Today, I signed an Executive Order temporarily repealing bedtimes in the City of New York so that kids of all ages can watch our team in the NBA Finals.
As Mayor, you’re forced to make many difficult decisions. This was not one of them.
Go Knicks.
In the richest city in the richest country in the history of the world, nobody should be going hungry.
That's why we're opening five city-owned grocery stores, one in each borough, starting with The Bronx.
Lower Prices. Good food. Publicly owned.
Hunts Point next year. Every borough by 2029.
A capacious & racialized def of terrorism permits this violence. Simply saying the civilians are suspected “narcoterrorist” licenses profound violence—all in the name of “homeland,” which is always racialized as white. That’s just one way the war on terror operates with limitless capacity.
Big Thief at the Barrowlands! I’ve seen them six times over the last decade (and Adrianne and Buck solo - once each - too), and they have thrilled, surprised, and moved me each time. Truly extraordinary band.
The complete SI of @c21literature.bsky.social, The Century at 25, ed by @alicebennett.bsky.social @melissaschuh.bsky.social @heyitsdenisew.bsky.social and I is now published: c21.openlibhums.org. Working on this with Alice, Denise, and Melissa was such a pleasure!
My review of Autobiography of Cotton by Cristina Rivera Garza, newly translated to English by Christina MacSweeney and out with @andotherstories.bsky.social - for @ftweekend.com: www.ft.com/content/8c92...
Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end.
Speak your truth, fight and believe.
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Music and cultural studies folks! Jasmine Hazel Shadrack and I are co-editing the first scholarly collection of essays on Faith No More. Please share across your networks. It'd be great to hear from anyone here who might be interested in contributing. www.iaspm.net/call-for-pap...
What an absolute disgrace. A FIFA-certified referee being denied entry to the United States purely because he is Somali.
The World Cup is meant to bring people together. This is racism, plain and simple. Shameful.
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
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The Pulitzer-winning author weaves an account of a real-life cotton workers’ strike in Mexico in the 1930s with her own family history, memoir and invented tales
Omar Artan, who was set to be the first Somali to referee at the World Cup finals, is dropped from the list of officials after he was denied entry to the United States.
The U.S. Has Murdered More Than 190 Civilian in Boat Strikes. We’re Tracking Them All.
SOUTHCOM is now counting the survivor of the last strike, on May 8, as another death.
We have the running tally of strikes and deaths on our tracker @theintercept.com
theintercept.com/2025/11/17/t...
The Intercept is keeping count of all publicly declared U.S. attacks on boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean and the number of civilians killed.
