By no means to contradict, more of a fun (grotesque?) fact, after Haiti’s 1804 slave rebellion, southern states passed laws that made freeing slaves substantially more difficult and required the vast majority of freed slaves to leave slave states. It’s part of the reason Washington freed his slaves (pre-1804) after he…

Though Cuomo is fantastic at announcing liberal policies while simultaneously pushing the terrible status quo. E.g., announcing free college the same day they bury bail bond reform. I dislike him intensely.

So this looks less like he’s helping launder other people’s money than like he’s laundering his own. I.e., when he’s selling condos in all cash deals to launder other people’s money, the banks don’t care. To them, that’s clean enough, and he’d go ahead and use that money to leverage more cash for bigger deals rather…

Maybe this is just a case of he and his wife’s TERRIBLE sexual communication? I mean if they’ve never actually discussed what she likes, and he just figures that his income is what’s giving her orgasms, he’s probably not questioning it. Though to be real, what kind of f-ed up view of humanity do you have to have to…

Yeah. I read “This Is How You Loser Her,” and I was like, “These are excellent stories written by a man who is unwilling to grow up but who has all of the power of a famous grown-up writer man. That’s a terrible combination.” As my son said at age 4. “Zeus is very powerful, but he doesn’t have much self control. That…

Sandals in NY are the absolute grossest.

In fairness to Colbert, the WHCA got Rich Little for the next year’s performance so as not to offend. I fully expect them to bring in Tim Conway next year to do a Dorf on Golf set.

So this letter is saying that the women signing didn’t push his buttons the way his victims did? Good for them. $5 says the two who came out weren’t the only ones.

I feel like the ways they’ll get beyond the uncanny valley will lead to something that needs to have a relationship to work at which point, it’s cheating.

I wouldn’t say that most schools in NYC are that bad or that the highly rated ones are that great. My experience has been that the teaching has mostly been pretty strong, but it’s very old school because frontal is how most teachers will default for a classroom of 30. The kids who are disruptive are about 50/50…

These parents are so f-ing stupid. I’m a parent with two kids in the NYC schools. My daughter’s middle school is 36% Asian, 33% white, 20% Latinx, and 10% African American. In 6th grade, they organized the grade, so it was 100% rank ordered. The kids with the top 32 test scores were in the class that everyone knew was…

Since Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel policy is on record that a sitting President can’t be indicted, I believe he will only ever be a subject, likely a subject who is an unindicted conspirator.

My 7th grader and I were walking behind a woman smoking a joint as we were headed to school/the gym in the morning (Forest Hills). We were like, “Really? 8 a.m.? I guess the morning commute just really puts her on edge.”

No! This has been an invaluable resource for our daughter, so much so that we’ve wanted something similar for our son (nothing truly comparable exists for boys).

The politics on this are right though. We’re headed for a retail collapse that will make the drops in manufacturing and coal looks like nothing. He’ll look like he was ahead of the curve by having called out Amazon for “cheating.”

I didn’t love it. I feel like there are more interesting writers in her lane. I would read Claire Messud (Emperor’s New Clothes or Woman Upstairs are the ones I’ve read) or Donna Tart (The Goldfinch and The Secret History are the ones I’ve read of hers) if I’m in the mood for American literary fiction. NY Review of…

My guess is that SJP knows that Cuomo is vindictive enough to make filming shit in NY a pain if Nixon loses. Cynthia Nixon wasn’t wrong when she described him as a bully.

That said, I would have preferred not to have to explain to my kids what “grab ‘em by the pussy” means, which I ended up doing thanks to *45 and the Daily News lying on the counter of a local pizza joint.

These kids are making me genuinely hopeful for the future. They’re so friggin’ smart and capable and emotionally intelligent. My own teenager and tween were really inspired at the NYC march, and then they got to come home and listen to Wadler’s speech; and they really feel like they can change the world.

My wife and I were on an F train during rush hour 7 years ago, and a tall (6'2"-ish?) South Asian Wall Street-type pushes on the train. A 5'10" working class white guy objects to the pushing, and they start yelling at each other, and one of them throws a punch. Pandemonium in the train car, and I think “people are…