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max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 4h

New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.

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hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 8h

as a thought exercise for everyone reading ross douthat's latest missive in the NYT, i want you to think about sending an email to your entire company with the subject line "Did Women Ruin the Workplace?", then think about the over/under on the number of minutes/hours you would still be employed

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Elizabeth Keenan @elizabethkeenan.bsky.social · 1d

A moms group chat that I'm in is splintering over the NYC mayoral election, and... well, if you want to be an Islamophobe who defends Cuomo, you can do that on your own time, not mine.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 1d

Zohran has now gotten more votes, in New York City alone, than 49 members of the U.S. Senate did when they get elected; It's likely that, when the final tally is complete, he'll have gotten more votes than half of all Senators currently in office. *This* is what power and purpose looks like.

Anil Dash @anildash.com · 1d

Ten things I took away from one remarkable, history-making moment. Turn the volume up. www.anildash.com/2025/11/05/t...

Turn the volume up. - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

www.anildash.com

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Emily "Babe" St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 1d

A lot of pop culture popular with liberals during the Obama administration has been swept into the same bucket marked “neoliberal,” with little attention paid to their actual thematic ideas, aesthetic presentation, or character dynamics.

(Deleted an earlier version of this for boring reasons.)

Travis Mason-Bushman @snarkranger.bsky.social · 1d

The fact that a lot of leftists despise Parks and Rec - one of the best and most sympathetic depictions of non-cop government in modern media - is a symptom of the fact that a lot of the left has no idea how to actually implement the policy proposals they want to enact.

Truckstop Vigilante @brenthor.bsky.social · 2d

The reason 30 Rock succeeds years later while parks and rec has aged like a toilet full of milk, is that 30 Rock doesnt shy away from portraying Liz Lemon as an obvious villian with a victim/hero complex, whereas Leslie Knope was played just a straight hero character, even tho she is a neolib shill

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

gotta say this whole business about ‘electing a muslim mayor is basically pissing on the graves of 9/11 victims’ is just…just shockingly racist stuff i mean what else is there to say about it

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 1d

Has New York Democratic Party chairman Jay Jacobs resigned over Mamdani yet? I hope he hasn't, so that he can instead resign over *improving Republican margins over Trump 2024 in an anti-Republican wave election*. Trump won Nassau by just 4%—now look at this bloodbath

Nassau County Executive results: Nazi pig Bruce Blakeman defeats Democrat Seth Koslow 54/46

Nassau County District Attorney: ICE bootlicker Anne Donnelly beats Democrat Nicole Aloise 55/45

Nassau County Comptroller: GOP creature Elaine Phillips beats Democrat Wayne Wink Jr 55/45

Hempstead Town Executive: John Ferretti beats ex-troop ex-cop Democratic nominee Joe Scianablo 53/47

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 1d

if you can't savor the villains losing you've lost the spark of beauty and ingenuity that makes life worth living

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No Joyman @nojoyman.bsky.social · 1d

RIGHT, IN YOUNG SHELDON. ALSO HIS DAD WAS EDITOR OF THE NEW YORKER IN ITS SECOND GOLDEN ERA I KNOW EVERYBODY TALKS ABOUT HAROLD ROSS THIS AND HAROLD ROSS THAT BUT I THINK YOU'LL FIND SOME OF THE FINEST PIECES IN THE MAGAZINE'S HISTORY WERE PRINTED UNDER HIS EDITORSHI

Guy yelling in a bored woman's ear in a nightclub meme

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

I think a thing we'll learn tonight is that people fucking hate what is going on and they will straight ticket vote against anyone involved in starving people while pillaging the country and kidnapping their neighbors. I don't think it matters at all who that person is.

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 1d

I'm really sorry to have subjected all of you to all this NYC posting but it's really been the most breathtakingly ugly race, particularly given that Mamdani has the affect and manner of a Sesame Street character

Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 2d

I don't know what will happen in NYC tonight, but I do know that regardless of outcome, any number of public figures, celebrities, politicians and institutions that oppose Mamdani have done so with a level of rhetorical ugliness, racism, and dishonesty that should neither be forgotten nor forgiven.

