They published this the same day they published the news that Mamdani's office is releasing to the public thousands of documents showing Giuliani's office knew how toxic the air was around Ground Zero and lied about it, leading to more deaths than on 9/11.

Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social · 17h ago

In a story that's built on questions of Giuliiani's credibility vs. Mamdani's, the New York Times should have pointed out that Giuliani has been disbarred in both Washington, DC, and New York.

I was an assistant to a publicist who tried really hard to get Jeffrey Epstein to pay him a ton of money to rehabilitate his image after he got out of prison the first time and those emails are all in the files.

SarahJSloat@sjane.bsky.social · 15h ago

Happy labor day (USA). What's one of the oddest paid job you've had? Mine was probably as a reader for a medical professor at Rutgers, whose eyes were failing. I read him many academic texts, as well as Samuel Butler's "The Way of All Flesh."

“A lot of them don’t believe that their fight is partisan, and it’s not.” Yes it is. MAHA is overwhelmingly a right-wing movement with right-wing goals. The reason they make “progressive” arguments is to trick mainstream figures into working with them — exactly as AOC seems to be doing.

Since Germany and its desire to continue supporting Nazi groups is in the news again, I’m not thrilled that this thing I wrote about (but never finished because I’m me) will continue to be. Can anyone tell these Nazi punks to fuck off? Anywhere in the “West”? Like… c’mon…

Brendan Davey@brendandavey.bsky.social · last yr.

No One Ever Tells Nazi Punks to **** Off. An obvious problem today, it was also a problem in the self-proclaimed "anti-Nazi" German Democratic Republic. Unsurprisingly, we keep committing the same mistakes today that they did. So I decided to begin highlighting this connection: 🗃️

Hey, @aoc.bsky.social, I like you, but don’t do this. Believe it or not you don’t actually gotta hand it to them. A healthier world isn’t coming from anyone listening to MAHA acolytes.

Erin Biba@erinbiba.bsky.social · 2d ago

I want to throw up. “They described the meetings as a chance to…listen and to “brainstorm” about how the two sides might “build a movement together”...” @aoc.bsky.social you are in bed with eugenicists. Their goals are based on conspiracy theories and anti-science lies. Honestly how dare you?

UW-Madison professor engages in multiple sexual relationships with students, disparages another over their sexual orientation and appearance, creates hostile environment, and department leadership covers it all up. And in true “pass the trash” fashion, moves on to ASU once forced to resign.

UW-Madison students, records detail investigation of professor

Dietram Scheufele resigned after investigators determined he had sexual relationships with two students and engaged in unwelcome sexual conduct with one.

captimes.com

You don’t know me dialect quiz!

Jerry Chen@jcsalterego.bsky.social · 4d ago

near 20 years in texas and i still got my northeastern roots mydialect.us/quiz-standar...

History has shown: the power of movements is converted into more enduring institutional changes only upon the adoption of their agendas by at least one major political party. That is why fighting for functional parties is a worthwhile fight—and why @newkingsdems.bsky.social's current fight matters.

New Kings Democrats@newkingsdems.bsky.social · 5d ago

This morning, recently-elected District Leaders and County Committee members are back in court to stand up for democracy. It’s a shame the party chair continues to focus on overriding Brooklyn’s voters instead of the work our party should be doing—winning general elections this November.

It is really time to sue on the ankle monitor policy: it was issued as interim guidance rather than a notice and comment rulemaking. It also likely violates the 5th Amendment Due Process Clause.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 7d ago

Awful. Just awful. A promising young man, a high school honors grad who joined JROTC and dreamed of becoming a doctor, killed himself because of the Trump admin’s obsession with hurting Haitians and the humiliating shame of an ICE ankle monitor. His blood is on their hands.

I’m a relatively quiet gringo with a cooler outgoing Latina wife and honestly I’m just glad that someone’s making a game that relates to us 🤷‍♂️.

IGN@ign.com · last wk.

