Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

All I would like to do is talk to people about PLURIBUS

“Major businesses are adding significant square footage and there is urgency to lease even more office space in New York City with no sign of any looming corporate exodus caused by democratic socialist Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s election win.”

Apple TV — w no crazy library, prod co, or IP deals — firing well • A+ new Finneas-made logo card • PLURIBUS, DOWN CEMETERY ROAD probably best #goodtv at present • Strong rest of slate: SLOW HORSES, THE STUDIO, SEVERANCE, PRESUMED INNOCENT, MORNING SHOW, SHRINKING, DROPS OF GOD, etc • F1 to come

Dumb as can be

Excl: Are you ready for a LABUBU movie? Because Sony Pictures just acquired the screen rights to the massively popular toy and accessory brand. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Is this weaponizing the DOJ?

This is big: elected Republicans in a deep-red state saying NO to Trump even after his personal plea. The balance is shifting - and we have to keep up the pressure everywhere.

“It also felt like a hostage situation, where the kidnapper threatens harm if you do not keep information about the demands confidential… I worried that if I went public, U.Va. would lose funding and get attacked by the Trump administration…”

Scoop: The Trump administration is planning a policy change that could make it harder for immigrants to get green cards and other approvals if they are from countries subject to the president’s travel ban, according to internal documents. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...

NEW: The backlash to Trump has been coming in big waves. Dems' sweep in last week’s elections. The 7 million people who turned out for “No Kings” protests. But it's been fueling something else all year: a surge in young progressives signing up to run for office. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

This @nymag.com photo diary of Mamdani’s Election Day is so well done

??????????? $50m in taxpayer money to Michael Flynn ???????????

“.. as the House prepares a vote to force the release of the files from the Justice Department's investigation ..” @axios.com www.axios.com/2025/11/14/e...

7 million people watching this show ON LINEAR, growth from last year. Wild

Covering the right-wing digital ecosystem requires a very specialized kind of reporting www.garbageday.email/p/climbing-t...

All I have to say about the Nuzzi profile is that at the end of it she jokes about how she destroyed her life. In fact she did not do that. She has a book, a magazine job, this lovely profile. People’s lives are being destroyed by this administration, however, including by -well, you know.

“No one knows who Hakeem Jeffries is, so he doesn’t really serve as a good foil for us, in terms of using his face or name in attack ads,” a Republican operative told me" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/o...

realized my piece on the metaphorical flexibility of pluribus is unintentionally an seo play for the phrase "what is pluribus about" www.vulture.com/article/what...

This is good reporting and all that but here's the thing I learned the other day: Bill Pulte, the 50-year-mortgage dude and the guy who keeps pulling the mortgage docs of Trump's enemies is only 37 years old. www.wsj.com/finance/regu...

Every time I reflect on this movie, it gets better. This beat, joyous! ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER is a masterpiece. Benicio a big reason why. If you have not seen this movie, change that ASAP

We inherited” is the new “but her emails.” They take responsibility for nothing. Who deported workers in the food production industry? Who imposed massive tariffs on finished goods, agricultural products. and raw materials? Who promised to lower prices “on day one”?

Crap! There goes Christmas. Santa denied entry. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Blaming immigrants for everything is fucking vile and easily debunk-able horseshit. Scum of the earth shit from JD Vance. And obviously we didn’t flood the country with 30 million immigrants. Fuck this despicable hateful phony wannabe.

Conservatives think free speech is when they can say what they want and when you can say what they want. bsky.app/profile/phil...

the thing that strikes me about this — again, besides it being false — is the venom and disrespect for the people who come here to work and build better lives. they aren’t “servants.”

Executive branch lawyers signed off on Mr. Trump’s desired course of action, including appearing to have accepted at face value the White House’s version of reality. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

After King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard left Spotify in protest earlier this year, something strange took their place. My investigation into what happened, which resulted in Spotify taking down a bunch of slop tracks www.platformer.news/king-gizzard...

👀

Vine is being rebooted under the name diVine, with funding from Twitter’s former CEO Jack Dorsey. The app plans to feature more than 10,000 previously archived Vines and does not allow AI-generated content. (divine.video)

A really beautiful movie

👀 Trump lame duck watch

macOS 26.2 adds new ‘Edge Light’ feature for better video calls

42 million people are on SNAP. The US has a death rate of 922.9 deaths per 100,000 people. 922.9 / 100,000 * 42,000,000 = 387,618 So the program seems to be removing people within 6 months. Not bad!

According to the car wash owner, agents arrested employees before they could obtain their documentation from their work lockers. So many were likely here legally. Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.

Fwiw this is not a bad idea to revive the show

"Newsom basically gets to be our international spokesman by default, not on merit." @tomfilp.bsky.social on Newsom's climate shortcomings: www.sacbee.com/opinion/arti...

MLB players in the Olympics! Glad this is getting worked out. www.latimes.com/sports/olymp...

To that end ...

Trump signs bill ending longest shutdown in history. But while agriculture, military construction, veterans and legislative agencies will be funded for most of 2026, the rest of government will only be funded through January, presaging another fight. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...

“While Khan is already being tagged a socialist, and was seen during her tenure as specifically hostile to big American business, her policies are deeply capitalist. She wants more competition, not less…” Liz Hoffman on Lina Khan @semafor.com

lol, lmao

the latest from RD: @joelhs.bsky.social on how the American Jewish establishment is responding to shifting perspectives on Israel religiondispatches.org/mamdanis-pop...

how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

The project would include new bus priority lanes between Centinela and the 405 Freeway

Fox News ran video that it said were shot in Portland, Oregon, in September to gin up support for deploying the National Guard there. In truth the images were shot 5 years ago. @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/port...

Detransition is being used as political fodder by the Trump admin and its allies to support extreme anti-trans policies. In the process, the reality of detransition is lost. For our new series, I spoke with detransitioners who feel harmed by the Trump admin. Their stories are complex and important.

Great piece by @oriion.bsky.social and a great representation of what research suggests is more the norm than the exception. Detransitioners generally do not identify as cisgender even after detransition and often do not regret their transition.

NEW: The shutdown is ending. The damage to food stamps may not be. Trump's halt to funds has undermined faith in the program and left many to question whether the government will protect its citizens from harm. The lingering impact of the last 40+ days: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...