www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/t... I always knew crypto was created for organized crime. But it hadn’t occurred to me that the organized crime outfit that would benefit most is the politicians-for-sale mob.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u... Story says: “In its handling of food stamps, the Trump administration laid bare the philosophy of the president’s second term.” Which is the same ‘philosophy” as in the 1st term: to lie, deceive, reneg, and do whatevertheHELLhewants. Until we stop him.

School cell phone bans, according to WNYC listener-teacher, “have made the lunchroom noisy again.” Though I heartily favor this in principle, school lunchrooms were social abattoirs for the awkward ones, in my memory. I hope someone’s watching out for those kids.

Any advice on how to get rid of a “Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” earworm? Been driving me mad the last two days.

Tearing down the East Wing in broad daylight is Trump’s way of saying I can do anything I want, including pillaging and raping your country. It’s his way of saying, ‘do you feel humiliated and powerless yet?’ This won’t stop until he’s stopped.

www.usatoday.com/story/news/p... A metaphor for the ages. Only it’s not a metaphor.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u... Under the smug & incompetent military leadership of Trump and his cabinet it’s entirely possible Venezuela licks us.

No Kings Know-Your-Rights prep! M778 howitzer: I’ll be in your neighborhood today.May I stop by? Me: I do not wish to speak with you. M777:I am your retribution. Me: Thanks but… M777:Just a routine flyover Me: If you have a warrant, slide it under the door. M777: darn!

Signs at No Kings NYC: Make empathy great again Trump traitor racist useless monster phony I am an unpaid protester against facism Drag kings only!IKEA makes smarter cabinets. They call it the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe If Melania doesn’t have to live with him why do we?

Why does everyone want to show me disturbing video?

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u... This pretty much summarizes the make America great again strategy: we (the super rich) use your (everyone else’s) tax money to make more money for us. If our self-dealing transactions with public assets go bad, you eat the losses.

Not finding much going on here at Bluesky. What happened?

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news... I think this applies not just to elected officials who supposedly disobey him but to voters who failed to vote for him. Megalomania is…a mania.

www.newsweek.com/rapture-theo... The real ‘good news’ is that Democrats will finally be able to tackle the problems underlying the coming ‘fires and plagues.’ Beam those people up!

bryantlibrary.libcal.com/event/14428870 When the local library channels the zeitgeist.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/u... So, Kirk DIDN’T push hate? I must have had him confused with one of the other race baiting reactionary thugs in Trump’s cheerleading squad. What a relief to learn he was one of the decent ones.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/u... He’s prepared to slay millions in pursuit of his Nobel Peace Prize.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/u... The Education Department said it had found that Dr. Washington and his leadership team advanced an agenda of “antiracism,” which it said was unlawful. If the awful Pres. AndrewJohnson hadn’t already done it, Trump would now be pardoning Jefferson Davis.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/u... Not enough demographics here to back this up, but my gut says the Democrats are suffering from white flight. Like NYC in the 60s and 70s, the Democratic Party is dealing w/ infrastructure collapse, a bankruptcy of ideas and —same old same old — white backlash .

www.theverge.com/news/757537/... Meta keeps covering itself in glory.

Federal Reserve Governor Adriana Kugler to Resign Was she threatened with prosecution for an alleged financial disclosure oversight? By an administration that is a 20-mile-long freight train of disclosure violations and bald faced corruption? Probably.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/w... Like a kind of killer wasp or praying mantis, there seems to be a worldwide bumper crop this year of political sycophants and lackeys flying around — Medvedev, JD Vance belong to the genus — ready to advance their little personal careers on the ashes of us all.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/u... When a mob turns, there’s no telling where it will go. But behind a leader like MTG, who thinks Jewish financiers start wildfires with space lasers, it seems likely to turn Nazi.

Does ANYONE writing here NOT have a Substack column or podcast to peddle?

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/u... Seriously, would the vaunted even-handedness of the NYT permit language like “autopsy” and “death” in a story, under different circumstances, about the Republican Party? Short answer: Fuck no.

