Chris Harris

Midflight, one hopes

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I wrote something--4000 words' worth of something!--for the Yale Review about Hamnet the book, Hamnet the movie, & the riddle of representing Shakespeare's life on the page & on the screen.

I want someone who'll campaign on committing us to the ICC, and then to handing over the obvious violators to them. Donnie, Marco, Pete, Kristi, Bongino, the lot of them.

Photo of the cover of the English edition of Luigi Barzini's The Italians

When I started grad school (Italian) my major prof handed me a copy of Luigi Barzini's "The Italians" on day one. It's a great book all around, but his chapter on the "problema del Mezzogiorno" remains the best description of the north/south divide I've ever read.

Dude would bankrupt a casino.

Wait. Hang on...

It really is.

Is it really Vetearnusa? Veteranusa?

U.S. Tomahawk Hit Naval Base Beside Iranian School, Video Shows The evidence contradicts President Trump’s claim that Iran was responsible for a strike at the school that killed 175 people, most of them children.

Breaking News: New video adds to evidence that a U.S. missile likely hit an Iranian school where 175 people, many of them children, were reportedly killed.

I think this war could destroy his presidency--I've never felt this about any other issue. He and his gang of nihilist greedhead idiots have finally gotten themselves into something they can't get out of. But the cost will, on every level, be staggering.

It's Khameneis all the way down.

Careless Love (2024 Remaster) YouTube video by Ray Charles - Topic

Or, as Ray sang, "Well, if I could moan, if I could moan, like a moaning dove..."

Agreed. Let's not badger them about it.

Already auditioning for the Ellisons.

I know he's a fucking idiot, but when we get a former JAG officer talking like this...

baby got front

This whole daylight saving time thing seems like an accounting trick.

"With nonfiction, you’ve got your material, and what you’re trying to do is tell it as a story in a way that doesn’t violate fact, but at the same time is structured and presented in a way that makes it interesting to read."
John McPhee, born on this day in 1931

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

Fistfight over Section 230.

"As of the 2020 census, the population of the Kentucky Bend Census County Division was nine people."

Dragline: "Luke, what you have to say 50 for? Why couldn't you say 35 or 39?"

Luke: "It seemed a nice round number."

Surely Bob can massage some sort of deal and have a happy ending.

The Most Chilling Detail in the U.S. Attack on an Iranian Naval Ship The Iranian warship was taking part in an international exercise with many other countries—including the United States.

That Iranian Navy ship we torpedoed had no ammunition on board because that was a requirement to participate in the MILAN 2026 exercise (organized by the Indian Navy).

The US Navy knew this because IT ALSO PARTICIPATED IN THE EXERCISE. What a national embarrassment.
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MJM. Night Shouldberic Shamanism

Our New Iran Correspondent | The New York Times Company

This is the kind of journalist an editor yearns for at a time like this: A Persian-fluent reporter w/ deep experience covering Iranian politics and policies.

She used to work at the Washpost.

Then Bezos dismantled the international coverage.

Now she’s at the NYT

www.nytco.com/press/our-ne...

Those pockets are killing me (complimentary).

Hey, remember when the big SOTU brags were the Dow at 50,000 and lower gas prices?

Yes. If we get another Khamenei it’ll blow his little mind.