Daniel Paisner

Opinion | Trump Disgraces American Justice

good to see the gloves starting to come off at the paper of record...
#disgrace #ShameOnUS
@nytopinion.nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

Sister Jean, nun and sensation on basketball sidelines, dies at 106 As chaplain for Loyola University Chicago’s hoops team, Jean Dolores Schmidt enjoyed a sudden fame with the squad’s 2018 NCAA Tournament performance. Her motto: “Worship, Work, Win.”

"I believed winning wasn’t everything and losing wasn’t the end of the world, because there was always another game to play.” #SisterJean, as told to podcast guest @sethdavishoops.bsky.social...
#RIP #WakeUpWithPurpose

listen: open.spotify.com/episode/6WKF...

www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

so great...for so many reasons...
#NobelPeacePrize

Live Updates: María Corina Machado Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

how soon before our so-called president claims the voting was rigged?...
#NobelPeacePrize
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Episode 97: Emma Heming Willis and Michele Bender Podcast Episode · As Told To · 10/07/2025 · 1h 11m

we've got a new one spinning at the podcast factory this week...
#caregiving #collaboration #TheUnexpectedJourney
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Episode 97: Emma Heming Willis and Michele Bender Podcast Episode · As Told To · 10/07/2025 · 1h 11m

we've got a new one spinning at the podcast factory this week...
#caregiving #collaboration #TheUnexpectedJourney
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

... and one...

yes... 'tis...
please listen/like/subscribe/review/share/whatever...

#writing #storytelling #books #publishing #journalism

Opinion | How to Save a Book Festival

"It’s like you’re sitting in a bar, and there are all of these fights going on all around you. You look over, and you think, ‘Not my fight...' And then someone comes into the bar, and this horrible fight ensues, and you think, ‘Oh, God, that’s my fight.’”
#AnnPatchett
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/o...

weekend listening...
#journalism #newpodcast #writinglife #storytelling #books #publishing

I think I just threw up in my mouth a little...

Bob Dylan Might Be His Dad. But the Star of His Book Is His Mom.

props to @dwightgarner.bsky.social for suggesting this alternate title for the new #SamSussman novel, "Boy From the North Country":

"You're Going to Make Me Loathsome When You Go"

#amreading #newfiction #BookSky @nytbookreview.bsky.social #BobDylan @writersbone.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/b...

Opinion | The N.F.L. Gets It. Why Don’t Democrats?

yes...

"Democrats need to listen for the roar of the crowd." - @mollyjongfast.bsky.social

#BadBunny #NFL #SuperBowl @nytopinion.nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/o...

Episode 96: Samuel G. Freedman Podcast Episode · As Told To · 09/23/2025 · 1h 13m

"Pull the heart of your work out of your chest and lay it out there for the gods." advice to writers from retired @columbiajournalism.bsky.social professor #SamuelGFreedman
#writing #writingcommunity
#journalism #BookSky #AuthorSky #PodcastSky
share.google/5P5xlRoaECOD...

weekend listening...
#journalism #newpodcast #writinglife #storytelling #books #publishing

Episode 96: Samuel G. Freedman Podcast Episode · As Told To · 09/23/2025 · 1h 13m

"Pull the heart of your work out of your chest and lay it out there for the gods." advice to writers from retired @columbiajournalism.bsky.social professor #SamuelGFreedman
#writing #writingcommunity
#journalism #BookSky #AuthorSky #PodcastSky
share.google/5P5xlRoaECOD...

how 'bout we all agree to pacify this man with his coveted #NobelPeacePrize, on the condition that he immediately resign his office and renounce every public position he's taken since helping Kevin through the lobby of the Plaza in "Home Alone 2"?... deal?...

well-played...

less cowbell... please...

Evan Dando Is Back From the Brink

"I don't believe God meant us to be sober." - #evandando
#Lemonheads
#memoir
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...

that about sums it up...

Lally Weymouth, Globe-Trotting Reporter and Scion of Graham Family, Dies at 82

such a life... such an obit...

... the granddaughter, daughter, sister and mother of publishers of the @washingtonpost.com who was never given a leadership role at the paper... #LallyWeymouth #RIP
#TripGabriel #journalism #legacy
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...

Trump Gave the Military’s Brass a Rehashed Speech. Until Minute 44.

"These were pretty much the same things he talked about a day earlier while standing next to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu... the same things he talked about at Charlie Kirk’s memorial service...the same things he talked about at Windsor Castle..." #ShawnMcCreesh
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...

YouTube video by New York Knicks it’s not a trip to the desert without a camel ride 🐪 OG Anunoby went for a ride while #inabudhabi

spit take - not sure I want to see our $212.5M player on camelback as we lean into a new season...
#Knicks #OGAnunoby #NBA #hoopsky #preseason 🏀 🐫
youtube.com/shorts/H7XWO...

Oy...

Hegseth's Meeting Backfires as Military Audience Starts Chanting, "Epstein, Epstein" The Defense Secretary fled the stage in tears.

heh heh...

"Recognizing that the audience had turned against him, a panicked Donald Trump tried to flee the building but was foiled when the escalator he boarded suddenly lurched to a halt." - @borowitzreport.bsky.social

#militarymadness 🪖
www.borowitzreport.com/p/hegseths-m...

hope you'll take the time to listen...

good stuff on what it takes to write a compelling, selling book proposal, from a former @columbiajournalism.bsky.social professor who helped to launch more than 100 book projects during his storied career...

#journalism #books #publishing #SamuelGFreedman

The Clock Is Ticking on a Lose-Lose Government Shutdown “Democrats have been resolute that we need a real negotiation,” Chuck Schumer tells VF.

"Ultimately Democrats are going to have the same problem everyone else does when they’re negotiating with Trump: He’s Trump." - @mollyjongfast.bsky.social
@vanityfair.com
#shutdown
#TrumpShutdown
#politics #LoseLose
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

5 Takeaways From Trump’s Address to Generals and Admirals

"This 'war from within' you speak of, sir? Is it a gastrointestinal thing?"
#TopBrass
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...

a woman in a pink dress drinking a glass of water ALT: a woman in a pink dress drinking a glass of water

SkyMind: what is the plural of gin-and-tonic?... is it two gin-and-tonics or two gins-and-tonic?... asking for a friend - although perhaps I should tell him to just go ahead and have a third...
#grammar #pubgrammar #usage #WordSky