CUNY prof. Historian of, and advocate for, student organizing. @studentactivism from Twitter.
Watched E5 tonight, and the first painting we see at the arms dealer's house is a perfect example of the latter.
Angus JohnstonMe when Ride or Die is pandering to someone who is me-adjacent: “Ah. Clever. I see what you did there.” Me when Ride or Die is pandering to me specifically:
I am not usually a "I can tell when someone's lying by looking at video of them" person, but damn. Just horrifying.
The BulwarkRep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"
People who like to yell online do a lot of yelling online. People who like to do the work mostly just do the work. We are in a moment of stronger and more robust liberal-left coalition in the US than we've seen in many decades.
Melissa Gira Grantanyway I’ll be over here observing the actual collaboration across very different political groupings on the left, everyone from the anarchists giving some liberals the vapors to many other liberals, working to defeat the mass deportation regime, which has more potential than we yet know
Don't often stumble across words that are flat-out missing from @merriam-webster.com, but here's a big one: first-timer.
I have purchased tickets, so it is now safe for me to say publicly that White Nights is playing at the Paris here in NYC on September 15, with a Q&A WITH ISABELLA ROSSELLINI.
Angus JohnstonWHITE NIGHTS MENTIONED
The Deadline story on the retracted AI novel begins "The novel by [for a complicated set of reasons I have removed the author’s name]." (That's the piece's redaction, not mine.) 1. That's a VERY weird lede. 2. I am dying to know the reasons. 3. I suspect the name will be public knowledge by EOB.
AI Questions Spoil Book & Movie Heat On 'Call Me, I'll Hide The Body' NovelThat screeching sound you heard from international publishers and film rights buyers was an abrupt application of the brakes after a fevered pursuit of the unpublished debut novel.deadline.comIf the seven kinds of bars I don't like were each a person, they'd be this crew.
Freakbeat TakeshiWe're assembling a team of the weirdest looking think tank ghouls to fight the communist menace.
This was hugely true in the campus organizing world.
Chad LoderOne thing I miss about leftist Twitter in its heyday is the large number of random 400-follower accounts from local activists regularly doing actual activism. Very few of those people made it over to Bluesky, I know this because almost nobody I organize with locally is on here.
We have a growing pile of evidence that a majority of voters, emphatically including a significant number of Republicans, are repulsed by attempts to rig elections, even in their favor. This is the kind of statement from a candidate that can and should become a millstone.
Aaron RuparRep. John James: "Thank you Mr President for coming back to Michigan, where you won three times" (Trump in fact lost Michigan in 2020)
"There is something after all in the world allowing one man to steal a horse while another must not look at a halter. Steal a horse straight out. Very well. He has done it. Perhaps he can ride. But there is a way of looking at a halter that would provoke the most charitable of saints into a kick."
Sean T. CollinsMy grand unified theory of Christopher Nolan movies is my grand unified theory of all genre movies: You stop picking apart the holes that by their very genre-film nature they are invariably full of by their when you feel the films are generating enough compensatory value to overlook them. That's it
I've seen far worse ways of finishing off the phrase "Live your life as if..."
Joe ThompsonYour very existence is a cathedral extending through time, if you want it to be.
A thing it’s gonna be useful to remember in the coming months is that none of us knows what’s gonna happen in the midterms, and that there’s no such thing as strategic hoping. If you have the capacity to help in a given race, help. If not, it’s okay to just watch it unfold.
Democratic Socialist Francesca Hong Rises in Crowded Wisconsin Governor Race (Gift Article)Democrats must decide what brand to put forward: an establishment name or a candidate on the left who has garnered excitement.www.nytimes.comThere are cathedrals everywhere for those with eyes to see.
AndaliteBanditFound this on Tumblr with the caption, "Saw a fire, stopped his car, got out and Madonna'd the fuck out of those flames". I want him carnally.