Smart @danmerica.bsky.social @matthewchoi.bsky.social on why some Republicans are worried that their party's redistricting plan could backfire: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

me: i need a delicious source of potassium banana: i'm here for you me: i am also an avid fan of slapstick comedy banana: ok you're not gonna believe this

I spoke with Any Lucía López Belloza, the Babson College student who was on her way to surprise her family for Thanksgiving when ICE deported her. "My 5-year-old sister still believes that I might go home for Christmas," she tells me. www.thecut.com/article/any-...

This came to me in a dream

Jeff Yass, one of the richest people on the planet, funds political pressure for his pet issue: publicly funded vouchers for enrolling students in nonpublic schools. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

"All of the scenarios consist of analogizing the actions of suspected drug runners to traditional combat activities. The comparisons are strained at best," @charliesavage.bsky.social and @julianbarnes.bsky.social write: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...

Scathing dissent from Justice Kagan: "[T]his Court reverses that judgment based on its perusal, over a holiday weekend, of a cold paper record. We are a higher court than the District Court, but we are not a better one when it comes to making such a fact-based decision."

Yeah I like waymo. Waymo public transit, bike lanes and benches!

How is it that there are like 20 streaming services and the movie you want to watch is available on none of them?

Pleased to report that my elder millennial listening habits (top 5: Rilo Kiley, Jenny Lewis, Cherub, Disclosure, LCD Soundsystem) combined with a habit of listening to crooners and jazz to calm down has resulted in a Spotify "listening age" of.... 82.

“Sorry, darling, that’s progress." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

"Update, Dec. 4: News stories published Thursday morning report that the FBI had arrested a male suspect in the pipe bomb case. At this point, there is no indication from the FBI that Shauni Kerkhoff is a suspect in the FBI's investigation." www.theblaze.com/news/former-...

I wrote a bit for McSweeney's about Isaac Chotiner interviewing Santa Claus. Just a little something for the holiday season. Enjoy!

Brown University accepted nearly equal numbers of male and female students, but got almost twice as many female applicants. That math meant it was easier for men to get in. Trump's DEI ban may end gender balancing efforts that often benefit men.

it is an underrated miracle of the 21st century that we really did massively, massively reduce bullying in schools

"What’s gone up is not the cost of living relative to a single earner’s wages, but the opportunity cost of the second adult not working," @mattyglesias.bsky.social argues: www.slowboring.com/p/you-can-af...

Bipartisanship is alive and well at [checks notes] a defense lobbyists’ holiday party. #hohoho

Tough break for the Blaze!

Looks like Will might have gotten this one right: abcnews.go.com/US/suspect-a...

This was not Amazon’s preferred plan, I’m told. Talks broke down with USPS over its plan to auction off last-mile delivery contracts rather than ink an extension with Amazon. It’s a very aggressive move from the new postmaster general, Davis Steiner. We scooped on his hiring back in May.

🚨SCOOP: Amazon is preparing to sever ties with USPS and expand its shipping network as a true coast-to-coast rival. It could cost USPS more than *$6 billion* a year in lost revenue, and lead Amazon to dominate yet another facet of the economy. USPS posted a *$9 billion* loss in 2025.

SCOOP: Sources tell me Donald Trump's name was added to the exterior of the US Institute of Peace building ahead of Thursday's peace agreement signing between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which will be held inside the building. Confirming if it's been officially renamed.

George Soros has used his billions to change how crime and punishment work in America. But what happens when you don't want his money? @bethreinhard explains: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars. She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:

Don’t need an app to tell me it was the kind of year where I listened to “O-o-h Child” by the Five Stairsteps, conservatively, 125 times

Just a devastating Spotify Wrapped year for me, an otherwise normal person who relies on one of two extremely hypnotic playlists to put my small children to sleep

"I am told that writers used to be interesting." www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...

"the best engineering whiz kids" @rusty.todayintabs.com i see what you did there: www.todayintabs.com/p/let-s-see-...

The forgotten court case that was the origin of the super PAC www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Big change: FDA to impose strict new vaccine requirements under RFK Jr ally Vinay Prasad signaled changes to annual flu shots, concurrent vaccines + more Prasad said his team found link between covid-19 shots and kids' deaths, necessitating a new approach overall with @rachelroubein.bsky.social

Lil Jon at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Millennial Parents: We’ve arrived.

We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com. We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans. washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

Amazing to learn that Isaac Chotiner can apparently just come for you in your replies. Like suddenly realizing you're swimming in open ocean

yes people call the friday after thanksgiving Brown Friday. yes plumbers get lots of holiday calls. yes it's because you overwork your disposals, pour fat/gravy/grease in your sink, and clog hosts' toilets. holidays are hard enough as it is. don't make them harder.

The company essentially turned a dial that made ChatGPT more appealing and made people use it more, but sent some of them into delusional spirals. OpenAI has since made the chatbot safer, but that comes with a tradeoff: less usage.

somebody is going to do geoengineering, it's just a matter of time heatmap.news/climate/cop-...

Young people feel like we've lost agency over our lives. We can't *really* pick where to live, or whether to change jobs, or how many kids to have -- the cost of living makes us feel trapped. Younger candidates can powerfully speak to that emotional truth. talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/young-c...

important to realize just how seriously feelings of powerlessness in the face of vast structures & a learned understanding of the futility of individual effort are generational givens that anybody my age or older (work hard! succeed! things work out!) has no way to fully grasp—but we need to try

The angry & mocking replies & quotes from what I imagine are liberals is yet another bit of evidence that Americans of all stripes don't grasp how angry Canadians are about American belligerence. Pointing out the origin of "americano" insists on missing the point of the gesture.

Seems fine www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

The problem with affordability literalism is that we have just about as much purchasing power as ever before. So if there’s an economic component to this era of bad feelings, it’s probably not mechanically tied to sticker prices. www.offmessage.net/p/taking-aff...

Thought experiment: What if things got cheaper overnight, but people still felt shitty about the future, and politics in America proceeded all but unchanged? www.offmessage.net/p/taking-aff...

Video: Trump has spent 13 years promising a health care plan: www.washingtonpost.com/video/politi...

From The Washington Post: The concentration of wealth among the richest Americans is unlike anything in history — and so is billionaires’ influence in politics. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

Someone just texted me to tell me about the time their friend was invited to a fundraiser at a home owned by a guy named Rich Person.

Absolute all-timer of a name/quote pairing here: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

CBS News boss Bari Weiss saved pro-Israel reporter’s job after he lobbied to her directly: report

“I never imagined that the institution I dedicated my entire career building could be destroyed in such a short period of time.” Peter Carr, aka Mr. No Comment, speaks out: open.substack.com/pub/justicec...

"U.S. politicians are more dependent on the largesse of the billionaire class than ever before, giving one-four-hundredth of 1 percent of Americans extraordinary influence over which politicians and policies succeed."