Working on my MKULTRA database with ChatGPT. I asked if it could join a thing for me across data silos and it declined. “I’m not like Palantir.” True story.

At another Wooster show Elvis Costello sat behind me. Kate Valk is one of my all time fave actors. House/Lights is incredible!

It was a Wooster Group show - I’ve been to so many I can’t recall for sure but she had a script and was following along so I’m thinking it was Hamlet based on the movie. I’ll ask partner. I was distracted by SW’s blue and black moo cow leggings and her nail biting. thewoostergroup.org/hamlet

“History shows…” STOP RIGHT THERE. History is not some kind of Ted talker with a killer PowerPoint and one memorable anecdote. History is a *narrative*, a story created anew by every single human who attempts to make sense of the past. History is not born. History is made.

“History shows…” STOP RIGHT THERE. History is not some kind of Ted talker with a killer PowerPoint and one memorable anecdote. History is a *narrative*, a story created anew by every single human who attempts to make sense of the past. History is not born. History is made.

The best antidote to fear is saying no and meaning it.

So now we’re accepting that Donald Trump not only knows how to find the é on his phone’s keyboard but also that he has shred of common decency to have used it correctly? I’m no conspiracy theorist but I suspect the man has hired somebody slightly less crazy to play crazy Trump on his socials.

An American pope?!

Democracy dies behind a paywall.

Brought to you by S. C. Johnson, all the news that’s fit to print. I predict the way our infernal timeline is unfolding this ad will win a Pulitzer. 🙄

Happy to compare notes and share if I happen to have any you don’t.

I’ve been working on a book about Valerie for about 15 years - I’m in my first draft. I have a sizable collection of her letters - few of them published. I’d be interested in learning more about your project!

I HAVE A MIGHTY NEED!!!

I was working on a plan for what to do when the world order collapses. This morning I woke up to the confirmation that 18 different kinds of flashlights are arriving Tuesday

Welp - it could be worse. I mean read the ACHRE report.

The Oval Office

A screenshot from Alibaba

A comparison of the photo from the Oval Office and an item on Alibaba.

The Oval Office

Noticed a bunch of these ornate gold medallions slapped all over the Oval Office. We found em on Alibaba. “High-density Home Decoration Polyurethane Appliques Ornament PU Foam Veneer Accessories” from seller Guangzhou Homemax Decorative Material Limited.

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All the Sharks should provide interest free loans to every entrepreneur over the years you convinced to manufacture their gizmos in China and import them to the US for resell. China was a condition of a “deal” in almost every episode. You picked a good time to leave the show. #forthosereasonsimout

So I should finish this book about MKULTRA after all?

But but but he got famous for firing people.

Oh yes because FEMINISM is the problem.

Doge claims Pete Hegseth saved the American people $20b in FOIA processing fees.

Chelsea Manning and Reality Winner would like a word.

Big yellow bird sitting at a table with five people with computers: MSS Officer Pete Hegseth JD Vance Jeffrey Goldberg GRU Officer Michae Waltz

The Skeets app has it on the roadmap.

Lefties agree maga accuse others of their own crimes. But only conspiracy freaks believe Russia - who shuts down our HOSPITALS - could put a puppet in office! Ex. Georgia machines were *intentionally* left unpatched with publicly known vulnerabilities until AFTER the election. Read the audits. 🙄

The FOIA author’s club Phil Eil shares a collection of FOIA-fueled nonfiction books.

For Sunshine Week, journalist Philip Eli walks us through a collection of FOIA-fueled nonfiction books, including on topics like organized crime in New York, the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and FBI crackdowns on college-campus radicalism.

See 1960’s teach-ins and the free university movement.

These are terrible times. Can you share why you’re asking?

MAGA’s spoon fed conspiracy theories and believe they’re gospel. Dems, confronted with unsavory American history dismiss facts as the stuff of conspiracy theories.