NEW: The shutdown is ending. The damage to food stamps may not be. Trump's halt to funds has undermined faith in the program and left many to question whether the government will protect its citizens from harm. The lingering impact of the last 40+ days: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

this shot from Munich is craziness. how the hell do you even conceive of something like that?!??

we need a department of kerning

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People be searching

birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, boom

this is a private admission of the 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 summers stridently denied in 2005 & afterwards. his “controversial” idea was that men & women had different *variability* in IQ. more women in the middle, more men at the edges. he repeatedly denied he believed the avg was different. guess he lied!

i’m not saying that every obsession with evopsych is a stalking horse for this, but* *the others are stalking horses for racism

phrasing.

The text is pretty clear ya know? Christians have managed to misread it but only by lying to themselves

the Carl Schmitt trajectory continues

richard daley could give mamdani some advice here

Moral of this story is that squatting is legal… if you’re rich enough and famous enough — www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/n...

In light of today’s email dump, I will say I have at various times found my way into online discussion spaces containing a fair number of important and powerful men, and it is the greatest cure to imposter syndrome that humanity has yet devised

Some @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social updates since I’ve not been on here very much (book manuscript home stretch): we just released this episode on spousal rape laws with the amazing @sarahweinman.com! It’s admittedly a dark topic, but please check it out, if you feel up to it!

if you can't see the northern lights you can see Northern Lights (only just started it but it seems awesome) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norther...

Judge rules mandatory detention of Chicago day care teacher by ICE is illegal

Remake of the kings speech but with prince Andrew

Horrifying detail of a tragic story “In the 1940s and 50s, boys at the Fernald were unknowingly exposed to radiation in an experiment led by Harvard and MIT professors and sponsored by Quaker Oats… to study how cereal affected the way the body absorbed minerals” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

this site rules

the language model is not "lying" the language model is not "hallucinating" the language model is not "trying to manipulate you" the language model is shitposting, and we should let it cook

My book has an essay called “Larry Summers Caused My Eating Disorder,” about how Summers — as the face of the neoliberal Y2K era policy consensus — provided expertise that trashed Russia’s economy, leading indirectly to a massive market for female models who were often exploited, to put it mildly.

From spaceweather.com: From me: booooooooooooo 🔭

"Mark my words, one wrong step in this town’ll land you in a whole heap of social services."

I think it’s a power move. I have seen it in others. Subordinates get incoherent thumb typing and no autocorrect.

Ken Starr signed an email to Jeffery Epstein with "hugs"

People in my "progressive" neighborhood NIMBY'd a *senior affordable housing development* into reducing its units from 71 to 41. Just an absolute moral travesty. (Rogerson/Beaufort project in JP)

andie macdowell and richard dawkins?

this is bait and so it’s important not to get too worked up about it. but a couple notes about how dishonest it is. (1) implies all the docs out today are related to the discharge petition; they’re not. and the petition itself remains unlikely to generate new documents for the public.

BREAKING: (Gift) New Epstein emails reveal that Epstein claimed he had kompromat on President Trump. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

They're calling it "the most Sent from my iPad email of all time"

There's something really funny about a graphic that just reads "GREW UP PRIVILEGED"

I think this helpfully confirms the notion that the end of the filibuster was a big motivator for the eight Dems.

i found the positive depiction of masculinity we have all been searching for. his name is robbie and he robs trap houses for fun with his buddies. he’s a loving father with dreams of giving his children a beautiful home full of comfort, safety, and natural splendor. his brother was in a biker gang.

these epstein emails are pretty damning. i sure hope that we haven't spent the last couple years in a cultural backslide where men are seemingly allowed to openly and gleefully fantasize about dominating young women without any threat of reproach

Rest in peace to former Reader theater critic and editor Tony Adler. This piece dates from his departure from the paper in 2018, but today he left us in a more final way. I worked alongside him for 22 years, and I will always miss his clear eye and terrible jokes. chicagoreader.com/blogs/goodby...

close the schools

not taking vitamin i until you're dying of pain isn't maha it's just being a dumb guy. i know this because i am like this

Real dream-team situation going on over here. @katewagner.wehwalt.net / @anjulierao.bsky.social / @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/12/c...

NEW: DHS ingested a trove of highly unreliable Chicago police records on people accused of having gang ties to feed an FBI watchlist and then just ... didn't delete it for seven months after being told to do so because no one noticed. Scoop from @dell.bsky.social, and is outside our paywall.

@sarahweinman.com it came!

“Maybe this is the risk of being married,” suggested the defense attorney for a man who was acquitted on trial in 1979 for raping his wife (and who later was sentenced for another rape.) No paywall:

🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

Ken Starr emailing with Epstein in 2018 is a really interesting thing to learn about!!!!!!

Nico Harrison won't be getting a do-over or a second act. The Luka trade will stand as his legacy. Latest from me, at The Ringer:

going back on x to try and get the trads angry about the penny

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All his emails read like general anesthesia is starting to kick in

Like being sent to a town by the shore to cure your neurasthenia

everyone should periodically get a 72-hour ban