I know what magnets are.

I guess there’s an outside chance that the Dems were playing chess…in one dimension or another.

“In Monday’s letter to the BBC, the president’s lawyer focuses on the documentary, saying that it wrongly combined clips of the president’s Jan. 6 speech to create the impression that Mr. Trump was urging his followers to commit violence.” Doesn’t seem like that required any editing.

Marcel Breuer at the Whitney. 1967. What a shot. Photographer Evelyne Burnheim.

Schumer *is* my Senator. Who do I call? And don’t say Gillibrand. (Senator AOC!!!!!)

🧵 Okay so yesterday's vote has me needing to share something. I've been tracking these 8 Democratic senators for months, and yesterday's surrender on healthcare wasn't surprising—it was predictable. Let me show you why: #Healthcare #CorporateDemocrats 1/12

We should start by taking healthcare away from Republican members of Congress, since they feel it’s a “fake economy” anyway

When my cartoons become reality. #chicago

Assholes.

Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

Appeasement is such a bad idea.

From the NYS Dept of Pyrrhic Victories: “The revival of the pipeline project came as part of a deal Gov. Kathy Hochul reportedly struck with the Trump administration in order to save the Empire Wind 1 offshore wind project, which the federal government had sought to shut down mid-construction.”

Trump, no surprise, won’t be attending the UN’s annual climate summit. Nor will any high-ranking admin officials. No bribes to collect there. California, however, will be sending its own delegation, led by Gov. Newsom. enewspaper.latimes.com/infinity/art...?

“I think it’s a terrible mistake,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren says of the deal. “People want us to stand and fight for health care, and that's what I believe.” (via Igor Bobic, HuffPo) x.com/igorbobic/st...

“Carving up office floor plates into apartments that meet the city’s code requirements is like solving a “Rubix Cube…A unit listed as a studio at a conversion may have interior rooms that make it feel more like a one- or two-bedroom.”

Never forget who sold us out: Hassan King Cortez-Masto Shaheen Kaine Fetterman Durbin Rosen

“This is the second known case of a child drowning on a new migrant route that sprouted up early this year to help shuttle people back toward their home countries in South America after the Trump administration virtually sealed the U.S. border to migrants.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/w...

This whole thing stinks of “when they go low, we go high.” As lovely a sentiment as that is, it isn’t the way to handle con men, grifters, and their toadies. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/u...

Exactly right.

“The Trump administration told states to ‘immediately undo’any actions to provide full food stamp benefits to low-income families, threatening financial penalties if they do not comply.” Dude makes Marie Antoinette look like the soul of compassion. Hard to grasp how this is a politically useful.

Are there still yuppies? Like is the word still in circulation?

I watched The Alabama Solution on HBO tonight. An amazing piece of documentary filmmaking that needs to be seen far and wide. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

“We have rarely witnessed such brutality erupt into public view like it has in Chicago,” writes Michael Woolf, senior minister of Lake Street Church of Evanston. “For me, this is a spiritual emergency, and it means putting our bodies on the line in order to stop deportations.”

Also Chicago: organizingmythoughts.org/in-chicago-w...

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

I don’t have the wherewithal to deal with this at 7:43 am on a Sunday, but I am bookmarking the page. www.wired.com/story/iphone...

“The president’s initial post followed a meeting in Washington …and after he watched a Fox News segment on the topic aboard Air Force One…” The guy who could have the best information in the world threatens to invade Africa’s most populous nation based on a Fox News segment.

How one Mexican-American in Chicago has organized to alert everyone to ICE incursions and drive the agents out. (Sorry, but the LA Times site doesn’t do gift links.) enewspaper.latimes.com/infinity/art...

This makes me feel very, very old. (I went to the 30th anniversary concert at BAM. When Patti forgot some of the lyrics and pulled out her glasses to read them, we all applauded.) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Just another day in paradise…

The WSJ on how unbelievably stupid Noem and Lewandowski are. I don’t care that I’m late to this; it’s to good to pass up. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Worth reading the obit of one of the students who survived being shot by the National Guard at Kent State. A timely reminder of what can happen when armed troops are deployed against civilians. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

Give to the rich. Starve the poor. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...

What was hyperloop? What about the roadster? “Self-driving”

Last week I posted an M. Goldberg piece with what I believed was a Times gift link. A couple of people complained that it just took them a subscription offer. I just noticed that the former gift link button is now for subscribers only. And the real gift link is at the bottom of the link menu.*

And then there’s this epic report on how 40 of the Venezuelan men we deported to CECOT in El Salvador were tortured and abused. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

Amazing story. Infrastructure geeks take note. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/r...

Judge rules that the National Guard isn’t needed to repel protesters in inflatable frog suits. Not now. Not ever. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

An attempt to figure out who was in the boats we’ve been bombing. The answer: mostly desperately poor people trying to make a little extra money. People who, in our justice system, might get jail time, but certainly wouldn’t be executed. apnews.com/article/trum...

Literally the one place in the country where Democrats got their clock cleaned was in the home county of state chair who refused to endorse Mamdani and has generally overseen a string very poor democratic performances.

Uh guys? Did you see this?

“But in fragments of a deposition, court filings this week, and recent public statements, Bovino and senior ICE officials discussed how simple they would like to make things: why not just investigate and arrest the protestors?” talkingpointsmemo.com/news/why-not...

Trump’s admin is opposed to helping anyone who can’t offer something* in return. No quid, no quo. (And hurting people is the only thing they know how to do.) *Votes, it appears, aren’t enough.

“…Democrats took to the Senate floor to call for a one-year extension of expiring enhanced health insurance subsidies… A one year extension, not a permanent extension. Meaning the Dems are negotiating. The Republicans are not. They are also entirely uninterested in governing.

Not woke.

Are you sure you don’t mean Trump Whine? (Chateau Not My Fault, for example.)

The extent to which the Trump admin is against science, research, and curiosity is still shocking. And you’ve gotta wonder why they’re doing this. Which of Trump’s nearest and dearest benefits most? Musk? Putin? Bezos?

Meanwhile, he continues to use the US military against small boats in the Caribbean. (Putting aside the legality and morality, how much do you think they’re spending on each hit?) www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/p...

Working class Americans are relying on food banks and dumpster diving. Trump is stonewalling court orders to resume SNAP benefits. (But he is lowering the cost of weight loss drugs.) Welcome to Dystopia, USA.

James Dolan does the right thing, albeit for the wrong reason. www.nytimes.com/athletic/678...