Steven Jack
@golikewater.bsky.social
Gay writer, artist, amateur historian, slow reader, New Yorker.
The culture editor in her memo, referring to Jesse Green's “incisive, witty reviews”? Um, it's not 1950, you can say the word "gay."
A big announcement that veteran journalists are being moved out of their jobs and into unspecified new roles and that they will be replaced by TBD feels extremely ominous. variety.com/2025/tv/news...
New York Times Culture Desk Shake-Up: Critics Margaret Lyons, Jon Pareles, Jesse Green, Zach Woolfe Reassigned to ‘New Roles’
Four New York Times critics -- Margaret Lyons, Jon Pareles, Jesse Green and Zach Woolfe -- will be assigned 'new roles' as the paper changes up its culture desk coverage.
variety.com
July 16, 2025 at 1:30 PM
The culture editor in her memo, referring to Jesse Green's “incisive, witty reviews”? Um, it's not 1950, you can say the word "gay."
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It is a bribe and the shame of this will outlive them. I’m not naive, but these people are not fit to own or run a media company. They’re so poor, all they have is money.
Details of the Paramount settlement with Trump over 60 Minutes lawsuit:
- $16 million for Trump presidential library
- Release of transcripts in the future
- No apology
- $16 million for Trump presidential library
- Release of transcripts in the future
- No apology
July 2, 2025 at 4:41 AM
It is a bribe and the shame of this will outlive them. I’m not naive, but these people are not fit to own or run a media company. They’re so poor, all they have is money.
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Laughing in front of cages designed to hold migrants and refugees, many of whom came to this country fleeing extreme violence and poverty, and hoping to raise their children in a more compassionate country. And many of whom followed all the legal procedures to enter the country.
July 2, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Laughing in front of cages designed to hold migrants and refugees, many of whom came to this country fleeing extreme violence and poverty, and hoping to raise their children in a more compassionate country. And many of whom followed all the legal procedures to enter the country.
I think about this commercial a lot, especially at times like this, when outsider takes on NYC are cresting. The discourse is never any more sophisticated than this.
Pace Picante "New York City!!" Commercial from 1993
YouTube video by The Dead Media Group
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June 25, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I think about this commercial a lot, especially at times like this, when outsider takes on NYC are cresting. The discourse is never any more sophisticated than this.
I have a hard time taking anyone seriously with this argument if they're not mentioning Buttigieg.
Opinion | Why Democrats Need Their Own Trump
www.nytimes.com
June 23, 2025 at 1:32 PM
I have a hard time taking anyone seriously with this argument if they're not mentioning Buttigieg.
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he's really incredibly appealing in these videos.
idk that it's going to be enough to win, but the anti cuomo wing has found a very personable and engaging candidate with a comms team that does actually seem to know what it's doing.
idk that it's going to be enough to win, but the anti cuomo wing has found a very personable and engaging candidate with a comms team that does actually seem to know what it's doing.
Andrew Cuomo knows: moving to New York City can be hard. But voting here shouldn’t be.
🏠 Already registered here? Update your address by June 9th
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Head to zohranfornyc.com/vote. We’ve got an affordable city to win.
🏠 Already registered here? Update your address by June 9th
🧳 New or never registered? You must register by June 14th
Head to zohranfornyc.com/vote. We’ve got an affordable city to win.
June 3, 2025 at 2:23 AM
he's really incredibly appealing in these videos.
idk that it's going to be enough to win, but the anti cuomo wing has found a very personable and engaging candidate with a comms team that does actually seem to know what it's doing.
idk that it's going to be enough to win, but the anti cuomo wing has found a very personable and engaging candidate with a comms team that does actually seem to know what it's doing.
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The Venn Diagram of folks calling Zohran an exteme radical and folks shrugging their shoulders about Cuomo being a monstrous piece of shit but deciding they’re gonna vote for him anyways is the clearest Circle in the race.
May 28, 2025 at 4:20 PM
The Venn Diagram of folks calling Zohran an exteme radical and folks shrugging their shoulders about Cuomo being a monstrous piece of shit but deciding they’re gonna vote for him anyways is the clearest Circle in the race.
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"Yes, Cuomo is awful, but I have some policy differences with the progressives, so this is hard."
This is not hard. What you do is, you set aside your precious little checklist, and YOU DON'T VOTE FOR THE AWFUL PERSON.
This is not hard. What you do is, you set aside your precious little checklist, and YOU DON'T VOTE FOR THE AWFUL PERSON.
