“Watching her explain the word mahogany, I knew I was doomed, both personally and as part of a larger species.” www.vulture.com/article/dumb...

Death By Lightning is really good and I appreciate this little backgrounder on the "sex cult" www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Trump has made a lot of weird comments about magnets www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

“… it’s just this big blob of stuff and dross that comes careening at you, and you don’t know where to find the good stuff. I think that’s the biggest problem of our time: There is brilliant writing out there. But finding it is like the needle in the haystack.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/m...

She was a 17, high school junior working at McDonald’s. She was living in and out of a homeless shelter. And she needed money for braces. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find: - NONE of the arrested were criminally charged - NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists." - ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

Betcha didn't have money on the Catholic Church being the only institution with the spine to stand up to fascism this time round.

“It was actually like I was just feeding myself into the AI meat grinder.” nymag.com/intelligence...

The most horrifying AI slop of ICE raids you can possibly imagine is wildly viral on Facebook, collectively totaling tens of millions of views from a single account. First spotted by @chadloder.bsky.social www.404media.co/ai-generated...

NEW: ProPublica examined months of Fox News’ coverage and reviewed over 700 videos posted on social media. The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.

Elon Musk’s Wikipedia clone is ridiculous. It’s also a glimpse of the future nymag.com/intelligence...

What a thrill to be part of @talkingpointsmemo.com's series about the past 25 years of digital media! I wrote about why private equity goons destroyed Deadspin and why it matters.

"How are we being ruled by the only old people who don't stubbornly cling to shit whether it's working or not?” www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

Thoughts and prayers to everyone who is brewing a massive headache from the weather right now

The Lowdown www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

“If you look at affordability, which [Democrats] campaigned on, they lied,” Trump said. The numbers show he and his administration are the ones lying about rising costs. Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Maxwell has received customized meals personally delivered to her cell, after-hours time in a private exercise area and access to a service puppy www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/d...

“History is full of cases where great bands make terrible records, yet history stands speechless at what the Clash accomplished here.” www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

They’re wearing masks so they can’t be prosecuted later. As long as they think they can’t be prosecuted, their crimes will intensify. They will torture, starve and kill, as they have already, on greater and greater scale. Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.

Terminate is his new fave word

Thank you so much @sketchesbyannie.bsky.social!

Went back to the history of the Sicilian Mafia to illustrate something obvious but worth stating explicitly: The Trump administration behaves like an organized crime syndicate running a protection racket, not a representative government www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

God, neither do I. And outsourcing that ability to a bunch of energy-guzzling machines whose companies are about to careen off a financial cliff? No thank you

LET ME BE PERFECTLY CLEAR: DOJ DID ALL OF THIS TO TRY AND STOP PAYMENTS TO PEOPLE UNDER AN ANTI-HUNGER PROGRAM.

Online and in real life, the ostriches had become symbols of defiance and the farm a destination for conspiracists, fringe media, and animal lovers. Great one by @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social: www.msnbc.com/news/news-an...

George Santos lived in Huntington, Long Island before becoming a member of Congress. He lived in the Federal Correctional Institution in Fairton, New Jersey after that.

I need to turn off news alerts.

“I think calling it the ‘lucky jacket’ was more of Sid’s thing than Mama’s,” (Minnelli) said. “But, to be honest, I try not to remember a lot of what Sid said.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/s...

Everything’s fine!

Can you get a headache from the wind? Asking for a friend.(Me, your friend Lisa)

For @msnbc.com I wrote about how Tuesday's election gives Democrats the blueprint for overcoming Republican anti-trans attacks and how thus should settle all the talk about throwing trans people under the bus. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Hey New Yorkers! Make sure you get your ideas in for the participatory budgeting cycle. rnd.council.nyc.gov/ideamap/map/

The Lowdown is a really great show.

After Mamdani Win, Schumer Rejects Charges He’s Out of Touch www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/n...

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video. I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children. But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.

Continuing to tack-ify the White House nymag.com/intelligence...

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I want to make a tracker of all the stupid things people said they were going to do (Cuomo moving to Fla, etc )

Oysters all around!

He’s so busy refusing to swear in duly elected members of Congress and plotting ways to strip health care and food assistance from poor people that he simply cannot be bothered to keep up with the news. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Some of the craziest, fearmongering ads have been playing nonstop during sports over the past month

How can we miss you if you just keep talking about leaving but never go away?

No fan of Hochul, but she’s said the right things in the final weeks— including here, where she stood up to no less than Hakeem Jeffries (who must go).

It’s not irrational tho!

“We rescued one another. . . . He was the artist and I the storyteller.” In a new essay, Patti Smith reflects on her early days in New York and her relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe.

Great reporting on the shell game of California home insurance reform in a burning world. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/u...

I love when the bullpens run out for the fight

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