Heads up, writers!

New — I wrote about the myriad ways journalism’s moral rot manifests, and how our crumbling institutions have created the conditions for it to fester:

The most notable detail in this story for me is that I knew Bovino's dad, who owned a bar in Blowing Rock I frequented.

Border Patrol and ICE are currently arresting and stealing our community members off the streets in Charlotte. Donald Trump is single-handedly responsible for this heinous actions. PLEASE report any activity you see. And know that our party stand with ALL immigrant communities.

Oh, but the other one IS?

Eyes as blue as the flame Shedding tears for a rose: Sights that wrench a girl’s heart Like whale juice stings the nose His love, so insatiable Complex and dark More perplexing by far Than roadkill in a park He promised a baby, A bullet--no pain-- A future as long As the worm in his brain.

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The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.

We’ve got the northern lights all the way down in Orange County, NC tonight!

Season 3 of Shetland

If you're in or around Durham, and you're able, please consider joining me in pitching in to support Greg's Bull City Foodraiser. Donations from non-locals are, of course, also welcome. Every little bit makes a difference.

Jon Stewart "Can't F**king Believe" Democrats Caved on the Shutdown youtu.be/eFI6MwlLJ08

I cordially invite you to note how many Dem senators are in @numb.comfortab.ly’s ratio feed.

Have one of your junior staffers explain this to you.

seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Mamdani is going to implement Shakira law. Everyone will have to learn to perfectly learn the choreography to Hips Don’t Lie.

Here's the promised longer explainer: www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf

HE'S APPEALING TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES THAT HE BE ALLOWED TO STARVE AMERICANS

"Misused Apostrophes: Most souls on this level are cursed to endlessly hunt for things that they mistakenly stated belonged to someone or something. Where is Kid’s party? What about Nacho’s $5.75? This entire level has lost it's way." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/dan...

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

Doing some math with the White House.

In 1066 minarchist monarch William the Conquerer defeated Communist Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Hastings, ending Godwinson’s failing Marxist policy of having names with Æ in them

That was a really good speech written by Zohran’s aloof wife.

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

Can we talk about how Eric Adam hasn't got 7K votes yet?

Inbox— next cover of the New Yorker: “Mayor Mamdani,” by Edel Rodriguez

When a headline could really use a hyphen. #copyediting

"The agent grabbed Ms. Stagi by the hair, put her into a chokehold, dragged her through the street and threw her down a grassy embankment. Ms. Stagi said, “I’m 5-2. I’m not assaulting him..." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...

As Oscar Wilde once said, to receive the endorsement of President Trump in a New York City election may be regarded as a misfortune; to also receive, on the same day, the endorsement of Elon Musk looks like carelessness.

You've gotta love the champagne-resistant wrappings on the cameras.

If you're on the east coast, the new Wordle just posted, should you need something to distract you from this insanity.

How can you not be romantic about baseball?

I know I've said this before, and I'm not sure what good it does my saying it—because who cares what I think?—but with the void thus identified, I'm going to shout into it: people who do not believe in government should not be in government. Ever.

Waiting for someone to explain why the announcement of a trade relationship that is worse than the one we had a year ago is received as a big success

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice. This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

New: Progressive congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh has been indicted over protests outside Chicago-area ICE facility after videos of confrontations with federal agents have fueled right-wing calls for her arrest. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/k...

Fuck me Freddie.

That bedtime gummy I took is not making this game any easier.

If this goes 18 innings, does it count as the third and fourth game?

Isaac Chotiner could strike out Shohei Ohtani.

oh my GODDDDDDDDDDD (apologies for screenshotting the hellsite, which I no longer use; I saw the link in CNN's Reliable Sources newsletter)

Maureen Dowd, Ross Douthat, the Bedbug, who ultimately really gives AF, right? They're all the same.

When you can’t even keep track of what your columnists are driveling on about.

Ross Douthat wrote that column, you blithering idiots.

But not wind farms, because those are ugly.

Cuomo: "When I left office ..." Sliwa: "Andrew, you didn't leave—you fled!"

Mike Johnson doesn't know sh*t

There is no greater likelihood that some rando will be wrong about something than when they complain about the passive voice.