recommendation
House Arab
I was working at the magazine as a fact-checker and my parents no longer considered me a failure, not because they read or admired it, but because when they said its name to friends and relatives it s...
bidoun.org
September 17, 2025 at 2:16 PM
inaxusein.bsky.social
Right wing Republicans are arming themselves with WMDs & the Democrats are showing up with feeble words, weak body language and a pencil & notebook to take- down names…
September 16, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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crisisgroup.org
🧵Gaza is on the cusp of being completely destroyed.

Absent immediate action by the outside world, Gaza could soon be physically erased, its surviving people herded into camps or expelled entirely. Such an outcome would stain a generation of world leaders. 1/12

www.crisisgroup.org/middle-east-...
September 3, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.
June 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
inaxusein.bsky.social
Apparently we have never known how to properly eat the very bananas growing in our backyards. So grateful to the Civilizers for showing the proper way !
May 26, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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heymrsbond.com
There’s not enough money in the world that could convince me to chase someone across their graduation stage with their infant.

These cops are fucking monsters.
npr.org NPR @npr.org · May 22
Jean Paul Al Arab and his 6-month-old led police on a brief foot chase during a University at Buffalo ceremony. The school said the grad violated rules about who can participate in the commencement.
Why did university police chase a student and his baby across a graduation stage?
Jean Paul Al Arab and his 6-month-old led police on a brief foot chase during a University at Buffalo ceremony. The school said the grad violated rules about who can participate in the commencement.
www.npr.org
May 22, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
When you’re the first Muslim elected official to run for mayor, people say some pretty wild things.
May 12, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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markjacob.bsky.social
As an institution, the New York Times has failed. This excellent thread by Michael Hobbes takes apart today's NYT editorial urging democracy defenders to mind their manners as they oppose Trump.
NYT seems to hold out hope that lavender oatmilk lattes will be served in the journalist detention camps.
michaelhobbes.bsky.social Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · May 1
Why on earth would a protest movement against the worst president in US history begin by acknowledging that he's not so bad
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/o...
The patriotic response to today’s threat is to oppose Mr. Trump. But it is to do so soberly and strategically, not reflexively or performatively. It is to build a coalition of Americans who disagree about many other subjects — who span conservative and progressive, internationalist and isolationist, religious and secular, business-friendly and labor-friendly, pro-immigration and restrictionist, laissez-faire and pro-government, pro-life and pro-choice — yet who believe that these subjects must be decided through democratic debate and constitutional processes rather than the dictates of a single man. The building of this coalition should start with an acknowledgment that Mr. Trump is the legitimate president and many of his actions are legal. Some may even prove effective. He won the presidency fairly last year, by a narrow margin in the popular vote and a comfortable margin in the Electoral College. On several key issues, his views were closer to public opinion than those of Democrats.
May 1, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
This is NYT for "literally nothing will stop us from fear-mongering about campus SJWs."
Many federal judges, including most Supreme Court justices, have also responded sensibly. They have not picked fights with him or overreached. They have issued narrow, firm rulings directing him to obey the law. Only after he has ignored those rulings have they escalated. The one-paragraph emergency order that seven Supreme Court justices (all but Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas) issued in the middle of the night two weeks ago was particularly important. It blocked the Trump administration from deporting a group of detained men under the Alien Enemies Act. The order’s speed and breadth were signs that Chief Justice John Roberts and most of his colleagues seem to recognize the threat that Mr. Trump’s bad faith poses. The order put Mr. Trump in a bind. It left him without any evident ways to violate the ruling’s spirit while adhering to its text. If he is going to defy the judiciary now, he will need to do so in an obvious way that will probably further damage his standing with the American public. Every attempt to defend American democracy should be similarly thoughtful.
May 1, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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nanjala.bsky.social
The Kenyan speaker of parliament flew to Rome a day earlier so he could “welcome” the Kenyan president to Rome for the popes funeral. Is either one of them Italian? No. Is either one of them Catholic? Also no. Are they paying for any of this out of pocket? Take a guess.
Photograph of two men shaking hands. The caption reads: nation President William Ruto received by Speaker Moses Wetang'ula in Rome for Pope Francis' funeral service
April 26, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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jamellebouie.net
really brutal chotinering right here www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
The Biden Official Who Doesn’t Oppose Trump’s Student Deportations
Why the Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt blames universities for “opening the door” to the Trump Administration’s professed campaign to tackle antisemitism.
www.newyorker.com
April 22, 2025 at 7:10 PM
inaxusein.bsky.social
My tribute to a great man;

