[upbeat zohran voice] I'm here at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany, where 80 years ago some important progressive work started [smash cut] but hasn't ended. So here's what we're doing:

crazy that basically every person complaining about "woke overreach" over the last 12 years is also in the epstein emails being like "thanks for the pussy, jeff ;)"

This is who runs this account

Seen at midtown Barnes & Noble: @letsgomathias.bsky.social’s new book at full price next to tabloid filth at 50% off

“bari weiss’s wife in the epstein files” is simply too perfect

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college Texts and Contexts: New Yorker Tales Satire, Sex, and Style Chaucer Modernism and Cinema Argentine Literature and Film

Hamnet (dir. Chloé Zhao)

imagine being so rotted that Bruce Springsteen writes a brand new song about how much you suck shit and announces it by saying “by the way I’m so fucking mad that I banged this out in 24 hours” how are you still up and walking around after being slammed like that

When the Baileys’ favorite pickleball influencer posts an anti-ICE reel

Greg Bovino tonight

It took five hours on hold for me to get a refund on Two Strangers tickets, so (justifiably) angry performers aren’t the only people staying home

How do Democrats frame their arguments? For this piece, we interviewed a man who covered up a murder.

Clarissa explains it all to the DHS Instagram account

Opinion | As a conservative Christian, I have no problem with ICE agents abducting children—unless they are unborn.

Blue Moon (2025)

Paige Bueckers (Dallas Wings, Breeze FC) is donating $50,000 to relief efforts organised in response to ICE raids in her hometown of Hopkins, Minnesota. On Monday Bueckers won $50,000 in the #Unrivaled free throw competition after successfully scoring 13 free throws. (Source @brwsports)

"Drink whole milk, you'll come in 5th place" is an incredible ad campaign.

HUGE NEWS for trans people: We have the latest minibus, including the bill to fund the Department of Health and Human Services and it looks like there are no restrictions on gender-affirming care for transgender people. docs.house.gov/billsthiswee...

jfc

A Bud Light-style boycott of a Broadway musical is not going to work. The demographic going to see Six the musical is going to show up more to see Dylan Mulvaney in response to transphobic hate, not less. Signed, someone who has seen Six on Broadway twice and has never drank a Bud Light

My worlds colliding: an editor on LinkedIn using the Devil Wears Prada musical as an example of great copywriting

I’m a simple man. I see an Instagram video of Joshua Henry singing “Sarah, come down to me” and I share it

Thanks MZS for banging the drum on this one! My mom was shocked there was no Oscar buzz for Bill Skarsgard

They must be SO mad watching Renee Good become the murdered folk hero they wanted Charlie Kirk to be

Just purely in terms of phrasing, “it was reportable because of the reporting and the reporters” is an embarrassingly inept explanation, like something Ron Burgundy would yell.

donald trump has received the nobel peace prize in the way that michael scott declared bankruptcy

Glasses perilously close to the tip of his nose, Chuck Schumer scratches a line through “Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”, carefully writes “affordability” and imagines the Baileys nodding in approval.

Les Miz and Hello Dolly are the two I’ve seen the most. The fact I saw them both with my beloved grandpa also impacts the memory significantly

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

If I Had Claws I’d Snap You

BREAKING and HUGE news for transgender people: The bipartisan final negotiated text for these spending bills REMOVED language to restrict gender-affirming care as part of the Federal Employees Health Benefit Program. docs.house.gov/billsthiswee...

John Cage, submitting the sheet music for "4'33"" to his publisher: What do you think? Publisher: No notes.

Having a “computer room” in the house

If you’re in Minneapolis and need a place to just BE right now, Big Hill Books and Birchbark Books & Native Arts are both open and ready to welcome you with open arms.

As the kids say, this is a load bearing post for me

trump did january 6th. republicans did january 6th. violent traitors did january 6th. they stormed the capitol, destroyed the building and threatened to kill members of congress. ashli babbitt was a violent insurrectionist. the capitol police protected people. these are truths we need to repeat.

Just realized that Bari Weiss is doing The Newsroom but from the right

NYCers have earned a day to just feel hopeful and happy. Nobody's in denial about political reality, and tomorrow will be here soon enough, but an inauguration is a celebration and an articulation of a vision, and it's okay to let yourself give in to the joy of aspiration.

The Somali daycare thing is huge for Republicans because it combines their only remaining principles, racism and being asked to leave somewhere

Faves of the year (alphabetical) Movies Black Bag Frankenstein Hamnet Kiss of the Spider Woman Merrily We Roll Along Theatre Buena Vista Social Club Dead Outlaw Oedipus Ragtime TV Death by Lightning The Gilded Age Hacks

cowboy who stubbed his toe:

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, was born a pauper to a pawn on a Christmas day when the New York Times said, "God is dead and the war's begun." Oh, Alvin Tostig has a son today...

NEW: By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court blocks Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago to assist immigration agents. A majority holds that he likely lacks authority to do so. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

so the two notable programming moves bari weiss has made at CBS are... airing an interview nobody watched and not airing a 60 Minutes segment that everybody watched. it's like she's satirizing herself

!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social: is.gd/paU8Ko (It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)

Like the suburban developments named after whatever natural feature was destroyed to build them