Even Eisenhower understood this was inevitable:

I miss the old days, when I had never heard of Olivia Nuzzi.

And for World AIDS Day today, I’m reposting this important, sensitive, and profound essay. We all had, and have, our lists of love.

Today is the last day! So, please nominate your favorite 2024 and 2025 Doylean works for our annual Doylean Honors awards now! The forms are here - acdsociety.com/Honors/Honors.htm - and the awards ceremony will be held at the Mysterious Bookshop in NYC (www.mysteriousbookshop.com) on January 8.

Make that a double! A great interview, this. In the last few years, I've gotten out of the habit of buying re-issues of favorite music or films. But I will always make an exception for the Beatles. Here's my money, bring it on!

Essential Thanksgiving reading today! November 26, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

I wrote about "Quiet, Piggy," natalist movements, the denigration of women in authoritarian societies, the ways that women were treated not so long ago in the workplace (including me), and how you can push back against all that.

Hope Senate Dems are planning now on how to turn House bill to force Trump to cough up the Epstein files he and Bondi have been illicitly suppressing for months into hours or days of floor debate about Epstein, Trump, Russia and the corruption of the DOJ. www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/the-epstei...

And here's Cooper's brother Jax.

This is Cooper providing a timeline cleanse. For me, anyway...

Yes.👇👇👇

On days like today, with posts like this, I'm especially glad to have been a long-time supporter of @sheldricktrust.bsky.social.

Absolutely correct

This isn't over! Contact your Members of Congress RIGHT NOW and tell them not to vote for anything that doesn't cancel the GOP healthcare cuts!

My message to Dems: RELEASE THE FILES DO NOT CAVE

With our big election win last week, and Trump's clear political and physical decline, Dems should be more ambitious now, and fight even harder, for the country and the American people. Voters saw us fighting for them & we were rewarded across the country 👇 www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/trumps-gov...

no one has ever been better than chuck schumer at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory

@schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social DO NOT CAVE!

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I hope his wife and eldest daughter are labeled for him as well.

Happy Mandate Day!

Tonight was a huge win for democracy & a major blow to Trump's authoritarian rule Voters chose Dem govs in VA & NJ, kept a Dem majority on PA’s top court, rejected an anti-voting measure in ME, chose an anti-Trump NYC mayor & are set to back fair maps in CA. Pro-democracy sweep.

Next up: Corporate media on why tonight’s results are bad for Democrats.

THIS. I've been saying this for many, many months. This is a time for a new kind of politics. We don't live in an Old World Two-Party system anymore. "Reaching across the aisle" doesn't work so well. It's fascism vs. democracy. And you don't compromise with fascists.

Tonight is one of those nights when I wish I still had cable!

Cheers!

Only 117 to go until we get to 17,500! Help us push for an investigation into Trump's Epstein scandal HERE: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

Don't let polling let you believe Democrats are safe. Vote!

Okay, I've read this and now I'm famished. A Taste of Immortality open.substack.com/pub/scottmon...

I loved Andrea's book ICEBOUND and I expect to love this one too!

Yessss! Looking forward to this one!

Hammer horror fans—here’s Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing in their last photo together.

Here's a lovely piece about a town that's still very special to me--Sleepy Hollow--and how they've leaned into All Things Halloween with warmth rather than kitsch. (And if you ever have a chance to attend their Pumpkin Blaze, by all means DO SO.)

I can’t WAIT for this book!

Thank you, beautiful Brussels!! #ComicConBrussels2025

He destroys national historic landmarks, shares videos of him shitting on Americans, and has a press secretary who treats legitimate questions like a third-rate cast member from Mean Girls. www.timelesstimely.com/p/new-word-o...

I’m absolutely exhausted in the best possible way. I love us. We did it! #NoKings

This is why I’ll be in the streets tomorrow. #NoKings youtu.be/h54Fu3Cbwk4

"Head off Danny Kean!" Now that our lives revolve around smart phones, I guess we'll never see another one of these sequences of a bunch of men yelling at each other over landlines. From Picture Snatcher (1933).

The best girl there ever was. A promise made is a promise kept...

Both Donald Trump and his Slovene-born escort spent years calling for Obama’s birth certificate. I am calling for Melania Trump’s legal immigration papers: How did she get an “Einstein” visa for extraordinary abilities despite her blatant lie under oath about her college degrees?

More and more, Scott Monty becomes unmissable. Please read today's remarkable piece! The Fault Is in Ourselves open.substack.com/pub/scottmon...

May his memory be a blessing for us all.

Sometimes I do miss L.A.!

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

Remember to fight back against AI art: -Write stories, even if no-one else reads them -Make up songs and sing them to your pets. -Paint, draw, doodle. -Teach your dad a Tik-Tok dance. Who cares if it's good or bad, just fucking do it.

I love @morgfair.bsky.social!

We’re going to need everyone to learn how to spot a GOP lie. First sign: They’re talking.

Speaking of neglected, my current literary crush is Frances Burney, 18th century novelist and friend of Dr. Samuel Johnson. Up until this year, had never heard of her. Now, can’t get enough of her!