me in November: OH YEAH TIME TO GET COZY also me: as long as the sweater doesn't touch my neck and isn't too itchy and the sleeves are long enough but the bottom isn't TOO long and it's the correct colors

It's a great cosmic joke that neurodivergence both runs in families and gets diagnosed based on parent reports. I was diagnosed at 30 because a man who has eaten potatoes every day for 57 years and a woman who collects loose buttons decided I was a perfectly normal child.

Me: “What’s this?” 6yo: “I drew Jesus on the cross on the back of my schoolwork so I could show my friends how he died.” Me: “…Is he screaming?” 6yo: “Well yeah. It hurt a lot when he died, right? Me: “…” (I’m going to get a call from the school social worker, aren’t I?)

I couldn't ask for a better person to cover the highs and lows of the evangelical news landscape alongside than Daniel. He has contributed so much to CT as a caring editor, careful investigator, creative collaborator, and our in-house historian. Grateful for all his work and gutted at this news.

Daniel, a friend and mentor, taught me so much about reporting and good writing when I freelanced for CT with him as my editor and even after then. I'm excited for the adventures that await him next.

A huge loss for CT. Daniel knows more about the institution than anybody, I bet. An expert on the many denominations out there. A solver of editorial problems. A safe person for abuse victims to talk to. A great colleague. Going to miss working alongside him every day.

Modi's demonetization but with food, what could go wrong

A personal note: I am leaving CT.

Jeffrey Epstein reading the first 100 pages of Lolita and stopping: "Holy shit this sounds great! Everything's gonna work out!"

Here's a depressing thought: Why would any young far-right extremist in 2025 join the Oath Keepers and *hope* that one day President Trump calls them up as a militia... ...when now they can join ICE instead and do roughly the same exact thing but with federal protection?

I apologize for putting this in your timeline, but if you do not journey through the Inferno of knowledge that this article exists, you will never reach the glorious Paradiso that is the comment section. 😅

unsubscribe from all the marketing emails Turn the thermostat up a bit Make a cup of tea breathe remember you are loved

Jamelle was cooking. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...

You wonder if there's ever any self-reflection, ever a moment of thinking, man, that was rough, that I had to say that as part of my job, that just sucked

My most woke opinion, probably: society needs to decide on a wealth cap, and income tax becomes 120% after that amount. Confiscate all hoarded wealth beyond that amount. And all those little tax loopholes need to be sealed up tight. Save the billionaires’ souls by making them not-billionaires.

There's something infuriating that Leavitt does with her face and her head shaking while she talks, but I can't put my finger on exactly what it is. I'm spending way too much time watching her video clips with the sound off trying to identify what it is she's doing.

LOL: Eric Adams. ERIC ADAMS sent an email out today reminding state employees they can't accept gifts this holiday season. BAHAHAHAHA

You would think that the 8 GOP Senators who are SO OUTRAGED that Jack Smith subpoenaed their phone records that they want $1 million compensation would bring him in to testify IN A PUBLIC HEARING to explain why he did this. But no, they don’t want to do that. I wonder why?

That Gimli and Legolas meme but it’s “I never thought I’d fight side by side with a the pope” and the pope says “how about fighting side by side with a Cubs hater”

Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops

This may be a dumb, obvious question, but should Congress prevail in demanding the release of Epstein investigation materials, who would facilitate that and how do we know they could be trusted to not selectively edit?

Hmmmm

Given the clear depth of his illiteracy, I refuse to believe that Jeffrey Epstein was actually making a literary allusion to a Sherlock Holmes story. At his reading level, maybe it was a reference to Clifford the Big Red Dog?

my politics are that i just want a world where there are no 17 year olds desperate enough to let Matt Gaetz exploit them

Sometimes the truth escapes like a cat out a door you thought was closed.

The conservative Christians defending polygamy at the same time that secular MAGAs are defending "ephebophilia" is one wild cocktail. I used to think the Atwood comparisons were overblown.

Defending a man against multiple credible sexual harassment accusations does not protect you from also being sexually harassed by him, I'm sorry to say www.yahoo.com/news/article...

BREAKING: the Trump Administration announces its intention to designate the Harpers as a "terrorist organization."

As Karoline Leavitt concludes her press briefing and walks off, @andrewfeinberg.com asks: "What was the president doing with Virginia Giuffre for hours at Epstein's house?" She did not respond.

It’s neat to see the Sadducees are getting into filmmaking.

just gonna put this here without further commentary

“You will hear everlastingly, in all discussions about newspapers, companies, aristocracies, or party politics, this argument that the rich man cannot be bribed. The fact is, of course, that the rich man is bribed; he has been bribed already. That is why he is a rich man…” —G.K. Chesterton

What people dont seem to understand is there’s no way to become rich rich without deforming your soul so much that you engage in the most profound depravities known and unknown to man.

Maybe after this we can decide no one needs more than say $10 million in personal wealth

One way to stop sex trafficking rings on private islands is to make sure no one has enough money to buy a private island

Wow

Pro tip: if you’re going to put your crimin’ in writing in an email at least, for the love of god, make the thing literate. Have some self respect.

every woman acutely understands this face.

Can we circle back to the part where the NY Times never disclosed that they have incriminating information on Donald Trump from sent by Epstein that's been sitting on their email servers for nearly a decade?

I just think it’s long past time to set all sorts of new troubling precedents, most especially ones that involve shaming abusers and their enablers out of polite society and public life.

Adelita Grijalva sworn in

"Ode to Honey Harvest" #beeingapis #beeing #apis #beecomic #beekeeping #comic #humor #honeybee #honey #bee #bees #poem #poetry #haiku #angermanagement #harvest

Happy Grijalva Swearing In Day for all those who celebrate @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social (happy day today)

There's a man goin' 'round takin' names And he decides who to free and who to blame Everybody won't be treated all the same

Landon Thomas Jr of the New York Times got told by Jeffrey Epstein that Trump walked into a glass door bc he was so busy staring at girls in Epstein's house and didn't print it. wild that the Times didn't consider that newsworthy.

Oh crap, I shouldn't have said they had a conversation. Oh crap, I certainly shouldn't have mentioned it happened in the situation room.

The Situation Room. LOL. LMAO.

"The Epstein matter is a hoax!" "Also, the president is meeting with Rep. Boebert in the Situation Room to pressure, er excuse me, to discuss her position on release of the Epstein files."

In the situation room?