Betsy Gleick
@betsygleick.bsky.social
Concerned citizen! Editor, reader, New Yorker, baker, and Oxford comma fundamentalist
Twas brillig and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe, etc. (Spellcheck makes it impossible for me to continue)
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe, etc. (Spellcheck makes it impossible for me to continue)
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 6, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Twas brillig and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe, etc. (Spellcheck makes it impossible for me to continue)
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe, etc. (Spellcheck makes it impossible for me to continue)
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Every Democrat going on air should take the first question and then say something like “Before I answer that I need to express my outrage and disgust at the president’s bigoted and vulgar insults about the Somali people. There is something seriously wrong with him. He is a sick man.”
December 4, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Every Democrat going on air should take the first question and then say something like “Before I answer that I need to express my outrage and disgust at the president’s bigoted and vulgar insults about the Somali people. There is something seriously wrong with him. He is a sick man.”
Truly. Truly outrageous the racist misogynist xenophobic filth that spews out of his mouth unchecked by anyone in his presence.
I know it's too easy to grow numb to the constant flood of bigotry that comes out of his mouth but it does seem morally important you don't allow yourself or anyone else to become desensitized to this vile racism as a normal part of our politics
Trump on Somalis: "We're gonna go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country. Ilhan Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage."
December 2, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Truly. Truly outrageous the racist misogynist xenophobic filth that spews out of his mouth unchecked by anyone in his presence.
Worth noting. Keep hope alive, folks
A polling thread:
- Support for Trump and the GOP has collapsed over the past few months
- He is now regularly polling in the mid 30s
- Attacking Venezuela more unpopular than his handing of inflation
- Consent of the governed has been withdrawn, regime may be facing a legitimacy crisis 👇
- Support for Trump and the GOP has collapsed over the past few months
- He is now regularly polling in the mid 30s
- Attacking Venezuela more unpopular than his handing of inflation
- Consent of the governed has been withdrawn, regime may be facing a legitimacy crisis 👇
Trump drops 11 points - 11 points! - in the past month in Gallup. Just a staggering decline. 1/
November 29, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Worth noting. Keep hope alive, folks
Succinct, clear, enraging, and worth reading to see just why so many women feel despair and rage Every Damn Day
www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
President Piggy
This is what consequence-free misogyny looks like.
www.theatlantic.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Succinct, clear, enraging, and worth reading to see just why so many women feel despair and rage Every Damn Day
www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
This
I know that at this point it's a subplot in the Epstein files drama, but I feel compelled to point out, once again, that Larry Summers HAS NO BUSINESS teaching students at ANY university ever again!
My latest cries into the abyss, in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
My latest cries into the abyss, in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Why Is Larry Summers Still Employed?
The revelations about the economist’s attempts to pressure a women into a “relationship”—with guidance from Jeffrey Epstein—should finally disqualify him from teaching students.
www.thenation.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:31 PM
This
Serious question. I hear the Epstein survivors gave a really moving press conference this morning and I was hoping to read an account by a journalist. Is it anywhere on the NYT site? Anywhere even in a sentence in a story? Bueller?
November 18, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Serious question. I hear the Epstein survivors gave a really moving press conference this morning and I was hoping to read an account by a journalist. Is it anywhere on the NYT site? Anywhere even in a sentence in a story? Bueller?
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I’m so sick of this Nuzzi stuff, wish I didn’t hear anything more about her
Oh, well, if her former partner wrote it I suppose it might be newsworthy, I’ll skim it
Apparently I simply must read to the end, a likely story, alright fine I will
Oh for fucks sake
Oh, well, if her former partner wrote it I suppose it might be newsworthy, I’ll skim it
Apparently I simply must read to the end, a likely story, alright fine I will
Oh for fucks sake
oh my god you have to read this until the end www.telos.news/p/part-1-how...
Part 1: How I Found Out
Olivia had just returned from a reporting trip—at least that’s what she told me it was—and her Herschel backpack, the one with the flap that never quite closed properly, was tossed beside our bed, its...
www.telos.news
November 18, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I’m so sick of this Nuzzi stuff, wish I didn’t hear anything more about her
Oh, well, if her former partner wrote it I suppose it might be newsworthy, I’ll skim it
Apparently I simply must read to the end, a likely story, alright fine I will
Oh for fucks sake
Oh, well, if her former partner wrote it I suppose it might be newsworthy, I’ll skim it
Apparently I simply must read to the end, a likely story, alright fine I will
Oh for fucks sake
I am so effing tired of calling @schumer.senate.gov and @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social—but yes I did! Cannot believe that it keeps coming to this. I guess they both are ready to lose their jobs in the next election.
