@robertreich.substack.com.web.brid.gy: "Richest man on earth owns X. Paramount owns CBS & soon WB, which owns CNN. 3rd-richest owns FB,Insta& WhatsApp. 4th owns WaPo/Amazon MGM Studios. Murdoch owns Fox, WSJ /NYPost. Why are the ultra-rich buying up so much media? www.theguardian.com/profile/robe...

"The best reprieve from the current moment was 100% Adam Sandler. I get it: When you imagine people who might offer a meager light in darkness, the first person you think of may not be Opera Man or “The Chanukah Song” rhyming “Chanukah” w/ Seattle SuperSonic-ahs.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/o...

the work that photojournalists are doing in Chicago right now is incredible www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

@editorialboard.bsky.social: "Constitution gives the authority to tax & spend not to the head of state, but to members of Congress. Money is power, Founders feared a POTUS would turn into a monarch if he alone could dictate how the govt uses the federal treasury." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/o...

He's undoubtedly planning the Mother of all Distractions but can't think of anything to top flying over a city in a crown dropping poo on American citizens.

"Bay Area author, naturalist & illustrator Obi Kaufmann, whose book has been quietly flagged at Yosemite to remove & revise “negative” US history info, calling out the “whiplash irony & being being phased out of park bookstores." www.sfgate.com/national-par...

The Speaker of the House shut the chamber down for two months to block the release of the Epstein Files and the president is huddled in the Situation Room of the White House to formulate a plan to keep them from being released, and I don't know why you crazy libs think there's some kind of cover up.

I love this lede from NYT's Victor Mather on the death of the penny

@juddlegum.bsky.social: Trump’s solution to the housing crisis is a lifetime of debt. In 1985, the median income was $23,620 The typical house was 3.6 x the typical income. By 2023, median price of a home was $428,600, or was 5.3 x the median income of $80,061." popular.info/p/trumps-sol...

@bcappelbaum.bsky.social: @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social isn’t the Dems’ future. This Guy Is: @governor.pa.gov. Dems need it for the future of the Party & quite possiblythe future of democracy in America. What kind of Democrat can win Pennsylvania? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/o...

Live From NY: Zohran Mamdani’s got jokes. He showed \he has a sharp sense of humor. Keeping things light at City Hall could be trickier. There is a face that Zohran Mamdani seems to make when he is about to say or do something he finds plausibly funny." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/n...

Charles Barkley and Manute Bol

Let everybody else be clear: you are preventing any chance of that happening.

I don't care how Schumer himself votes. The bottom line is that as Senate Majority Leader, Lyndon Johnson would have last night had on his desk eight sealed mason jars with the severed hands of every senator who even thought about raising them to vote yes. As a majority leader should.

Senate Democrats voting to dismantle the ACA to avoid any problems with their Thanksgiving travel is tragically on brand.

"Bourdain’s show made him extraordinarily famous. Persuades a sitting POTUS to eat grilled pork & noodles & drink beer on a plastic stool in Vietnam—“Kitchen Confidential” became canonical. Everything he did was writerly, vividly observed & incisively interrogated." www.newyorker.com/magazine/tak...

Millions in Limbo as SCOTUS allows Trump To Freeze #SNAP, allowing him to withold ~ $4 in funding for food aid for $42M million low-income Americans as the effects of the longest government shutdown in history continue to ripple across the country. time.com/7332329/snap...

"What this sort of reporting ultimately means is that if you have enough $$ to get somebody, anybody, to produce a white paper for you, you can then put on some think-tank stationery? Then, my friend, you are ready to enter into the rushing current of elite reportage. lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

Jared McCain vs Paul George full court sprint shooting contest (part 1)

Man, if you're a *Canadian* billionaire who's going to demand an audience from a New Yorker who was elected 48 hrs ago at least don't wear your comically on brand attire to do it.

Brian Bennett: "How Dems Plan to Capitalize on This Week’s ‘Blue Sweep’ in 2026 Midterms. @kenmartin.bsky.social: “Our candidates, no matter where they are, no matter how they fit into our big-tent party, are meeting voters at the kitchen table, not in the gilded ballroom.” time.com/7331992/demo...

Pilot just came on to say it’s his last flight ever and he’s retiring. Come on man don’t say that to me. Don’t tell me that right now.

I heard some old friends at Pod Save America were in town, so I decided to stop by. As we saw this week, we can change this country for the better. But it’s going to take all of us getting organized and having honest conversations about the best way forward.

Writing about Elon Musk’s pay package without leading with this is like profiling John Wayne Gacy’s booming party clown career.

