This morning, Ms. Rachel and I visited District 2 Pre-K Center, where we sang and read with the wonderful students and educators. We also discussed universal childcare - and how we're making it happen for NYC!

Logging into social media in 2026

This war will destabilize the entire region and set off a global shockwave of anti-Americanism vs. no it won’t

when i describe the american condition as one of existential shame, i don’t mean that every individual person should walk around bedeviled by personal guilt, but rather that the unusually high quality of life & safety most americans get to enjoy comes at a cost few of us have to worry about

This is such an empty-brain statement from CBS. The government murdering people on boats and sending people to CECOT are contrary to the rule of law, so what’s their point?

I really think we need to stop trying to return to pre-2020 and push beyond where we were. We can allow COVID to change how we approach disease or we can decide that we're going to end up in the same exact situation when the next pandemic hits.

Mamdani: I have been told that this is the occasion to reset expectations, that I should use this opportunity to encourage the people of New York to ask for little and expect even less. I will do no such thing. The only expectation I seek to reset is that of small expectations.

Love that Bernie Wagenblast voice of the NYC subway is the announcer for Zohran’s inauguration. www.them.us/story/bernie...

LFG

Please quote this with stories of your minor interactions with non-celebrities, e.g. “I once accidentally bumped into a man in the Wellingborough branch of Holland & Barrett”

I just got mask-shamed in the park in such a bizarre way that I almost have to hand it to the guy (I don’t and I won’t).

Identity fraud is okay when she does it

UPDATE: It was very unfair of me to suggest that the plaintiff is a tool of a law firm. It turns out he is awful in his own right. From Playbill:

A white composer and producer named Kevin Lynch is suing an Off Broadway theater, alleging that a discount offered to people of color to attend a recent performance of a play was “racially discriminatory.” The lawsuit is backed by Edward Blum.

Via @liamjscott.bsky.social at the other site here’s the full email from 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi. She’s putting her career on the line by fighting here. And she’s fighting for all of us.

If Weiss had more skill she could have spiked the CECOT segment much earlier in the process because it didn‘t reveal enough new information about a widely reported story. This would also have been a terrible decision, but would at least display some knowledge of how things actually work.

I am sure the 60 Minutes report on CECOT was very well done, but what makes the decision to kill it even more damning is that CBS was hardly out on a limb on this story. It has been extremely well documented and reported by many journalists.

So many are convinced they will never get long covid. Sadly there are certainly people they love already suffering from it, sometimes without saying so to them. No amount of hitting the gym and boosters will prevent LC (ask how I know!) though both are great steps to take. This isn’t a just world

Hiring a Black woman: “identity politics” Hiring a white guy for a job that has been held disproportionately by white guys, because he is a white guy: “subverting” identity politics! (The author of this sentence is Dylan Byers; you will not be surprised to learn that he is a white guy.)

“Hundreds Rally for Boy, 6, Who Was Separated From His Father by ICE: “Taking children from their families is not normal,” a speaker told the crowd in Queens, where Yuanxin Zheng attended school until being detained.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/n...

“My hopes for a natural delivery were shattered all for six YouTube videos at $800 each. None of those shots aired. I was never informed [by the New York Times] why, but can only assume that it would have been a bad look to open the episodes with a sweaty, heavily pregnant woman about to pass out.”

Netflix is planning to buy Warner Bros for $72 billion, allowing it to acquire its major competitor HBO Max. This corporate monopoly will be great for Netflix’s executives and a raw deal for everyone else. Lina Khan explains the danger of corporate concentration.

Really, really beautiful tribute

Congratulations, David Zaslav, on being the most destructive force in US entertainment in the entire history of show business

honestly, why even bother having antitrust laws

baby just posted his second ever tiktok! trying to spread the word about the @julialmv.bsky.social's amazing clinical trial. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTr2Rnwry/ if you are a tiktok user could you like and engage so it gets picked up? let's get this trial fully enrolled in record time!

This cover is SO good

HPD released new renderings for the Bronx’s redeveloped Grand Concourse Library, which will include 113 units of affordable housing.

Possibly unpopular opinion but I think tenure should be revokable when you express bigotry toward the immutable characteristics of part of your student body. Such as saying women are naturally not as good at science and engineering. How many young women students has he harmed since saying that?

The way both Ryan Lizza and Olivia Nuzzi are now selling their personal lives like melodramas while also both still supposedly being serious political journalists makes me deeply uncomfortable

Well!!!!!!!!!

‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’ —Alice Wong

Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated

I have read this multiple times and every time I think I have surely misread it.

The unionization of digital media was and is so important, and we gotta start reminding the bosses that it’s the floor

BREAKING: Former FTC chair Lina Khan to serve as co-chair of Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral transition team.

Brad Lander is at the victory party and, folks, he has the custom one-of-one “GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE” shirt.

thank you for the outpouring of support! those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.

Inbox— next cover of the New Yorker: “Mayor Mamdani,” by Edel Rodriguez

Pls share billionaire crashouts I need them all

send me the funniest election night posts below, i'm putting together a compilation for my newsletter tomorrow.

Thinking of all my trans siblings tonight who have had to endure months and months of hand-wringing over our lives being, supposedly, a dealbreaker for voters.

everybody gets twenty-four hours to lib out with impunity, tonight is the cringe purge

Largest turnout since 1969!!!!!!!! Dare I say ... nice 😎

I've seen enough

whew, per the Board of Elections, we've hit 2M votes in New York City

whatever you think of Spanberger, the fact that her opponent ran a campaign based almost entirely on transphobia and is on track to eat shit in the biggest blowout the state has seen since 2009 is unambiguously a huge win

Let's do this thing

today’s information came out piecemeal, and people should be able to share their own situations on their own time, but I could share this much ^ as it is pretty cut and dry on the facts. Teen Vogue also no longer has any trans staffers as of today.