A DOGE kid gets beat up in DC and it’s DefCon1; hundreds of bullets into federal buildings with officer killed in Atlanta and it’s crickets; violent mob attacks Capitol wounding dozens of officers and it’s pardons for all.

Imagine the cognitive dissonance required to play a football game on a field near a middle school obliterated by a nuclear bomb only months earlier....Greg Mitchell tells a story with urgent lessons for our time.

The moment in week one where he ordered a mass release of water into farmland was the moment it really sunk in what the death of expertise looks like.

His Death Was Interrupted, Just as He Had Planned Brendan Costello’s family was bracing for goodbyes. But he had one last wish.

This story is by turns so sad and harrowing and ultimately beautiful beyond all earthly reckoning…….RIP, Brendan Thomas Costello Jr. Thank you, Dan Barry for capturing his "dark-humored Irish fatalism flecked with hope and wonder.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/n...

If I was Ezra Pound’s ghost I’d be pissed that they locked me up in St Elizabeth’s for barking crazy-talk propaganda on behalf of USA’s sworn enemies and now that’s the qualification for getting a high government appointment.

I beg the universe and BlueSky please someone answer this.