My latest: there is a killer, or maybe more than one, stalking gay bars in NYC. At least 2 men were drugged, robbed using their phone’s facial recognition tech, and killed.

More survived similar attacks, most recently on Nov 12. I spoke to 6 survivors. nytimes.com/2022/12/03/nyr… There have been similar attacks before, at all kinds of bars. NYPD says they don’t know if the 2 dead men, Julio Ramirez and John Umberger, were targeted bc they were gay. But in the current climate — anti-trans and anti-drag laws, “groomer” rhetoric, Club Q — people are scared.

With no advanced notice or outreach NYC announced in the middle of the day that they’d vaccinate men who have sex with men against monkeypox. The appt website doesn’t work, but word is spreading online so people are coming to the Chelsea clinic. Maybe 150 here now & a 2 hour wait Tbh maybe there are more then 150, maybe there are less, I have never been good at estimating crowd sizes. The line has so far wrapped around the courtyard of the Chelsea clinic twice & is spilling onto the sidewalk.

Greetings from St. Patrick’s Cathedral where a small symbolic St. Patrick’s Day march gathered before sunrise.

Here is @NYCMayor holding (a) a banner and (b) the smallest shillelagh I have ever seen.

(Maybe because he is so tall?) Normally there are 150,000 marchers and 2 million spectators at the St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Today, between organizers and an honor guard from the 69th Infantry Regiment, there are just a few dozen people.

We are 17 minutes into the 2 hour Oprah/Meghan/Harry interview and it will already make a lot of heads explode on the British morning talk shows tomorrow All those tabloid headlines that said Meghan made Kate Middleton cry? Meghan says “the opposite happened.” Kate made Meghan cry a few days before her wedding, she says.

I am watching WandaVision even though I have never watched an Avengers movie I am very distracted by how much Elizabeth Olsen looks like an Olsen twin (yes I know who her sisters are, don’t tweet at me.)

When I wake up in the morning after falling down a late night Wikipedia rabbit hole, cc @TsMadisonatl1 Although if I’m being honest this is more my style lately

President @realDonaldTrump says the election is not over, but the rest of the world is moving on. America’s most important ally has sent its congratulations to @JoeBiden and @KamalaHarris

https://twitter.com/borisjohnson/status/1325133262075940864

Boris Johnson has also been an ideological ally of sorts to @realDonaldTrump, who called himself “Mr. Brexit” during the 2016 campaign. Boris is one of the rare world leaders who has enjoyed a consistently positive relationship with Trump.

People in Midtown Manhattan are cheering on the sidewalks, leaning out their windows and rushing to their rooftops to cheer and bang pots and pans, like they did in March during the 7 pm cheer. @JoeBiden has defeated @realDonaldTrump.

Big week for people from Pennsylvania who want to talk about how they are from Pennsylvania Pennsylvania.... it is a commonwealth

The divide between news broadcasts and opinion shows on Fox News may never have been as stark as it is tonight Hannity just did a segment on how “the state of Arizona should never have been called by anybody.” (Fox News and AP called Arizona for Biden, other news organizations including NYT have not.)

A big crowd has gathered outside the New York Public Library on 5th Avenue in Manhattan to demand that every vote cast in the 2020 presidential election be counted. This man brought his goose to the “count every vote” protest. I love New York City.

A crowd of what looks like several hundred protesters are marching on the Upper West Side, more than a. Hour after curfew. Police are following along. This is at 61st and West End Avenue. This crowd is in the thousands of people, all marching south on 10th Avenue into Hell’s Kitchen more than an hour into curfew. Local residents are leaning out their apartment windows banging pots and pans in support of the marchers. #nycprotests

A large group of protesters is marching from Union Square down 14th Street in Manhattan Some young men just tried to loot an Aldo on 5th Ave when other protesters grabbed them, pulled one guy out the store window, and made them stop. An argument about looting then ensued. #NYCProtest #GeorgeFloyd

This reminds me of when the Coalition Provisional Authority enlisted a bunch of 20-something Americans and otherwise unqualified but politically connected people to rebuild Iraq after the 2003 US invasion washingtonpost.com/politics/kushn… I once chatted with another 20-something American in the sauna at my gym in Cairo. He said he’d gone from selling “Yankees suck” shirts outside Fenway Park to a job promoting Iraqi civil society for the Coalition Provisional Authority. I will never forget it.