"[P]rocedurally, had she denied the request, the Justice Department could have gone to another justice. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, by issuing the order herself, she was able to set the limits." 👇

I don’t understand this stuff but I’m sharing because sometimes an asterisk to bad news is better than despair

Masthead for VAMP, circa 1976

Reminder to donate $$$ to your local food pantry if you can!

more sad news from the merry prankster family: just heard that springfield creamery proprietor (& organic yogurt innovator) chuck kesey has departed, only a few months after his wife sue. we spoke with them both about the dead's infamous 1972 benefit a few years ago. www.dead.net/deadcast/sun...

Funny, was just thinking about Stuart Klawans' writing in the last couple days.

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

Big news from CNY www.syracuse.com/politics/cny...

DECONSTRUCTING COMICS: A talk with @seanhowe.bsky.social about the history of #Marvel Comics! There’s plenty of intra-creator acrimony to be found in "Marvel Comics: The Untold Story", yet Howe found that the book helped some to move on from decades-old wounds. deconstructingcomics.com?p=8926

i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist

Head in hands wondering how this could happen to me, the popular president who posted a video of myself shitting on everyone 2 weeks ago

[Exit Clown.]

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

Hey, me too!

Globalize the Infantino

I have an email newsletter open.substack.com/pub/vilejell...

Tim Robinson's greatest role might be "Paul Sparks"

This is such an awesome, free way to support authors. Having our books in libraries helps spread the word about our work and makes it accessible to a wide audience! Thanks, Fritz!

Although I'm a fan of A) many, many Muscle Shoals recordings and B) the brilliant work of Rob Bowman, I somehow just found out that there's a book on the former, by the latter, out in one week. talkshop.live/watch/ZSS22F...

Happy 95th birthday to Lois Smith, shown here with James Dean

BLACK WIDOW (1987)

Ellen Burstyn and Diane Ladd in "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore”

Farewell, Joseph Byrd.

New York!

Meanwhile, in NZ, you can go to the Wellington National Library and listen to Flying Nun multitracks natlib.govt.nz/blog/posts/f...

www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo... From here, you can click through to find nearby pantries. Donate to them if you can.

Print advertisement for Arthur Ripley’s film noir THE CHASE, 1946.

What are some of your favorite lesser-known noir? International ones, too!

original Broadway cast of WE ALWAYS GOT THE DINER, 1944 Hal Chase as Boogie Jack Kerouac as Fenwick Allen Ginsberg as Eddie William Burroughs as Shrevie

Just want to urge anyone in the U.S. eligible to vote for anything at all this election cycle to please do so. Shock everyone with the turnout. Make jaded pundits cough coffee out their noses. Make poll volunteers smile. Make voter suppressors nervous again.

Harvey Keitel in RUNNERS’ HIGH (Alan Rudolph, 1980)

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Smoltzenfreude

Giant pharmaceutical company: Who's this woman? Let's get her to be the spokesperson for our new campaign

People of a certain vintage: what music would you pair this with for maximum time-travel effect?

50 years ago today: @charlesshaarmurray.bsky.social writes in NME about a visit to the Roundhouse, with Stan Lee, Herb Trimpe, Carmine Infantino, Roy Wood, and Marc Bolan

On this date in 1969: the Parliaments and Funkadelics play at Leo's Casino, Cleveland.

Local post: Ulster Cty NY food resources:

Elizabeth Fraser's voice will knock down a power line and fuel the grid on its own

Maybe someday someone will find a documentary about Jack Adler—shot in, let's say, 1983—in which he talks about his decades in the biz and walks the viewer through his technical & aesthetic innovations. As far as I know, this isn't a thing that ever existed, but weirder things have been unearthed!

Off the top of my head; not necessarily an exhaustive list: Chicago Ald. Anthony Quezada - shoved to the ground June 4 Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss - tear gassed Sept 19 Chicago Ald. Jessie Fuentes - briefly detained Oct. 3 Chicago Ald. Rossanna Rodriguez-Sanchez - shoved Oct. 31

I still can't believe it, but I keep verifying & double checking & yes, in fact, we got Emmylou Harris on the pod. Listen wherever via @talkhouse.bsky.social: podlink.com/transmission... And direct at subscriber-supported @aquariumdrunkard.com: aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/10/29/t...

[reminder] refuseuline.com

BREAKING: Federal court just GRANTED our court order to block Trump admin from shutting down SNAP. Order also issued in state AG case. Hope millions can breathe a sigh of relief. Incredible work to @democracyforward.org and our co-counsel.

Two rulings on SNAP, from federal judges in Rhode Island and Massachusetts (via NYT)

Hudson Valley food pantries and meal programs ulstercorps.org/for-voluntee...

Also if you speak another language and are discrete, some food pantries in areas hit hard by ICE need volunteers to deliver to families who are staying in for fear of detainment.

When I worked in WaPo Opinions in 2017-2018, senior editors specifically told junior editors not to factcheck Marc Thiessen and other MAGA columnists, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to publish anything by them at all, and “we need them for intellectual diversity.”