May 28, 2025 at 4:10 PM
"Yes, Cuomo is awful, but I have some policy differences with the progressives, so this is hard."
This is not hard. What you do is, you set aside your precious little checklist, and YOU DON'T VOTE FOR THE AWFUL PERSON.
This is not hard. What you do is, you set aside your precious little checklist, and YOU DON'T VOTE FOR THE AWFUL PERSON.
Patti Lupone fixes the sound bleed from a musical next door to her play (common issue with pop musicals next door to plays), an actor in the musical publicly (and absurdly) accuses her of racism, another Bway actor publicly agrees with the charge, Lupone gets angry. And people are mad at Lupone?
May 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Patti Lupone fixes the sound bleed from a musical next door to her play (common issue with pop musicals next door to plays), an actor in the musical publicly (and absurdly) accuses her of racism, another Bway actor publicly agrees with the charge, Lupone gets angry. And people are mad at Lupone?
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A story about why Democrats are losers, in four parts.
May 21, 2025 at 12:47 PM
A story about why Democrats are losers, in four parts.
Fascinating (i.e. terrifying) to watch "religious liberty" come to mean heresy policing. But this is America.
Co-sign all of this. I encourage people to read the underlying post, which is gobsmacking for reasons beyond their implications for non-Orthodox Jews. It suggests that if your religious beliefs don’t have the structure of Christian faiths, you may not have free exercise claims at all.
May 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Fascinating (i.e. terrifying) to watch "religious liberty" come to mean heresy policing. But this is America.
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To be effective, our opposition to today's abuses must run alongside a clear picture of what we are actually for - and how everyday life could be better with different leadership.
May 7, 2025 at 3:19 PM
To be effective, our opposition to today's abuses must run alongside a clear picture of what we are actually for - and how everyday life could be better with different leadership.
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Anyway this is how a polite reactionary bigot gives a boost to a fully committed fascist in a framework that won't scare off readers who like to think they're liberals www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/o...
May 1, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Anyway this is how a polite reactionary bigot gives a boost to a fully committed fascist in a framework that won't scare off readers who like to think they're liberals www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/o...
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Begging someone to tell me what the difference is between what Sean Duffy and Andrew Cuomo have been saying.
Duffy: "She wants to take people off the road and she's taxing people to do it, raising money for the subway system in New York. But then, to put people in the subway -- the subway is dirty! There's violence. There's criminals. It's not safe ... By the way, I like freedom. Let me drive my car."
April 29, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Begging someone to tell me what the difference is between what Sean Duffy and Andrew Cuomo have been saying.
To conservatives, "freedom" means "I get to do whatever I want and someone else has to pay for it."
Look, you big pathetic baby. You can drive your car. To access one small part of NYC by car, you have to pay slightly more than the amount those of us who ride the subway do to take a round trip. Stop crying, Sean Duffy.
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Duffy: "She wants to take people off the road and she's taxing people to do it, raising money for the subway system in New York. But then, to put people in the subway -- the subway is dirty! There's violence. There's criminals. It's not safe ... By the way, I like freedom. Let me drive my car."
April 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
To conservatives, "freedom" means "I get to do whatever I want and someone else has to pay for it."
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Neil Gorsuch told some of the most obvious, farcical, easily debunked lies I can remember a justice telling. I promise you could spend an hour trying to guess what he says is a picture of a “sex worker” in a children’s book, and not get anywhere close. ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/pride...
I Think Neil Gorsuch Is Lying About a “Religious Freedom” Case Again
Why did Gorsuch claim that ‘Pride Puppy’, an alphabet book about a lost dog, introduces kids to bondage and sex workers? Let’s find out!
ballsandstrikes.org
April 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Neil Gorsuch told some of the most obvious, farcical, easily debunked lies I can remember a justice telling. I promise you could spend an hour trying to guess what he says is a picture of a “sex worker” in a children’s book, and not get anywhere close. ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/pride...
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WOW, I never thought of Corey Booker like this. He is pretty impressive. I imagine he is earning an incredible amount of respect nationally...
Booker: Do you think we got the right to vote for women because a bunch of men on the House floor got together and said “on the count of three, women get the right to vote..” That’s not how it happened… Change doesn’t come from Washington. It comes to Washington.
April 27, 2025 at 10:58 PM
WOW, I never thought of Corey Booker like this. He is pretty impressive. I imagine he is earning an incredible amount of respect nationally...
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The federal government plans to eliminate services for LGBTQ youth who call 988, the national suicide and crisis hotline, according to a Health and Human Services budget draft leaked last week.
