The crime worries also get in the way of solving the real problems: Our trains and our stations are outdated and gross. I love the subway, but I get why people feel unsafe waiting in a filthy station for an old-ass train where the PA may or may not work. Vibes matter more than crime stats!

It’s amazing how all the reporting is just memory-holing this part

Impossible to overstate how stupid and self-defeating this is

Buy every book a friend recommends to you. Every single one. "Chances are I won't read it though!" That's totally fine, and the chances of reading it go way up once it's in your home.

When I see a politician who stands up for trans rights, even though I am a cis white man, I know that is a politician who will stand up for the most oppressed group in America, and therefore will stand up for everyone, trans, gay, straight, Black, Latin, Asian, anyone.

We sorta just ended up at Birdland tonight for a Thelonious Monk birthday show, and were like "wow this drummer is unbelievable." Turns out it was Steve Smith from Journey. One of those magical NYC nights.

more and more I am convinced a good share of why Trump 2 is so much worse than before is because of what Elon did to Twitter. it's like those group chats where people gassed themselves up to join ISIS, scaled up a millionfold

read @lopatto.bsky.social's essay in the voice of the "you don't wanna be out here" Twitter guy.

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE Truth: No cars rammed ICE Claim: She boxed ICE in Truth: ICE boxed her in Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE Truth: She did not have a rifle Claim: ICE returned fire Truth: Only ICE fired Claim: She drove herself to the hospital Truth: Paramedics found her

NY and CA are just bursting with leverage here. Might as well use it.

Time for blue state governors to flip the script: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This is very good: www.weekendreading.net/p/bringing-a...

it's funny-in-a-capitalist-way that the guys who own spaceship companies are the least bothered by all the ways the universe wants to kill us. Or they're just lying, like they do about everything else. www.wired.com/story/how-sp...

Yes CBS, I am laughing at you. As I cancel Paramount+.

The ICE Goons will never succeed so long as they keep showing their Butt Cracks and Beer Bellies. www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/29/b...

A metaphor I use a lot: If ESPN hired an NFL reporter who didn't know about football, the audience would spot the imposter immediately. But experience is expensive, so publishers throw young reporters onto unfamiliar beats. We end up with shallow coverage, and loss of media trust.

My new piece, up now @thenation.com: "If only trans activists had known what size check to cut for Chappelle, they could have shut him up years ago and saved themselves all the picketing at Netflix." www.thenation.com/article/cult...

We're getting a wave of articles that are like, "gee willikers it sure seems like the people who complained about 'cancel culture' for years really like canceling people." Yes! This was extremely obvious at the time and a lot of us pointed it out!

Fair play correcting the right wing journalist, but I have to confess it’s hard for me to enjoy a political culture whose main point of consensus is that it should be illegal to use federal funds to treat people who are injured or sick and happen to have the wrong immigration status.

Same! Also, I rewatched Dick Tracy a few months back and it still looks just as beautiful and bizarre as it did when it first came out.

Weird day (or maybe the best day) to be in D.C. for Persuasion 2025, hosted by @swayable.bsky.social and @waytowinus.bsky.social. Right now @perrybaconjr.bsky.social and @vanhollen.senate.gov are talking about freedom in 2025, and how to convince Americans it's worth defending.

This is the most accurate review I've seen

That was wild, the only winners tonight were the fantasy managers

Lazy sunday

Finally watched F1™️ The Movie and wow that sucked. The only film named after a professional sport, and nobody bothered to learn how the sport works. Can't wait for FIFA The Movie where the matches don't have an offside rule.

If everyone could see Chappell Roan perform in a rainstorm our nation would be healed.

I very much appreciate Kimmel speaking last night about the threat to journalists and making them part of the story. Especially for a broad audience that might not be as clued in to stories like this one.

If you were concerned about Kimmel, here's another for you… Journalist Mario Guevara has been detained for 100+ days, ironically arrested as he reported on a "No Kings" protest. The Trump-Vance admin just issued an order of final removal, to send him to El Salvador—where he fled from 21 years ago.

What's the last book that made you cry while reading it? (Wife and I are talking about how frequently books elicit tears vs movies, books, theater, video games)

I may not agree with you calling for my public execution, but I will defend to the death your right to do it. I will also attack the left for criticizing you, in the hopes that that will defer your calls for my public execution.

Has authoritarian consolidation ever been accomplished so quickly, or with so little resistance?

Fun watching every single demo fail at Meta Connect. "That's how you know it's live!" riiiiiight

Here's a tip: Don't try to find the middle ground with someone whose livelihood comes from stoking "irreparable divisions." It's a doomed effort and you're a fool for pursuing it.

The only think tank that speaks to the issues I care about

The NYC mayoral election is essentially a battle between big dollar Democrats and small dollar Democrats and the latter group is running away with it

These timelines are so discouraging. Anne Hidalgo has transformed the entirety of Paris in the same amount of time it's going to take us to do one street.

This is really great from @gaberivera.bsky.social, good look at where people go for tech news and where the industry discourse is happening in 2025. news.techmeme.com/250912/20-ye...

if you’re an isolated, angsty, strange young man, please know that you can become a Kierkegaard scholar instead of joining fringe online communities

Open-and-shut case!

Putting away all the "CIVIL WAR NOW" banners at the news station and bringing out the "Mental Health Crisis in America" banners with a heavy sigh

"We are all safe, or none of us are." Ezra, this is a man who devoted his career to making our society less safe. "He was one of the era's most effective practitioners of persuasion." Fine, but he used his talents to win new converts to white supremacy. Is that not worth mentioning?

(whispers) they put on a better show than Oasis

yesterday "here is proof that the president is a sex criminal" felt pretty bad. today "almost all of the news media is assisting in covering up the fact that the president is a sex criminal" feels much worse

"The 2025 Formula 1 season opened with a sense of optimism that we would see a close, exciting championship battle. Well, the championship battle is certainly close. It is also mind-numbingly boring." defector.com/the-mclaren-...

the supreme court says you can never use race to help people but you can always use race to hurt people

"Harm reduction" is a better approach for lots of reasons. For one, it can get more specific about harms and remedies, versus blanket (and often uninformed) criticisms of an incredibly broad technology, and people who find AI useful.

The new Masquerade show in NYC is unbelievable. We go to most of the weird immersive shows in NYC and London, and this one blew our minds. The sets, the production, the performances... it's gonna run for 20 years. masqueradenyc.com

What a cynical essay. I find Bluesky to be just as much fun as old Twitter, but also that's not the reason I'm here. No news updates, no audience, no discourse is worth supporting white supremacy. Shut down my Twitter, cancelled my Substacks, easy line to draw. www.natesilver.net/p/what-is-bl...

I like Oasis and excited to be a hooligan for a night with the lads, but their mythology has definitely outpaced their actual musical output.

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...