Marc Tracy @marcatracy.bsky.social · 24/06/2026marcatracy.substack.com/p/yes-some-j...marcatracy.substack.comYes, Some Jews Voted for ThisA quick thought on yesterday's elections 010
Marc Tracy @marcatracy.bsky.social · 28/04/2026In total earnestness: good for him for voting for himself bsky.app/profile/prop... 000
Marc Tracy @marcatracy.bsky.social · 25/02/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/b...nytimes.comA Wake for The Washington Post’s Books Section 020
Marc Tracy @marcatracy.bsky.social · 19/02/2026New Cynthia Ozick story. Ozick is 97. Inspiring! jewishreviewofbooks.com/literature/1...jewishreviewofbooks.comThe Wife - Jewish Review of Books"When they came to the door, she shrieked through the peephole, she drove them off, how they feared her! She could hear their heels pounding down the half-dozen flights of cracked marble." 020
Marc Tracy @marcatracy.bsky.social · 15/02/2026The war on literacy culture continues (I'm not really joking) 120
Marc Tracy @marcatracy.bsky.social · 11/02/2026The new thing at the bottom of Gmail cuts off some of the space where you used to be able to read your emails, but at least it also has a lot of completely blank white space 110
Marc Tracy @marcatracy.bsky.social · 06/02/2026You know where I'd like to read several more articles about Sonny ... www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...washingtonpost.comSonny Jurgensen, one of Washington’s greatest football players, dies at 91In a Hall of Fame career, the Redskins quarterback was known as one the NFL’s best pure passers. He later spent years as a broadcaster. 010
Reposted by Marc TracyBen Mullin @benmullin.bsky.social · 04/02/2026A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations." 22974582641
Marc Tracy @marcatracy.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Not to pull rank, but it's objectively the case -- it was statistically a fact -- that at least during my childhood no newspaper meant more to its city than The Post did to D.C. It is impossible to think there does not remain long-term value in covering non-national news of interest to its readers. 130
Reposted by Marc TracySam Sacks @ssacks.bsky.social · 02/02/2026The snow in New York is just amazingly foul at this point. It works like those black lights that reveal that all your surfaces are actually covered in disgusting bodily fluids. Practicing the willful blindness necessary to living here is getting to be impossible... 071
Marc Tracy @marcatracy.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Why/how does this scene go so hard www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7fZ...youtube.comClark Gregg's Scene in the West Wing Season 2 Episode 16YouTube video by Clark Gregg University 100
Reposted by Marc TracyDan Hinkel @danhinkel.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Worth noting that one reason you’re benefitting so fully from the Star-Tribune’s timely, extensive coverage of unfolding events is that it’s a metro newspaper that hasn’t been systematically starved to further enrich shareholders and executives. 2250121163
Reposted by Marc TracyLizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 22/01/2026The picture of his cubby 15641125
Marc Tracy @marcatracy.bsky.social · 08/12/2025Not on the beat anymore, but there's a real Burkean lament to be written about Notre Dame foregoing a bowl after missing the playoffs. "Notre Dame" is basically a creation of the Rose Bowl, as so much in the imagined community of college football is. 000
Marc Tracy @marcatracy.bsky.social · 06/12/2025Tomorrow to fresh woods, and pastures new bsky.app/profile/achi... 000
Reposted by Marc Tracyclaudia irizarry aponte @clauirizarry.bsky.social · 02/12/2025A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.socialthecity.nycICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates SayThe father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility. 19541112695
Marc Tracy @marcatracy.bsky.social · 30/11/2025Not sure I'm gonna rewatch Anthology but this short thing from George has lived in my mind ever since I saw it, which, believe it or not, was on TV when it was airing www.tiktok.com/@georgeharri...tiktok.comGeorge Harrison on what is was like to be a Beatle. #georgeharrison #thebeatles #beatles #beatlestok #fyp TikTok video by George Harrison clips 010
Reposted by Marc TracyKelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 21/11/2025TRUMP: and this Daniel, he went into the den? MAMDANI: The lion's den, yes TRUMP: surely they ate him MAMDANI: Here's the part where it gets a little Broadway: they didn't TRUMP: Unbelievable 53691561
Marc Tracy @marcatracy.bsky.social · 20/11/2025How we're treating our children truthout.org/articles/ice... 010
Marc Tracy @marcatracy.bsky.social · 17/11/2025The future is not inevitable but it seems to me we're on a glide path toward right-wing institutions' winnowed down to rumps at least tolerant of antisemitism, which then capture the party, which in our 2-party presidential system could lead to a President from that cohort bsky.app/profile/jaco... 000
