Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
Hey so this seems like something more people should be talking about 🤔 🗳️
www.npr.org/2025/10/23/n...
Spot on, Mr. Rather. 🎯 💯
Priorities.
Tonight was a very bad night.
I’m voting no on the continuing resolution that would double healthcare premiums for 20 million Americans, kick 15 million people off Medicaid & allow 50,000 Americans to die unnecessarily every year.
All to give $1 trillion in tax breaks for billionaires.
This is not a deal — it's an empty promise.
Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families.
Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Yes, Mr. President: You’re right. We do have “the worst health care” of any major country.
Despite spending twice as much per capita, we are the only major country not to guarantee health care to all as a human right.
The solution: Medicare for All.
My old pal Pete Coviello — one of the best writers and thinkers I've ever known — wrote the piece of the moment
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ICE agents in Chicago violently detain a non verbal autistic man for being “non compliant”
He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care
This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person
They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota
Border Patrol rammed US citizen's car after she was warning the neighborhood’s residents about the presence of federal immigrant agents.
Then Border Patrol Agent bragged in texts about shooting her. newrepublic.com/post/202824/... @newrepublic.com
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
The murder of Charlie Kirk is part of a disturbing rise in political violence that threatens to hollow out our public life.
A free society relies on the premise that people can speak out without fear or humiliation.
No more political violence.
The problem with allowing guns everywhere is that no one is safe anywhere.
“Small children from poor or middle-class families who watch ‘Sesame Street’ do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.
The fact that the people designing AI even *think* AI art/writing could be a good idea demonstrates to me that the whole thing is a bad idea. Because whatever they design, these people aren’t designing it for the right reasons.
In the past two years, with surprisingly little notice, renewable energy has suddenly become the obvious, mainstream, cost-efficient choice around the world.
Most plastics are not recyclable, largely because there is no market for materials labeled 3 through 7.
from @grist.org via @climatedesk.org
Remembering this weekend how entrenched it is in American media to use language that subtly--or directly--depicts nonviolent protest (which the audience would sympathize with) as a violent riot (which the audience would not).
It might, in fact, be our longest-held media tradition.
Study begun pre-COVID finds remote work increased sleep by 1/2 hr/night, decreased commute by 4.5 hr/week replaced with work, family & leisure and led to healthier eating. Remote and hybrid employees report higher job satisfaction and well-being. farmingdale-observer.com/2025/05/16/s...
looking from under a couple trees. branches and bunches of leaves all pointing toward the center.
"They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds."
-Dinos Christianopoulos.
Chicago Pope's here
really thinking pritzker has the juice
Barry Blitt’s cover for this week’s issue, “The First Hundred Days.” #NewYorkerCovers nyer.cm/ysrCZ47
"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work.
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
Autism is not a disease.
Autism is not an epidemic.
Autism is a multifactorial genetic-based neurological condition.
And it’s not caused by vaccines or nebulous “environmental toxins.”
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Home Opener Sunrise. This morning's start as the baseball season at Wrigley Field begins.
