For @msmagazine.com, I wrote about the WNBA and the issue of pay equity. By the time the WNBA was only two seasons in (1999-2000) the average NBA salary was 58 times higher than the average WNBA salary. Twenty-six years later, the gap has jumped to 116 times higher.

A Brooklyn-based collective, Artists in Resistance (A.I.R.) NYC, is not only committed to hosting COVID-safer art and music events from borough to borough, but also ensuring that anybody can do so for free.

Crypto ATMs are almost perfectly designed to facilitate financial crime from the most vulnerable Americans. Be very suspicious of anyone who asks you to make a deposit into one; they are designed to make it impossible for you to get it back. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/t...

"People familiar with FBI security protocols said they were unaware of any other instance in which the girlfriends of top FBI officials received government-staffed security details..." www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...

Musk fired 80% of staff when he bought Twitter. Bezos firing 14,000 people to replace with AI. Microsoft firing 9,100 to replace with AI. Intel cutting up to 25% or staff to replace with AI. What's that about billionaires creating jobs?

Yes, Halligan basically tried to convince the Grand Jury that Comey choosing not to testify was proof of guilt. That's a huge no-no. The whole point of the 5th amendment is to let people do that. The point of the video is that Halligan screwed up so badly the case can and should be thrown out.

I’m not a lawyer but I’m pretty sure you’re not allowed to tell the jury to “vote assuming we actually have a whole bunch more secret evidence”

“The retired optician, taken into custody late last month, was recently moved to the Krome Detention Center in Miami and has a bond hearing on Nov. 18. His family worries his health is failing while he’s in custody and fears for his future.”

79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5. He’s been taken by ICE in Florida. www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...

SHE draws near

🎶 old mcdonald replaced his farm with an energy intensive data center, a i a i o 🎶

Operation Where's the Gatorade

I honestly don't understand what some local pols are doing. 99 percent of their constituents are likely anti-ICE. Read the room, people.

This is all MAGA has - violence or threats of violence "...a group of “out-of-town protesters” and “non-Broadview residents” allegedly attempted to storm Broadview’s village hall on Saturday."

Summers said this woman saw him as a mentor. To try to manipulate that into sex is so horrifically predatory… And then you add the wild power imbalance given his professional standing. And the 20+ year age difference. And THEN you add that he sought advice on this from Epstein. In 2018. Hideous.

Everyone's missing potentially the most interesting thing about this order, which is the judge's finding that Halligan may have returned an indictment that was never presented to the jury

The DOJ can just comply with the existing, active House Subpoena and release the files. No vote necessary. It's all under the orange clown's control, and it always has been. Delay, obfuscate, delay is their tactic.

Every time I see an excerpt from this Nuzzi production I think of Mencken's lines re: Harding's writing: "It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it. It is rumble and bumble. It is flap and doodle. It is balder and dash."

They claim they have nothing to hide, but the way they keep dodging deadlines and slow-walking subpoenas says otherwise… Tomorrow’s vote is about forcing the transparency the American people should’ve had months ago. Have no doubt: I’ll be voting YES. (2/2)

Let’s be clear: The DOJ has already been subpoenaed. They’re legally obligated to release the full Epstein files—and they’re still dragging their feet. It’s a shame we’ve even gotten to the point of needing a discharge petition. (1/2)

if dems win congress next year they need to introduce an impeachment resolution against emil bove

in memoriam : Selma Miriam (1935-2025) co-founder of Bloodroot in Bridgeport [only belatedly learned of her death] endlessbookshelf.net/archive0317....

Techbros: “We reinvented money and now it’s computer money and it’s totally better than old money except also it’s value is still technically calculated by the standard of old money oh ALSO it needs more power than many countries, does your inferior dollar bill need to be plugged in? I THINK NOT.”

“The incompetence of DOGE is already the stuff of legend. Despite this, a select group of Canadian tech execs believe DOGE is something we should be replicating here in Canada.” They are: Shopify: Daniel Debow KOHO Financial: Daniel Eberhard Cohere Inc: Ivan Zhang

Canadian AI developer Cohere Inc. failed to escape a copyright infringement lawsuit from news and magazine publishers including Condé Nast over the training of its large language models and the outputs they produce.

Just heard re: some ICE agents who raided a Chicago taqueria, then went back to the same taqueria for lunch the following week and got confused when the owner kicked them out, and I realized "jesus these doofuses really do believe we're all living in a video game where the NPCs have no memory"

Just wilful performative cruelty that is entirely out of step with the majority of British people. How many Labour MPs got into politics in order to vote for stealing jewellery off of people seeking refuge from war and persecution?

I'm a Jew, so maybe I don't understand, but isn't the whole point of an artificial tree that you don't have to buy one every year?

Is the Atlantic Ocean circulation close to tipping? Hear the latest science as I presented it last month at the ATLAS25 event in Helsinki. Let me know if anything is unclear, or if you see good reasons why your government shouldn't immediately act on this. 🌊 youtu.be/ULJXqOZuY-8

Did Kash just finish cleaning up the files? apnews.com/article/epst...

Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.

Remember when the worst thing about Larry Summers was when he was a privileged blowhard who was wrong about everything?

🇨🇭🇺🇸 Switzerland persuaded Trump to lower harsh tariffs by appealing directly to his tastes, - Axios. Swiss delegation arrived at the White House with gold bar worth $130,000 and Rolex desk clock—as well as flattery and promises of investment. The US reduced tariffs on Swiss goods from 39% to 15%.

“Trumps loves such pampering” former Politico reporter now at Axios, describing a bribe.

I would bet money this piece was writtten by an LLM.

Trans air force members sue Trump administration over denied pension www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

reminded of eric williams's observation about britain's relationship to its history with slavery. "British historians wrote almost as if Britain had introduced Negro slavery solely for the satisfaction of abolishing it."

"She began to record the agents as they spoke to the landscaper in Spanish. After the agents noticed her phone, they got back in their vehicles and drove away..." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/u...

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

ABC doesn't have to putthe Energyy Vampire on TV at all.

Michael Burry, known for his $1B bets against Palantir & Nvidia, is reportedly closing his hedge fund. He claims market fundamentals are divorced from stock prices, blaming the AI bubble. I guess he's admitting the market can stay irrational longer than he can stay solvent.

Latinas too. It’s a long history www.smithsonianmag.com/history/cali...

THIS is what true leaders sound like. They don't brag about how great they are or speak nonsense about sharks, batteries, & magnets. They work for ALL the people & the ENTIRE country, focusing on prosperity. Mostly, they don't attack, maim & kill their own citizens. youtu.be/yAFV5Jip5Ss?...

I can reassure the New York Times that networks of mutual protection, and misogynist retaliation efforts that benefit abusive men at the expense of the young women they prey upon, are very much still intact post-Me Too.

Look, for fuck’s sake, humans have been migrating continuously for our entire existence. Every single human in the world is the product of migration. It’s what humans do. There is nothing *more* human. That’s never going to change. Just grow up, get the fuck over it and plan accordingly.

It’s pretty simple. When you do a huge armed midnight raid on an apartment building rounding up and terrorizing children and later find out there were no criminals there everyone involved resigns in shame and we have loud showy Congressional hearings.

Doctor says, 'Dont worry, parser design is simple. Great programmer Kate Compton has written the parser you seek’

talk about burying the lede

I’m familiar, by the way, with the argument that we just aren’t appreciating the NYT’s subtlety here; that it’s actually a searing indictment of this group of elites, just in a “show me, don’t tell me” kind of way. That take relies on ignoring that it’s in the New York Times. /1