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Book #102 of 2025: The Penultimate Truth by Philip K. Dick. He was just the best.

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Book #101 of 2025: River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West by Rebecca Solnit. I thought this was really interesting and insightful.

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for a long time there I thought this was what you guys were talking about when you said you were doing poppers

Breaking news: ICE stops family at gunpoint—smash car window on top of newborn baby.

"I was screaming that there was a baby. But they didn’t care," cried mother.

“I covered my baby with my body—I was so scared he was going to be hurt because glass was landing on him."

After Declining to Give Trump a Sword for King Charles, a Museum Leader Is Out

Very Trump-era story.
1. The sword has no meaning for Charles, but matters for the Eisenhower Museum.
2. Illegal for the museum to give away US property!
3. Trump makes no distinction between personal/public property.
4. The person who did the right thing was fired.
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Book #100 of 2025: Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner. Not for me.

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without explicit arguments in favor of “serious literary value” meaning work that’s challenging, original, figurative, that view will lose out to work that’s easy to read, with real implications for what’s permissible to assign in schools

Book #99 of 2025: Why Didn't I by Mary Robison. She's such a blast.

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When you're in the middle of a stroke or a heart attack, do you want the ER doctor to ask for your birth certificate before treating you?

This is really hard to read. And the thing that is sitting with me the most about it is that it has always legal and possible to do this for decades. The only thing preventing this from having been the norm was a sense of humanity.

This is why we need structural reform. Not just a change in admin.

Most people who write about politics, right or left, have internalized the concept of the Trump supporter as the authentic american Volk and so many of their conclusions proceed from that
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Man in custody after 3 killed, at least 8 injured in shooting at a waterfront bar in North Carolina, officials say | CNN A 40-year-old man is facing murder charges after allegedly pulling up on a boat to a waterfront bar in North Carolina Saturday night and opening fire, killing three and injuring at least eight others.

Targeted attack on a dockside restaurant in North Carolina. Three dead. Suspect a former Marine sniper in Iraq and Haiti who tried to sue the US govt for “genocide against straight men by the LGBQT community.”

Flags at half mast? Endless op-eds? Victims’ faces on coins?

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There's a lake in Central Park called the Harlem Meer

I have a few authors I try to read every year. I've done Munro, McCarthy, D. Johnson, DeLillo, Hemingway, Greene, H. Green, Joy Williams, Kathryn Davis, Erdrich, Duras, P. White, Cather, Naipaul, Vollmann, Gordimer. Still need to get through Dick, Shakespeare, and Nabokov.

Book #98 of 2025 (working on a review of the new Joy Williams at #97): Half a Life by V. S. Naipaul. One of his better novels, I think.

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Shooter in this case appears to be dead

No jumping to conclusions, but the claim here is that an anti-ICE sniper just missed and hit a detainee instead... like, three times?

Claudia Cardinale, glamorous star of The Leopard and Once Upon a Time in the West, dies aged 87 The husky-voiced, chain-smoking actor had a reputation as a fiercely independent, free-spirited woman

everyone should take three hours out of their day and watch THE LEOPARD, a total masterpiece of a film. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

Would you show this tweet to your children?

Eric Adams Embraces Transphobia, the Last Recourse of Desperate Losers And more links for your Tuesday morning.

Morning Spew for Night Owls—Eric Adams Embraces Transphobia, the Last Recourse of Desperate Losers

Book #96 of 2025: Men of Maize by Miguel Angel Asturias. Incredible epic by the Guatemalan Nobel Prize Winner. My "Countries Read" list is now up to 112.

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Home of the nation's second-smallest post office

I was walking down a street in New York and I thought how lovely it was, with the trees and the light. Tried to take a photo and this came out. It’s incredible how blind we become to the ugliness of cars. They really do mess things up. Yet somehow we manage to filter them out.

Everything is gender.

This isn't even a slight exaggeration. He is actively working on destroying the US's entire vaccine infrastructure. The HepB vote will be tomorrow, where they will get rid of the birth dose and recommend it at 30 days, dooming a bunch of infants to chronic infection ft. cirrhosis, cancer, and death.

We can rent cameras?

One thing you could think about is that every "liberal" university has conservative student groups inviting fascists and reporting their fellow students to Breitbart for wokeness, but there isn't a progressive equivalent at Liberty University or Hillsdale. Wonder why!

picture of Skagway, Alaska

picture of Skagway, Alaska

picture of Skagway, Alaska

picture of Skagway, Alaska

Skagway, Alaska
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I’d never seen this one.

Taking political positions that'll make it more likely to win Senate seats in Kansas and Ohio and Missouri. Trying to open your coalition to people you didn't want it open to before. Running pro-life Democrats.

Constitutional Amendment 3 November 5, 2024 Right to Reproductive Freedom Initiative Choice Yes X No Results Votes 1,538,659 1,443,022 % 51.60% 48.40%

Issue 1 November 7, 2023 Right to Reproductive Freedom with Protections for Health and Safety(1] Results Choice Votes % & Yes 2,227,384 56.78% No 1,695,480 43.22% Total votes 3,922,864 100.00%

2022 Kansas abortion referendum KANSAS August 2, 2022 Should there be no Kansas constitutional right to abortion or to require the government funding of abortion, and reserve to the people of Kansas, through their elected state legislators, the right to pass laws to regulate abortion, including, but not limited to, in circumstances of pregnancy resulting from rape or incest, or when necessary to save the life of the mother? Results Choice Votes % • Yes 385,014 40.84% X No 557,837 59.16% Total votes 942,851 100.00% Registered voters turnout 1,929,972 48.85%

I genuinely cannot believe that Ezra Klein said we should run pro-life candidates in Kansas, Ohio, and Missouri; three states that recently held abortion referendums where the pro-choice side won!