NEW: Billions of pounds of food are imported to the U.S. each year. The FDA inspects foreign producers to ensure what we're eating is safe from pathogens and dangerous manufacturing practices. But now, after Trump's drastic staff cuts, these inspections have plummeted to a historic low. 🧵/

Call me old-fashioned, but shouldn't it be a news story when the president is posting AI videos of himself (without disclosure) talking about *nuclear weapons*? truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

Nope

Once again, @yaelrice.bsky.social and I published this article in 2020 so that no one ever has to debunk this vile nonsense point-by-point ever again. As we write (see the next post in this thread)... hyperallergic.com/604897/how-s...

Let them eat ballroom

what a headline www.404media.co/nancy-pelosi...

if someone is willing to pay for the products, i'd be willing to purchase these items, deconstruct them, and give them to expert tailors, shoemakers, and craftspeople for review. i will also see if i can track down the factories. i would be interested to know if these items are made in the US

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a gorgeous nyc day

It is very obviously a hysterical reaction to a broader recognition: that the "Any Criticism of Israel is Antisemitic" formula no longer disciplines mainstream American politics. Maybe even an understandable one. But that credit's run out, guys! You don't like it, take it up with the Israelis!

A large faction of institutional New York Jews — seemingly as part of their effort to torpedo Mamdani over insufficient deference to Israel — worked themselves into a frothing panic over the prospect of him winning, and are now in full screaming meltdown about it

It was correct to speak of safety when the Unite The Right march bellowed "Jews Will Not Replace Us," or when a mass shooter gunned our people down at the Tree of Life synogogue. It is not correct to do so when a man who's spoken very respectfully of Jews (but cirticized Israel) wins an election

Here's my piece for @lawfaremedia.org on my experience covering the Sandwich Guy trial. Warning: longer than 280 characters! www.lawfaremedia.org/article/sand...

So the institutional investors went along with this? Tesla shareholder meeting updates: Elon Musk gets his $1 trillion pay package. Musk's pay package is approved: Over 75% of voters approved Musk's pay package. The crowd broke out into cheers. www.businessinsider.com/tesla-shareh...

ProPublica identified 20 segregation academies in Mississippi that received almost $10 million over six years through a state-funded program. At least eight opened with an early boost from state-funded vouchers in the 1960s. (Published Nov. 2024)

RFK Jr's response to someone collapsing nearby him was to haul ass out of the room as quickly as possible

AI hallucinates because it’s trained to fake answers it doesn’t know. Teaching chatbots to say “I don’t know” could curb hallucinations. It could also break AI’s business model.

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

A trillion dollars is one thousand billion dollars; a billion dollars is one thousand million dollars. Minimum wage has stayed seven dollars & twenty-five cents since 2009. All of this is a choice made repeatedly. Our self destruction is deliberate and it is well funded.

Some SNAP recipients have to choose between rent and food amid halt in benefits. abcnews.go.com/Health/snap-...

Republican politicians can commit all the crimes they want and victimize as many people as they want because right after they are convicted Trump pardons every single one of them. Every Republican politician is above the law and can do whatever they want. Total immunity.

A former Justice Department employee who threw a sandwich at a federal agent during Trump’s law enforcement surge in Washington was found not guilty of assault on Thursday in the latest legal rebuke of the federal intervention.

The Congressional Budget Office on Thursday confirmed it had been hacked, potentially disclosing important government data to malicious actors.

Denver Post confirms what we’ve been hearing: nearly all federal HSI agents with expertise on cultural property crimes have been reassigned to immigration duties in recent months. Major loss of law enforcement capabilities in the world’s largest art market. www.denverpost.com/2025/11/06/u...

Visiting the scene of the crime in honor of acquittal.

This is irresponsible. Best practices in phrenology means using the calipers in person.

A staggering $50 trillion. That is how much the upward redistribution of income has cost American workers over the past several decades.

More important to me than my identity, I am also the Vice President of the NewsGuild of New York, and targeting me with a blatantly retaliatory termination like this feels like an egregious shot against our union and against media workers as a whole.

I love my job, I love my coworkers, and I love my union. I'm devastated the company made this move. There are so few trans women in media at all — particularly ones who aren't confined to "Queer Media" — and I was incredibly proud of what my position at Bon Appétit meant within the industry.

I was acting as a union member and concerned employee when I questioned Stan Duncan, well within my legal rights. I don't love pointing to my identity, but the company saying that I was behaving "aggressively" when I was calmly asking questions feels like a clear transphobic dog whistle.

I'm one of the four fired employees. I was a writer & producer at Bon Appétit for nearly five years, during which I helped organize our union and sat on our bargaining committee. I am, to my knowledge, the only trans woman in our union and the only trans woman on editorial who doesn't work at Them

[Goose meme] Ruin the workplace for who RUIN THE WORKPLACE FOR WHO, MOTHERFUCKER????

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

“How do we make high school relevant, engaging, and purposeful?” teach philosophy www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...

Gift link to my argument in favor of teaching works of "serious literary value" in public schools: slate.com/life/2025/05...

The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort: www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

Elevators are a form of public transit. A very successful form.

If America lost 135 billion pounds every American would be losing *squints* about four hundred and ten pounds

A federal judge said Thursday she will order federal agents in Chicago to restrict using force against peaceful protesters and news media outlets, saying current practices violate their constitutional rights.

mendacity takes a toll on all of them

For what it’s worth, Mamdani may be on the left, but all indications are that he’s a pragmatist who will get along fine with the rest of his party. Meanwhile, you know which party is out of touch and riddled with extremists? The G.O.P. — @pkrugman.bsky.social

Early Addition: Barstool considers moving to Hoboken after Mamdani's win https://gothamist.com/news/early-addition-barstool-considers-moving-to-hoboken-after-mamdanis-win

This is grotesque. It’s the bloodthirsty beast of raw capitalism for the starving, as Elon Musk is given $38 billion in US citizens’ taxes, to play with rockets. Corporate Communism for the elite.

Sure, fuck it, why not @nytimes.com. Not the bosses, working conditions, or pay, but the women who've always been in the labor force. Blame them, I guess, that works.

Next week's pieces on the New York Times' Opinion Page: "Was Major League Baseball Ruined by Allowing Negroes to Play?" "Critics Complain about RFK Jr's 'National Leeching' But Here's Why They're Wrong" "Only Cucks Fly Commercial" "Democracy: Is It Really Worth the Hassle?"

Airlines rushed to provide travelers updates after the Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday that it would reduce flights across 40 airports as the longest government shutdown in history continues to drag on.

I interviewed Will about what's been happening to him on Twitter the past few weeks and his thoughts on the state of social media and the Democrats

Women who spout misogyny in public like this are extremely psychologically transparent. They talk about women’s lowliness so that they can cast themselves as the noble exception, the extraordinary case who deserves entry into the communion of humanity—by which they mean men. Never works for them.

Everyone who told me I was overreacting Meet me outside because we gotta squabble These people have been laying the groundwork for years and it was ignored because the folks telling were “wrong”

I replaced a man in my workplace so the thousands of criminals, scam artists and sex abusers I reported on in 750 investigations over 18 years sure think so.