Empty Houses History is rhyming again.

I'm seeing empty houses on the block again. In today's Oort Cloud. open.substack.com/pub/jeffwood...

shoving someone's face directly in unfairness and telling them the rules they have built their lives around don't matter because you're in charge and they aren't triggers fury on the lizard brain level and it's a huge contributor to how autocracies fail

Haunted Waters (Volume Three of the Haunted Anthology) A book drop; My long strange (creative) trip with Blackbird Press

I'm proud to be among a host of talented writers in volume three of this excellent anthology. My history with Blackbird Press in today's Oort Cloud. open.substack.com/pub/jeffwood...

The Anthology “Haunted Waters” Is Now For Sale! Almost sixty years ago, the American nuclear submarine USS Hollander sank in the Sargasso Sea to a depth of 3,000 meters under mysterious circumstances. Today, pirates operating the deep-sea submer…

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Two Neighborhoods Reflections on neighborhood solidarity in Minneapolis

Two Neighborhoods
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Shakespeare, Minneapolis, and the bloody moat of history. In today's Oort Cloud.

Three Short Stories About Francis G Relics from a New York City that no longer exists

Miss you already, Francis. open.substack.com/pub/jeffwood...

Mailer that reads: Molly, Seasons may change, but the need for blood is constant.

slightly ominous mailer from the Red Cross

Indignity Image Roundup: The Word Is "Test" Indignity Vol. 5, No. 174

Indignity Vol. 5, No. 174, Indignity Image Roundup: The Word Is "Test" www.indignity.net/indignity-image-roundup-the-word-is-test/ via @indignity.bsky.social

Making Charlie Kirk happen Indignity Vol. 5, No. 169

Indignity Vol. 5, No. 169, POPULAR POLITICS DEP'T.: Making Charlie Kirk happen www.indignity.net/making-charlie-kirk-happen/

Riding With Ishmael The whale didn't do anything wrong

My summer with Ishmael. In today's Oort Cloud. jeffwood.substack.com/p/riding-wit...

He really hated Lasorda. It was not a joke. They didn't shake hands and laugh about it later. Hated him.

Indignity Morning Podcast No. 500: White asbestos. THE PURSUIT OF PODCASTING ADEQUACY™

Indignity Morning Podcast No. 500: White asbestos. www.indignity.net/indignity-morning-podcast-no-500-white-asbestos/

My Daughter's Face It felt like a miracle, even if it was just life happening.

Washcloths and miracles. In today's Oort Cloud. jeffwood.substack.com/p/my-daughte...

This weekend. Take back your country. Noon, at the city hall wherever you live

Like unhappy families, each microblogging site is batshit insane in its own way.

60% of American households can’t afford a minimal quality of life.

Meanwhile, the 19 richest households saw their wealth increase by $1 trillion in 2024 — the biggest one-year increase ever.

Our problem isn't a lack of resources.

Our problem is ever-expanding inequality.

JUST NOW: Robert Garcia asks Kristi Noem if she will check if Andry Hernández Romero is alive (she won’t): “It is shameful that you won’t even request to see if this young man is alive”

This is, indeed, dumb

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Our allies for a century all hate us, but at least the rulers of Saudi Arabia and Qatar appreciate how easy it is to get what they want from our govt, and appear to enjoy our president’s willingness to trade US govt policy for personal enrichment. So we have some friends.

A loose affiliation of millionaires and billionaires and baby - P Simon

IMPEACH
CONVICT
REMOVE

David Richardson, obvious baddie

the new acting FEMA Administrator is an 80s movie villain

could someone check with John Roberts whether accepting a $400 million plane for your personal use is a core executive power that congress may not constitutionally regulate or merely an action for which the president is presumptively immune from any accountability?

It's 2015. President Barack Obama has accepted a "sky palace" jumbo jet from the Qatari government, which he'll own after he leaves office. "Everybody relax," he says in an interview with the New York Times. Everyone does. The networks then televise the military parade in his honor on his birthday.

Seeking someone with a Ph.D. in ethical philosophy and a lifetime of service at the Ethical Bureau of Ethics who can explain whether it's wrong for the US president to accept a luxury private jet as a gift from a foreign government.

The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.

- Carl Sagan, Cosmos

Great horned owlets in the old wash tub their parents have been using for a nest for years and years. Their parents are local celebrities at the park.
Lake St Clair Metropark
April 26, 2022