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Jason Diamond
@jasondiamond.bsky.social
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“Writer" - The New Yorker. “Author” - New York Times. “A fabulous old soul” - Russ & Daughters Instagram account. “Unlikely model” - BBC. My novel “Kaplan’s Plot” is out fall of 2025 on Flatiron.
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Lol.
November 12, 2025 at 1:45 AM
jasondiamond.bsky.social
If you’re in Philly, tomorrow I’m debuting a new thing. It’s a live event that looks at how immigrants and people from different places help make cities great by shaping and reshaping the food local culture.
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Hottest shirt of 2025.
November 5, 2025 at 9:43 PM
jasondiamond.bsky.social
I hate to say this because I don’t like perpetuating stereotypes, but I feel like it’s just going to be a bunch of landlords kvetching about how he’s making them lose money and Greenblatt will be like “See? Antisemitism!”
jbenmenachem.com jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 6d
Seems the ADL is creating a Canary Mission-like project specifically to police the ideology of Zohran’s hires. h/t @jacobkornbluh.bsky.social @petersterne.com
ADL Launches Initiative to Track and Monitor Mamdani Administration Policies and Appointments, Protect Jewish New Yorkers Organization significantly expands City Hall tracking and incident response capabilities to protect the world's largest Jewish community outside of Israel NEW YORK, NY, November 5, 2025 — Today, ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) announced the launch of a comprehensive initiative to track and monitor policies and personnel appointments of the incoming Mamdani Administration and protect Jewish residents across the five boroughs during a period of unprecedented antisemitism in New York City. "Mayor-Elect Mamdani has promoted antisemitic narratives, associated with individuals who have a history of antisemitism, and demonstrated intense animosity toward the Jewish state that is counter to the views of the overwhelming majority of Jewish New Yorkers. We are deeply concerned that those individuals and principles will influence his administration at a time when we are tracking a brazen surge of harassment, vandalism and violence targeting Jewish residents and institutions in recent years," said Jonathan Greenblatt, ADL CEO and National Director. "We expect the mayor of the city with the largest Jewish population in the world to stand unequivocally against antisemitism in all its varied forms and support all of its Jewish residents just as he would all other constituents. We will hold the Mamdani Administration accountable to this basic standard." Included in the initiatives ADL is launching today in New York City: • NYC Antisemitism Tipline. Building on decades of incident response in New York City and across the country, ADL is establishing a dedicated New York City citywide antisemitism tipline, extending the organization's decades-long incident response work to meet this moment. The tipline will serve as a hyper-focused resource for New Yorkers to report antisemitic incidents in the city, including on the streets, in schools, in their workplace. ADL e…
November 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM
jasondiamond.bsky.social
It’s fitting NYC elected a mayor who seems to never sleep.
zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 6d
Thank you, New York City. Together we made history.

Now let’s get to work.

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November 5, 2025 at 7:31 PM
jasondiamond.bsky.social
I only talk to him once maybe every five years and he’s technically in Westchester but I still wanted to check in.
November 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
jasondiamond.bsky.social
Curtis Sliwa proved that haters are capable of helping to bring change.
November 5, 2025 at 3:25 AM
jasondiamond.bsky.social
Just need write-ins to beat Adams now.
November 5, 2025 at 2:52 AM
jasondiamond.bsky.social
Best city in the world, baby!
November 5, 2025 at 2:44 AM
jasondiamond.bsky.social
Damn. Love to see it.
joshuajfriedman.com Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 7d
NYC hits 2 million votes, breaking the 1989 record (1.9M) and taking us back to records set in the 1960s!

(1969: 2.4M; 1965: 2.6M)
Tweet from NYC Board of Elections: We officially hit TWO MILLION votes - first time since 1969! Polls are open until 9pm. If you are on line by 9pm, you will be allowed to vote
November 5, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Curious to see whether Cuomo gets a book deal or Fox News gig first.
November 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
jasondiamond.bsky.social
Sitting here on the eve of what is hopefully the end of Andrew Cuomo’s political career and remembering how he suddenly made weed legal in hopes of getting people to ignore all the trouble he was in as governor.
November 3, 2025 at 10:19 PM
jasondiamond.bsky.social
I’m glad Curtis Sliwa almost 100 percent won’t become the next mayor tomorrow, but I’ll also miss seeing his crazy ass featured so much on TV.

