in a world of lauren bezoses, be a connie ballmer

Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.

Jeff Sharlet, periodista de EEUU especializado en religión: 'Colocándose a sí mismo en el lugar de la divinidad, Trump promueve el culto fascista a la personalidad'

Jeff Sharlet, periodista de EEUU especializado en religión: 'Colocándose a sí mismo en el lugar de la divinidad, Trump promueve el culto fascista a la personalidad'

The Film Students Who Can No Longer Sit Through Films The attention-span crisis goes to the movies.

Lots of articles about how students don't read entire books anymore, and use AI to summarize readings and write their essays. Some profs use AI to grade essays. Here's one on how students won't watch films. I mean...what's next? Too bleak. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Rats, sorry to miss this one!

How Nearly 2,000 Cameras Tamed a Notorious American Prison An incarcerated journalist reports on the impact of surveillance on a culture of violence.

Here's a strong piece by recent Guggenheim winner John J. Lennon, about the use of surveillance cameras at Attica. www.themarshallproject.org/2018/04/09/s...

Announcing the 2026 Guggenheim Fellows — Guggenheim Fellowships: Supporting Artists, Scholars, & Scientists Since 1925, the Guggenheim Foundation has given Fellowships to exceptional artists, writers, scholars, and scientists, empowering them to pursue meaningful work under the freest possible conditions.

Good to see John J. Lennon awarded in general nonfiction. has an incarcerated person ever before won a Guggenheim?

www.gf.org/stories/anno...

A Leading Prison Journalist Upends Our Obsession With True Crime John J. Lennon tells Bill Keller that he “wanted to tell a different story about the guilty” in his new book.

Incarcerated journalist John J. Lennon won a Guggenheim today! No surprise, the best journalism about prisoners is by the imprisoned. www.themarshallproject.org/2025/11/04/t...

Why the ‘Nazi tattoo guy’ is winning in Maine | Will Bunch Newsletter Plus, talk-radio Catholics vote for Trump over their pope

OK, Bluesky I'm finally ready to deal with this

I wrote about Graham Platner

I still don't know what to make about HIM, but I know this: If Democrats can't adapt his take-no-prisoners populism, their aging party and its 30% approval rating are doomed

My column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

Today's Famous Person with a Cat: Peter Magyar

Mayor Zohran Mamdani behind the counter of a bodega in The Bronx, flanked by various people. A journalist with a microphone labeled “Shop Cats” is standing in front of the sales counter, and holding the mic up to a black and white cat sitting on the counter next to bananas. The cat has an expression like in the famous “Sir, are you aware that you are a cat” meme

“Sir, are you aware that you are a cat, and Mayor Zohran Mamdani is standing right behind you?”

Highly recommend The Alabama Solution, HBO doc on AL prison crisis, much of which is shot by prisoners themselves on contraband phones...sold to them by prison guards. It's brilliant and harrowing, was Oscar nom, now nominated for a Peabody.
watch.whyy.org/show/amanpou...

Silly to compare best pic noms from '75 to this year's & declare 4 of them "better than those 5 putative classics." It's apples & oranges; am not gonna go into why, for example, Nashville is "better" than Marty Supreme because...harrumph. But seriously, "putative"?! www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

If you have not read How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr I highly recommend it. Incredible how much Americans just don’t get taught about American history

This is a fun read.

so, looks like Jeff and Lefty opened a gin joint together.

The hidden ICE blueprint that should horrify every American | Will Bunch An internal Department of Homeland Security document shows how ICE plans to cram thousands of detained human beings inside a Georgia warehouse.

What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses?

Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards

My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

Show me your Uber driver

Lemme show you my pride and joy!

YES

This one can come over from the other place.

Nobody Watched People the Way Frederick Wiseman Did

Goodbye to a filmmaker who taught me so, so much.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/m...

This is how you live a life

A doozy of a review! Kudos @sayanniething.bsky.social !

Front page NYT book review today!

a man wearing headphones is sweating while sitting in an airplane . ALT: a man wearing headphones is sweating while sitting in an airplane .

Oh, that's great! Oof, I cannot take the 80 degrees!!

a picture of yoda with the words " do or do not there is no try " ALT: a picture of yoda with the words " do or do not there is no try "

You've got this.

OMG Thelma Ritter's birthday! She was such a treasure. I'll take this opportunity to recommend Sam Fuller's autobiography, A Third Face. He loved her so much!

Today's morale booster