Betsy Gleick
@betsygleick.bsky.social
Concerned citizen! Editor, reader, New Yorker, baker, and Oxford comma fundamentalist
I am so effing tired of calling @schumer.senate.gov and @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social—but yes I did! Cannot believe that it keeps coming to this. I guess they both are ready to lose their jobs in the next election.
November 9, 2025 at 10:55 PM
I am so effing tired of calling @schumer.senate.gov and @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social—but yes I did! Cannot believe that it keeps coming to this. I guess they both are ready to lose their jobs in the next election.
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Head in hands wondering how this could happen to me, the popular president who posted a video of myself shitting on everyone 2 weeks ago
November 5, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Head in hands wondering how this could happen to me, the popular president who posted a video of myself shitting on everyone 2 weeks ago
“In this moment of political darkness New York will be a light.”
November 5, 2025 at 4:33 AM
“In this moment of political darkness New York will be a light.”
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This is incredibly important:
we must frame tonight as a resounding victory — an electoral landslide, a mandate from the universe itself
and as a repudiation of MAGA, of Trump, and of vichy democrats
we must be relentless, we must not shut up
we must frame tonight as a resounding victory — an electoral landslide, a mandate from the universe itself
and as a repudiation of MAGA, of Trump, and of vichy democrats
we must be relentless, we must not shut up
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 AM
This is incredibly important:
we must frame tonight as a resounding victory — an electoral landslide, a mandate from the universe itself
and as a repudiation of MAGA, of Trump, and of vichy democrats
we must be relentless, we must not shut up
we must frame tonight as a resounding victory — an electoral landslide, a mandate from the universe itself
and as a repudiation of MAGA, of Trump, and of vichy democrats
we must be relentless, we must not shut up
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Yes!!!
Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight
November 5, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Yes!!!
This. Here we are. And what will we all do?
I distinctly remember, about junior high age, being horrified reading how the Nazis would show-up at a person's house and haul them off to a concentration camp while the neighbors watched and didn't intervene. At that time I told myself, "I'll intervene if I'm ever in that situation." Here we are.
I'm shaking almost too hard to type. I entered SLC airport and heard screams and cries for help. I could see people gathered around, watching. I sped over to discover this woman face down on the floor, four grown men pushing her down, while she cried "HELP ME" and pled for her child.
October 29, 2025 at 11:58 PM
This. Here we are. And what will we all do?
This. Also breaking my heart.
It’s far from the most important thing, morally right now, or in terms of the human stakes, but the ballroom thing is really breaking my brain.
October 22, 2025 at 10:08 PM
This. Also breaking my heart.
STILL not at the top despite what looks to have been incredible turnout. New York Times, do better
And this is NOT at the top of the New York Times home page because why? 😡
October 18, 2025 at 9:05 PM
STILL not at the top despite what looks to have been incredible turnout. New York Times, do better
And this is NOT at the top of the New York Times home page because why? 😡
October 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
And this is NOT at the top of the New York Times home page because why? 😡
How many times does Mamdani need to say that he will be a mayor for Jewish New Yorkers? I am so effing sick of this being central to every debate.
October 16, 2025 at 11:25 PM
How many times does Mamdani need to say that he will be a mayor for Jewish New Yorkers? I am so effing sick of this being central to every debate.
Media: the Israel-Hamas war has been a major issue in the mayoral campaign [bec we have endlessly made it a major issue in the campaign] so we are going to ask about how to create lasting peace in the Middle East even tho the NY mayor has no part in ME politics
October 16, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Media: the Israel-Hamas war has been a major issue in the mayoral campaign [bec we have endlessly made it a major issue in the campaign] so we are going to ask about how to create lasting peace in the Middle East even tho the NY mayor has no part in ME politics
New Yorkers, choose your animal costume now!
October 11, 2025 at 10:47 PM
New Yorkers, choose your animal costume now!
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Very much enjoying the inflatable frog segment of the civil war.
October 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Very much enjoying the inflatable frog segment of the civil war.
