"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

Chief among the many reasons this is offensive is because it eclipses the Grade A gossiping skills of many male colleagues who work hard at their craft each and every day, even when it means distracting me from my VERY SERIOUS work.

Crowdsourcing: would you visit an exhibit on the long history of women ruining things in American society? Put on by a certain center that has the name women’s history in its title?

Hi #skystorians — I’m looking for access to Leslie Harris’ latest article in the Boston Globe, “For Black People, the Revolution was Full of Paradoxes.” Can anyone help with access?

i’d also say that the GOP’s obsession with this gives candidates an opportunity to articulate and stand up for their values. “i refuse to make anyone feel like they don’t belong in my [state/city/community]. and i want everyone to live the best life they can achieve [insert policy slogan]”

this is an obvious overcorrection that misleads the polling data and will lead to disaster in the Heartland. the results of tonight show that the Democrats should moderate: adopting two or at most three of the five pillars of Islam

The last month of the anti-Mamdani campaign was an absolutely shameful undertaking, an attempt to rip the city and Democratic coalition apart and I'm very happy to see it failed.

The humanities are not dead (views probably representative of my employer).

Go Bills

BREAKING: NY Board of Elections says more than 2 MILLION votes have been cast in the NYC election - the highest number since 1969.

Every single county in Virginia shifted Blue.

Another warning. Reverend Black: "We are not breaking any law."

The deeply unprofessional masked goons are now going to subcontract their bounties to completely unprofessional armed goons. Awesome.

Reverend David Black has a Bible open and is preaching to the police now, inviting them to join him in standing with the persecuted inside the detention center. "Which side do you think Jesus wanted his followers to be on?"

History/Humanities crowdsourcing time: I’m looking for organizations / scholars / students who have done interesting work on interpreting hauntings (loosely) in the Humanities. I am eager to gather work from any discipline. This could be books, events, initiatives. Can you share & help? 🔮

History/Humanities crowdsourcing time: I’m looking for organizations / scholars / students who have done interesting work on interpreting hauntings (loosely) in the Humanities. I am eager to gather work from any discipline. This could be books, events, initiatives. Can you share & help? 🔮

REV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): “If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”

For New Yorkers who work the night shift, it can be nearly impossible to participate in political life of our city. So tonight we’re bringing this campaign to them — starting with taxi drivers waiting at LaGuardia.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

This lives rent free in my mind.

I would read the hell out of a deeply reported piece on how the media/political elite addiction to Twitter is shaping their views, which in turn shape the views of millions of people. It's a total reality-warper.

In 2025, "escaped lab monkeys are not carrying the plague" counts as good news

it’s kind of funny that the New York Times, which is probably at least 50% Ivy League on the editorial side, is one of the primary drivers of contemporary anti-intellectualism, but not really funny in a good way

centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.

dickerson is one of the best broadcast journalists in the game, and someone who would clearly be a real asset to a new leader interested in strengthening the network's journalism. but, of course, we know weiss isn't actually interested in journalism as such.

A Bard College student was kidnapped by ICE and Bard’s administration is advocating for his release and has created a website to assist the rest of the community in joining them. That’s what academic leaders should be doing for their students right now. www.instagram.com/p/DQKSTDJkeF...

BREAKING: Candidate listens to Black people. Candidate achieves goals. 🤯 Bing. Bong.

At their monthly meeting Thursday, school board members urged Chicago Public Schools to take greater action to support students unable to attend school due to immigration enforcement fears, including implementing remote learning options.

high school students I was talking to a high school teacher this week who was like “do you know how ridiculous it is—for everybody—that I have to walk 17-year-olds to the bus?”

“We’ve seen that when we have large numbers of volunteers out here, they target us less,” a neighbor said. blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/12/4...

‘He lost us’: Generals, senior officers say trust in Hegseth has evaporated www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oc...

Texans fighting back in Dallas. This is so great.

Both the U.S. marshal and the immigrant were shot by federal officers. You’d never know that from this headline.

love to see it. curious which unions will respond

ICE’s own policies say the agency should not detain pregnant, postpartum or nursing individuals. It’s doing so anyway. Immigrants’ health is suffering. Congress has abandoned a requirement that ICE make public how many such immigrants have been detained. 19thnews.org/2025/10/ice-...

Yesterday's No Kings protests were apparently the largest since the first Earth Day in 1970 The NYT covered that story with a six column headline across the top of the paper and two full pages inside Today, two small pics below the fold and a story on page A23 They constantly let America down

“There is no choice but to enter the breach, and we have to do it together. The biggest myth that intellectuals face, leading them to underestimate both their power and their responsibility, is the self-fulfilling sense that we work alone and for ourselves. We do not.”

the crowd sizes are obviously the highlight here but the fact that *this* is the public statement of the NYPD does not bode well for the regime. or, put another way: I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

A lot of centrist commentators who genuinely got worked up about the unforgivably insulting nature of "cling to guns and religion" or "basket of deplorables" are weirdly silent about Trump portraying himself as literally shitting on American cities

We’re going to need you to be in conversation with movement historians who might complicate this view for you a bit…

My favorite sign at the Montclair NJ No Kings today:

A sweeping plan to reconstruct Gaza, which has been shared with Trump administration officials, features the names and logos of more than two dozen companies—some of which tell WIRED they had no knowledge they were named or involved.

These. Were. Men. In. Their. 30s. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This is a great factcheck on the DHS sizzle videos of them rounding up immigrants: they are leaving a lot of context out.

Again I wonder: how do leftists contend with right wing attacks that make claims of so-called liberal hyperbole and hysteria?

A mom in Houston reported her 15-year-old son with autism missing. She spent 6 days terrified, searching for him. The whole time, Houston police knew exactly where he was since they helped ICE place him in a refugee facility. This is beyond cruel. www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

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