One official who believes government can do things to help people and it earned her widespread acclaim and respect from normal people (and the relentless contempt of billionaires and the Wall Street Journal editorial page).

My favorite part of the Bible is when Jesus changed his password right before giving his phone to the feds, and then claimed he forgot the new password.

RFK Jr. Vows To Make Measles Deaths So Common They Won’t Be Upsetting Anymore theonion.com/rfk-jr-vows-to…

The Morningside Heights Community Coalition created a petition urging Columbia to reopen its gates to the public. In roughly two weeks, the petition has garnered nearly 800 signatures as community members are increasingly frustrated by the campus closure. columbiaspectator.com/city-news/2025…

Ramadan Mubarak to all who celebrate ✨ ⁣⁣ In honor of the start of #Ramadan, explore this page from a luxurious 13th-century manuscript of the Qur’an. Written in thuluth (a script style of Islamic calligraphy), all 274 folios are elaborately illuminated. Look closely at the

Whatever you think of Cardinal Dolan, "corpulent prelate eating sweet treats on camera as he tells Catholics they're getting lapped in the fasting stakes by Muslims and they need to step it up pronto" is, in posting terms, genuinely kind of inspired x.com/CardinalDolan/…

Standing in front of what he calls Cuomo’s “alleged” city residence, ⁦Zohran Kwame Mamdani⁩ holds an “off-topic” presser

Congratulations to Zohran Mamdani and his thousands of grassroots supporters for their extraordinary campaign. You took on the political, economic and media Establishment- and you beat them. Now it’s on to victory in the general election.

In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done. My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it. I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.

Read my statement on my endorsement of Zohran Kwame Mamdani today.

This map is incredible for several reasons, one that it suggests that people who actually take the subway aren’t nearly as scared of it as those who don’t.

RCV RESULTS: Mamdani 56%-Cuomo 44% all other candidates eliminated after Round 2 under batch elimination

Jelly Beans for Grapes: How AI Can Erode Students’ Creativity edsurge.com/news/2025-09-0… via EdSurge

Beautifully done:

Superb. What a dude. Fantastic piece in the Financial Times too, Eddie - particularly liked Breuer’s distinction of artists and architects (nothing bugs me more than the ‘designer artists’ brigade). “A painter does something and then sells it. An architect sells it and then does it.” Boom!

"America is being led by men whom senior brass do not respect. Trump's message is that laws are for wimps. Eisenhower said plans are worthless but planning is everything. If Trump goes for regime change, it will be on the basis of Hegseth’s planning." Me. ft.com/content/abf8b0…

Kim Phillips-Fein giving great context for Zohran Mamdani’s mayoralty in the last 100+ years of NYC history and politics. nytimes.com/2026/01/01/opi…

Very sad news

Mamdani deputy mayor for housing Leila Bozorg is announcing a new affordable housing project in the Bronx that'll be the first-ever use of the Expedited Land-Use Review Procedure, a sped-up, 90-day review created by the housing ballot questions youtube.com/live/07xQmR7L6…

imagine checking out the opera for the first time bc of the chalamet discourse and getting oneshotted by Tristan und Isolde