The Best Podcasts of 2025 Some of the medium’s all-time best shows ended, but a crop of new contenders is keeping meaningful audio alive.

another great list from the best podcast critic out there! www.newyorker.com/culture/2025... listened to Fela on the 9 hour drive this weekend. definitely a must listen!

Ask not if your country will let you ride the bus for free but rather if you are ready to go under the bus for your country

what a week to listen to this podcast!

Yes, how can we possibly know who had this TEA thingamajig?

ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.

The news has entirely failed to grasp the unprecedented scope of the ICE and DHS budgets. Nothing like it in modern history. A galaxy of public/private surveillance and caging institutions for $100,000,000,000s unleashed on a public that will be forever changed. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

Last night the kid read me the story of Unus from his Marvel Masterworks book and then I read AB #14! ABSOLUTELY AWESOME

Russia / America / Just the beginning...
www.youtube.com/shorts/6J1eM...

Two books I devoured this weekend. Paired together they illuminate the close knit relationship that has always existed between the Post WWII Security State and the 'Free' Press
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
www.amazon.com/Challenging-...

Bari Weiss says she wants to use her new perch at CBS News to “redraw the lines of what falls in the 40 yards of acceptable debate” in American political and cultural life. She says the aim is to sideline voices like Hasan Piker, Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes, and elevate “charismatic” figures such as Alan Dershowitz and Dana Loesch who reflect “where the vast majority of Americans actually are.”

I am a pretty cynical human, it’s rare that you can say something about the US that I think is too harsh, but the claim that the vast majority of Americans would agree with Alan Dershowitz is where I draw the line

Tucker back in his Twin Peaks era?

I'm excited to announce that I have been asked to join the Mamdani Transition Team to work on community safety issues. A New Era for NYC.

the only JFK Conspiracy for me <3

but yes Rob's fanatical dedication to this mythical JFK that was going to end the cold war was a bummer to hear - but JFK was putting pressure on the security industrial complex in meaningful ways - nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/329...

I have really been resisting American history books framed around "what happened" in favor of books that are illuminating "what has always been there" BUT this one is one of the best narratives of 'what happened' in the 1990s

they had a lot of great people in the series. the problem was the end. my god. I still can't remember the French guy's name they announced was the killer but I do remember laughing out loud in my kitchen when Rob said it!!! HAHA

@bethmacy.bsky.social Started reading Paper girl this morning while the kid was at music class (enraptured), came home and learned you are running for office! Amazing!

Vance knows he has never ever ever been looked at like this

Press play was so fun last year and this one looks amazing too @pioneerwork.bsky.social pioneerworks.org/programs/pre... this session though feels like a dare rather than an invitation!!

this guy should read the new @superwuster.bsky.social book
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/691177...

you seem biased against Crass stupidity!

yikes

Is this a reference to the 'no one every organized my shoes before' line?

Boss AI

whats up with the Red Room photo?

this is such a fascinating read! Also, is there a date for this release!? I have had it bookmarked for a while now

this article is training AI video software on how to generate authentic looking wind swept hair. I don't think it does anything else.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/s...

The only time I ever appreciated seeing his face with the headline!

yesterday I read an issue of @lrb.co.uk from the summer that I still hadn't opened... and this happened:

I decided that the only comment I would make to parents at drop off is an enthusiastic "AFRICANA STUDIES MAJOR!!!"