Honored to have my Zeteo podcast 'We're Not Kidding' nominated for an Ambie podcast award, for Best Interview, but - growing up in the 1980s and 1990s - I never thought I'd ever be competing with Oprah (!) for anything. Lol. Wish us luck!

this is really great

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I have to tell a story about this. My great uncle, Jimmy Perrone, fought Hitler in WWII and then came back to our hometown and married Adeline Liguori, my grandfather’s sister. Adeline died of cancer in the early 1980s and Uncle Jim went through a depression. 1/x

Has Alan Moore been wrong about anything?

Is Sean McElwee a joke to you people?!

I just found out that Indonesi'a high speed train system is called "Whoosh"

I feel like "attention hacking" is most of politics now. The Minnesota aid fraud story is becoming a perfect example. Recap: In 2022, the Biden DOJ filed the first charges against dozens of fraudsters, many of them Somali-American, who'd fleeced a state food aid program. (1/x)

“But teams of hundreds whittled down to dozens as the site most recently operated at 18% of its full capacity.” Printing moves to Des Moines, which is a long long way away from Minneapolis. Can’t imagine what this does to daily deadlines. It’s just sad. — www.startribune.com/star-tribune...

Any theories on why young men in the US are lonelier than their international counterparts?

A family member was dumbfounded that I could live in New York, and leave my clothes in a public laundromat dryer unattended for an hour and come back without them being stolen.

Some news: today is my first day at @wsj.com as a senior video correspondent! I’m so excited about joining this incredible team and I can’t wait to dive in

The singular delight of being one's nerdiest, most ardent self on @NPR: www.npr.org/2025/12/07/n...

You had to be there

Autumn in New York Winter in New York

Ok, let’s do this A Warren Harding thread!! Wherein I reveal A. The coolest thing about him B. The nickname he gave to his most favorite appendage (yes, that one) Buckle up kids, Warren Harding was a real piece of work (that’s what she said)

nypost.com/2025/11/29/u... Every sentence in this article is better than the one before it

Took three years too long for the PA to return to something approaching pre-pandemic service levels for entirely inexplicable reasons.

Shes still spitting out bars

The NIMBY left is getting purged from the party like the Left Socialist Revolutionaries were purged by the Bolsheviks. YIMBY Lenin is looking down from heaven and wiping away a single tear

Whoa: State is helping finance a HHC rescue/takeover of Maimonides — www.crainsnewyork.com/health-pulse...

“The contrasting responses serve as a reminder of car culture’s dominance in the Garden State. An estimated 92,000 drivers entered the congestion zone from New Jersey every day,... That’s less than half the daily ridership on the PATH train.” gothamist.com/news/nj-lead...

So MTG ran for office promising to fight a shadowy cabal of Democratic sexual predators, but then quit because she didn't want to fight a shadowy cabal of Republican sexual predators, got it.

No member of the Democratic leadership has been this kind to Zohran, lmao

Meanwhile, at the Post

“Jeffrey Epstein wrote that Trump had “spent hours at my house” with one of Mr. Epstein’s victims…” “In one of the messages, Mr. Epstein flatly asserted that Mr. Trump “knew about the girls,” many of whom were later found by investigators to have been underage.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

What’s crazy is that this was all for a $4,000 bet! Clase’s contract next year is for over $6 million!

Found this historical curiosity on a walk today

Threatening to replicate the French military strategy from World War II just makes Curtis Sliwa all the more endearing nymag.com/intelligence...

The Texas Supreme Court changed its policy to allow judges to refuse same-sex marriages. The change happened last week but it’s only being reported now because nobody noticed, in case you want to see an example of the real world impact of the collapse of local news industry

To paraphrase George HW Bush, America should be a lot more like the Drudge Report and a lot less like the New York Post

Per @seanmcnulty.bsky.social, A24's been dropping ad money during sports and UFC ad breaks to promote their movie starring The Rock, and honestly, good for the sports bros. If this gets them into independent cinema, they're just that much closer to discovering Tár. theankler.com/p/cable-tv-n...

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SCOOP / UPDATE — Disney saw more than 1.7 million total paid streaming cancelations during the period 9/17-9/23, a Disney source confirms to me. The total includes Disney+, Hulu and ESPN.

it may feel a little like homework, but i genuinely think people should read the lincoln-douglas debates to see what the practical politics of anti-slavery looked like in an environment where the public was neutral to hostile to the question of emancipation

If they had a right-wing, “tough-on-crime” coded mayor there would be endless national profiles about him and how he finally brought sanity back to Chicago.

San Francisco local politics: a knife fight in a phone booth.

> @weisenthal.bsky.social #UMich

(BBC) - Brazil's former president Jair Bolsonaro found guilty of plotting military coup after losing 2022 election. www.bbc.com/news/article...

I think America is less on the brink of another Civil War, than it is entering Years of Lead territory, ala Italy in the 70s and 80s, when political instability and extreme polarization led to routine violence from nonstate actors. Not quite an insurgency, but regular violence nonetheless.

Cant wait to check this out! Patrick’s podcast episodes about Stone Age and Bronze Aged societies made me see these people as human beings for the first time in my life, rather than broken pieces of pottery and beads of jewelry found in an archeological digs Give them a listen on Tides of History!

a pretty good summary of the 21st century is that the humiliation of america's defeats in the middle east post-9/11 curdled into a reactionary politics that seeks affirmation in the humiliation of anyone who is an other: liberals, minorities, the global south, china, europe, whoever.

“SEATTLE (AP) — Lawyers are demanding the release of a longtime Oregon resident arrested by Border Patrol while fighting a Washington state wildfire, saying Friday that the firefighter was already on track for legal status” — apnews.com/article/immi...

Over a third of people say they’re going days without eating in Gaza. For now, the confirmed famine is centered in the governorate of Gaza, one of five in the strip. Our maps show where it’s expected to spread by the end of September www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

"We’re witnessing, in real-time, a profound consolidation of power & collusion among political & tech elites... wherein the tools and technologies that this industry has built... can now be deployed in service of an authoritarian regime" — @katie-drummond.bsky.social www.status.news/p/wired-kati...

Niche Japanese alt history is my favorite (context: There's a tomb in Japan that some locals claim to be Jesus's en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirisut... )