Karen Schwartz

Karen Schwartz

@pithywidow.bsky.social

Former Marie Claire contributing editor, NY Sun columnist and occasional NYT Styles writer. Ex-tweeter.

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18 years. 18 is the numeric value of the word “chai”—life—in Judaism. Definitely feels like a lifetime ago. But he’s still here, and never won’t be. His memory is a blessing. Just as time knew to move on since the beginning And the seasons know exactly when to change… I'll be loving you always

When you are not satisfied by ruining the Knicks game three

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump on Balogun: "That wasn't even an infraction...this referee, who is a little bit suspect if you check his past. He made a call nobody could believe...he's our best player, or one of our best players. And he gave him a red card. I didn't know what that meant...yes, I asked for a review by FIFA."

Who could have imagined

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social

Anti abortion activists said “leaving abortion to the states” would alleviate partisan rancor and get the justices out of the “abortion umpire business.” Now they’re demanding the courts force pro choice states to help enforce abortion bans. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

OG 4eva 🫶🫶🫶🫶🧡💙🧡💙👊👊👊👊

Fred Katz@fredkatz.bsky.social

Mike Brown said he “challenged” OG Anunoby at shootaround this morning: I told OG as big, as strong, as athletic as he is, he’s gotta be a monster in the offensive glass tonight. I don’t know if there is a play bigger in the history of Knicks basketball.”

Sunday morning cartoon

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

WOW - Trump crashes out & cuts his interview w/ Welker short as she presses him on his lack of evidence for claiming elections are rigged "You're either crooked or you're stupid. I've had enough. Thank you darling," he tells her" "I traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview," she pleads

Has anyone let him know about the 1.8 billion dollars available for weaponization

Zoe Tillman@zoetillman.bsky.social

Fresh off a judge's dismissal of criminal charges against him, Kilmar Abrego Garcia presses his challenge to the Trump administration's efforts to deport him to Liberia, or anywhere besides Costa Rica buff.ly/1vgRYXd

Come on

David Wessel@davidmwessel.bsky.social

!!! Trump appointees at Treasury push for $250 bill with his face on it. Director of Bureau of Printing & Engraving, who resisted the effort, said she was involuntarily reassigned last month. “The buck stopped here,” she wrote in her goodbye. wapo.st/4fM4Hei

Stop quoting Orwell start quoting The Emperor Has No Clothes challenge

Steve Benen@stevebenen.com

It’s still hard to wrap my head around the fact that Trump not only threatened to “blow up” another Middle Eastern country, this time, he was talking about a U.S. ally. The State Department then acted as if this were a good thing, worthy of amplification and promotion. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

The Apprentice reality show would not lie though Ed

Edward Luce@edwardluce.bsky.social

So Trump casually threatens to blow up Oman - an ally, a helpful friend in the region, a responsible Gulf power. He releases an AI meme showing Iran with the stars & stripes. And there are people who still think he's a deal-making genius. Galactic idiocy.

Running the country like he did his businesses

Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social

Every new thing that’s happened in the Iran war since early March has been Trumps attempt to find a way out of facing the fact that he lost the war in the first days of the conflict. It’s like he bought a stock at $100. A few days later it dropped to $1 and the company was delisted.

Far from the only way Minnesotans kicked a** this winter

Governor Tim Walz@governorwalz.mn.gov

Minnesotans took home more medals than any other state at this year’s Winter Olympics. I was honored to host some of Minnesota’s Olympians and Paralympians to thank them for making our state so proud in Milan.

Whatever they pay her it should be more

Decoding Fox News@decodingfoxnews.bsky.social

Jessica Tarlov fact checked Jesse Watters in the same segment after he implied that Trump would be giving Iran its own money back unlike Obama. Tarlov explains that Obama was also giving Iran its own money as part of the JCPOA (Iran nuclear deal).

Straight line between this and manipulating the 80s NY tabloids

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social

GOP has "abandoned the idea of crafting policy. They are a full-time media operation, trolling and creating content. The president is checked out. There is no turnaround coming as long as Trump/GOP are in power." On the pod, @dceiver.bsky.social nails the moment: newrepublic.com/article/2108...

Their government needs a better covert social media strategy

Why is no one free until Palestine is free? What about the Congo? Sudan? Mauritania? Niger, Libya? Obama put sanctions on Dan Gertler who was driving the genocide in the Congo. Trump lifted them. Biden put sanctions back. Trump lifted them again. Do the people of the Congo not count?

I love them 💙🧡

NBA@nba.com

THE NEW YORK KNICKS ARE HEADED TO THEIR FIRST NBA FINALS SINCE 1999 🔥 The Knicks win their 11th straight game, secure their 2nd consecutive 4-0 series win, and advance to the NBA Finals for the 1st time in 27 years! They will take on the winner of Thunder/Spurs.