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As Trump drags us into an Iraq-style war in Venezuela, 312 members of the House — including 115 Democrats — just voted to authorize over $900 billion in military spending.

All those hours, and it still looks less appealing than if you smeared dog shit over your lips and tried to kiss me.

One of the biggest drivers of high housing costs is that a small, highly motivated group of incumbent homeowners block new housing in their neighborhoods and almost no one is organized to push back. Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance. Be a housing fan.

BREAKING: According to a recent investigation by NYC's Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, Starbucks illegally violated workers' protection laws in NYC 500,000 times since 2021. Over $35.5 million will be paid in restitution to Starbucks workers! gothamist.com/news/starbuc...

Reading work by a writer you once thought was pretty good—now clearly operating without an editor—is like walking into your favorite bar with all the lights on. You can’t unsee what you’ve seen.

A chapter in Hegseth’s book is literally titled “More Lethality, Less Lawyers.” It’s almost as if there were signs!

Is there anything more anticlimactic than Black Friday, a day that has been happening for weeks?

This is so deeply at odds with the vision and history of America. Take pretty much any ethnic or racial group that are part of the American mosaic America today - they have all faced the same accusation. The moment these accusations are turned into policy are some of the most shameful in US history

Would it kill somebody to say “Nancy is not stupid.” It pains me to see the WH press corps just accept the abuse. Sends the wrong image to Americans and the world IMHO.

i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao

Gut wrenching: “I had to take our baby from my crying wife’s arms,” Mr. Paul, 33, said, recalling the moment that agents said they were arresting his wife, Katie. Ms. Paul was sent to an immigration detention center with hundreds of other people swept up in the Trump administration’s crackdown.”

Making sure developers don’t make a dime is more important than building homes for people

NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

There are 50,000 food insecure children in Maine and 2 trans athletes. Every single candidate running for office who can drum up concern about the latter but has nothing to say about the former is telling on themselves. They don’t care about children. Only power. And they’ll hurt kids for it.

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Here is a list (updated Oct 2025) of libraries who offer cards to non-residents. I checked my library (non-resident cards available) and 2 of Krista's books are available as an ebook. And if the library doesn't have the book you want, you can request they acquire it!

ken have i told u about the humble potato

Any viable left-populist economic coalition in a diverse polity has to include people whose economic exploitation is experienced through racialized and gendered forms. You can’t ask them to bracket out those concerns as a precondition for solidarity that… just doesn’t make any goddamn sense. 2/

I'm excited to announce that I have been asked to join the Mamdani Transition Team to work on community safety issues. A New Era for NYC.

seen on WT Harris in E Charlotte

Utterly lawless

The part where they threatened to break a judge’s car windows should be a bigger story … they feel comfortable treating judges this way, which means they are being told that they can do literally anything to nearly everyone

This story is nuts. "ICE agents then surrounded the judge’s car and demanded everyone to exit the vehicle, threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply."

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

It's happened

Okay, I'm making my case for the only Muppet I want to see on Broadway right now...

Every single day I wonder what the line is for journalists in this country. Because sitting there and saying nothing after your colleague is met with “quiet, piggy” is frankly disqualifying. Are any current WH reporters capable of quite literally speaking truth to power? Like…god damn, you guys!!!

this excerpt is a great example of the importance of editors, who often rewrite entire pieces by "star writers" and the reading public never knows

You guys realize that taxing people to pay for services isn't socialism, right? This is just how governments work.

Could argue the misogyny Summers expressed both publicly while president of Harvard and in emails to Epstein says more about the culture at our most elite institutions than any of the frontpage freakouts over academia in the past few years but hey

Racist terrorism by the government. This is a US citizen. www.charlotteobserver.com/article31293...

THE FUCK? That's your take on emails that closely tie the worst child rapist of the century to the president of the United States, who is about to pardon or free said rapist's partner?

I think that some people, particularly powerful men, are under the impression that we underwent a seismic cultural shift in the past 20 years whereby holding 15 year old girls hostage on a private rape tourism island suddenly became beyond the pale and that simply did not happen.

‘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

All I have to say about the Nuzzi profile is that at the end of it she jokes about how she destroyed her life. In fact she did not do that. She has a book, a magazine job, this lovely profile. People’s lives are being destroyed by this administration, however, including by -well, you know.

capping a week of stories about elite depravity with a story about a journalist who broke basically every possible ethical rule (and was rewarded for it) to elevate an unqualified wealthy failson who is trying to destroy american public health is, well, it's a lot, tbh

need to kill the recurring thought of "no I can't replay/reread that, I have other stuff to check out" no. I am a poor little peasant living just after the advent of the printing press. I have five books at most and I will reread them so much they will know the death of the author was caused by me

Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.

for the record, this is how the @nytimes.com covered Bloomberg, a man elected to the same office as Katie Wilson with the exact same amount of experience in public office as Katie Wilson, but whom the paper did not view with obvious contempt www.nytimes.com/2001/11/07/n...

I attended a meeting yesterday and it reminded me that every single organizer needs to get training on how to facilitate meetings. Truly. You lose more people through terrible meeting facilitation than I can express.

I don’t care if pope John Paul the second is in there…. GO to jail and go to Hell!

On this Epstein stuff, just a reminder that multiple contestants in the Miss Teen USA pageant - to repeat, TEENAGERS - said that when Trump owned it, he would walk into the dressing room so he could watch them changing clothes www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kend...

You are infinitely closer to struggling than you ever will be to billionaires

"With this disgraceful final act, the Adams administration is once again prioritizing elite comfort over affordable homes for vulnerable elderly people. Mayor Adams's time in City Hall may be over, but this fight is not." hellgatenyc.com/adams-declar...

“Court upholds students’ right to misgender their classmates” is some bleak shit

Pretty much all affordability discourse could benefit from just posting this chart. If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.

Tim Kaine is probably the most prominent elected official talking about the very real threat and struggle of long COVID and he just consigned millions to being screwed with ACA subsidies expiring.

a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,

I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to: