Cracking into @chrislhayes.bsky.social #thesirenscsall … thanks, Brooklyn Public Library… and it reads as you’d imagine… thoughtful, crisp, and flowing. And yes, making a point of finding time to focus on it.

Right winger from a left wing family: "I used racist message boards as a form of escapism because my feminist mother tried to make me wear deodorant." Leftist from a right wing family: "My parents beat me for believing dinosaurs existed. My father thinks I'm gay because I tried poetry once."

Premiums for millions of people will skyrocket if lawmakers can’t agree on a plan. And Republicans finally seem to be realizing that A) They have no plan, and B) This is bad open.substack.com/pub/crookedm...

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Ever notice how oligarchs and techbros don't get why people are overwhelmingly against AI taking jobs, poisoning the environment, making social control easier, and sucking the soul out of arts and culture? What's with that? open.substack.com/pub/crookedm...

Look! More people who should be barred from practicing medicine in positions of authority in the Trump Administration! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/h...

I got my call in just now! Join @bkforge.bsky.social and @nyclu.org on 11/19 for a Day of Action to Protect Abortion & Gender-Affirming Care! We’ll call on Gov Hochul to sign three bills to safeguard our personal health care decisions & access to care. Sign-up here: bit.ly/nov19-action

Yes, she *should* resign and be criminally charged, but instead she’s getting two private jets to fly her around for her sadistic photo ops.

(throwing open my window) you there, boy, what day is this?

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Finished ‘Dispatch,’ & without being spoilery… was tons of fun, story & characters connected, & season 2, PLEASE!! The game’s not easy, and the fixed save points means you will be quitting, redoing animation and play sequences multiple times until you get the results you want. #dispatchvideogame

theyre just redoing the UK doctrine here. if you're gonna build something, get to it now so you live to see the death of legacy media

So... CBS News is not only firing people of color, but also selectively editing news to favor Trump. Way to tarnish the Tiffany network. www.thedailybeast.com/cbs-cuts-don...

“Humans can just go get manual labor jobs if desk jobs are repaired with AI” is both not going to suffice to provide enough jobs and is also going to result in massive societal anger because manual labor jobs often *are terrible*, which is why people have worked hard to avoid them for generations.

“Recontextualization is not enough,” it wrote in its pitch. “Even taken from its pedestal … the social codes engendered by the Lee statue will allow it to remain an icon of violent white supremacy wherever it is placed.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/m...

Dude… Daylight Savings Ended, and no one talked about it.

'The arrangement, while well within the law, makes it almost impossible for voters or watchdog groups to understand ...financial & business connections of someone who could ... sway over billions of dollars in public contracts, realestate developments & city policy.' www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/n...

My Dad's favorite cousin and his wife have always 'uncle and aunt' to me. This is not that big a deal.

I like how Zohran Mamdani scandals are like "He called his old cousin his aunt one time" and Andrew Cuomo scandals are like "He sexually assaulted 13 women."

Ew. kotaku.com/donald-trump...

Seriously, folks... Thiel's dangerous in so many ways. And yes... of such questionable mental heath he makes Musk.. well, also mentally unstable, and also a man who should not have security clearances. open.substack.com/pub/wonkette...

"I disagree with all the vitriol," says Newsom, before asserting that we must find a more polite way to exclude trans ppl from public life. Fuck you.

1) All the stupid. 2) Paxton again is wasting Texas taxpayer money while supporting nationally destructive policies. 3) Stop messing with the rest of us, Texas. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/h...

Every act of cultural degradation Trump and the American Right engages in deserves recognition as the individual crimes against our nation and history they are. www.jezebel.com/trump-bulldo...

Academics, sign the pledge, if for no other reason than this petty one: now you can hate on other academics who publish in the Times even more than you already will anyway

'Trump turning his focus on transgender people raises the temperature that when an eventual deal is brokered, Americans could see the inclusion of some of those anti-trans riders as a major policy priority of the President for compromise legislation. ' open.substack.com/pub/erininth...

“Our public and democracy needs constructive questioning,” she said, speaking in Irish & English. “Together, we can shape a new republic that values everybody, that values and champions diversity and that takes confidence in our own identity.” Well done, Ireland! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

In Memoriam this week, we’re honoring Tony Fitzpatrick, who loved Chicago; Brian Harris, who captured historical milestones through photography; Gilles Larrain, who transformed the visual culture of drag queens; and Gabriel Ramírez Aznar, who rebelled against postwar Mexican muralism.

Alaska $25 million Ballroom $300 million Argentina $40 billion

@theadhocstudio nailed it with #dispatch … two fun episodes, with heart and snark. The acting and animation are quality, and your on shift time is equal parts crime & comedy. My only request: Give us the ability to level up our team outside of dispatch time. Onto episode #3

"US Marshal shot during immigration enforcement in LA" * article explains he was shot by an ICE officer whose weapon discharged when he used it to smash a car window

The Curb App is cozying up to Newsmax. Well, good reason not to use the Curb App.

A lot actors and film makers get their start working background, and yes... even with cgi and techniques lowering the numbers used, real background talent makes film and tv better. www.avclub.com/kevin-oleary...

Who would've guessed that the pathological liar would lie about white house demolition.

No one was hurt, thank goodness.. but seriously... around 7 million people marched against Trump, and during an effort to try to upstage them, the Trump Admin caused shrapnel to pepper a US Highway. NO KINGS. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

That feeling on the subway when the dude blaring hip hop on the subways is playing tunes way wackier then you would ever. And that you is me.

AI COMPLETELY MAKING UP STUFF IN SUMMARIES ? Yup. AI is awful. open.substack.com/pub/wonkette...

People should be very alarmed about Trump's move this week revoking 6 visas for posting about Charlie Kirk. These weren't random. They were all prominent people in the arts, with business visas. One is German filmmaker Mario Sixtus, whose new documentary criticizes AI and US tech firms. 1/

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It’s impressive how many impossible things you have to believe before breakfast in order for “antifa is planning a Hate America rally” to make sense. And even then, it doesn't make any sense. How Many Crazy Things Do You Have To Believe To Be A Trumper This Week? www.wonkette.com/p/how-many-c...

Vance doing the “boys will be boys” hand waive to excuse Nazi rhetoric & vile hatred First, these were men not boys Second, hold them accountable. That’s how things change Third, saying we shouldn’t ruin someone’s life for what they say online is rich given they’re deporting people for Kirk posts

Welcome back to the resistance... maybe? ... Brown. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

As someone who remembers what happened in 2003 when the former law school PR board moved off the Princeton Review website (and even what happened when the PR staff wasn't around to delete posts), lemme just say that it is not a fucking surprise to me that young republicans talk like that.

'“It reflects a preexisting notion among some in the Trump administration as to who are the true Americans,” said Barbara L. Strack..."And they think it’s white people and they think it’s Christians.”' www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...