A specific brand of Small Business Guy that has flourished in the past few years even in fully criminalized states is about to get nuked by this.

In better news, Marc Andreessen is getting canceled by Grimes on X for attacking the Pope 🤷‍♀️

Hey, these are people who ask me for money all the time! My donation list just got simpler

I skipped this article for a while because I figured I'd read enough about the NYT's Mamdani coverage. I don't want to say the headline does the article a disservice - it is also very much about that - but goes well beyond as well

Am I right that the WaPo called Zohran a “generalissimo” and we’re not supposed to hear that 6-syllable sneer in the accent of a British Tory hack 😂

Autumn sunset in Florence

Airports used to have an illustrated map of the terminal. This was an effective solution to the information problem. I do not want to put my fingers on a touchscreen that thousands of people use everyday, directly after they exit the restroom, in order to know where the bookstore is.

What a queen

😬 seems normal

Extremely reassuring stuff to actually see Trump 2024 coalition fall apart

Somehow, the Puritans returned

There's a little business near us that roasts and sells fancy coffee for coffee snobs like me. Just visited them. "The tariffs are killing us... We held out as long as possible but now we're raising them by $2/lb and we're still losing... Even the big guys are getting slaughtered."

☹️ www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

This would be great--and I don't mean "Here's why that thing you like is actually terrible and bad for The Cause," which is what it too often slips into. You can offer a progressive take on culture without being the giant scold who ruins every Thanksgiving!

New College is a good metaphor for the whole MAGA project

Literally every "I think the govt is overspending" take is a really dishonest way to say "they should give that to me instead"

Today’s hate-read: why Austro-fascism appeals to JD Vance. 🤬Modern authoritarianism established by divine right 👑

Mental experiment: what happens if you cancel 10% of private flights

This week was the Trump regime taking loss after loss after loss. Just a steady stream of humiliation. I don't have anything to add, I just wanted to remind you.

Get ready for this issue of @victorianpoetry.bsky.social — it’s coming soon and it’s fantastic. Featuring this incredible work by @rcolesworthy.bsky.social as well as equally extraordinary essays by @lerikscline.bsky.social @carolinelevine.bsky.social and Ruth McAdams.

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Trump would also definitely eat this man if left alone with the body.

proud to be Hog Butcher, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and Freight Handler to the Nation

I was thinking about Zohran’s transition team and today’s anti-feminist piece in the New York Times, and my mother’s book on the first generation of women to work in the city government in New York City. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

You don't want to be the Trump administration when the judge starts with a wind-up like this

I'm tired of socialism for corporations but they get to keep their profits. I hated the 2008 bailouts. I still hold a grudge.

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

the one good thing about online is that if you use it well, it can become a new republic of letters

This is a good headline. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

As someone who has spent a lot of time talking about medieval and Renaissance literature (and also just, like, life) with gen Z women: can confidently confirm that they have have zero tolerance for sex pests

I'm giving what might be the "biggest" talk of my life tomorrow, at Cambridge, and I seem to have written my most certifiably bonkers talk yet for it, about Jacobite poetics and Sean Bonney via Charles Le Brun, called "Non-Literary Beauty?". If you're in Cambridge, come see me in the Eng Dept @ 5pm!

The screech I let out when he started with a Eugene Debs quote 😂😂 And then LaGuardia, Nehru, definitely a bit of Walt Whitman and Winthrop, as well as some Bollywood stuff I didn’t get 😄

Guy on voting line on TV: “you gotta do what you gotta do, gotta stay free”

FUCK YEAH

Maybe pundits should spend more time in densely packed, left leaning urban areas where the "real Americans" live

decision desk is calling it. you've won the dork district by a landslide

Let the un-f*cking of UVA commence

i do think Dems should moderate on immigration in the sense that Dems should redesign our immigration policy to work like people think it works: you wait for a while (but not forever) to get into the country and then you wait for a while (but not forever) to become a citizen.

Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest. The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says. "I could smell the onions and mustard."

Enjoying the last week (probably) of these bright bright colors 🍂

I used to think I’d be happier to hear that news about that guy

It is worth saying that putting “Africana studies” in scare quotes as if it’s a ridiculous concept is not a political argument. It’s just racism. “Africa is not worthy of a major” is the implication. Yeah dude you’re just racist. (From Gerard Baker at the WSJ today) www.wsj.com/opinion/mamd...

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The old world is dying and the new world (whisper whisper) oh, so it’s just the dying then?

So I write a weekly newsletter for our indivisible chapter, and each week I profile a left journalist operation. If you’re struggling to build an audience for your thing and think you can speak to a lefty ex-hippie inner-ring Madison suburb that’s very into good apples, get in touch.

Job alert: the University of Illinois Library is hiring a Humanities Librarian to serve as liaison to African-American Studies and English Literatures. I’m sure someone here would be a great fit for this job—& we’ve got a pretty phenomenal community here Please share!

It remains unsettling how transparently unrelated media layoffs tend to be to the actual quality of work. The boldness of TEEN VOGUE's politics coverage has been one of the most inspiring stories of a historically desolate media environment.

sounds great