Shitcoin. We need more good news like this these days. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/t...
But of course they refuse. They are Vichy Republicans. Lapdogs. Hitler would have loved them!
Nobody except a few peeps see my Bluesky, but posting anyway. Fuck #boeing. Never fly on a Boeing plane again. Airborne coffins. NYT investigation shows the firm took shortcuts to duct tape old planes to compete with Airbus. They actually have cost-benefit tables Cheaper to have death payouts.
NEVER THOUGHT I'D MAKE MERIAM-WEBSTER--Guessing this is AI generated, but the venerable dictionary cites me defining the word "insidious." "… a measureless land thick with pine forest and kudzu, that insidious vine author James Dickey once called a form of vegetable cancer. — Dale Maharidge"
wow--thank you for using my words as your epigraph! As I note in my posts on socials, I'm honored.
EPIGRAPH--For the 2nd time to my knowledge, my words have been used as an epigraph. It appears a book publishing today--THE VIPER, by Brad Meltzer--has used this from Bringing Mulligan Home: “I don’t believe in closure. I don’t think we ever really get over anything.”
WE FOUND JESUS--Just came home from a 2,800-mile road trip through the South. Fun fact: In all those miles, we just saw two Trump signs/stickers. I drove a lot around the country in 2017 and 2018 and repeatedly witnessed uncountable numbers of Trump signs/stickers. Hmm. Maybe one can interpret.
Thanks! @bradmeltzer.com
SPRINGSTEEN'S GHOST OF TOM JOAD--It was released 30 years ago today. Some stories like this one are shouting out that #springsteen drew from Journey to Nowhere, the book I did with Michael S. Williamson. HARD.TO.BELIEVE that this much time has passed. Sigh.
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Powerful essay from a hospital bed from Samuel Braslow, who was in my final class last spring at Columbia. "I can’t diet, detox or exercise my way out of cancer." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o...
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“Five life-changing things that shaped Bruce Springsteen”--Journey to Nowhere, the book I did with Michael S. Williamson, is included in the 5th thing in this BBC Radio podcast.
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BUZZARD SWARM--Today a cloud of turkey vultures suddenly swirled overhead. There are 41 birds in the frame of this picture. Another 30 or so are out of frame. Never seen anything like this. One could interpret this as a sign of something, but I’m not sure I want to think too much about that.
Sweet! Choke #paulweiss and other #lawfirms such as Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom #caving to #Trump. Hope you suffer millions/billions in losses. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Fuck my #AI copilot. Die pilot. Leave me alone. Analog baby.
TOTALLY OFFGRID-Power profile for June. ZERO grid electric because of the batteries at night. Exported power every day. Total of 355KW. C02 reduction: 1,400 pounds. we live in a bleak era, who knows what the fools who are now running things will do. Here at this casa, we will never be without power.
ST. LOUIS, 1983--We hopped on a freight train that March with Don, who we documented as he headed west seeking work. I took the pic of Michael S. Williamson either moments before or after he made the image of Don, which appears in our 1985 book Journey To Nowhere.
GRADUATION DAY Columbia Journalism--The final graduation ceremony after 34 years of teaching. Next to me is Sam Freedman. It's fitting we "retire" at the same time. We both started at Columbia in 1991. Dean Jelani Cobb gave us a shout out at the end of the ceremony. @columbiajournalism.bsky.social
NEW YORK CITY--May 16, 2025. #trump #fascism
THE LAST DAY--Waiting for students on Thursday at the Columbia Journalism School. My final class after 34 years.
NEW YORK CITY, May 6, 2025--Amsterdam Avenue in the low 100s. This sheaf of plastic was in the gutter, these words written upon it. I asked myself this: WWMSWD? (What would Michael S. Williamson do?) And that is how I shot it.
CLOSE TO THE END-The final reading packet for my @columbiajournalism.bsky.social class, the last in my 34 years of teaching. We're going to talk about demons, how to avoid them and have a good career. Being aware as you go along is critical.
This is our future--even more stupid. A.I. Is Getting More Powerful, but Its Hallucinations Are Getting Worse www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/t...
MAY 4, 1970--Fifty-five years ago today, the National Guard executed students at Kent State University. They were killing us then. And I fear that kind of thing is not over, not in this current climate. I will always remember Kent State Day. #kentstate
I sound like Joyce Carol Oats in this #writerland post by my
@columbiajournalism.bsky.social
colleague Michael Shapiro. I wish I were as productive. thedelacortereview.substack.com/p/chapter-18...
Congrats to my former @columbiajournalism.bsky.social student (1992)@robinmcdowell.bsky.social and to a writer I've long admired, @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social, for winning Hillman prizes! This award honors journalism about the struggles of real people. www.hillmanfoundation.org/hillman-priz...
Two wars, riding the rails, six collaborated books, several hundred stories, and a doc film with Ron Wyman coming-we had a lot to catch up on. Michael S. Williamson was in town for The Association of International Photography Art Dealers. On display: two of Michael’s photos of Sally Mann.