A bunch of angry spouses on social media believe that Grand Theft Auto 6's in-depth relationship mechanic is equivalent to cheating on your real life partner and worth breaking up over. https://bit.ly/4qLlUbp

I would object to LLMs even if they weren't planet destroying plagiarism-based bullshit engines because students need to learn core skills and how to do the work themselves. Also, they are planet destroying plagiarism-based bullshit engines that give answer-shaped nonsense.

Thomas Lecaque@tlecaque.bsky.social · last wk.

No undergrad should be using an LLM and it's absurdly irresponsible to suggest otherwise.

I appreciate @hcrichardson.bsky.social for highlighting this issue, but this figure & history is not quite right. After the earthquake in 2010, the Obama admin granted TPS, then as the recovery stumbled amid cholera outbreaks, granted it again in 2011. Roughly 50,000 people got TPS then. 1/

Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)@hcrichardson.bsky.social · last wk.

August 28, 2026

I agree with all 4 changes to Leftist electoral strategy—at least as applied to statewide races—recommended here, but to me by far the most important point is #3. We must steadily rely less on canvassing by strangers and more on building relational breadth. Relational is how we best money at scale.

@liberationroad.bsky.social · 2w ago

What El-Sayed and Hong can teach us about ground games, air wars, and taking socialist politics statewide www.newliberator.com/p/a-tale-of-...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEO_... Great video on how AAA game companies shotgunned themselves in the face by pricing out an entire generation of financially fucked young people, who pretty much permanently moved toward indie and retro games

The games industry just lost an entire generation of players

YouTube video by Legendary Drops

youtube.com

Every graduate student at CUNY is a member of @psc-cuny.org including the folks running the labs at CCNY Somehow we’ve managed just fine.

Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 2w ago

Opinion | Postdocs Aren’t Burger Flippers: Why Unionization Is a Bad Idea Unionization disrupts the bespoke mentor-mentee relationships that are central to the advancement of science. By Evan D. Morris: https://bit.ly/3Sus7fa #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

I’m from New England. My whole family used “y’all” and I still do. It’s convenient. Don’t be gatekeepy. That’s far more cringe than someone trying to sound folksy.

Jack Tindale@jacktindale.bsky.social · 2w ago

Minor point but I really hate this performative “y’all” people do to try and appear more folksy. I don’t type in a Yorkshire accent and I did people would rightly tell me to shut up.

“Professors For the Continued Adjunctification of Higher-Ed” might genuinely be the stupidest people on the planet, despite what they think their fancy piece of paper tells them.

Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 2w ago

Opinion | Postdocs Aren’t Burger Flippers: Why Unionization Is a Bad Idea Unionization disrupts the bespoke mentor-mentee relationships that are central to the advancement of science. By Evan D. Morris: https://bit.ly/3Sus7fa #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

I can answer that real quick and for free: it can't. Have a good day!

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2w ago

“…the WRITE AI Center will lead a national effort to answer one of higher education’s most urgent questions: How can AI improve student learning while ensuring students continue to develop the writing, critical thinking and communication skills essential for success?”

A tinted window citation is the same thing that ICE used to throw out a friend of mine's application to stay here even though he is married to a US citizen (he's been in a MS detention center for over a year now). They will use literally ANYTHING to someone and subject them to this stuff.

I Travel Like Sound Dog@chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2w ago

“The wife of one of the men deported after encountering Taylor police still struggled to understand how a tinted window upended her family’s life. We are not using the couple’s full names because they fear reprisals for their family still in the U.S.”

“The team behind the party chair doesn't even care enough about Brooklyn to spell its name right.” 👆 This is a banger line. The saddest part, however, is that it’s probably an understatement for how little they actually care about the borough.

Hell Gate *subscribe today!*@hellgatenyc.com · 2w ago

The video clip is much more like a work of political satire (or of outsider art) than it is a convincing argument that Bichotte Hermelyn and her cohort are the rightful leaders of the party that represents Kings County's 1.2 million registered Democrats.

ordinary people have no idea the system is such a kafkaesque nightmare

Emily Farris@emayfarris.bsky.social · 2w ago

Tomorrow's handout for my Immigration 101 lecture is really throwing the students in the deep end.

