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guy said, “Do you like Marx?” I said, “I haven’t met him.” Guy said, “No, no, he’s dead.” “Wow, what happened?” “No, no, he died long ago.” I thought the guy Marx had just died. So then, “Why are you asking me if he died long ago?” “No, he wrote a lot. He wrote that poor people should not be poor.” I said, “Sounds amazing.” I’m giving you a sense of how naïve I was. After they left, I went to the library to look for Marx. So that was my introduction to Karl Marx. BS: The FBI. MM: The FBI. Then, of course, I took a class on Marx. Couldn’t just get Marx out of the library. But,

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

You're laughing? He could smell the onions and mustard and you're laughing?

“assumed room temperature” had me howling

A ballistic sandwich

He is charming, hard-working, comes from a place of genuine love and care for his city and community, and is almost unflappably positive - contrast this with the vile politics of his opponent, which Third Way is more or less endorsing

"Mamdani-style politics" is just being good at it, which to Third Way-types is alien and horrifying

Omg, yes!

Yes! He is a wannabe edgelord.

Wasn't the term “cartel” at first intended as dismissive towards the gangs?

Top Substack writers depart for Patreon A platform better known for paid podcasts is poaching top newsletter talent. Patreon has successfully lured some top Substack newsletter writers — including Anne Helen Petersen, Lyz Lenz, and Virginia...

I wish the reporter would have contacted me I would have given spicier quotes than my BlueSky posts www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/top-...

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Why does the pregnant bill have such luscious red lips, is it a New York City Thing

I think I should regret appreciating this, but

you have to be careful when introducing your bill to the house, the alpha bills might smell your omega bill being in heat

Andrew Cuomo Uses AI MPREG Schoolhouse Rock Bill to Attack Mamdani, Is Out of Ideas Uhh, is ChatGPT the dad or?

why is the bill pregnant

www.404media.co/ai-generated...

Getting 8 hours of sleep is such a shock, considering I gave been averaging 3-4 at most the past few months!

Fire The Consultants The Democratic party must move on from the same old stale, carefully poll-tested politics and get back to solving voters' problems. There are only three certainties in life: death, taxes, and Democra...

For my newsletter, I took a deeper look at the electoral record of WelcomePAC, a centrist group that produced that 352 page document advising Democrats to moderate once again.

Turns out the campaigns they work for aren't winning. www.burnsnotice.com/fire-the-con...

Your now-mandatory reminder that Republicans in Congress are just fine with this

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.

This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

I told him that I was born in Russia and was a writer. He showed me a list he’d written of his favourite desserts in the city. It was a sober hobby he’d started during the pandemic, going to restaurants by himself, sampling sweets. He made a lot of lists, he said, most of them food-related. I asked what other kinds he made. “Lists of lies liberal white women tell about Donald Trump,” he replied. Suddenly, his leg was shaking. He grabbed the edges of the table and raised his voice: “White, liberal women are a plague on our society.” He proceeded to drink 11 iced coffees.

A writer tried dating alt-right men as an experiment to learn about them. There is so much going on here I don't even know where to start

www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/love-sex/...

YouTube video by Bullseye with Jesse Thorn Marc Maron and Brendan McDonald are ending WTF, and Jesse Thorn wants his mics back - Bullseye

I talked with my old pal @marcmaron.bsky.social and his producer and (non-romantic) partner Brendan about the end of WTF for @bullseye.maximumfun.org . Because actually? WTF is a friendship story.

youtu.be/RDoUqyNLy2g?...

This was such a great interview and it was so cool to hear Brendan's story along with Marc's.

Whole news network without the concept of “auntie”

And they didn't have to push a bill through Congress!

MAGA’s 9/11 Is an Assassination NSPM-7's domestic war was inspired by a murder

The Trump administration sees Charlie Kirk's murder as a 9/11 type event. His death inspired a whole new counterterrorism strategy embodied by NSPM-7
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/magas-911-...

No, no, no. Wait a minute.

When your Chotiner interview is going great

Last week I met a guy who kept trying to debate me and when I refused he was like “Oh I just like intelligent conversation.” And I said, “If you think yelling at a strange woman is intelligence then you must be lonely.”

And his friends laughed because his divorce was just finalized.

He thought he was being so funny, yeesh.

if you're knowingly married to a Nazi you're a Nazi also. sorry!