Very happy to see my lil book in the AARP's Winter Books Preview — great crowd of readers but also you gotta love any time you end up on any kind of list that also mentions the words "Lauren Groff" and "George Saunders" www.aarp.org/entertainmen...

Like we’re all clear this is as dangerous as it is farcical right

I have 3 free months of Kagi Search premium for anyone who wants to try it on a referral link (it's *vastly* better than Google). Any takers out there?

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n... - this seems like it's unfolding exactly as a very small group of extremely wealthy people want it. An isolated, financially captive and stunningly beautiful place to live, from which they can continue to take a wrecking-ball to the planet.

Three unrelated things

*planes keep crashing into each other all over America* Duffy: the real danger in air travel is me seeing your saggy ass in leggings

Seen a lot of people wondering why X, The Everything App would have a feature that gives away how much of the popular right wing accounts are foreign actors and this is why. They thought every left wing account would be that way because every accusation is also a confession.

the last 24 hours on X, summed up:

It’s way past time that qualifying nations refused to attend the World Cup. This is just yet another reason. None will though.

Tehran is a thousand year old city of 9 million, with a metropolitan area of 15 million. And it is quite possibly about to not be viable, its population fleeing drought. Politicians talk about climate change and disasters in future tense, but the disasters are here, now, and they are terrifying.

They planned to force him to crash or shoot him for recording their crimes. They then accused him of assaulting them. www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/c...

Marimar Martinez is a US citizen who was shot by ICE five times in Chicago. She was then arrested, labelled a “domestic terrorist” and slandered on social media. All charges against her have been dropped. In this interview she shows on of the seven holes the ICE agent put in her body.

I don’t think Danny Kruger is being taken seriously enough - this is far more extreme than anything the Conservatives were allowed to get away with. He is effectively saying that being anti-racist and being trans are contrary to British national identity and his party is leading the polls.

Under the radar, Google has added features that allow Gmail to access all private messages and attachments for training its AI models.

well, I read it, and the salient, non-gross part is Lizza alleging, midsentence and without elaboration, that Nuzzi ran numerous “catch-and-kill operations” on RFK’s behalf, which would give her a role in both his appointment and the untold preventable deaths he has abetted in office. Cool.

Maybe this guy’s a great coach. Still seems pretty telling that the men who make decisions at WNBA teams continue to do things like “fire one of the top two best female coaches in pro women’s basketball and ‘upgrade’ her with a white dude whose experience maxes out at assistant in the men’s league”

WHOA. The FBI was/is spying on a Signal chat for a New York immigration court watch group, claiming they were “anarchist violent extremist actors.” Your reminder that the government is watching and don’t say anything in a big group chat you wouldn’t say on TV. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

My vibe from taking my daughter and her friends to WICKED FOR GOOD tonight: those filmmakers shot two films simultaneously three or whatever years ago and the way the first movie played with audiences set expectations the second movie is not designed to satisfy.

It doesn’t get much more transparent than “we’re bringing swastikas and nooses back guys”

I'm editing an anthology about unlikable characters and seeking work from younger writers, 15-21. If you know of one such writer who might want to submit their work for consideration, please share this call for submissions: audacity.substack.com/p/acquired-t...

Video of federal agents using chemical aerosol spray on protesters because a woman dared point at him at Bro-Tex in St. Paul, MN.

A partner who strangles without consent is too stupid to keep. A partner who strangles despite being told not to is a rapist. And these men do kill. It happens a couple times a year, with more abusive assholes trying to claim it was just kink. Edge play is safer.

Fox News credulously reports that "the Saudis now say their investment pledge in the US will be increased to $1 trillion." THE ENTIRE GDP OF SAUDI ARABIA IS $1.1 TRILLION, so this is total nonsense.

Ban private equity, tbh

Really telling that, even as MBS understands he has to at least say Khashoggi’s torture and murder were wrong, Trump can’t even bring himself past his standard, completely invented “hey look lots of people didn’t like the guy”. He can’t just deflect; he has a pathological need to excuse and justify.

This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu

When asked if there was anything "incriminating" in Epstein's emails, Trump pointed a finger in a female reporter's face and snapped. 'Quiet. Quiet, Piggy.' people.com/donald-trump...

We’re gonna find out there’s so much fuckin drug use at dhs and ice, it’s gonna make the Nazis look like puritans

This is insane & should be much bigger news. While some countries/cities face rising water/flooding, others face the kind of historic abandonment we associate with lost cities of yore due to a lack of water - except this time, it was completely avoidable if we had implemented timely climate action.

A ‘show of defiance’? This is an example of terrorism and of how the media covers up for it.

Mate, if you’ve got cause to calculate a girl’s age down to the month, you’re a pedophile

Labour saw Suella Braverman and the Tories crash and burn trying to be slightly-more-respectable-Reform and decided, you know what? Let’s do the exact same thing

The important thing is not whether the Trump performing sexual favors for Bill Clinton thing is true. The important thing is that we all pretend it’s true, and that someone asks Trump about it every day.

this story was sort of lost in the last few days of the epstein news but it’s wild how many republicans appear to be pedophiles or okay with pedophilia

A massive corruption scandal is brewing in Nevada: it appears the Republican Governor's office stepped in to cover for Elon Musk's Boring Company after safety violations caused two firefighters to suffer chemical burns. Even worse? It looks like they deleted evidence of their meetings!

NYT: “Epstein emails a distraction from the Republican shutdown victory” WSJ: “We estimate the Epstein files to be 67% Trump by weight”

The immigrants are taking all the jobs and they’re all deadbeats taking all the welfare and they have no skills but they’re also more employable than you and they put nothing into our economy and they’re also buying all the $400K houses and

I will no doubt read and enjoy all your very good Nuzzi jokes, but I also want to say earnestly, so many of us (myself included) are on the verge of being pushed out of this industry and it's genuinely so dispiriting to see the worst among us, ethics-wise, get such preferential treatment.

A Young Republican turd at BU just boasted on X of calling ICE on local car wash workers, bc they have "no right to be here" (he himself is from St. Albans, ENG). Other X racists praise this but question him, bc his name sounds Jewish to them. That place is a nesting doll of stupidity and loathing.

“ended up”? “setting off”? The Times explores new lows with this perversely upside down synopsis of a story of powerful men sexually abusing a child and getting away with their crimes.

I cannot begin to properly articulate how upsetting it is to have had people baselessly accuse trans people of being groomers and pedophiles only for it to come out that they were deliberately doing this as part of a project to provide cover to actual groomers and pedophiles in positions of power

you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric

AI-generated nazi and racist songs are "flooding" Spotify. There are many alternatives to Spotify, which offer just as much choice (in better audio quality) and reward musicians more fairly. Buying physical albums and CDs? Even better. Staying on Spotify is no different to staying on X.

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

just a reminder this guy slashed the tires on his much younger female coworkers tires to trick her into getting in his car he was married at the time

The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.

Jeffrey Epstein advised Steve Bannon that the lawyers representing Brett Kavanaugh in his confirmation hearing should accuse Christine Blasey Ford of being on medications that cause false memories or memory loss.