What a great news feature! “In a career rife with comebacks, Carnegie Hall was perhaps the biggest of them all. And, if [Judy Garland’s] family’s accounts are to be believed, the singer credited at least some of her good fortune to her ‘lucky jacket.’” 💎 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/s...

Thoughtful, rich piece on “why journalism?” by longtime journalism professor Samuel G. Freedman https://ethics.sjmc.wisc.edu/2025/11/06/q-whats-the-point-of-journalism-now-a-history/

When the shakedowns just start happening in public. $NVO

Sean Dunn, aka DC Sandwich Guy, speaks outside court after his not guilty verdict: “I am so happy that justice prevails in spite of everything…. “That night I believe I was protecting the rights of immigrants… Every life matters, no matter where you came from, no matter how you got here…”

absolute banger from @davidgerard.co.uk today if you’re not following his channel, you’re missing out m.youtube.com/watch?v=KcYZ... #AIScam #LLMHell

Totally Bonkers story here: Guy has a rap sheet dating back 20+ years, yet not even the prosecutor in his most recent trial knows his real name. 🕵🏽‍♂️ www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/n...

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I participated in building Biden’s Official White House website, and given that it was an official government resource, the restrictions on political messaging were considered deeply important and severe. This is a joke. It of course breaks the law, but deeper, it breaks the very spirit of the law

Amazing photo.

Looks like 47 *may or may not* be contemplating his own Fate. bsky.app/profile/atru...

How many craven “Influencers” will make a deal with this #VC Devil? 🤷🏽‍♀️👺 #a16z

Yikes. Hope that guy who fainted in the Oval is OK. Gotta say that is QUITE a Grim optical metaphor of what goes on now inside 1600. 😑

Medical emergency in the White House as someone collapses

My goodness, Nancy isn’t dead, she just made the very pragmatic decision to retire on her own terms. Weird to see her announcement covered like an Obit🥴

A.I. search tools, chatbots and social media are associated with lower cognitive performance, studies say. It's ushered in an era of “brain rot.”

Scam Alert: #AI *Leader* Says that Taxpayers Nationwide Should Subsidize Billion Dollar Private Sector #AI Companies…that Don’t Hire Working-Class People or Create Jobs for Regular (non-Tech Elite) People 👇🏾🤷🏽‍♀️

Are you planning to use US commercial airliners to visit family over the upcoming #Thanksgiving holiday season? We regret to inform you: #MAGA doesn’t care about the Safety, Convenience or Cost of your air travel needs 😑 🛬 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/u...

lol, terrific. PS: I’ve never met @govpritzker.illinois.gov but, having worked with his sister, #PennyPritzker when she was Secretary of U.S. Department of Commerce, can say I’m not surprised at JB’s…salty language 🤣

Not sure if I agree but: See this Quite interesting analysis from an @sfchronicle.com opinion columnist. In brief, she asserts that #Mamdani + #SF Mayor Dan Lurie share important commonalities—and offer lessons for the National @thedemcoalition.bsky.social Party. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/emil...

"Trump canceled your flight" is about as easy as messaging gets.

Kaohly Her will be the first Hmong mayor of St. Paul. We asked her how she wants people to pronounce her name.

Again if you are an American military member who relies on SNAP or WIC and is dealing with food insecurity we @taskandpurpose.com want to hear from you. Please reach out, signal and email are open. Drop us a line here or on Instagram

Yet another way Trump is screwing working families: this was a FREE tool we set up so folks could file taxes directly, without paying an expensive service. So who does cancelling it benefit? The answer is not working Americans, but it sure is big corporations who profit off them.

HAPPENING NOW: Immigrant workers calling on Dodgers to refuse invitation to White House #iceoutofLA

Syracuse elects its first Black mayor and second woman, Sharon Owens: ‘This is more than a win’ Sharon Owens was one of several Black women to have a victory on Election Day when she won with 73% of the votes thegrio.com/2025/11/05/s...

