A song I love but that could only go on a much more adventurous mixtape than mine! music.apple.com/us/album/let...

Is there anything more hopeful and romantic than making a mixtape / playlist for someone? Not saying I’m doing it, not saying I’m not.

Even right-wing propagandists think X has a right-wing propaganda problem that is poisoning people's brains. That should cause concern among the many media / politics types who still use it and who consider their feeds to be representative of the public's views.

You look at ONE weed ad — now my phone thinks I’m opening my own dispensary

Just on a personal note, reporting this story broke my heart. Of all the unfathomable things Trump has done this year, putting SNAP recipients through this psychological hell tops the list. My endless gratitude to everyone who spoke to me. To all who who are suffering: I'm so sorry.

I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

Recently remembered that my brothers used to tease me for looking like Paul Williams, 70s songwriting legend. Honestly I should have been proud!

Can you imagine if someone released a computer game, or a musical album, or *whatever*, that was designed to sexual groom children, or encourage them to commit suicide or any of the things LLMs are doing on a daily basis, how quick the media and political condemnation would be?

Breaking News: Late last night Conde Nast illegally fired 4 union organizers who asked company execs to explain the downsizing of Teen Vogue and continued layoffs. We’ve filed a grievance.

Looks like POTUS powered down.

There is real antisemitism, mostly coming from right wing neo-nazis. There is some antisemitism on the left, and as a person on the (loosely-defined) left, I quash it if someone says something shitty. But nearly all of the antisemitism reported lately is criticism of Israel.

"Only one of 102 antisemitism complaints the authors reviewed raises antisemitism claims unrelated to criticism of Israel... The surge in complaints has been in part the work of a small group of pro-Israel actors" @alicesperi.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Creeps, cops, and perverts

Sex and art and politics and glamor -- welcome to Italian cinema! Olivia Laing's new novel THE SILVER BOOK is out and our @coryoldweiler.bsky.social gave it a read for us. In print on Sunday in the @bostonglobe.com but you can read it here now. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/04/a...

It was wonderful to have critic Laurie Hertzel write about EVENSONG, Stewart O'Nan's latest novel (a "miracle," she calls it). He's a writer who deserves more attention. This is in print Sunday in the @bostonglobe.com but you can read it here now. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/04/a...

I loved talking with Allie Tagle-Dokus, a debut author from Mass., about writing her novel while teaching at the same high school she attended. LUCKY GIRL looks at teen fame and reality TV. In the print @bostonglobe.com on Sunday, here now. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/05/a...

I hear it's because we all have vagina dentata and are witches.

One of the greatest to ever do it.

I thought he was just a guy from LI who didn't want to have to live in NYC under Mamdani. I was wrong, he's from NYC. He has financial ties to Israel and no firefighting experience (he was appointed last summer and uhm a lot was going on). From wikipedia.

The media has been one of the channels through which climate disinformation has flowed as part of coordinated and well-funded campaigns from the fossil-fuel industry, writes @amywestervelt.bsky.social.

What's happening in TX-18 is more obscene than not seating Grijalva during pro formas. Turner died in March. Abbott delayed the special election until yesterday, and now it goes to a runoff early *next year.* Congress can and should require special elections to be held within 90 days of a vacancy.

if you liked this great story about how zohran's campaign and youth outreach, you should 1) donate to the gofundme started by TV's laid-off workers: www.gofundme.com/f/help-laido... and 2) hire lex, who i genuinely believe is a generational talent as a politics writer

Awful

Democrats just ran the table, winning the marquee races -- NJ and VA sweeps, NYC mayor, CA prop, PA Supreme Court -- and lower-profile races in red and purple states across the nation. If the media you're reading or watching paints this as anything but a massive win, stop reading or watching them.

This NYT story about how Mamdani dealt with the opposition by the city's elites fails to mention one particular elite institution: The NYT editorial page, which last June railed against him as "uniquely unsuited to the city’s challenges... lacks political savvy" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n... 1/

serious note: they're gonna try 5x harder to sabotage the midterms after tonight and we're gonna have to organize on a literally historic scale to stop them

Zohran has already gotten 250k more votes than Eric Adams did 4 years ago when he was hailed as the future of the Democratic Party.

magnificent

Congratulations on your re-election, Mayor Wu - the best mayor in America. You proved once more that Boston can't be bought and won't be bullied.

The last month of the anti-Mamdani campaign was an absolutely shameful undertaking, an attempt to rip the city and Democratic coalition apart and I'm very happy to see it failed.

Someone go get out there on this and win yourself a Pulitzer

Young people in NYC absolutely showed out and there should be 1000 articles and profiles about this. Because we have had to put up with 1000 MAGA diner stories for years now.

I sincerely hope Democrats pay attention to tonight’s results across the country. They won’t learn anything but still. Maybe. People are excited by change and original campaigns and bold ideas and candidates under the age of 50!

This is incredibly important: we must frame tonight as a resounding victory — an electoral landslide, a mandate from the universe itself and as a repudiation of MAGA, of Trump, and of vichy democrats we must be relentless, we must not shut up

El pueblo unido jamás será vencido! I know we’re not out of danger by any means, but let’s keep protesting, voting, and helping each other. We can be the democracy we want to be if we keep working & loving each other.

“I hope every woman who has ever faced an abuser like Cuomo knows she doesn’t have to be ashamed, she doesn’t have to hide. Because we will beat these monsters. New Yorkers said “no more” to Andrew Cuomo, and that is just remarkable.” indypendent.org/2025/07/we-w...

There are still a lot of hard times ahead, but remember this moment and what it means: We can win.

Jesus, this is exhausting. Retire, Chuck.

Now that’s a mandate!

Let’s start a jobs program to move these pundits into occupations they might be better at.

The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.

There are more of us than there are of them.

Really really happy.

A big thank you to our poll workers and election judges for your commitment to democracy. Minnesota’s elections are safe, free, and fair because of you.

Staying at a friend's house and it's happened again: I have fallen in love with children I just met. Parents are doing bedtime and the 4-year-old just snuck down the stairs to show me her favorite book. 🥹

Disturbing news out of Auburn University, where the admin is pressuring professors to sign a statement saying they're complying with an "anti-DEI" law and TPUSA is holding a rally and trying to record classes. I hear faculty are terrified to sign, worried this is a pretense for mass firings.

It's pretty shitty to witness who's desperately engaging in unbridled, unapologetic racism in these final 24 hours before the polls close in NYC, but it's also illuminating. Masks are coming off. Takes notes for posterity. Someday, they'll pretend it was all a misunderstanding.

dear god what have i done blacksky.community/profile/did:...

Happy birthday, @pbs, and thank you for (just off the top of my head) Mister Rogers, Bob Ross, Sesame Street, Cosmos, Reading Rainbow, Nova, Frontline, The American Experience, The Magic School Bus, and Nature. The good you put into this world, and the return on my investment, is astronomical.