“I think the draft is very complete, pretty much,” I say to my editor, while refusing to hand anything in or say when I will file.
Imagine if journalists acted like POTUS.
Camel beauty pageant / thrown into chaos ...
there's an absurdist folk song here somewhere
This lede is a thing of beauty:
"A camel beauty pageant in Oman has been plunged into chaos as 20 of its competitors were disqualified after their owners enhanced their humps..."
www.the-independent.com/life-style/c...
should be a bigger deal
monopolies are bad precisely bc of the power they wield over others ... apparently now including Trump's DOJ
www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
That's a bummer.
I just observing a mosquito in Ithaca NY trying to feed on me. This is the first of the year and it seems too early. Go back to sleep, friend!
Two new species found, both thought to have gone extinct 6,000 years ago!
Incredible how little humans know about life on our planet sometimes
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Literally nobody believes this, right? Who could watch this and go, "yeah!"? This is North Korea stuff
Thank you @billmckibben.bsky.social for writing this.
Bombing oil storage facilities within a huge city of >9 million "was in essence chemical warfare" we must not ignore
billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-dark-and...
“You’re a U.S. senator!”
Bernie stops Noem’s replacement from literally trying to fight someone👇🏽
This should go great
This is a great article and got too little attention when it first came out. @propublica.org is doing amazing work.
Just saw a sprightly, adorable Carolina wren on our back deck, checking out the spot under the eaves where this species (presumably this very same bird and his mate) reared at least two broods last year.
This is the first sighting of the year.
Spring is coming!
For years on my old blog I published the names of servicemembers who died in Iraq & Afghanistan. No other outlets were.
These are the first 4 Americans to die in the Iran War.
Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35
Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42
Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39
Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20
lmao!
don't give them any ideas, Derek. haha.
Still proud of this story I did a decade ago for Newsweek that interviewed ornithologists about that time Randy Johnson vaporized a bird.
"I remember it well," one researcher said. "I was appalled, as I study mourning doves."
www.newsweek.com/ornithologis...
The cruelty and inhumanity of this Administration’s policies have left another person dead—as CBP dropped off Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a nearly blind refugee living in Buffalo NY, alone on a cold winter night miles from his home.
This cruelty must end.
The State of the Union really highlighted to me three themes of the Trump presidency (especially the second one). First, it's notable that in a speech to joint session of Congress, how little Congress was asked to do.
"we believe in Medicaid. Just not for YOU — those who disagree with us"
this is not a government of the people. this is a government of revenge.
🎯
Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF
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Photo of a page from A FAREWELL TO ARMS: “We were all cooked. The thing was not to recognize it. The last country to realize they were cooked would win the wat. We had another drink. Was I on somebody's staff? No. He was. It was all balls. We were alone in the club sitting back in one of the big leather sofas. His boots were smoothly polished dull leather. They were beautiful boots. He said it was all balls. They thought only in divisions and man-power. They all squabbled about divisions and only killed them when they got them. They were all cooked. The Germans won the victories. By God they were soldiers. The old Hun was a soldier. But they were cooked too. We were all cooked. I asked about Russia. He said they were cooked already. I'd soon see they were cooked. Then the Austrians were cooked too. If they got some Hun divisions they could do it. Did he think they would attack this fall? Of course they would. The Italians were cooked. Everybody knew they were cooked. The old Hun would come down through the Trentino and cut the railway at Vicenza and then where would the Italians be? They tried that in 'sixteen, I said. Not with Germans. Yes, I said. But they probably wouldn't do that, he said. It was too simple. They'd try something complicated and get royally cooked. I had to go, I said. I had to get back to the hospital. "Good-by," he said. Then cheerily, "Every sort of luck!"
chat are we cooked? (Hemingway edition)
When you put it like this, a $75 million bribe to Melania and gutting the Washington Post seems like a small price to pay.
The guy mentioned over 38k times in the Epstein files is probably innocent of any misbehavior, right?
HHS proposes spending $2 billion a year to re-create systems the U.S. accessed through the World Health Organization at a fraction of the cost.
Smart!
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...
Looks like Florida lawmakers are going to request $5.5 million in taxpayer money TO RENAME AN AIRPORT after DJT.
jasongarcia.substack.com/p/buried-in-...
I think 6 has got this
