is it a coincidence that half my team called in sick during the same week that a new Ken Burns just dropped?

An alt weeklyish story.

Peter or the Wolf

Not sure if it’s related, but a very low, very loud Army Blackhawk just made our house shake.

We’re hearing helicopters and word is spreading of massive ICE raids tomorrow and Friday particularly in Gwinnett. These excessive raids put all of us in danger. Spread the word, look out for each other, and remember your rights.

I need to see WDs 21 through 39.

Astonishing to stop and realize that, at any given moment, bands of masked men armed to the teeth are storming churches and daycares, terrorizing entire communities—and that most of the country's political establishment barely blinks.

to have an affair with one longshot presidential candidate twice your age that you’re profiling may be regarded as a misfortune; to have two looks like carelessness

Sad news. The National Association of Theater Owners (NATO) changed its name to Cinema United. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_...

MARTA's gift shop is fantastic. It needs socks though. itsmartamerch.com/collections/...

19 days without almond butter! #NoNutNovember is rough!

600 people have lost their jobs for failing to perform sadness. bsky.app/profile/raph...

New speed bumps on Clifton Road next to Emory have gaps - probably for drainage, but wide enough for cyclists. Yay! Except one of them has a sharpish cut in the pavement that flattened my tire. Boo!

Republicans have spent months purging people from government and private sector jobs for failing to genuflect at the mention of Charlie Kirk. Yesterday Trump stood in our White House with the despot who ordered the murder and dismemberment of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and said “things happen”.

ICE has been raiding my neighborhood and surrounding ones for the last couple of weeks now. They commandeered my local church (against the pastor's will) for a staging site and raided supermarkets, parks, Goodwills, bus stops, you name it. The national media's been silent. So has @mayor.lacity.gov.

Now they have to mail his family 35,714 WABE wine tumblers. www.ajc.com/arts-enterta...

NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House. By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro

I hope they don’t rebrand their Spanish language business channel ¡Si, NBC!

NEW: The White House intervened in a DHS investigation. The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate. The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia. Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer. A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro www.propublica.org/article/andr...

“Quiet, Piggy” getting more pickup. @cnn.com @peoplemag.bsky.social @dailymirrornews.bsky.social

this would have been a month-long scandal in 2011

74,000 people in 383 clinical trials for cancer, heart and brain ailments, HIV, etc. had their treatment stopped or interrupted by Trump. www.fiercebiotech.com/research/nih...

Something that would have been a top 5 most impeachable act in U.S. history from 1789-2024 is described in a @nytimes.com headline as … a distraction. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/u...

The American Revolution is about to start on PBS. No spoilers!

Ask for forgiveness, not persimmons.

Better Than Bouillon is a good name for a cryptocurrency

The end of dollar hegemony will transform U.S. debt from a fiscal drag into a high-yield fusion bomb. For decades dollarization has generated structural demand for U.S. treasuries, depressing the interest rates the U.S. needs to offer to service its debt.

Hamilton Cinematic Universe

America can't be fascist because I'm not doing anything about it

Ugh. Bunch of European teens bidet’d my house overnight.

The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times. Two emoluments clauses ban officials—unambiguously including the president—from accepting things of value, plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason. Unprecedentedly corrupt.

Blending family and governance

Rudy Bridges is younger than the Sitting President of the United States and 29 sitting United States Senators

It rocks that all 20 people who genuinely think the Olivia Nuzzi stuff is interesting have editorial discretion at major media outlets. Just publish your group chats

All I do is ween ween ween no matter what.

A point of this reporting is to underscore how not just wildly scandalous Trump’s wide ranging coverup of the Epstein files is right now, but that his coverup has hit a new level of blatant political corruption and abuse of power. Genuinely, historically atrocious in ways too many get numb to

US political media evidently only had the capacity to question the cognitive function of one candidate last year and they picked the wrong one.

Get white men to understand they have an identity and have done nothing but talk to us about their identities and how to politically and culturally accommodate their identities for all of history challenge: impossible

Something the US needs to accept too is that without a large-scale correction imposing consequences on a large number of people, the crisis of governance here will continue indefinitely

New: FBI Director Kash Patel Waived Polygraph Security Screening for Dan Bongino, Two Other Senior Staff www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...

Prediction: He kills the case and replaces Kimberly Guilfoyle as U.S. Ambassador to Greece.

If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.

Atlanta's Cyclorama is the world's largest painting. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...

It’s actually a sparking wine supernova.

The most corrupt and criminal administration in history.

I'm Thomas Chatterton Williams, and as the reality of our entire political and cultural elite's deep enmeshment with pedophilia and sex trafficking goes from obvious to undeniable, I will be writing about how it's bad to have principles.

Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.

When one remembers that all Trump/GOP accusations are confessions, the Epstein emails shine a new light on the obsession with Hillary Clinton’s emails. Yes, it was a political scam, but it was evidently powered by a deep belief that her emails would be as slimy and crime-y as theirs.

nothing to see here, just Donald Trump's top henchmen summoning members of congress to a secure room where they can't be record that is sometimes used for ordering people killed in order to persuade them not to release the Epstein files