The Second Ave Subway is smuggling too many middle-class New Yorkers to their jobs in Midtown

All they had to do was give him a plane and let him build a resort.

The softest man in late night variety.com/2025/tv/news...

“Academically, Richard’s running a Motel 6 on a Ritz-Carlton budget, and it makes no sense.”

Republicans control all three branches of government.🙄

'Disbelief': Pentagon reporter can't find one military official who liked Hegseth's speech www.rawstory.com/trump-milita...

Ice agents assaulted amNewYork’s own Dean Moses, and allegedly attacked another journalist, on Tuesday morning as they were documenting the ongoing arrests of individuals attending immigration court proceedings www.amny.com/immigration/...

A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.

“In light of this long history, it makes no sense to suggest that a tolerant right was forced by an intolerant left into adopting cancel culture. Book-banning groups like Moms for Liberty did not need liberals to teach them anything…” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...

This is the administration that just fired a bunch of FBI agents for kneeling at a BLM protest five years ago.

“'I was forced to accept the resignation plan. Not physically, or through any legal means, but through fear and intimidation,' they said." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

President Trump’s sweeping national security memo directs feds to investigate and prosecute any person, non-profit, or entity displaying what Trump calls political violence: anti-capitalism, anti-Americanism, anti-Christianity, and “extremism” on race, gender, and migration. trib.al/M7ZbuWE

“‘They can’t even seem to settle on which conspiracy theory they want to advance,’ said Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, who served on the previous Jan. 6 panel and serves on the new one. “Was it Antifa? Did it not happen at all?”

I wrote about John Roberts as the chief enabler of the prosecution of James Comey—and how his jurisprudence gives cover to other sham investigations and prosecutions, like that of Lisa Cook, that judges simply have no power to second-guess for corrupt motive. nymag.com/intelligence...

Here is the AI video Trump posted, three days ago on this crypto junk Instagram page. But a day before that it was on a now deleted insta page using a common name for romance scamming accounts - “Dr. David Richard Simon.”

“…TVR Moldova’s director, confirms the unprecedented nature of the current interference. ‘I think we never saw propaganda like today, because the Russians spend a lot of money here. They change their ways, they use artificial intelligence, they use everything,’ he told RFI.”

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Here's the thing: The mere possibility of investigations and prosecutions is itself designed to achieve Trump/Stephen Miller's goals. “The threat to do it is itself a form of intimidation. It’s intended to chill lawful political expression.” 6/6 newrepublic.com/article/2009...

“…men of the internet.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/o...

They’re eating the franks, they’re eating the hogs

“He preferred edgy humor, video games and the message board 4chan, all of which he became increasingly steeped in as he withdrew from social life as well as their own friendships several years ago, they said…”

Let's get this straight: MGX – a shady Abu Dhabi firm – cut deals to get sensitive American technology while enriching the Trump family’s crypto firm. Now, Trump wants that same firm and his billionaire friends to control what you watch on TikTok? What are we even doing here?

They’re eating the franks, they’re eating the hogs

Awful news that Kaleb Horton died. A talented writer who in another time would've been getting $5 a word with an expense account. Read his skilled filleting of the Entourage movie web.archive.org/web/20150605...

futebol e nonsense

We are watching a coordinated right-wing takeover of popular media and it won’t stop here. archive.today/bXzZd

Disgusting move by Johnson. “Recently-elected Arizona Democrat Adelita Grijalva could deliver the tie-breaking vote to release the government’s files on alleged sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. That is, if House Speaker Mike Johnson doesn’t delay her swearing in—and it looks like he’s planning to.“

Some big implications for journalism, too, where reporters often mistake trending posts as a reasonable reflection of public opinion.

BOLDUAN: When I was asking you about Comey, you've twice now brought up the Epstein files and Tom Homan. Why? RASKIN: Because the DOJ is in full coverup mode

What the fuck?

Per Cato: "George Orwell, one of the most well-known antifascists of the last century, is undoubtedly rolling over in his grave right now." www.cato.org/blog/trumps-...

Talk Of Fascism Dangerous, Warns Ministry Of Compliance

Argentina’s libertarian firebrand Javier Milei, who once vowed to kill the state, now begs Washington and the IMF for $20B lifelines, while a crypto scandal haunts his credibility and investors’ trust. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/argentinas...

Meanwhile, Trump just told the UN General Assembly that their countries are “going to hell.”

“demolishing” not “blurring”

Some of us do.

Why is this happening? I’ll explain. If the FCC approves Nexstar’s merger deal, the company’s reach would increase from 39% to more than 80% of US households. But the deal ALSO depends on the FCC eliminating the current 39% cap on reach. Sinclair has been lobbying for this change as well.

Make America Healthy Again I guess

"This idea of intentionality is very important... If we see thousands of fake accounts posting a false claim in unison, we can reasonably describe it as a disinformation campaign."

It's happening, in part, through frequent Fuentes-adjacent twitter spaces where speakers promote rabidly anti-semitic conspiracies to thousands of listeners.

Missing the late Steve Silberman today. His Neurotribes begins with scientist Henry Cavendish: (1731-1810) “He was a shy man who was uncomfortable in society and avoided it when he could. He could speak to only one person at a time, and only if the person were known to him and male.” (Wikipedia)

"Free speech rarely vanishes in a single blow. It erodes until silence feels normal." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/b...

“‘The winds blow, but there are some fundamental truths for those 98 years,’ Capuano said. ‘We welcome all to our hotels and we create opportunities for all—and fundamentally those will never change.’”

Traditional fact-checking takes hours or days. AI misinformation generation takes minutes. Some tips for detecting AI-generated content: gijn.org/resource/gui...

No simple answer but some useful tips. "As the pace of misinformation approaches that of factual information, it’s becoming nearly impossible to tell what’s real. This guide teaches journos how to try to identify AI-generated content under deadline pressure..." gijn.org/resource/gui...

If people happen to see my work referenced in the work of others, it does not necessarily mean I endorse their findings or opinions. Some seem to be deliberately attempting to fold my work into theirs inappropriately. Horseshoe theory is real

Speaking in the name of the workers, acting in the interests of wealthy supporters. The eternal story.