Brian PJ Cronin

A Trump Order Protected a Weedkiller. And Also a Weapon of War.

“Bayer, which makes glyphosate, is also the only company in the United States that manufactures a form of elemental phosphorus called white phosphorus, which it uses to make the weedkiller.”

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Well that took no time at all www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Emailing a student back and outlook autocorrected Professor Cronin to Professor Crying, and, you know what, fair enough

Headline and subhead: U.S. Tomahawk Hit Naval Base Beside Iranian School, Video Shows The evidence contradicts President Trump’s claim that Iran was responsible for a strike at the school that killed 175 people, most of them children.

Good for the hed/dek writers at @nytimes.com just now:

Not "appears to contradict" or "is at odds with" or "may give rise to suspicions that."

Flat out: "Contradicts." "Video shows." About the US blowing up a school full of little girls.

And of course, terrible for the world.

Headline: Mojtaba Khamenei, son of slain ayatollah, named Iran’s supreme leader

I don’t even know why I apply for jobs when they always go to people with famous dads

Anyway good morning, this is from me in case you missed it.

Me when I put my phone in a drawer, put the computer to sleep, and put on Art Blakey and Clifford Brown absolutely going off at Birdland in 1954:

And yet, not a word indicating agency in the title or subhead. It’s not “upon us”, it is a direct and obvious consequence of choices by US leadership

listen, this isn’t a lie, but it’s really close.

when you google it, the top source is Siskind’s own Facebook page.

the actual audio is just a meaningless blanket statement from which no one should draw any conclusions.

no actual news source has covered the quote, including Fox.

Trump Foreign Policy, welcome to The War on Cars.

If you can’t handle my “It’s now pitch black at 6:45 am and all of the babies and pets are insane” then you don’t deserve my “Sunset is now at 7 pm.”

“If you hit a wrong note, hit it again” is good advice in jazz, not good advice in foreign policy.

Also Fugazi playing a show in front of the White House right before the first Iraq War with a banner that reads “There will be 2 wars”??? 🫡🫡🫡

Fugazi Banter: War (U.S. National Park Service)

I know that the National Park Service was supposed to take down all their political content so shhhh nobody tell them that they still have the page about Fugazi up:

In the surest sign that spring is finally here, I woke up this morning and the creek from two blocks away was so loud that I thought a train had jumped its tracks.

It’s the skeleton rollercoaster meme, the skeletons are labeled “East Coast skeeting in Daylight Savings Time “ and the humans are labeled “West Coast skeeting in Standard Time.”

My older kid and I are finally getting around to starting Skyrim and what I want to know is why WOULDN'T you choose to play as the giant cat

For the night time crowd:

Lawler Announces Plan to Rebuild Indian Point Effort would cost $10+ billion and require governor’s approval

New, from me: Yesterday Rep. Mike Lawler and Chris Wright, the secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy, announced an ambitious plan to rebuild the Indian Point nuclear power plan.

They'll need the approval of Gov. Hochul, among others, and she's already said she's not on board.

Anyway remember yesterday when we were all talking about Fugazi? That was good, we should do that again sometime.

Rebecca Solnit Says the Left’s Next Hero Is Already Here

"I think the counter to Trump always has been and always will be civil society. A lot of the left wants social change to look like the French Revolution or Che Guevara. Maybe changing the world is more like caregiving than it is like war."

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Section IX Champs! Beacon High’s boys basketball team dominated Red Hook from the opening tip en route to a 62-37 win Friday night at Mount St. Mary’s College in Newburgh, claiming its first sectional championship since 2003. Photo by Skip Pearlman

No more stadiums or fields, games are now all played in Maine's 100 Mile Wilderness.

Nintendo suing US government over tariffs
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As it just so happens, as gas prices now have exponents attached to them, that today I interviewed the guy who literally wrote the book on walkable cities.

Use the Defense Production Act to produce an electric Geo Tracker and be legends

Have they tried looking for an oyster farmer in Maine WITHOUT Nazi tattoos because I bet there’s at least one

Every gas station I’ve driven by today has had a long line

Albini Sessions (Benefit for Letters Charity), by Fugazi 12 track album

For Bandcamp Friday, Fugazi is finally releasing the long-lost legendary Steve Albini sessions of the songs that would become IN ON THE KILLTAKER:

5 Questions: Jeff Speck Urban planner will speak in Cold Spring on March 10

Did a short interview with Jeff Speck, author of WALKABLE CITY: HOW DOWNTOWN CAN SAVE AMERICA ONE STEP AT A TIME, who will be giving a talk in Cold Spring next week. His design firm will be working on the development of a 12-acre parcel on Kemble Avenue.