The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.
Snow is nature's urban planner: It can show us what parts of the roadway drivers don't use — and what can be reclaimed for pedestrians.
Post your photos and videos of all the #sneckdowns you see and tag us and @mayor.nyc.gov so today's winter wonderland can inspire better streets year-round!
I was in an editing tunnel all day and now I miss it.
Logging off.
Go eat something, have a little water, text a friend, give a snuggle to a consenting loved one. Get some sleep.
The horrors will be here tomorrow and we'll face them together.
“CNN identified more than 100 US citizen children, from newborns to teenagers, who have been left stranded without parents because of immigration actions this year …” www.cnn.com/2025/09/23/p... #FamiliesBelongTogether
/5 His closing do-we-have-hope point was that more personal face to face engagement is the path, as its far more successful and most people can be convinced towards a moderate stance in those contexts, unlike online shoutfests.
From Sotomayor's dissent in the Alien Enemies Act case.
I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
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I know. It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going, because they were holding on to something.
It may seem cheesy, but I rewatched all the LOTR special extendeds last week and had a big cry at this bit, but it also made me feel better about the world.
So just in case it helps anyone else, here you go, Samwise’s speech:
#booksky #lotr
I had a lot of people asking me so I wrote an explainer: Here's how you can help the incarcerated firefighter battling the blazes in Southern California this week:
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Baking cinnamon rolls from scratch for the first time ever. 🙏🏼
Will we get to pick which camp we're rounded up into?
pretty remarkable resignation letter from Joshua R. Paul, director of the State Department's Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, posted to his LinkedIn page two hours ago. archive.ph/k9PpM
I miss Steve and Barry!
There’s a really good @planetmoney.bsky.social about it!
www.npr.org/transcripts/...
I am exhausted, late for everything and getting far less work done than I wanted to, is this just how you people live here
“It’s exhausting, and it’s also sad because Twitter, for all its flaws, at its best was a really useful thing, but it is literally dead. Twitter does not exist anymore. In my mind, that’s a good thing—I don’t really think anybody should be spending their time on X.”
Probably not? But wouldn’t that be cool/ terrifying?
Same - having a hard time determining what the motives are here. Such a curious set of stories.
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the legislature is going to be so cool tomorrow, said nobody ever.
People in Fort Worth definitely object to this
I always loved this piece
I don’t appreciate the Texas legislature wasting all our time.
