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MOTHER JONES: “You should be paying attention to the race in Tennessee’s 7th congressional district”

If pumpkin pie feels tired, this cake is the upgrade: It’s plush and deeply spiced without veering into heaviness, the kind of dessert that feels just as welcome at a holiday table as it does on a random Tuesday night. nyti.ms/4i6ju2B

Judge Matthew Thornhill's burning love for Elvis Presley prompted him to occasionally wear an Elvis wig on the bench — behavior that a judicial conduct commission cited in calling for him to be suspended and then resign. Court documents say he agreed to step down after nearly 20 years on the bench.

A celebrity is a person first.

"Let's go over this one more time." "I know what-" "ONE MORE TIME." "Fine." "What is it you're looking for?" "A garbage bag." "In which room?" "The kitchen." "What do you do when you find it?" "Bring it to you here." "I'm counting on you, Tim."

“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.” Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter

The fact that this kind of thing is not a cure for depression (seasonal or otherwise) doesn’t mean it can’t go in your toolkit. Your toolkit can be full of dads!

sen. warnock gave a very good speech yesterday at georgetown and it was a reminder that this guy is, i think, a presidential caliber talent whether or not he wants the prize www.youtube.com/live/xty8iKG...

[November 18th, 1985] In the Season 17 premiere of Sesame Street, Episode 2096, the adults on Sesame Street finally meet Mr. Snuffleupagus and realize he is real, not imaginary. Elmo is also introduced as a new character.

This is what guys like Yglesias, and everybody else making hay about Kamala supporting transition care in prisons, want to happen everywhere.

*clears throat, taps mic: Please read my first cover story for Inc. Magazine, a profile of Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian about his next chapter in business: www.inc.com/sam-blum/ale...

Made this, it’s fucking delicious (it’s cranberry, pear, orange). America’s Test Kitchen is doing gift links now!!! Enjoy this complimentary ATK recipe—no login required—for the next 30 days.

“We are in the middle of a scandal of elites palling around with one of the most infamous child sex traffickers in the world, and this is our political press? No wonder Epstein got away with it all so long: many of the men tasked with being the watchdogs were almost as gross as he was with women.”

What this underlines for me: we cannot frame "identity" in opposition to "the material" in politics when identity defines who belongs, and therefore who can engage in collective struggle for common material gains.

Folks I am short a bill by about $300. If you were perchance looking for holiday gifts or a treat, may I point you at my handmade goodies? Thanks. www.peculiarityshop.com/hillary-s-co...

My final story for Lee Enterprises is out today — a profile of Gov. Pritzker's chief of staff, @annecaprara.bsky.social. She’s helped shape his "Team Fight" approach to dealing with President Trump while using her own agency to enlist others in the battle. Read here: pantagraph.com/news/state-r...

Love! this “Everybody has an origin story. All these people in power have been rejected by polite society. There are two ways to handle that: reform, be a better person and look inward, or become a full fascist authoritarian. Most chose the second.”

After 42 years wrongfully incarcerated in the Angola State Penitentiary, Gary Tyler has been living and working as an artist and advocate in Los Angeles for the past decade. via @laist.com

I went deep on SNAP, including the 50-year battle to make benefits more generous, and the unprecedented cuts and restrictions taking hold in the program, which are separate from and much more permanent than the recent payment freezes www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/d...

"They were intimate enough for her to see him flossing his teeth, his dopp kit overflowing with prescriptions. She writes that despite being 'sober' for decades, Kennedy [RFK Jr.] told her he still uses psychedelics, and smoked dimethyltryptamine, or DMT..." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/s...

I am looking for guests with disabilities to come on my award-winning podcast Disability After Dark. If you are interested, reach out to me at [email protected] and please pass this along.

NEW: During a Vatican audience, a prominent same-sex couple told Pope Leo XIV they were married. The pope responded with overwhelming kindness — and a conversation about the day’s Wordle. This quiet moment may signal something bigger: the kind of Church Pope Leo intends to build.

People who make primary source documents easily accessible to the public are the best Thank you @paulgp.com

The obsession with tall handsome white men with famous names is so strong Jack Schlossberg doesn’t have a single policy position on his website but people already want to vote for him.

It would be a shopping experience free from the ecological harm done by traditional grocery stores with their plastic-wrapped produce and countless brands of processed snacks delivered by long lines of carbon-spewing trucks. 🫘 #WhatWorks

Grace Kelly photographed on 4 October 1951 watching the World Series opener between the New York Yankees and the New York Giants at Warner Bros Burbank Studios with the cast and crew of “HIGH NOON” including Otto Kruger, Thomas Mitchell, Gary Cooper and Lon Chaney Jr.

a lot of people don't know how to use the term "male gaze" and so when they say "male gaze and female gaze" they mean "male vibes and female vibes"

Today is the publication day for WITHOUT CONSENT, a book I am so proud to share with the world, and that the New York Times Book Review says "is years — decades — overdue." Read more, and order in your preferred format from your favorite retailer here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...

So this is an amazing story, which it turns out is (must be) the basis for the recent SVU episode with Danielle Macdonald that involves the doulas. It’s a sad, very bizarre tale. But there is one darkly funny detail that is just … you almost can’t believe it.

Until the end of the government shutdown, our campaign will be donating $2,500 a month to a food pantry in the Ninth District. And to my fellow candidates, I challenge you to do the same:

This is really well done. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

I know I have very few followers but what the hell might as well try. Fetch is a receipt scanning app I’ve used for years. You get points for gift cards. If you join I get $4. I’d like to bank a gift card to Walmart and shop for my local food pantry. Help me out? referral.fetch.com/vvv3/referra...

Northern Europeans have a mantra: “There is no bad weather, only bad clothes.” These rain pants prove them right.

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

Cameran Drew, 19, defeated his former high school government teacher by 10 votes in a race for a county supervisor seat in southeastern Virginia this week.

My wife just opened up a shop for her beautiful and terrifying quilts! Featuring some exclusive Swan Boy designs from yours truly. Why, you'd be a FOOL to miss out: nicole-sews.bigcartel.com

BREAKING: A federal jury in Brooklyn awarded our clients — 674 immigrants unlawfully jailed by the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office — $112 million. Could not be more proud to work at @latinojustice.bsky.social and to partner with the talent of Winston & Strawn.

You know a lot of right wingers love to theorize who is funding left wing protest. Well conversely I’d very much like to know who is bankrolling Kim Davis

Jimmy Kimmel opens ‘Big, Beautiful Food Bank’ as Snap cuts hit families amid shutdown The late-night host invites food and essential donations at his Hollywood center to support Los Angeles charities www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Watching the latest episode of Down Cemetary Road. Emma Thompson as a spicy PI with silver hair who wears leather pants. Yes, please.

my brilliant friend Anna is working on a hilarious and crazy inspired-by-a-true-story short film about the absurdity of U.S. electoral politics. i chipped in to help get it made and would love if you did too! supporting bold independent artists is a high like none other ✨

You have to survive. There are graves to piss on that haven't been dug yet.

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol

I’m honestly surprised Mike Johnson even admitted he knew there was an election yesterday.

Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.

I joined @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social as he took his campaign to the people who keep New York running while the rest of us sleep, and considered what his mayoralty would (will??) actually look like.

There’s a term for a man like this. All hat and no cattle.