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 2d

man every day I learn new stuff about Diedrich Bader

Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 2d

www.washingtonpost.com/local/obitua...

Here’s my dad’s obituary if you’re interested and why he was particularly suited to write about the abuse of intelligence leading up to the second war in Iraq which led to Cheney firing him

William B. Bader, official who helped uncover CIA, Defense abuses, dies at 84

In a long federal career, he investigated claims that led to the escalation of the Vietnam War.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Joel @snufkinlib.bsky.social · 2d

VP Cheney will be honoured with a 21 gun salute accidentally aimed directly at 21 of his friends

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Elizabeth Keenan @elizabethkeenan.bsky.social · 2d

It's theee worst! And I wish it wasn't the case.

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Elizabeth Keenan @elizabethkeenan.bsky.social · 2d

I'm so bummed to Milkshake Duck the guy, but it looks like he's now an antivaxxer: How anti-vaxxers and ivermectin advocates have co-opted US local news www.theguardian.com/media/2021/n...

How anti-vaxxers and ivermectin advocates have co-opted US local news

Local outlets may lack audience size, but they can can provide a veneer of legitimacy to fringe groups, experts say

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Paul Ford @ftrain.bsky.social · 2d

As a NYer, ”real” “small town” America now looks like a sexual freak zoo run by genital-obsessive xenophobes who make women into living dolls and shoot each other. Mamdani’s NYC (and mine) is a safe, wholesome place where neighbors help each other, do scavenger hunts, ride bikes, and birdwatch.

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The Nucky Thompson of Going on My Phone @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 2d

Real "first as tragedy, then as farce" that 40 years after Roy Cohn cut the line for experimental treatment his protege is helping the damn Dilbert guy do the same

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Elizabeth Keenan @elizabethkeenan.bsky.social · 2d

At least with real estate, there legally has to be a disclaimer with "virtually staged" photos. But also: my god, what are the stains on the walls there?

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 3d

CAMPUS VISIT WITH THE VAMPIRE

TEACHING DEMO WITH THE VAMPIRE

SIT-DOWN WITH THE DEAN WITH THE VAMPIRE

APOLOGETIC EMAIL THAT THE SEARCH WAS CANCELED WITH THE VAMPIRE

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Kara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social · 3d

I really love this Vincent Van Gogh quote:

"To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace."

No romanticizing the starving artist. Van Gogh said UBI all the way.

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Chris Dwan (he/him) @somershade.bsky.social · 3d

Wait, the whole Tylenol lie was just another piece of wildly illegal market manipulation and insider trading?

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/b...

Kimberly-Clark Agrees to Buy Kenvue, Maker of Tylenol, for $40 Billion

www.nytimes.com

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Sparrow J @summergirl505.bsky.social · 3d

Palate cleanse. Some humans are terrible, but more of us are great.

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Elizabeth Keenan @elizabethkeenan.bsky.social · 3d

Whaaat? Velvet Goldmine!

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Elizabeth Keenan @elizabethkeenan.bsky.social · 3d

A movie you've seen more than seven times with a gif.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 3d

“every time theres a republican president the economy collapses” feels like pretty easy messaging on the economy

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 3d

Congrats to everyone who put Republicans in charge "for the economy," the first three quarters of 2025 already had more layoffs than any of the years in which Biden or Obama was President except 2009 (when Dems were still cleaning up the prior Republican mess).
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Layoffs Already Higher Than for Any Full Year Since 2020
Announced US job cuts by quarter

It’s been harder than normal to get a grasp on the US labor market lately, with several agencies that produce key economic data, including the Bureau of Labor Statistics, going dark during the government shutdown. Even before that, President Donald Trump’s efforts to downsize the US government left holes in the sprawling federal statistical system. But private datasets have helped fill in some of the gaps.

A report from outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas showed almost 950,000 US job cuts this year through September, the highest year-to-date total since 2020—and that was before the heavy October run of announcements. (Excluding that first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, US job cuts in the first nine months have already surpassed full-year layoffs for every year since 2009.) When something is almost the worst since the Great Recession, North says, “that’s not a very encouraging number.”

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