Sheena Medina

My next read of the year: The Puerto Rican War: A Graphic History by John Vasquez Mejias. 96 hand-carved woodblocks tell the story of Puerto Rican revolutionaries fighting U.S. colonialism in 1950. A powerful work rooted in Puerto Rico’s rich printmaking legacy and erased history. 🇵🇷✨

Don’t just celebrate Indigenous People’s Day. Support leaders who are proven, proud and ready to represent! @marypeltola.com @debhaalandnm.bsky.social @peggyflanagan.bsky.social

If you can't connect to the internet, you're cut off from government services, job opportunities, and even your community. That's why the internet should be a utility, like water. Read our plan to help make internet access a right for all New Yorkers: advocate.nyc.gov/Connected

While Mamdani's executive budget reversed cuts to NYC public libraries, it doesn't make good on his pledge to allocate 0.5% of city spending for library spending. He tells @katiehonan.bsky.social that he will make good on that promise at some point in his first mayoral term, though.

Proud to stand with so many New Yorkers @handsoffnyc.bsky.social and Tom Morello to speak out against the abuses targeting immigrant New Yorkers. Abolish ICE!

Unironically this was perfect comms strategy.

😭

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

Love this for us.

As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.

ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.

But when I asked an organizer what they wanted to see out of press coverage, they told me they wanted people to see the beautiful things they are building here, and not just the worst stories of the worst of ICE's crimes. What people are doing here is beautiful. It's a tragic beauty, but a real one

She wanted to run for governor and when Trump said no, she went Scorched Earth.

Marc Anthony is so dramatic (in his music). I love it.

The crime is not what we were doing protesting in the 10th floor elevator lobby of 26 Federal Plaza. The crime is what ICE agents are doing on the other side of the door.

Workers at The Met are trying to unionize, citing “long-term pay inequities, lack of job protection, and ever-increasing workloads.” If they succeed, their union would be one of the largest museum unions in the US.

Periodic reminder that direct action is a fundamental form of protest. It is the original form of protest. To refuse to accept the status quo, to intervene in an effort to shift power from the oppressor to the oppressed is protest.

WELL HOW ABOUT THAT "A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

It’s pretty emblematic of the way things are going: An institution lies in shambles while a bunch of people ask if he can do that

Say it!

Zohran Mamdani is running to make NYC a place we can all afford with some big ideas. I want a Mayor who is fighting for child care, for better buses and who isn’t afraid to think big and bold and not small and old!

A chickpea is neither a chick nor a pea. DISCUSS!

I want in.

Newsmax reaches $67M settlement with Dominion Voting Systems in defamation case.

Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old state assembly member and democratic socialist, came in first in Tuesday's ranked-choice primary. Here's what to know about his policies, personal life and past.

New York Is Not a Democracy. Democracy Is Not a Salad. A Salad Is Not a Chevrolet. A Chevrolet Is Not 36 Rats in a Trenchcoat. New York is 36 Rats in a Trenchcoat. Could ranked/ choice voting help Zohran Mamdani beat Andrew Cuomo?

Mamdani is now ahead of Cuomo with just two weeks until the Democratic NYC mayoral primary, a new poll found.

Governor Cuomo made New York less affordable and electing Mayor Cuomo will intensify this by a wide margin. This is 🏆

What everyday object is secretly a masterpiece of design? The humble aluminum beverage can. Such a fun, thoughtful breakdown of good industrial design hiding in plain sight.

I discovered a site this morning that simulates how people with different disabilities experience the web. I tried the ADHD simulator and it was *stressful*. Eye-opening and deeply important work.

It's peak season for these strawberries in the Moss Landing area of CA. Five crews are working this strawberry field. They're rushing to get it harvested as soon as possible before the berries to get over ripe. #WeFeedYou

FIRST mayoral debate Wednesday night at 7 p.m. hosted by Politico, WNBC and Telemundo. Imma need everyone to lock in.

Perhaps when we worry about Big Tech, we should spend less time focused on social media and more time focused on the companies actively helping to expand the surveillance state reason.com/2025/06/02/p...

Diaspora Co. founder Sana Javeri Kadri shares how she meets some of the world’s hardest problems with the thing that gives her the most joy, and encourages others, especially fellow brown women, to do the same. 🎧 Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

Quick reminder: There are other elections happening besides mayor.

Andrew Cuomo said Christopher Columbus statues were targeted because he’s Italian — and said that NYC will celebrate Columbus Day on his watch, and find *another* day for Indigenous Peoples’ Day. From Playbook PM: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Hard launch

This is crazy.

Barcode beeps. Hospital alarms. Crackling intercoms. The modern soundscape is hurting us more than we realize. Sound designer Eddie Gandelman is reimagining the noise, and crafting a quieter, kinder future. Full interview on Design Observer: 🔗 designobserver.com/a-quieter-pl...