I didn’t see it coming. « Diary of a prisoner »… Nicolas #Sarkozy’s three weeks in prison soon in a bookshop near you…

you'd think the forced displacement of 10 million people from one of the oldest centres of civilisation in human history would get a little more news attention than beltway journalists writing essays on how Olivia Nuzzi is a genius because they want to bone her and you'd be wrong

The Queens Daily Eagle remains undefeated.

If you were wondering how Fox is playing Mamdani/Trump: Hannity (paraphrase): "This scene is profoundly disturbing to Democrat leftists. Here is their Communist hero, shaking hands with the man he has denounced as a despot. The left doesn't know what to think.'

Shot + chaser

Good old Woz. Good for him.

My favorite piece of content today.

huh, i thought this was AI because there's no way someone could order such an ugly shirt

Two realities to keep in mind 1) Mamdani CANNOT run for prez. Born in Uganda, no joke. That is huge blessing: means that his message and style can be judged on their own terms, not 'What does this mean for Iowa caucuses?' 2) Trump is weak and getting weaker, old and getting older. Supporters know

I keep looking at this and thinking about that Pynchon character who thinks a national socialist chemistry can be built with ionic bonding and that covalent bonds are liberal and gay. RIP Laslo Jamf you would have tried to build a chemistry based on lead instead of carbon if you were real

There is a book club organization out there emailing authors telling them the club will feature their work for a "modest fee" for "branded materials" etc. Do not fall for this nonsense. You should never, as a writer, have to pay for such things.

X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based. Here’s an “influencer from Texas”

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Defending rude, indecent, and misogynistic conduct as "frankness" and "transparency." What a role model.

I've been writing in three parts about the moral catastrophes roiling American religion. It's an urgent subject, and we need as many perspectives as possible. So I've just dropped the paywalls. 1. virginiaheffernan.substack.com/p/religious-...

this is the peace plan we should be pushing russia goes home and gets nothing. they learn from this that adventures in occupying neighbors has no benefit and only costs

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Seeing an item just now in a financial newsletter noting that Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Mike Bloomberg, Nvidia and CEO Jensen Huang are all 5’7” reminded me of Asset-Adjusted Height — the concept we invented for this chart, part of a cover story in Spy’s issue #8 in 1987.

Mike Johnson on Trump calling for Democrats to be executed: "Attorneys have to parse the language and determine all that."

Behind this important reversal is a member of the Coast Guard who saw what was happening and had the courage to leak it to the press. That person deserves serious praise.

A vote for Reform is a vote for Putin.

Two veteran US Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists watched the BBC Panorama that led to the decapitation of its two leading executives. Their verdicts may surprise you …. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

Oh, look. That thing that was always going to be a total disaster turns out to have been a total disaster. I will never not be angry about this.

The gentlest, firmest, weapon for us to use in the culture wars, from Goethe: "A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul."

will admit i don't fully understand this but POETRY OUTFOXES AI is the best case for preserving English degrees i have ever heard. 'all the teenage girls who were really into Sylvia Plath at one point vs tech bros' is the battle for civilisation we deserve

Only billionaires would come up with the idea of making a Phone accessory for accessibility a limited edition. www.macrumors.com/2025/11/21/a...

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You can add exemptions to immigration rules for different groups, it doesn't make a blind bit of difference. When you say that migrants are second class and "less than" others, as this government is doing, that feeds through to everyone. Migrants aren't a disposable resource to pick and choose from.

Scientists tell Americans not to trust the CDC. Instead of a global leader in science, the CDC has devolved into “a propaganda machine for RFK Jr.'s fixed, immutable, science-resistant theories,” said @pauloffit.bsky.social. www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

I've had a missile blow up next to my airplane, been shot at dozens of times by anti-aircraft fire, and launched into orbit — all for my country. I never thought I'd see a President call for my execution. Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.

Things like this are essentially public masturbation. But the only reply Musk should ever get on Twitter is a reminder of how many children have already died thanks to his savaging of USAID. (400,000 according to Atul Gawande in the NYer.)

Now that’s a lede. Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social. Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols. The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

I know I’m a libtard but I think it’s bad the U.S. president keeps calling for the killing of specific sitting elected officials who didn’t even commit crimes

EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN CONGRESS should be pressed about Trump calling for their colleagues to be killed

Apple launches accessibility-focused iPhone accessory

Not the point of @gelliottmorris.com piece, but look at this divide among Republicans on social issues. Half of them look like normal people and the other half are way out of step with the rest of the country. There’s a bit of a mirror on the left but much smaller.

Spotted on Apple Music; this may be the stupidest album artwork I've seen in a long time.

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Until I saw this letter in the new @lrb.co.uk, I’d never heard this theory about why mass extinctions seem to happen on a 26 million year cycle. And now I need to go lie down.

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Elon Musk's yearly pay package could end extreme poverty worldwide. You might also listen to @georgemonbiot.bsky.social discuss this in a great conversation from today: bsky.app/profile/bold...

How awful. This is outright health disinformation, lying to the American people. Not only is there massive evidence showing no link between vaccines & autism, there’s not even a plausible mechanism based on what we’ve learned about the genetics of autism, some environmental exposures in pregnancy

CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”

🚨BREAKING: Federal prosecutors admitted Wednesday that the grand jury handling the criminal case against former FBI Director James Comey never reviewed or voted on the final indictment used to charge him — a virtually unprecedented revelation that could topple the entire case.

The first reporter who responds to Trump by saying, "Why are you such a jerk?" will become a folk hero.