tinyurl.com/mryz4pxz
When Pope Francis used Nairobi as a pulpit to confront Africa’s problems
He urged the West to rethink its relationship with Africa—not as a place of pity, but as a continent brimming with human potential.
tinyurl.com
April 22, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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mtsw.bsky.social
Lol when he was dooming kids in Africa to die of AIDS with illegal agency cuts it was "muscular Trump gets results" but now that he's crashing the stock market with tariffs it's "Missteps"
April 22, 2025 at 3:31 AM
inaxusein.bsky.social
A good man has left the earth poorer #RIPPOPE
April 21, 2025 at 10:38 AM
inaxusein.bsky.social
How would you describe this picture:
I)A surreal display of historical irony
II)Privilege mistaking loss of dominance for persecution
III)Where equality feels like oppression to those used to supremacy
IV)A display of performative victimhood
V)A textbook case of gaslighting on a societal scale.
March 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
inaxusein.bsky.social
The boundaries of DT’s craziness keeps stretching…there seems to be no limit to its elasticity! threadreaderapp.com/thread/18980...
Thread by @ChrisO_wiki on Thread Reader App
@ChrisO_wiki: 1/ Donald Trump may be aiming to annex the Great Lakes – and possibly south-eastern Ontario in a maximalist scenario – and kick Canada out of NORAD, judging by first-hand accounts of tal...
threadreaderapp.com
March 7, 2025 at 6:51 PM
inaxusein.bsky.social
My op-ed on the unfolding tragedy in the DRCongo:
www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/opinion/...
Congo: A tragedy rooted at home
The attempt to turn this war into a public relations spectacle is ill conceived.
www.theeastafrican.co.ke
February 28, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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karenattiah.bsky.social
My latest podcast episode is out!

I promised y'all on Bluesky I would talk about the Obama to anti-DEI pipeline.

So let's talk about it.

Trump's segregationist agenda is a reaction to Obama open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...
Trump's segregrationist agenda is a reaction to Obama
And we need to talk about it.
open.substack.com
February 21, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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theintercept.com
“Are you going to be a coward?” Zül-Qarnain Nantambu asked himself before taking the field for Kendrick Lamar’s show. “Are you going to take a stand?”
The Inside Story of the Super Bowl Halftime Performer Who Raised a Palestine and Sudan Flag
“Are you going to be a coward?” Zül-Qarnain Nantambu asked himself before taking the field for Kendrick Lamar’s show. “Are you going to take a stand?”
interc.pt
February 10, 2025 at 7:21 PM
inaxusein.bsky.social
1/2 The Aga khan was given the title of “His Highness” by Queen Elizabeth in July 1957, two weeks after his grandfather, the Aga Khan III, unexpectedly made him heir to the family’s 1,300-year dynasty as leader of the Ismaili Muslim sect.”
February 9, 2025 at 6:07 PM
inaxusein.bsky.social
Just got in from “X” It is like the chaotic, unhinged neighborhood you moved out from to preserve your sanity and avoid being dragged into the madness. Yet, you can’t resist checking in now and then—half-hoping the lunatics have settled down or finally packed up and left…
February 5, 2025 at 8:56 PM
inaxusein.bsky.social
Trump “couldn’t find South Africa on a map of South Africa”. Was it Netanyahu who convinced him to punish SAfrica for bringing the genocide case against Israel? Or was it: Elon Musk, formerly of SAfrica, working out his vengeance for apartheid ending, who put him up to this?
February 3, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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arlana.bsky.social
An exchange of words between South African president Cyril Ramaphosa and Rwandan president Paul Kagame on X signals flaring tensions over the situation in DRC, with an apparent threat of ‘confrontation’ from the Rwandese leader. 👀
January 30, 2025 at 3:53 AM