Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.

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Sustainable band lineups include four cool people (Ramones), four dorks (Weezer), or two cool people and two dorks (Cheap Trick). Unsustainable band lineups include one cool person and three dorks (Pixies)

My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far

It's like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic inside a tiny bottle aboard the Titanic.

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Groups throughout Lawrence are offering free meals this week amid the ongoing uncertainty surrounding SNAP benefits. lawrenceks.news/47WusmM

spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"

There’s another wave of author impersonators offering consultations/mentoring for a price. (I got one from “Claire Keegan” telling me I’m very promising!) I’m sure you are great, but I didn’t email to tell you how swell you are. Here’s info on book scams: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/prh-fraud/

Nothing messier than a poet that learned a new word

NEW via CNN: “The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal”

80 year mortgages

Your Grok could never.

Elliott Bay Books has 17 now-signed copies of Epic and Lovely for Seattle’s seasonal shopping needs!

I am truly shocked to not find more thinkpieces on the incredible graphic design and typography of Zohran Mamdani’s campaign but maybe that’s because searching on the internet is garbage now. TL;DR lead designer was Aneesh Bhoopathy of Forge Co-Op Roundup of articles in thread 🧵

Fin (haha)

Six people died from tampered Tylenol and the company pulled 30 million bottles off the market. ChatGPT is accused of urging seven people towards suicide, and OpenAI just assures us they’re still working out the kinks. Billions in investment, zero accountability.

Tour info! Austin today and tomorrow and then Monday at Book Soup with @bcdreyer.social !!!

State sanctioned hunger for millions by the same ppl who have killed 600,000 by pulling USAID. This is their domestic version. The funds exist, this is sheer malice, it’s monstrous, structurally violent. Immoral, the president, ostensibly, has a contract with all of the 🇺🇸 ppl. To protect and serve

Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market. This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.

Olivia Rodrigo slams the White House and the Department of Homeland Security for using her song ‘all american b*tch’ in an ICE-related post: “don’t ever use my songs to promote your racist, hateful propaganda”

Did you know a former White House climate advisor flipped a GOP stronghold in Virginia by running entirely on putting a stop to more AI data centers? For @heatmap.news I profiled John McAuliff and a campaign that will be a roadmap for all future anti-AI politicians moving forward.

There are no words for how evil this is

as we in the biz call it, the biz

HAPPENING NOW: Judge McConnell is sharply rebuking the Trump administration for what he said was defying his order to make full SNAP payments by Nov. 5. He has ordered USDA to make the *full* payment to states by tomorrow.

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

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Easily several hundred people have packed into this plaza in Chicago's North Center tonight in response to ICE abducting a daycare worker early this morning. This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.

Lina Khan — former Chair of the Federal Trade Commission Maria Torres‑Springer — former First Deputy Mayor of #NYC Grace Bonilla — nonprofit sector leader  Melanie Hartzog — expert in city budgeting Elana Leopold — expert political strategist

I hope the centrists learned a hard lesson last night. No more reaching across the aisle to people who have been spitting in our faces for decades. Run young people, run socialists, run on actionable ideas that seek to make our lives better.

Thank you, New York City. Together we made history. Now let’s get to work. transition2025.com

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PSA from 404 Media: you can opt-out of a data broker selling your flight travel data to the government to be searched without a warrant. Here's how I did it. This is ARC, the data broker owned by major U.S. airlines like United, Delta, American, etc www.404media.co/how-to-opt-o...

the cranes are lowering cuomo back into The Crevasse

The last month of the anti-Mamdani campaign was an absolutely shameful undertaking, an attempt to rip the city and Democratic coalition apart and I'm very happy to see it failed.

Dear Bluesky:

May all terrible people be sad tonight.

bless you, new york city. you have given us all hope, you have given us something good to root for, you have given us a reason to believe that this can happen in our own towns and cities. congratulations @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, long may you serve

Cuomo's father Mario was kind of a folk hero in our Upstate Italian-American household when I was a kid. His son is a lecherous sleazebag. Imagine aligning yourself, as a Democrat, with this SOB withholding food from 42M people. Shame on him and shame on the party.

For all the critiques of Mamdani as an inexperienced pol, his campaign has been a relentless machine of clever, viral messaging and door-to-door canvassing. I’ve never seen such discipline in the 30 plus years I’ve been voting in NYC.

whatever you think of Spanberger, the fact that her opponent ran a campaign based almost entirely on transphobia and is on track to eat shit in the biggest blowout the state has seen since 2009 is unambiguously a huge win

A seeming bit of history tonight as Ghazala Hashmi becomes the first Asian American to win statewide office in Virginia - and the first Muslim woman to win statewide office *anywhere* in the United States.

!!!!! “What Would Really Happen?” is scheduled for Saturday at AWP!!!! 💕 Super excited about this.

Some good redistricting news: Kansas Republicans have abandoned trying to hold a special session to re-gerrymander their congressional map & eliminate Dem Rep. Sharice Davids. They could try again in January's regular session, but they apparently lack the votes in the state House, at least for now

Folks just a reminder. #helo #supportyourneighbors #lendahand #bekind

watching zohran mamdani hug taxi drivers and sobbing as one does on a tuesday afternoon.

I'm voting for Mamdani in my heart today.

My great grandfather was attacked when he tried to vote for the 1st time in 1964. He went got stitches and came back and voted. How could I stay home???

We are thrilled to help usher @bwnadler.bsky.social's archive-driven novel, Prairie Ashes, into the world today. This is an important and beautiful book about the Illinois Mine War, unionization efforts, and the ongoing wars across the world. It's a great book to put out on Election Day.