Christian Holland
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NYC: if you can get to Federal Plaza near the Brooklyn Bridge/City Hall subway stops, come support Brad Lander, the latest Dem politician to be manhandled/detained by ICE for no legal reason. Zohran Mamdani is there in support of his fellow mayoral candidate. NYT's darling Cuomo nowhere in sight.
The current scene outside 26 Federal Plaza where Democratic mayoral candidate and City Comptroller Brad Lander was arrested by ICE agents earlier for asking to see a judicial warrant.
The crowd supporting Lander is growing - and includes other elected officials.
(🎥 Annie McDonough)
The crowd supporting Lander is growing - and includes other elected officials.
(🎥 Annie McDonough)
June 17, 2025 at 6:45 PM
NYC: if you can get to Federal Plaza near the Brooklyn Bridge/City Hall subway stops, come support Brad Lander, the latest Dem politician to be manhandled/detained by ICE for no legal reason. Zohran Mamdani is there in support of his fellow mayoral candidate. NYT's darling Cuomo nowhere in sight.
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Veteran photographer Michael Nigro was shot in the head with a non-lethal bullet while covering anti-ICE protests in LA. "It felt very very intentional," Nigro tells NPR, "a chilling effect to convince us to go away."
Other reporters say they have been targeted too.
My story below:
Other reporters say they have been targeted too.
My story below:
The Los Angeles Press Club says law enforcement officers have violated press freedoms of reporters covering anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles more than three dozen times. https://n.pr/3Zw0tPg
Journalists dodge rubber bullets in covering L.A. immigration protests
The Los Angeles Press Club says law enforcement officers have violated press freedoms of reporters covering anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles more than three dozen times.
n.pr
June 16, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Veteran photographer Michael Nigro was shot in the head with a non-lethal bullet while covering anti-ICE protests in LA. "It felt very very intentional," Nigro tells NPR, "a chilling effect to convince us to go away."
Other reporters say they have been targeted too.
My story below:
Other reporters say they have been targeted too.
My story below:
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We asked the mayoral candidates we asked where they stand of the big issues facing NYC.
Now, you can take our quiz, in partnership with @Gothamist.com, to see who is your best match.
buff.ly/1FJjfrX
Now, you can take our quiz, in partnership with @Gothamist.com, to see who is your best match.
buff.ly/1FJjfrX
Take the Quiz: Meet Your Mayor 2025
Candidates for NYC mayor told us where they stand on issues. Which is the top match for you? Find out before heading to the polls.
projects.thecity.nyc
May 20, 2025 at 12:14 PM
We asked the mayoral candidates we asked where they stand of the big issues facing NYC.
Now, you can take our quiz, in partnership with @Gothamist.com, to see who is your best match.
buff.ly/1FJjfrX
Now, you can take our quiz, in partnership with @Gothamist.com, to see who is your best match.
buff.ly/1FJjfrX
Almost everything I knew about Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o I knew through Carey Baraka's profile, which is wonderful in all ways a profile can be wonderful.
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: three days with a giant of African literature
The long read: The Kenyan novelist’s life and work has intersected with many of the biggest events of the past century. At 85, he reflects on his long, uncompromising life in writing
www.theguardian.com
May 29, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Almost everything I knew about Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o I knew through Carey Baraka's profile, which is wonderful in all ways a profile can be wonderful.
We're such dirtbags.
More than a third of New Yorkers admit to littering in survey
People who frequently got blamed for littering included dog walkers, tourists, teens and party animals.
gothamist.com
May 13, 2025 at 11:14 AM
We're such dirtbags.
"...think about working-class artists. You know, Dorothy Allison, James Baldwin, John Steinbeck. You know, just go down the list of those people who changed our lives because we read their books or we saw their paintings. We don't have those anymore."
Is it possible to be a working-class artist in NYC anymore?
“You know how much resentment has built up from people who don't feel seen or heard,” said Gregory Mosher, a theater producer.
gothamist.com
May 13, 2025 at 11:02 AM
"...think about working-class artists. You know, Dorothy Allison, James Baldwin, John Steinbeck. You know, just go down the list of those people who changed our lives because we read their books or we saw their paintings. We don't have those anymore."
As a person who spent 9 years working for a US-based arts organization that supported writers, I can say with a certain amount of certainty that support for working-class writers is desperately needed on this side of the Atlantic as well.
UK-wide initiative launched to tackle marginalisation of working-class writers
New Writing North’s literary venture The Bee includes magazine and podcast, and is supported by Michael Sheen
www.theguardian.com
May 5, 2025 at 6:11 PM
As a person who spent 9 years working for a US-based arts organization that supported writers, I can say with a certain amount of certainty that support for working-class writers is desperately needed on this side of the Atlantic as well.
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We don’t know why the President attacked #RankedChoiceVoting this weekend, but here’s what we do know:
RCV strengthens our democracy. It encourages consensus and common ground. 🧵
RCV strengthens our democracy. It encourages consensus and common ground. 🧵
April 21, 2025 at 9:12 PM
We don’t know why the President attacked #RankedChoiceVoting this weekend, but here’s what we do know:
RCV strengthens our democracy. It encourages consensus and common ground. 🧵
RCV strengthens our democracy. It encourages consensus and common ground. 🧵
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So you want to leak to a journalist. Here's how.
