Liz Kastor

“what cool shit can I do as Mayor? oh, I can marry people? awesome, let’s do it”

once again the constant theme of “New York is great, New Yorkers are great, isn’t this great?” comes through

the Rossettis’ wombat was named “Top” - short for “Topsy”, which is also what they called William Morris (whose wife Dante Rossetti was enamoured with), leading to the mean prolonged joke of forcing people to specify if they were referring to William Morris or the wombat

Agents Suspended After Their Story of Shooting an Immigrant Falls Apart

ICE thugs are good at several tasks: beating protesters, shooting protesters, pepper-spraying protesters, tear-gassing protesters lying. They suck at everything else. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/u...

If there were a streaming service for cats and dogs, this would be one of the shows, for sure. What else should be on the schedule?

SOMEONE'S AT THE DOOR, the true-crime series produced by and for border collies

The Art of Luge-ing Isnt Hard to Master

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Society does not make it easy, but I *highly* recommend making friends with people both older and younger than you.

Like, not a few years but full decade +.

The opportunities to learn from and support each other are so much better when we're not all IN IT in the same way at the same time.

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gradient.horse Draw a horse, watch it run!

Excuse me but this is a perfect use of the internet.

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Assigned cereal at harvest.

this may be the most English man ever to exist.

Shit I didn't include the link. Maybe you shouldn't trust me. Draw your horse here:

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AMA joins effort to launch vaccine science review amid CDC turmoil The American Medical Association and a partner group are taking on a new role in reviewing vaccine safety and effectiveness as the CDC’s review process faces criticism.

NEW: The AMA and a leading public health research group focused on vaccines are teaming up to create a parallel system to review vaccine safety and effectiveness. 
The CDC’s vaccine review process has “effectively collapsed” under RFKJr. My story.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

Hi all, there are a lot of things to be said about the chaos, kidnapping and murder, that is happening in the state I live in right now. I want to highlight some things I have personally seen in the last month or so out on the streets in Minneapolis.
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Me and my husband discussing the US curling strategy

A Mandaic curse bowl in the Royal Ontario Museum. It has a spiraling Mandaic text that leads to an encircled x at the center.

This Super Bowl Sunday, I’d like to introduce you all to the magical curse bowls used in Upper Mesopotamia and Syria in late antiquity. Written in Mandaic (as here) or Syriac Aramaic, they trap demons who trespass on a household by sucking them in with spiraling spells to the center of the bowl.

His GoFundMe is here: www.gofundme.com/f/support-le... - I donated a few days ago.

8yo, watching Lindsay Vonn announce that she will compete despite tearing her ACL: what is up with injuries this week! I got two paper cuts and a fifth grader is on CRUTCHES

What a beautiful way to sit with your friend, even though she's gone. And a beautiful piece.

Obsessed with the pure (both chemically and morally) kid-ness of noting that it can move

the snowbanks are so gross but to georgie they are basically the uffizi

Donate to Help Bring Alvaro Home from ICE Detention & Support Family, organized by Laura Lee ****EMERGENCY MUTUAL AID REQUEST**** We are a group of fr… Laura Lee needs your support for Help Bring Alvaro Home from ICE Detention & Support Family

Last week our good friend was kidnapped by ICE/CBP in Alhambra, CA. He’s currently in the California City ICE concentration camp. Please help us help his family, if you can. gofund.me/7773bd323

Donate to Support for Washington Post international employees, organized by Michelle Lee Among the hundreds of journalists laid off by The Washington Post on … Michelle Lee needs your support for Support for Washington Post international employees

While the @washingtonpost.com 2026 layoff fund has done extremely well, please also consider giving to the fund for its laid-off international employees not eligible for protection by the newspaper’s guild: www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

Below: the face of a cat who thinks we can keep another family housed today.

This family needs $1000. We overshot the mark slightly on the last one so we are already at $75. Venmo nkkritzer, and I will send the money to the family once it's raised.

tomorrow i would really like to challenge a few folks with larger followings than me to adopt a rent and raise it in one day.

my little group chat and my followers have paid like 70 families rents in the past four days. i believe that some of y’all could help us keep one family housed.

Great news, and I’m sorry it took so long and so much dismissive language from MDs. Statins are a miracle.

oh COME ON

I once had a cat that came and went as he pleased through a window the we always kept open for him. But when the weather was bad he would ask us to open the door to let him out because he thought it might be better there.

The 51st News is a terrific resource for the DMV! Subscribe & make it better!

Besides the splendid @roncharles.bsky.social and @johnwilliams.bsky.social and Becca Rothfeld, I'm thinking about former editors Nina King and Marie Arana and Jabari Asim and Michael Dirda. Book World has long had a unique and often surprising voice. What a terrible loss.