I hate to say it but reducing the cost of semaglutides is actually a smart political calculation.

Jobby job.

We have reached the stage of capitalism where brands are sponsoring weddings. @kristinam.bsky.social reports. www.marketingbrew.com/stories/2025...

New big journalism job open here: I'm looking for an editor for CFO Brew, a publication for corp. financial professionals. Job description here. HMU with questions: jobs.lever.co/morningbrew/...

If you watch closely, you’ll see me in this beautifully shot production. I’m making my family watch it over Thanksgiving. That should be fun.

Inspector: “oh the crickets probably ate any mold that was here.” You know what, sir? I cannot deal walk this. I have workplaces to go ruin. This is too much.

We just received a pitch that in all seriousness proposed using this rubble to build artificial islands off the coast of Gaza as a cost-saving way to promote economic development, written by a former high-ranking Israeli national security official.

NYT opinion: Did women ruin the workplace?

While reading this Wired article I smiled at the fact that TRAFFIC was a chief complaint from neighbours about Mark's illegal school and thought of @tressiemcphd.bsky.social. He might have gotten away with it if only he'd had a bus.

As a headsup for anyone on Vyvanse, you should go check your lot numbers. www.health.com/adhd-medicat...

If you ever feel like you're bad at your job, just remember that the password to access the Louvre's video surveillance system was "Louvre"

THIS is what power looks like. Starbucks baristas are standing tall, with their shoulders back and their heads high, and they’re showing the world what it looks like to demand a fair contract. At SEIU, we see you, we back you, and we’ll be there with you @sbworkersunited.org every step of the way.

Russell Vought’s dismantling of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is putting the public at risk in areas ranging from auto loans and digital payments to credit cards and credit reports.

What is so baffling to me is the crisis of faith among elite liberal pundits following Trump's victory in 2024, and to a lesser extent even in 2016. There's obviously an unease with the progressive wing of their own party, and I suspect an element of PMC self-loathing in there as well. But still.

The Supreme Court just heard oral arguments in the challenge to Trump’s worldwide tariffs. No matter how the Court rules (and I’ll do just a tiny bit of tea leaf-reading here), its decision will have enormous implications for the scope of presidential power. 1/25

People younger than Gen X didn’t live through even the remnants of the red scare but they have lived through the collapse of the middle class and the birth of a new Gilded Age. It’s been honestly funny watching the socialism and communism scare-words fall flat after working for three generations.

actually just talked about this on NPR's It's Been A Minute on Monday, worth a listen

There are a lot of life things that I’m not very good at. Opening mail, for example. But I am absolutely fantastic at throwing a mid-size social event. This is apparently a surprise to people who know me??

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

I suspect that the revolt of the bosses element of all this really is explained by: a bunch of upper echelon Americans really didn't like the cultural and workplace changes induced by Woke era, some portion of them were pushed into internet insanity, but most just wanted a shift slightly right....

"the revolt of the bosses" is a good way of framing the elite reaction to woke 1. what's particularly interesting is that this isn't a reaction to an attack on profits--it's a reaction to changes in workplace culture-- which is to say, the psychic wage of hierarchy

Real talk, this one came up. And here’s where I land: I just don’t accept that Teena Marie was white! lol

This might actually be the key.

I was at a Grammy’s event one year honoring Smokey. All the Motown greats performed. And then Micheal McDonald walked out and these GOATS (a testy bunch of geniuses who survived some real shit & don’t hide their emotions) all honored that man. All I needed to see.

In the back of the room:

About six people texted me this. I am perceived.

Immediately stopped the itunes and hit play on this

How I’m doing.

I wonder how Trump is going to take the inevitable “Zohran & Rama = the New Camelot”stuff — esp when some tabloid writes that the talented Duwaji is also the “most beautiful First Lady in America”. Methinks our very strong & emotionally secure/stable President is gonna get ultra-messy about that.

Publicly funded elections and campaign donation limits level the playing field and blunt the influence of big money in politics. NYC’s mayoral race is a prime example of this in action. This kind of election reform is a critical part of making democracy work for everyone, not just the rich.

“Justice Gorsuch warned of ‘a one-way ratchet toward the gradual but continual accretion of power in the executive branch and away from the people’s elected representatives’ in Congress.” www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...

All I had to vote for were two uncontested races in Hillsborough and I showed up anyway

My theory is that people would have voted in the new coke elections yesterday if that’s all there was. People just want to VOTE, period. carolinapublicpress.org/73287/high-t...?

I think often about a post from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social when Trump's attempt to fire Lisa Cook was headed to SCOTUS, in which she said that we would soon learn if ideology was running the market or vice versa....

To be clear, I understand why people act out. I am being clear that they should be too afraid to act out on me. That’s my point.

The library where I gave my "News Media in the Misinformation Age" talk last night in Bourne, MA had a well-stocked free food pantry. Public libraries remain a beacon of humanity in our ever-more inhumane society.

I do, yes.

I realized that I legit haven’t even opened twitter in maybe a year and a half. So yay me.

Excellent observation from @anildash.com. I wrote a bit about the “public intellectual” last week and this quote from a 2015 essay by Mark Greif — about stretching one’s thinking toward an equally stretching public — seems apropos. thehometownholler.substack.com/p/the-very-m...

There is nothing wrong with the kids. Give this young man a badge.

Bucks County’s ICE-Loving, MAGA Sheriff Fred Harran Got What He Deserved: A Pink Slip From Voters | Sheriff-elect Danny Ceisler, a 33-year-old Democrat from Bristol Borough, was in many ways the crest of the Blue Wave that washed away local GOP office holders, writes Editor @cmychalejko.bsky.social.

No.

People still matter. Good morning.

Media orgs are confused and upset about last nights Democratic wins. I don’t recall a “questions remain” after Trump or GOP wins.

Dick Cheney died. In other news, I’m having truly excellent pizza

I’m not trying to be funny but a lot of people I agree with politically are absolute assholes and I hate that for me.

Why?

This is a joke about dumb poor Kentuckians. A close read however, shows how many people in Kentucky want to vote for a %#!? socialist, they’ve reached out to their local electoral officials to make sure that they can. Tell me again how we need to be a little racist to attract rural red voters.

I have a serious, sincere question. Is that actually James Carville? Or, is it a corpse/cut-out?

FYI www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...