How to leak to a journalist
Planning to leak? Read these tips first.
buff.ly
April 2, 2025 at 6:58 PM
So you want to leak to a journalist. Here's how.
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I expanded my thread on the Kristi Noem video into an essay here. slowcivilwar.substack.com/p/thats-bait (And yes, I know substack is a problem. Migrating soon.)
That's Bait
Kristi Noem and fascism's sadistic eroticization of power
slowcivilwar.substack.com
March 27, 2025 at 8:04 PM
I expanded my thread on the Kristi Noem video into an essay here. slowcivilwar.substack.com/p/thats-bait (And yes, I know substack is a problem. Migrating soon.)
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This is going to get worse, not better. Never underestimate the American public’s thirst for performative cruelty towards The Other: defendants, foreigners, anyone they’ve been conditioned to see as less than human. We’re the country that made lynchings into picnics.
Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem making content in front of the imprisoned men of El Salvador's notorious Terrorism Confinement Center mega-prison www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
March 27, 2025 at 1:51 AM
This is going to get worse, not better. Never underestimate the American public’s thirst for performative cruelty towards The Other: defendants, foreigners, anyone they’ve been conditioned to see as less than human. We’re the country that made lynchings into picnics.
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"Getting angry [on social media] can feel like participating in the political process, but it’s really just a form of entertainment engineered to win our engagement, an engagement that furthers the spread of whatever caused the outrage in the first place."
"Getting angry [on social media] can feel like participating in the political process, but it’s really just a form of entertainment engineered to win our engagement, an engagement that furthers the spread of whatever caused the outrage in the first place."
The One Book That Explains Our Current Era Was Written 40 Years Ago
NYT pundits and NBA writers alike can't stop recommending this four-decade-old book.
slate.com
March 27, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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"Getting angry [on social media] can feel like participating in the political process, but it’s really just a form of entertainment engineered to win our engagement, an engagement that furthers the spread of whatever caused the outrage in the first place."
"Getting angry [on social media] can feel like participating in the political process, but it’s really just a form of entertainment engineered to win our engagement, an engagement that furthers the spread of whatever caused the outrage in the first place."
Sounds awfully familiar.
"It was like an intern prepared it... The whole thing looked awfully unserious, but the consequences were as serious as it gets."
"It was like an intern prepared it... The whole thing looked awfully unserious, but the consequences were as serious as it gets."
The Silencing of Russian Art
Vladimir Putin views his country’s cultural sphere like any other sector: a subordinate dominion, which should submit to the state’s needs and interests. What’s been lost?
www.newyorker.com
March 13, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Sounds awfully familiar.
"It was like an intern prepared it... The whole thing looked awfully unserious, but the consequences were as serious as it gets."
"It was like an intern prepared it... The whole thing looked awfully unserious, but the consequences were as serious as it gets."
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A year-over-year "analysis by THE CITY of available 311 data from ZIP codes south of 60th Street reflects a vast quality-of-life gain from the vehicle-tolling program..."
A year-over-year "analysis by THE CITY of available 311 data from ZIP codes south of 60th Street reflects a vast quality-of-life gain from the vehicle-tolling program..."
Honking Complaints Plunge 69% Inside Congestion Pricing Zone
In the first two months of the Manhattan vehicle tolls that Trump wants to nix, gripes over blasting horns sunk when compared to 2024.
www.thecity.nyc
March 11, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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A year-over-year "analysis by THE CITY of available 311 data from ZIP codes south of 60th Street reflects a vast quality-of-life gain from the vehicle-tolling program..."
A year-over-year "analysis by THE CITY of available 311 data from ZIP codes south of 60th Street reflects a vast quality-of-life gain from the vehicle-tolling program..."
What should we call rare earth minerals if they're not actually rare?
March 7, 2025 at 9:54 PM
What should we call rare earth minerals if they're not actually rare?
Holy smokes, Bess Wohl's newest play, Liberation, is great. It's challenging, relatable, and timely. You'll laugh; you'll cry; you'll recommend it to your friends so you can talk about it with them.
If you see only one play this year in NYC, pick this one; Roundabout's production is on till Apr 6.
If you see only one play this year in NYC, pick this one; Roundabout's production is on till Apr 6.
March 3, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Holy smokes, Bess Wohl's newest play, Liberation, is great. It's challenging, relatable, and timely. You'll laugh; you'll cry; you'll recommend it to your friends so you can talk about it with them.
If you see only one play this year in NYC, pick this one; Roundabout's production is on till Apr 6.
If you see only one play this year in NYC, pick this one; Roundabout's production is on till Apr 6.
"Burnout" evokes the idea that a worker "couldn’t stand how hard their job was and they stopped doing it. Which I don’t think is correct. A lot of the health care workers I spoke to said that it... was that they couldn’t handle not being able to do their job." - Ed Yong on NYT's "The Interview"
Ed Yong Wants to Show You the Hidden Reality of the World
The Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer talks about burnout from covering the pandemic and how bird-watching gave him a new sense of hope.
www.nytimes.com
March 3, 2025 at 3:25 PM
"Burnout" evokes the idea that a worker "couldn’t stand how hard their job was and they stopped doing it. Which I don’t think is correct. A lot of the health care workers I spoke to said that it... was that they couldn’t handle not being able to do their job." - Ed Yong on NYT's "The Interview"