Did the New York Times just BOTH SIDES Ken Paxton's sweetheart deal for a child sex predator. Yes, yes it did.

I took one look at that man’s hair and decided to trust everything he had to say about pool and pool related products

RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter

It’s so cool that our bodies work in such a way that you can accidentally brush your hand against the stove pulling a pizza out of the oven and have a mark on you for the rest of your life reminding you you’re too dumb to cook pizza

How and why does John Travolta look like Shaun King

Love this! www.notus.org/perspectives... (The suggestions from the 15 other WaPo veterans fall well short of the moment.)

damn I was gonna quote-post with an excerpt but I can't pick, every one is a banger, well done

I’ll be damned. The Pulitzer board did it. Good on them

New York Times: If you're gonna crib our headline, you could at least credit Nick Judin and the Mississippi Free Press for first reporting it 2 days earlier. I'm glad this story is getting national attention. But Nick puts a lot of himself in these stories, and deserves credit (just as we'd do).

Two things I didn’t expect to make me teary-eyed this morning: a speech by a King of England, and Buffalo Sabres fans singing the Canadian National anthem. That last one just about broke me. 😻❤️🇨🇦🇬🇧: youtu.be/PdFvUMesJzA?si #canada #nhl #canadiannationalanthem

I’m going to pass at this time, thanks 😁🤣

Appreciate this detail from CBS News reporter Jennifer Jacobs. It's an important part of the story that seems to be missing from a lot of comments & coverage.

Journalists planning to honor Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner have a choice: A. Party with the dictator, wear fancy clothes and network to boost their careers. B. Stand up for democracy by staying home. They’re going to choose A. It looks terrible now. It will look worse to history.

This. For the love of God. This.

Man, Amazon's delivery service is getting out of hand.

was that Melania speech one of Iran’s demands

Greatest. Correction. Ever.

Hall of fame FT correction

The long-term Iranian plan? Kill the petrodollar. “Iran is requiring ships to work out toll arrangements ahead of time and then pay the fees in cryptocurrency or Chinese yuan, mediators and shipbrokers said.”

It is hard to capture what a sweeping strategic defeat the war in Iran has been for the United States. I’m going to thread here some of the posts today that try to capture those effects. Here’s the first:

This is real

JEFF GOLDBLUM reciting an extract from George Bernard Shaw’s play “Man And Superman” on a mainstream chat show, y’know, as you do.

Our latest story about Trump Administration officials and their financial ties to the crypto industry. tinyurl.com/3tpwfxyj

Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.

again we do not really do a good job of explaining how wealthy people like Jeff Bezos are his net worth is $253.2 billion. so he could take one million dollars, and just light it on fire and then do it again tomorrow and again the day after that and then do it every day for 693 years and 8 months

"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me." --Homan in February "Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely." -- Tom Homan in March "I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room" -- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman

people are mocking this but no other network managed to land tony dokoupil’s mom

OpenAI exec James Dyett calling out the cowardice

This is like day 1 shit. Madness. Literally 'don't put yourself in the story' was the first thing I was told. Pitching a story in the first person and my editor like

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

On #DavidRemnick. The @newyorker.com has some great science writers. But there is an affinity high-up for COVID contrarianism: Jessica Winter's piece on school closures, Dan Immerwahr's ode to "In COVID's Wake," & the best of 2025 for that book. 1/

Corruption so pungent, it wafts right off the page: Lobbyists who do pardon deals “say their going rate is $1 million. Pardon-seekers have offered some lobbyists close to the president success fees of as much as $6 million if they can close the deal.” Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Whoever invented Santacon needs to be drowned in a festively decorated vat of suburban vomit. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

If you think your job is not to tell the truth but to "challenge your audience's assumptions" if the latter is in tension with the former then you're going to end up lying. bsky.app/profile/larr...

This is why I support freedom of expression. Appropriately, it is the chaos of a system that supports free speech that gives rise to the grand process of democratic self-governance and the ideally upward arc of human progress and flourishing. Yesterday a Stoppard play, today a tweet.

This headline and story cannot be too widely shared. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...

A now- infamous review, hysterical and worth a cheer up read

Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

"The Barnes and Noble in York—where Fetterman was born and raised—had sold zero copies. The Barnes and Noble in Philadelphia had sold two copies. An independent store in Pittsburgh and an independent store in Philadelphia each told me they weren’t stocking Unfettered" defector.com/john-fetterm...

Folks, Zohran Mamdani—smart guy, reminds me of a young me—you know what he said, I told him, “Zohran, I’m gonna do it, I’m gonna say the shahada,” and he said to me “Mr. President, you should say a third line confirming your belief in the wilayat of Ali,” should we do it folks? Should we say it?

once again joining the many people who have observed how much of a world-historical problem it is that Trump is so fucking funny

Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.

Same! So much saner to live without the firehose of toxic bot blather.