After watching the film, The Day After, “I’m glad I watched, because now I understand more about nuclear war,” a seventh grader named Matt told The Times soon after it aired on ABC. “I think I’d want to die instantly.” What ‘A House of Dynamite’ Didn’t Show www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/o...

This is where we are at. Shameful.

Just a word to our dear Democratic representatives, there is no “center” when the opposition is illiberal and quasi-authoritarian. So please stop trying to pretend that there is anything to work with in the GOP. They are all beholden to Trump who is the epitome of authoritarianism.

They’re useless. Just useless. Trump Administration Live Updates: Democratic Defectors Relent on Shutdown, Backing Bill to Reopen www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Ali Solomon. #NewYorkerCartoons

Ceasefire for thee but not for me bsky.app/profile/npr....

Nothing quite like the Metropolitan Opera House. Here to see Carmen, which is fantastic.

Ceux qui peuvent faire croire des absurdités peuvent vous faire connaître des atrocités. - Voltaire Those who can make you believe absurdities can expose you to atrocities. - Voltaire

Mamdani for the win #votenyc #nyc #mamdani

Beautiful day at Storm King Art Center yesterday.

Just FYI for my NY friends

2 things. First, Bannon is an unapologetic outright fascist. Second, he’s got anger/victim issues and is batshit crazy because of them. Him and his lot are dangerous. m.youtube.com/watch?v=ijf7...

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Adam Douglas Thompson. #NewYorkerCartoons Sign up for our humor newsletter at the link in our bio to get more cartoons and other funny stuff right in your inbox: https://www.newyorker.com/newsletter/humor

The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as any other New Yorker. And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows. No more.

AI models are 50% more sycophantic than humans go.nature.com/3L1LwA1

Who will govern this new Israeli approved Palestinian paradise that Kushner and the Israelis are pushing? What will their citizenship be? What passport will they hold? Is it just me or does this have Theresienstadt vibes? Once again, Israel gaslighting the world. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/w...

It’s the lie of Reaganomics. It’s not trickle down, it’s trickle up. The rich have gotten insanely rich over the past 40 years while everyone else has stayed stagnant. Pay your fair share of your damned taxes.

New York says NO to Trump and his authoritarian regime!

New York shows up! No kings today or any day.

Regarding Trump; “Because he is not a decision-maker and is pursuing little other than power, money, and praise, no one actually reports to him. They listen to him rave, laud him, tell him how wonderful he is and that he’s right about everything, and then report to the people with real power.”

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Adam Douglas Thompson. #NewYorkerCartoons

God love John Oliver. Bari Weiss is a bigoted hack who majors in whataboutism.

Great piece by Michael Young. #gaza #israel #genocide “Nor will they be able to live down a very real impression that underpinning their actions in the past two years has been an unstated, yet evident, racism,… carnegieendowment.org/middle-east/...

I am not a constitutional scholar, but it seems that the current interpretation of the unitary executive theory paves the way for an authoritarian dictatorship. Originalist ‘Bombshell’ Complicates Case on Trump’s Power to Fire Officials www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/u...

Riots on the streets today in NYC. Especially on the A train.

Students from countries with better university systems continue to come to U.S., whereas those from countries with lesser university systems have dropped significantly. Seems foreign students understand racism of Trump 2.0 very well — even if some underestimate the randomness of the repression.

To anyone who’s been paying attention, this is no surprise. But it’s good to see that conservatives are admitting the dangers behind closed doors. Now what will they do about it? ‘Bow to the Emperor’:We Asked 50 Legal Experts About the Trump Presidency www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/m...

“Zionists, like all colonizers, have labored to convince the colonized of their omnipotence, and here is a reminder that, as they see us and pretend not to, we too see them.”

What?? Not yet King Donnie. “U.S. code prohibits standard coins from bearing the image of a president who hasn’t been dead for at least two years.” www.nydailynews.com/2025/10/03/t...

My message today is the same as it was during the government shutdown 30 years ago: we can't balance the budget on the backs of working people. Democrats must keep fighting against Trump's cruel healthcare cuts.

For the French speakers out there. “It is particularly disturbing, however, to see how much party loyalty brought light to the climate of fear established by Donald Trump as soon as he returned to the White House blocking the once exemplary… www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

How to dismantle a democracy and set up a dictatorship in 8 months, courtesy of Donald Trump and a Congress and Supreme Court that paves the way and does his bidding. www.bbc.com/news/article...

“In all of these cases, sooner or later, the Trump administration can be expected to seek refuge in the work of Chief Justice John Roberts, whose maximalist language in Trump v. United States not only granted Trump a shield from criminal investigation and prosecution…

THE SUM OF YOUR ACTIONS DETERMINES WHAT YOU ARE

Remember “I’ll only be a dictator on day 1”? Well we’re 8 months in. “That’s why it’s particularly important for journalists to label authoritarians as such when the evidence warrants. In Trump’s case, I believe the U.S. is well past that point.” theconversation.com/why-journali...

“They want these victims to remain faceless so they can continue to perpetuate this story for political purposes,” Veasey continued.”

In other news, anti-LGBT policy is taking hold elsewhere. They are mimicking Trump’s language. “There are two sexes, male and female", defined at birth, the proposal states -- an echo of US President Donald Trump's inauguration speech.” www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Great Niki de Saint Phalle exhibition at the Musée national des beaux-arts in Quebec City. #nikidesaintphalle #quebeccity #quebec

Outright bigotry. And 100% wrong. Trump Administration Petitions Supreme Court on Passport Gender Policy www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u...

Bramhall from yesterday’s Daily News.

“The Genocide Convention was born from the ashes of the Holocaust with a solemn vow: “Never again.” That vow is meaningless if it applies only to some and not to others.” My U.N. Commission’s Finding: Israel Is Committing Genocide www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...

A cartoon by Ivan Ehlers. #NewYorkerCartoons @newyorker.com

You’ve got to be kidding me. This is insane. "Putting the Infidels biker club in charge of delivering humanitarian aid in Gaza is like putting the KKK in charge of delivering humanitarian aid in Sudan. It makes no sense whatsoever," www.bbc.com/news/article...

Is this any surprise? The files are so tainted because MAGAites have had their paws all over them. There will be nothing there. “Schnitt went on to say if further Epstein files are released they will be "heavily redacted and his [Trump's] name won't be in it."” www.newsweek.com/doj-official...

Outrageous. It’s time to start thinking of moving the UN to another country, perhaps to the other headquarters in Geneva. The US has failed in its responsibilities. Trump Administration Bars Palestinian Officials From U.N. Meeting in New York www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...

I’m a big fan of Nancy Maclean’s work since reading Democracy in Chains some years ago. She has clearly predicted what is happening now and exposes the hidden layers behind this tumultuous time we are in. The Koch’s and their massive web of affiliates have driven much of this movement.

ABUSE OF POWER COMES AS NO SURPRISE

This country is sleepwalking into a dictatorship. In Trump’s Second Term, Far-Right Agenda Enters the Mainstream www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/u...

From yesterday, by me, on why Newsom is doing the right thing, right now. Save any talk about 2028 for later on. It's a distraction. We have to deal with the emergency in front of us. fallows.substack.com/p/which-side...