God, what an incredibly distracting news cycle. I for one have completely forgotten about the Epstein files

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”

NEW: 18,500 children have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza. The Washington Post has just published every single known name. A seminal moment.

Friends, I’d love your recommendations for hotels in Geneva.

Remember to vote today, New Yorkers. Rank your candidates, one through five. The important thing is to fill in all five columns. With anyone except Cuomo, pictured here harassing a much younger woman at a wedding in 2019.

Election worker: “Emily Mandel. Isn’t that a writer’s name?” Me: “I’m a writer.” Election worker: “Oh, I was thinking Hilary Mantel, never mind”

I don't think I've ever felt more like burning it all down than I have while witnessing the elite project to turn Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander into scary, incompetent monsters while turning an actual incompetent monster, Andrew Cuomo, into a merely complicated fellow who just made an oopsie.

We know what we have to do to save our city from Andrew Cuomo. We're cross endorsing 🤝 @bradlander.bsky.social

I encourage everyone to consider attending one of the many demonstrations planned for tomorrow across the country. Show up. Demand accountability. Peacefully protest. Find the rally closest to you: NoKings.org

Anyone who thinks LA is full of socialists has never taken a meeting at a studio

Double.

Update from JFK T4: also signed a lone Station Eleven in the Hudson’s at gate B20

Just signed all the Station Elevens at the Hudson News by gate B33 JFK Terminal 4

Trump is the president he said he would be. He’s always fawned over dictators. There’s just not a ton of room for surprise re: tariffs, targeting immigrants, LGBTQ rights, alignment w/ Putin, etc. But I have to say, I really, really thought cancer research might be a bipartisan interest.

Any help boosting this is greatly appreciated. Thanks!

sure would be cool to a non-senile president and a functional national security staff right now www.cnn.com/webview/worl...

“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?” - A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

He has learned that it is very easy to do insider trading from the White House and nobody is going to stop him.

Yes, the captain intentionally piloted the ship into a huge iceberg, cracking the vessel like an egg. But the officers insist we'll all greatly benefit from an invigorating midnight swim through Arctic waters.

I’m not saying I spend too much time in LA but I’m currently writing a screenplay in an Erewhon

WASHINGTON (AP) — Cory Booker breaks the record for longest Senate speech, previously held by segregationist Strom Thurmond.

1. Major news in transgender care. Germany, Switzerland, and Austria have just released their trans youth care guidelines. They strongly recommend trans youth care and slam the Cass Review in England. Europe is not "pulling back" on trans care. Subscribe to support our journalism.

A Tesla dealership in Manhattan has been occupied by protesters chanting “Zelenskyy is a hero.”

No, the meeting did not go badly for Ukraine. It exposed in the most undeniable, unequivocal way possible the pro-Putin commitments of the president and vice president. That was information Americans and allies needed to have clear before them.

My fiancée and I went down to the NYC city clerk’s office this morning to obtain our marriage license. There were far, far more same-sex couples there than one would expect, like maybe 30% of couples there were gay. All of us hear the ticking clock.

As always, @chriswarcraft.bsky.social is a real one.

“Once it would have been a year’s worth of news. But news right now is like a flock of speeded-up sheep running off the side of a cliff.” -Ali Smith / Autumn

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

I don’t know who the showrunner is on 2025 and I know we’re not that far into the season, but the writing feels really heavy-handed and honestly barely plausible so far

JOURNALISTS: Q from a friend who works at the VA: “Do you know any journalists who might want to speak to a veteran who was just laid off due to the mass layoffs that happened overnight at VA?” DM me if you’re a journalist and you’re interested

I'm not crying you're crying

Also, hot take: Canadian resistance to being subsumed by the US is actually pretty simple. Canadians have universal healthcare, gun control, and parental leave. They don’t want to join us because they’re not insane.

One of the many weird things about Ross Douthat’s extremely weird op-ed is that most of my American friends desperately wish they could move to Canada

Trying to do *something* just a small thing, every week, that adds a little bit of good to the world. We can't change everything but we can change something.

Create a mutual aide network with my neighbors. Set up a community garden and a community pantry. Start a book club with a focus on political activism and non violent resistance. Join the ACLU. Get a library card. Educate yourself on what you can do if you witness an ICE raid. Fight like hell.

If you’re in the US, what’s your plan for maintaining your sanity through the incoming administration? My favorite ideas so far: novels and poetry instead of doomscrolling, daily exercise (even 15 minutes is better than nothing), and maybe we don’t need to check the news more than 1x/day

I do a lot of events, and the signing line is my favourite part of the evening. It’s an opportunity to connect with people who’ve read my work. It means a lot. But for Gaiman, the signing line was, what, basically a hunting ground? It’s disgusting.

Neil Gaiman is a monster. His statement is idiotic and delusional. Sorry Neil, I don’t think anyone believes that 9 (or 14?) women are lying about you, and it’s cute that you think your “readers” will stick with you after this. Several of the people you assaulted were your readers.

Interviewer: Can you explain your gap in your resume Writer: It’s called a “time jump” and we do it in narrative to sort of… fast forward over the boring parts and no it’s not a “plot hole” I did it on purpose shut up

Spent the day talking to Europeans, and nobody can think of any precedent for what Musk just did to the US Congress. There is no businessman with that much power, the power to stop a routine spending bill, anywhere else in the democratic world.

Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends: 1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration; 2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you; 3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.

I heard this slogan CONSTANTLY this year and feel strongly that people only say this because “survive” rhymes with “25” and not because anyone actually knows anything at all re: whether the TV market will be less desolate in 2025 than it was in 2024

Ugh FINE I'll show up to work "sober" to lead the department of defense. YES without "sexually assaulting" everyone, christ anything else?

After nearly nine years at Esquire, I’ve been laid off from my role as Books and Fiction Editor. I’m looking for a new full-time role where I can use my storytelling skills, in the book world or beyond it. If you know of anything, I’m at [email protected]. (🧵1/10)

I grew up in a rural area with no municipal water system (our water came from a well in the front yard), my dental x-rays resemble a patchwork quilt, and I somehow never put two and two together until this moment!

Also: If you don't have money to buy my (or anyone's) books, and you live in the anglosphere, before you pirate them, try to get them from your local library instead. They have it or can get it, they pay for the books, and in many places writers get paid for their books being lent. Everyone wins!

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