Tess Owen

(The analysis being - Trump mancrushing on mamdani, mamdani playing him like a fiddle)

seems like the mamdani-trump meeting went extremely well, and there’s a wide consensus that mamdani emerged looking brilliant.

unfortunately the moment Trump reads that analysis, it’s absolutely over for their relationship

Books Aren’t Magic Empathy Pills (But They Help) Last week I read a really lovely WIRED story by Tess Owen about people who desperately want to deprogram their MAGA-pilled family members and hope to use books to do so. They want to start a meaningful conversation using verifiable facts and beautiful language rather than fighting words, and I find that commendable. I understand […]

Books Aren’t Magic Empathy Pills (But They Help): Last week I read a really lovely WIRED story by Tess Owen about people who desperately want to deprogram their MAGA-pilled family members and hope to use books to do so. They want to start a meaningful conversation… #CraftandCriticism #Features

Did an AI slop send this email?

anyone who calls me Tessa immediately in the bad books

what?

ITV unmasks a neo-Nazi activist in Britain who gave Buckingham Palace tours by day and organized within international fascist movements by night.

“When confronted by ITV News on a suburban street in west London, Gravill froze. ‘Oh f***,’ he muttered.”

www.itv.com/news/2025-11...

This lede by antonia hitchens is utterly perfect
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

I am so grateful for every week I get to work in this terrible profession and I also feel constant heartburn about what a mess it is. Strong statement from the News Guild on the absurd firings at Conde: www.nyguild.org/post/stateme...

NEWS — The Oregon Department of Human Services has issued 100% of November SNAP benefits, per an alert on their website. I've received reports that the funds have already hit recipients' EBT accounts.

www.oregon.gov/odhs/news/Pa...

Tucker Carlson Gave a Softball Interview to a Neo-Nazi. Republicans Are Having a Meltdown—but Not for the Reason You’d Think. It's another reminder of the scary state of American conservatism.

Forgot to post this spooky story I wrote for Slate on Friday amid the Halloween shuffle:

The mainstream right makes a little room at the table for Nick Fuentes

slate.com/news-and-pol...

at this point no one can convince me that he wasn’t born in the suit-and-tie

we voted !

the musks and bannons are practically salivating at just the fantasy of this

Elon Musk using his own platform to stoke hatred and division in a country that he has a tenuous link to at best

Screenshot of FashyLeaks page for Iron March user In Hoc Signo Vinces , showing his email address (https://fashyleaks.com/iron-march?tab=users&id=6208)

Travis Frey, a former captain at an ICE detention facility who was identified as an Iron March user in 2019 by @tessowen.bsky.social, submitted an article draft to the Rope Culture email address, called “The Greater Holy War,” and listed his Iron March username: “In Hoc Signo Vinces.”

DHS Posts Video Featuring Song Popular With Nazi Creators The agency denied making

DHS posted a disturbing video today featuring a song that’s popular with Nazi creators

Steve Bannon Reveals ‘There’s a Plan’ for Third Trump Term Bannon divulged that there are “many different alternatives” for securing a third term for Trump.

once again: believe these people when they tell you what they want to do

www.thedailybeast.com/steve-bannon...

SNAP benefits expire in one week.

the idea of being captive, stuck in traffic in a taxi, as NEWSMAX of all things plays at me sounds like hell on earth

hellgatenyc.com/taxi-tv-news...

Full quote from Adams: ““Am I angry I’m not the one taking down the socialist, this communist? You're darn right I am. But this city means more to me than anything. New York can’t be Europe…You see what's playing out in other countries because of Islamic extremism.”

mask off Islamophobia the moment that these centrist dems are nudged right

must have been one helluva knicks game

I know

(this is not to scold anyone, I myself fell into the Curtis sliwa meme-world and had to be pulled out of it with common sense)

On live TV, Guardian Angels rough up a man in Times Square then misidentify him as a 'migrant' The disturbance played out as Curtis Sliwa, founder of the anti-crime patrol group, was speaking to Sean Hannity.

as hilarious as it is to imagine sliwa been pulled by cat-drawn chariot, I am reminded that he and the guardian angels are Not Good apnews.com/article/guar...

still recovering from cuomo crashing out over a question about homeless children

Police focus on ladder placed against the side of the Louvre Andrew Harding Paris correspondent, at the scene

Sorry but this is the funniest headline I will read all year

Yes absolutely, they’d probably do it as well

In the middle of all this the inflatable costume crowd has arrived and is throwing a rave? Mosh? At the end of the free speech zone closest to the ICE facility.