solve this week‘s @puzzmo.com Big Crossword to learn how I feel about native plants (good) and rocky road (also good)

some 17-year-olds are old enough to vote in presidential primaries but, according to LEGO, too young to attempt to assemble the LEGO Sagrada Familia

your favorite trivia game’s favorite trivia game just dropped!!! from your friends at @newyorker.com puzzles & games please enjoy the lateral-thinking list-making feline-coded extravaganza that is ✨catalogues✨

TODAY: New York City’s entire electric grid just got about 20% more renewable power. That’s because it’s the first day the CHPE transmission project is sending commercial power to New York City's electric grid. 👏👏👏 Lower prices! Less pollution! HUGE!

When we fight, we win—and get some great press coverage to boot! This week, after trying to break our union by illegally firing and disciplining our members, Condé Nast settled with the NewsGuild.

I wrote about a city being set in motion

the wright brothers were so desperate to get out of ohio that they invented a completely new form of transportation

third time's the charm: first clean puzzle five 🎉 #ACPT

ancient greek newspapers shortly after Damocles was killed:

🚨: NASA just dropped a full disk image of Earth taken by Artemis II 🤯

Folks, it is time once again www.audubon.org/magazine/do-...

the purpose of a rube goldberg machine is what it does eventually

one of the best sentences in environmental journalism history thespinoff.co.nz/society/12-0...

can't stop thinking about the 1964 new york world's fair commemorative dachshund. does anyone know where I can get a 1964 new york world's fair commemorative dachshund

It’s also the way I walk.

From our new issue: Extremophile molds are invading art museums and devouring their collections. Stigma and climate change have fueled their spread

NEW: Within minutes of Alex Pretti being shot and killed, the Trump administration began rewriting the narrative, labelling the victim as a "lunatic" and a "terrorist" contradicting all available evidence www.wired.com/story/the-in...

gum disease is when plaque turns into calculus math team is when calculus turns into plaque

there are news sites that publish entire articles about a single five-letter word

chicago drafted rome and then rome drafted chicago

I just think it’s so much cooler and more interesting to try to be the best audio show rather than the shittiest television show

imagine being born with the potential to develop incredible skill, athleticism, and height, toiling and training for decades to actualize world class ability, only to be awarded the title of "Denver Nugget"

we 💛 our amazingly talented crossword constructors: here's 50 of our crossword editor @xws.bsky.social's favorite puzzmo midis from 2026, all of which are now free to play 💝 blog.puzzmo.com/posts/2025/1...

happy cartoons & puzzles issue to all who celebrate!!! feat. a brilliant meta, a musical cryptic, some chilly crossings, an intractable maze, and many more wintry delights 🧩🧩🧩 newyorker.com/cartoons-and-puzzles-2025

it's only an umlaut if it's from the umlaut region of north macedonia. otherwise it's actually just a sparkling diaeresis

Zillow bowed to pressure from real estate agents and removed climate risk scores from home listings: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...

"Normal Gossip buys Malala Yousafzai a podcast microphone" was not on my bingo card for 2025 (and other such gems from this year's @defector.com annual report)

People once dreamed of sidewalks that could whisk them across the city. Somehow, that dream ended up at the airport 🛫 Listen to a new episode of 99% Invisible wherever you get your podcasts 👉 https://bit.ly/3JJtFO1

catch me on @99pi.org this week with a story about why new york almost built a moving walkway across the brooklyn bridge... and what it looks like when people refuse to give up on an idea that no one really asked for

thanks to @thenation.com for publishing this excerpt of my book; grateful to be edited by the wonderful @apockros.bsky.social www.thenation.com/article/arch...

On Wednesday, Conde Nast management illegally fired four union leaders. While our union fights these illegal dismissals, the “Fired Four” have been left with no severance or COBRA coverage. Please donate to help cover their living expenses at the link below.

Breaking News: Late last night Conde Nast illegally fired 4 union organizers who asked company execs to explain the downsizing of Teen Vogue and continued layoffs. We’ve filed a grievance.

A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM

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.

Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

herd about the new kid in town?? the new yorker’s SHUFFALO launches today! it’s a daily anagramming game from the devious brain of @adamwagner.bsky.social that I think word nerds are really going to enjoy. this was a treat and a wild ride to bring to the world and I’m so stoked it’s here!!!

early reviews are saying this one is a banger

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

spotted this morning at the marine park salt marsh

look i just wish the magazine called The New Yorker would stop making so many geographical references to the city of New York in their Daily New Yorker crossword is that so much to ask!!

Four journalists were killed by an Israeli strike on a Gaza hospital today, including Mariam Dagga, a freelancer with the @apnews.com. She has a 12-year-old son, who was evacuated from Gaza earlier in the war. She was a true hero, like all of our Palestinian colleagues in Gaza. tinyurl.com/3cn5c9vb

been at the eric adams scavenger hunt all day. mostly we were in a crawlspace under a house in howard beach learning “how to out-hustle the rats.” not sure what this does for the campaign

On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵

(nodding) night corn

I wrote about corn salad for the New Yorker Daily newsletter because, sure, why not

an unbelievable update: chipotle seems to have noticed this tweet and is now opening a focal superchipotle to harness and channel the power of the seven central brooklyn chipotles