My journey today is about 8 and a half hours but with breaks, probably closer to 12. I hate driving. Let's do this.

Truly a crazy increase, especially with so many people around here laid off, recently furloughed, or working less under the threat of being grabbed off the street

theres a whole bunch of cultures that don't do rings to mark marriage but do do necklaces for the purpose, so do only Christians get to keep wedding jewelry or

More women are planning to deck the halls in rented fashion this year, just as inflation and tariffs are poised to push clothing prices higher. n.pr/47Iu2S6

This has haunted me for the last three hours while packing, and I worry it will roll around in my brain most of the very long drive tomorrow.

I repaired another hole in a sock because I felt sad. I should have been packing for my very long drive tomorrow, and I still feel sad, but at least I have a second repaired sock. Also, when I showed my sister my darned one, she replied "Whoa. Do you need money for socks?"

nothing has ever felt more “For the Girls, the Gays and the Theys” than this casting, I have been dying to watch this for so long

The Harvard Crimson has ID'ed and published the name of a well-known economist who was the subject of emails between Larry Summers and Epstein. Born in China, she did her B.A. – Ph.D. at Harvard. The code name that Summers and Epstein used in their emails about her was "peril." What a vile pig.

I haven't been online because I've been writing but we got another one to raise funds for. A lady needs to see a man about a horse: you know what to do. About $700, housing covered already. Timely. Venmo linda-tirado-3 Chime $linda-tirado-3 PayPal riseandbeheard or bootstrapindustries@gmail

gosh I wonder why they called her peril www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

If you are not in academia, you might not know this, but job interviews used to be held at conferences IN HOTEL ROOMS. Women candidates in a hotel room alone with often all-male committees. People sitting on beds! The horror stories I've heard.

"There are about a thousand of us" is devastating.

KARL: The president claims that Thanksgiving costs are down 25%. Does he know that's not true? HASSETT: Well if you look at Walmart-- KARL: Wait a minute. I've gotta stop you. The Walmart package this year contains much less than the one last year. That's why the price is less.

Finally, some reporting that gets police unions on-record about Zohran, Tisch, and their interests. The NYPD has tens of thousands of employees, there are factional conflicts within the agency and related stories to be told. Hope this is the first of many stories.

Traveling with Max on the subway often leads to interesting conversations, and today I learned the woman I sat next to had read my Jennifer Pan article published in Toronto Life in 2015 while living in rural Virginia.

"ProPublica’s reporting debunks the idea of a ’Tren de Aragua complex' taken over by a horde of terrorists. We found no criminal convictions for 18 of the 21 Venezuelans we identified. Three of the men had been charged with offenses ... but in each case the charges were dropped."

I agree that Noem should resign and be criminally charged (I mean, I’d prefer several other things, but I would settle for that) but I think it’s important to say that there’s no number of resulting arrests that would make this raid defensible or any less of a heinous moral atrocity

This piece makes it sound totally normal that the police gets to decide whether or not to "work with" Mamdani as mayor, and it continues, as nearly all the paper's coverage, to wield normative terms like "moderate" and left" in a prejudicial way. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/n...

Every delay is a life saved.

📣Bloomberg Economics is hiring a climate specialist: bloomberg.avature.net/careers/JobD...

That "clubby" NYT headline is awful, but the piece itself is clear-eyed & observant, if cool in tone — it's by a strong writer & it documents the creepy, backpatting insider world of guys griping about MeToo as it happens. The NYT is always doing this! If the hed was different, the piece wd be legit

They really are going with immaculate asymmetry of tariffs, which didn't raise prices when they were imposed but will cut them when they're withdrawn.

NYC weekend subway service is such the pits

I know there is a lot to doomscroll right now, but you need to plan some sort of offline activity and go do it. Walking outside, going to a museum, cleaning your home, taking a nap, cooking some food, buying your favorite pastry; lots of options. It'll feel better than more time on your phone.

