Looking forward to a Mayor taking actual institutional (and legal) control of all city agencies, including the police department. There's been no rudder for too long.

As Mayor-Elect Mamdani said in his victory speech on November 4th, "to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us." time.com/7337578/ice-...

We forgot the lessons of the Great Depression, undid regulations that prevented another, and got hit with the Global Financial Crisis. But we responded to the 21st century version much better, limiting the damage. Maybe something similar will happen with this century's echo of 20th century fascism.

I saw Mike Nichols’s production of Stoppard’s The Real Thing on Broadway when I was 19. It starred Jeremy Irons, Glenn, Close, Christine Baranski, Peter Gallagher, and Cynthia Nixon. Which is insane. No single production did more to shape my understanding of what modern theater could be.

I’m dumbstruck by news of the death of Tom Stoppard—maybe because he hoarded all the words and knew how to use them better than just about anyone. I hope we savor his spectacular wit and erudition and argue about the politics of his plays forever. He was monumental, and also a kind and curious man.

RIP. I remember Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead being front and center as I started my theater journey. Then, Arcadia bursting onto the scene. Buying the script for The Invention of Love, upset I hadn't been able to see it. And, most recently, seeing the incredible Leopoldstadt. A true great.

Just the thing for easing back into the news after Thanksgiving. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

CBS News is doomed no matter what, but Bari Weiss is going to greatly accelerate its demise & degradation. Under normal circumstances I'd say she'd be forced out in humiliation within a maximum of two years, but maybe the Ellisons will keep her there indefinitely to avoid their own embarrassment.

Bari Weiss lives in a fantasy world and her version of CBS News is going to be a total catastrophe, journalistically and financially. I'm looking forward to it!

A call to action from @jenrubin.bsky.social to join the "We Ain't Buying It" boycott. Three businesses over five days. We can do this! open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

@indivisible.org and other groups are helping to organize a targeted boycott of Amazon, Home Depot, and Target from November 27 through December 1 under the name "We Ain't Buying It." One of these will be more challenging for me than the others! weaintbuyingit.com

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This is…brilliant.

I met the Democratic candidate and he’s great! It turns out that we are both married to OB/GYN’s! Support him if you can! Vote for @dontayecarter.bsky.social www.dontayeformayor.com

Rep. Esther Panitch is a paid member of the AIPAC Women's Leadership Council so her interests lie in protecting Netanyahu and not democracy. bsky.app/profile/tani...

In an upcoming mayor runoff in Georgia, a Democratic lawmaker in Georgia has endorsed the Republican mayor (and former chair of the state GOP) over his Democratic challenger, on the grounds that the Democrat is too critical of Israel: www.11alive.com/article/news...

NY Post editors are, to use their phrase, freaking out. "Slugfest turns into a lovefest"

One thing that works well for Zohran Mamdani is that he is maybe the most relentlessly on message politician I have ever seen.

Great scoop @marisakabas.bsky.social and long time no see!!

keith olbermann posting through it on the this app, god this is the best news cycle in years and the first great news cycle on bsky

She's up 52-32 on Stefanik now. Also the most unpopular thing Trump has done is demolish the East Wing. sri.siena.edu/wp-content/u...

Lee Zeldin kind of snuck up on people because nobody was really happy with Hochul but they'll be lining up around the block to vote against Elise Stefanik.

Really worried what bombshell Lizza will drop next:

I’m the Gen X whisperer in my group because I speak passable if not fluent Zoomer. I had so many conversations simply explaining why they like Zohran but that was enough to change some minds. The kids are alright.

"How young Zohran Mamdani voters persuaded their parents to get on board" Like a mini "Great Shlep" (if people remember that ad campaign from the 2008 presidential election). It happened in our family too. gothamist.com/news/how-young… via @gothamist.com

Could argue the misogyny Summers expressed both publicly while president of Harvard and in emails to Epstein says more about the culture at our most elite institutions than any of the frontpage freakouts over academia in the past few years but hey

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

Repost this everywhere you’re active on social media. Send to your friends and family who aren’t.

"She sounds like a playground bully, age 10 or so, going after smaller kids and making clear that anyone who crosses her is doomed—to a barrage of humiliation, at the least." www.thebulwark.com/p/elise-stef... (edited)

This point absolutely correct and I will add that Mamdani demonstrates that an insurgency, even one with real moral clarity and anger at the status quo, can still be cheerful and inviting.

Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...

Current mood:

Call your Senators NOW. Repeat tomorrow. No deal without healthcare. (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️☎️🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.

@danpfeiffer.bsky.social "Did Donald Trump Just Become a Lame Duck?" A sleepy lame duck. www.messageboxnews.com/p/did-donald...

I love that @terrymoranabc.bsky.social fit Bob Dylan, Lytton Strachey, and Mary Oliver in this Sunday reflection. open.substack.com/pub/terrymor...

And of course his greatest hit, the story that introduced me to him, and has now gone eight years without being corrected: Peters’ absolute whopper of a lie in defense of Trump’s reaction to the Nazi riot in Charlottesville theracket.news/p/how-the-ne...

To put the Mamdani story in context, Peters did the exactly opposite work for Glenn Youngkin four years ago — in that case laundering right-wing operatives into his story under the guise of being regular voters (a thing he has done repeatedly) theracket.news/p/the-far-ri...

* the lede in question: bsky.app/profile/katz...

It is, and what goes unsaid is that the piece in question a) opened with one of the most blatantly racist ledes I’ve read in years* and b) was by Jeremy Peters, who for the last decade has functioned as effectively a Heritage Foundation-type operative inside the Times newsroom

I love the Grassroots Connector because it covers - with a practitioner's lens - the real work that is happening behind the election night headlines. Here from @robbzw.bsky.social is the real story of the leaders and organizers who flipped Virginia: grassrootsconnector.substack.com/p/how-virgin...

Literally the one place in the country where Democrats got their clock cleaned was in the home county of state chair who refused to endorse Mamdani and has generally overseen a string very poor democratic performances.

Not even Long Island in total, just Nassau! We made up ground next door in Suffolk!

Ironically this shit they intend to smear a Muslim with is just going to end up fracturing Jewish communities in a time where they need each other the most.

Agreed, also I think Jews need to confront a pernicious Islamophobia problem across our temples. bsky.app/profile/ryan...

Like, he's trying to get the Jewish police commissioner to stay on board. Does that not make you feel safe enough?

I'm sick of being gaslit about "globalize the intifada." I never heard of it before Zohran started running! It's like you're telling me that "Surf Party USA" is anti-Semitic. You know what I knew was anti-Semitic? Throwing up a Nazi salute like Elon Musk www.jta.org/2025/11/05/i...