Perfect day to hit the always-crowded NYBG Holiday Train Show. (Almost had the place to ourselves.) 🎄 🚂@nybg.bsky.social

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.

UPDATE I have updated my story linked below with a high-quality broadcast version of the 60 Minutes segment that was pulled by Bari Weiss. Here it is (no paywall): bit.ly/4qn6Jn5

I’ve been on a Target boycott because I don’t want to reward their anti-DEI capitulation. But I had to pick up something there yesterday. So this is what the place where I used to buy all the Cat & Jack “Girl Power” tees is up to now. 🎯

If you want to get your kids off brain-rot screens, you have to give them other fun easy stuff to read—and that’s not always a whole book, which can feel like a commitment. Some great print magazines for kids. (I’m partial to Kazoo.)

I fell into some Andrea Gibson poetry today. You might already know this poem, "Boomerang Valentine" but in case you don't I recommend you give yourself a break from doomscrolling and listen: youtu.be/0HWQ08XAYbY?...

AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.

Only want a Gaston backstory if he's played by Fortune Feimster.

Happy mishmash, everybody! An excerpt from Sugar Shack, available at your local bookshop, library, and wherever books are sold! (1/3)

You should know that of all the sights I love in this world — and there are plenty — very near the top of the list is this one: dogs without leashes.” -Mary Oliver #dogsofbluesky

Outside/Inside. The news is bad so taking comfort where we can. First snow in Brooklyn.

this is the realest shit ever posted and when you become a parent you spend a lot of time internally screaming about it

When I see an ad boasting of all that A.I. can create for me

Carnegie Hall for “An Evening with Fran Lebowitz”

My letter to the editor in The Llano News today.

It’s heartbreaking, truly.

Federal agents are arresting American citizens. This isn’t about public safety - it’s about stoking fear. www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

I had fun reading to some Burke Elementary students at the Chicago Public Library today. When the Obama Presidential Center opens next year, we’ll have a new branch of the library for the community to enjoy.

I have been laughing about this line all day. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8UvGrMD/

Yes--and I made it with the Thanksgiving turkey stock that I also made (if you're wondering why I won the homemaker of the year award). I halved the garlic & paprika so the kids would actually eat it, too. 5 stars. cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1026...

Jumped online & quite suddenly remembered the "Bullshit Grinder" at my grandparent's house. I would turn it, fascinated, while my parents visited. Seems ppl once made as woodworking practice, but they are hard to find, now. Too bad considering this little toy would certainly come in handy today.

It's incumbent on journalists interviewing GOP who support Trump's extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean to ask them if they've ever used cocaine or been in the presence of someone who was doing so. Because if those traffickers are terrorists, then anyone up and down the supply chain is complicit.

I have to say, the notion/claim that someone could seriously write a book on a phone while hiking is simply ridiculous to me.

tl;dr: Yes.

Absolutely inhumane. My heart aches for this sweet child.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Watch out world, it’s a purple first day. Connections Puzzle #904 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦

Can't stop thinking about this

Happy last day of “I’m just gonna have a little bowl of Thanksgiving” to those who celebrate. 🙏

“Lightscape” at @brooklynbotanic.bsky.social always such a beautiful show.

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

Good morning from Brooklyn.

Even fallen trees reach for the light.

I already know depression hates to see this man coming. I’m cancelling all of my therapy appointments and adding this song and dance to my morning routine. *Depression no, no, no ALEGRÍA SI SI SI*

Some background on “Don’t Give Up the Ship” & why it’s a great battle cry for America at this moment (from someone who grew up on the shores of Lake Erie, and may just have this flag hanging around somewhere). 1/7

"Endless Gossipy Chatter About Epstein. One Glaring Omission." from @jenniferweiner.bsky.social. If you, like me, are so upset by even the "good" reactions to these terrible emails, this gets at why. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/o...

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the child I was at 15.

Sometimes I can laugh at the president or roll my eyes when he says something wild or ridiculous. This one just makes me so sad. So deeply sad. I imagine some of you feel the same. Please recognize that, care for it and yourself. It’s rough out there.

Absolute insanity putting on a massive welcome ceremony including a flyover for the guy that’s responsible for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi and the government responsible for 9/11

I’m just so tired of the very worst people getting the most attention. Let’s do something new.

Escape room where the thing you are trying to escape is reading about Olivia Nuzzi

Libraries purchase books. When you see a book at the library, it isn’t “free” the library bought it. which in turn means that the community bought it. In other words, library books are not lost sales for authors and publishers; they’re positive sales. Active sales. Those are bought.

Burns: The Old Testament says there’s nothing new under the sun. On July 4th, 1776, there was. Everybody up to that point had been under authoritarian rule. It was in the interests of their rulers that they be uneducated, that they be superstitious, that they be distracted by conspiracies…

Checking in with the "feminism is cringe" and "feminism is over" people, who strangely, started showing up around 2016. How's it going?

My new picture book, Searching for Wocks, is out June 9! You can preorder it now! This book is about the joy of discovering tiny objects, and the beauty of what turns up on a toddler’s pockets! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/760970...

"Should we be bad? Should we get a creme brulee? Let's split a creme brulee."

Can none of these millionaires sex criminals write in full sentences? Have you heard of paragraphs? Punctuation? No wonder ChatGPT sounds like a genius to these clowns.

At least it’s finally sweater weather, and off-leash hours are pure joy. A walk before 9am in Prospect Park Brooklyn is a guaranteed mood boost (even if you don’t have a dog)! So many dogs and happy people. #dogsofbluesky #doggo #labradoodle #minilabradoodle #prospectpark