One of the themes in Zohran’s dad’s work is the historic malleability of identity and colonialism’s desire to impose a fixed definition for that identity as a method of control, which is an interesting context for that NYT story.

Trying and failing to imagine Cuomo holding a cat

It is kind of funny that the actual NY politician in the Clinton family didn’t endorse.

Saturday Night Live did a Pentagon press conference skit where the joke was reporters asking questions put troops in danger

Voted early in Brooklyn. It was packed like I’ve never seen for a non-presidential election. Certainly not for local primaries. Zohran supporters are tremendously excited to vote. The only obviously non-Zohran voter there was Chuck Schumer.

NEW: John Chell, the NYPD’s highest-ranking uniformed official, used someone else’s identity in a bid to avoid paying income taxes on money he made while moonlighting as a basketball referee for 6 years, newly-released police disciplinary records reveal. www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/12/j...

A lot going on right now but I still think it's crazy that the NY state budget is a week overdue because the governor is holding it hostage to a retrogressive policy demand based on a claim for which neither she nor anyone else have offered *any* supporting evidence. hellgatenyc.com/tisch-cant-s...

At the rally supporting trans rights outside NYU Langone, who have shamefully abandoned trans patients

The funniest moment in Lebanon's presidential election today: one member of parliament voted for US Senator Bernie Sanders. That prompted Nabih Berri, speaker of the Lebanese parliament, to exclaim, شو؟ - "what?" Unfortunately, the vote was annulled and expunged from the final tally.

Presidential security appears to be blocking the investigators from entering the official residence. The presidential security has signaled that they would not cooperate with detaining Yoon. Live feed just showed both sides pushing each other moments ago, though it's stopped for now

If you start RoboCop at 11:32pm at the stroke of midnight the scientist who looks like Parker Posey will take off her glasses and wish you a happy new year.

#TwinPeaks Ep. 4 DVD commentary: Tim Hunter: We were encouraged to do as much as we could. I will always remember [this] as the llama episode. I’d been driving through Topanga Canyon and seeing llamas, so, I said, can you get me a llama? And I showed up on the set and there was the llama.

I hope this isn’t for Halloween but is just a new lawn ornament

Every few years when Peggy Noonan enters the discourse a new generation gets to be introduced to this quote.

RIP Wayne Kramer. Saw the MC50 in 2019 and he still had more energy on stage in his early 70s than I do on a good day

Saying "you had a good life" and trying to close someone's eyes like a corpse when I'm tired of listening to them

Ok, it’s CIA story time, because a great forthcoming book revisits the agency’s role in the assassination of Patrice Lumumba and its extensive deception around that — largely the work of its man in Congo, Larry Devlin, whom the CIA honored during its Torture Era.

It’s hilarious that Adams had his staff fake the photo when called on his lie instead of just indignantly saying he won’t let reporters dig through his wallet https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/06/nyregion/mayor-adams-photo-venable-fake.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Saw the new Fugazi doc and thought about how when I was getting into music and saw live footage, I only wanted to see the band and would get annoyed by crowd shots. Now I love to see who went to shows, who made up the scene in that time and place, in all their awkward glory.

I’m going to write a terrible legal thriller called The Puddle Consideration