We really need to start asking who paid off his debts again

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

The new batch of Epstein emails makes me ponder the folks deeply outraged by trans people who want to do sports because they think it harms women. Decades of hard proof that cis men who abuse their power to harm women in the worst ways are the actual threat can alter this counterfactual obsession.

The room is almost all elephant. Almost none of it isn’t. Pretty much solid elephant. So there’s no room to talk about it. -Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room” #everynightapoem

The International Olympic Committee is set to ban trans and intersex women from competition. This is despite the fact that for 20 years, the IOC has allowed trans athletes to compete and only 1 has ever competed and none have ever won a medal. www.the-independent.com/sport/olympi...

It was harder getting endorsements for Zohran Mamdani from Democrats than them caving to Republicans to mutually strip us of healthcare

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Amid attacks on such work, NIH-led research links structural racism to increased heart disease www.statnews.com/2025/10/31/s... via @statnews.com

Altman has been quite clear about his strategy. From the 2008 crash he learned that if you bind enough of the economy to your business you can do whatever you like; government will decide the rules no longer apply. What he's selling is unaccountabilty.

New Yorkers! Hear Standing Together leaders Sally Abed and Alon-Lee Green in conversation with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander on November 12. Tickets: standtog.org/NYC

Six people died from tampered Tylenol and the company pulled 30 million bottles off the market. ChatGPT is accused of urging seven people towards suicide, and OpenAI just assures us they’re still working out the kinks. Billions in investment, zero accountability.

My latest is a love letter to Chicago. "I see you stumbling through the stubborn, awkward rhythm of showing up, again and again. I see you fighting alongside people who sometimes frustrate and confuse you, and defending neighbors you may have never met, because you know they’re all your people."

Just on a personal note, reporting this story broke my heart. Of all the unfathomable things Trump has done this year, putting SNAP recipients through this psychological hell tops the list. My endless gratitude to everyone who spoke to me. To all who who are suffering: I'm so sorry.

“I didn't exactly panic, but here's what was going through my head,” Liz in Wisconsin, 43, who receives SNAP benefits for her and her adult daughter, explained. “We have to eat. This money will not last. What happens in December? What about January? Do I have to make this food last all winter?”

“I deal with the stress of not knowing what will happen next by shoving it down and putting on a strong face for the kids,” Nikole, a single mother of four in New Mexico, said.

The decline of the American empire, in Italy’s La Repubblica. “Empires decline, then collapse. The American empire collapsed before it finished declining.” “The nation of hope churns out violence & melancholy.” www.repubblica.it/commenti/202...

My unpopular opinion: those of us advocating for non-car travel need to stop apologetically saying "I know not everybody can cycle!" Obviously not everyone can cycle, but that's also true of driving. I fear we're just giving our opponents' attack lines legitimacy by shouting them out for free

I could not live #VibeCheckPod more, but the “abundance oof vibes” in reference to Ezra Klein was just 💋

Every time a tech entrepreneur says “we don’t need to stop global warming because AI will” I want to slap them with a fish that says, “if a superhuman intelligence came into being and we asked it how to stop global warming, it would say ‘stop burning fossil fuels, you fools.’”

In case you wondered what the price of ice cream is in Cordova, #Alaska

Un grupet d'espanyolistes de VOX ha quedat acorralat a la plaça Osca de Sants (Barcelona). 🐷 Els mossos els han hagut de protegir mentre desmuntaven la parada. El veïnat antifeixista els ha foragitat

I'm one of the four fired employees. I was a writer & producer at Bon Appétit for nearly five years, during which I helped organize our union and sat on our bargaining committee. I am, to my knowledge, the only trans woman in our union and the only trans woman on editorial who doesn't work at Them

I was one of the four people who got canned. In the interim, you can subscribe to my newsletter, Straight From The Hut. No paywall, but feel free to choose the pay to support model. I'm not going anywhere — the show goes on, and I'll be back on MSNBC Saturday night. straightfromthehut.substack.com

Folks, the shutdown is the coup. Please do not expect the federal government to return any time soon. And plan accordingly.

This was my life growing up in Southeast Alaska. We flew the milk run for all of our sporting events from elementary swim team to high school basketball. Whn i tell people rhay they can hardly believe it. www.instagram.com/reel/DQrx34x...

There are more of us than there are of them.

Trans rights is a winning platform. Pro immigration is a winning platform. Taxing the rich is a winning platform. Affordable housing is a winning platform. Free childcare is a winning platform. Hating Andrew Cuomo is a winning platform. SOCIALISM IS A WINNING PLATFORM

Free childcare. Universal healthcare. Full SNAP benefits. Freeze the rent. Cancel student loans. Abolish ICE. Tax the rich. Now!

tired: leaders throw folks under the bus wired: leaders invite folks on the bus in a dedicated lane

This is why I love this place—I learn such interesting things!

A lot of the world is watching and hoping. You are running for more than Mayor of Nee York City.

Happy Zohran Day to all who celebrate!!

If you don't remember the Bush / Cheney years, don't think of him as Bush's JD Vance. He was Bush's Stephen Miller.

This is how you become a billionaire

“It is also November. The noons are more laconic and the sundowns sterner...November always seemed to me the Norway of the year.” -Emily Dickinson, letter to Elizabeth Holland (Nov 1865) #everynightapoem #november

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

Last chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

I don't see a lot of people talking about this, so I want to highlight something GOOD Billie Eilish stood in a room full of billionaires and said "you're billionaires... Why?" She donated 11.5 MILLION DOLLARS to food equity and climate orgs, which Stephen Colbert announced to said billionaires.

@zohrankmamdani is a deeply thoughtful human being and we think he would make the best NYC mayor imaginable. We feel this as New Yorkers, as Jews and as human beings who are desperate for kindness, compassion and empathy to be represented in our politics. GET OUT THE VOTE here bit.ly/4nxYXFp

I doubt any young New Yorkers follow my antiquated ass but if you do, darlings, please get out there and vote against the wealthy olds

A mother of 8 was deported within 24 hours of reporting sexual harassment by an ICE contracto She was following the rules & going through the process to get her green card Someone working on behalf of ICE abused her. She spoke out and was kicked out of the country. It’s retaliation & it’s wrong

As an educator, as a fellow woman in science, I’m fucking horrified that Lia Smith who was just a year from graduation felt her only option was to take her own life. I lay her death at the feet of all the people hounding trans women athletes like her, you fucking monsters

who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.

Just donated to my hometown food bank in Anchorage, Alaska. Give where you can people—it is going to be hard: lssalaska.harnessgiving.org/donate Només el poble salvarà el poble

I just donated to the Alaska Community Foundation to support families affected by Typhoon Halong. This fund is overseen by Native organisations who know how to best help their communities. I encourage you to join me. alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...

I dunno, I think it would be helpful if journalists translated what “rural” means in this context. Somehow I don’t think Korean people automatically make something less rural simply by existing somewhere. Unless rural means something else.

We have literal neo-Nazis working in the administration and still, little concern relative to Mamdani. It's a reminder that for many, it's not just that they associate anti-Israel rhetoric with antisemitism. It's that it is their ONLY definition, and antisemitism unrelated to Israel is ignored.

May we all have the courage and spirit to shout down fascism like barefoot pajama man.

Single-member districts make all kinds of mischief possible. The Supreme Court would be irrelevant here if we had proportional representation. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Another 🎯 from PJ Guy’s story: The power of *mental rehearsal*. Don’t just “rehearse your anxiety”. Instead imagine yourself acting — somehow—in that situation Reality unlikely to unfold like your imagined scene — but that’s not the point. *Actively create a cognitive picture of yourself acting*