My retirement savings these days is my copy of yesterday's NY Post

BREAKING: Starbucks workers have just authorized a massive strike. Union Starbucks baristas voted to authorize the strike by 92%. Now baristas in over 25 cities could launch an unfair labor practice strike on Thursday, November 13th.

I read as much fiction written by NYC mayors as I could, and my conclusion is that Eric Adams should write a crime thriller (for @literaryhub.bsky.social)

First order of business is to make everyone stop being mean about the G train

Looks like turnout plummeted in the Navy Yard from 1 vote in the Dem primary to 0 in the general www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/04/e...

Singing this to the tune of “Atlantic City”’s opening line

“What keeps us going, ultimately, is our love for each other, and our refusal to bow our heads, to accept the verdict, however all-powerful it seems. It’s what ordinary people have to do. You have to love each other. You have to defend each other. You have to fight.” —Mike Davis

Running out of piss for all these graves

Vote [mumble] no matter [mumble]

RIP David Lynch, you would have loved how confused I am

A short humor piece in today's @airmail.news about the voters that are still persuadable ahead of Tuesday's election: people stuck in their costumes, lighthouse keepers, and the sixth borough

This year for Halloween I'm dressing up as Here's What Olive Oil Does Chumbucket Ad

I’m living proof that you can be young and sexy and also your knees ache when it rains

And now let's hear from a Cuomo supporter

Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian author who won the 1986 Nobel Prize in literature, “received what he called a ‘rather curious love letter’ from the American authorities, that he read from in Lagos on Tuesday.”

Why don't you "carve" out some time for "quiet-reflection-o-lantern", young man

Why don't you "carve" out some time for "quiet-reflection-o-lantern", young man

I might hate humans too if I were infected with all that stuff

This also includes two recommendations of things Luke and I have been into!

Over 300 writers, scholars, and public intellectuals have pledged to not contribute to the New York Times’ Opinion section until it takes “accountability for its biased coverage and commits to truthfully and ethically reporting on the U.S.-Israeli war on Gaza.”

My men's one-a-day multivitamin keeps my coat shiny and lustrous

Halloween tip: Any corn field can be a spooky maze if you’re lost and scared

It’s for thee

It’s for thee

Catch up on this week’s news with a fresh batch of Venns.

Fall of Freedom events, part of “a nationwide wave of creative resistance,” begin in November.

Halloween tip: Any corn field can be a spooky maze if you’re lost and scared

Would love to hear from the NYC voter who was waiting to hear Jeffries' endorsement

What the fascist tech bros get wrong about Prometheus. (And yes, they do want to build a 450-foot statue on Alcatraz Island, in San Francisco Bay).

Hoping this is to finance Megalopolis 2

Went looking for a silly statue and found fascist propaganda—should have seen it coming

Amid everything else going on, I just broke the sauce in this marry me chicken recipe, I’m so fucked

An exhausted Cuomo, hunched over a cell phone, reading glasses on, fumes at a 46-year-old intern who is explaining the plot of Austin Powers

Caught up on culture this weekend (niece told me who everyone was in K Pop Demon Hunters and nephew showed me all the different animals that roar)

Would rather see the demolition of the White House for abundance reasons

Folks have been sending me a lot of good title pitches — keep em coming

T.B.K.T.S.R.E.A.M. (for @literaryhub.bsky.social)

Body Jeeps The Score

Thinking of her (bollards being installed along every NYC street)

What Is "Michael Manning?" What You Need To Know About The Growing Trend Where Men Are Intensely Competent, Live By A Code, And Have Long Conversations Implying Their Begrudging Respect For One Another

You should use these Venns to catch up on the news (especially if you like Moomins).

That feeling when it’s a long weekend

Holding the free market’s invisible hand when it gets scared

Slowly alienating everyone in my life by insisting on calling this weather a “north-easter”

In this week's Newsletter we're belated celebrating our 8-year anniversary (!!!) with work in @mcsweeneys.net & @pointsincase.com by Michael Riotto, Daniela Fava, @katherinedinapoli.bsky.social, and our pal & favorite writer, Brian Agler Read & subscribe below, with 8 years of issues to read, too!

Learned today that James Blunt was part of a NATO force deployed to Kosovo

Added some new language to our @pointsincase.com submissions guidelines: