New novel: THE BREAKUP. Previous: Evil Geniuses, Fantasyland, Can’t Spell America, Heyday, Turn of the Century. Ex Studio 360, New York, SPY.
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My book is out today. Huzzah! penguinrandomhouse.com/books…
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If @AbdulElSayed wins tomorrow, I think his combination of intelligence and knowledge and clarity will be unsurpassed in the U.S. Senate. For instance, the first 7 minutes of this @60Minutes interview with @Douthat60 about AI. share.google/K53QXF7NOcFsk0E…
For the last year or two practically every illustration in the @nytimes and @TheAtlantic was like these on the left — grim black & white photo collages that got boring and tiresome. But the last few months the art directors seem to have rediscovered drawings and color. Huzzah!
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Making crude cracks about Talarico’s sexuality, then opting to dress up as a gay wizard. That’s about right.
The Chinese spy who the @nytimes reports “developed a close relationship with Jensen Huang,” and Huang with his wife of 41 years. nytimes.com/2026/10/29/us/po…
In a new @SienaResearch poll of people in New York City, Zohran Mandami’s favorability is 69-28%, up from 60-31% last month.
He won election with 51% of the vote — so a third of the people who voted against him a year ago have decided they like him. sri.siena.edu/2026/10/28/sie…
The Republican candidates for U.S. Senate in Michigan, Texas, and Georgia, and for Governor of New York.
Definitely Central Casting, as Trump says of so many of his chosen sycophants. In this case for the show's smarmy villain character.
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Anderson Cooper takes a look at President Trump's history of commenting on men's bodies after his recent remarks on a senator's body.
He’s doing this more and more, raving about the physiques of congressmen and UFC fighters. Every time he does it, I wish @serafinowicz were still making his brilliant Sassy Trump videos. youtu.be/d76gCuIct4A?is=7ejL…
Trump is at it again with Jon Husted: “I’m studying his body… I looked at his ass. It’s like a pile of muscle. Then I looked at his legs and said, man, his feet are big.”
This is at least the fourth or fifth rally where he’s done this. He doesn’t even have to be in Ohio for Husted to be on his mind.
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The president and his allies’ support of Vladimir Putin will tarnish their legacies in infamy for generations. Vichy France has met its match.
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If this is true it's a level of evil that's really, really hard to imagine. It's not a good-faith question about how much we should fund Ukraine or what realistic endgame goals are. It's choosing to put innocent civilians in harm's way. I hope there are investigations.
The U.S. may have intentionally withheld early warnings this week of Russian strikes on Ukraine, multiple sources familiar with the matter told CBS News. cbsn.ws/4yNtwNv
Trump is unambiguously on Putin’s side in their war on Ukraine. The U.S. and Russia and North Korea are the new Axis, anti-democratic and anti-freedom.
Russia Russia Russia: he is now more unambiguously pro-evil-dictator than ever. Another issue where most Americans disagree with him—most want us to give Ukraine more arms, 67% say letting Russia keep seized territory is unacceptable and 75% don’t trust them to keep a peace deal.
“Number 12 Looks Just Like You” (Twilight Zone season 5, episode 17)
New press secretary Katie Zacharia, predecessor Karoline Leavitt, stalker Natalie Harp, Stormy Daniels, Ivanka.
There’s a certain look they all share, Musk and Kim and Mussolini — Central Casting, as Musk’s and Kim’s frenemy Trump would say.
