No need to rush to get tickets for the Melania documentary this afternoon.

Noise reduction AirPods are pretty amazing technology. I’m in a crowded food court at JFK Airport. I put them on and 95 percent of the ambient sound drops out.

Factory construction was down 0.9% in October, 9.7% year-over-year, and that's even before adjusting for Trump inflation www.census.gov/construction... Guess the data didn't hear about the $18 trillion in foreign investment Trump is bringing into the country.

The reason the “paid protestor” accusation is so popular is that these are people who cannot imagine doing something because it’s right, to stand up for a principle, talking to other people like that.

Danish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask: "If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"

Trump's dislike of anything green is doing real damage to the auto industry. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/o...

Frey: "Florida & Texas & Utah are Republican states. The reason that Minnesota & Minneapolis are being targeted is because you've got a Democratic governor, a Democratic attorney general, and Democratic mayors. We are doing everything possible to keep our cities safe through this unprecedented time"

In 1993, Trump signed a mortgage for a Florida home, pledging it would be his principal residence. Seven weeks later, he attested a neighboring property would also be his principal residence. In reality, he does not seem to have lived in either home.

The cheapest way for America to access Greenland's mineral resources is to buy them. Greenland is happy to do business with its allies. Trump thinks it will be less expensive to deploy the American military to the Arctic to steal what he wants. Trump doesn't understand how business works.

FLASHBACK: “You will not see Republicans bailing out those who were arrested…. Americans do not need lectures from hypocrites in hair and makeup…” Fascinating to revisit Gutfeld’s epic hypocrisy from January 7th, now that Trump has pardoned them all. 😕🇺🇸🤷🏼

"If they [Russians] are promising you well-paying jobs in Russia, you are going to end up in the army." Ukrainian Defenders of the 63rd Mechanized Brigade captured a Ugandan named Richard Akantoran, who, according to him, was forced to fight on the Russian side.

The right wants to talk about fraud? Somali fraud? Okay, give me 60 seconds.

They would. But Trump has continued to decrease reconnaissance and military in Greenland. His desire has nothing to do with that. He wants to exploit its resources without having to share them with the greenlanders. Putin, who controls the US regime, wants him to try and fail, breaking NATO

Telling sign of dementia is when you live in your childhood when oil was the most important energy resource while the now and future are renewables

Since taking over as chief executive of NPR last year, Katherine Maher has confronted one crisis after another. The organization has managed to hold on to its influence, even as Congress stripped more than $500 million in annual funding from public media. trib.al/0ljCOCa

USA: Land of Price Controls 🇺🇸

Catholic Bishops is Florida want a holiday moratorium on immigration enforcement so people can go to church and celebrate Christmas and New Years.

Essential piece by Max Boot

The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.

very powerful piece

You have to look really hard to find a story about today's unemployment report on Fox's home page. And then the headline only says that the unemployment report "changed," not that it went up.

NEW: The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found that Trump once did the very thing he claimed could be a crime.

So Trump wasn't at the Cheney memorial service but Rachel Maddow was? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...

The food pantry line near my place in Manhattan

Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- [email protected] or dm me. RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!

disgraceful

Great story.

Huge crowd in Chicago. #NoKings

Whoa

NPR won’t be the same without her. Besides being a great broadcaster, she was a warm and funny person.

apnews.com/article/myan... children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

Donald Trump is a convicted criminal And he fires anyone who keeps him from breaking the law.

The fact that Matthew Dowd lost his job for pointing out Charlie Kirk’s hate speech, while Brian Kilmeade openly suggests we should euthanize the homeless and there is zero outrage, shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.

Of COURSE it all comes down to Modi’s refusal to nominate him for a Nobel prize. 🤡

1. The president is an obvious bigot 2. His administration is pursuing a panoply of racist and sexist policies 3. Lisa Cook is the first Black woman on the Fed board and has done research on economic effects of racism How are we not talking about this? paulwaldman.substack.com/p/can-we-ple...

"Kushner was imprisoned for tax evasion, witness tampering and illegal campaign contributions.... He subsequently pleaded guilty to witness tampering and tax evasion involving $6 million in political contributions and gifts mischaracterized as business expenses. Trump pardoned Kushner in 2020."

Why would anyone believe a convicted sex trafficker that's trying to get a pardon from a rapist?

Prominent Fox hosts -- including Maria Bartiromo, Jeanine Pirro and Lou Dobbs -- privately sought to help Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, according to newly unredacted documents in Smartmatic's lawsuit against Fox, per the WSJ. www.wsj.com/business/med...

Not long before they’re gone! Barn Swallow at the Northumberland coast. #nebirding #birdsoftheworld

"Trump thinks that if he falsifies jobs numbers, bullies the Fed, and prevents all criticism, he can make Americans believe prices are low and jobs are plentiful. But no matter how much he threatens, people are going to notice when prices at the grocery store go up and when they lose their jobs."