Jeff Young

The Warren Zevon version is so poignant, given that he was so close to death when he recorded it.

Update from Katie Rogers

Americans alarmed by the death of four U.S. service members might have been expecting a formal presidential address ... Instead, they are observing a president treating this like every other day: talking about his ballroom, attacking Democrats, bashing the news media.
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

The King is mad

Rand Paul reminding his party about the role of Congress and war powers.

And on and on...

Is there a Nobel category for hypocrisy?

Looking forward to the briefing on the re-obliteration

The Bezos-castrated @washingtonpost.com reporting on the forthcoming neutering of CBS and CNN.
What a time to be a journalist.

Trump’s Push for Election Power Raises Fears He Will ‘Subvert’ Midterms

Stories like this should be on front pages of every news outlet every day.
It is now abundantly clear that Trump does not intend to allow free and fair elections nor abide by the outcome.
(gift article)
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/u...

Yes, just like their pledges to cut greenhouse gases and water use, be more transparent, fact check false information, rein in hate speech etc etc

The intensification of the strongest nor’easters | PNAS Nor’easters are coastal extratropical cyclones that feed upon both thermal contrasts (meridional and land-ocean) and oceanic latent heat release, c...

What do you think of this one?
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Gotta love that a toy company called Learning Resources taught the administration a lesson.

Court-packing move forthcoming?

Two issues I'm pondering. One is that you can't move this many people without inflicting tremendous physical and psychological harm on those deported and on society itself. The second is that left in place for years, mass detention on a whole new level will be normalized. It rarely vanishes. [1/3]

Anyone else noticed the FBI sniffing around their LinkedIn profile lately?

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A little dated now--came out in 2020.
www.simonandschuster.com/books/Appala...

The layers upon layers of corruption in Trumpland mean we don't even notice things like this, which would be a major scandal in any normal presidency.

And this nugget is buried in a story about her husband's sex assault of staffers.

It's the tur-duck-en of scandals--one stuffed inside another.

The main thesis of my book was that places like WV were leading edge indicators of an unhealthy democracy, and that malignant growth of inequality would bring about the "Appalachia-fication" of large parts of the country. We're just about there.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AND THE E STREET BAND’S LAND OF HOPE AND DREAMS AMERICAN TOUR ANNOUNCED FOR SPRING 2026 | Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band will launch their Land Of Hope And Dreams American Tour across the country this spring, kicking off at Minneapolis’ Target Center on March 31. The 20-date run w...

Building his new tour around the cities menaced by ICE is peak Boss.

"We are living through dark, disturbing and dangerous times, but do not despair — the cavalry is coming!"
brucespringsteen.net/news/2026/br...

Big Tech Says Generative AI Will Save the Planet. It Doesn't Offer Much Proof A new report finds that of 154 specific claims about how AI will benefit the climate, just a quarter cited academic research. A third included no evidence at all.

when big tech companies say that AI will save the planet, what kinds of AI are they actually talking about — and what's their proof? i took a look at some great new research from @ketanjoshi.co and talked to other experts about how a lot of this talk is probably bullshit:

Olym-pup champion

a man wearing sunglasses and a hat is holding a clock and says you know what time it is ALT: a man wearing sunglasses and a hat is holding a clock and says you know what time it is

Did you track your own run time?

I find @fotoole.bsky.social among the most insightful observers of Trump’s autocracy.

Good explainer on the CO2 endangerment finding and what's at stake with Trump’s assault on climate regulation.

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it." (Often attributed to Upton Sinclair.)

Live Updates: F.A.A. Lifts Closure at El Paso Airport

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www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...

Fort Bliss, one of the largest Army bases, is just next to the airport in El Paso. I'm trying not to jump to conclusions, but Bliss is home to air and missile defense command and joint task force north, which supports cross-border drug intervention.

ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

NEW: ICE has a plan to lease offices across the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign.

Today, @wired.com is publishing dozens of those locations. Many are near schools, medical offices, and places of worship.

Vital work from @leahfeiger.bsky.social that I'm proud to publish.

He might be bronze in sports but he's comedy gold.