Hal Espen

New Mexico is really showing off this evening 💛

The Adventure of the Copper Beeches

If we emerge with a non-fascist society, each and every university administrator who Chamberlained or Vichied to any degree must be ruthlessly expelled from any position of responsibility or influence. Let their name be stricken from every tablet. They shouldn’t run a hot-dog stand.

Hadn’t noticed the lack of a blue check but am now unfollowing.

Checkmate, AI denialists.

Many non-economics thanks for alerting me and linking to Eva Hollands story about National Geographic suppressing its own documentary, "For Winter."

Scoundrel time.

Great reporting on a truly depressing spectacle of dishonor and weaselly behavior on the part of Nat Geo. Just reposted with a few words on my own reaction.

This sinister scoundrel time is revealed in all its appalling ugliness in Eva Holland's superb report about the appalling suppression of the documentary "For Winter," featuring National Geographic officials not only evidently lying in the grip of cringing political fear, but smearing colleagues.

George R.R. Martin’s Real Kingdom? A Faraway Land Called Santa Fe The 'Game of Thrones' author still hasn’t finished 'The Winds of Winter,' but he has opened a movie theater, a bookstore, a cocktail bar and a railway attraction in a realm a million miles from Wester...

The Hollywood Reporter explores George RR Martin’s expanding Santa Fe footprint.

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This is fucked up.

Trump Wants a New Border Wall. It Would Block a Key Wildlife Corridor.

Criminal plans to destroy the flow of wildlife across the natural border between the U.S.and Mexico to appease a psychotic obsession.

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It was only after reading Crossings by @bengoldfarb.bsky.social that I realized the true destructive nature of roads in wilderness areas. Highly recommend his book to understand the stakes here.

George Will denounces the overused, omnipresent idiot word “iconic.”

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the one thing i genuinely did not anticipate from this administration was its vicious, know nothing hostility to any and everything that might even be adjacent to science and scientific research. they genuinely one to destroy the entirety of the nation’s research capacity. and for what, exactly?

Screenshot of text: [Highlighting begins] But the shooting may put concerns over gun violence back on voters’ minds, and may lead some to further scrutinize Mr. Mamdani, [Highlighting ends] who has relatively limited experience in government and has not handled a high-profile crisis while in office.

One fascinating thing about the most self-serious newspaper in America with its staff of the winning journalistic meritocrats is that it routinely, institutionally publishes completely made-up bullshit speculation about pure abstractions, based on zero reporting, written as if it were plain facts

Motor vehicle theft fell faster, for non-fans of withholding the headline topic in news posts.

AAA all-analog Marching Powder removal.

‘Marion Nestle, a professor of nutrition and public health at New York University, told CNN the numbers may not be entirely reliable. “Changing a diet to include or exclude any one food is unlikely to make much difference [and] gets into further untested and untestable assumptions.”’

“‘You feel like you’ve been abducted by a gang of aggressive, violent people who are trying to manipulate you and who are lying to you. And while you are being abducted, you know that these people are capable of doing anything to you because they don’t care,’ Chavarria said.”

“This Bay Area city” is San Jose, for non-fans of withholding the actual topic in news posting.

MURDERLAND | Kirkus Reviews A provocative, eerily lyrical study of the heyday of American serial killers.

It's very good. Empire Of Pain meets In Cold Blood meets Silent Spring meets several other things. www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

Dude.

Humphrey Bogart and Peter Lorre on the set of “Beat the Devil”, Ravello, Italy, 1953.
by Robert Capa.

You Douthat-rolled me! Not good!

Pretty funny but why am I crying?

Urban Crime, Serial Killers and Fascism - the Legacy of Neuro-Toxic America ("Murderland" Might Have Taken Us a Step Further) I grew up in a family with a single mom and a brother old enough to seldom be home.

Phil Wilson writes an adroit review of Caroline Fraser' new novel, Murderland, based around evidence that lead pollution is linked to higher murder rates, & concluding that "real serial killers are... people who poison the world limitlessly for power & profit"

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Il Sereno Darsena Listening Suite When traveling, true audiophiles want more than just a Bluetooth speaker. The Darsena Listening Suite at Il Sereno in Lake Como was created with them in mind. The 200-square-meter space is outfitted w...

Omg.

Dog has a profound “This changes everything” mien.

Also, the usage blight that is "iconic."

Journalists love the salutation "Team."