Nate DiMeo

We live in a world in which its entirely possible that Iran negotiations failed because people involved bet the under.

This is war profiteering and I'm ashamed that so many people I know and like are apparently not ashamed to be in bed with these prediction markets.

... with Stephen Sondheim, one of, like William Gas, Michael's enduring heroes, his first question took him more than two thirds of the program to ask. Maybe the ultimate reader and book worm. A wonderful weirdo. A real one. May his memory be a blessing.

I am late to the news that Michael Silverblatt, the host of Book Worm, died. I mean this with all the love in my heart, but I will never forget and never not find funny thinking about how his expertly crafted, thoughtful questions would go on forever. So much so that, in his half hour interview...

Publishers Marketplace book deal notice, which reads “Author of PARTISANS and Director of the Carolyn T. and Robert M. Rogers Center for the American Presidency at Vanderbilt University Nicole Hemmer's IMPUNITY, a history of how the American right has systematically destroyed political accountability over the last 50 years, in a deliberate, decades-long campaign to protect power and privilege, to Brian Distelberg at Basic, by Lisa Adams at The Garamond Agency.”

Breaking my social media hiatus to share some good news! I’ve just signed a deal with Basic Books for my next book, Impunity, which uncovers the right’s decades-long effort to destroy political accountability and protect their friends in power. I’m so excited for this one!

It might’ve been me but then that dude shared state secrets to impress the dorks in his Discord.

Learned from my doctor that if you were born in some handful of years in the mid to late seventies, the FDA recommended a course of childhood vaccines that wasn’t optimally effective then switched back. As such, if you’re 50ish, you need to get your antibodies checked. I needed a new vax.

For those of you longing for the elegance of Milan as you watch these Olympics, let me direct you to the 76 Station near the Camarillo Outlet Mall.

Two retirees at a Walmart: Greeted Rivalry.

Actually, maybe this explains the Nazi trench coat…

Border Patrol boss Gregory Bovino tossed from Las Vegas bar Former U.S. Border Patrol Commander-at-Large Gregory Bovino was reportedly asked to leave a Las Vegas bar out of safety concerns for the venue’s customers.

I’m just surprised he found someone to let him sit on his shoulders in a trench coat so they’d let him in the bar. lasvegassun.com/news/2026/fe...

The first sign that the post is falling apart is that a well-staffed editorial operation would have encouraged this writer to continue the poem it began in paragraph one into paragraph two.

I’m available to start a book review cooperative. I don’t have any money, but I have a ton of editing experience, and I love doing it. And I write, too.

From a server farmer floating up the Danube.

Season eight is being optimized to be watched in the background by one’s children while they sort through one’s stuff upon their death.

Insane that this legitimately qualifies as news-you-can-use content.

Ground control to

Would all of our representative be at least have this brave.

Kaleb Horton

A collection of Kaleb's writing put together by his family. www.kalebchorton.com

Nonviolence is, in fact, working. This administration is weaker than it was a year ago. More and more of the public is becoming galvanized against it; its agents are being impeded.

looking good 👍🏼

Much better already

Tweet exchange in which a photo of Anne Hathaway is posted by @TheRoyalSerf, to which user @VvSchweetz24 replies "@grok...do your thing. @Grok replies: Anne Hathaway isn't Jewish; she was raised Catholic but left the church. She married Adam Shulman (who is Jewish) in 2012 and celebrates Jewish holidays with their kids. SHe's played Jewish roles, like in "Armageddon Time."

pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things

More than an attempted coup, where a mob tried to seize Congress on live television did? There's not going to be an implosion about anything. It's either a slow slide towards oblivion where everything gets incrementally worse as people try to live normally, or a slow grind in the opposite direction.

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Black protest marchers proceed down Fifth Avenue in 1917, dressed in white, led by drummers.

A flag reading “Love” flies next to a golden statue of General Sherman

People chanted “Shame” when we got to the Trump abomination on Fifth Ave.

Colorful signs abounded, like this one that says, “We wanted Huddled Masses, not Hooded Assses"

Today’s march took the same Fifth Ave route as the 1917 anti-lynching Silent Parade, one of the first American civil rights protests. Both started at 59th, by General Sherman’s statue, and headed downtown. For more on the Silent Parade: hyperallergic.com/naacp-silent...

Finally, there's a thing at the top of the article that has become pretty standard-practice journalism where you bullet-point the contents for the person scrolling through. Screw that, man. How about we just read things?

Second, an obituary like this in the @latimes is as good of a case for local journalism as I can think of. When you're in a community, you know people, you know people who know people. You can tell their stories...

Christine Moore, Little Flower Cafe founder and influential candymaker, dies at 62 Her Little Flower Cafe became a popular Pasadena gathering spot where caramels and marshmallows became hot gifts.

A few thoughts about this lovely obituary. First, when you tell a story of someone's life this well , their memory becomes a blessing for anyone who reads it. It's just a beautiful thing... www.latimes.com/food/story/2...

YouTube video by Bob Weir - Topic Looks Like Rain (2022 Remaster)

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