In new workplace sitcoms Stumble and The Paper, the water is warm.

You love to see it. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.

Okay but like why is *anybody* buying Warner Bros why does Warner Bros need to be bought how big do the entertainment conglomerates need to get before they are one single conglomerate

NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month. This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory! Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...

so i'm supposed to be mad that a hard-working member of the crew is FINALLY getting a little public recognition? 🙄 okay

Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.

Felt compelled to write about Pope Leo and his remarkable recent speech about cinema: www.vulture.com/article/the-...

just being out at night if you’re anywhere near roads is like actively painful at this point

NEW: Welcome to the Great AI Bubble. Yes, it’s here. And yes, it’s going to burst. It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Buy this book! I'm in it :)

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

Mere months ago, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social was polling at 1 percent—right next to “Someone Else.” Tonight, he was elected New York City’s newest mayor. www.wired.com/story/the-bi...

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

The article I'm MOST proud of writing was published by Teen Vogue. I'll never understand how Conde could gut their scrappy, award-winning politics team. Such a huge loss.

I'm taking a big chance by moving from Substack to Ghost and I could use some help. Please share widely.

We were so happy to see everyone's enthusiasm for our project to reprint pieces from Bitch Media! We are all excited because we also loved Bitch just as much as you. It was a formative publication for many of us. So here's a thread of some of our fave Bitch articles.

There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles. Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8

Instead of trying to green cars so much why don't we just invest in trains. city trains. under ground trains. above ground trains. trains between cities. trains between countries. TRAINS THE PEOPLE CRAVE TRAINS

The way I gasped when he caught this one

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time is out on 4K Blu-Ray for the first time! (Wooo physical media!) I covered the release for Inverse ⏳ www.inverse.com/entertainmen...

Heard about the Louvre jewel heist and my first thought was “finally, some good old fashioned normal crime”

“My mother developed a system for our bread that allotted 6 small pieces to each family member over 3 days—of course, Fatosha & Massoud were included, each cat receiving one piece.” While enduring starvation themselves, Lamar & her mother walked Gaza’s streets in search of stray cats to feed.

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time is out on 4K Blu-Ray for the first time! (Wooo physical media!) I covered the release for Inverse ⏳ www.inverse.com/entertainmen...

RIP Drew Struzan, prolific illustrator of iconic movie posters for franchises such as Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Back to the Future and many more. #DrewStruzan #movieposters #RIP www.pastemagazine.com/movies/drew-...

Had zero experience with mysteries but picked up Liz Moore's God of the Woods this year because of the cover, and I've been inhaling mysteries since. It was *that* good.

gene kelly is antifa

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door. 

It wasn’t the feds —  it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help. He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Serves me right for trying to Google something about Yom Kippur

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

just when the world needed her most

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The Wayback Machine doesn’t just save websites: it saves birthdays. 🎂 1 trillion pages archived. Even recipes, traditions, & memories live on. Join us this October—register for our anniversary celebration! blog.archive.org/trillion/ #Wayback1T

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

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In 2021, I wrote about A Bug's Life and its Marxist message. Feels more relevant now than ever. "Ants don't serve grasshoppers. It’s you who need us. We're a lot stronger than you say we are. And you know it, don't you?" Trump, Musk... they're the grasshoppers. observer.com/2021/11/rewa...

I screamed into my pillow and took a walk outside to buy an iced chai that cost $6, and you know what? Those tried and true coping mechanisms have lost their juice! I don't feel better, and idk how to

"Your girl is lovely, Hubbell." Robert Redford was truly one of the greats 💙

'Lord of the Rings' star Sean Astin elected SAG-AFTRA president

RIP Maru 💔💕 youtu.be/2XID_W4neJo?...

“Editing according to traffic is not editing; it’s engineering.” tell them, david remnick!! nymag.com/intelligence...

Wrote a few thoughts about how the world that inspired me to start doing what I'm doing is basically dead www.decodingeverything.com/p/the-death-...

I went long about Netflix’s Fit for TV docuseries, the fatphobic legacy of The Biggest Loser, and the complex rise of GLP-1s for my comrades @theflytrapmedia.com.

some of my ex polygon colleagues started a new thing. i'm extremely excited to have a place to read their work, and rooting for them unconditionally. everyone subscribe!! www.rogue.site

For 12 months, America had a limited proof of concept for universal healthcare, and it was so uniformly successful we had no choice but to obliterate our society

Japanese Americans protest Fort Bliss, former WWII incarceration site, as largest ICE migrant detention center www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-a...

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

“Federal law enforcement asked the crews to line up to check their IDs, according to the firefighters. One of the firefighters said members of the crew were told not to take video of the incident.” DHS did this as flames actively raged. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

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