Been a while since Trump has done a Watergate; he needs to get back on that horse if he's going to keep up the Watergate-a-day pace.

Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.

Don't call the cops on someone in a mental health crisis unless you want them dead.

no spoilers but there is a serious anti-electronic musician bias in today's "Connections"

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"Death by Lightning" feels like the sort of thing I'd have invented in a drunken haze with other polisci majors at Oberlin. "OK, ok LOOK. Look. Hear me out. A rousing melodrama about forgotten hero of history JAMES *belch* GARFIELD. With Nick Offerman as a belligerent yet emotive Chester A Arthur."

I’m pretty sure winning a slam dunk lawsuit against this criminal extortion would have been cheaper than dropping $60m during a bad budget crunch. They didn’t cave to pressure. They collaborated with the regime and sold out their students and staff.

ryan is right. people HATE hearing this. but it is just a matter of simple incentives. if you want a more representative legislature — and if you want a legislature more resistant to corruption — then you need to jack up the salaries. serving as mayor of NYC should net you a cool 500K *at least*

Editor: You get that elegy to Nancy Pelosi’s 40-year political career done? NYT reporter: Sure did boss, real fuckin psychosexual just like you asked. Editor: what

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New Cheney Memoir Reveals He's Going To Live Full, Satisfied Life Without Ever Feeling Remorse And There's Nothing We Can Do About It

63,000? 1.4 million Ohioans receive SNAP

Healthcare but only for my friends

This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism. The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.

rare glimpse into one of autechre's max patches (not fake for once), surprised how legible it is, esp the drum machine (though a lot of the logic behind the patterns is hidden) www.youtube.com/watch?v=3poN...

JUST IN: The Department of Homeland Security says it intends to add state driver’s license information to a swiftly expanding federal system envisioned as a one-stop shop for checking citizenship, raising concerns about privacy and accuracy. www.propublica.org/article/dhs-...

Reality check: SNAP is widely used in red and blue states, in urban and rural areas, and benefits a large number of MAGA voters. And more than half of ACA enrollees live in Republican-controlled districts, per KFF. The pain will be broadly felt. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Jack DeJohnette, just one of the deepest musicians ever, and a personal hero. Here is my obituary for NPR Music.

I don't like to scream so I make the robots do it for me

Words fail...One of the most influential musicians for me, let alone drummers. RIP Jack DeJohnette. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

ordinary americans are filming ice agents and trying to save their neighbors. for all the hemming and hawing during 2024 about how democracy was an elite concern, the elites gave up far more quickly than average people.

@umich.edu faculty call for an honorary degree for Trump “We have proven that we have no hard moral principles and no hill on which we will die.” www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...

You can hear 19 year old me on this. My first recording session.

Makaya McCraven interview and a rundown of this month’s best new jazz in @burningambulance.bsky.social’s latest Ugly Beauty www.stereogum.com/2327057/maka...

great piece on Berio in the Times by Jeff Brown. The embedded musical examples were very welcome, too. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/a...

Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs - Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75% - Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60% - Social Sciences by 50–70% - History by 60% - Biology by 75% - The German department will lose all PhD seats - Sociology from six PhD students to zero

Graham Platner's got to drop out. No one *inadvertently* gets a Nazi tattoo on their chest, just absolutely insane. We're stuck with the gerontocracy, same as it ever was.

American chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky dies at age 29

Yall I am 37 whole ass years old and yet I find myself at a ska show in a dive bar in upstate New York. What path led me to this. What errors of judgment, sins and misdeeds in past lives?

"No, we don't want a monarchy, we want a theocracy" is a not the flex they think it is.

quite liked this youtube auto-transcription error

Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) at the Boston No Kings rally today, wore the trans pride flag like a scarf draped over his shoulders and included in his speech. "Because here in Massachusetts, we stand for what is right. We stand with trans people because trans rights are human rights."

Political parties must shift immediately and dramatically to the left to avoid alienating these frustrated and abandoned young women. Am I doing this right?

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The hole in a guitar is traditionally used to store soft cheeses and dried meats which are fed to the drummer when he does a good job

“I really like and am knowledgeable about the city I am trying to become mayor of” is part of Mamdani‘s shtick that has absolutely flummoxed a significant portion of mainstream politicos.

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Sounds like it was pretty clear.

There was only one "mass movement" that David Brooks ever respected:

I looked up the movie "I am not a serial killer" last night (great movie btw) and today, in front of all of my students, Google auto-filled my search bar with "I am not a serial killer," which I can only hope will add to my mystique as a new teacher here.

Aside from losing many Democratic seats, Black representation in Congress will probably drop from around 14% of seats (nationally representative) to maybe 7 or 8% (not representative)? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

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And this: 92% of the growth in the entire country this year has been data centers. And some of that is "circular deals" that dont involve actual money fortune.com/2025/10/07/d...

he's even on record stating his thoughts on this www.theguardian.com/culture/musi...

Oh man, not D’Angelo. 💔😔

Huge Faulkner stan reporting for duty 🫡

The thought police are people who tell you what to think and demand you think it, not people who tell you what you think is shallow or stupid or thoughtless

This is infuriating. She excuses the orders as "preliminary," but that's an argument for applying settled law or preserving the status quo. Allowing POTUS to disregard Congressional appropriations and fire independent agency heads are neither, they're a radical restructuring of Constitutional order.