The most spectacular costume of 2025? That honor belongs to…

How'd I do?

I wrote about SCARY! SPOOKY! CREEPY! CHILDREN’S BOOKS! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/b...

In A BARGAIN FOR FRANCES (1970) by Russell and Lillian Hoban, the titular character discovers and deploys both anti-capitalist and abolitionist principles by imagining and enacting a restitution of morality without resorting to policing, punishment, or carcerality. In this essay I will

Raskin: I heard speaker Mike Johnson refer to a hate America rally, but that one already happened on January 6th, 2021

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for those (like me) unfamiliar with AFP Fact Check, it's a department within Agence France-Presse, a multilingual news agency guaranteed independence under French law. (yeah, I know we have the First Amendment here in the USA. um.)

the NFL cashmere collection contains NO PACKERS merch. maybe they’re worried we’d just get CHEESE on it. naadam.co/collections/...

your halloween costume inspo

Apologies given with intention are acts of love. Apologies accepted well are acts of grace. Asking for an apology when you feel one is owed is an act of trust. (And maybe the hardest of all.) thank you, @marjorieingall.bsky.social @sorrywatch.bsky.social dearnina.substack.com/p/good-apolo...

If you're pondering atonement (on a micro as well as macro level) right now, I hope this is a good listen. podlink.com/1576473592/e...

Hey #Massachusetts #Bluesky Tell us your story about book challenges or bans, what the freedom to read means to you, or how much you love your librarians. By sharing your story, you help us build a stronger movement to defend every person’s freedom to read.

Sharing bc it’s helpful even tho it is dated in two ways (& feel free to guess which): The SCIENCE of honey cake and why it is so often disgusting! (sorry, I don’t mean YOUR honeycake) (yes I do) www.tabletmag.com/sections/new...

no offends if this is you but if you're thinking "this is going to make the right do fascism" they're already there. they blew up a boat with 11 people on it for being immigrants. they're kidnapping US citizens and trying to rendition them to Uganda. do you think we're on a trajectory to peace

We cannot condone political violence. That said, it’s important to remember that Republicans have demanded that the Second Amendment be interpreted to mean anyone who wants a gun can get one, including assault weapons. As Charlie Kirk recognized, that comes with a downside.

Here's something I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.

OK, Ikea. (PAVERE!)

I just called the pharmacy to refill a prescription and ended the call with "thank you" and the pharmacist replied, "love you!" and hung up and in case she's spiraling rn I want her to know we've all been there

Resonance (UC Press) is looking for humanities research across the following topics: Sound in Political Crisis, Sound and Social Justice, Experiments in Sound, Sound Archives and Preservation, and we're convening a permanent series that'll examine "Film and Cinema Sound" in 2026. Please circulate!

YEEEEE a new edition of Hothead Paisan, Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist, from @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social! (aka the reason every other cat in San Francisco in the '90s was named Chicken.) www.nyrb.com/products/hot...

Ooh, delicious: New book and tv show about Barneys (no apostrophe!), the department store that seemed impossibly glamorous when i was a baby writer who'd just moved to NYC from RI.

Free plums and propaganda.

i'm attending No Kings's train-the-trainers digital event, “One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism.” sign up now and join me. www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

Time to add "as a girl dad" to a Bad Apology Bingo card! (We already had "behind the scenes," "this has caused," "going forward," "learn from," "source of negativity" and "what was said on the Internet" as bingo squares.) awfulannouncing.com/espn/pat-mca...

In case you were wondering about Jewish derby-name representation in this year’s Gotham Roller Derby roster: Andy Slamberg, Scare Horowitz, Matzah Brawl, Hebrew-Ham Lincoln, Burnin’ Bush, Fatal Dreidel, and Slayna Punim

Got a press release: "Von Dutch Enters Food & Beverage Market." The 2000s trucker-hat brand is "building the future of lifestyle—from the way you dress to the way you eat, drink, and connect" and "creating cultural relevance in every corner of people’s lives” and o pls no.

Patrick Healy is the guy who drove the great @pkrugman.bsky.social away from the NYT by killing his newsletter and trying to rewrite crucial passages: www.cjr.org/analysis/pau...

I am weeping

aetna hold music is a true banger

Nifty NYC wheatpasting campaign (spotted on an empty storefront on Second Avenue in the East Village)

I woke them up and am a terrible person.

Happy Pride Month! This year, LGBTQ Reads is partnering with @bookshop.org for a sale on over 100 books by LGBTQIA+ authors using code PRIDE25! bookshop.org/info/pride

My colleague Susan McCarthy's no-holds-barred analysis of Joni Ernst's "apology," over at SorryWatch: sorrywatch.com/i-value-my-i...

Found this cute painting (by @sold.out.art.show on Instagram) in a trash can on Fifth Ave at 13th; left it in front of the movie theater on 12th at University! I see their wheatpasted art on Bleecker a lot!

applying for jobs again

Sodom and Gomorrah were NOT destroyed by a comet! FAKE NEWS!

Forgot to take Seder photos last night but I did take a picture of this unnerving carrot

Passover wine standoff (sung to the tune of Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out)

NEW: ALA is going to court to stop the President’s attempts to illegally dismantle the Institute of Museum & Library Services. The President does not have the authority to destroy a federal agency. That's why we're taking action with our co-plaintiff @afscme.bsky.social. #ForOurLibraries (1/3)

Happy Library Week to all of the public librarians, school library media specialists, and aides who make sure our kiddos have access to the stories they need! We don't tell you often enough how much we appreciate you. Thank you, thank you, thank you. ❤️

I appreciate Jonathan Adler's ruthless seder-plate editing: Two oranges and a sprig of parsley.

"republicans are obsessed with your kids genitals and these patriots who fight in our military and just lead ordinary lives like yours just want to shit in peace" - easiest dem messaging on trans rights

MOOOOOM DUOLINGO IS BULLYING ME

"Staff Writer, Emergency Preparedness" sounds like a job PARTICULARLY awful for one's blood pressure at this particular historical and environmental juncture. But hey, if you have nerves of steel. ... nytimes.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Wirecu...

As a mom, I am offended.

The chef Charles Phan died this week at 62. Here is a story about how he was so, so nice to a stranger, for no reason except his innate kindness. 1/

Mazels to my pal Gayle Forman, whose novel After Life is GMA's YA Book Club pick! AND she looked super-snazzy on the teevee. The book — about a girl who returns from a bike ride and learns she's been dead for seven years — is both a page-turner and a cathartic read about grief & second chances.