I just used 'that would be fire' in an email and I'm much too old for this sh*t

now this is a picturesque way to mourn >> Thousands honour Bondi victims in emotional paddle-out tribute www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

pregnant mom protects a stranger's baby girl during the Bondi Beach shootout www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12... the full story from the parents' side www.youtube.com/watch?v=464c...

this list of "best cities" uses 17 metrics, none of which are walkability or transit, unfortunately (which affects community, affordability and health) www.rentcafe.com/blog/rental-...

the bifurcation of the american housing market is pretty wild wolfstreet.com/2025/12/16/t...

This is really pretty and cute but I'm not sure I know more now than I did before.

Is clinton okay?

belatedly discovered that Metro North will offer a NYC to Albany route starting in the spring gothamist.com/news/metro-n...

AI is causing a "linguistic doom loop" for small languages without enough content to train on www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/25/1...

Late night ride back from City Hall after unanimously approving the 2026 budget. Grateful to have an escort up johnson as it was getting plowed!

BREAKING: The AP calls the Miami mayor's race for Democrat Eileen Higgins. Higgins defeated a Trump-endorsed Republican — becoming the first Democrat in nearly three decades to win the office.

This sounds exactly like the @nytpitchbot.bsky.social. "Democrats are riding high after this year’s special elections, but that doesn’t mean they’re popular with voters." That's exactly what it means! At least with the voters who voted for them!

BREAKING: Northsider Susan Tincher was taken away by what her husband assumes were ICE agents this morning at 21st Street and Oliver Avenue North around 6 a.m. “No idea where she is,” Jim Tincher, Susan’s husband, shared with North News Tuesday morning. “This is just ridiculous.” More here:

Texas Democrats just did something historic under the leadership of new state party chair @kendallscudder.bsky.social. We have filed a candidate in EVERY 2026 race. U.S. Senate: 1 of 1 U.S. House: 38 of 38 State Senate: 15 of 15 State House: 150 of 150 State Board of Education: 8 of 8

a circular economy: I listened to a "know your enemy" ep with peter beinart who mentioned he does daf yomi, which came up in a convo with my brother, who suggested we start a chavrusa, so today I learned likkutei torah for the first time in maybe a decade?

unpopular opinion: the DV depicted in "as you stood by" is so drastic that it does injustice to the much more subtle and more common types of marital violence, and the systems that make it difficult for women to leave.

"Modern finance creates layers of abstraction on top of real-world activity, and sometimes those abstractions become unmoored from the reality."

Of 83,000 women murdered last year worldwide, 50,000 were murdered by a partner or family member—that's 137 women EVERY DAY www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...

wsj: businesses have gotten more sanguine about tariffs since 2024 because tariffs are not a t.... oh what's that? "Companies have passed along about two-thirds of tariff costs to consumers so far." www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

I just got my $200 of Hochul bucks in the email. First I'm hearing of it.

my favorite part of social media is reading about all the things I don't have to give AF about

“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.” Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter

In a stunning ruling, a federal district court judge blocked Texas from using newly redrawn congressional maps meant to boost the GOP

openAI really hasn't capitalized on the very recent usage of "chat" in the way they could have

This week was a book launch for a friend at Greenlight, Joyce's Ulysses Paperdoll Show, a Fanon talk at CUNY, a party w arty types, and, today, Mahmoud Khalil and Peter Beinart in conversation. Yay for this wonderful town

Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

on day 3 of intermittent brain pain, already did advil + excedrin migraine + triptans, now what

what a weird framing. this has been in the works since mamdani was in college probably. www.curbed.com/article/jpmo...

They’re calling her Megyn R. Kelly on TikTok

Johns Hopkins University to offer free tuition to families making under $200,000

South Korea bans flights as 500,000 students take the English listening section of crucial university admission test www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

It's interesting that the entire biz community refers to markets where housing prices are increasing as hot/strong/booming, and where prices are declining—even if it's due to increased inventory—as cool/weak etc. what if ppl affording houses is good actually!?

Bovino has "the moral army in the world" energy

It's very confusing living in a world where half the people I know think the NYT is shilling for Israel and the other half think it's a pro-Hamas Jew-hating propaganda machine

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

sad www.wsj.com/world/europe...

"stiffened"

DC Sandwich guy Sean Dunn has been found not guilty in the felony footlong exploding onion and mustard case!

Or pay police less?

Sandwich trial, Mamdani AND Judge Ellis owning ICE? Best week since November 2024.

has anyone considered that what works in NYC... may not work anywhere else?

incredible stuff going on in the Chicago case against ICE/DHS >>

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Great collection of local Dem wins this week from Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/50501/comm...

So far as I can tell, this has only been reported by local Chicago news.

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

The Illinois legislature had passed the “Illinois Bivens Act,” allowing people to sue ICE agents in state court. Just waiting for Pritzker’s signature. dailynorthwestern.com/2025/11/03/c...

I live in the best bubble in the world

reality was funnier

Let's arm ICE with sandwiches