I am curious about the staff thought process involved in posting this video that Senator Gillibrand for some reason recorded on a train during the conductor’s announcements

Kirsten Gillibrand@kirstengillibrand.bsky.social · yesterday

9/11 first responders and all New Yorkers deserve answers about what officials knew about the air quality at Ground Zero and when they knew it.

yeah. I was in brooklyn, it was bad enough, for weeks and months after. I can never forget that pervasive charnel house smell.

Anjali Dayal@anjalikdayal.bsky.social · yesterday

I think the telling thing about Trump's false 9/11 story is that being as far away as he really was would have been sufficiently traumatizing for a normal human being without pretending to more. the city smelled like death for months. little scraps of paper and detritus blew up avenues for weeks.

I think the telling thing about Trump's false 9/11 story is that being as far away as he really was would have been sufficiently traumatizing for a normal human being without pretending to more. the city smelled like death for months. little scraps of paper and detritus blew up avenues for weeks.

"...New Yorkers were instructed to return to the ground zero area before it was safe to do so." "People got sick because the leaders they trusted lied and told them they were safe to breathe in toxic air,” Mr. Mamdani added. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/n...

After 9/11, Documents Suggest, New Yorkers Were Misled About Air Quality

The Mamdani administration released more than 170,000 pages of documents related to the air quality around the World Trade Center site in the months after the Sept. 11 attacks.

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every editor is always right about the italics being unnecessary, and I know this, yet I still send them the italics because I haven't internalized the lesson

Had some fun trying to think about how to dramatize voters' choices in the 2024 election, so I pulled CES data and let you guess how respondents (validated voters) actually voted (or said they did) in 2024. profmusgrave.github.io/votergame2024/

How do refugee crises end? In Dec. 2024, Syrian dictator Assad fled to Russia, ending a regime that displaced millions Would Syrians go back now the regime fell? Our paper tests this with original panel data (2019-2026), ~3k Syrian refugees, spanning fall of Assad osf.io/preprints/so... 🧵 1/8

All else aside there is nothing I want or need genAI to do for me. I like reading. I like doing research. I like playing around in spreadsheets. I like interviewing people. I like writing. I like doing these things for myself because I take pleasure in the doing and they make me a better thinker.

every time I read another racist saying Mamdani shouldn’t attend the 9/11 ceremony, I think about this story his mom, Mira Nair, told me about the racism he and his grandfather experienced in the weeks after the attacks.

Anjali Dayal@anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 2d ago

This is somehow still going, and it’s not just a few random families now; it’s also a former mayor of NYC and governor of New York. There is, again, no way to reason to argue Mamdani shouldn’t attend this commemoration that isn’t fundamentally bigoted

under remarked on aspect of trump is his deep hatred of natural beauty and the natural world.

orithyia blue.@javeauriel.blacksky.app · 3d ago

OMG did yall know that man in the White House is changing East Potomac Park (including Hains Point) into a “championship golf course”?! They’ve already started cutting down the trees. And some of the cherry blossom trees that are only found one place on earth, DC.

anyway i think DC statehood is a non negotiable. only way to give DC residents the tools to protect themselves.

“Several deportees who resisted disembarking said they got back on the plane after being told they would be returned to the [US). Instead, they were taken to Equatorial Guinea, loaded into a van, left at a hotel & barred from leaving. They are under constant watch by guards carrying…weapons”

Deportees Recount Harrowing Journeys to Africa: Shackles, a ‘Freezer’ and Blows (Gift Article)

Ten deportees said they experienced or witnessed what they called abusive or violent treatment by ICE. They spent months in detention, they said, before being sent to nations where they had no ties.

nytimes.com

There's a GOOD Max Miller and a BAD one. The /good/ one does "Tasting History", a history vlog told through food & recipes. This episode covers the Aztec staple, tamales. I'd like to dig a little deeper on 'nixtamalization', the processing of corn with alkaline solutions to unlock nutrients.

Unwrapping Aztec Tamales | The Tamale Wars

YouTube video by Tasting History with Max Miller

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I’m not sure if the author of this piece knows Lee Grant was the child of Eastern European Jews and blacklisted for a dozen years, but they’ve certainly missed her underlying point that misogyny cross-cuts left and right movements

Joe Stieb@joestieb.bsky.social · 5d ago

This is embarrassing.

