This dead-eyed cretin is effectively illiterate, but if anyone ever pressed Donald Trump or Elon Musk like this in an interview, they would sound exactly the same
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This dead-eyed cretin is effectively illiterate, but if anyone ever pressed Donald Trump or Elon Musk like this in an interview, they would sound exactly the same
One day the NYT's editors will read these stories again and be ashamed of themselves. Mamdani called the attack "heinous," "criminal," "reprehensible," "terrorism," and "the antithesis of who we are." The insinuation that he's conflicted about this is disgraceful. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/n...
THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!
Propose that Apple should rename its Newsstand “What Fresh Hell Is This.”
They all just wanted in on it.
“Swamp,” my ass.
In other news, obligatory book shill: The Cloak and Its Wizard, by me! Out on Monday (!!!). All the details: rznicolet.com/books/the-cl...
Short on cash? You can ask your local library to order a copy for you! (Or somebody else's book. I won't stop you.)
#fantasy #urbanfantasy 💙📚🪐 #booksky
One of the great problem with journalism prizes is that they are mostly awarded based on the year a piece is published and not once their true power has been recognized.
But if ever there were a case for a special award...it should go to Julie.
Just 18 days after the beloved writer's death, "The Simpsons" found a way to pay animated tribute to McQuade.
Let’s not forget South Korea.
The Republican Party
wants to cut Planned Parenthood funding,
which doesn't pay for abortions;
& continue funding Israel,
which gives free abortions.
BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.
This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
Colbert and Kimmel have met the moment under our slide into fascism in a way that institutions, press, and the Democratic Party haven’t
Justice isn’t ICE leaving Minnesota.
Justice is ICE being held accountable for murdering Americans.
This is an excellent point
Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
There are a lot of people who are going to complain about being unfairly vilified by that halftime show and it's because they know in their hearts they're on Team Hate.
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
"This is the hard truth I want to land: climate does not care what’s trending. It’s not interested in Jeffrey Epstein, Gaza, or Greenland. There is no algorithmic mercy. Physics is physics, and it is getting more abrupt."
#climatecrisis #ElNino #auspol www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/we-are-...
Just hire all the laid off reporters. Call it the Washington Citizen or something. Doesn’t seem that hard.
production of The Muppet Show should not be dependent on petty vulgarities like “ratings” or “revenue.” it should be preserved as a vital function of american culture. it should have a taxpayer-funded budget rivaling the CIA
I realized that a lot of the guys who have been found in the Epstein files are probably really struggling because the guy they would have gone to for advice about being discovered in the Epstein files was JEFFREY EPSTEIN
One of the best books sections that has ever existed
“His primary point… was that state legislatures can authorize lawsuits against federal officials for violating the Constitution.”
LFG, blue states.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...
Trump paid $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017 and now wants $10 billion because a leaker pointed that out www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
My Apple Watch counts knitting as steps.
Haiti accepted Jewish refugees during WWII before the US would.
ICE is upset that ICE isn't welcome in restaurants after ICE ordered food at a restaurant, ate it, then arrested restaurant employees, and ICE believes this is someone else's fault, do I have that right?