Pat McDevitt

I know sex trafficking & rape aren't as important as email security & IT support decisions, but how is this buried as a horse-race election story rather than a full front-page series detailing the report, interviewing the accusers, and seeking comments from the GOP? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/u...

Ramaswamy has produced an attack ad weaponizing the rape of his opponent, Amy Acton, when she was 12 years old. It features Acton’s mother, who abandoned Acton after she was raped by her step-father, fleeing the state with her husband. Here is the corporate money helping fund that ad.

From the NYT article today on fake lawyer Katie Zacharia. A quick search suggests this is the first time the paper has used "mishegas" in a news article (except when quoting). I'm all for mainstreaming as much Yiddish as possible, but I am nonetheless curious about this editorial decision.

Joe Biden was too old to be president. Trump is the same age as Biden was when he was president. And it’s obvious that Trump is less mentally healthy than Biden was. So when will the media report that the president’s brain is broken? If the answer is “never,” that means the media are broken too.

After Trump used taxpayer money to air one of his literal campaign ads, FCC Chair Brendan Carr shrugged off the scandal, saying the propaganda was just a “normal PSA.” It’s ridiculous to the point of being insulting. It’s as if these guys think Americans are idiots. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

The U.S. has withdrawn its last troops from Iraq, 23 years after a Republican president launched a war of choice based on lies that cost trillions of dollars, killed hundreds of thousands of people, and unleashed regional chaos. History doesn't repeat, but it often rhymes.

"Super Intelligence."

An ad nearly identical to one President Trump ran during his 2024 campaign returned on Saturday, paid for using public money. Several ethics lawyers said it may violate federal law. nyti.ms/4hvMqRN

attacking your country on foreign territory

I am old enough to remember a time when repeatedly lying about your experience on 9/11 to glorify yourself would be viewed as morally contemptible and a disqualification from public service.

There have been so many impeachable offenses, but lying about how you were a hero on a day that 2,753 people died in NYC in the 9/11 disaster—when you were on the other side of town, safely calling local media to brag about how you now had the tallest downtown building—is such a despicable one

Is it a big deal that the U.S. president is telling insane lies that he personally rushed to the site of 9/11 and heroically acted like a first responder himself? Sorta seems like it should be! Maybe?

You know who actually did show up at Ground Zero? Canadian emergency rescue crews.

Every day that the mainstream media don't report loudly and urgently that the president is insane is a day in which they're committing journalistic malpractice.

𝐍𝐨, 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐋𝐋𝐌 𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐋𝐋𝐌 𝐮𝐬𝐞. See our paper for more results: "Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task" : www.brainonllm.com

The cyclospora outbreak has reached 17,180 cases across 48 states. The FDA has recalled 1.6 million eggs due to salmonella contamination. Screwworm cases continue to rise. And we’ve just surpassed 2,700 measles cases (including 2 recent deaths) — a 35 year high. “Make America Healthy Again.”

U.S. health officials have approved a groundbreaking pancreatic cancer drug that offers a new approach to treating the deadly form of cancer, by blocking a protein that fuels tumor growth in the vast majority of cases. n.pr/4d6XUtt

Access to health care is bad because in the good old days, people would just go to work and die.

Playing football has long been linked to the brain disease known as CTE, but how prevalent it is is still unknown. A new study of former NFL players who died recently found that at least 25% had CTE. n.pr/45LueOE

Nothing you do in your entire life will ever be this embarrassing

Idk what age group you'd assign this to because I was a shithead 11 yo with undiagnosed autism "um actually-ing" homework questions because they weren't clear, but it seems like "find a negative review of something you love and respond to it's arguments" would be a really helpful excercise

Being able to read a review critically and figure out where the critic is coming from is a good skill that we want to cultivate actually, and we should encourage more of it instead of expecting criticism to reflect our own opinions of what's objectively good back to us.

Emily Wilson's Odyssey review is good because being able to say "oh this reviewer thinks this way because their personal history and interests leads them to regard certain things as important that I don't" is how we SHOULD be engaging with criticism and assessing it's relevance.

Anyone who’s ever had a toddler fall asleep in the back seat knows this look. The kid struggles to stay alert but the somnolence is too strong. The head flips back, then it’s lights out, and now you’re going to either park under a tree or drive aimlessly for the next hour

I always conclude my History of Soccer syllabus with some pictures of sad England fans, because I'm petty and it makes me happy. What an embarrassment of riches this article is! defector.com/its-time-to-...

"Former England international Peter Reid described the Argentina banner display as 'beyond the pale.'" Now which Pale would that be beyond, Mr Reid? www.espn.com/soccer/story...

I know this is the least of the @nytimes.com's problems. But c'mon. NYers wait ON line, not IN line. Just pretend like you're still a part of the city.

RFK Jr's CDC reportedly scaled back foodborne disease tracking last year, removing cyclospora from mandatory reporting. The CDC also lost roughly 3,000 employees since 2025. Now? A cyclosporiasis outbreak has sickened thousands across 34 states. "Make America Healthy Again."

So sad to hear of Sam Neill's passing. One of my favorite actors of all time. He was never in a film that wasn't improved by his presence. I loved that he named his beloved farm animals after his friends. Below is his favorite pig, Angelia Houston. He also had a cow named Helena Bonham Carter.

Dear news media, You heard Trump refer today to “the Islamic Republic of Japan." You heard him repeatedly refer to Zelenskyy as "President Putin.” His brain is broken. Warn the public about it. It’s your duty.

A commendable stand taken against corruption by— … omg

It takes an entire city to prepare for extreme weather, and that's exactly what we're doing. We've activated our Heat Emergency Plan ahead of tomorrow's heat wave, bringing every agency together to protect New Yorkers.

anyway i think the proper takeaway here is that a bare majority of the court thinks the plain words of the 14th amendment mean what they say, that four members believe there is a secret hidden meaning only recently discovered by hack lawyers

I think it’d be most appropriate for the Knicks owner to go alone.

Are you fucking KIDDING ME with these calls????

Hello I am a certified Kingdom Hearts Lore understander(tm) if anyone is looking for coverage

If the refs don’t get a hold of this game there’s gonna be a brawl, and it will be the refs fault

The only reason DementiaDon is considering attending a Knicks game is to bask in the applause & let everyone see how well protected he is. I hope all good Knicks fans boo him unmercifully which is nothing less than he deserves.

I wrote this. Google sucks.

a reminder that segregation among other things is a form of theft

Reupping: "Those who engaged in the attacks last week will be brought to justice." ---Trump on 1/13/21, after the House impeached him but before the Senate had voted on whether to convict.

We've become numb to this stuff, but a president accusing a journalist of treason -- a capital crime -- for reporting on an ongoing war is not normal, and we should never accept it as normal.

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