J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER [to himself]: now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. KENNETH BAINBRIDGE [to Oppenheimer]: now we are all sons of bitches BUGS BUNNY [present at the Trinity nuclear test, July 16, 1945]: Get a message to Uncle Joe, tell him I'll be at Potsdam with a surprise.

Anjali Dayal@anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 4d ago

this is correct. he is master of the underground, god of the crossroads. Albuquerque hides itself from his wandering peril. Monsters are shorn and quake.

this is correct. he is master of the underground, god of the crossroads. Albuquerque hides itself from his wandering peril. Monsters are shorn and quake.

Marian Call@mariancall.bsky.social · 4d ago

bugs is a trickster god, an ageless elder being one should take pains not to cross. he must be treated with respect or dire consequences follow

This Finnish guy has been teaching himself Sumerian, and sent a cuneiform tablet to the British Museum to check his progress. They just emailed him that they've sent him something in the post. I'm now thrilled and excited for a total stranger! Clay tablet mail! www.reddit.com/r/Cuneiform/...

“monkey” is truly one of those things your mother and zero other people can call you

I Travel Like Sound Dog@chadstanton.blacksky.app · 5d ago

(Shouldn’t have to say this but no you shouldn’t call Hakeem Jeffries a monkey because you disagree with his politics.)

This has always been true. Politics is about performance and storytelling. Business dress signals competence, respect for your constituents, and that you're taking the job seriously

Conor Sen@conorsen.bsky.social · 6d ago

Fetterman/Mamdani have single-handedly persuaded me that the way politicians dress in public should be part of how they’re evaluated.

Technology being everywhere doesn’t mean it belongs everywhere. The tech industry wants us to believe that AI in early education is not only inevitable, but necessary. We don't see it that way. This week, we announced a moratorium on generative AI for public school students in 2-K to 8th grade.

If I may get on my soap box: No Kings is a tactic. It is not the strategy and no one involved in putting it on considers it sufficient on its own. It's a mass show of defiance that's also served as an onramp to the kind of local organizing work that's necessary to shift power

Amanda Becker@amandabecker.bsky.social · 6d ago

I see on-the-ground evidence *on a daily basis* of how people's involvement in No Kings, Indivisible, 50501 has grown into ICE monitoring, flock camera protests, city council blowups over data centers and running for office. THAT was the point of No Kings, all along, from my perspective.

I don't even understand what he's saying here--is he under the impression that he would be paying for their trips if they took the highly luxurious $45, 1.5 hour train to DC from Philadelphia to meet him

Ironbound@ironbound.bsky.social · 6d ago

Man this guy sucks

Just wild that the old man, who ran again only so he could stay out of prison, is just spending all of his time redecorating while running this country into the ground.

Dan Diamond@ddiamond.bsky.social · 6d ago

Trump is emboldened on his construction agenda, following the Supreme Court's ballroom ruling. Burgum announced today work will start on Trump's arch. DOJ lawyers also asked a federal judge today to throw out a legal challenge to arch, citing SCOTUS ballroom ruling as precedent.

Honestly, the audacity of saying this while trying to purge the country of Haitians based on a lie he knowingly told is demonic.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

JD Vance: "When you have people who say 'my ethnic group deserves something, and yours doesn't,' or 'that ethnic group is good and this other ethnic group is bad,' that is how you erode the very foundations of commonality."

I love the string & washer envelope closure. So satisfying to unlock and (especially) to wind it shut. Been around in this specific embodiment for at least 100 years. Long may it last. 

just trying to imagine what the reaction would have been to Kamala Harris cracking jokes about attending a commemoration of the Oklahoma City Bombing

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7d ago

JD Vance on the 25th anniversary of 9/11: "As you guys can probably guess, I'm really looking forward to hanging out with Joe Biden. I'm sure we'll have many many intense intellectual conversations. We'll have a great time."

I saw a meme today that said that books are proof that strangers can meet across centuries and still understand each other. That really resonated.

When I was volunteering at the COVID19 vaccine POD in 2021, people would say over and over again that they were getting vaccinated for the people they love. Last year, only 17.5% of American adults got the COVID19 vaccine. Please get one for the people you love. 💕

Penguni?

But also feminism is not a thing that happened and then got reversed; it's a thing that is happening, because you don't overturn three millennia of patriarchy in one lifetime.