Ezra Fischer

I took a Le Carre course in college and the professor admitted that even he hadn't finished The Naive and Sentimental Lover. I am looking forward to your reaction to The Little Drummer Girl when you get to it.

Redford

Intensely jealous that you're experiencing these books for the first time. Surely there's a compound German word for this. Le Carre would have known it.

GOP slams Mass. for not working with ICE — but reality tells a different story Though the Trump administration claims Massachusetts is a “sanctuary state,” some local police cooperate with ICE routinely. The relationships vary town by town, and departments largely decide for the...

Beacon Hill needs to ban both formal and informal collaboration between state and local police and ICE. #mapoli

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Interesting! It never really occurred to me to vote no. I think of this just as an end run around the limit on tax rate (or tax rate increase?) when probably our taxes should just be consistently higher instead of bumpy.

Notable Sandwiches #137: Po' Boy Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where my editor David Swanson and I trip merrily through Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches. This week, a...

Bennie & Clovis Martin, inventors of the po' boy sandwich, to striking workers:
"We are with you till h--l freezes, and when it does, we will furnish blankets to keep you warm."

Let's bring this energy to 2026:
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Great Scott! It's the Northwest Passage. Booooo

This is... a bit? He's got schtick?

I'm 40 min away from Foxboro and it's downright nice outside.

But which instrument are you playing?

Okay. Going to read it.

Or reduce roster size to 16. Would demand lighter endurance athletes moving slower.

Could he have torn the thing DURING the physical? Otherwise, huh??

Thanks!!

OMG what interview is that from?

One of my favorite hockey moments!

Everyone Is Someone's Baby That guy is a beast. That guy is a monster. As he scores his first touchdown of the day, lowering his head and smashing his body like a weapon through other men, a few million

I don’t believe being an NFL fan means selling your soul, or even being a hypocrite. But we should probably at least not ignore that it’s adjacent.

My first for The Deep Shot:

www.thedeepshot.com/2025/10/27/e...

Also funny is that L'Enfant means something like "The Child's" so they were doing _exactly what they should have been doing_ in that plaza.

It's the worst. I can't _remember_ the last time I heard, "Put Down the Duckie"

Excellent thread. I'll add, since I'm not a public figure and can speak less guardedly, that a willingness to spurn collegiality surely has something to do with being Black and a woman, two characteristics that mean a lot of collegiality other people get isn't available to you anyway.

Less than??! Oy

I just don't think anyone's going to be able to see the Keystone Cops fall over the Bluesky.

Possible to start to tell a unified story: "Trump is personally too old, crazy, and confused to run things, so at any given time the question is which co-president is in charge. At first it was Musk, & we got the crazy chaotic DOGE era. Then Navarro: a trade war that crashed markets. Now Miller..."

Yes! But also... how did they do it?!

I initially thought that two-family was a window pushing exercise but now I think it has a legit shot. We'll see.

Hmm. Have you been counting votes?

Ooh can't wait to read. I wrote a longish rant about this article to a family member already, myself

Cool cool cool cool cool cool. Using AI to write code to replace the COBOL stuff that's been in use for 50 years seems guaranteed to crash the social security system. I'm not a coder, but I have a lot of experience with old convoluted systems and the ways in which they break...

a woman is talking on a cell phone next to another woman talking on a cell phone . ALT: a woman is talking on a cell phone next to another woman talking on a cell phone .

Me in the national security group chat