MTV is officially ending all of its music channels. In honor of that, what's your favorite music video?

NEW: How many books did you read this year? If it was more than 2, congrats: you read more than the median American. Read on for way more @today.yougov.com polling from me on America's book-reading habits in 2025. 1/

A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty: My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media. Huh? When did I say that?!

Imagine interviewing a victim of torture and independently confirming the details of his torture and then being told you can’t broadcast it because the people who ordered the torture wouldn’t give their side of the story.

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Saying individual market health insurance used to be much cheaper in 2010 is like saying a golf cart with only 3 wheels cost less in 2010 than a Honda CR-V does today.

I fell off a ladder in August. The bill for the 1.7 mile ambulance ride is $4387.31. Our $4500 per MONTH Cigna insurance won’t pay more than $600, because the ambulance is out of network. There are no in-network ambulances in our county, and I was unconscious when it was called.

Let me tell you about Melissa Hortman. It’s the early 2000s. She and her husband, Mark, tell their kids they are driving from their Minneapolis home to Michigan on a camping trip. Sophie and Colin are stoked. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

I'm sharing this here, as I have on Facebook and Instagram, but there's no account on here to share from, and I just think this is wonderful. A really good balance of design and implementation, and appears to achieve everything it set out to do, and it *SO* appeals to my inner 'work nerd'.

And to make matters worse it includes additional #Medicaid cuts that were in the original House-passed version of H.R. 1 that were excluded due to Senate budget rules before final passage: bsky.app/profile/edwi...

There's a good reason high-deductible health plans with savings accounts haven't had their big moment yet: especially for lower-income Americans, they offer way too much financial risk for way too little medical reward. Congress needs to give up on this idea. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Wow, I can’t believe the NBA is posthumously awarding Augusto Pinochet the ‘07 Slam Dunk title. You’ve gone too far, Adam Silver!

And still going 90ish minutes later.

Democracy dies in dampness

We already do reward it by not having OOP expenses. And there's no way to move within 500 ft. of not getting into a car crash you didn't cause or contracting idiopathic diseases.

I rarely do births for #OnThisDay, but this one is special: Nov 13, 1833: "Father of Minneapolis Parks" Charles M. Loring is born. In the 1880s he begins acquiring the city's lakes and shorelines, and along with Horace Cleveland creates the finest public urban park system in the United States.

A Border Patrol agent was caught on video telling another to throw tear gas “for fun,” according to a court filing. They also mocked protesters and residents who were getting gassed.

Grim preview of what we should be expecting when work requirements go into effect — a pilot effort in Louisiana to use texts to nudge people to confirm/report income only had a 7% response rate (h/t @joanalker1.bsky.social, @acinthedc.bsky.social) www.cnn.com/2025/10/22/h...

We are in a timeline in which People Magazine is publishing legit hard-hitting news headlines while CBS and CNN publicly humiliate themselves. I don’t like this timeline. But I’m loving People Magazine right now.

NEW: I spoke to clergy and faith leaders who've joined protests at the Chicago-area ICE facility. Three say they've been shot with pepper balls, sometimes while praying. All say ICE is also violating their religious freedom, and one is arguing it in court. religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

I was sent this by a Georgian this morning. 2025 premiums vs 2026 premiums for someone making $65k a year. Republicans in Washington did this. This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.

So exhausting..

Some states are enacting medical debt laws as the Trump administration pulls back federal protections. Elsewhere, industry opposition has derailed legislation.

My man David Byrne released a new album this month

It should be noted that the reporter identified Hortman as the Minnesota House Speaker before the president gave his response. Disappointing doesn't begin to cover it.

one of the most interesting facts about russ vought’s life, to me, is that NIH research is the reason his daughter had access to life changing drug to treat her cystic fibrosis. vought, of course, is the architect of the administration’s war on science. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

A physical attack on someone exercising their constitutional right to speak is an attack on all of us. The content of the speech is irrelevant. This is another sad day for America.

Apologies! You have reached the end of your free trial period of America

Removing the memorial to the 49 innocent people killed in the 2016 terrorist attack on the Pulse nightclub, because a rainbow is too political. Restoring Confederate monuments and renaming military bases after Confederates because, um, honoring armed treason in defense of slavery isn’t political?

This is in the replies and it demonstrates a real issue which is if you find profundity from an AI, you’re responding to something profound a human being wrote that was vacuumed up and what ends up happening is you thank AI and not only don’t thank the person, you have no idea they were involved

Polyester Mathers (keep it in the family)

All scientific grant funding must now be approved by a political appointee and "demonstrably advance the President's policy priorities." I wonder where innovation will happen in the future? It won't be in the US arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Whether or not Congress cuts NIH’s budget, the Trump administration has devastated its ability to operate. Story by @katherinejwu.com www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

So horrible what's being done now, all in the name of "not erasing history." Evers and Milk deserve so much better.

But sure, tell us again how Trump wants to root out antisemitism on college campuses only because he cares so much about the safety of Jews. Tell us all about it. 🤯

The former chief economist of the Republican staff on the Senate Budget Committee. 15 years at Heritage!

Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one child per hour during Israel's war in Gaza. “A whole classroom of children killed every day for nearly two years,” UNICEF’s executive director said. Here are some of their stories: wapo.st/3UCiAjn

Happy 15th anniversary of the peak achievement of literary criticism, to all who celebrate

Israel’s blockade of most food and aid, along with distribution difficulties inside the Gaza Strip, have driven many of Gaza’s 2 million Palestinians to the brink of starvation.

What was your favorite early clas NOT in your eventual major. Mine was Ethnomusicology: an introduction to folk music.

Poetry collection is going well thanks for asking

Who needs 340B after this? 🤦🏻‍♂️

Migrants at a Miami immigration jail were shackled with their hands tied behind their backs and made to kneel to eat food from styrofoam plates “like dogs”, per a report from Human Rights Watch

For 15 years, starting in 2006, I taught a course called Entertainment and Politics. One of the themes of that class was how corporate profits and advertisers were the new agents of censorship…not wannabe autocrats like Nixon. But the news about Colbert complicates all that

New from @KFF on "rural health fund" added to get R votes for huge Medicaid cuts Problems w/t fund: -its short term; most cuts are backloaded -not targeted to rural areas -lack of transparency A Closer Look at the $50 Billion Rural Health Fund in the New Reconciliation Law www.kff.org/4235488/

This is amazing. Yesterday Trump claimed he talked to his uncle about how brilliant the Unabomber was when the Unabomber was a student of his at MIT. The Unabomber never went to MIT, he was identified in 1996, and his uncle died in 1985.