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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 13h

53 years ago, hip-hop was born at a back-to-school party in the Bronx. Now, the Bronx School of Hip Hop is preparing a new generation of artists to shape what comes next. I sat down with Nas to talk about the past, present, and future of hip-hop in NYC — from the turntables to our classrooms.

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Mayor and Nas sit down to discuss the past, present and future of hip hop in NYC

YouTube video by NYC Mayor's Office

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Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yesterday was a big day for Indigenous literature as Kinsale Drake, Darcie Little Badger, and Stacie Shannon Denetsosie received the 2026 American Book Award for Beyond the Glittering World: An Anthology of Indigenous Feminisms and Futurisms. redpopnews.com/beyond-the-g...

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Beyond the Glittering World: An Anthology of Indigenous Feminisms and Futurisms Receives 2026 American Book Award

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

So much of what we are confronting today is best understood by the actions undertaken by white communities in response to integration orders. White supremacy is a form of democratic nihilism. Every institution, norm, and value of democracy will be sacrificed for it. calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...

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Sep. 27, 1958 | White Little Rock Voters Choose to Close Public Schools Rather Than Integrate

Learn more about our history of racial injustice

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Eler de Grey @elerdegrey.com · 27/09/2026

Somebody tries to bring this anywhere near me I hope some of you will post bail

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Eler de Grey @elerdegrey.com · 27/09/2026

I spent two years chasing clouds all over the Transverse Range, which is probably the least coherent-to-others project I'd ever done. Had a blast. Learned a ton. Will never be sorry elerdegrey.com/projects/ang...

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ANGELES! — ELER DE GREY

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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’ve been reporting on the CDC for years, and have written about many of its troubles over the past year. I was still shocked by the extent of the staff losses and political interference I found when reporting this one. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...

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‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)

The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 26/09/2026

A historic milestone for New York’s youngest learners: Universal 2-K is here. Our two-year-olds are ready to learn, explore and build a strong foundation from day one. This is what it looks like when we invest in our kids.

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The Look Book Goes to the First Day of Preschool

The city’s universal-2K program launched September 10 as an inaugural class of 2-year-olds joined Friends of Crown Heights Educational Center.

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Eler de Grey @elerdegrey.com · 25/09/2026

Slickest trick ever pulled was the notion if you do more than one thing you must be less of something somewhere

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 24/09/2026

I don't have time to write more, but ICE is working to remove people to third countries in violation of D.V.D. v. DHS. I've been up since 5:20 A.M. working with two other attorneys to prevent our client from being shipped out. If you rep someone at risk of third country removal, check on them NOW

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𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @charlescmann.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Historians rightly say people's actions should be judged by the standards of their time. But what often gets lost is that those standards weren't what we think. Many 18thc Europeans hated colonialism--as an e.g., here's Immanuel Kant in 1795 castigating it as "truly appalling." It was contentious...

"Excerpt from Kant: "If one compares this with the inhospitable conduct of the civilized—and primarily commercial—states of our own continent, the injustice they display when visiting foreign lands and peoples (which they equate with conquering them) is truly appalling. To them, upon their discovery, America, the lands of the Negroes, the Spice Islands, the Cape, and so forth, were territories belonging to no one; for they counted the inhabitants as nothing. In the East Indies (Hindustan), under the pretext of merely establishing trading posts, they introduced foreign military forces—bringing with them the oppression of the natives, the incitement of the region's various states into widespread wars, famine, insurrection, treachery, and the whole litany of evils that afflict the human race.

China and Japan (Nippon)—having had experience with such guests—wisely restricted access: the former permitted entry but not full admission, while the latter granted even that limited access to only a single European nation, the Dutch, whom they nonetheless kept isolated from the native population, much like prisoners."

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Eler de Grey @elerdegrey.com · 22/09/2026

Describing the national situation through the lens of NYC... yes

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

When Elon Musk's groups spent $20M+ on Wisconsin's 2025 Supreme Court race, his involvement backfired and his candidate lost by 10 points. Now his super PAC has quietly spent $14M+ on key midterm races, including the Texas Senate race. Would be a shame if people found out.

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Elon Musk is flying under the radar in the Texas Senate race. Republicans want to keep it that way.

One Republican involved in the Texas Senate contest called Musk’s in-your-face campaigning in Wisconsin last year “a mis

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 21/09/2026

while everything else gets bigger and louder. more violent. i feel myself working to make my world smaller, sweeter warmer and more kind quieter—listening hard to the trees and to the people who are hardest to hear i want to move slower and with more purpose. to sip long books like cold tea.

