4) We really should have the Guide for the Perplexed as a core part of our high school curriculum

Fox goes with real-world math over WH gaslight.

Ok in trying to straighten out what happened to my health plan I learned that on Oct 8 the federal govt screwed up the MA health connector subscriber database with an update intended to cross-reference it with immigration info in order to deny immigrants - legal immigrants - health care subsidies

Ok. Putting the pitchfork back in its stand by the front door. For now.

Spotify is crashing HARD because of the boycott. Their stock dropped 11% in value over the last month. Let’s keep this going! Tell everyone you know to boycott Spotify. There are plenty of alternatives that don’t run ICE advertisements and screw over artists. We made it easy at boycottspotify.com.

Guys! I have had afternoon caffeine and am feeling mildly euphoric, so at the risk of being earnest on main, I just want to say: Keep up the good work

It’s been 45 days since Adelita Grijalva was elected by the people of Arizona. Mike Johnson is still refusing to swear her in because she’s the final vote for the discharge petition to release the Epstein files.

Empathy is commodified compassion, with the obligation to do anything stripped away

I keep thinking about the Nixon-watching-Conan story. The word “madcap” leaks into everyday conversation a couple time a week

democrats, if bill kristol is to your left, you’re doing it wrong, and you will be primaried

"My offer is: everything. Including the fee for the gaming license, which I have brought along with me and would be happy to pay to you personally in small non-consecutively numbered bills"

The cruelty is the point

Contemporary is the new retro

The Old New

Intuit, parent company of TurboTax, donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration. Always follow the money.

St Mark’s Church in the Bowery. Why that sound familiar to me

November 4, 1979 for me. But yes this was big.

If I was writing a popular history this would be my pivot moment I think.

[whistling, looking up]

A meh the size of the Ritz

Mission accomplished

Remembering yesterday, when I wanted to buy a pencil, and then I did

This crystallizes what I’ve been feeling about business school — it’s getting a credential in Being Mean While Playing Family Feud

This reminded me of this classic post except that everything has gotten far far dumber and more made up

Hot takes that stay hot

Rough story about responsible criticism www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/rema... I’m sorry to learn @ravoon.bsky.social went through all that (and a little depressed I saw none of it while it was happening)

My comment, for @pnreview.bsky.social, on the Len Pennie & Sarah Doyle affair - or Canongagegate, as I like to think of it. Honourable mentions: @naush.bsky.social, @thetimes.com. Feel free to share, to attack me with your little jelly pitchforks, or to ignore. www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/rema...

I always forget how much I love this piece of music youtu.be/lYatqE7OA1Q?...

Since we’re talking about affordability, a reminder that Trump’s culture war based economic policies are making everything more expensive for no discernable benefit to anyone but him www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Vance on judge's ruling: "I have contempt for this court."

The Trump administration is suing so they don’t have to pay for food stamps. Happy almost thanksgiving!

It would create a tidy narrative arc if the American conservative movement’s first President opened his term by fucking over air traffic controllers, and then its last President tanked his career by fucking over air traffic controllers. millercenter.org/reagan-vs-ai...

Heard my first pedicab boombox Christmas song go by on 42nd yesterday.

Give the People What You Want

This year’s seasons of Shababnikim and The Lowdown both have a minor character expressing surprise/disapproval about the main character caring. Is this more 2001-2003 nostalgia (thinking of The Shins’ Caring Is Creepy)

[exhausted air safety expert crushing a cig and speaking to me as if I’m a sixth grader] You ever seen Godzilla? Imagine a hundred Godzillas at all the airports. www.wsj.com/business/air...

America doesn’t want fascism

100% this

Vayera is this week

10) a lot of popular Jewish history assumes Jews started to exist either in 1933 or in 1948, and that’s a damn shame

Make New York Bagels Again. Is this anything. Minnyba. No

Word of the Day is ‘catchfart’ (17th century): an obsequious individual who sucks up to the boss and always follows the political wind.

Gotta go to work (put on a dress shirt and fire up the VPN)

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Brb starting a country band to be called The Follow Farmers

deep listening wide awareness distance vision

I notice more and more that the people with the greatest reputations for effectiveness (and often with serious longevity) at my office are also the people who publicly say thank you frequently, judiciously, and without obsequiousness