Americans really have no idea how badly things are going or much of what is actually happening outside of the increasingly sealed American unreality state. The increasingly clear collapse of collective sense making is breaking containment fully.

Not that I believe really anything Nuzzi writes, given her record, but the far bigger scandal here is her claim that RFK Jr. was still actively using psychedelics last year, then became HHS secretary in an admin that is killing people for smuggling recreational drugs.

does anyone in nyc have a new baby and want a bunch of baby stuff i can’t seem to offload in the local parents chat??

it is my ethical obligation as a linkedin user to report ICE recruitment ads as “annoying or not interesting” 🫡

Here at Indivisible, we don’t let leaders who stand up to fascism do so alone. So we’re putting out the call to this movement today: If you’ve got a few bucks to spare, please chip in to support Rep. McIver’s legal defense.

Remember this party with just Trump where they were doing professional things

Ditto to @harvard.edu. No one needs Summers. Fire him now.

Full Japan sketchbook

Menin didn't support Mamdani in the primary. Let's see what the NY Post has to say about her... nypost.com/2025/11/06/o... - They want her in place to BLOCK the agenda he ran on.

I see no path forward between what people are saying they want and the Democratic party as currently constituted. No path.

If this motherfucker feels confident acting this way in front of a crowd, imagine how he acts with no cameras around

Epstein’s War

9/🧵 What does this mean for Democratic strategy? All those debates about choosing between identity politics and economic populism? False premise. Young working-class voters with low racial resentment aren't choosing. They're ready for Medicare for All AND Black Lives Matter. Lean into the tide.

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$100 covers rent for one month for a family. $70 covers infant formula for one month. $70 coovers food for a family for one month. $25 covers diapers for one month.

Please stop using language that suggests that people with criminal records are appropriate targets for this administration's violence. One in three adults has a criminal record. Stop playing sacrifice games with fascists. Stop surrendering entire categories of people in your own mind.

“The government is allowed to post real death threats on social media but you’re not allowed to post sarcastic death threats on social media” is actually a pretty apt distillation of power and violence

Hey, @josh-kaplan.bsky.social this is really stellar reporting. I’m a bit concerned that you said “we’ve uncovered the first known example.” I’m wondering, can you speak to Myranda Kazos emailing you her investigative reporting on this exact issue a while ago? She’s been covering this for months.

Some ducks look like they should have arms. Others, not so much

“I’m Hispanic and I’m dark (skinned), so that’s why they picked me up,” Diaz, a U.S. citizen, said. “It feels scary because I’m wearing a target — you know, pick me up because I’m this color. It shouldn’t be like that.”

I’m proud to call Jennie Pu a friend. She helped get the NJ Freedom to Read Act across the finish line. We sat side by side when we testified before the NJ Assembly Education Committee, which you can see in @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social. Jennie’s the REAL joyful warrior!

I'm doing Summer's essay camp again. It's fun, low-pressure, and helps you create a place to play with ideas you might have otherwise left moldering in your notebook. I always come out the other side having discovered something unexpected on the page.

“Interested in my commentary on her outfits.” Yeah I bet man

Some news: tomorrow at 9am, Ted Koppel + CBS Sunday Morning will air a two-part story on the devastating surge of full-time workers being pushed into homelessness. I'll be interviewed along with two families from There Is No Place for Us. It would mean a lot if you'd watch and help spread the word.

Also in here: DHS responded to the faith-led protest yesterday, calling participants “violent rioters” and “imbecilic morons” who need to “get a job.” Asked about the statement, one UMC pastor who participated in the protest told me: "This is our job." religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...

This is easily one of the most beautiful things any human has ever made. Possibly my favorite art object on this earth. Simple and yet so compelling.

If these people are ever thrown out of power, I hope we all understand there is no reformist pathway for institutions like this as much as Dems might desperately wish and claim there is.

Today I learned about Chickadee Spice Co, which sources spices exclusively for donating to community fridges and pantries in Boston, Cambridge, and Worcester: chickadeespice.org

That seems like a lot for an ad contract to me tbh

One of the most important lessons you have to learn about what a university "is" is a very vulgar marxist distinction between its *managers* (directly or indirectly appointed by capital and/or state government) and its *labor,* who come to the university out of love and idealism.

Riding the circuit. No clerks. No building. No shadow docket. Nothing, until the Wizards In Robes stop ignoring the law, data, history, precedent, & the plain meaning of words in the Constitution. And there will be 25, with 9 chosen by lottery for any case.

I regret to inform you I am reading about the history of venture capital and now I have to become the joker

Sometimes, you gotta make your girlfriend a one of a kind Joan of Arc doll. You just gotta do it

made a similar point on the opinions podcast this week in response to the idea that epstein is a dead end. not only are actual voters interested in this but it divides the gop and puts pressure on the president. it would be political malpractice to treat it as a sideshow

Trump's minions have turned the NEH into a slush fund for conservative ideological groups. Trump corrupts everything in his grasp. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/a...

in my latest post, i feature a newsletter by the students of an English Honor Society I advise. they talked about the filipino poet jose villa, gave attention and care to young trick-or-treaters, ran a poetry & storytelling night, and are running a food drive. give them compliments if you would:

did the aggies forget to ask their president for permission to play

just a reminder that Marjorie Taylor Greene did not suddenly wake up a better person. she did not miraculously locate a strong moral compass. truly no one has to hand it to her. thanks for coming to my TED talk.

THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!! The production of TWELTH NIGHT with Lupita Nyong’o, Junior Nyong’o, Peter Dinklage, Sandra Oh, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Daphne Rubin-Vega is now on the PBS app!!!! www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/t...

Many people dismissed the announcement Catholic hospitals will ban gender-affirming care nationwide under the assumption that there will be other options. In reality, Catholic hospitals make up as much 46% of options in some states. This map is 2020, prior to Trump’s assault on safety net hospitals.

So, as you know, we had a big cheat sheet to the elections on Bolts: nearly 200 key contests that we were tracking, & why. The page is now updated with the results of ALL the races that were on it — from judges to mayors to school boards. You can explore! boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...

It's too easy to be distracted by the economic story of the day. The more important story is of our system fraying: The rule of law is decaying, Bribery spreading, crony capitalism normalized. It won’t show up in next quarter’s data, but when our kids try to build their lives.

Alice Wong’s legacy is the political horizon she helped articulate. A horizon where disabled knowledge is central, and care is a shared commitment. She taught us to name grief & rage without collapsing under them, to celebrate disabled brilliance without ignoring the material conditions shaping life

Topline: Ariana is a young journalist targeted by the Ortega regime in Nicaragua. ICE is just straight up attempting to have a journalist—who was granted asylum—executed using a single missed phone call (if it even was made and they’re not just lying) as a bogus justification

2A is not a fundamentally individual right, it is a *community* right and I’d love to see some of these folks open ranges and do community-oriented trainings, not just around firearms, but first aid, police interactions, and resistance to authoritarianism. www.npr.org/2025/11/15/n...

Sometimes it's as hard as pulling out teeth to get all that gold

They are planning to do to us what they did to L.A. and Chicago. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/n...

Senator Menendez is sitting in his cell at Allenwood right now because he took a 1kg gold bar from the Egyptians, among other forms of “lobbying.”