So this happened when we called the White House switchboard yesterday.

FRIDAY!

Delighted to return from vacation to something I missed: a surprisingly comprehensive ranking of weird Texas political-battle music from @hooks.bsky.social www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

Gang. GANG. Here's that Ghanian bootleg Cheers artwork you were looking for.

I was an Of Montreal skeptic but then after seeing their show I started seeking out more

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

he’s eliminating the Oklahoma Sooners 🙌🏻 thank you sir!!!!

More songs should start like Monkey Gone to Heaven. "There was a guy." Ok I'm listening, what's this guy up to

MAMDANI: And I just think that there are barriers, barricades, to helping Americans that we can break down TRUMP: Uh huh MAMDANI: And breaking down barriers? Reminds me of a certain Broadway show *smiling widely* where they worked together to break a barricade? TRUMP: *sitting bolt upright* Phantom

Starting to think this new, tech-conference-type dimmer lighting is just something they were working on for a while to jazz up briefings, and it just happened to be ready today

2026 basically

I thought I had gleaned everything there was to get about this story before reading it. But then I read it and there is so, so much more www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Page One. @wsj.com

Swing and a miss

BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.

Trump admin doing its part to ensure the year of Benoit Blanc continues apace

The NYT puts itself in the corner (of the Internet)

Don't try a goofy lateral on the last return and we don't end up having to drive the stage off the field for the 1-second free kick :D

Time to re-up the video of Trump trying to pronounce Tua's last name: www.youtube.com/shorts/AXstj...

idk man

The newsletters will continue until morale improves

A movie that takes place where you're from

omfg

The phrase that comes to mind is "Don't threaten me with a good time"

Hey babe wake up, found a new worldview to subscribe to

Ah yes we all know about the disaster at Miracle Mile because didn't we all watch this years ago

Surely it's happened before and I'm just noticing this one -- but kudos to Bloomberg's writers for getting not one, not two, but *three* companies that were named after Tolkien by tech's biggest nerds into the same item

Knowledge is knowing that Frankenstein is the doctor. Wisdom is understanding that the doctor IS the monster. But true enlightenment is only achieved when you do the mash

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

OZ: "[Kaiser Family Foundation] retracted that ... Go back and look at the website" THE WEBSITE, TWO HOURS LATER:

Robert De Niro is in such disrepute within his community that it has been nearly 18 months since he was nominated for an Oscar

Well well well

These are not serious people

Shhh but see Trump doesn't know this

A lot of media are focusing on the "want to punish" aspect of this, but what's "unprecedented" about it? The gov't shut down three times in Trump's first term 🤷‍♂️

If this is what we'd get from reopening the federal government, maybe let's leave it closed indefinitely -- had a good run www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Artifacts from the presidential libraries "belong to the American people," according to the National Archives, rather than available for gifting to foreign kings. What is this "l'etat c'est moi" merde www.kcur.org/politics-ele...

NEXT ARRIVES THE HOUR OF LIGHT SNACK AND RETURN SOME EMAILS. THEN SOX-YANKEES.

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The real shutdown

“Am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening?” is the defining quote of the Trump era

oh my god they solved the yogurt shop murders www.kvue.com/article/news...

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

my daughter really captured my essence in this portrait of me “at work”

I couldn't get tickets to the world premiere of Frankenstein in Imax. They sold out in milliseconds. My only choice was to get there 40 minutes early and wait in the standby line. Guillermo del Toro walked by, saw me waiting, and had his team give me one of his personal guest tickets.