November 9, 2025 at 10:55 PM
I am so effing tired of calling @schumer.senate.gov and @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social—but yes I did! Cannot believe that it keeps coming to this. I guess they both are ready to lose their jobs in the next election.
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Head in hands wondering how this could happen to me, the popular president who posted a video of myself shitting on everyone 2 weeks ago
November 5, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Head in hands wondering how this could happen to me, the popular president who posted a video of myself shitting on everyone 2 weeks ago
“In this moment of political darkness New York will be a light.”
November 5, 2025 at 4:33 AM
“In this moment of political darkness New York will be a light.”
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This is incredibly important:
we must frame tonight as a resounding victory — an electoral landslide, a mandate from the universe itself
and as a repudiation of MAGA, of Trump, and of vichy democrats
we must be relentless, we must not shut up
we must frame tonight as a resounding victory — an electoral landslide, a mandate from the universe itself
and as a repudiation of MAGA, of Trump, and of vichy democrats
we must be relentless, we must not shut up
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 AM
This is incredibly important:
we must frame tonight as a resounding victory — an electoral landslide, a mandate from the universe itself
and as a repudiation of MAGA, of Trump, and of vichy democrats
we must be relentless, we must not shut up
we must frame tonight as a resounding victory — an electoral landslide, a mandate from the universe itself
and as a repudiation of MAGA, of Trump, and of vichy democrats
we must be relentless, we must not shut up
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Yes!!!
Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight
November 5, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Yes!!!
This. Here we are. And what will we all do?
I distinctly remember, about junior high age, being horrified reading how the Nazis would show-up at a person's house and haul them off to a concentration camp while the neighbors watched and didn't intervene. At that time I told myself, "I'll intervene if I'm ever in that situation." Here we are.
I'm shaking almost too hard to type. I entered SLC airport and heard screams and cries for help. I could see people gathered around, watching. I sped over to discover this woman face down on the floor, four grown men pushing her down, while she cried "HELP ME" and pled for her child.
October 29, 2025 at 11:58 PM
This. Here we are. And what will we all do?
This. Also breaking my heart.
It’s far from the most important thing, morally right now, or in terms of the human stakes, but the ballroom thing is really breaking my brain.
October 22, 2025 at 10:08 PM
This. Also breaking my heart.
STILL not at the top despite what looks to have been incredible turnout. New York Times, do better
And this is NOT at the top of the New York Times home page because why? 😡
October 18, 2025 at 9:05 PM
STILL not at the top despite what looks to have been incredible turnout. New York Times, do better
And this is NOT at the top of the New York Times home page because why? 😡
October 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
And this is NOT at the top of the New York Times home page because why? 😡
How many times does Mamdani need to say that he will be a mayor for Jewish New Yorkers? I am so effing sick of this being central to every debate.
October 16, 2025 at 11:25 PM
How many times does Mamdani need to say that he will be a mayor for Jewish New Yorkers? I am so effing sick of this being central to every debate.
Media: the Israel-Hamas war has been a major issue in the mayoral campaign [bec we have endlessly made it a major issue in the campaign] so we are going to ask about how to create lasting peace in the Middle East even tho the NY mayor has no part in ME politics
October 16, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Media: the Israel-Hamas war has been a major issue in the mayoral campaign [bec we have endlessly made it a major issue in the campaign] so we are going to ask about how to create lasting peace in the Middle East even tho the NY mayor has no part in ME politics
New Yorkers, choose your animal costume now!
October 11, 2025 at 10:47 PM
New Yorkers, choose your animal costume now!
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Very much enjoying the inflatable frog segment of the civil war.
October 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Very much enjoying the inflatable frog segment of the civil war.
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twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross
October 8, 2025 at 1:44 PM
twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross
I am old but this post is so true and it breaks my heart.
I do not understand why television stations are not showing live coverage of how there is literally nothing happening in Portland and Chicago. I mean, Peter Jennings, Dan Rather, and Tom Brokaw would each be sitting on a set in those cities telling everyone the white house is lying.
October 7, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I am old but this post is so true and it breaks my heart.