Marc Tracy @marcatracy.bsky.social · 07/11/2025It is incredibly difficult for people (myself and everyone reading this included) to appreciate how wealthy the small handful of very wealthiest Americans are, not just compared to us, but compared to *other unimaginably wealthy people* bsky.app/profile/benw... 130
Reposted by Marc TracyMichael Socolow @michaelsocolow.bsky.social · 03/11/2025Nice to see the launch of "Replay Booth" a new sport history podcast by @joshuablevin.bsky.social (formerly of @slate.com ). There's space for the kind of thoughtful, engaging sport stories the old "Only a Game" on NPR used to run, and this could be it. www.replaybooth.show/p/replay-boo...replaybooth.showReplay Booth, Episode 1: Wilbur Huckle for PresidentTwo mysterious Mets-related buttons kick off a 60-year journey, with stops at the Republican Convention, a tiny town in rural Texas, and the courtroom where Donald Trump got fined $355 million. 032
Reposted by Marc TracyJames Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 29/10/2025That's cute, the Prince gets to sit in front of a king 911212
Marc Tracy @marcatracy.bsky.social · 03/10/2025Not that long ago, I feel, Kansas's two Republican U.S. Senators would have spoken out against this www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...nytimes.comAfter Declining to Give Trump a Sword for King Charles, a Museum Leader Is Out 021
Marc Tracy @marcatracy.bsky.social · 01/10/2025Last year I wrote a High Holy Day amplifier playlist. Hope it still hits a year later! www.nytimes.com/2024/10/08/a...nytimes.comIs It Too Late Now to Say Sorry? 8 Songs for the High Holy Days. 020
Marc Tracy @marcatracy.bsky.social · 30/09/2025It's indeed happening in Broadview bsky.app/profile/notu... 010
Marc Tracy @marcatracy.bsky.social · 19/09/2025TIL the chairman of the Democratic Party of the country's third-largest blue state has a completely different full-time job than doing that (he runs day camps) bsky.app/profile/dasc... 120
Marc Tracy @marcatracy.bsky.social · 18/09/2025But has Mort Rifkin weighed in on whom he's voting for in November? 010
Marc Tracy @marcatracy.bsky.social · 05/09/2025Need an onion article about the guy who puts his bag down at a table in the coffee shop before getting in line for a coffee 000
Marc Tracy @marcatracy.bsky.social · 02/09/2025Still laughing at the Christgau line (the Marcus line surely the most famous sentence in the history of rock criticism) files.slack.com/files-tmb/T0... 030
Marc Tracy @marcatracy.bsky.social · 04/08/2025www.politico.com/news/magazin... bsky.app/profile/timm...politico.com‘This Is a Really Big Deal’: How College Towns Are Decimating the GOPGrowing population in America’s highly educated enclaves has led to huge gains for the Democratic Party. And Republicans are scrambling for answers. 000
Marc Tracy @marcatracy.bsky.social · 04/08/2025www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/n...nytimes.comCruz Criticizes Hochul for Wearing Head Scarf at Slain Officer’s Funeral 000
Marc Tracy @marcatracy.bsky.social · 25/07/2025I know there are anti-SLAPP laws and of course the First Amendment, but it seems like the greatest hurdle to this tactic turns out always to have been unenforceable prosocial norms, perhaps with the stick of shaming, as well as nobody's being quite this wealthy bsky.app/profile/kate... 010
Reposted by Marc TracyBen Mullin @benmullin.bsky.social · 18/07/2025New: I teamed up with @elenashao.bsky.social and nytgraphics to map more than 100 public TV and radio stations that are at risk of closing as a result of tonight's vote: www.nytimes.com/interactive/... This is a time bomb that will go off in the fall, when the last federal grants run out.nytimes.comWhere Congress’s Cuts Threaten Access to PBS and NPRThe loss of federal funding threatens scores of public TV and radio stations across the United States. 36679391
Reposted by Marc TracyBoo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 16/07/2025The largest question facing America is “who was President when?” 325133
Reposted by Marc TracyDaniel Schlozman @daschloz.bsky.social · 08/07/2025Second-order consequences of party hollowness all ricocheting against each other even as Mamdani is actually doing the contemporary left version of old-time street-level politics. 072
Marc Tracy @marcatracy.bsky.social · 03/07/2025I wish only I could have made room for Father John Misty's "I'm Writing a Novel." But I wrote about novels. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/a...nytimes.comThe Death and Life of the Straight White Man’s Novel 052
Marc Tracy @marcatracy.bsky.social · 02/07/2025Latest @zacmccrary.bsky.social podcast episode with Mamdani cm Morris Katz a delight propolitics.substack.com/p/morris-kat...propolitics.substack.comMorris Katz on the Pro Politics PodcastThe lead media strategist for Zohran Mamdani's NYC mayoral campaign on the candidates, strategies, tactics, media & more that led to the monumental primary upset of Mamdani over Cuomo 131
Marc Tracy @marcatracy.bsky.social · 18/06/2025Rainy for a week in the middle of June in New York should be illegal 100