Ice out

Last weekend, with some friends, in front of Schumer’s place.

Cover reveal! Check out A God-Shaped Nation, coming in June from @groveatlantic.bsky.social more at: www.brookwilensky-lanford.com

Me, as a baby Catholic

Tue Jan 6, 1-2pm Steps of the New York Public Library 41 St/5th Ave Impeach, Convict, Remove! On the anniversary of the Jan 6th Insurrection, we will publicly announce the list of crimes and constitutional violations perpetrated against the American people by this lawless President and his regime.

Please read this thread and call Governor Hochul this morning to demand the release for and sustained asylum of Guan Heng. Ph: (212) 681-4580 His hearing is TODAY, Monday, December 15th.

I feel like we are all going to miss Rob Reiner.

Words, I don’t have any more tonight. Maybe tomorrow.

Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.

Happy Dick Van Dyke’s 100 birthday, to all who celebrate.

@handsoffnyc.bsky.social is hosting more than 120 community-led events across NYC this weekend to ensure their neighbors have whistles and know their rights, all to protect from escalating ICE abductions. This. Is. The. Way. If you're in New York, you can find events near you at HandsOffNYC.com.

If you want to learn more about the Donbas – before and after Russia's invasion, about its people, culture, towns, mines and even sparkling wine – check out my book, The War Came To Us. It moves from Bakhmut, where I lived in 2010, through the end of the first year of the full-scale war 2022.

Been thinking of Ken’s book, Red Card: How the U.S. Blew the Whistle on the World's Biggest Sports Scandal, a lot lately.

Help keep us safe This weekend (12/12 - 12/14), we’re launching a citywide community effort to canvass as many businesses and hand out as many whistles as possible, all to protect our neighborhoods from ICE. Come join us by finding or hosting an event near you. Sign up at HandsOffNYC.com

📢 Urgent Action: CALL NOW BEFORE ICE MOVES TO DEPORT YUANXIN AND FEI 2 weeks ago, ICE abducted 6-year-old Yuanxin & his father Fei, separating them & refusing to disclose the 1st grader's location. YOU CAN HELP. Call ICE. Tell your reps to call ICE. Now more than ever, pressure is essential.

I need you to listen to and share this story - of how Trump is preparing to abandon Ukraine in exchange for Russian money for his billionaire friends. It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.

I sent out my second 'Advice For Men' newsletter on Monday. I'll link to it here -- it's about intimacy, and addiction, and the 1999 bro song “Higher” by Creed, "a greasy pop-rock band that sounds the way a long road trip smells." johndevore.substack.com/p/advice-for...

Am charmed by the commentators characterizing a potential win for Inter Miami in the MLS Cup as a final cap for Messi’s glorious career. This is not the wholesale fraudulence of Trump’s FIFA Prize for Peace. It is a tiny wheatgrass shot of chutzpah.

I hope you all got your “FIFA-Peace-Prize-Football-Unites-the World-Peace-Price.” But you can’t have this one. This one is mine.

Stay in line, Tennessee’s 7th. Vote Aftyn Behn, and make your vote count. You can do this, Music City USA.

“Our new slogan will be ‘platform.’”

There’s a special election in Tennessee’s 7th District this Tues, Dec 2nd, includes part of Nashville and west of. And a Zoom GOTV rally on Mon evening. Wouldn’t you like to help @aftynbehn.bsky.social , a former @indivisible.org organizer, win this seat?! www.mobilize.us/aftynforcong...

NYPD agents arrested more than a dozen people and unleashed clouds of pepper spray on a spontaneous protest formed around a SoHo parking garage where masked agents had gathered inside.

Why the big rush

In the richest city in the richest country on the planet, the thing we can’t afford is to forget those who are left hungry.

The Atlantic calls @johnlingan.bsky.social ‘s Backbeats “Superb.” Tune in this holiday season. bookshop.org/p/books/back...

Join me at @propublica.org in one of the most rewarding jobs in journalism, guiding collaborative investigative projects in local newsrooms around the country as a senior editor with our Local Reporting Network! We’d love to see your application by Dec 8.

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Please volunteer, Volunteers, and help win this imminent election in Tennessee. www.mobilize.us/aftynforcong...

So great to see Whitney over here! Give her a follow, she's a wonderful reporter whose work was indispensable in writing the latter portions of WITHOUT CONSENT.

This feels like the most bourgeois, Gen-X, Brooklyn thing I’ve ever shared, but did you know that you can sing Where Is My Car? to the tune of Where Is My Mind? or There Goes My Gun.

What are you reading this weekend?

The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted. If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

@dansinker.com's piece is still the best thing I read this year. As he predicted, the immorality of the movement itself will be it's undoing. The fight isn't over, but what felt impossible in January, feels possible now. Atlantic/WSJ are joining the chorus. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Absolutely stellar thread of book recommendations (including many of my favorites) and I would also add, because I literally recommended this book last night, THE ACCUSATION by Edward Berenson

We appreciate @maris.bsky.social and her thoughts, always!

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The #USMNT ends 2025 in a far better place than it might have reasonably hoped to at the close of 2024. My column on a tumultuous year that ended on an unimaginable high on Tuesday: the 5-1 battering of a genuine world power. @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/football/202...

It’s clear we need new leadership that will actually fight for us. Tell your Democratic senators to call on Chuck Schumer to step aside as Minority Leader. Call: indivisible.org/resource/cal... Email: act.indivisible.org/sign/dem-sen...

The code is not complicated. Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street. www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/17/i...

Pre-order a copy for your household every time there’s a friendly between now and the World Cup next summer. The next friendly is Tuesday night, the U.S. vs Uruguay. Those are the rules.* Hey, we didn’t make ‘em! *FIFA receives no commission on any sale of this book.

This but, you know, minus one day

Had the same thought.

Hey, friends in NYC! Come hang out with a buncha cool comics creators and fold zines and make posters to push back against ICE! A @handsoffnyc.bsky.social and @bkindivisible.bsky.social event at @anyonecomics.bsky.social in Brooklyn! It's gonna be a blast! www.mobilize.us/indivisiblen...

Happy 80th birthday to Neil Young, an Olympian figure and the subject of some of the funniest quotes in BACKBEATS thanks to his tempestuous relationship with Kenny Buttrey. “Neil hires some of the best musicians in the world and has 'em play as stupid as they possibly can.”

A good night at Books Are Magic among treasured friends — that is how you launch a book. Thank you all who made it out tonight!

This should be getting more attention. Please, spread the word, and participate if you can. cc: @bkindivisible.bsky.social @handsoffnyc.bsky.social www.falloffreedom.com

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What a dream review in the @bostonglobe.com by @katekilla.bsky.social! “Excellent, if often enraging” is about as accurate as it gets. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/12/a...

I’m sharing this as a “gift” article so that it’s not behind a paywall. “In a message obtained by Congress, the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein wrote that Donald J. Trump spent hours at his house with one of Mr. Epstein’s victims.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...