Lovely #wine - super mature and on song #DomainedeTrevallon #wine #vin #winelover

Bordeaux 2024: St Emilion and Pomerol - Wine Words and Videotape Again the emphasis in St Emilion 2024 overall is freshness. The best exhibit vivid blue fruit characters and are appetising and moreish. There is heterogeneity though. If some are bracingly fresh and ...

Thoughts on 19 wines from #StEmilion and a few from #Pomerol in #Bordeaux 2024 #wine #vin winewordsandvideotape.com/bordeaux-202... - cheers!

Justice Department cuts to public safety grants leave police and nonprofits scrambling Hundreds of public safety grants cut, worth $500 million, funded initiatives like drug treatment and gun violence prevention programs.

Hundreds of public safety grants cut, worth $500 million, funded initiatives like drug treatment and gun violence prevention programs.

👏👏👏

“Life is better when we leap together.” Kermit the Frog delivered a commencement speech at the University of Maryland on Thursday, the alma mater of his creator, Jim Henson. nyti.ms/4dwMuhQ

Bordeaux 2024: Château Larcis Ducasse - Wine Words and Videotape Château Larcis Ducasse has one of the most enviable terroirs in Bordeaux. Perched up on the slopes of the sunny Côte Pavie in St Emilion, this ten-hectare hillside vineyard lies on a natural south fac...

Thoughts and notes on a compelling #ChateauLarcisDucasse in 2024 #StEmilion #Bordeaux #wine #vin winewordsandvideotape.com/bordeaux-202...

Bordeaux 2024: Château Laroque - Wine Words and Videotape Since the arrival of David Suire as director at the start of the 2015 vintage, Château Laroque has had a decade on the up. The ingredients were all there before. A large and varied terroir on a rocky ...

Super wine at #ChateauLaroque in 2024 in my book - a great success in a tricky vintage #wine #vin #Bordeaux #Bdx24 winewordsandvideotape.com/bordeaux-202...

A mature beauty from #StEstephe #ChateauCapbern #Bordeaux #wine #vin 2014

This #ChateauLaroque works too in the context of the ‘24 vintage. Not as knockout as their ‘22 or ‘23 but this is still a polished and fresh glass of top #StEmilion #wine #vin #Bordeaux

Beautiful wine from #ChateauLarcisDucasse in 2024. Tricky vintage but this is one of the best I’ve tasted…. #wine #vin #Bordeaux

Got distracted by this #Beaune #Greves from #DomaineChanson - lots of zap and freshness - v appetising #wine #vin #pinotnoir

Started working through them logically with the ‘18 -lovely blavk cherry, plum and spice notes #wine #vin #ChateauPuygueraud #Bordeaux

Been lining up some #ChateauPuygueraud this weekend ahead of a blog post on this super value #Bordeaux - cheers! #wine #vin

When the real terrorist turn out to be MAGA

A crowd of protesters holding cardboard signs. One says "RESIST IF NOT NOW WHEN?" Photo by Victor J. Blue for The New York Times

Thousands of people rallied at hundreds of events across the U.S. on Saturday to protest the Trump administration’s handling of immigration, civil liberties, federal job cuts and other issues. nyti.ms/3EyqNkh

Love this - lashings of black cherry and spice #PrieureStJeandeBebian ‘19 #Languedoc #France #wine #vin

NPR CEO Katherine Maher addresses future of federal funding for public media Katherine Maher, president and CEO of National Public Radio, talks with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly about the White House proposal to eliminate federal funding for public media.

Katherine Maher, president and CEO of National Public Radio, talks with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly about the White House proposal to eliminate federal funding for public media.

🚨BREAKING: Judge finds flying migrants to El Salvador after orders not to "demonstrate a willful disregard for its Order, sufficient for the Court to conclude that probable cause exists to find the Government in criminal contempt."

Visit www.democracydocket.com for full details and analysis.

Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.

Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.

Popped into Domaine de Chevalier for lunch to find they had liberated the left-overs from last night’s Académie dinner. So I had another pop at the 1995 Mouton-Rothschild, 1985 Haut-Bages-Libéral, 2005 GPL & 2005 Trotte Vieille (and more). #bdx24 #bdx2024 #bordeaux #primeurs #wine

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R): "We are all afraid…I am oftentimes very anxious myself about using my voice because retaliation is real."

Trump Official Asked I.R.S. About Audit of ‘High-Profile Friend of the President’ A Treasury Department official wrote to the I.R.S. that Mike Lindell, the pillow entrepreneur, was “concerned he may have been inappropriately targeted.”

Breaking News: A Trump official asked the IRS to look into concerns from Mike Lindell, the pillow entrepreneur, that he "may have been inappropriately targeted" for an audit, according to an email seen by The New York Times.

In the garden this evening - bit chilly…

Bordeaux's Top Values: Château Meyney - Wine Words and Videotape I’m sorry not to be off tasting the 2024 vintage in Bordeaux this week. Logistics have defeated me this year. Still, with an ocean of fine Bordeaux on the shelves [and quite a bit in my cellar] I thou...

Piece up on the blog in the great value wines to be had from #Bordeaux - starting with #ChateauMeyney in #StEstephe - notes and thoughts on three recent vintages and links to a dozen others #wine #vin #cabernet #merlot #petitverdot winewordsandvideotape.com/bordeauxs-to...

Bravo - looks lovely…

The thing about the Rule of Law is it applies to everyone or no-one

The second thing about the Rule of Law is if you don’t agree with a decision then you appeal it, you most certainly don’t attack the judge for applying it

The third thing about the Rule Of Law is without it, you have chaos

The morons that are in charge!

Key climate research office may close amid federal cost-cutting A federal cost-cutting initiative may shut down the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) office that manages Hawaii’s Mauna Loa Observatory, a critical site for tracking atmospheric ...

Cannot believe that the Mauna Loa Observatory is under threat of closure 😱
It is home to the world’s longest-running measurements of atmospheric carbon dioxide, providing the foundation for understanding the role of greenhouse gases in climate change.

www.ehn.org/key-climate-...

Kelp forest project in West Sussex having 'remarkable results' The rewilding project off the West Sussex coast is celebrating its fourth anniversary.

Undersea rewilding initiative to restore a kelp forest in West Sussex is celebrating amazing results for marine biodiversity.

Rewilding is needed just as much at sea as on land.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.

I'm posting this by itself not as part of a thread as it deserves to be read widely. Trump and his cronies are multiplying evil upon evil.