Alex Bean
@abeanchi.bsky.social
Academic admin. Husband & dad. One-time applicant for Chicago Alderman. Love books, history, movies, & architecture. Trying to ween myself off of being Too Online.
Well, that'll make driving back into town at the end of the week a barrel of fun.
November 25, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Well, that'll make driving back into town at the end of the week a barrel of fun.
I’m curious what the Top Ten will look like, but this has felt like a pretty weak year for books. I’ve got some favorites and a few I want to get to, but nothing that’s felt incredible and a lot that’s felt quite inessential.
100 Notable Books of 2025
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:37 PM
I’m curious what the Top Ten will look like, but this has felt like a pretty weak year for books. I’ve got some favorites and a few I want to get to, but nothing that’s felt incredible and a lot that’s felt quite inessential.
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“We’ve tried to not have to do it, but we've got direct orders,” the masked ICE agents told them www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/i...
November 25, 2025 at 12:26 PM
“We’ve tried to not have to do it, but we've got direct orders,” the masked ICE agents told them www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/i...
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After a delayed start, younger home buyers are gaining ground. Millennials are converting rising earnings and family formation into purchases in their 30s, reaching parity with Gen X by their early forties and poised to modestly surpass them.
blog.firstam.com/economics/a-...
blog.firstam.com/economics/a-...
November 24, 2025 at 7:11 PM
After a delayed start, younger home buyers are gaining ground. Millennials are converting rising earnings and family formation into purchases in their 30s, reaching parity with Gen X by their early forties and poised to modestly surpass them.
blog.firstam.com/economics/a-...
blog.firstam.com/economics/a-...
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This is identical to Russia invading Ukraine. Illegally invading a country for their resources and likely killing thousands—if not more—is immoral and should not be supported by anyone with any shred of moral conscience.
Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"
November 24, 2025 at 9:36 PM
This is identical to Russia invading Ukraine. Illegally invading a country for their resources and likely killing thousands—if not more—is immoral and should not be supported by anyone with any shred of moral conscience.
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We really do have two different kinds of law now: District Court law (aka the law), and Supreme Court "law" (aka the U.S. House of Lords upholding Trump's personalist regime)
I don’t know what the Supreme Court will do, but I am confident that at the District Court level it is still the case that the Pentagon cannot recall a sitting US Senator to active duty in order to court martial him for something he said. Article 1, Section 6, among other constitutional provisions.
November 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
We really do have two different kinds of law now: District Court law (aka the law), and Supreme Court "law" (aka the U.S. House of Lords upholding Trump's personalist regime)
I'll admit to being baffled by this, since JJ was an excellent QB at Michigan and I thought his game would translate into "good starter with upside" and the Vikings seemed like a great landing spot. Truly inexplicable to me.
Today’s NFL newsletter is about how it’s increasingly clear that JJ McCarthy is not only the worst QB in the NFL right now, but putting up some of the worst stats of any QB to play in the NFL in recent years, despite entering a near-ideal situation for a young QB sports.beehiiv.com/p/jj-mccarth...
JJ McCarthy is the worst
The Vikings need to move on from their 2024 10th overall pick ASAP. PLUS, Jameis Winston makes one of the greatest QB catches ever, the Raiders pin their problems on Chip Kelly, and more!
sports.beehiiv.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I'll admit to being baffled by this, since JJ was an excellent QB at Michigan and I thought his game would translate into "good starter with upside" and the Vikings seemed like a great landing spot. Truly inexplicable to me.
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BREAKING: Comey case dismissed without prejudice. Halligan invalidly appointed, judge rules. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 24, 2025 at 5:36 PM
BREAKING: Comey case dismissed without prejudice. Halligan invalidly appointed, judge rules. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Visited my parents new house and was very glad to learn they're not replacing anything in this basement kitchen because the aesthetics are absolutely amazing.
November 24, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Visited my parents new house and was very glad to learn they're not replacing anything in this basement kitchen because the aesthetics are absolutely amazing.
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I think it is very unlikely that most of these are Russian influence agents, and considerably more likely that they are people from developing economies who have cottoned on to ways to make relatively large amounts of money for them by being paid-per-view by X.
This week we learned that many of the most active Twitter accounts are foreigners, most likely Russian influence agents, operating in the guise of Red State Americans.
November 23, 2025 at 1:40 AM
I think it is very unlikely that most of these are Russian influence agents, and considerably more likely that they are people from developing economies who have cottoned on to ways to make relatively large amounts of money for them by being paid-per-view by X.
Horrible-looking car accident at Clark and Diversey sometime overnight.
