I am reminded of a Chappelle bit where he talks about the one white guy in the black gang. “Those are the most dangerous motherfuckers in those groups, you know what they had to do to get in that gang?”

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As always, it's appalling at the same time it's so cheap, tawdry, and embarrassing. What a pathetic, shabby little gangster.

Me finding out @zohrankmamdani won. Captured by the great Faraz Ansari

I love that Zohran did not praise Cuomo in his speech. You absolutely do not have to say nice things about bad people. We should normalize that in “polite” politics: Praising bad people is not actually “civility.”

i closed out my column this week with this preemptive jab at basically every commentator currently looking for ways to say that last night didn’t count

Quit fishing for praise Jamelle you know all these dunks are implicitly “except Jamelle et al”

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/

Well, to be fair, Curtis has run like 900 times and is used to making that call.

I don’t actually understand what Lina Khan has to do with anything. She’s been doing only antitrust stuff for years which is completely irrelevant to NYC. Strange choice.

Oh man

Republicans thought they had a permanent hold over young men. They didn't. Spanberger wins men 18-29 by 14%, Sherrill by 10%, and Mamdani by a stunning 40%.

on top of the actual election wins, I think tonight is great because so many people needed the boost. every day since January 20 has been a fucking horror show in one way or another if you're online and paying attention, and everyone was in need of this injection of energy and hope.

Thank fucking god.

Here we go.

I don't know what will happen in NYC tonight, but I do know that regardless of outcome, any number of public figures, celebrities, politicians and institutions that oppose Mamdani have done so with a level of rhetorical ugliness, racism, and dishonesty that should neither be forgotten nor forgiven.

The officer Sandwich Guy is charged with assaulting testifies that he could feel the impact of the sandwich through his ballistic vest, and it “exploded all over my uniform.” He says he could “smell the onions and the mustard.”

There is a hilarious scene in Manhattan where Woody Allen discovers this sexual dynamo Diane Keaton said “really opened me up sexually” turns out to be Wally Shawn. “I know, but … you know, this little homunculus?

A thing people (not him) who just love repeating things about hallucinations and errors should probably take more time to seriously consider is how many pure mathematicians — where there is no room for error — are interested in and using these tools. It’s not a clear cut thing that’s going on here.

This is insane

This is a concession statement you make when the other guy beats you, not an endorsement.

Who did this graphic. Who did it.

Yeah. I felt like this with a lot of the campus protest coverage in the news. You would not even notice a thing if these people didn’t gin it up.

I don’t understand what they think they’re doing. The election is about to happen. You have to make a decision here now. I mean I understand why it’s happening but this isn’t tenable. Is he just not going to vote as an elected?

It's October 21, New York City — population 8.5 million people — has had a grand total of 255 homicides for the year; and the feds are using an armored vehicle/thing to drive the six blocks from Canal/Broadway to Lafayette/Duane after hassling the guys selling Gucci fakes.

It’s just a holiday

Everything about this is funny. Mixing up South and Southeast Asia on Diwali while running against an Indian guy. What are you *doing*

There is a wonderful event tonight in NYC. You actually probably still have time to go if nearby, it’s 24 hours. A special thing and happy Divali to people in advance. ragaslive.com

What the hell is going on with this? The reporting is so mild compared to how crazy and random this whole thing is. Who even came up with this idea?

And we're four months into the "Harvard is about to cave" narrative in MSM/NYT. GOOD FOR PENN, BROWN, and MIT.

I’m turning 40 this weekend and this took the edge off a bit. :)

Don’t actually understand what even he thinks he’s trying to say here

This is awesome

Obscene

Did cross validation wrong.

Oh man the SCOTUS experts heads are going to explode

Major media outlet falling down on the job of explaining that political influencers are the new propagandists in a take that could illustrate a class on Manufacturing Consent.

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

Meryl Streep, honoring Keaton at AFI: “She’s given us all so. Much. Happiness.” #RIP 🙏🏼

Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality just got reviewed in New York Review of Books! It’s a great review that connects the dots between a few 📚 - incl @rmac.bsky.social’s - as cautionary tales ab what’s now happening in free speech & social media. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

I yelled “oh no!” on the street. :( I loved her. “Annie Hall” was my introduction to serious film in high school. I watched so many just to get all the jokes. I just hope she’s not anywhere somebody tries to make her read Beowulf.

One year ago today, a spectacular aurora display graced the night sky across much of the globe. This was my view in *Oklahoma.* What a beautiful world we are fortunate to live on. #photography

This will be increasingly clear for US science too. The decades-long apolitical science enterprise, built on NIH and NSF, is gone. We will have to think about how to rebuild.

The thing that is in a sense “artificially” induced is that they changed the diagnostic criteria as the relevant people keep trying to explain

Right. I do not think their rulings are binding. I mean the second thing not the first thing. What is unclear here?

“They” *are* apart, “it” is “antifa”, the amount of punctuation I need to explain this idiocy is ridiculous

There are around 40,000 governments in the United States.

Well, he’s also a complete idiot, so there’s that.