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Is this day not done? Like shouldn’t everything be spaced? You cannot drop ALL the shows on the same day.
Marjorie Taylor Greene announces she is resigning from Congress

"I will be resigning from office with my last day being January 5, 2026”
November 22, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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Q: Just days ago you referred to Trump as a 'despot.' Will you retract?

MAMDANI: We're both very clear on our positions & what I really appreciate about the president is our meeting focused not on places of disagreement but shared purpose we have

TRUMP: I've been called much worse than a despot
November 21, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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[*Marlon Brando as Vito Corleone voice*]
Senator. . . Tish James

Governor. . . Tish James
We won our lawsuit against the Trump administration, preventing them from dismantling federal agencies that provide services and funding for libraries, museums, workers, small businesses, and the unhoused.

We will always defend the basic services that New Yorkers depend on.
November 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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"....dizzying infatuation then a mystifying fizzle—accompanied by stalking campaigns that combined giddy self-indulgence and exquisite self-torture."

Evangeline Riddiford Graham in explains how Barbara Pym's real love life shaped the pathos of her fiction.

For more—check out The Sweet Dove Died.
On Barbara Pym, Author… and Stalker?
Barbara Pym, a novelist sometimes described as the twentieth-century Jane Austen, was a stalker. Her diaries describe her methods of “finding out” her objects of interest in vivid detail: looking t…
lithub.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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““What I see now is that a lot of people are mouthing off in ways that they felt they were prevented from doing prior to 2016,” Maniktahla said.”
November 18, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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November 18, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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with the holidays upon us please enjoy my favorite miss manners column (circa 2002)
November 12, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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That "clubby" NYT headline is awful, but the piece itself is clear-eyed & observant, if cool in tone — it's by a strong writer & it documents the creepy, backpatting insider world of guys griping about MeToo as it happens. The NYT is always doing this! If the hed was different, the piece wd be legit
November 16, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Also, have started #HuntingWives. It’s so camp and fantastic and has some early Dynasty/Dallas vibes. Rain in LA means I’m catching up on essential tv viewing.
November 16, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Ok so I stumbled upon #Elsbeth and it’s super. But also I’m mad that NONE of my friends told me about this show. Like this is my show, why was I not informed???
November 16, 2025 at 5:20 PM
‘Monuments’ at the Geffen Contemporary/MOCA is an extraordinary exhibition. Do not miss this Angelenos!
November 16, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Look, I think it’s folly to monitor NYT coverage at this point but it just has to be said that the NYT covered those damn university president hearings BREATHLESSLY but the Epstein emails???? Crumbs. Even though I’m used to them being bootlickers, it’s still appalling to see.
November 16, 2025 at 3:27 PM
November 15, 2025 at 6:22 PM
R.I.P Kit Kat
Waymo Was on a Roll in San Francisco. Then One of Its Driverless Cars Killed a Cat.
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Hard, good reading by Jeet Heer

www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Jeffrey Epstein Was a Warlord. We Have to Talk About It.
www.thenation.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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I got this useful bon mot from a middle school teacher recently.

In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?”

And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.
November 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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November 12, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Wow, a Long Island jury awarded $112 Million to 674 immigrants who were unlawfully held by county police so they could be handed over to ICE
Federal jury awards $112M to immigrants detained by Suffolk for ICE
A federal jury found the county and the Sheriff's Office violated the Constitutional rights of 674 people.
longisland.news12.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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I endorse the message!!!!!
If the ‘progressive’ strategy/tactic is starving people, might I suggest a hunger strike instead. Feel free to punish yourselves for the cause. I support that. Full support.
November 11, 2025 at 8:29 PM