Americans elected the only new yorker alive who has never set foot in a bodega bsky.app/profile/atru...

People are asking ChatGPT things I would normally just ask a friend, parent, mentor, therapist or medical professional for or about. It takes work to build and maintain those relationships, and figure out who is the right person to ask, but the alternative is a digital tool known for lying to users.

also apropos of nothing but if you asked me to guess the ages of the two people in those photos I’d be way off for both of them

this is how I learn Justin Trudeau is dating Katy Perry???

free headline for Orban’s defeat: HUNGARY FOR CHANGE

The hungry red panda at the Prospect Park Zoo? Adorable.

The HungryPanda delivery app scamming small businesses? Not adorable. So they will be paying $580,000 back.

We'll keep pursuing companies that take advantage of New Yorkers, and we'll keep asking if we can pet a red panda just for a second.

“In bravely facing the cold vacuum of nothingness, the four humans on that spacecraft carried the warmth humanity holds with them. And by briefly becoming more alone than anyone has ever been, they served as a reminder that we can face the darkness together.”

You would be absolutely staggered at the amount of paperwork involved in getting qualified for one of these units. Streamlining and digitizing the lotteries should be an essential an city government project.

new from me: i wrote about the intense juxtaposition this week between the horrors of Trump’s threat to wipe out Iran and the majesty of our world as seen from the Orion capsule beyond the moon

Okay this isn’t really happening anymore so I can tell you how l had “internal ICE sources”: the 3000 very stir-crazy ICE agents were all going wild on Minneapolis Tinder. Local girls would match with them and string them along for intel. They loved to brag about what they were doing all day

Chevron's CEO made $104 million while America bombed Iran America's oil executives have pocketed $1.4 billion selling stock during the Iran war, a new investigation shows.

America's oil execs have pocketed $1.4 billion selling stock during the Iran war, the WSJ reports

This cash windfall won’t go primarily toward yachts and private jets, but toward political campaigns and lobbying orgs dedicated to blocking climate policy and fueling authoritarianism

"Mr. President, regime collapse usually makes things worse."

What must it be like to have as little object permanence as the markets do

four panel comic. panel one: a cartoon man addresses a brain: “hey Brain how’s it goin?” panel two: the brain is obscured by many many black scratchy lines, making it look like an evil tumbleweed panel three: the man takes this in silently panel four:man: “yea”

the psychic damage of being online and aware this morning is staggering

This is *literally* how King Croesus bought it after misinterpreting the Oracle at Delphi

This is what it looks like when OMB kills your program The anatomy of a murder by five cuts

"If the DOGE cuts were like putting federal programs up for public executions, these days the abuses happen more like knives in a back alley." Important piece from @protectdemocracy.org

open.substack.com/pub/protectd...

My favorite recent example: bsky.app/profile/jame...

true but it's still very funny to see, for example, quotes pulled from a case that ultimately went against the president's executive privilege being all-encompassing used as part of an argument saying the opposite!

the way that quotes function in legal briefs/memos/opinions is so funny to me. like, you can grab an essentially random clause from a Supreme Court case, divorce it entirely from context, and as long as you slap a fancy citation on it? you're officially doing a Good Analysis.

it just really clicked for me how beautiful it is that Howard Ashman, a gay man, wrote the lyrics to “Gaston,” a satirical ode to toxic masculinity that uses camp to point out how everyone in town is swooning over a buffoonish jerk

People don’t wanna put two and two together with what he did to usaid and him putting up those maps of global birthrates and saying white people are being replaced

‘Animorphs’ TV Series in Development at Disney+, Ryan Coogler’s Proximity Media to Produce (EXCLUSIVE) An "Animorphs" TV series is in early development at Disney+, Variety has learned exclusively.

There is at least one (1) very good thing today. Finally we have the technology to make “children do war crimes: the series” into something worth watching

BAD COMPANY
Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream
bookshop.org/a/109816/978...

It was the US that decided to limit the North Atlantic treaty to *defensive* obligations in *Europe and North America* because we didn't want to be drawn into imperial wars! The reasoning below could just as well be Anthony Eden shouting at Eisenhower in 1956.

Opinion | Donald Trump is the world’s worst friend Real friends tell the truth, they don’t enable you when you launch unprovoked wars of aggression against Iran.

new from me: i had the realization that everything about trump and his admin’s behavior towards u.s. allies over iran reads like the most toxic ‘friend’ in the group, who sees every ‘no’ as a personal attack and is more than happy to play the self-victimization card

You know, Tom Cotton probably should’ve watched what happened next in “The Dark Knight” before tweeting this.

Opinion | Donald Trump is the world’s worst friend Real friends tell the truth, they don’t enable you when you launch unprovoked wars of aggression against Iran.

“There’s something unsettlingly familiar then in watching Trump and his cronies willingly confuse allies’ declarations of boundaries with simple selfishness. For this White House, being told no is cause for attack, not self-reflection.”

yes, this is not an april fools joke

Opinion | Donald Trump is the world’s worst friend Real friends tell the truth, they don’t enable you when you launch unprovoked wars of aggression against Iran.

new from me: i had the realization that everything about trump and his admin’s behavior towards u.s. allies over iran reads like the most toxic ‘friend’ in the group, who sees every ‘no’ as a personal attack and is more than happy to play the self-victimization card