Had an interesting evening outside the Brooklyn Democratic Party meeting in Mill Basin last night. A dancing Frank Seddio, an anthem-singing district leader, a fleeing BK Dems chair... and a vote that snatches back the power the old guard saw slipping away... (we got audio from inside)

Brooklyn Democrats Don’t Need Your Democracy

Hell Gate was outside a Mill Basin clubhouse Tuesday night as party chair Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn led a vote to override June's election results.

hellgatenyc.com

We're going to lose every 80 year old who is legitimately cool and doesn't suck before we lose... that one, aren't we?

Important 🧵:

Stacy Fahrenthold@sfahrenthold.bsky.social · 2w ago

AHA hired a lobbying firm with an extensive client list in Israel's occupations. And asked them how to squash advocacy by its own members working in/on the Middle East. It's bad. But It's clockable bc this is also what universities also do to crush dissent, discipline faculty in contested fields.

Representation's power ultimately derives from mass RECOGNITION—from others' treating that status as legitimate. Both Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn's status as BK Dems Chair and her version of the executive committee are ILLEGITIMATE. Let us TREAT them as such—and tell our electeds to do the same.

New Kings Democrats@newkingsdems.bsky.social · 2w ago

Report from Brooklyn Democratic Party exec committee meeting is that Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn's anti-democratic power grab has passed by 21-19 vote (1 abstention, 1 no-show) *All 8 District Leaders who lost in June voted yes*

8 Democrats won primaries in June and this lets the losers nullify the results. The Brooklyn Democratic Party dies if this is allowed to stand.

New Kings Democrats@newkingsdems.bsky.social · 2w ago

Report from Brooklyn Democratic Party exec committee meeting is that Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn's anti-democratic power grab has passed by 21-19 vote (1 abstention, 1 no-show) *All 8 District Leaders who lost in June voted yes*

Disgusted by the Trump-esque behavior of my Assemblymember -- subverting the will of Brooklyn voters, denying press access to public meetings, and focusing on fighting progressive Dems instead of taking on Republicans. If these changes stand, she should not be considered a legitimate party chair.

Gwynne Hogan@gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 2w ago

Dispatch from Mill Basin this evening, where the Brooklyn Democratic Party is voting to enact sweeping changes to the party's bylaws, reformers say will help Party Chair Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn stay in control of the party: www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/08/25/r...

In an ideal world, we wouldn’t be doing this crap at all after the primaries. Instead, we would already be out trying to flip flippable Republican seats with cool candidates like @chrismccreight.bsky.social

New Kings Democrats@newkingsdems.bsky.social · 2w ago

For those looking for updates on tonight's Brooklyn Democrats executive committee meeting, we're afraid most of the media on location are primarily posting on the other site. BK Dems appear to be attempting to block press access to the meeting. We'll share info here when we have it.

For those looking for updates on tonight's Brooklyn Democrats executive committee meeting, we're afraid most of the media on location are primarily posting on the other site. BK Dems appear to be attempting to block press access to the meeting. We'll share info here when we have it.

New Kings Democrats@newkingsdems.bsky.social · 2w ago

Refusing to accept defeat, current Party Chair Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn seeks corrupt rule changes to maintain power. From NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani to U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries and more, political leaders agree: this is wrong. Swipe through to learn more.

One more great thing about Dolly. She was a paid-up union member — American Federation of Musicians, Local 257, Nashville. And she had been for 58 years. www.afm.org/2026/08/afm-...

AFL-CIO@aflcio.org · 2w ago

Dolly Parton knew what it was like to struggle as she fought for working families her whole career. From providing free books to kids to giving working women our "9 to 5" anthem, she was an icon and an inspiration. Rest in power to our union sister. We will always love you.