#Not4Laffy as an aside to #NewYorker s - have you guys ever elected a non-criminal as lawyer? I mean I guess Rudy Guiliani counts because he was mayor _before_ he turned heel/Trump toady.
#Not4Laffy as an aside to #NewYorker s - have you guys ever elected a non-criminal as lawyer? I mean I guess Rudy Guiliani counts because he was mayor _before_ he turned heel/Trump toady.
Evil! But also really good! #NewYorker@joedator on Instagram
But of course he didn't really reverse course. There are still massive tariffs in place, and probably more coming, because no one has stopped him and they are a useful policy tool if you want to commit extortion.
However, it looks like the administration is so incompetent that tariffs aren't being collected or enforced at this time.
"U.S. shippers tell CNBC they have not been charged higher tariff rates on their containers, some of which came in as late as yesterday"
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/11/customs-reports-glitch-in-system-used-by-freight-for-tariff-exemptions.html
@Geoffberner
Can we designate a single #LostCityOfTheOligarchs and abandon them all at once?
Wouldn’t that be efficient? Like “Escape From the #NewYorker” or something
Maybe they don’t read
Okay, humans of Mastodon. You need to watch this. It will make you feel wonderful, will warm your heart, maybe will have you shed a tear or two. Very highly recommended.
David Remnick interviews Atul Gawande in the #NewYorker. https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-new-yorker-radio-hour/atul-gawande-on-elon-musks-surgery-with-a-chainsaw?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_FoodScene_PaidSubs_032125&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&bxid=5bea05fd3f92a404693f52bd&cndid=51285014&hasha=3975ee2174a0ef796390d65085c7ebd3&hashb=448120c2dd37927e56e19402317258645e07611e&hashc=61a43ea9a9760f9280f801127d723cd17e9043b35544148c1fc2e4b5d51f9d14&esrc=subscribe-page&mbid=CRMNYR062419&utm_term=TNY_Food_Scene_PaidSubs
Jenifer Bunty, a recently fired Forest Service specialist said: “It’s really hard to let go of that mission, that drive that is bigger than myself,” Bunty says. When she told her daughters, ages five and seven, that she’d been fired, they didn’t understand the word. So she explained that it meant she couldn’t do her job. “They’re, like, ‘Wait, you don’t get to help the forest and the animals anymore?’ And they started to cry.”
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-felling-of-the-us-forest-service
An interview with David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker. Don't read the story, listen to the interview. It's worth your time: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/trump-is-going-after-the-media-the-new-yorker-s-editor-says-he-will-not-bend-the-knee-1.7456145 #media #magazine #journalism #newyorker
#Dinosaurs #Meteorites #NewYorker
Heh heh heh
Something about the cigar and glass of whiskey really makes this hilarious.
Reading about Mahler-Werfel’s world, I see parallels to our own. Where she hosted artists in Viennese salons, we’re offered the task of scrolling through digital feeds. Her era wrestled with modernism and the human psyche; we’re beset by AI and digital consciousness. Different centuries, same human search for meaning amid profound change. I wonder will we sleep through our own “fin-de-siècle”?
#Monterey
#RainyDayThoughts
#MahlerWerfel
#FinDeSiecle
#NewYorker (9/9)
Play Laugh Lines No. 4: The Office | The New Yorker
Laugh Lines
No. 4: The Office
https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/laugh-lines/no-4
A combination of a hollowed out civil society, fragmented social cohesion, relentless propaganda, and internal mental conflict has led to muted Russian support for the offensive in Ukraine: https://www.newyorker.com/news/a-reporter-at-large/do-russians-really-support-the-war-in-ukraine
R.I.P. A brilliant cartoonist.
https://comicbookclublive.com/2025/01/21/jules-feiffer-dies-age-95