BEARING WITNESS: NATIVE AMERICAN VOICES IN HOLLYWOOD (2024) — 1:45 pm ET — 1h 15m (TCM Daytime: Native American Heritage Month) Directed by Clara and Julia Kuperberg Examines how Hollywood shaped Native stereotypes—and how Natives reclaim the truth. #TCM #TCMParty

Desperation. Also an attempt to curry favor with the Corrupt Orangeman, who loves to file Hail Mary lawsuits whilst having temper tantrums. The CA GOP is ridiculous.

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

One minor take-away from the NYC mayor's race for those concerned with AI/synthetic media and its effects on politics and elections might be that, in this particular instance, the guy who made a malicious deepfake lost and the guy who made authentic videos won.

Gross — but also hilarious! #EpicTrolling with #AI from CA Gov.

My only comment to @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and his #Speechwriters: 10/10. No Notes. 🙌🏾 #NYCMayor

“In this moment of political Darkness, New York City will be a Light.” — @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social 🙌🏾

Btw, East Coast / Midwest folks should sleep well re #Prop50: It will pass— though Final Results won’t be certified for (at minimum) 24 hours from Nov4. #CA is a huge state that unfortunately runs infrastructure systems (including vote tallying) that is OLD af. Not “corrupt,” just ….sclerotic 🤣😑

Update: I’m still hooting after @joyannreid.bsky.social’s SignOff from her Live election night coverage on #YT: “You might want to make a Wellness Check on [47] now.” 🤣🥴 #DemParty gains: #NYC (Mayor) / #NJ (Gov) / #VA (Gov) / #MI (Detroit Mayor) / #CA (Prop50) www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...

Winsome…Lose Some. 👍🏽 #SpanbergerVA www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...

There is some sad irony in McClatchy shutting its DC bureau the same day that Dick Cheney died. That bureau (then Knight-Ridder) did some of the best, most skeptical reporting anywhere in the run-up to the Iraq War. And they took a lot of shit for it at the time. www.cato.org/commentary/q...

Update on the unnecessary death of #KitKat the bodega cat who got crushed by an unmanned #Waymo robo-taxi in my hometown last week: As Predicted, a political MOVEMENT to reign in these automated vehicles is gaining now momentum in #SF! #KitKat’s spirit is strong 😸 www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/w...

A federal judge ruled today that the U.S. DOT violated the constitution by trying to coerce states to cooperate with ICE if they want federal transportation dollars.

Same applies to the #BigTech2.0 cos, which is why I’ve sounded alarms about their Exclusionary hiring practices—shunning Black, Latino and Working-Class candidates. “The companies and personalities behind the chatbots play a significant role in shaping how they appear to think about the world.” 👇🏾

This Layoff frenzy appears to be based mostly on CEOs getting caught up in “vibes.” It’s totally counterproductive to their companies’ longterm ROI prospects—AND YET they are insisting that #AI will allow them to see bigger profits…”SOMEDAY.” It is Insane. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/04/w...

Can’t wait for an Intrepid actor to do a live Dramatization of #SandwichTrial! And with ALL the fixins!

Btw: I’m keeping tabs on the public + private sector orgs that formerly recognized legit Qualified Black and other non-White practitioner experts in Mass Comm fields—but who are now actively (if quietly) Betraying their audiences + constituents by Ghosting or Firing PoC Comms experts. I SEE you 🗡️⏰

Just making it up as they go along.

I see that the BigTech #AI Companies Passing Money Back-and-Forth to Each Other Scam continues apace. How long will *leaders* at HedgeFunds / VCs / PEs keep this up without receiving measurable ROI on their investments? 🤷🏽‍♀️ #AIBubble

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🚨There is not a lot of good news right now. That’s why I HAD to share this. It’s just one man and his deli, but damnit, this man is making a difference in the world. The Oreos for Mother’s Day 😭💗 1/2

“‘I don’t feel safe,” said James Reid, who is Black. ‘It fits into the narrative of keeping us in our place. I don’t think it fits the narrative of stopping violent criminals, unless you think that driving down the street is considered violent.’” www.propublica.org/article/memp...

Awww, sad to learn this. RIP #DianeLadd, one of the most low-key yet memorable actors of my lifetime apple.news/ABuIFLpIwQgy...

I... I don't want the guy in charge of my airplane working overnight as a burrito taxi to feed his kids -- for both of our sakes.