Me and aléxandros! had one beer and spilled a little out for the gawd. #OneBeer #RIPDOOM

NYC is moving to ban physical mail at Rikers and other jails by hiring a vendor to scan letters and distribute them to people digitally on tablets. The 'vendors' are companies that use tablets as a way to get money out of incarcerated people and their families. /1

These kids better come take my candy or my blood sugar will never forgive them (me).

Almond joy is very underrated [I think to myself as I plow through a bag of assorted Halloween candy].

It’s also important to note the audience towards who she said this. The event was sponsored by Boitempo, her Brazilian publisher. They have published many of Davis and Patricia Hill Collins book, but very few from Brazilian Black feminists.

Bret Stephens:

Yes, due to continued ecological devastation the planet will likely be completely uninhabitable, but the market will be the balm.

The stupidity in Bret Stephens's NYT piece on climate is almost unfathomably vast. Technologies for eight feet of sea level rise are what?

BREAKING: 104,000 Children Homeless In NYC prompting Federal, State, and Local state of emergency releasing funds for rapid rehousing and statewide rent freeze and creation of new Social Housing Authority.
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Why isn't this what I'm reading this morning? The rich continue to win.

Guatemala expulsó a Honduras a más de 8 mil migrantes, de los cuales 6 mil eran venezolanos. Es una cadena cruel: Estados Unidos expulsa a México; México expulsa a Guatemala; Guatemala a Honduras; y así los países pobres se convierten en la frontera de Washington.

David Hare’s new play Straight Line Crazy brings the much-hated master builder to life, in the form of Ralph Fiennes. And New Yorkers can’t get enough bloomberg.com/news/features/… via @citylab

The four moods.

It's nice that the Knicks have a talented, gutsy, and heady point guard.

Mike Davis on building solidarity:

“Unlike the broad-chested heroes of proletarian novels or Eisenstein films, rousing their workmates to rebellion with a single fiery speech, the classical rank-and-file organizer was more like a patient gardener…

Have people forgotten that this state elected Pataki 3 times?

Rest in peace to researcher, historian, writer, and comrade Mike Davis. May we honor him by holding a critical eye to the overlapping systems of violence, hostility, and power in Los Angeles and keeping up the fight for abolitionist, socialist futures.

Why does the Watcher's voice sound like Kermit speaking through a voice modifier?

The Nation has learned that Mike Davis, author and activist, radical hero and family man, has died after a long struggle with esophageal cancer. Jon Wiener, a friend and co-author, wrote his obit: bit.ly/3svYJ7r