At the WEF, a plate of butter chicken curry costs $72.57. That says about all that needs saying about the inclusiveness of the event.

What is musk’s interest in dismantling social security? Plz explain to me like i’m a fifth grader.

40 ppl on death row, mostly black ppl convicted pre-2010 are still serving 20yr crack cocaine sentences. But by all means: “The Biden family was concerned about a political backlash, but felt that Hunter Biden had earned public good will by enduring two prosecutions.” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/02/u...

Christmassy people, how do you do it? How do you enjoy a holiday that's supposed to be about love + peace in a world gone mad + beset with evil? I really want to know because I'd like to try + be more festive

I think this is why I prefer Halloween. It's just fun + doesn't ask for what I can't give

The podcast host counsels a couple who makes 400k/y and invests 1/3 they can afford to spend more. Nowhere do they discuss just … working less, spending time with loved ones and do what you want. Working less is the best! Your capitalism is showing, sir. open.spotify.com/episode/4r9A...

“The Harris campaign and its surrogates didn’t make clear why DEI is vital for American Democracy. And they focused almost entirely on “D” (i.e., diversity) and forgot that the “I” (inclusion) and “E” (equity) are vital parts of the DEI equation.”

open.substack.com/pub/norakell...

Great piece of reporting from @wired.com. Somehow not hopeful this is going to register back home amid everything else going on
www.wired.com/story/phone-...

I wrote an essay about how the Dems got their DEI narrative fundamentally wrong. (I’m a political scientist working in DEI)

open.substack.com/pub/norakell...

Setting aside that he is surrounding himself with loyalists and testing senate loyaties, “nihilistic disruption” rings very true for someone (me) who grew up with an antagonistic narcissist.

In case anyone needs a little light today: last weekend was Swiss Thanksgiving, where we carve out and decorate kohlrabis, plop real candles into them, and do a procession through the woods with our kids and lanterns, singing songs (“Räbeliechtliumzug”). It is delightful and ridiculous.

Succinct, persuasive argument for why it actually probably was the economy, stupid.

(And why the Democratic Party needs to take the working class seriously.)

open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

A friend sent this to me and it’s pretty perfect.

How do you get added to a starter pack???

45,000 Gazans dead. 90% of the living displaced. No one's been deceived. They've looked away.

"A senior IDF officer quietly admitted what the intl community has long been reluctant to acknowledge: that Israel is carrying out ethnic cleansing in N Gaza & deceiving the world abt its true objectives."

150 billionaire families spent $1.9B on the 2024 election through October.

It's a huge amount of money — but it represents just 0.07% of their overall wealth.

It essentially costs them nothing to drown our democracy in cash.

We must get big money out of our politics.

There's a reason democracies don't let people who tried coups back into power.

I love food memoirs and don’t get the hype around Ina Garten’s oeuvre tone-deaf book. For a couple with no kids, a 2-BR house with a dining room was too “cramped” for Jeffrey to sometimes work from home? So Ina bought a plot of Hamptons land and had the same house REBUILT FROM SCRATCH, just bigger?

What’s next, Joe Rogan for Press Secretary?

Dear all, I'm happy (or as happy to can be in any political-ish space post elections) to be here.

The bad news is, I may be a robot. Wtf, WHAT WAS THE SOLUTION?