A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."

Not to pull rank, but it's objectively the case -- it was statistically a fact -- that at least during my childhood no newspaper meant more to its city than The Post did to D.C. It is impossible to think there does not remain long-term value in covering non-national news of interest to its readers.

The snow in New York is just amazingly foul at this point. It works like those black lights that reveal that all your surfaces are actually covered in disgusting bodily fluids. Practicing the willful blindness necessary to living here is getting to be impossible...

Why/how does this scene go so hard www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7fZ...

Worth noting that one reason you’re benefitting so fully from the Star-Tribune’s timely, extensive coverage of unfolding events is that it’s a metro newspaper that hasn’t been systematically starved to further enrich shareholders and executives.

The picture of his cubby

Marty Mauser on the Lower East Side

Not on the beat anymore, but there's a real Burkean lament to be written about Notre Dame foregoing a bowl after missing the playoffs. "Notre Dame" is basically a creation of the Rose Bowl, as so much in the imagined community of college football is.

Tomorrow to fresh woods, and pastures new bsky.app/profile/achi...

A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social

Not sure I'm gonna rewatch Anthology but this short thing from George has lived in my mind ever since I saw it, which, believe it or not, was on TV when it was airing www.tiktok.com/@georgeharri...

TRUMP: and this Daniel, he went into the den? MAMDANI: The lion's den, yes TRUMP: surely they ate him MAMDANI: Here's the part where it gets a little Broadway: they didn't TRUMP: Unbelievable

How we're treating our children truthout.org/articles/ice...

The future is not inevitable but it seems to me we're on a glide path toward right-wing institutions' winnowed down to rumps at least tolerant of antisemitism, which then capture the party, which in our 2-party presidential system could lead to a President from that cohort bsky.app/profile/jaco...

It is incredibly difficult for people (myself and everyone reading this included) to appreciate how wealthy the small handful of very wealthiest Americans are, not just compared to us, but compared to *other unimaginably wealthy people* bsky.app/profile/benw...

Nice to see the launch of "Replay Booth" a new sport history podcast by @joshuablevin.bsky.social (formerly of @slate.com ). There's space for the kind of thoughtful, engaging sport stories the old "Only a Game" on NPR used to run, and this could be it. www.replaybooth.show/p/replay-boo...

That's cute, the Prince gets to sit in front of a king

"Ruin the Friendship" as a rewrite of "Lycidas"

Not that long ago, I feel, Kansas's two Republican U.S. Senators would have spoken out against this www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...

Last year I wrote a High Holy Day amplifier playlist. Hope it still hits a year later! www.nytimes.com/2024/10/08/a...

It's indeed happening in Broadview bsky.app/profile/notu...

TIL the chairman of the Democratic Party of the country's third-largest blue state has a completely different full-time job than doing that (he runs day camps) bsky.app/profile/dasc...

But has Mort Rifkin weighed in on whom he's voting for in November?

Need an onion article about the guy who puts his bag down at a table in the coffee shop before getting in line for a coffee

Still laughing at the Christgau line (the Marcus line surely the most famous sentence in the history of rock criticism) files.slack.com/files-tmb/T0...

Decoder Ring is so good bsky.app/profile/kati...

www.politico.com/news/magazin... bsky.app/profile/timm...

I know there are anti-SLAPP laws and of course the First Amendment, but it seems like the greatest hurdle to this tactic turns out always to have been unenforceable prosocial norms, perhaps with the stick of shaming, as well as nobody's being quite this wealthy bsky.app/profile/kate...

New: I teamed up with @elenashao.bsky.social and nytgraphics to map more than 100 public TV and radio stations that are at risk of closing as a result of tonight's vote: www.nytimes.com/interactive/... This is a time bomb that will go off in the fall, when the last federal grants run out.

The largest question facing America is “who was President when?”

Second-order consequences of party hollowness all ricocheting against each other even as Mamdani is actually doing the contemporary left version of old-time street-level politics.

"Five Votes Down" (1999) bsky.app/profile/davi...

I wish only I could have made room for Father John Misty's "I'm Writing a Novel." But I wrote about novels. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/a...

Latest @zacmccrary.bsky.social podcast episode with Mamdani cm Morris Katz a delight propolitics.substack.com/p/morris-kat...

Rainy for a week in the middle of June in New York should be illegal

Can only be Widows 🫣 bsky.app/profile/sean...

Not every year that I write about a Tony winner ... www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/t...

In New Yorker piece that probably closed 10 days ago, @zhelfand.bsky.social asked numerous NYC luminaries who would win the Eastern Conference Finals. Only one correctly predicted Pacers in six: George Santos www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Great and chilling piece by @jherrerx.bsky.social nymag.com/intelligence...

NYT article on NYT's A.I. deal with Amazon www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/b...

If you asked specifically me, someone who covered college basketball as a national beat from 2014 to 2019, to assemble an NBA roster this year, it would basically be the Knicks roster

Really good piece www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...