I cannot stress enough that men, who believe they are dying when they have a cold, should never speak about women's menstrual pain.

hook JD up to one of those "experience period cramps" machines and watch him crumble before your eyes

I’m not kidding I have filled an entire cabinet of my home with Italian pasta

I took a flight last year in which a woman in the row ahead of me watched an action movie out loud on her iPad and I think about it all the time.

I was able to freelance full time from 2017 to 2020 because of the ACA. My insurance was garbage and expensive ($600/month without the tax credit, $200/month with), but I didn't have to worry about an unforeseen disaster bankrupting me or my family.

Snowing.

Sorry the Bond movies have required viewers to believe James Bond has been in his 40s since 1962, they can easily just pretend he didn’t die.

I'm going to start a war

Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools

Tonight was a very bad night.

Yeah, I'm sorry, but you do not keep the government shut for more than a month and then NOT get a deal on the main item you have been messaging on without completely shifting the blame dynamic.

In case anyone’s wondering what the vibe is over on threads

My latest is a love letter to Chicago. "I see you stumbling through the stubborn, awkward rhythm of showing up, again and again. I see you fighting alongside people who sometimes frustrate and confuse you, and defending neighbors you may have never met, because you know they’re all your people."

I think a lot about the story Carl Reiner told: he’d have been a sewing machine repairman if not for a free WPA drama class. That led to other theater work, to Sid Caesar, to Mel Brooks, and all the rest. All because of one free class paid for by a government that felt the arts were worth teaching.

Been almost a week and my cats still haven’t changed their internal clocks…will I ever again know peace around dinner time…

Trump looks like Lenny after he petted the bunny rabbit too hard.

I was one of the four people who got canned. In the interim, you can subscribe to my newsletter, Straight From The Hut. No paywall, but feel free to choose the pay to support model. I'm not going anywhere — the show goes on, and I'll be back on MSNBC Saturday night. straightfromthehut.substack.com

And that's a wrap

I'm one of the four fired employees. I was a writer & producer at Bon Appétit for nearly five years, during which I helped organize our union and sat on our bargaining committee. I am, to my knowledge, the only trans woman in our union and the only trans woman on editorial who doesn't work at Them

Shameful behavior from Condé Nast.

Looking forward to $50 cartons of milk

Did everyone else know that Mike White was a writer on Dawson’s Creek

Absolute dumbest timeline

I'm hard-pressed to think of a non-Jewish Democratic politician who has spoken to Jews with more respect and empathy than Mamdani. The fact that many Jewish establishment orgs are going after him while staying relatively mum on resurgent Nazism is a disaster, both for American Jews and in general.

this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"

Maybe dumping poop on voters from an airplane is not a surefire electoral strategy

the Teen Vogue politics section's last newsy story 🥲 Rainesford knocked it out of the park

What about Pennsylvania? And Mississippi?

I mean it could but only from the inside

I’m Jewish. I lived in New York for a decade. I am very, very concerned about antisemitism. I have no doubt that Zohran Mamdani would fight to protect my life and my rights. I have no doubt the ADL has entirely failed to protect me and my family from fascists. I know where my allegiance lies.

John Rocker was famously too afraid to play baseball in New York because he might have had to sit on the train next to someone speaking another language

gotta say this whole business about ‘electing a muslim mayor is basically pissing on the graves of 9/11 victims’ is just…just shockingly racist stuff i mean what else is there to say about it

One thing I cannot get over in particular is that there's no sense of proportion. NYC literally had a program where the NYPD was spying on Muslims!

I had some incredibly depressing conversations with older Jews just before the election. One likened Mamdani to Trump lying about Project 2025. They sincerely believe his goal as mayor is to harm Jews.

The open, outright Nazis dominating the GOP are, eh, all good, right? The Musk Sieg Heils are just a misunderstanding. But Mamdani is clearly the problem, according to Jonathan Greenblatt. ADL is declaring itself to be an organization dedicated to bashing Muslims & Palestinians now. Disgusting.

The last month of the anti-Mamdani campaign was an absolutely shameful undertaking, an attempt to rip the city and Democratic coalition apart and I'm very happy to see it failed.

Home Goods-ass presidency

Modal Bluesky poster: "I can't *believe* how the shifting to the passive voice in this third paragaph of this article shows a complete right-wing capture of the media!" Median voter: "It sure seems from the push notifications of my phone's default news app that The Orange Man is Bad."

"If his campaign didn't inspire anyone, at least it cemented his legacy the way we should all remember it. As a man who will do anything, say anything, hurt anyone, just to keep a grip on power." Great piece from @davecolon.bsky.social nygroove.nyc/andrew-cuomo...

Mikie Sherrill absolutely demolished Jack Ciattarelli. Humiliating for the GOP.

I do think yesterday’s results reinforced the dynamic that while much of the American leadership class is chickenshit, most of the electorate is not

A 34-year-old as a politician: My god he's like a baby. It's like they just elected an infant to be their mayor. A 34-year-old as an athlete: You have to admire the bravery of him attempting that dunk, knowing full well the grim reaper is right behind him.

he did not respond to the Heritage Foundation endorsing Holocaust denial and antisemitism as an acceptable position on the right except to crawl on his belly to praise them for reversing their position, whereas with Mamdani, threats.

We should not lose sight of the fact that for as much as we love Zohran, Brad Lander is Bluesky’s favorite New Yorker

i wouldn't be a total glenn youngkin hater if i didn't mention that the results tonight mean that his total tenure amounted to presiding over the destruction — at least for the next few years — of the virginia republican party. lmao.

Tonight was a blood bath for Republicans and they should be fucking terrified of what next year looks like for them.

Had to explain to the cats that Curtis Sliwa lost. They took it hard.

People at this bar are throwing things at the screen

Reporter: When trump promised that he will give only the bare minimum to New York as a result of this election, what do you say to that? AOC: I think he should be careful about what cities he threatens because as we see from this electorate—these are not people who take well to threats.