Joshua Kosman

…raises a lot of questions answered by my dating profile…

A protest sign with a drawing of a large orange butterfly captioned THE ONLY MONARCH I WANT!

San Francisco

It’s impossible to imagine a right-wing equivalent to large, nationwide rallies like No Kings. It’s nice to remember that we have numbers.

Someone appears to have gotten their hands on a NO PARKING ANY TIME sign, but they blocked out the par part so it says no king lol

ooh well done

bsky.app/profile/josh...

Remember it? I still say it!

Sharif don't like it
Block the White House
Block the White House

Congrats!

Aiden K. Feltkamp @transcherubino.bsky.social in the first group too, obviously. (Sorry, was unaware of the relevant context here.)

Eh I’m not sure. Lorenzo da Ponte, Auden & Kallman, Royce Vavrek, absolutely. Luigi Illica, che me ne frega.

Am I wrong? Not feeling doctrinaire about this.

Lenny Bruce performing with a handheld microphone.

Arcane comedic art: going blue (10)

In our latest Out of Left Field cryptic crossword, sent to subscribers yesterday, @hpicciotto.bsky.social and I delve into the world of dirty jokes.

www.patreon.com/posts/puzzle...

My feeling is that the most important opportunity for the 2026 midterms is not flipping Congress to the Dems, but flipping the Dems to an actual opposition party.

NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.

Not a Catholic, no dog in this fight, but seeing evildoers vanquished is always right

Slow cooking A Berkeley recital by the Isidore String Quartet shone most brightly in restraint

New post at On a Pacific Aisle, with thoughts on the Isidore String Quartet and the Kahanes père et fils.

pacificaisle.substack.com/p/slow-cooking

Timely and not entirely obscurity-free cryptic clue:

Subject of the month's most appalling media story except for, surely, bundling E! with debut of Showtime (4,5)

The Way We Live Now.

Trollope is a god to me; my only beef with him is that he turned me against* Dickens.

*opened my eyes to the flaws of…

Zero lies detected

Solution: PECK

Kiss lightly: definition
at first, please: P (first letter)
don't begin: delete first letter of...
make out: ... [n]ECK

New puzzle and clue on Thursday!

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training. FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

j'avais aujourd'hui ans quand j'ai appris que «oscariser» est un verbe

What a thread. Condolences.

sherman, for the love of god!

This is a little heavy-handed, but how else is she expected to learn what an actual journalist’s job involves?

Nobel Peace Prize 2025 The Nobel Peace Prize 2025 was awarded to Maria Corina Machado “for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transi...

Thanks to my regular 2am bout of insomnia for waking me just in time for this.

www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace...

tweet from childish branzino @absflora: timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

a man with a beard and a woman in a pink shirt are kissing Alt: A man with a beard and a woman in a pink shirt are kissing.

Kiss lightly at first, please — don’t begin to make out (4)

In our latest Out of Left Field cryptic crossword, sent to subscribers this morning, @hpicciotto.bsky.social and I offer some kiss cam advice for newbies.

www.patreon.com/posts/puzzle...

Scoop: Mamdani ally weighs challenging Hakeem Jeffries Just talking about a potential campaign could drive a further wedge between Mamdani — the democratic socialist in line to be New York's next mayor — and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)

This is exactly what we need. This is it.

"New York City Council member Chi Ossé, a close ally of Zohran Mamdani, is privately discussing a run against House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)"

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself