Congratulations to Patricia Smith (@pswordwoman), author of The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems, Winner of the 2025 National Book Award for Poetry!
Teen Vogue being absorbed and losing vital journalists just as ED signifiers and dialogue enters the mainstream, regressive views on body image are insidiously becoming fashionable again, fascism being back, women's rights being rolled back, yeah this feels bleak
The best thing about this campaign has been how it’s taken everyone (both inside and outside NY) across New York City and its various communities. This isn’t influencer nyc, not old money nyc, not tourist nyc; it’s not even upper middle class transplant nyc - it’s the nyc lived and breathed everyday. The campaign has done a masterful job in manufacturing a narrative of the city and its communities with Mamdani rooted firmly in it.
Whatever happens tomorrow, never forget that this doggedly positive and hopeful campaign—in every way a fight for basic dignity and joyful celebration of democratic pluralism—was relentlessly denounced by political and media elites as something sinister, dangerous, and violent.
STATEMENT: (1 of 2) We strongly condemn @CondeNast's consolidation plans for Teen Vogue, a move that is clearly designed to blunt the award-winning magazine’s insightful journalism at a time when it is needed the most. ...
Incredible how much of Zohran’s campaign is just him giving a shit and showing up for his community, and how undeniable it’s made him in the mayoral race. In a world of fake shit it’s refreshing to see sincerity still wins
The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as any other New Yorker.
And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows.
No more.
One of the worst parts of being alive in this era is being ruled by deeply incurious people when the universe is absolutely teeming with wonder. We can’t even think recreationally anymore