i'm really not keen on this noem person

Apropos of nothing, I subscribed to The Atlantic today.

All I keep thinking about is how Pete Hegseth raised questions of the competency of a Black four-star general and Air Force fighter pilot who was the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Hegseth asked did he get the job “because of his skin color? Or his skill? We’ll never know, but always doubt.”

Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"

This is outrageous

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

Weekend read.

Far-right pundit rails against women in law enforcement: ‘It’s an absurdity!’ ‘If we’re being honest, female cops are absurd. It’s an absurdity. I’m sorry. It’s just ridiculous. It’s cartoonish,’ Matt Walsh ranted on his podcast this week

This entire project is *very expliclty* about fully purging black people and women from huge swaths of public life, employment and education.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

This very good boy turned 13?today.

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Coming in June. Don't miss it.

For all the Trump people arguing we need Greenland for geopolitical strategic concerns, you know what really matters in that regard? NATO. Not screwing up NATO. Not Pissing off Denmark & Greenland.

Tonight the moon has a golden ring

Smithie

Current read. Pretty gripping so far. #amreading #arcbrag

Snuggled up with a March release on a winery afternoon. It's set in Iceland 🇮🇸 which seems fitting

Or sending one to the seaside for healthy air

THIS is Our INSTRUCTION

Exactly 💯

Scenes from Winter Lights at Naumkeag

Gus was thankful for his raincoat this morning 🌧

Switching to StoryGraph after many years on Goodreads. Anyone out there have advice?

Definition of “kakistocracy” as a government by the least suitable or competent citizens of a state.

Word of the day. Or week. Or next four years.

We Need to Cover Donald Trump Differently This Time Every outrage and insult can’t be a five-alarm fire, as it’s critical for the media to stay focused on the most serious threats to America’s democratic institutions.

I wrote about being more focused covering trump’s second administration in @vanityfair.com

www.vanityfair.com/news/story/d...

Dog on the beach in #Maine