I continue to be astounded by the absolute bovine stupidity of people like William F. Buckley, Antonin Scalia, Bari Weiss and her acolytes with good vocabularies, et al. They are so confident about their empty ideas!

It’s okay for hard things to be hard. On the subject of AI and writing, I like the way George Saunders puts it:

I still think about this book. It is important for me to tweet that I still think about this book.

Love this interview with Tina Brown from @LuluGNavarro: nytimes.com/2025/11/15/magaz…

Once in a while I think about trains.

It’s incumbent upon anyone who has ever been ostracized, anyone who believes in human dignity, to protect trans people and prevent the extremists in our country from traveling any further down this dark path. If you’ve read history you know where it leads. We cannot allow it.

What could possibly go wrong?

Nothing feels more like summer to me than an excellent Buffalo News intern-written story on the Allentown Art Festival. Just a classic, Buffalo circa 2005 feeling that I absolutely love. buffalonews.com/news/local/a…

WACS and @AtlasAlden working together on tonight’s award show and livestream. Tune in here: youtube.com/live/f0LGinQqWEQ…

Buffalo is the only city in the world where you can stand in one spot and hear five mediocre Tom Petty cover bands playing simultaneously.

I am also here.

I endorse this fictional project.

A scene from Angels in America in which Donald Trump's mentor Roy Cohn (Al Pacino) reflects, among other things, on the artistic merits of "Cats." Cohn rubbed off on Trump in a lot of obvious and terrifying ways, but not in terms of taste. youtu.be/jLV03MxxZq8?feature…

Amazon customer service writing checks I can't cash.

Elon Musk says that no one has died because he slashed humanitarian aid. I went to South Sudan to check if that's true. It's not. Within an hour of starting interviews, I had the names of a 10-year-old boy and an 8-year-old girl who had died because of decisions by wealthy men in Washington. The visit that moved me the most was to a remote area that used to have no health care, where women routinely died in childbirth. Then a US-funded maternity clinic opened through @UNFPA in December, and not one woman has died since. I showed up, and people mistakenly thought I was responsible for the clinic. One new mom wanted to name her baby for me, and the village elders thanked me and hailed America's generosity. What they didn't know was that Trump/Musk had cut all funding for UNFPA and that as a result the maternity clinic will close this month, and women will once again be bleeding to death in the dust. Here's a giftlink to my report from ground level about what the shutdown of USAID means: nytimes.com/interactive/2025…

I need to know more about the history of the Eckahrdt family. This Eckhardt dude comes out of retirement after 20 YEARS, decides to build a massive department store with no succession plan. Eight months later, he and his wife die and the store is sold.