DJ Khaled has $100K seats and seems to be on his phone this whole half.

Not to add too much to The Discourse but I always loved Colson Whitehead’s description of what it takes to call yourself a New Yorker

A sidewalk shed was blown down during the storm Saturday night on the corner of West 100th Street and Riverside Drive. www.westsiderag.com/2026/06/08/u...

The recipe in today’s NYT Cooking newsletter is Julia Moskin’s Best Gazpacho and I can attest that it is, in fact, the best gazpacho. Or close to it anyhow: my slightly tweaked version appears in my book SALTY (which turns 4 this month, oh man). Anyhow, good stuff, go make it.

Ohhh look at me I'm New York City. I have an awesome basketball team with likeable players and a mayor that cares about making life better for every citizen man fuck you

Bilton is such a POS bsky.app/profile/just...

I was just offered to be on a pilot TV show where people debate various "controversial" topics; they wanted me as an expert defending the reality of the moon landings. I turned them down flat. I will not elevate conspiracy bullshit into something debatable. Been down that road. It goes nowhere.

🚨 RED ALERT 🚨 NEW SICKO SPOTTED

The Poway synagogue shooting also happened here in San Diego County — just a few years ago. There are groups here who have been targeting BOTH communities (as well as that of the unharmed Hispanic landscaper they shot at, AND Black folks, since the 1970s. None of us can afford to forget this.

the president is raiding the treasury to put your tax dollars into this mans personal checking account as a reward for what hes doing in this picture

This is absolutely outrageous. SCOTUS reinstated Texas gerrymander 15 weeks before primary because they claimed it was too close to election to block it but now allowing Alabama to gerrymander one week before primary after trial court found map was intentionally discriminatory against Black voters

Class in the US is entirely a matter of aesthetics now. Rich suburban kids are “country”. Beard Dudes who look like they love IPAs are “working class.” Teachers who make $32,000 a year but have to dress up sort of nice in JCPenney clothes are “elites“. None of these words mean anything anymore.

Congrats to all the kids and parents at RSMA, Manhattan School for Children and Center school for fighting this merger! You all worked do hard and I am so proud of all of you! www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2026...

Reporter: What do you make of Republicans saying that Virginia— AOC: Wah wah wah. We have asked Republicans for 10 years to ban partisan gerrymandering. And for 10 years, Republicans have said no. What they’re just mad at is that they have been accustomed to a Democratic Party that rolls over.

Right now where you live healthcare for trans kids is either being made literally illegal by your state or made functionally illegal by the unlawful threats of the federal government and a care infrastructure glad to sacrifice trans kids on the altar of appeasement. www.npr.org/2026/04/17/n...

oh really

BREAKING: Maryland is about to become the first state in the nation to ban the use of surveillance data and dynamic pricing at grocery stores. The Maryland House has just passed the Protection from Predatory Pricing Act. Governor Wes Moore plans to sign the bill.

Well, Seymour, I made it — despite your directions…

A rare Super El Niño is developing! But what is that and what does it mean? Here’s a quick, simple breakdown of how El Niño works and the big global and Florida impacts expected in summer, fall and winter. #elnino #florida

What a sad admission. One of my favorite places I ever lived was in Brooklyn in an area that was basically Little Bangladesh. I loved that neighborhood and would move back in a heartbeat. I never felt unsafe, I had good relations with my neighbors, and the food was great.

The New York Times Got Played By A Telehealth Scam And Called It The Future Of AI Since the New York Times published its semi-viral big profile of Medvi last week — the "AI-powered" telehealth startup that it breathlessly described as a "$1.8 billion company" supposedly run by just two brothers —…

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

remember those other branches of government

Jewish New Yorkers have taken over the lobby of Palantir on the 6th night of Passover to protest corporate complicity in ICE’s deportation machine. NYC Jews demand #SanctuaryNotSurveillance!

Update: Kihana is now on Bluesky, so you can follow here here too! 🎉 ➡️ @the-astro-stud.bsky.social ⬅️

Here are my top 10 WORST dogs!

I'm so happy I got to write this piece. I hope you all go read the novel I wrote about!

A predictable #NoKings take from Jeremy Peters: A small turnout will be ominous, a large one will be meaningless, all protests from the left are merely a "primal scream," and none of them mean much. The NYT has always loved protests as history but hated them as news. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/28/u...

no 2020 was definitely waaaayy worse to me personally, though yes things suck in world. Living in an extended stay, seeing 10 people either die or go into respiratory failure requiring rapid sequence #intubation every week, wondering if you would survive for your next shift was special level of hell

It’s been fun the past few years, having people lie or be useful idiots about how Anti DEI is just about merit and not a backdoor whites only policy and then insist those of us who saw that clearly are shrill or paranoid

hello what did i miss tell me every thing

Leaf That Came Out Too Early Cold As Shit

Happy things are needed right now and since I found myself singing Birdhouse in Your Soul in the shower this morning here have an excellent breakdown of why compositionally (is that the right term?) it is UTTER MADNESS youtu.be/vg2CkEgFgXk?...

His breakdown of the main theme from Interstellar is also great youtu.be/6AI6PG7oj7E?...

Naturally, it turns out that dude's analysis was completely wrong.

Rotational Gravity xkcd.com/3220/

When you have the verified checkmark on Bluesky they let you drone-strike one annoying reply-er a day. I usually wait until evening to be sure to I’m picking the worst one.

1. If oil prices have you thinking "should I finally switch to an electric vehicle" my advice is, yeah! Lots of good low mileage used ones to be had. 2. It's not without its hiccups. Here's what I learned after a year of driving an one. www.wsj.com/business/aut...

Everyone else in the room when a former DOGE employee was deposed.

It's looking increasingly like these guys thought that if they could wreak more death and destruction than the other side then they would be respected as strong powerful men and they would "win" and that would make them big important heroes. Very possibly they had no rationale deeper than that.

Today's newsletter: Trump renamed the Department of Defense the Department of War. The website says war dot gov. Pete Hegseth goes by Secretary of War. But they'd like you to know that what's happening in Iran is not a war. It's a limited mission. www.readtpa.com/p/schrodinge...

My thoughts on the Met’s new Tristan

me, poking at the second trump presidency: "want to see a (soon to be) dead body?" youtu.be/ozvWGx_Re9A

U.S NONFARM PAYROLLS (FEB)ACTUAL: -92K VS 130K PREVIOUS ; EST 55K

Thoughts & prayers to the EPA :(

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Kristi Noem was handing out government contracts the right way by Ezra Klein

Jesse Singal: “I don’t understand why all these experts with degrees keep disagreeing with me. So demoralizing. What could the explanation be??”

Afghanistan started at 92 percent approval. Iraq started at 71. Iran started at 27. The "whose side are you on" rhetoric is identical. The country underneath it isn't. I wrote about how the framework works, and who's deploying it. www.readtpa.com/p/with-us-or...