Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.

You’re not really an American until you’ve been heartbroken by your country. That’s part of the deal. Sucks that you have to go through it but there’s no other way we get better.

On only hours notice, hundreds of New Yorkers are gathering in Foley Square to protest the murder of Renee Nicole Good

Agree, it doesn’t matter at all if she was a citizen. It’s bad framing.

Jesus christ yes.

This is important - it can't just be about abolishing ICE, there has to be the guarantee of prosecutions, even if that happens down the road. Everyone signing up for ICE now has to know what's waiting for them. It's not a real job and there is no immunity.

Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.

We don't have to live like this.

Ah so it’s just about priorities

Just a shoutout to the graphic designer who did the Gary Busey icon here. theonion.com/why-are-we-d...

A screaming park where all anyone does is scream into the void alongside others is an idea from a chilling dystopian hellscape but still amazing. I’d do it.

The first thing that made me laugh out loud in four days

I, not a poet, just wrote about Mary Oliver and enjambments on Substack, a site I know nothing about. open.substack.com/pub/dcprose/...

my people

man I hope this isn't the high point of 2026 in retrospect

"What stayed with me wasn’t just pride, though there was plenty of that. It was relief. Relief that, for once, a side selling hope instead of fear had won." On an otherwise ugly day, newswise, this is pretty awesome from Aymann Ismail at @slate.com slate.com/news-and-pol...

This is not hard. Artists are not responsible for ensuring the Kennedy Center remains relevant and successful. The center’s board is responsible for that, in a fiduciary way. All of this energy being directed at artists should be re-directed at the board.

Really is the best city

It’s hard to feel sinister in pajamas. If more people wore pajamas all day there would be less evil in the world. Or at least the evil would be more embarrassing.

This is pretty brilliant and I’d love to see it

Not even the 10th worst thing this week but I've been thinking about the new plaques he installed. Someone engraved those things, matted and framed the autopen etc. I'm fascinating by the people quietly going about their business doing terrible things. www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

Something uniquely sad and eerie about coming across an abandoned playground in the woods. But also this is just what all our playgrounds in New Jersey looked like when I was a kid, so it takes me back.

Healing words

fwiw, we can absolutely primary house members a lot sooner & this *should* be career ruining for anyone who voted in favor of this twisted shit they’re creating these bills with immigrant and/or trans minors first to develop a permission structure to violate everyone’s children

Watching ManU and Bournemouth, and every time it's a solid blue v solid red match-up I think of the objectively greatest toy of all time.

as if the problem with Trump’s post was crassness, and not him saying well murders happen when you talk shit about me

So grateful for the amazing graduate students who wrote this 'Open Letter on The New School’s “Restructuring” Plans', published on @eflux.bsky.social (including link with petition to condemn admin!) @newschoolaaup.bsky.social www.e-flux.com/notes/678343...

So the one vulnerable group she’s suddenly interested in protecting from the administration is the Greene family.

If the US downed a commercial passenger jet flying out of an unfavored (nonwhite) country on suspicion that someone on board was carrying drugs, and then fired on any survivors clinging to debris in the ocean, how would it really be any different?

What culture might that be?

To be fair my plants are dead and I agreed to donate a lot of the books years ago. It could be so much worse.

An older watercolour drawing from when I used to make frequent trips to sketch in London. This shows the Embankment with lots of pigeons, a pavement artist and a couple of Japanese young women on one of the benches. This was sold at an exhibition. #art #pleinair #London #Thames #watercolour

I don’t know why people say macarons are sooooo difficult. Note the characteristic feet on these pistachio garbage cookies.

This. We are the dumbest when it comes to thinking about what we pay for things and what we give up. And the worst part is that this dumbness is exploited so we never question the state of things.

What I like most about this monkey lamp - and there is a lot to like - is the way he seems to be turning back to look at you before entering the room, as if to say: Come with me if you want to live.

"The golden age of law enforcement" or, you know, fascism

I threw the remote across the room when I turned this on

Down cemetery road is maybe the goofiest show I’ve seen this year. I have just no idea what I’m watching or how it’s supposed to make sense. It’s batty.

I saw something about sharing the published work you’re most proud of from this year. It’s been a quiet year. So here’s a note I took in April. I never wrote the story but I’m proud of the note.

"It’s Tuesday." I’d want to move to Oslo because of this, but even more I want to see this as not crazy right here. To just take care of each other and happily pay for that kind of world. Because it’s f-ing normal. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

It’s been said before but one of the best things about BS is the intoxicating weirdness of the contextless reposts. I refuse to go deeper because I like the mystery.

"My endorsement means a lot to me" is so stupid but honest

Just maybe the Dems won with a Democratic Socialist and two moderates because that’s who was on the ballot and people wanted to punch a fascist in the face.

Eugene Debs shoutout in the first 30 seconds, that’s fire right there

And there’s Prop 50 to wrap it up.

Three boys came and my wife handed them candy bags and said here’s your loot, and one said "You mean like Fortnite?" She had no idea what he was talking about and I love that.

A little ghost and a little cheerleader came trick or treating just now. We have little bags of mini candies made up for everyone. The ghost took two by mistake and put one back. The cheerleader took two, gave us the side eye, and kept them both.

It’s more than 30 years old but this is such a wild and brilliant scream of a book. Each page hums with intelligence and rage. But it’s funny too, and raw, and like nothing I’ve ever read.

When the dictionary people are the cool radicals you know something has gone terribly wrong

Phoebe, waiting with infinite patience for the elevator after playing in Central Park.