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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Just what we all wanted. (We did not want this.)

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Big Tech is using panic to suck the air out of the room just as people are demanding transparency and accountability for the sector’s egregious, monopolistic overreach into every facet of our lives. My latest column with bonus track open.spotify.com/track/403oiK...

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Thieves in the Temple

Prince · Music from Graffiti Bridge · Song · 1990

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Eler de Grey @elerdegrey.com · 18/09/2026

When I started working across so many different art forms I very simply did not think about the fact I would have to move them. Thanks, past fool. We're here now.

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Eler de Grey @elerdegrey.com · 18/09/2026

Wrote a track to help my partner relax in the evening but we can't get through a first listen without almost falling asleep

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Eler de Grey @elerdegrey.com · 18/09/2026

Spent a good solid 7m watching these yesterday and I have to say, the experience restored something in me

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Sheera Frenkel @sheeraf.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

“Largest theft of labor in human history.” What a quote.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 17/09/2026

I have a story coming in the next few weeks speaking to exactly this — I’m hearing it from organizers in rural and urban areas alike

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I keep seeing videos of a guy who catches crabs and lobsters, cracks all the barnacles off them, puts a shrimp in their claws and throws them back. can you imagine. abducted by aliens but they just give you a spa day and hand you two hot dogs and let you go

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𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @charlescmann.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Just stumbled across these terrific Jim Richardson photos of the annual spring prairie burning in Kansas's Flint Hills. Remarkable to think how native peoples set these enormous fires in the grasslands every year for centuries upon centuries. www.jimrichardsonphotography.com/index/G00002...

In an aerial fire, flames make serpentine patterns at dusk over the rolling terrain of Kansas's Flint Hills.

Two burned trees are silhouetted against a sinuous arc of fire that twists toward the horizon at sunset.

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Eler de Grey @elerdegrey.com · 16/09/2026

Being alive in this timeline I’ve had to learn so many things I don’t want to know

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A minor detail is missing from the headline.

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Rahawa Haile @rahawahaile.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I interviewed @cara.city about her incredible photography project “Records of Enemy Surveillance.” Topics discussed include Flock, borders, and perceived fugutivity. Up now at @coyotemedia.org.

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An Oakland Photographer Surveils the Surveillance State

Cara Esten Hurtle’s drone-based art project shows the difference between being seen and being spotted.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

🚨BREAKING: Agents of the Department of Homeland Security have been ordered to unlawfully access state voting records to carry out the department’s escalating elections-related probes, an anonymous federal whistleblower recently disclosed to Sen. Alex Padilla. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Homeland Security officers are illegally accessing state voter data, new whistleblower alleges

The searches likely resulted in "thousands of violations of state laws," Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) said.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"Pfas companies are launching a “tidal wave” of forever chemicals production to meet demand from the AI industry, a campaign organisation has warned...a survey of the 10 biggest manufacturers found most had plans to increase production." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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‘Tidal wave’ of Pfas being launched to satisfy AI industry, campaigners warn

Big manufacturers planning to produce more of the forever chemicals to meet demand from datacentres

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I'm serious when I say I've lost track of all the recent revelations of literal Nazis working in high-level positions in Republican congressional campaigns and I would very much appreciate a journalist who took the time to detail as many of them as can fit into an article.

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Eler de Grey @elerdegrey.com · 13/09/2026

As an artist people ask me about A.I. all the time now. Yet I'm also Southern. So, I wrote a little around first impressions (with Remarks & footnotes). elerdegrey.com/blog/the-hai...

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THE HAINT THEORY OF A.I. — ELER DE GREY

Parallels emerge.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I don't want to have to think about AI at all.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/09/2026

i am incredibly excited to share our research about how paying people’s rent through mutual aid made an impact on minnesota this year we accidentally collected more data than anyone ever has for an effort like this, and can very seriously say we prevented an eviction bubble that everyone expected

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Eler de Grey @elerdegrey.com · 12/09/2026

Wrote an essay, sent it to a few friends, several of them sent it to "everyone they know", then I took it down, wrote another essay in the footnotes and now I hate myself

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I am actually grateful for social media today. If you are under 25, you are getting a more honest accounting of the post 9/11 era than I got about the post-Vietnam era than I did as a young person. I attribute this 100% to social media. Traditional media and US politicians cannot be counted on.

