Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.

Meatballs is a strange artifact and generally a bad movie but no one has ever delivered a line better than Bill Murray with “Well, that's life in the fast-paced, slam-bang, live-on-the-razor's-edge, laugh-in-the-face-of-death world of junior league soccer"

Happy Thanksgiving, America

This is haunting and so full of love and heartbreak and the world is just so unfair. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that? We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to

Mamdani going in there calling Trump sir a couple times and singing the 1-800-588-EMPIRE jingle with him and effortlessly turning him into a committed socialist.

I think about this kind of thing constantly

The White House just blasted this out under the headline "Good News You May Have Missed"

Hey guys we need to raise your power bills again because the jackoff material factory needs more power to turn your mom and daughter’s pictures into pornography and we need you to pay for it

Letterboxd reviews of The Elephant Man (d. Lynch, 1980) are a festival of ecstatic devastation

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

So proud that my 8-year-old actually knows who this character is and can read this in his voice

This essay by @winterjessica.bsky.social is so important: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

A direct email exchange from 2011 between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, just released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.

Interesting

This story by @winterjessica.bsky.social is as good as everyone says it is www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“much of the centrist manosphere’s rhetoric is predicated on refusing to see half of what’s in front of you” @winterjessica.bsky.social in @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

I loved @winterjessica.bsky.social's review of the new Scott Galloway book (www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...), so much so that I kept right on yelling about it all in @flaminghydra.com flaminghydra.com/alone-in-the...

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

this is literally never not accurate

This is excellent, and great fun to read. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

I always admire @winterjessica.bsky.social 's work, and this was no different. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

A must read by @winterjessica.bsky.social. Impeccable. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

No health care, no deal.

I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable. We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina. A vote for this bill is a mistake.

Sanders: That is a totally meaningless gesture. You can get 100 votes here and it won't mean anything because the House is not going to take it up.

One of the talking points I keep seeing from Democrats is that part of the deal is that it will "ensure federal workers receive back pay" but that's the existing law! That's not something you've won in negotiations. That's just the letter of the law. You don't get to claim that as a win.

What was the point of shutting down in the first place if all you're getting in return is the promise of a vote that might not ever happen and that you're probably (?) going to lose anyway?

Really thankful for this, from @winterjessica.bsky.social—a long-overdue corrective to an exhausting discourse. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Did All These Crazy Bitches Ruin the Workplace

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

Always there when you call, always on time

Six U.S. states have fewer than a million people total

Just spectacular

(to the tune of Eleanor Rigby) 🎶socialist muslim🎶

When the charming young socialist has simply done it again

I was fighting fascism with the power of love and kindness and just really getting my ass handed to me. proteanmag.com/2025/11/01/w...

For New Yorkers who work the night shift, it can be nearly impossible to participate in political life of our city. So tonight we’re bringing this campaign to them — starting with taxi drivers waiting at LaGuardia.

oh my god

The administration’s fixation on DEI programs has been exhaustively covered. Its abandonment of civil rights law enforcement — which has effectively transported parents and students back in time, to the era before the 1964 Civil Rights Act — has not been. My piece: www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Faint notes of Beckett, Lydia Davis, Gertrude Stein, incredible work overall www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

The 80s officially became the 90s when Leland Palmer’s hair turned white

dear god in heaven above harpers.org/archive/2025...

"There is an unconscionable industry built around making people decide how much less than what they deserve they are willing to accept."

Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

I went to a No Kings in a town with a population of 30,000 and there were "thousands" there alone

Experts say that some effects of starvation in Gaza can be permanent. And for the severely malnourished, simply starting to eat normal meals again can cause sickness—even death. https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/what-comes-after-starvation-in-gaza

I remember when this ad was seen as a nadir of graverobbing kitsch but turns out it was the beta of our entertainment industrial complex / global economy www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_ct...

👩‍🚒 Folks I know it's a bad day but here we've got ourselves @isaacbutler.bsky.social on DDL! 👩‍🚒 slate.com/culture/2025...