Danya Henninger

State Rep Scott Bottoms (R) says he tipped off the FBI to his claims of pedophile rings at the Colorado State Capitol three years ago. Then his story about the FBI shifted. I asked him about that. He responded with insults.

"Why does that particular address show up so often in the documents released about Jeffrey Epstein, the late convicted underage sex trafficker with alleged connections to many of the most powerful people in the US government and the world?"

Our resident Delaware expert Holly Quinn explains

Yeah, this was a bad take

When you've lost the CEOs...

www.semafor.com/article/01/2...

The firm owned by Pennsylvania’s richest man is now co-leading US TikTok Financial powerhouse Susquehanna International Group, an early ByteDance investor, is now central to the app’s new US leadership.

Jeff Yass's company gets a seat on the new US TikTok board. His investment giant was one of the early investors in ByteDance.

Good explainer by @katiemalone.bsky.social

technical.ly/entrepreneur...

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30-day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women

Nnedi Okorafor, LAGOON

#booksky #bookchallenge #readingwomen

30/30

“I find it fundamentally silly that Bitcoin becomes a partisan issue,” says the cofounder of a Bitcoin-themed bar that features a framed Trump tweet and a $100 Pepe mug drink, which is "our version of champagne and sparklers"

Fun read by @kaelaroeder.bsky.social

technical.ly/entrepreneur...

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30-day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women

N.K. Jemisn (@nkjemisin.bsky.social), THE HUNDRED THOUSAND KINGDOMS
(Inheritance Trilogy)

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29/30

Thank you!

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30-day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women

Erin Bowman (@erinbowman.bsky.social), DUSTBORN

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28/30

Oooooh

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30-day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women

Kaliane Bradley, MINISTRY OF TIME

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27/30

"To our major newsrooms, the truth of the matter is a jump ball."

Read @froomkin.bsky.social on the "both sides" bias at the top.

No paywall. presswatchers.org/2026/01/why-...

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette says it will cease operations in May The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's owners said it has lost $350 million over 20 years and called that "no longer sustainable."

I spoke with Charlie Wolfson of Pittsburgh's Public Source about the announcement that Block Communications will shut down the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. www.publicsource.org/newspaper-pi...

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette announces closure The owners of Pittsburgh Post-Gazette announced on Wednesday that the newspaper will “cease operations” on May 3. “Over the past 20 years, Block Communications has lost more than $35...

They lost $350M over the past 20 years but better health insurance is the breaking point? Seems spiteful

Pittsburgh just lost its daily newspaper (shutting down in May)

triblive.com/business/pit...

What exactly are Americans celebrating in 2026? The US Semiquincentennial marks 250 years since the Declaration of Independence. The American Revolution was always a hard-fought battle for more opportunity.

What exactly are Americans celebrating in 2026? technical.ly/civics/usa-2...

Book cover with a woman’s face fading into gray stone, just her eyes, eyebrows and nose still visible — but in the middle of where the forehead would be is an open door with the same face peeking out, this time in full, resolute color

30-day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women

Kelley Eskridge, SOLITAIRE

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26/30

News organizations held off on reporting Venezuela raid The American news organizations held their stories over concerns about endangering US troops.

First in @semafor.com: NYT, WaPo learned of the secret US raid on Venezuela soon before it was scheduled to begin but held off publishing what they had at the administration's request to avoid endangering US troops www.semafor.com/article/01/0...

It does look exactly like a dove!

"Both Mr. Mandani and Mr. Trump identify as New Yorkers, though they have no relationship." See how easy it is to make bizarre comparisons, NYT?🤦‍♀️

And the Eagle Map is "most extraordinary and rare," per cartography expert David Rumsey, as quoted by Second Story Books in DC, which has a copy

www.secondstorybooks.com/pages/books/...

Rudiments of National Knowledge, Presented to the Youth of the United States, and to Enquiring Foreigners|Paperback "Rudiments of National Knowledge" offers a fascinating glimpse into the foundational principles deemed essential for young citizens of the early United States. Written by Joseph Churchman, this volume...

You can still buy the book, or a replica of it. One that "may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks" so it's true to the original, I guess

www.barnesandnoble.com/w/rudiments-...

Screenshot from Churchman's book: "The Author, retaining very little recollection of the formal rules of grammar, partially studied in his youth, does not presume to claim exemption from occasional error in the construction of his language; which is merely the result of habit combined with the exercise of an imperfect judgment. If the eye of criticism should detect faults, both in grammatical construction and punctuation, he will not be disappointed. He has himself observed imperfections in both these respects too late for correction in the present edition,—which, however he must do himself the justice to attribute, in some part, to the fatigues attendant on a continual course of indisposition during the progress of printing. Not being vainly desirous of appearing personally before the public, he has caused entry in the office to be made in the name of a youthful friend; on whom, though legally constituted a representative of the Author, with relation to the property of the work, no responsibility will rest on account of its imperfections."

At least Churchman forewarded the book with a disclaimer?

Ok, so he's ok with criticism. And he was sick while the book was being printed.

Screenshot from Churchman's book: "At length a man of superior mind appeared; who, influenced partly by reports accidentally gleaned from traditions than ancient, and partly by the force of his own native genius, guided by such lights as the progress of science and philosophical deduction afforded, conceived the bold design of navigating the Atlantic ocean into distant regions, westward from the world of his acquaintance, with a view to new discoveries"

Not to his credit, is this where the lionization of Columbus began?

"a man of superior mind" guided by "partly by the force of his own native genius"

The idea of the Eagle Map, like the book overall, was to instill a sense of patriotism and love of country in a generation 3x removed from the Revolutionary War

To Churchman's credit, he says he wrote it so the "efficient citizens" doing manual labor could "reason, reflect, and converse" on topics

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Apparently maps were not used much in teaching geography, and this marked a step forward (per Slate), although the Eagle Map itself quickly became obsolete as states and borders shifted

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It was created by a Philadelphian named Joseph Churchman to go along with his 1833 book, "Rudiments of National Knowledge, Presented to the Youth of the United States, and to Enquiring Foreigners"

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An old, sepia-colored map of the early United States (the left half of the continent trails off into nothing) with an eagle sketched over the rough shape of the eastern states: talons atop florida, beak as Cape Cod, tail fluffing back to Louisiana and the Appalachains forming the mark where the wings begin to stretch back.

Found the Library of Congress "American Revolution and Founding Washington" free to use and reuse collection and fell down the rabbit hole of the Eagle Map

A beautiful weaving

Yaaaaas