This NYT story about how Mamdani dealt with the opposition by the city's elites fails to mention one particular elite institution: The NYT editorial page, which last June railed against him as "uniquely unsuited to the city’s challenges... lacks political savvy" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n... 1/

Mamdani cracks 1M votes, the first NYC mayor to do so since John Lindsay in 1969

Really looking forward to the Speaker of the House claiming to be unaware of the election results.

"After ~2 decades of flat prices, US residential electricity rates have risen sharply since 2022, w/ increases of > 20%. It’s at the same time as a surge in power demand from new factories, EVs, heaters & data centers & AI companies that rely on them." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...

"Diane Ladd, the Mississippi-born film actress who shaped her air of eccentricity & steely determination into wildly different characters over a career of more than 6 decades, died at 89, confirmed by her daughter, Laura Dern." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/m...

If nothing else, the last nine months should have made it clear that elections matter. But what’s remarkable about America is that we have the power, as citizens, to change this country by voting. Go to IWillVote.com.

🎶 ICE, ICE BABY.......

Brett Kavanaugh's behavior during today's second oral arguments has been incredibly obnoxious and rude. He is so eager to kill a service member's lawsuit against a negligent government contractor that he keeps interrupting other justices, raising his voice, and getting emotional. Weird and erratic.

@davidsirota.com: "Dem states coulda done this but refused for 15 years & two Dem presidents to issue implementing rules. Now's the time. The ACA Has a bombshell hidden in It. Dems Can Take Advantage. We can build a system resilient to Trump's sabotage." cmarmitage.substack.com/p/the-aca-ha...

he’s just getting started. 📈

Will @paramountpictures.bsky.social cancel @jonstewartdaily.bsky.social? David Remnick: “Stewart’s showcase is now owned by David Ellison, the son of the billionaire Larry Ellison. They seem to be Trump loyalists. Stewart, who is not, now works at their sufferance." www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

@ezrakleinbot.bsky.social: "In '62, Bernard Crick, a political theorist & democratic socialist, published “In Defense of Politics.”For Crick, it was precious & specific, “accepting simultaneous existence of different groups & interests & traditions under common rule.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/o...

CA promised insurance relief, delivered loopholes. New regs were to ensure homeowners in fire zones would've coverage. But cos avoid serving high-risk areas, especially in homes in CA’s fire-prone foothills they threatened to abandon, saying risks were unsupportable." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/u...

"Jack DeJohnette, a drummer whose command & versatility made him one of the standout jazz instrumentalists of the past 5 decades & an indispensable figure in era-defining bands, died Sunday in Kingston, NT. He was 83." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/a...

The Philadelphia Inquirer continues to furnish a model that NYT can only aspire to live up to. The Times today is a pale image of what it once was.

I don’t know any paper meeting the moment like @inquirer.com and I feel lucky to be a Philadelphian. You should subscribe!

Obama: The weird videos of a U.S. President with a crown on his head flying a fighter jet and dumping poop on protesting citizens… All of that is designed to distract you from the fact that your situation has not gotten better.

Obama: They never miss a chance to scapegoat minorities and D.E.I. For every problem under the sun. You got a flat tire? D.E.I.. Wife mad at you? D.E.I..

Obama: "The weird videos of a US president with a crown on his head flying a fighter jet & dumping poop on American citizens - that's not even worth booing about. Because all of that is a distraction from the fact that your situation, your life has not gotten better. They do it so you won't notice"

@editorialboard.bsky.social: "Trump has wielded power as no POTUS has, often in open defiance of the law. His actions have raised a chilling question. Are we losing our Democracy?" www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

"Gene Hackman was Popeye, Reverend Scott, Lex Luthor, Royal Tenenbaum, Little Bill Daggett. A senator & a POTUS. Norman Dale. He made 67 movies if you count his uncredited voice of God in Two of a Kind. He didn’t do death in most, but when he did, his end was very awful." harpers.org/archive/2025...

The GOP plan to reform the Census could put everyone's privacy at risk. A little-known algorithmic process called “differential privacy” helps keep census data anonymous. GOP want it gone. The GOP has set its sights on taking another run at an old target: the US census. www.wired.com/story/republ...

Have we investigated whether the Magic's non-shooting is contagious? Because Desmond Bane seems to have caught it.

Phil Elliott: "Why @barackobama.bsky.social got off the bench for CA's Redistricting fight. Obama has enjoyed his post-presidency. Even jury duty. The POTUS library is coming along. Beyond a few election speeches, he appeared to have put his political days behind him. time.com/7328898/bara...