in honor of the reopening of the met breuer, sotheby's, its new tenant, let me write the introductory text on brutalism and its many afterlives www.sothebys.com/en/articles/...

“I emerged from that experience with a better understanding of the widening gulf between what our readers expected from us and what our owner and leaders wanted the paper to be. That clarity contributed to my decision to leave The Post this summer.” www.notus.org/perspectives...

we gotta stop with the tiny microphones. get a full size mic like an ADULT. you look like you’re at tea with a mouse

Yep. This was honestly one of the reasons for the ubiquity of video rental stores.

she’s right, they are the best junk food, just a perfect creation

In other news, here’s a clip from Telemundo of Little Village Ald. Mike Rodriguez getting hit with a flash bang. www.instagram.com/reel/DQ0DnIv...

aaaahhhhh “all her fault” ends with “crossbones style”

This is a really remarkable piece of writing and in its particulars it describes so, so many people

On X, Bovino has a comment

“While some employees haven’t been impressed with Weiss’s story instincts, others say the morning meetings haven’t much changed. There is a long tradition, one employee said, of the bosses ‘spitballing dumb ideas’”

If I am 4 feet away from any retail employee and they stop what they're doing to do a forced employee smile at me and ask how I'm doing I'm gonna feel incredible guilty about it for the rest of the day

one of the great cfb names

I know it's hard to tell anymore, but the Sean Duffy quote about how pilots should just rely on their gut is not only fake but lifted without acknowledgment from The Onion.

Can confirm that travel out of LGA is brutal this evening. Numerous planes stuck on the tarmac despite many cancellations and delayed departures. Now 3 hours late and counting with no end in sight. Pilot is getting virtually no guidance from air traffic control. I guess this I the new normal.

This is the most comprehensive reporting released on the DHS-alleged shooting so far. Read the entire story (reminder: reporters don't usually choose headlines). For folks asking if it's true an ICE agent was shot: no, that is a verifiably false rumor. No injuries. A lot else remains in question.

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/08/c... Our (nearly) final word on the day is here if you'd like to see. W/ @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social, @mandophotos.bsky.social, @briancassella.bsky.social.

A CPD officer was hit by a car in the middle of all this. A baby girl got pepper sprayed. Multiple arrests by both CPD and the feds. Hundreds of people followed this convoy up Kostner to Roosevelt on foot, in cars and on scooters.

“We interviewed 40 of the men who were imprisoned: They described being beaten, sexually assaulted by guards and driven to the brink of suicide.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

this is interesting and I think it's a better use of Khan than doing normal transition-team things

one thing, i think, that gets in our way of correctly analyzing contemporary tech politics is that fact that we are incapable of seeing social movements among the elites, among the rich, among the powerful. we end up displacing all the action onto the technology itself.

this weather map is truly unhinged.

I was just reading in Amazon Basics Opinion that Zohran went mask-off. No I couldn't believe it either.

bluesky branding refresh unveiled

HEISMENDOZA

look at it

oof that timeout penn state had to take

yeah that was a good idea

thicc punter

ok ok i’ll put on penn state indiana

8/11/25 - nocturn

Wish I was her so bad

pfafftown

Journalists with @unraveledpress.com have clarified this incident appears to be smoke grenades and flash bangs rather than tear gas.

warner brothers trickster figures explained

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Two days shy of the official 50th of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, made it to the Grohmann

Virginia also shows signs of Latino shift (see Manassas/Manassas Park) Trump drag in both states, with high disapproval number and majorities saying his immigration actions have gone too far (59% in NJ + 77% in VA!) NJ Latinos prefer next governor not cooperate on immigration Read more below 3/3

latino voters swinging 60 points against trump is really something

What we’ve heard after a day of reporting is that some states couldn’t complete benefit payments, and some SNAP recipients could not use their cards. The Trump admin continues to block food stamp aid

Zohran’s win was, in part, an outcome of the growing PMC class consciousness, and I’m happy someone at the Times is noticing

A pitch-black cave in the Balkans is home to what appears to be the world’s largest spider web, which researchers say is a singular work of cooperation by two usually-hostile species of spider.

“Mr. Grenell wanted to be addressed as ‘the ambassador.’ He fought publicly and often with hecklers in the comment section of the Kennedy Center’s Instagram account. (‘You sound vaccinated,’ he replied to one person who compared him to the Nazis from ‘The Sound of Music.’)”

unbelievable thrift store trip yesterday: irobot mopping robot, tivoli songbook radio, sony tabletop hd radio and waterman mechanical pencil