Interesting piece by @drtedj.bsky.social. Definitely worth a read. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

This is good. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/r...

“If you want to understand the cultural earthquake shaking American politics today…you need to go back to a violent afternoon in lower Manhattan.” Highly recommend the documentary, Hard Hat Riot, by my friend, Marc Levin. www.nydailynews.com/2025/09/21/h...

Social media amplifies extreme views as though they were representative of most Americans, and many of us are losing our sense of what other people are really like.” www.thefp.com/p/sam-harris...

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people things they do not want to hear.” - George Orwell

Congress, have the courage to revisit Section 230 ASAP. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/t...

Such a reductive headline. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Economic populism, including Bernie Sanders’s and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Fighting Oligarchy tour, is the easy part. A populism that ignores most Americans’ social outlook has never proved able to win a majority outside dire economic times. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/o...

The NYT on 9/15/2025: At least 260,000 civilians trapped in Sudan face a dire choice: risk being starved or bombed if they stay, and raped or killed if they flee Guest essay in the NYT on 9/16/2025: My U.N. Commission’s Finding: Israel Is Committing Genocide

Meanwhile… www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/w...

“Zohran is ahead based on younger voters, college graduates, and residents of Brooklyn and Manhattan — basically what you might think of as the New York Times-reading portion of the electorate.” open.substack.com/pub/natesilv...

The system in which many different groups, all pursuing their own agendas, generate rules for how public companies ought to be managed. These practices are well intentioned, but in some cases they make no difference, and in others they make things worse. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/o...

“Regardless of whether they supported him or not, it was nearly impossible for college students to open social media without being served a video of Kirk.” www.wsj.com/us-news/char...

“The composition of Mamdani’s administration will say a lot more about his plans than whatever soothing promises he makes on the campaign trail.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

“We all make mistakes. We all get caught up. But that’s when you grow up and you say ‘I was wrong and I apologize,’ and we move on.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/n...

“Any honest assessment of the state of the city would reveal a metropolis that, though imperfect, has come storming back from the lows of the pandemic.” Good piece by Greg Berman and Josh Greenman of @vitalcitynyc.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

I really wish Morrissey had ended his statement with, “I am human and I need to be loved.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/a...

New York City really is the best. www.wsj.com/lifestyle/tr...

They’re really not serious about solving NYC’s housing crisis. Reporting by @mihirzaveri.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/n...

Reading this piece made me think of @chaykak.bsky.social book Filterworld and the flattening of identity caused by social media algorithms. In Filterworld, NYC can only become more NYC. www.wsj.com/opinion/pest...

This isn’t good. Important reporting by @matthewhaag.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/n...

New York City should have a Sphere. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/m...

Bit of an understatement: “At one point or another valuations tend to matter, and the expectations baked into those valuations matter, and those expectations are getting to be so dramatic it will be very hard to meet them.” www.wsj.com/finance/stoc...

Just a complete, collective failure. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/n...

Key line: “But now that Chinese storytellers are able to make billions from their moviegoers alone, why should they even care about catering to Western tastes?” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

No clue what Notre Dame was thinking with the offensive game plan btw, “we’ll use our best player mostly as a decoy” never works as well as “using your best player”

Nobody: Jeremiyah Love:

Go Irish!!!

This is bigger than Taylor Swift/Travis Kelce news. www.today.com/video/amtrak...

“It’s fine to speak truth to power — but to ward off fascism, liberal democracy needs to deliver.” www.ft.com/content/8903...

Flagging to make sure @edsbs.bsky.social is aware of the new UF President’s credentials.

Um, the new UF President competes in the 400?! “When asked about UF's success in athletics, Landry pointed out that he runs the 400 meters and that he was in Gainesville in March to compete in the World Masters Athletics Indoors Championships.” www.gainesville.com/story/news/e...

So, early decision when applying to college is a total racket, right?

This pretty much sums up the zero-sum mindset: “In politics, like in the woods, you don’t have to outrun the bear—you just have to outrun your buddy.” www.wsj.com/politics/a-p...

“Democracy asks more of us than authoritarianism ever could…The strongman offers clarity and speed; democracy offers the promise that we might, eventually, muddle our way to something better.” Good piece by @shadihamid.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

"Those who don't build must burn." - Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Reminder, as Chris Rock said, you can be anything you’re good at, as long as they are hiring. www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...

To paraphrase Carl Fox in Wall Street: “Stop going for the easy buck and start producing something with your life. Create, instead of living off manipulating the attention others.” www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...

New Jersey electeds had a lot of nerve coming after New York for congestion pricing. Y’all need to stop pointing the finger and point the thumb! www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

“While goods production continues to rise in efficiency as an economy advances, human services tend not to — child care chief among them. In other words, child care doesn’t scale.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

“You leave your home to survive, you do everything right…” But “they don’t like you, they don’t want you.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/u...

A socialist dream until the dollars ran out. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

“If television as a medium was more suited to electing “attractive” candidates, it follows that social media as a medium is more suited to electing “memeable” candidates.” Good piece, but Trump doesn’t have a monopoly on this trend. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/o...

Interesting factoid: West Virginia is the only state in the country that was born from another state because it refused to join the confederacy. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Rain squall’s a-comin’

They made Amtrak do like a 500 page study of EM fields after the Northend Electrification system opened, which could have been summed up with two words: It's electricity.

Chicago is great. The traffic is not that great. Build more subways, please

The background check was “unresolved”, leaving a loophole for the mass shooter to keep the gun. Per fed law, “unresolved” background checks can permit gun purchase after 3 days. Around 1.1 million (3%) of all background checks are marked as ‘unresolved.’ nypost.com/2025/08/12/u...

This is good.