At least two cars involved, one of which caught fire, and the other looked totaled, along with signs, mailbox, parking meter getting taken out.
At least two cars involved, one of which caught fire, and the other looked totaled, along with signs, mailbox, parking meter getting taken out.
November 23, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Horrible-looking car accident at Clark and Diversey sometime overnight.
At least two cars involved, one of which caught fire, and the other looked totaled, along with signs, mailbox, parking meter getting taken out.
At least two cars involved, one of which caught fire, and the other looked totaled, along with signs, mailbox, parking meter getting taken out.
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Brandy you're a fine girl
What a good wife you would be
But my life my love and my lady
Is the See
What a good wife you would be
But my life my love and my lady
Is the See
November 23, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Brandy you're a fine girl
What a good wife you would be
But my life my love and my lady
Is the See
What a good wife you would be
But my life my love and my lady
Is the See
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Just remembering how one of the most important and widely read and dropped-with-maximally-damaging-timing "Biden is old and senile" pieces was reported by Nuzzi. It makes you think!
well, I read it, and the salient, non-gross part is Lizza alleging, midsentence and without elaboration, that Nuzzi ran numerous “catch-and-kill operations” on RFK’s behalf, which would give her a role in both his appointment and the untold preventable deaths he has abetted in office. Cool.
November 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Just remembering how one of the most important and widely read and dropped-with-maximally-damaging-timing "Biden is old and senile" pieces was reported by Nuzzi. It makes you think!
The Muscovy Company, an Elizabethan trading venture, was formally named The Mysterie and Companie of the Merchant Adventurers for the Discoverie of Regions, Dominions, Islands and Places Unknown.
We need to bring corporate names like that back. Less Tronc and more Mysterie.
We need to bring corporate names like that back. Less Tronc and more Mysterie.
November 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The Muscovy Company, an Elizabethan trading venture, was formally named The Mysterie and Companie of the Merchant Adventurers for the Discoverie of Regions, Dominions, Islands and Places Unknown.
We need to bring corporate names like that back. Less Tronc and more Mysterie.
We need to bring corporate names like that back. Less Tronc and more Mysterie.
NC State recovered another muffed punt like 2 minutes after this.
ACC after dark
November 22, 2025 at 4:04 AM
NC State recovered another muffed punt like 2 minutes after this.
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Trump: anything else pal?
Zohran: I dunno you want to sink the GOP nominee for governor?
Trump: no problem!
Zohran: I dunno you want to sink the GOP nominee for governor?
Trump: no problem!
Q: Stefanik has called Mamdani a 'jihadist.' Do you think you're standing next to a jihadist right now?
TRUMP: No, I don't. I met with a man who's a very rational person
TRUMP: No, I don't. I met with a man who's a very rational person
November 21, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Trump: anything else pal?
Zohran: I dunno you want to sink the GOP nominee for governor?
Trump: no problem!
Zohran: I dunno you want to sink the GOP nominee for governor?
Trump: no problem!
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Imagine being one of those CEOs or school presidents who bowed down to this weird old man, then realizing he doesn’t like you as much as he likes this guy who didn’t bow at all
November 21, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Imagine being one of those CEOs or school presidents who bowed down to this weird old man, then realizing he doesn’t like you as much as he likes this guy who didn’t bow at all
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Marjorie Taylor Greene just announced she's leaving Congress
November 22, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Marjorie Taylor Greene just announced she's leaving Congress
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when he posts you on grid UwU
November 22, 2025 at 12:10 AM
when he posts you on grid UwU
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The Queens Daily Eagle remains undefeated.
Queens men meet — Queens Daily Eagle
The first man from Queens to be elected president and the first Queens resident to be elected mayor of New York City met for the first time in the Oval Office on Friday.
queenseagle.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:33 AM
The Queens Daily Eagle remains undefeated.
Not for nothing, we took Roblox off our son's iPad last month and bought him a copy of Animal Crossing as a replacement. The kid went from sad and confused to thrilled in an instant.
Oh my god that is the worst possible answer
November 21, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Not for nothing, we took Roblox off our son's iPad last month and bought him a copy of Animal Crossing as a replacement. The kid went from sad and confused to thrilled in an instant.
jfc
The Trump-Putin deal has more about building AI data centers in both Ukraine and Russia than it does about military positions to deter Russia from attacking again later.
I'm not kidding.
I'm not kidding.
Trump and Witkoff Try to Get Russia a Win
The joint U.S.-Russia proposal to end the Russia-Ukraine war, taken point-by-point
www.arcdigital.media
November 21, 2025 at 6:06 PM
jfc