Me on Mamdani: “As he rides an affordability-focused platform to national super-stardom, the overnight sensation reminds some political observers of another telegenic young politician, this one an Illinois state senator who skyrocketed to fame 20 years ago.” www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Oh my god Bari Weiss said her favorite Woody Allen movie is “Vicky Christina Barcelona” and that has to be her all-time worst take ever

If you are looking for a building beach read, I've got you: www.amazon.com/High-Rise-Mi...

Sign of the day…

This "immediate cancellation" violates the law. If the Admin thinks Columbia has violated Title VI by being deliberately indifferent to antisemitic harassment, it has to give Columbia a chance for a hearing first, make findings on the record, & wait 30 days. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...

“The Deep State must have picked the locks To buy transgender athletes jocks. Subsidizing Chinese Commies, Printing ‘Heather Has Two Mommies,’ Sending terrorists salamis And condoms for their cocks.” -The one and only @aboynamedjew.bsky.social jerryadler.substack.com/p/giving-us-...

Elon laid off 15,000 US Tesla employees in April 2024. Most are being replaced by foreign workers with H-1B visas. Now he has a cheaper workforce, can hold a visa over their heads and demand they work harder and longer hours than the original workers gave. #ElonMusk electrek.co/2024/12/30/t...

Read my dad’s light verse on the news: jerryadler.substack.com

Literal oligarchy https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/us/politics/trump-elon-musk-silicon-valley.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

People don't get that Trump's DOJ can harass critics without indicting them. Launching a mere investigation would drain them of resources. One model is how House GOP investigations have already been used against MAGA enemies. My exchange with Michael Sozen on that: newrepublic.com/article/1889...

members of Congress share more links to low-quality news sites than the public on Facebook; Republican members share considerably more than Democrats & this gap is increasing. only Republican members get increased engagement when sharing low-quality sites www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This is extremely well put. If you want a visual of what the "equal size news holes" approach does to public opinion, you can see it in these open-ended responses, collected during the 2016 election by the team behind Words that Matter (www.amazon.com/Words-that-M...)

Where is the outrage over Trump and pathetic Elise Stefanik calling the J6 criminals "hostages" when there are genuine hostages, including Americans, being held in Gaza? Serious question, not trolling.

With the window for combating climate change potentially closing next year, the Biden administration needs to accelerate its executive actions this year. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

A Republican in the White House would ensure that the world blows past the threshold of climate calamity. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Football games are too long

UW has an amazing passing game

one group of people who are among the most responsible for unleashing Trump on the American public have almost entirely escaped recrimination: New Yorkers. www.cityandstateny.com/opinion/2023...

Analysis by Philip Bump: Former president Donald Trump announced a deal with Saudi-backed LIV Golf that, were they to be consistent, should make his Republican friends very upset.

The IPCC calculates that to stay below 1.5℃ of warming, global greenhouse gas emissions must drop 43% by 2030, 60% by 2035 and reach net-zero by 2050. We’re nowhere near that trajectory — and COP28 didn’t bring us all that much closer to it. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

wouldn't it be cool if American cities had this kind of ambition? www.cnn.com/travel/paris...

"A recent federal report estimated that one in eight New York claimants who were denied unemployment insurance were actually eligible for benefits" nysfocus.com/2023/12/05/u...

I was laid off from Yahoo News today. If you're paying people for writing or editing about politics, policy, climate change, energy, housing, transportation, architecture, NYC, pizza, or anything else that can pay my mortgage, I'm at [email protected].

great read www.nytimes.com/2023/11/26/u...

Land value tax would help here, no? www.wsj.com/real-estate/...

"The code of conduct for Justices of the Supreme Court will not prevent the kinds of ethical problems that led to its adoption, because its purpose appears to be to show that the Justices have been perfectly ethical." www.newyorker.com/news/daily-c...

interesting read on how Mike Johnson got into politics www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Donald Trump and his allies have begun mapping out specific plans for using the federal government to punish critics and opponents should he win a second term, with the former president naming individuals he wants to investigate or prosecute.

I have been saying this www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Confirming months of Streetsblog reporting, the NYC Conflicts of Interest Board punishes (lightly!) a cop from a Downtown Brooklyn NYPD precinct who misused confidential information to harass a resident who reported illegally parked cars to 311: nyc.streetsblog.org/2023/10/24/s...

This is chilling. Texas A&M chancellor & Lt. Governor Dan Patrick pushed to fire a professor after she said critical things about Patrick at a lecture about opioid crisis. A 1st-year med student whose mom is a Patrick political ally complained.

"Clogged hallways and elevators are slowing down medical staff and inhibiting the transport of patients, and the swelling population is straining the hospital’s limited supply of well water." www.newyorker.com/news/news-de...

His FRIENDS brag about his mobster tactics & how he sells access via his club. Could be POTUS again in 455 days. www.nytimes.com/2023/10/22/u...

Important: WP's Aaron Blake with many instances of how GOP lawmakers have feared being targets of physical violence if they strayed from the wishes of some party activists on election certification, impeachment, the speaker's race and other topics.

Marc Lamont Hill is a very good interviewer www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkea...

“You know what this gym needs? A bunch of kids running around, hanging out and using the equipment like toys,” said no one ever — except, apparently, the folks who run my YMCA

Why aren’t fines scaled to the defendant’s means? Otherwise, they’re obviously unequal punishments or deterrents

Five thousand dollars. That'll teach 'em.

What does it mean for Trump that the dominoes keep dropping in Georgia? www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

whoa www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Jesus Christ apnews.com/article/isra...

surprise, surprise www.yahoo.com/news/russian...

Apparently traveling is allowed in the WNBA also

Human Rights Watch says both sides are committing war crimes in Israel-Gaza war news.yahoo.com/3-questions-...

The Palestinian health ministry warned that hospitals are set to run out of fuel on Thursday, leading to “catastrophic” conditions. www.yahoo.com/news/gaza-so...

Santos, the grift that keeps grifting www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

In 2016: Front page In 2023: Page A13 Always: An absolute farce.

Shot twitter.com/robertloerze..., chaser www.vox.com/2017/12/7/16...

WTF is going on with this? Seems like kind of a big deal www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Happy National Disability Employment Awareness Month. I wrote about inaccessibility in the job process and more at @motherjones.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...