"His Name Appears 5,361 Times" YouTube video by TYT Investigates

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Every American needs to watch this:

After Mamdani Nods to ‘Heated Rivalry,’ Library E-Book Downloads Surge

gifting this article because it made me laugh, which is hard to do in this context. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/n...

Opinion | The Best Sentences of 2025

Frank Bruni's 'Best Sentences' series are always worth a read –> www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o...

What we're always doing: It's a Show. It's always been a Show. Even when it does actual things, it's still for Show.

“Since 1998, independent researchers have conducted more than 40 high-quality studies involving over 5.6 million people. The conclusion is clear and unambiguous: There’s no link between vaccines and autism." -Dr. Susan Kressly, AAP President on recent changes to the CDC's website

Opinion | I Thought Graham Platner Was Finished. What I Saw in Maine Changed My Mind.

I'll take real over safe any day. Great insight into the Democratic electorate from Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social
–> www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/o...

Photo of Trump-destroyed East Wing of White House.

Should we now refer to the East Wing as Ground Zero?

Asking for a fiend.

Trump Is Wasting No Time in Tearing Down the East Wing

Is anyone going to bother to ask where the supposed Third Lady is in all of this??

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Statue of Trump and Epstein Holding Hands Returns to National Mall

Statue of Trump and Epstein Holding Hands Returns to National Mall –> www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"

A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.

Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

Just finished @jesswalter.bsky.social's So Far Gone – his best novel yet – and that is saying a lot. So many pleasures packed between the covers, and all of it pulsing with wit and humanity. #books #fiction #Spokane www.jesswalter.com

From Roman London, a Jigsaw Puzzle for the Ages

From Roman London, a Jigsaw Puzzle for the Ages –> #SPQR www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/s...

I was given an ultimatum.

Pamela Toler's newsletter, History in the Margins, never fails to fill in the plot holes... and scratch that history itch –> A Word with a Past: Kidnap shar.es/agxziX via @pdtoler.bsky.social

A city park playground with trees and a water spray feature with kids playing in it. Families sit on benches and chat. You can see some smoke from a grill. You can imagine lovely cookout smells.

An open expanse of grass in a city park, edged by trees, where people are playing games.

It is a PERFECT day here in Stumptown, so I took a walk to soothe my anxieties. My whole neighborhood was at the park, playing baseball and basketball, grilling, kids running around making up games. I felt the community. It did me a lot of good.

Canada Election 2025 Live Updates: Mark Carney Wins New Term as Prime Minister (Gift Article) CBC/Radio Canada, the national broadcaster, projected a win for the Liberal Party in an extraordinary election that was dominated by President Trump’s threats to Canada’s sovereignty and its economy.

Congrats, Donald Trump, you unified Canada against you. (And you're making great progress on that front in the USA too...) #mostdespisedhumanonearth
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Live Updates: Mark Carney Wins New Term as Canada’s Prime Minister on Anti-Trump Platform

Congrats, Donald Trump. You unified Canada against you. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...

Trump Administration Highlights: Government Deports 2-Year-Old U.S. Citizen to Honduras (Gift Article)

Trump budget draft ends Narcan program and other addiction measures.
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The opioid overdose reversal medication commercially known as Narcan saves hundreds of thousands of lives a year and is routinely praised by public health experts for contributing to the continuing

Was this worth all the schadenfreude and the yuks? Possibly! The signature ill of our time is FRAUD – so many MAGA and their wannabes willing to say and do anything for power and attention. In Santos' case, mostly the latter.

Good riddance. For all the laughs, he's caused a lot of harm.

an open book that appears like rippling water in the ocean

Took a walk and a dinner break but then came back for Hour 8 of @londonwriterssalon's #24hourwritingsprint (from Malé, Maldives) One story down, another one taking shape. #WritingCommunity is everything.

bubbles in a cup of coffee that look like a map of the world

Just finished Hour 6 of @londonwriterssalon's #24hourwritingsprint. Weary but full of juice all the same. #WritingCommunity is everything.

plane flying around a globe

Just finished Hour 2 of the @londonwriterssalon #24hourwritingsprint. Feeling stoked and juicy. There's nothing like a global writing community to feed the spirit. cc: @luludotcom.bsky.social @pretavoyager.bsky.social

I was never good at imperial measurements.

One Hegseth is how many Scaramucci's again?

Especially a criminal one.

I wish I could say that stupidity is RFK Jr's problem (though it's not immaterial!). He is primarily a GRIFTER. Liar, scam artist, nepo baby fraud. But yeah, he also knows less than nothing about his supposed area of expertise.

Happy MMDCCLXXVII Birthday to Rome. #SPQR