This is just such a pervasive stereotype that gets weaponized against women in political journalism (or at least when I was there when all these dipshits wanted to believe they were living in House of Cards) that it makes me so mad that a person like this was doing it in the most cartoonish way.

a second stop has been found on the Appalachian Trail

CHOTINER: Why not pay to have the bamboo removed? LIZZA: It’s more expensive than you think CHOTINER: But surely you’ve made enough money in your career… LIZZA: I liked the ritual. And it’s a useful metaphor, right? CHOTINER: … LIZZA: … CHOTINER: You just like… LIZZA: … having a machete, yes

to have an affair with one longshot presidential candidate twice your age that you’re profiling may be regarded as a misfortune; to have two looks like carelessness

I’m so sick of this Nuzzi stuff, wish I didn’t hear anything more about her Oh, well, if her former partner wrote it I suppose it might be newsworthy, I’ll skim it Apparently I simply must read to the end, a likely story, alright fine I will Oh for fucks sake

Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms

Couldn't remember Jon Hamm's name or the name of his character. So I made a discovery

Everyone's missing potentially the most interesting thing about this order, which is the judge's finding that Halligan may have returned an indictment that was never presented to the jury

Larry Summers has never hit a preorder button faster

The immigration crackdown comes at a real cost, investigators told me. Here's one particularly poignant example I learned about: Videos have surfaced online of an unidentified child currently being violently sexually abused but agents don't have enough time to investigate and have lost a key contact

👀Fitzpatrick said Halligan made two apparent "fundamental misstatements of law" to the grand jury that could threaten the case. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

These capabilities ICE has via Thomson Reuters and Motorola are mind boggling. marries license plate data with voter and ownership records, future location prediction (unclear how good this is), face recognition. Surveillance state continues apace www.404media.co/this-app-let...

This whole piece is all the actual horribles on parade, and this one is just infuriating

The cost of Trump's immigration surge: Stalled investigations into child sexual abuse, Iranian oil smuggling and human trafficking, among others. My latest piece is a big team effort on how DHS has been transformed into the Department of Deportation. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...

If I worked in this doctors office I’d learn just enough Middle English to make someone regret choosing it, because you know multiple people have

Sounds about right. I studied history and politics all the way up through university, the first time I had an opportunity to take a course dedicated to the history of the British Empire was when I studied abroad in Canada

So many adverts for smart tech are just profoundly depressing.

IMO the real criteria here is “a guy I’d willingly hang out with over a couple of drinks”. Mamdani won the young male vote and he didn’t take steroids to do it! But very online people have (if they know or not) internalised these right wing conceptions of masculinity. And say weird stuff like this.

Jesus Christ.

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Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

It's so frustrating that there are so many good, hard-nosed, risk-taking journalists who plug away at their beat and uncover important stories whose name only a handful of people, mostly their peers, can recall — who are overshadowed by this horseshit.

She gave us the best tweet archive update ever lol

New: FBI Director Kash Patel Waived Polygraph Security Screening for Dan Bongino, Two Other Senior Staff www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...

this MAGA account extolls the virtue of hiring American but then gives the game away by saying "labour"

If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.

at one point, i watched a cook county sheriff’s officer (who appears to be in charge) point out a priest in the crowd. he and a couple officers then went into the crowd , dragged him into the street, and arrested him. situation is still tense as crowd jostles with police to get into the street.

it’s kinda easy, you have to not allude to wanting or having someone harmed or killed, or telling them to harm or kill themselves. yeah it sucks that the so-called public square doesn’t have a context chip but i also think it sucks that we find some kind of relief in saying those kinds of things

it's kind of funny how people never want to explain what this means because mamdani released a campaign video about sylvia rivera and how she was an inspiration for his support for transgender rights

They’ve made the “upload your consciousness” machine from the “Don’t ever upload your consciousness” episode of Black Mirror

Michael Wolff tried to buy New York Mag — with money from Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein. So Wolff didn't just have a reporter-source relationship with Epstein. Nor was Wolff his informal PR adviser. They saw each other as potential business partners. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Michael Wolff tried to get a Daily Beast reporter fired for ... ... accurately reporting on "a series of previously undisclosed meetings between Wolff and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein." www.breakermedia.com/p/media-s-bi...

I live near a busy intersection and this drives me insane. Not only is it wildly unsafe it almost always means you’re now blocking the intersection, which means I get treated to a solid 20 seconds of honking. Then one of the honkers runs the red light themselves and blocks the intersection.

Under Trump 2.0, tech platforms have proven to be much more responsive to the demands of a rising authoritarian than to pressure from workers, users, or civil society, writes @davekarpf.bsky.social. If we are going to repair democratic institutions, we to have to do it ourselves, he says.

(living in a country where the most successful people are obscenely rich and shameless perverts and psychopaths) Time to teach my children to be honest and study hard in school

An interesting tidbit in the joint status report filed in the Broadview ICE facility case today: ICE says video from inside the facility "between October 19, 2025, and October 31, 2025, has been irretrievably destroyed" and can't be produced in discovery. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71832...

🚨 local how-to-help opportunity for brooklyn! 🚨 flatbush / PLG / crown heights area: my dear friend Sarah is organizing a non-perishable food drive to benefit the Ladies in Waiting food pantry on Fenimore. bring items to Hasenstuble (1184 Nostrand Ave.) from 4pm onwards on Wednesday 11/19!

The woman whom the House Ethics Committee determined Matt Gaetz paid for sex when she was 17 years old was living in a homeless shelter, working at McDonald's, and needed the money for braces www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find: - NONE of the arrested were criminally charged - NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists." - ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

We first uncovered new crimes committed by this deed theft circle in 2022. This week, the leader of that ring was sentenced to up to 7 years in prison. New from @rukminicallimachi.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/r...

Does the subway still need conductors? Much of the world say no, but union leaders say it's a safety issue. Gov. Hochul has to decide by year end whether to sign a bill that would mandate two-person train crews, even on lines that already moved to one operator www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/n...

"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."

It me

As a former member of NYT’s finance team & the co-author of this story exposing the relationship between Epstein & Bill Gates as well as one on Epstein & JPMorgan, I am really frustrated to see people claiming that NYT sat on publishable info about Trump and Epstein 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/b...

New Marron survey of 400+ subway lines across the world from London to Paris to Shanghai finds just 6% still use two-person train operation, which would be required by a TWU-backed bill. “It doesn’t really matter to us what the data shows,” says TWU boss Samuelsen www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/n...

Just checkin' the facts!

The Trump administration said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over a building in Chicago. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up those claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arrested in the raid are telling their stories.

Man I resent the idea that New York needs to be unpleasant to live in to be authentic so much, it’s pervasive and it holds the city back in so many ways

Fortunately, I already figured out the plots of the next several Toy Story films