Bill Lascher

M is for the Philippines island of Mindoro. At dawn on Feb. 24, 1942, a ship that snuck past Japanese blockades and escaped Bataan the night, before anchored near the Mindoro town of Pola. Among the ship's passengers were newlywed reporters Melville and Annalee Jacoby. #MelAtoZ

The joke would have been better had I written “reporters don’t WANT YOU TO know this one simple trick.” Oh well.

Reporters don't know this one simple trick

see you can follow up when he says he doesn’t know, it’s allowed

He was Noah Remembering a remarkable person who just happened to be a dog

Remembering a remarkable person who just happened to be a #dog. open.substack.com/pub/scenicro...

90 years ago, today, the LAPD sent armed cops to California’s state lines to keep Dust Bowl refugees out of the state. The LA Times called this "Bum blockade" an effort to stop “criminals and disease-carrying ne’er do wells" and later editorialized “Let’s have more outrages.”

#journalism #history

In this 1933 mailer, German business leaders championed the Nazis' “war on crime," denying claims Jews were mistreated and other supposed "falsehoods" while claiming a drop in political violence, except shootings of Communists in "justified self-defence" and "victims of Communist crimes."

#history

I recently found this January 8, 1929 dinner menu from Yosemite National Park's Ahwahnee Hotel while cataloging a family archiving covering about 150 years of history. This was just one of about two weeks' worth of Ahwahnee menus, most with different art.

Self-doubt aside, we really don’t discuss enough how problematic it is that if an author A) doesn’t already have a massive platform and B) doesn’t immediately spark success, their chance of future opportunities quickly diminishes.

What if we invested in authors the way we do tech darlings? #books

Meanwhile, i’s jarring to realize all three of my books are “old” books by this list’s (and the publishing industry’s) metrics yet I still feel like I’m just starting my career as an author.

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

Oh man, IRC. That’s a name I haven’t heard in a long, long time.

Hahaha. I’ve been in that boat before.

TiltPDX - Twitch Green Room @ The Fixin To in St Johns, Portland, Oregon

If anyone wants to watch me play pinball poorly I’m helping another Portland player (and Ventura native) test out a streaming rig on Twitch. Twitch.com/tiltpdx

Also this

Best coast

Just because Trump brought RFK Jr. aboard to firm up the kook vote doesn't mean health writers have to keep looking for some kernel of truth in there somewhere.

i love how bsky posters are so eager to appear worldly and wise that they'll jump to say "AND YOU'RE SURPRISED????" to the craziest shit that's ever happened. if bluesky existed on 9/11/01 you fucking bet these people would out here with "obviously, everyone with a brain cell could see this coming"

Literally found a ten and a twenty in my backpack this after I got to the office today and it turned my day around.

well I wonder who this is for

Just to recap the last two months: -Charlie Kirk shot in the throat on stage -Thousands of leftists spend weeks celebrating openly -Leftist militants take to the streets committing and calling for more violence -Attorney General candidate for Virginia expresses his desire to murder conservatives and watch their children die -Democrats voters turn out en masse to vote for him Do you understand who your enemies are yet?

The right is responding to major wins for Democrats in Virginia as you would expect.

really obvious now why trump and the republican party have been working so hard to prevent fair elections lol they know

City to Cuomo - Drop Dead.

You don’t get to name your kid X Æ A-12 and then say “or whatever his name is” about anyone else.

Buy your razors and deodorant now because they're about to be locked up in penthouse shrines like red meat in Soylent Green

Hahahahahaha

Wild that people were still out partying at midnight even as cops went up and down Sunset tear gassing and hitting people, and more disturbing that the cops were doing this just to people calmly standing in line.

What Canada really needs baseball-wise is an MLB return to Montréal.

The Good Samaritan, by Joseph Highmore, 1744, 📸 by @patricksmith04

I understand your reasoning, but no, not considering the year Los Angeles has had. To say nothing of the city and all of California’s effort to counteract the Administration and its allies dismantling of the country