Protesters in Time Square telling Trump to take his hands off of Venezuela now!

A questionable rationale for running a humiliating photograph of a world leader, whether or not it proves to be authentic. Would the Times run a photo of Trump in nothing but his underwear? (FREE ARTICLE)

The Big Apple Circus. It's the best! Their tent is in New York City at Lincoln Center for one more day. Get your tickets!

In Opinion President Trump “is pushing our country toward an international crisis without valid reasons,” the editorial board writes after the U.S. attack on Venezuela was announced on Saturday. “If Mr. Trump wants to argue otherwise, the Constitution spells out what he must do: Go to Congress.”

Extraordinary!

Zohran Mamdani for New York. "I was elected as a Democratic Socialist and I will govern as a Democratic Socialist."

Amen to that.

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

To the tintinabulation that so musically wells/From the bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells—From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.

"First came the scorched boat. Then the mangled bodies. Then the packets with traces of marijuana. Now, fishermen fear the ocean that feeds them." (Free article from The New York Times)

A year into Trump’s immigration crackdown, construction firms in Louisiana are scrambling to find carpenters. Hospitals in West Virginia have lost out on doctors and nurses. A neighborhood soccer league in Memphis can't field enough teams because immigrant children stopped showing up. (Free)

In 1989, I heard a little boy named Jeronimo playing at Carnegie Hall in a tribute to the great guitarist Sabicas. He was considered a child genius. Now here he is, a mature artist, playing bulerias on the beach in Spain. Time passes. Flamenco lives. Ole! www.instagram.com/p/DSxh1BijVsO/

We saw this Jim Jarmusch movie last night at the Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center and I loved it. Three vignettes that are quiet, wry, sad and comic. All about the lies that people in families tell each other. I laughed a lot and I almost cried. If you can't get to the theater, watch on MUBI.

Villancicos de Gloria, flamenco Christmas carols, sung by La Macanita in Jerez de La Frontera. Ole!

This is not going to be as "easy" an Panama was.

Bom dia, um bom domingo para todos 🎄🎋🏠🕊️🍁

Not enough people are talking about this: Today, the Senate has one last chance to extend the ACA tax credits before they expire. I’ll be voting to prevent health insurance premiums from more than doubling for millions of Americans. Every Republican senator should do the same.

How to resist a government you oppose. Two views, anyhow. (Free link)

Bon voyage to Elaina Richardson, one of the smartest and loveliest people I've ever known. Whatever she does next, it's sure to be wonderful.

Lovely show in Pomona, N.Y.

Saint Bavo will greet you in front of the Neapolitan Christmas tree at the Met this month.

In or around Pomona, New York? I hope you'll join us tomorrow -- Sunday, December 7 -- at the opening reception for this joint exhibition by my friend Gary Falkenstern and Linda Eckstein. The Cultural Center is located at 584 Route 306 in Pomona.

Are E-bikes out of control? They sure as hell are. Take it from somebody who lives in New York.

The ancient beech tree in Central Park.

Columbia Journalism School announced today a historic investment in student opportunity: nearly $10 million in scholarship support for 2026–27, made possible through the generosity of our donors. 📰 Learn more: https://journalism.columbia.edu/news/cjs-expands-scholarship-access #ReportingBeginsHere

Amun-Re protecting King Tutankhamun at "Divine Egypt" at the Met.

Good front-paging.

Beautiful and true essay by Paco Cerda. As long ago as the 1990s, I was astonished meet many young people in Spain who said they preferred not to think about or discuss the Guerra Civil, the Spanish Civil War. Never forget. (Free article)

I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood. She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.

Elliott Erwitt, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. New York City, USA. 1988.

Most Americans who voted for Trump did not understand he would do this.

They’ve got a centrist saying this now? 🍿

Columbia, my alma mater, seems to sink lower every day.

"La Guerra Civil / The Spanish Civil War," 1937. By Wifredo Lam. "I am drawing a painting of big proportions ... an anti-fascist subject," wrote Lam of this painting, originally commissioned for the 1937 Spanish Pavilion at the Exposition Internationale in Paris. Currently on view at MoMA.

"The Jungle" by Wifredo Lam (1902-1982), in "When I Don't Sleep, I Dream," his fabulous survey at MoMA.

apnews.com/article/char... Charlotte immigration crackdown goes on, Homeland Security says, despite sheriff saying it ended

From Puerto Rico to Brooklyn, Rep. @velazquez.house.gov has always been a champion and tireless advocate for immigrants, small businesses and working families. Your grace and fight showed us what real leadership looks like. From the bottom of my heart, thank you La Luchadora.

White Cyclamen by Anne Estelle Rice (1887-1959). Rice was a Philadelphia artist who ended up in Paris with my grandmother Sarah Shreve, in 1905. She went on to have a distinguished career as a fauvist and beyond in Paris and London. This oil and watercolor on paper is for auction: Bonhams, London.

Page One in Iowa.

Cuando la mirada dice todo. 📹 An Andalucian Journey: Gypsies and Flamenco (1988) (@bcc) Available on YouTube Rosario Montoya Manzano takes her name "La Farruca" from her father, Antonio Montoya Flores "Farruco." Sister of La Faraona, aunt of El Barullo & mother of Farruquito, Farru & El Carpeta.

“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.” Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter

Trump and Stephen Miller want to paint protests against their mass deportations as violent and unruly — this was nothing of the sort. youtu.be/_M6MpFyDhus?...

Shame!

The many good reasons that Columbia University students and affiliates should form a tenants' union.

When it comes to universities, I sometimes feel I've seen it all. But the situation at U. Chicago shocks even me.

We witness new horrors daily. But this is one of those that should bring all of this to an end on its own. It won't, of course. Because we're in hell. But it should.

To illustrate, Cuomo wins the brown areas of Manhattan including the Upper East Side, which are the wealthiest parts while Mamdani wins the rest.

Instead of folding like cheap chairs, Democrats should have forced the GOP to end the shutdown by killing the filibuster. Holding onto the archaic, antidemocratic tradition doesn't help them stop fascism, it makes them complicit to it. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Never forget the sleazy campaign that Cuomo ran, backed by Michael Bloomberg, Rupert Murdoch, and many other billionaires who were wiling to say anything and do anything to keep income inequality intact.