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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Loved the work of @planningtorockofcl.bsky.social for many years. Their new song today -- "Told Me Mum I'm Trans", streamable at their site www.planningtorockofficial.com -- and the text with it, that's something you'll want to read.

‘Told me Mum I’m Trans’
This is an important story for me and one I wanted to share because there’s so much hatred towards trans people right now and we need to be reminded of all the wonderful people who do love us and help our community.
Mum has long been an ally and was already going to Pride back in the ‘90s with our Beulah. She’s always been there for me and for me friends through the years when their parents were rejecting them for coming out.
Took me a long time to get here and so it wasn’t until I was 51 when I could tell Janet I’m trans. She was 80 and her response was so sweet, so on point that I wanted to somehow preserve it so I recorded it into a song.

Growing up on a council estate in Bolton, Janet left school at 14 and went straight to work. When me and Beulah were kids she was diagnosed with terminal cancer and given just 6 months to live. She went through excessive radium treatment and was ill for a while but it wasn't long until she was back working several jobs.
There are a million stories I could tell you about the times Janet defied what life seemed to throw at her and all the times she fought for both me and Beulah without resources or support. But the story I wanna tell you with this song is when I told Janet I'm trans and how she immediately understood that this was about me and never once made it about herself.

She said she’d sensed something when I was younger but didn’t have the words and was just so happy to see me happy. It was a beautiful moment of unconditional love which has brought us even closer together.
It's so important to shine a light on the parents and families who do support trans kids. Not only to show that they do exist, but to show them that they are not alone. Because there are those who want the world to think otherwise.
I hope that by sharing this story in some small way it can help other parents learn how to love their trans kids and know that even older generation parents get it.
This song is an archive of an older trans person's journey with their even older powerhouse of a mum.

Credits:
Clip filmed by Riinu Rahuoja and planningtorock
Edited by Ro Murphy
feat. Jam and Janet Rostron
Artwork by Tom Joyes

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 08/09/2026

For years, New Yorkers have demanded access to City records about the lasting health impacts of the horrific September 11th attacks. For years, they have been denied and ignored. That ends today. nyc.gov/sept11docs

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September 11 Docs

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Eler de Grey @elerdegrey.com · 08/09/2026

Someone cutting onions in my house

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Is it, “the south can’t be organized” or is It, “the South organized and scared the shit out of everybody”???

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

In our new essay for the @financialtimes.com (you read that right), @astra.bsky.social and I link the extreme weather events we have all been living through to the rise of a new iteration of futureless fascism, wherein the rich and powerful plan for their bunkered survival behind fortressed borders.

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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

NEW: You’ve probably heard of police officers accused of abusing Flock searches to stalk exes and romantic interests. We got the code for Flock’s latest search tool, figured out how it works, and recreated it for all to see. @dell.bsky.social and @dmehro.bsky.social w/ the scoop:

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This Is Flock’s AI Search Tool for Cops

WIRED rebuilt Flock’s latest search tool from code the company sends to a police officer’s browser. Its AI can keep watch across multiple cameras for anyone fitting a written description.

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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

OpenAI is now facing more than 50 consumer harm and wrongful death lawsuits alleging that extensive use of ChatGPT resulted in psychological harm, physical injury, and even the deaths of users and/or those around them. futurism.com/artificial-i...

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OpenAI Is Now Facing Over 50 Consumer Harm and Wrongful Death Lawsuits

OpenAI was hit with 30 new lawsuits overs its alleged role in the Tumbler Ridge school massacre. It now faces over 50 consumer harm lawsuits.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"Forget that this task of planet-saving is not possible in the time required. Don't be put off by people who know what is not possible. Do what needs to be done, and check to see if it was impossible only after you are done." - Paul Hawken

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Steinem’s final essay published today in the New Yorker. www.newyorker.com/culture/life...

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Gloria Steinem’s Final Essay

Gloria Steinem writes about what she meant when she called herself a feminist.

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Marilyn Minter @marilynminter.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Known for her empathy. Rest in peace. Gloria Steinem, 2021, enamel on metal

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

“We definitely see decreased attention spans and an increase in overwhelm and shame. Everyone seems to know doomscrolling has flattened everything and they know they’re overwhelmed. They come in because they want the full spectrum of their brains back. That changes our job as booksellers."

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