Before he was a Senator, a candidate for President, and our greatest champion in the fight against oligarchy, @BernieSanders was the four-term Mayor of Burlington, VT. I sat down with Bernie in Astoria to talk about the lessons he learned—and the work ahead.

https://t.co/noOJVVyX6p

I wrote about anti-fascist theatre for @curaffairs. I look at 7 plays that show how theatre isn't just consequence free fun but a necessary form of collective sublimation that we ignore at our peril.

"Even in a contest against men twice his age, Mamdani has begun to sound like the adult in the room on issues of public safety, offering detailed, thoughtful policy proposals." 🙏 @errollouis

my wife decided the verb for “to act in a performatively male way” should be “to mustache”

We can set an example for the whole nation in this election.

Because we've had to use it

I think there should be seats, actually.

“It is not a radical idea to say that every man, woman and child in America can have a decent standard of living.” - @BernieSanders

DSA should send all NPC members to the criterion closet

I clicked turn image into video with Grok, and it showed me one single catastrophe that keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of my feet.

Guy on an airpod phone call walked by me in the park saying “No no no no no no. It’s not the Vienna Philharmonic. I’m talking about the Vienna Staatsoper. The Philharmonic is a subset of the Staatsoper. No, this kind of drama would never happen at the Philharmonic. Anyway,”

Reactionary? Yes. But still an improvement over the anarchists I met in 2017 who believed in no sex before the revolution

So delighted to present Issue 55 of @curaffairs: the Animals Issue. We've devoted the whole edition to animal rights, a topic constantly neglected by the mainstream media. We've got articles on sentience, slaughterhouses, pigeons, rats, zoos & much more, plus Q&As with activists.

how degenerate of these people not to be on the brink of death like normal Democratic leadership

New York is so beautiful but it’s sad too…millions of people who don’t get to eat dinner in an suv in the target parking lot after hitting the chick-fil-a drive thru

In ancient Athens performatively listening to a philosophical dialogue

Black guy from the Bronx explaining to Jewish guy from Brooklyn (by way of South Africa) why he is antisemitic is like the great comic masterpiece that Newark’s Amiri Baraka and Philip Roth should have written together.

evidently the one thing that will not be "abundant" is artists