i think online gambling is a cancer that is spreading throughout our society, it was a horrible mistake to de-regulate it, and we desperately need to crack down on it again

I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?

When I think about how exquisitely careful NEH staff were to be fair, impartial, and rigorous, and how much work people put into grants so small they’re pocket change…I just want to scream.

Alice was a friend, a mentor, and a guide to so many in the disability community, and especially in the realms of disability and technology and disabled-led design. This one hurts bad, but some of her last words were "Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all." Gonna try to hold that.

Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this

This is your regular reminder that if you’re interested in all the religious left stuff that’s been happening of late, much of it is built on networks, groups, and campaigns that have emerged in the past 20-30 years. And there’s a whole book on it! (I wrote it) www.amazon.com/American-Pro...

Some news: tomorrow at 9am, Ted Koppel + CBS Sunday Morning will air a two-part story on the devastating surge of full-time workers being pushed into homelessness. I'll be interviewed along with two families from There Is No Place for Us. It would mean a lot if you'd watch and help spread the word.

Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated

Love to see community action against this AI nonsense! neighborhoodview.org/2025/11/13/d...

These people need to go to The Hague

I am mildly high and thought this cheap Kevin James movie would be funny. Alas. I think a high 14-year-old boy might love it though.

if you’re a journalist who wants to talk about how embarrassing this week has been for our profession (the michael wolff, landon thomas jr, nuzzi/bernstein of it all) message me on signal

Why is Claire Danes making excuses directly to her editor? Isn’t this what agents are for?

every time I think we have hit peak weird, I am proven wrong

Second episode of the new Claire Danes joint opens with a moody instrumental version of a Pixies song (Wave of Mutilation). I am the target audience for this stuff.

In @huffpost.com: The Trump backlash that's transforming the Democratic Party in red states, blue states, and everything in between -- driven by @runforsomething.net & the 75,000 people who've signed up with us in the last year. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

This new Clair Danes show was made exactly for me. Opens with a classic Danes ugly cry, reveals she’s an author working on a book about the friendship between Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia.

The public urination is a pretty real story too!

Helluva bombshell in the midst of a total firestorm.

This is exactly what I thought the nepo baby who wrote the Olivia Nuzzi article looks like

Update: The Trump-Epstein friendship statue is up at Busboys.

So is anyone ever going to ask these people what is wrong with being Palestinian? bsky.app/profile/atru...

That’s a Pulitzer

Queen 💔

Goodness me, I stayed up late reading and it’s already Partially Muscled Skeleton Screaming by the Perimeter Fence Day. Hope you’ve all been good this year!

People need to study the humanities, case study number one million.

Never forget the same people defending pedophilia have spent years trying to convince the public that drag queens and trans people are a threat to children. It’s all smoke and mirrors to allow the real predators to roam free.

I think it's the "saving up for braces" part of this story that adds a whole new level of ick. Like... that's a kid, man

A sitting congressman trafficked and raped a teenager

Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/google-has-c...

Wonderful that he’s been spared. Now he needs exoneration.

This is very niche, so scroll on by if it's not your thing, but I just had the thought, totally unbidden, "I enjoy being myself." It took a lot of therapy to get here! Thought I would share in case anyone is just starting to figure their shit out: you can and will like yourself someday.

So easy not to cross the Starbuck's picket line (their coffee is awful). Sending solidarity to the workers.

I really enjoyed BLANK SPACE by W. David Marx, a look at how barren and repetitive culture has been in the first quarter of this century. My column is in Sunday's print @bostonglobe.com but you can read it here now. Please subscribe! www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/13/a...

Also in this Sunday's print edition of the @bostonglobe.com is our review of @sarahweinman.com's new book, WITHOUT CONSENT, about how very very recently spousal rape became a crime. A shocking story, very well told. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/12/a...

I know there's more going on today than books, but I wanted to tout a review that will appear in this Sunday's @bostonglobe.com and is online now: @hamiltoncain.bsky.social on THE PELIAN CHILD, a new collection from master Joy Williams. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/11/a...

Yep. 1000% percent. I had a good friend who dated older guys a lot, and it was really gross how this type of guy talked about us as girls -- literally, girls of 13, 14, 15.

Nnnnnnnnnope. No conservative intellectual can say they just didn't think to distance themselves from their violent and racist right wing. Since Buckley, that has been their whole thing. [gift link:]

This is such boomer shit. I thought it was pretty much known for decades that a phone call is safer than an email, and in-person is safer than a phone call. There are so many things I won't put in an email that are just idle gossip, let alone fucking crimes.

Thomas Jefferson was 44 when he started in creeping on 14-year-old Sally Hemings. And Sally, who was enslaved, shared a father with Martha Wayles Jefferson—Tom's wife. He's been dead literally centuries and the US refuses to reckon squarely with what this meant for definitions of American greatness

I was at a fancy book party last night and the most exciting conversation I had was with a young editor who knows the other Kate Tuttle (a standout cross-country runner at Williams College).

Exactly. It's not surprising but it is revealing and of course enraging.

photos and videos.

BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.

new meme

let justice be done, though the heavens fall this isn’t a game

jeffrey epstein spent thanksgiving *2017* with President Donald Trump at Mar a Lago and we only know this now i'm going to go insane

Jeez

The photos crossed our radar first and we genuinely thought they were faked but nope! The Pope hates Illinois Nazis! www.thetimes.com/world/europe...