Sean Dunn, aka DC Sandwich Guy, speaks outside court after his not guilty verdict: “I am so happy that justice prevails in spite of everything…. “That night I believe I was protecting the rights of immigrants… Every life matters, no matter where you came from, no matter how you got here…”

take up your gummy bear and follow me

New historical interest to lose myself in

I have seen a largish number of comments Across the Web in which it is posited that young women voted for Mamdani because he’s hot, and if ever there were an audacity of cope moment that so deftly combines misogyny and insecurity, friends,

“He speaks a kind of American that we haven’t heard in a long time, the American of Walt Whitman and Daniel Bourne…which doesn’t incorporate difference but allows difference to rewrite the national script. With new music, and food, and religion, and language, and more.”

I will Venmo any reporter $300 to ask trump “what is the name of the man who passed out standing next to you today”

I wrote for @slate.com about a legendary (and violent) Tennessee sheriff who more likely than not murdered his wife and the people who want to keep him on a pedestal. slate.com/news-and-pol...

I ruined the workplace AMA

do bitches just complain a lot? or are they busy shopping? ross douthat investigates.

because he is

“The ceasefire would "ensure the urgent delivery of humanitarian assistance to all Sudanese people," the group added about the proposal put forward by a mediator group known as the Quad and made up of the U.S., Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.”

all the ding dongs who go "paywall? can't read bc paywall? link me please? paywall?" the streets are about to get even colder

Everything will have a typo today, friends. That's just the way it goes.

Border Patrol is out and about in Little Village this morning.

If we can’t make you fear his politics or his aloof wife, we’ll make you fear his facial hair.

important pillow fort development

The discourse around the Epstein client list is possibly the most irritating of all the current hot topics.

In addition to its politics coverage generally, Teen Vogue was one of the few mainstream outlets that had incredible coverage of disability issues written by actual disabled writers. Not sure what’s left on that front now. Maybe just @19thnews.org and @motherjones.com?

It’s been a pleasure working with Lex and everyone in the politics vertical at Teen Vogue. I’m heartbroken that my column, Disability Visibility, is gone. Teen Vogue was one of the few places that published disabled journalists regularly. I just spent the last 2 months working on my next column

There should be so much more noise about Lina Khan being a co-chair of the Mamdani transition team

This is lovely.

So at the Jewish cultural museum in Berlin (which ended up just being a holocaust museum) they hide the exits or make it very hard to navigate to the exits. I later find out this is to replicate the feeling of not being able to escape. So I get very uncomfortable and ask how to leave.

Remembering being at the House of the Seven Gables in Salem, starting to panic in the very-low-ceilinged room filled with sweaty tourists, and asking if I could leave only to have the tour guide yell into the walkie-talkie that SOMEONE WAS CLAUSTROPHOBIC after which they made me go wait in the yard.

“Don’t get on your Ezra Klein nonsense!”

It totally is, and it’s also self-gaslighting. My grandpa was a preacher. And I pushed him so hard because I KNEW that inside he had the same doubts I did. He died not letting himself give voice to them, because who are you if you admit it has all been a lie? I grieve for what he could have been.

We hosted Joni Eareckson Tada! 🫸🫷

I’ve been talking to my mom a lot about and my evangelical upbringing and hers, how afraid she was when I renounced it, and how quickly she followed suit. Reminiscing about the missionaries and conmen we hosted, and the theological arguments I’d start and keep stoking until Thanksgiving was ruined.

im ready to confess to you all that i say “pled.”

That’s ok, we’ve all watched it for you.

Maybe a long shot but if anyone is going to be even tangentially involved in the negotiations at COP30 in Brazil and is willing to answer a quick question or two (anonymously if you prefer!), please reach out, Signal is davelevitan.26 or my email is easy to find.

(they squeak beautifully and their noses are squashy)

I am repeating myself, but ICE is (and has since its inception) inflicting generational trauma that will express itself epigenetically in the very DNA of the children of these victims, and of their children, and theirs after. Every single day.

has anyone made the post’s “red apple” cover into a t shirt yet

Bahahahahahaha

Perfect

I'm glad I don't tie my sense of "safety" as a Jew to some perceived right never to encounter opinions about Israel that I disagree with.

“There is no MISSION ACCOMPLISHED banner to be hung, no real material change in the world of today versus yesterday. Just the quiet relief of good news that helps us live to fight another day.” What a breathtakingly lovely piece.

anyway former car dealer Moreno whose car I have seen and costs more than I will make this year is preventing my family members who are his constituents from getting health insurance next year

I don’t know if I’m late on this, but Giuliani posted it this morning to his official FB page, and it’s so funny I had to recline on a dirty motel bed and undo my pants.

oh my god they actually did it lmao

These are deeply weird. At first I thought maybe they’re AI, and he’s dead, but they appear to be real (to the extent that means anything when discussing Trump).

Our man here has spent the past 12 hours or so arguing with a handful of people, but my single comment correcting him about the IDF’s training of american police gets the big huffy treatment. That’s a lot of agita when you could just log off, Chum.

The funny thing is that Democrats often say they want to tax the rich and expand social services - Mamdani is “aggressive” and not “conciliatory” bc he apparently was not lying and actually wants to accomplish these goals

Meanwhile

Goddamn, Islamophobes are just the saddest, weakest little babies.

This is an incredible tool, and you’ll think to yourself, “is it overly simplistic of me to be enraged to the point of explosion at how rich they all are?” The answer to that is no.