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Curtis Sliwa And The Last Of the Tri-State Loudmouths
It's probably the end of an era.
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November 3, 2025 at 7:42 PM
jasondiamond.bsky.social
Marathon weather is almost always perfect.
November 2, 2025 at 4:42 PM
jasondiamond.bsky.social
There’s a short home video clip of Jerry Stiller trying to catch a pigeon that got into his apartment in “Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost.” I’m happy to know something like that once happened.
November 1, 2025 at 11:33 PM
jasondiamond.bsky.social
Yeah, what he said. But also: that art deco bathroom is my dream pooping situation.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11d
sure, you might not be able to eat or go to the doctor, but check out how nice Trump's new marble shitter is
I renovated the Lincoln Bathroom in the White House. It was renovated in the 1940s in an art deco green tile style, which was totally inappropriate for the Lincoln Era. I did it in black and white polished Statuary marble. This was very appropriate for the time of Abraham Lincoln and, in fact, could be the marble that was originally there!
October 31, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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"Lotteries and ritual stoning are integral parts of American life. Whether or not the lottery actually increases the yearly harvest, rural working-class Americans think it does. Let me be blunt: liberals who want to abolish ritual murder are the reason that Donald Trump won."
Stoning Our Neighbors to Death Makes the Corn Grow High, and Elitist Liberals Should Stop Attacking This Traditional Value
Since Biblical times, stoning people to death has been a horrible punishment reserved for the worst criminals. But now, in PC liberal America, the ...
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October 31, 2025 at 5:08 PM
jasondiamond.bsky.social
The soundtrack to Kaplan’s Plot is up at @largeheartedboy.bsky.social. Also gave me an excuse to talk about the difference between novels that are influenced by cinema, and novels that are written with the purpose of being adapted into films.

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Jason Diamond’s Book Notes music playlist for his novel Kaplan’s Plot – Largehearted Boy
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October 30, 2025 at 2:20 PM
jasondiamond.bsky.social
Emphasis on “sadly.”
largeheartedboy.bsky.social David Gutowski @largeheartedboy.bsky.social · 13d
"I like to think I’m directing a story, just on paper and I sadly don’t have a multi-million dollar budget."

@jasondiamond.bsky.social shared a playlist for his debut novel Kaplan's Plot at Largehearted Boy largeheartedboy.com/2025/10/29/j...
October 29, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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@theoscargoff.bsky.social
The American Genius Of Poison Ivy And The Cramps
Life is short. Filled with stuff.
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October 29, 2025 at 6:30 PM
jasondiamond.bsky.social
Tonight my daughter met this pup and I told her “Dogs in sunglasses is something that never gets old” and it was a nice reminder there will always be a few good things no matter how bad things get.
October 29, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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@jasondiamond.bsky.social ‘s book KAPLAN’S PLOT is on here! Woo hoo!
(Read it)
October 28, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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sarahweinman.com
Very pleased to have contributed the companion essay to the @criterion.bsky.social's new edition of Guillermo del Toro's NIGHTMARE ALLEY (2021), which is available for purchase today: www.criterion.com/films/35272-...

(My essay should be online soon!)
Nightmare Alley
Noir fatalism has rarely been so alluring as in this vision of the world as a soul-sick carnival of corruption. Putting his own luxuriantly stylized spin on the classic hard-boiled novel by William Li...
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October 28, 2025 at 12:43 PM
jasondiamond.bsky.social
Fell asleep on the couch around midnight. Woke up at 230 AM and this game is still on. Baseball is back!
October 28, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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If Sliwa wins he’ll be carried off by a hundred cats to a small landfill ruled by rats, banished to live there for the rest of his days.
October 27, 2025 at 1:39 PM