Gustave Baumann’s Fifth Avenue

Highly recommend By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land by Rebecca Nagle. Bought at Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse in Santa Fe.

Original art by Vanessa Vanya. Card bought at Beastly Books in Santa Fe. Walking distance from our hotel!

BlueSky shoutout on Abbot Elementary!

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

I’m so impressed the president of Mexico is bringing charges against the man who assaulted her.

Get off all Meta platforms if you haven’t already. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

New episode of Abbott Elementary today!

Gorsuch finally starting to understand what they have unleashed

Desi parents, my brother…

Maybe Barack’s 2004 DNC speech but I needed this more.

I would like 10,000 Mamdanis and AOCs across the country please.

One man who's been in the United States here for 20 years, and whose wife and kids live here, even says he was physically threatened into signing his own deportation, with the ICE officer threatening to physically hurt him if he didn't sign the paper, or even grab his hands and "sign" for him.

A seeming bit of history tonight as Ghazala Hashmi becomes the first Asian American to win statewide office in Virginia - and the first Muslim woman to win statewide office *anywhere* in the United States.

For children and teens, heart and blood vessel complications of Covid overshadow the very rare and short-term risk of vaccinations, a new report from nearly 14 million kids www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Obama: "The weird videos of a US president with a crown on his head flying a fighter jet & dumping poop on American citizens - that's not even worth booing about. Because all of that is a distraction from the fact that your situation, your life has not gotten better. They do it so you won't notice"

Interesting history I learned from Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare by Edward Fishman: Iran’s nuclear program began because of the Atoms for Peace program under Truman

Never take seriously those who ridicule low income people for having a smartphone or laptop. “If they’re so poor how did they buy an iPhone???” Because they’re trying to escape poverty, not the 1700s, genius. If you think basic tech access is luxury, survive a month without it.

FBI: "We didn't zip tie children." REPORTER: "Here's a photo of a zip tied 14 year old." FBI" "OK, we didn't zip tie YOUNG children."

Just watched the excellent new documentary on Netflix called The Perfect Neighbor substack.com/@krisbrownof...

Parker is making popcorn, and we are watching The Chair Company!

Currently at intermission at the latest ATXplained. Always one of the best nights of the year. texasconnect.utexas.edu/2025/03/24/k...

Someone tell the Democratic Party that fascism is, in fact, a kitchen table issue

We’re going to see Frankenstein tomorrow evening. Parker is so excited.

“songs about thriving, not just surviving, while disaster is happening” open.spotify.com/artist/2xLEV...

Enjoyed Megha Majumdar’s new novel, A Guardian and A Thief, though it is bleak.

The five biggest meat and dairy producers are generating more methane than the largest oil and gas firms, according to a new report.

In Seattle visiting friends. Beautiful fall colors everywhere.

Wow, I just finished binging Boots today, and it does not portray the military as woke. (As if that matters.) Are they going to start coming after what we watch? Pentagon slams Netflix for 'woke garbage' amid releease of gay military series 'Boots' (exclusive) - Entertainment Weekly

Turns out your assumptions about what republican group chats are like is correct www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

I like it when people on the right chastise the left for crying wolf because they have trump now and they kept warning about right wing authoritarianism under W., and it’s like: you mean the guy who is of the exact same political party as Trump whose administration’s abuses led directly to today

Also, if you want to take your mind off things, I suggest going to see Roofman, starring Channing Tatum. He’s great in it!

Spent the weekend reading Florence Knapp’s debut novel, The Names. I loved it.

Nice recap

What an absolute treasure Diane Keaton was. Her wit never tired, nor did her style.

God, my parents were a beautiful couple. A picture of a Polaroid taken of them in Karachi when my mom was a few months pregnant with me. In their 70s now, my dad is stil handsome, and my mom has the kindest face you’ve ever seen.

Watched The Alabama Solution, a documentary on HBO, of the horrific conditions in Alabama’s prisons. Tough watch but I recommend checking it out.

Spent the evening with some friends, and we watched Palm Springs together. We all liked it. Time loop romantic comedy.

Contains spoilers for the new season of Monster on Netflix If you’re binging the new season of Monster, which is all about Ed Gein, just know that it takes *a lot* of liberties. www.forbes.com/sites/paulta...

New episodes of Abbott Elementary?! What a great way to spend an evening!

Journalist and Dopesick author Beth Macy has a new memoir out I want to read. She went to college on a Pell grant. How cruel they are to take away Pell grants from the poor.

I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us