Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

DOJ briefly uploaded this letter from Jeff Epstein to serial child molester Larry Nassar: "Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

We’d like to share a remembrance for Betty Reid Soskin, the oldest serving National Park Service ranger in the country, who has passed away. Her life and work helped preserve history, expand whose stories are told, and inspire generations to come.

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will

Nobody works this hard for this long to cover up something this bad unless they are guilty.

The more we see of Chinese EV's the more we realise just how shit and out-of-date Tesla really is. "Ignore that! Look over there! Fake robots and a Mars mission which will never happen! Please believe me, don't tank my fraud!"

pedophilic behavior

Liberty falls, McDonalds remains standing.

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

All my recent books went from hardcover to trade paperback and almost all of my backlist in mass market has now migrated to trade. The role of mass market paperbacks is now handled almost entirely by ebooks. I'm okay with this but it is the end of an era. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Australian news reporting that the hero bystander here is named Ahmed al Ahmed. Muslim, father of two.

In a purely transactional country like the U.S., “exit” is the most powerful strategy of resistance.

how do women not die of rage aneurysms every single day

So many things wrong with this. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”

Take note. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

I give these books as baby/kid gifts all the time. I love them so much and the kids and parents do too. It’s fun to add to their collections as time goes on. And this is coming from someone who takes their Aunt cred *very* seriously.

Couldn’t Sam Altman just ask ChatGPT how to make itself profitable

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

Groups of dudes who self-segregate & talk each other into believing that they are uniquely brilliant & everyone else just doesn't get it ... are responsible for some of history's most florid horrors.

It's decided. Europe is closing the tap on Russian fossil fuels once and for all. Energy independence starts now. → link.europa.eu/tykVJf

I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time." Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...

Reminder: Green energy doesn't require war with oil-rich countries. It's also sustainable and doesn't pollute our air. It is also the future of the planet at large. If we choose oil, we choose our own extinction. So war for oil/oil = bad Green energy = good Thank you for attending my ted talk.

Quiet part, meet out loud.

I thought this was fairly well established, but: here's another new study showing that wind and solar complement each other and make for a more stable grid when combined.

Jebus, in just 2 or 3 years Pakistan has imported enough solar panels that, in some times in the coming year, panels will cover *all* the country's demand.

So MAGA, You see these two? One of them is your dear leader, the other is a Prince in a country where CHRISTIANITY IS BANNED. Where you can be arrested for being a CHRISTIAN, for displaying CHRISTIAN symbols and even, for having a bible. But go ahead, tell me how much fucking MONEY he's investing.

NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House. By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro

For no particular reason….posting former U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell’s mugshot before he went to Federal prison for committing numerous crimes on behalf and or/at the direction of President Nixon including obstruction of justice and conspiracy.

Operation Change The Topic From Epstein

Don't worry - we're not going anywhere! Read our statement at Almanac.com

There is something really wrong with people who need workers to be not just competent, but slavishly fake-happy. "Slavishly" used on purpose, bc that's where this grotesquerie comes from.

incredible that these guys have a massive hard on for a country that, if it were a state, would rank behind kansas in terms of wealth and which would be a total backwater if it weren’t economically integrated with more functional countries

It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing

BRING BACK HERMAN MELVILLE AND NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE BECAUSE WE NEED THEIR TAKES ON THIS

Trump: "Hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."

Everyone should pay careful attention to the Maine voter ID ballot measure (Prop 1). It is on track to lose -- thereby proving that the GOP claims that voter ID laws are overwhelmingly popular is a lie. Perhaps now the legacy media will stop repeating that nonsense.

Just a reminder folks to VOTE tomorrow no matter how small locally. We all need to vote while we still can! #ProudBlue #BlueCrew #Pinks

In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes. www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

I've said it before and I'll say it again now: Live your life in such a way that millions of people do not rightfully have reason to cheer your death.

Good stuff from Vienna Bakery, in Barrington, R.I. www.facebook.com/viennabakeryri

HAPPENING NOW: Portland Police Commander Franz Schoening testifies that federal officers on Oct. 18 barraged protesters with crowd control munitions — not because of any violence but because another federal officer accidentally shot tear gas onto the roof of the ICE facility.

Maaaaan, this. So much this. Every time there's any kind of actual in-depth survey we find that the American people are *abysmally* ignorant about even the most basic political facts, but the pundit class just immediately forgets & proceeds with political analysis based on subtle policy differences.