HHS plans to cut the national suicide hotline’s program for LGBTQ youth
In February, the program received an average of 2,100 contacts per day.
www.motherjones.com
April 22, 2025 at 7:14 PM
The federal government plans to eliminate services for LGBTQ youth who call 988, the national suicide and crisis hotline, according to a Health and Human Services budget draft leaked last week.
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This is a big time move from Brad Lander @nyccomptroller.bsky.social
He’s standing up to the biggest of the big—the Blackrocks of the world—and demanding that they move on climate
Finally someone playing the same game as the red state treasurers but on behalf of the future!
He’s standing up to the biggest of the big—the Blackrocks of the world—and demanding that they move on climate
Finally someone playing the same game as the red state treasurers but on behalf of the future!
We won’t bow to pressure to move away from our climate commitments.
Today we're demanding the retirement systems’ managers strengthen their #NetZero plans consistent with their fiduciary duty—or we will find new managers who will.
Watch the full press conference👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMQt...
Today we're demanding the retirement systems’ managers strengthen their #NetZero plans consistent with their fiduciary duty—or we will find new managers who will.
Watch the full press conference👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMQt...
April 22, 2025 at 9:08 PM
This is a big time move from Brad Lander @nyccomptroller.bsky.social
He’s standing up to the biggest of the big—the Blackrocks of the world—and demanding that they move on climate
Finally someone playing the same game as the red state treasurers but on behalf of the future!
He’s standing up to the biggest of the big—the Blackrocks of the world—and demanding that they move on climate
Finally someone playing the same game as the red state treasurers but on behalf of the future!
Watched the first season of Mid-Century Modern. Perfect. It's our Norman Lear gay sitcom, better late than never. Who'd've guessed Matt Bomer would be our hero, devoting his career to telling the story of a generation of gay men who've been, and still are, often dismissed, laughed at, and erased?
April 22, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Watched the first season of Mid-Century Modern. Perfect. It's our Norman Lear gay sitcom, better late than never. Who'd've guessed Matt Bomer would be our hero, devoting his career to telling the story of a generation of gay men who've been, and still are, often dismissed, laughed at, and erased?
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I'm seeing people who don't live in NYC look at this photo and bemoan the lack of a vision for the city from leadership, but the reason for this is a lot less lofty - there's a bunch of people who spend all their time yelling at electeds about parking and driving, and electeds who agree with them.
April 21, 2025 at 3:43 PM
I'm seeing people who don't live in NYC look at this photo and bemoan the lack of a vision for the city from leadership, but the reason for this is a lot less lofty - there's a bunch of people who spend all their time yelling at electeds about parking and driving, and electeds who agree with them.
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States like Indiana, Ohio, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and more drew even bigger crowds than on 4/5. We’re in awe of you, America. You know you did something right when even Fox News is covering it. Wow!! We love you!
April 19, 2025 at 11:16 PM
States like Indiana, Ohio, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and more drew even bigger crowds than on 4/5. We’re in awe of you, America. You know you did something right when even Fox News is covering it. Wow!! We love you!
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We just wanted to keep you all updated estimates are now approaching 4 million. Incredible job pulling this off on a holiday weekend! It was tough to get accurate counts today because small towns showed up in force. Some states had record-breaking turnout we didn’t expect this includes
April 20, 2025 at 4:26 AM
We just wanted to keep you all updated estimates are now approaching 4 million. Incredible job pulling this off on a holiday weekend! It was tough to get accurate counts today because small towns showed up in force. Some states had record-breaking turnout we didn’t expect this includes
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OMG, how much do I LOVE a NYS Elected weighing in with an easy-to-read, clear, informative personal endorsement list for NYC Mayoral primary?!? Now, I want ALL NYS and NYC Electeds to do the same, (and I’ll assume those who don’t are okay with having a washed up sex pest as mayor.)
In my personal capacity, I am going a step further and endorsing a full slate. I believe each of these people would bring a fantastic change to city hall.
In this crucial election, when the stakes are so high, people should rank 5 candidates — just not Andrew Cuomo. 3/
In this crucial election, when the stakes are so high, people should rank 5 candidates — just not Andrew Cuomo. 3/
April 16, 2025 at 1:06 PM
OMG, how much do I LOVE a NYS Elected weighing in with an easy-to-read, clear, informative personal endorsement list for NYC Mayoral primary?!? Now, I want ALL NYS and NYC Electeds to do the same, (and I’ll assume those who don’t are okay with having a washed up sex pest as mayor.)