A Woody Guthrie song about deportees. www.facebook.com/share/v/1CJn...

A double fault today in my local newspaper, Newsday. Not only do they bury the story of 28 killed in Gaza on page 25…but sharing the page is an ad from PSE&G, bragging about the “big, beautiful” work it supposedly does for the community. Does even the power company have to suck up to him?

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/u... Nietzsche’s God-is-Dead ethic is the beating heart of Trumpism: No health care? “We all die..” We sent you to an El Salvador hell-prison by mistake? “You’ll get over it.” Your children are dead? Only “losers” ask why.

“At the end of the day” has always been one of my least favorite expressions. But maybe it’s finally run its course. With every new day of Trump, it feels like the end of the day has really come.

The smartest AI researchers and engineers have been getting hit up by Mark Zuckerberg to try to get them to join a new Superintelligence lab — When winning is everything, the world always loses.

Millions being spent on NYC mayoral primary campaigns, most of it enriching local TV stations. Yet local TV affiliates agreed to broadcast just one debate, leaving the rest to radio, cable, and online outlets. Where’s the public service-return from these publicly licensed profit machines?

Trump: I’m supposed to say something? Trump: What am I supposed to say? Trump: Oh, like, ‘I got shot, so I feel for these people in Minnesota’? Trump: But I survived! Trump: They’re dead. Trump: That makes me a winner, that’s all. But I’m not gonna say that. Trump: it wouldn’t be right.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/u... In this time of hyper-propaganda and septic-shock levels of disinformation, a single burning car can be made to look like “anarchy” in the streets. But, hard as it is to admit, Fetterman is not wrong.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/u... When the next 9/11 happens, we’ll learn that 3/4s of our national security resources have been dedicated to securing criminal indictments against Hillary, Big Bird, Harvard admissions officers and Venezuelan waiters with lapsed visas.

CNN should be live in LA, where DHS goons are trying to terrorize people, rather than airing this slightly self-congratulatory thumb-sucker live broadcast of Good Night and Good Luck. Enough with this hand wringing drawing of parallels. The crisis is now.

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06... Are there two more unbalanced, petulant — and recklessly powerful — people in the world?

Musk says Trump would have lost the 2024 election without his help Is there any more compelling reason to challenge and overturn Citizens United? They have turned our country into an auction house.

In the NBA (does this exist on BlueSky?) there’s so much criticism of the T-Wolves’ Anthony Edwards. (You can look it up.) But he may be the first poet/hoops great. Of another team’s brilliant defense, he said: “They are like 15 puppets on one string.” An inspired image.

Two spectacular Broadway shows I recently saw featured bands on stage on par with any I’ve ever seen in concert— “Buena Vista Social Club,” and “Dead Outlaw.” Great as they were, though, I kept wondering how the musicians feel. Is it ‘performance,’ or is it a type of playing fixed in amber?

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/u... This is the ultimate rape by the nation’s most famous serial rapist — the illustration par excellence of the feminist insight that rape isn’t about sex, it’s about power.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/u... He campaigned against “forever wars,” but seems to be launching one against the American people.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/o... Fascinating on so many levels— that it’s in the Times, for one thing. But so confused and self contradictory, too. If a resistant media helped Poland retain democratic norms under right wing govt, as Stanley says, why is he fleeing instead of resisting?

A company that makes tasers and other ‘public safety’ equipment.

A broader zoning referendum ban failed, so new legislation specifically excludes Axon's project from going to the ballot via @jerodmacevoy.com

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... are whispering, ‘Is he merely a foreign asset, or is he a foreign agent?’” Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld, a Yale School of Management professor and president of the leadership institute, told me. “He’s at war with the country, and they know it.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/o... Why isn’t this a front page story, instead of an opinion piece? Did I miss something?

www.wired.com/story/people... Q. How is he different from a Chicago alderman who takes cash in envelopes? A. The alderman does sometimes help people get jobs.

Almost 9:30 and so far not a peep at @TheOscars about the campaign of destruction and intimidation by the president of the United States. Is everyone afraid already?