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twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross
October 8, 2025 at 1:44 PM
twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross
I am old but this post is so true and it breaks my heart.
I do not understand why television stations are not showing live coverage of how there is literally nothing happening in Portland and Chicago. I mean, Peter Jennings, Dan Rather, and Tom Brokaw would each be sitting on a set in those cities telling everyone the white house is lying.
October 7, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I am old but this post is so true and it breaks my heart.
Why didn’t I name my kids Dusty and Boomer?
September 15, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Why didn’t I name my kids Dusty and Boomer?
Meanwhile…
At least two students have been shot at Evergreen High School in Evergreen, Colorado, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office.
At least 2 students shot at a Denver-area high school, authorities say | CNN
At least two students have been shot at Evergreen High School in Evergreen, Colorado, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office.
www.cnn.com
September 10, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Meanwhile…
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Department of War? Let's do them all.
Dept of Agribusiness
Dept of Ignorance
Dept of Industry
Dept of Fossil Fuels
Dept of Human Disease
Homeland Gestapo
Dept of Private Parks
Dept of Unpaid Labor
Dept of State Control
Dept of SUVs & Trucks
Dept of Bankrupt Treasury Dept of Veterans Abuse
Dept of Agribusiness
Dept of Ignorance
Dept of Industry
Dept of Fossil Fuels
Dept of Human Disease
Homeland Gestapo
Dept of Private Parks
Dept of Unpaid Labor
Dept of State Control
Dept of SUVs & Trucks
Dept of Bankrupt Treasury Dept of Veterans Abuse
September 5, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Department of War? Let's do them all.
Dept of Agribusiness
Dept of Ignorance
Dept of Industry
Dept of Fossil Fuels
Dept of Human Disease
Homeland Gestapo
Dept of Private Parks
Dept of Unpaid Labor
Dept of State Control
Dept of SUVs & Trucks
Dept of Bankrupt Treasury Dept of Veterans Abuse
Dept of Agribusiness
Dept of Ignorance
Dept of Industry
Dept of Fossil Fuels
Dept of Human Disease
Homeland Gestapo
Dept of Private Parks
Dept of Unpaid Labor
Dept of State Control
Dept of SUVs & Trucks
Dept of Bankrupt Treasury Dept of Veterans Abuse
Where are the WH leaks? Is there not a single doctor/nurse/golf caddy/car driver/secret service agent/housecleaner who can tell us WTH is going on, so we can get the champagne ready?
August 30, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Where are the WH leaks? Is there not a single doctor/nurse/golf caddy/car driver/secret service agent/housecleaner who can tell us WTH is going on, so we can get the champagne ready?
RFK Jr is a lunatic and a murderer. How can we get rid of him?
I ate a bear and detect mitochondrial disease in the physiognomy of children at airports. I swim in shit and claimed the worm in my brain made me so incapacitated I couldn’t pay child support. I am in charge of your health
August 28, 2025 at 3:08 AM
RFK Jr is a lunatic and a murderer. How can we get rid of him?
Up until he’s kept his volatility under wraps? Helluva lead headline…(also: “winning streak”? JFC)
August 2, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Up until he’s kept his volatility under wraps? Helluva lead headline…(also: “winning streak”? JFC)
Say what you will about the NYT (and I’ve said plenty), this piece represents excellent reporting. If only we could center Epstein’s victims—victims—as forcefully. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/n...
An Evening at the Office, and Four Lives Ended by Gunfire
www.nytimes.com
July 30, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Say what you will about the NYT (and I’ve said plenty), this piece represents excellent reporting. If only we could center Epstein’s victims—victims—as forcefully. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/n...
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The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God.
Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well.
forward.com/opinion/7575...
Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well.
forward.com/opinion/7575...
Gaza is starving. Where are the American Jewish leaders?
A fear of being labelled antisemitic still deters American Jews and Jewish institutions from taking a position that is morally correct.
forward.com
July 24, 2025 at 10:04 PM
The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God.
Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well.
forward.com/opinion/7575...
Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well.
forward.com/opinion/7575...