A sermon for next Sunday in Rockland County⚓ You are asking for more faith, but more faith isn’t what’s needed. You have the faith that is needed. drewkadel.wordpress.com/2025/10/01/i...

Increase our Faith A sermon for the seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost October 5, 2025 St. John's Episcopal Church, New City, New York The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!” Those apostles, Jesus’ most notable followers and representatives, were just like the rest of us. Like the…

This is a VERY well crafted lawsuit. 1) Plaintiff is natural born. 2) He was detained 2X in a fast-growing part of Alabama, not in a city that Brett Kavanaugh could be easily duped into believing was all migrants. 3) Unwarranted detentions were on private property. 4) He showed Real ID both times.

If you've done in-person research at any of the following presidential libraries in the last 8 months, can you please follow me/contact me—soon—for a story I'm working on (can be off the record)? Hoover FDR Truman Eisenhower JFK LBJ Ford Carter And either way, can you please share this request? 🙏

They like Trump and want to help him

this is the warning shot from pope bob right before he flexes the “bishop of rome” title

What a line from the Pope! I am so pleased he is carrying on Pope Francis’ advocacy for immigrants.

Since the Ezra & Ta-Nehisi discussion is still happening: the main point I think most are missing is that Klein is saying the role of the journalist-intellectual is to do strategic politics, whereas Coates says the role of the journalist-intellectual is to tell the truth

Elon Musk looks more and more like the desiccated corpse of Ayn Rand every day. gizmodo.com/elon-musks-w...

i know bluesky hates ai slop video but hear me out here: it makes really good propaganda, really easily

The reason Fallon didn’t do the Saudi Arabia gig is he wasn’t invited. The Saudis wanted people who are funny.

When Trump threatens to nix funding to NYC if Zohran Mamdani wins, it only helps Zohran. It inflates the Trump threat, positions Zohran as a fighter for NYC against Trump, and pushes Cuomo into the role of Trump stooge. There's a lesson here for Dems. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2011...

my latest is expanding on the observation that your view of the politics of opposition to the administration depend largely on your view of the election (gift link)

Every time the subject of Jimmy Fallon’s spinelessness comes up, I think of this passage from Tina Fey’s Bossypants

Thought just occurred to me. Well, two thoughts, actually. OK, three. Amongst my thoughts... 1: Lower court judges also have lifetime tenure. 2: There's really no mechanism, other than appeal, forcing the lower federal courts to follow SCOTUS rulings. 3: Also judges understand malicious compliance.

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

Just to note. January 23, 2019 there was a vote to reopen government (HJ RES 28, roll call vote 46) when the govt had been shut down for 30 days. Mike Johnson voted “no” on that. They didn’t seem to mind shutdowns then

You won't read a better summation of the Hesgeth/Trump show than this one... (From my subscription for you) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

"no more superficial individual expression"

I continue to think that one of the reasons this country is falling apart is the wholesale abandonment of public virtue as a broadly shared aspiration. Or even something people should be embarrassed about if they don’t have it.

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

This is the most respect you can give and get in return. The most honest Bluesky relationship.

I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this

I can think of no more cruel yet majestically appropriate fate for Donald Trump: wasting away into emptiness, while his uncaring minions tirelessly torment him with AI-generated specters and shades of what never was and what will never be

I’m opening a movie theater in which I show recently released films that I ripped from the internet but the studios are welcome to opt out if they wish.

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it? If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say? Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

Vance needs to tone down the rhetoric. This seems very inflammatory and inciting.

A 79-year-old Los Angeles business owner has filed a $50 million federal administrative claim alleging he was body-slammed & detained by ICE during a raid at his Van Nuys car wash earlier this month. He suffered multiple broken ribs, elbow injuries & a brain injury. abcnews.go.com/US/79-year-u...

I feel naive just writing this, but a president threatening to withhold funding to a city unless it elects his preferred candidate for mayor seems like the sort of thing that shouldn't be legal.

TCW wakes up every morning and when he stares into the mirror he sees TNC and thinks that today is finally the day the curse is over and has to stare horrified afresh everyday as it slowly melts into the face he knows is his and which he deep down hates

once again, if you straightforwardly explain how LBOs work to any normal person, they think you must by lying

stone. cold. and we love to see it.

Trump and his billionaire donors might be able to determine Adams and Cuomo’s actions. But they won't decide this election. In just over 5 weeks, we'll turn the page on the politics of big money and small ideas — and deliver a government every New Yorker can be proud of.

Ta-Nehisi Coates understands. Klein doesn't. It's really that simple.

watch this.

Part of what's funny about conspiracy theories lately is that the people in power *are the ones who believe them*. They are literally in charge, they are literally the Man. "The government is lying to you about-" My brother in christ, you are literally the president

Wait: so the President of the United States shared a video of a fake news report, rooted in a conspiracy theory, that features an AI-generated version of himself promoting a policy that…doesn’t exist?

Thank you! Stop acting like the things we stand for are somehow a little shameful, or necessary evils. WE WANT GOOD THINGS. It's time our leaders started goddamn saying so, and naming those things AS goods.

Credit where it’s due I think this is more interesting and informative than these usually are.

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

9/ I had launch with Paulina Borsook last month in Oakland. Her life is hard, but she still has a lot to say! She's trying to raise funds to get a new version of the book reissued on the Internet Archive. Some of her friends have a running GoFundMe to support her: www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

40 minutes of absolute fire www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1H8...

3/ Tech fascism in a nutshell: “Computers are so much more rule-based, controllable, fixable, and comprehensible than any human will ever be. As many political schools of thought do, these technolibertarians make a philosophy out of a personality defect.“ She wrote this in 2000!

2/ In 2001, Borsook said tech "libertarianism" reflected an adolescent mindset, with a craving for unchecked independence & resistance to constraint. She warned that tech libertarians wanted an anti-human world that worked more like a computer. From "Cyberselfish," a book based on her 90s writing:

This article actually explains autism (and the diagnosis of autism) clearly and sympathetically. Better than anything I've read. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

call the bluff

As my PhD student @mikesenters.bsky.social says, everything is gamergate (and these men from gamergate have been activated by the right). This is the tail of Bannon and Milo’s work beginning 2015…

When I was a sophomore at Oberlin, I was taking an 18th century music history course in the Conservatory. The professor told all these classical music nerds they HAD to go see Duke Ellington's concert on campus, since they'd never get another chance. He was right it was absolutely worth it.

L, and might I add, MAO. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...