Muted this. Y'all fight it out without me

It's hard to describe how disorienting it is to see this many students absent. My only mental reference point is the weeks leading up to school getting canceled due to COVID-19, when students were starting to stay home due to illness or out of precaution. CBP/ICE is a plague.

Anti-Christ

This is what guys like Yglesias, and everybody else making hay about Kamala supporting transition care in prisons, want to happen everywhere.

Book #112 of 2025: Baltasar and Blimunda by Jose Saramago. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2025/11/balt...

Book #110 of 2025: The Nenoquich by Henry Bean. Really enjoyed this book, which came from my McNally Editions subscription. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...

Christianity Today is an influential magazine in Evangelical circles, and it's a noteworthy signpost that they're doing stories like this because it's the kind of story that pops bubbles.

Book #109 of 2025: Mouthful of Birds by Samanta Schweblin. Does anyone remember how to write a short story fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2025/11/mout...

andrew cuomo ran one of the worst political campaigns in modern history but i think my favorite part was in this ai ad, the pregnant bill cited chatgpt as a source and a chatgpt phone walks onto the screen and goes “that’s right”

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video. I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children. But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.

TRIBECA ALREADY EMPTY. THOUSANDS OF PATAGONIA VESTS ABANDONED. SOHO HOUSE TAKEN OVER BY EXOTIC ZOO ANIMALS. BATTERY PARK SHAKE SHACK NOW A BISEXUALS-ONLY CERAMICS STUDIO

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This is a bit from a Naipaul novel btw

also while we’re at it a bodega is distinct from a sheetz! fuck you!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

zohran: good morning rama my wife rama: hello mamdani

Book #108 of 2025: Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa. With the addition of Peru, my "Countries Read" list is at 113. I've also now read 58/128 Nobel laureates. This was good. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2025/10/aunt...

18 years today since we moved into this house here on the shore in Newfoundland. The view out the front window hasn't changed in any way

Why yes I think driving down Trump's approval would be helpful in the midterms! If Ds had let the hazy concept of "salience" cloud their thinking, they might not have engaged on Abrego Garcia, missing the chance to bring his #s down on his "strong" issue,which did happen against your advice.

noteworthy that rather than funding experiments into challenging conservative message domination on the local level or building between-election outreach capacity at the state level, centrist donors are throwing millions at what amount to online factional battles among a couple dozen people

One important thing about this analysis is that nobody gives a shit what's in a party platform.

My main takeaway on the “moderation” debate is that Democrats would be better served by other debates besides left-right positioning, like how to develop new valence issues (corruption!) as wedge issues, and how to get attention for their policy proposals in the first place

also, i agree with the idea that this problem is probably downstream of a party that has no particular set of ideals or values with which voters can identify. i have even argued as much! take this post for what it is: something i threw together while eating rice and beans and scrolling on my phone.

even the democratic consultants are evaluating the democratic party according to the caricatures put out by republican-aligned media

Every one of these analyses that the centrist consultants produce reads like the result of a dare: "write about US politics as though media doesn't exist." They just carefully talk around it. The American people "came to believe" things. They "blamed" immigrants. Why? Don't ask! Just accept.

This article quotes the university president saying Lia was on the women's swimming and diving team, but she's not on this year's roster on their athletic department website. The NCAA banned her from being on the team when Trump first took office.

the democratic party’s basic problem is it has almost no control over how its message reaches the ears of voters, especially outside of presidential election years. but rather than devote serious time, attention and cash to that problem its consultants and pundits want to fight factional battles

Book #107 of 2025: Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner. Can you do a little less, please fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2025/10/tele...

Imagine being 17, your little brother by your side, begging to speak to your dad as he’s dragged away. You may never see him again. And this is every day. Soul shattering, nightmarish stuff, never to be forgiven.

Book $106 of 2025: Henry VIII by William Shakespeare--and John Fletcher, thank you very much. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2025/10/henr...

Im learning that a lot of 90s anime dubs were recorded in North Carolina and it makes SO much sense now why i find that era of dubs so cozy. Now that i know i cant stop picking up more small nc things haha

It's clear from today's AP photos that Trump has entirely demolished the East Colonnade—added to the White House by Thomas Jefferson in 1805—and restored by Theodore Roosevelt in 1902. The East Colonnade didn't occupy the footprint of the Trump "ballroom"—its demolition was completely unnecessary.

Book #105 of 2025: Sun City by Tove Jansson. A comic novel about the residents of a Florida retirement home. One of my favorites of the year. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2025/10/sun-...

The Trump shit video is basically this, but I will reiterate that if a Dem is critical of conservative voters it’s a generational scandal and when Republican pols literally post themselves shitting on their opposition virtually the entire elite politics and media class treats it as fine and normal

Free writing prompt: When you were a kid, you and your friends defeated an evil clown who is the embodiment of the hidden evil in your town. 30 years later that evil rises again, wyd?

Not the point but these small town courthouses are the GOAT.

Book #104 of 2025: Zeno's Conscience by Italo Svevo. Dudes rock. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2025/10/zeno...

this shit is so embarrassing. the government used to have guys who like, built bridges. now it’s just a gaggle of bleary-eyed cave children jacking themselves off to porno deepfakes of AOC while posting “based meme edits” of reaper drone strikes on venezuelan children. quit gooning and fix a pothole

the extent to which media elites treat liberal americans as if they do not count in the body politic is a real problem

Book #103 of 2025: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. Heard of it? fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2025/10/wuth...

The writers we know and love as Acton, Currer, and Ellis Bell are actually a trio of no-name sisters from Yorkshire.

Book #102 of 2025: The Penultimate Truth by Philip K. Dick. He was just the best. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

Book #101 of 2025: River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West by Rebecca Solnit. I thought this was really interesting and insightful. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2025/10/rive...

for a long time there I thought this was what you guys were talking about when you said you were doing poppers

Breaking news: ICE stops family at gunpoint—smash car window on top of newborn baby. "I was screaming that there was a baby. But they didn’t care," cried mother. “I covered my baby with my body—I was so scared he was going to be hurt because glass was landing on him."

Very Trump-era story. 1. The sword has no meaning for Charles, but matters for the Eisenhower Museum. 2. Illegal for the museum to give away US property! 3. Trump makes no distinction between personal/public property. 4. The person who did the right thing was fired. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...

Book #100 of 2025: Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner. Not for me. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2025/10/cros...

without explicit arguments in favor of “serious literary value” meaning work that’s challenging, original, figurative, that view will lose out to work that’s easy to read, with real implications for what’s permissible to assign in schools

Book #99 of 2025: Why Didn't I by Mary Robison. She's such a blast. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2025/09/why-...

When you're in the middle of a stroke or a heart attack, do you want the ER doctor to ask for your birth certificate before treating you?