Mamdani: "While only action can change minds, I promise you this: If you are a New Yorker, I am your mayor. Regardless of whether we agree I will protect you, celebrate with you, mourn along side you, and not for a second hide from you."

OK, if you insist

Not a great year for Music I Like, but enough to fill out an appealing playlist

these fucking people. they pass laws to make sure every person with a screw loose who wants an Armalite can show up to the day care armed & ready to kill, then complain that the day cares are locked to protect the children inside

SEXY BEAST (2000, dir. Jonathan Glazer)

hey, Gemini, get the hell out of my iOS device

RIP Isiah Whitlock Jr. We loved all the characters you played, especially as Clay Davis. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UXJ...

I had no idea that so many country artists went out of their way to explicitly embrace Trumpism this year

Post a perfect album from the '90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice in Chains.

Trump sees small-business owners as losers and suckers just like the rest of us who aren't grifter billionaires, so who cares if they can't afford health insurance

Behold Trump's Golden Age

@michellegoldberg.bsky.social: "It’s become, over the past year, easier to imagine the moment when his mystique finally evaporates, when few want to defend him anymore or admit that they ever did." (gift link!)

Freaking love this city and all the people in it so much….a bunch of people went and turned the 4 train into the Polar Express giving out toys to kids along the way from the Bronx to Brooklyn….shoutout to the @newyorkers.live account on IG for doing this 🙏 www.instagram.com/reel/DSnsvWS...

Goodreads suggests these were my favorite reads of 2025, heavy on Hampton Sides and, improbably, eighteenth-century seafaring

Merry Christmas from Chiron Beta Prime Where we're working in a mine For our robot overlords Did I say overlords? I meant protectors

Chuck Redd: “When I saw the name change on the Kennedy Center website and then hours later on the building, I chose to cancel our concert.” Trump take jazz

I hope that all of you have a joyous holiday season surrounded by your family and loved ones*. *Except for ICE. I hope no one talks to you or gives you a present and that you accidentally shit your pants while everyone tells you to go fuck yourself at the grocery store.

Visited @cjewishhistory.bsky.social’s stunning #AnneFrank exhibit yesterday, there was a European map showing where the Nazis put concentration camps, and it looked JUST LIKE THIS www.annefrankexhibit.org/

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

Aw, man, you don't know who Santa Claus is, man! Yeah, well, I'm not from here, man. Like, I'm from Pittsburgh, man. I don't know too many local dudes

Elon's DOGE legacy: millions sick and hungry, hundreds of thousands of deaths, less government efficiency, and almost no money saved.

lol "capitalism"

Teaching my gentile husband that the frustration that comes from trying to light a full menorah with fragile generic candles is all part of the Jewish Experience. "This is worse than building Ikea furniture." Happy eighth night and Happy Winter Solstice.

nice post-Chanukah present

@tobymorton.bsky.social FTW

The government’s historic role as a trusted information source is under threat. The U.S. government for decades has been the world’s leading provider of reliable data. Many researchers wonder if that is still the case under Trump, by @NaftaliBendavid www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Got an email from my mother promising a belated birthday call, and my wife rushed to play this classic. "The day after my birthday is not my birthday, Mum."

These are the people the mainstream media is constantly telling us to understand and sympathize with.

Chanukah birthday in the East Village: MARTY SUPREME and discussion over pierogi & latkes at Little Poland

Was *sure* this was AI-generated satire. But it's not, it's really not. He's actually doing the Hunger Games next year. (OTOH, those didn't turn out that well for President Snow, IIRC.)

Is it really an "immigration crackdown" when they're targeting citizens?

Theodore Dreiser: Greatest bad writer in American history. (Am Tragedy: Sentence by sentence, ponderous. Cumulatively, in its 800+ page heft, magnificent.) Can hardly believe that our English teacher, Mathilda Phillips at Redlands High, had us read and discuss the whole thing, chapter by chapter.

NEVER LET ME GO (Kazuo Ishiguro, 2005)

In #BookSky news, Boni & Liveright published Theodore Dreiser's magnum opus a century ago today: two volumes, in a slipcase. (Wish this first edition were mine, but it belongs to Baltimore shop Royal Books.) Filmed a quarter century later as the magnificent A PLACE IN THE SUN.

A reminder that Marco & Elon's legacy includes not only murdering millions of people by abruptly cutting off their aid but destroying the futures of countless more.

Kash & Bongo's FBI is on the case

"Do you know anyone quite as malevolent? At your place of work? On your campus? A colleague? A teacher? Much less someone whose impulses & furies in no small measure dictate the direction, fate & temper of the country? Have you ever in your life encountered a character as wretched as Donald Trump?"

A million Muslims live in New York City. We belong here, as does every other New Yorker. This is vile Islamophobia from the Councilwoman and it has no place in our city.

A vile and disgusting statement from a sitting Senator. Freedom of religion is fundamental to the identity of America. What a disgrace.

TV news having trouble triaging an antisemitic mass murder on Chanukah, a mass shooting at one of the nation’s most prestigious universities, and the apparent murder of one of America’s most beloved movie directors

Five years ago today. If RFK Jr. had been Trump's first-term HHS secretary, we would have just let everyone die.

Private equity, man. This is the world about which @brianralexander.bsky.social @greenwell.bsky.social have been warning us.

Seeing more and more Santa hats out there, spreading like a virus into nearby neighborhoods

but he's so convincing when he says he knows nothing about Epstein

Incidentally, the 12 MONKEYS virus was released twenty-nine years ago today, in Philadelphia

The dreaded day is here. Thanks to @evgrieve.bsky.social for publishing the cautionary map of SantaCon sites. (Basically, avoid the whole East Village.)

In Trump's view, fraudsters are winners, and victims are losers. These suckers should have just gone out and done their own scams! Should be easier now that he has legalized financial crimes. (gift link)

In unrelated news: In a game sixty years ago today, Chicago Bears rookie Gale Sayers touched the ball sixteen times: nine rushes, two receptions, five punt returns. Six of those sixteen touches got him into the end zone. Damn.

FANTASTIC VOYAGE (1966, dir. Richard Fleischer)