BRENNAN: Do you regret your confirmation vote for Secretary Kennedy? CASSIDY: You live life forward. Again, you just do. Let the day's own troubles be sufficient for the day. BRENNAN: That sounds like yes

The idea that individuals are going to be able to "negotiate" better rates with health insurers than the US government can is pants-on-head level absurd on its face

and literally every woman in astronomy is having flashbacks to www.buzzfeednews.com/article/azee...

The professionals who surrounded Jeffrey Epstein defended and deflected, coached and countermessaged, burnished and polished. Together, they helped extend Epstein’s influence and freedom, even lending an air of invincibility.  This is "The Network" www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

At our volunteer appreciation party, I saw the faces of a movement that changed the world. Thank you from the bottom of my heart to everyone who knocked on a door, called a friend, put up a sign, or convinced their family this election was worth their time.

genuinely perfect that the interview with Olivia was done by Jacob Bernstein, the child of Nora Ephron and Carl Bernstein, who themselves had a monumental scandal that involved romance, adultery, and the highest echelons of the literary and journalism worlds

unintentionally revealing that he’s not in or even aware of any networks who are at this moment doing exactly what he claims no one is doing because he’s not doing it

the guardian also had a White House correspondent weigh in and, ngl, I think our take is better

Burying the lede a little bit here - she’s also married to Larry Summers!

The guy who sexually assaulted 80+ women, including multiple acts of extreme violence, got a major legacy media’s news division to drop covering it by threatening to reveal its lead personality’s history of workplace sexual misconduct har har har you probably heard about what happened to them

Shawn McCreesh, who wrote today's misty water-colored nostalgia story about Jeffrey Epstein's "Lost New York" at NYT, told St. John's j-school students last year that journalism is great because “It gives you this all-access pass to interact with these people we would otherwise never come across.”

web.archive.org/web/20241122... Alice Wong's Teen Vogue articles were archived before their removal, for anyone looking.

A manufacturer interviewed on NPR said he is trying to hold prices steady in spite of tariffs (his products are made abroad) and here’s how: reducing his U.S. staff (lost jobs) and cutting back planned expansion (not growing his company). But tariffs are good! (He doesn’t agree.)

Here’s a story for every national news outlet: In N.C., churchgoers are literally running into the woods as federal agents descend on the property. “Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken.” www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...

5 headlines tonight on Charlotte Observer’s homepage: “Manolo's Bakery closes to protect customers” “Church members flee as federal agents arrive” “Super G executive describes agents dragging out teen employee” “Border Patrol questions people at Walmart” “Border Patrol sweep sparks fear”

PBS NEWS WEEKEND has been cancelled and 34 jobs will be cut at WETA in Washington D.C. The NEWS HOUR West Coast bureau will also close and the updated daily West Coast broadcast will end. “We cannot fully compensate for the scope of the federal funding loss.” current.org/2025/11/weta... #PBS

I wonder if posting photos of Max with the doomscrolling reminders would make them more effective

The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.

1/ Egalitarianism should begin at home. I link to this article by @bencasselman.bsky.social in light of the communications between Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein that have just been released. The released emails and the fact of friendship are vile. www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...

If you like going sockless in shoes (or flats) but also have sweaty feet, I recommend covering the removable insoles with thin, inexpensive ankle socks, with the sock hole facing down. Easy to install, wash, and helps avoid the squishy feeling from sweat accumulating inside the shoe.

it has been really interesting telling people about my layoff and why I will probably have to move back to Toronto at the end of the year and the resulting conversation about everything going on

Listening to Sarah Marshall’s podcast about the Satanic Panic, and thinking of the time I was visiting friends in Wisconsin in the ‘90s, and they said you had to be careful (esp. around Halloween) if you had black dogs or cats because “we have satanic cults in the area” www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...

“One of the things that really gives me joy is the fact that there are so many amazing, brilliant, creative disabled people out there. But part of my rage — and it’s a very real rage — is that most people don’t really know about them.” Obit:

Thanks to @juansaaa.com for letting me know that this excellent Johnny Harris video on ICE enforcement is out. I talked to his producer for over an hour during the research process and I think it's a good overview of how we got here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDbt...