Jeff Bezos received a quarter of a million from his parents in 1995 to start his online bookstore idea.

They're expressing dismay that she got four-figure childcare checks from her parents, because their norm is candidates for major public office getting six-figure checks from oligarchs. share.google/bR4zeWdiE0no...

Seems like a notable that present-day sewer socialists are not just winning major cities, but now *unseating* incumbents. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

Wow. He's going to go into the mid-terms with 21st-century Hoovervilles spreading across the country. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

We got one of the Ava e-bike vouchers and brought home a fun e-bike but the charger fine print is giving me pause. You can only charge indoors, on concrete/brick, while you're present to keep an eye on things? So don't get an e-bike unless you have a garage and enjoy spending time in it?

At this point if Subway doesn't roll out a "Point Blank BLT" or "Felony Footlong" it's not serious about making money.

Ahhhh the administration is pivoting to climate action www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...

Politicians should probably get on Bluesky to get better in touch with the American electorate.

the sort of headline we're seeing all over: www.syracuse.com/politics/cny...

When you stop using X then open it back up after a while, you realize how obviously it’s designed to elevate vicious jerks who share Musk and Trump’s cruelest, dumbest beliefs. Harder to see when you’re addicted to it; blazingly apparent from the outside looking in. Journalists: It’s bad for you!

Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.

How it started / how it's going

IMPROBABLY, VOTERS ELECT CANDIDATE WITH CHARISMA, LOOKS, POPULAR POLICIES, SUPERIOR CAMPAIGN ORGANIZATION, AND CONSPICUOUS LACK OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT ALLEGATIONS

Andrew Cuomo kicking himself for not running for Staten Island Borough President instead

He's not mayor yet, and he's already broken Red America's brains:

Just terribly shoddy police work to not collect the weapon and enter it into evidence.

Just called the utility to shut off our gas service. Hard to overstate what a *upgrade* it's been to de-fossilize. Everything we've installed is just objectively better than the thing it replaced (and everything's going to pay for itself!)

Imagine if our political system had the same level of accountability as this <checks notes> hereditary monarchy. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/w...

omg surely the former press secretary for the *white house* knows what it means to grant an interview request from Isaac Chotiner? www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

As an aside: the armed guy on foot is not wearing a gas mask, and that cannister was deployed *upwind* of him and the car he's escorting. It doesn't look like these feds have had any *training* on responding to crowds.

Fascinating oaklandside.org/2025/10/23/t...

Very curious what the Cuomo campaign thinks they get out of publicizing support from an incumbent with an approval rate of 20%.

CALL THE NEW YORK TIMES, WE'RE DOING COVERT OPS www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Does this mean the the hotel stops paying property taxes to the county and occupancy fees to the city? www.siliconvalley.com/2025/10/14/b...

Good morning. My 75-year-old father, who had a triple bypass in February, is 400 miles into walking the Camino de Santiago. He is presently bombarding me with photos of collards.

A little-known part of Jane Goodall’s legacy is that she helped place Roots + Shoots chapters inside jails in the U.S. and Italy. Some of the participants went on post-incarceration to careers in environmental protection. I met her in 2015 at the Boulder jail—still my all-time favorite assignment.

For the first time since the New York Times tested this question 26 years ago, Americans sympathize more with Palestinians than Israelis

New: four million people could be forced to leave public housing and other federally assisted housing under new plans from the Trump administration, according to experts who reviewed drafts of two unpublished rules obtained by @propublica.org.

President Donald Trump has dispatched federal agents to Portland, local elected officials said in a hastily scheduled press conference on Friday night

HOA got a county permit back in the 1980s to build a revetment on the condition that they keep access public, and recently homeowners started putting up barriers and went to court to privatize the walkway. Coastal commission fined HOA almost $5 million; court just ruled the barrier has to come down.

BREAKING: Microsoft has blocked the Israeli military from some cloud and AI services. The block comes after The Guardian revealed last month that Microsoft’s services were being used for mass surveillance of Palestinians. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/785733/...

"Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Wednesday he will join Italy in sending a military warship to protect an international flotilla seeking to deliver aid to Gaza after it was attacked by drones off Greece." www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Good morning! Just a reminder that if you're feeling stressed / down / apprehensive, you can call the hotline 707-873-7862 to get words of encouragement from kindergartners in rural Sonoma County.

Lots to love if this holds for CA crops: -utility-scale solar that doesn't require wrecking desert habitat -less water use, probably less dust -more options for siting close to existing transmission -on-site generation for switching diesel pumps to electric and cleaning up the air

They'll say the public outrage and subscription cancellations had nothing to do with this. That's what they *always say.* Power's top communications priority is always to deny the existence of any collective agency outside the existing circles of power. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/b...

So the stock market hit record highs. Because NVIDIA is giving buckets of money to OpenAI. So that OpenAI can buy buckets of hardware. From NVIDIA. The AI economy is like a fictitous capital perpetual motion machine. 🙃

Man I really *really* don't want the Hayward fault to pop while Donald Trump is in charge of FEMA.

I see we've gone from "it would be uncivilized to make these wayward men languish in prison for mere white-collar crime" to "it would be unjust to make them pay back the money they took through fraud." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u...

Things you can do with a rental registry: turn 53k housing units back into housing. share.google/jgBNYPsqr31r...

Florida has an anti-SLAPP statue, what lawyer would sign off on filing this as a libel suit?

Visceral closeup videos of Charlie Kirk getting shot in the neck were everywhere on social media. A lot of parents were not pleased that mainstream social apps’ algorithms showed it to their kids. Story today by @tatumhunter.bsky.social & me (gift link): wapo.st/4n6oBSi

NEW: Our report on the arrest of a suspect in the murder of Charlie Kirk, including docs reviewed by @wired.com that show the FBI flagged Kirk's events as having the potential to "lead to political violence." @dell.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/charli...

What if when you hit, say, $100m in net worth you got a certificate that says "congratulations, you won capitalism!" Like, you can keep playing for fun, but since you've maxed out your marginal utility we've got better uses for anything you accumulate past that point. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/b...

Not to belabor the obvious but: a country that assassinates ceasefire negotiators is definitively not interested in peace. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

NEW: Massive Bay Area transit cuts likely as Newsom backtracks on $750M loan, lawmakers say www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

abundance doesn't do this. it punches left while waving right. it completely ignores a long history of racist land use policies - going as far as lamenting environmental regs ensuring renters who literally live on highways can breathe - instead of, say, eliminating the highway

In Paris, where they build pedestrian infra different

Oh good there's a tracker istrumpdeadyet.com

People say there's no path for genAI revenues to justify these capital outlays but hear me out: what if they plugged in adtech and your chatbot agent became the world's most insidious salesman? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/b...