Scott Monty

Crawling back under his rock?

Look at him cosplaying as a president

Can’t wait to see them cover Pete Hegseth spending like a drunken sailor.

If they had any sense, they’d feel betrayed by a lot of things he does

A masterclass by @davidjbier.bsky.social on how to maintain your composure and principles in the face of people unable to do either.

We don't need to yell or mock because the facts, the law, and common decency are on our side, as David made apparent before someone unfit to hold the seat he's in.

This got you a follow. Not just because you have integrity, but because you dragged him for “Blooski”.

The Beauty That Words Hold A small rebellion against ugliness

“…across the gulf of time on scraps of papyrus and scratchings in stone, on ships’ logs and bronze coins, as epic poems and totem poles and painted ceilings, in confessions voluntary and coerced, in five-act plays and three-part songs.”

craft, reflection, wonder, and the capacity to speak of both light and shadow with grace.

Words that are beautiful, useful, or true don’t disappear overnight. They don’t age out with the latest social feed. They persist, as Lewis Lapham wrote,

The Beauty That Words Hold A small rebellion against ugliness

Think of a word that makes you pause — not because it obscures meaning, but because it opens it. This is the part of language that feels timeless, as if it will endure.

The daily cadence of news may be written in cacophony, but beautiful words remind us that there remain things worth preserving:

Teen distrust of journalism is rising — media literacy may be the industry’s best defense - Editor and Publisher When the News Literacy Project surveyed American teens last fall, the results were sobering: 84% described news media as “biased,” “boring” or “bad.” In her latest report for E&P, Diane Sylvester unpa...

“One positive finding is that 94% of teens said news or media literacy should be part of their education. They know they need this training.”

@peteradams.bsky.social discussing NLP’s latest report on teens and their attitudes toward the news media with Editor & Publisher ⤵️

You spelled Trump wrong

Right...privilege...right...privilege...

Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.

Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.

www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Burgermeister Meisterburger burning children's toys in Santa Claus Is Coming to Town

Same vibe

Look at “Cynical Publius,” thinking he’s a modern-day Madison or Hamilton.

Remembering Robert Duvall The actor Robert Duvall, who played Dr. Watson in 1976, has passed away.

Robert Duvall, who played Watson in The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, has died.

We have a conversation with Nicholas Meyer, BSI ("A Fine Morocco Case"), author of the book and the screenplay in which he tells the story about how Robert Duvall got the part of Dr. Watson:

Timeless & timely 👇🏻

Groundhog Day live updates: Punxsutawney Phil predicts 6 more weeks of winter Tens of thousands of people are gathering for Punxsutawney Phil, a groundhog that lives in a tree stump, to predict if the already long and cold winter across much of the United States will go on for ...

There’s the least surprising thing of the year.

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Absolutely insane footage of a tornado in Gary, South Dakota.

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I noticed this too

I am so sick of this dumb reality show we’re forced to watch

Live updates: FBI executes search warrant at Fulton County elections office near Atlanta Secretary of State Marco Rubio is backing away from another U.S. attack on Venezuela, denying that the capture of President Nicolás Maduro was an act of war.

It’s probably nothing…

Correct. I would *never* make that recommendation.

I think their slogan is “Denny’s: when nothing else is open.”

So important. What they say is not the story. That is never the story. What happened is the story. Write what happened.

Our country was founded on resistance to a tyrant.

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Ha! Good thinking, Robin.

@abradschwartz.bsky.social Check your email. ;-)

Celebrating 40 Years of Young Sherlock Holmes This essay has been reprinted with permission from the official website of I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere, the first and longest-running podcast for Sherlock Holmes fans.  It is hard to believe that…

Scott Monty (@scottmonty.com) on "Young Sherlock Holmes," which is now 40 years old! crimereads.com/celebrating-...

Hey, I did a thing: