Boston Tom Levenson

ExactLy.

Our nation is again at war, not because we had to but because the president recklessly chose to.

Now we must recognize who pays the price: not the president and his wealthy allies, but service members and ordinary Americans.

“The Intern in Charge”: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating v...

The Republicans seem to be prepping an argument that any domestic terror attacks in the aftermath of their Iran attacks will be the fault of Democrats for shutting down DHS funding, so I'd like to remind everyone of this appointment:

In bad news (for my end of the business). Nonfiction is doing ok, but a lot of the gains are in the religion and Bibles category, while narrative non-fiction is not as strong.

Interesting fact: market is broadening; the top 100/1000 books account for less of total sales than further down the list. Good news for a resolutely mid-list writer like me.

Those were print books. The presentation is now moving to ebooks and audio.. The big story there: ebook sales are steady, audio has been growing a lot.

Via this webinar, fiction has been on a tear for the last six years...substantially driving growth in publishing.

Good news for this non-fiction author: all the categories have grown through the pandemic.

Yes

Statistic that gives me hope...

I'm in a webinar in Penguin Random House's "authors university," and we were just told that while in 2022 the company sold around the world 670 million books, three years later it moved 750 million.

Books: not dead yet!

Former Middle East adviser at the US Department of Defense, Jasmine El-Gamal, has it exactly right.

#ETTD

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Do it!

#SendBarronToWar

YouTube video by RHINO B.B. King - The Thrill Is Gone [Crossroads 2010] (Official Live Video)

Dinner’s ready and we were all set to garnish the chicken with some herbs and we checked the bin in which we keep the fresh ones and I have to say, (in BB King’s voice)…

The Dill Is Gone.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgXS...

It seem Trump wants to overtake his master, Putin, for the coveted title of Master Strategist.

FTR: I do not take seriously those posters here whose uniform response to any event and any action by the Democrats is that the Ds are doing it wrong.

TCW knows in his bones that Bouie's right. He is indeed a vapid, public "intellectual" who makes his living comforting the comfortable.

The Harpers Letter was a tell.. Anyone concluding that Oberlin Student Council is more dangerous than state repression of speech...well, says it all, doesn't it.

Totally these vibes:

Secretary Clinton has more toughness and capacity in her little finger than the entire Republican committee membership has in toto.

What assholic buffoons.

Very much so.

Exactly.

Rot. Clearly rot.

Also, if you look at electric power demand, it's pretty clear that you want sunset to happen after people knock off work. Wasn't always true, but there's enough solar capacity out there now that you'd really like to have some of it at the PM peak because that tight ramp is really expensive.

Makes sense. Here in the Athens of America, we have the opposite problem.

MAHA lies.

It really is that simple.

I do not envy you your daily work.

I will take your word for it on the PNAS paper. It hasn't made sense to me that one hour either way would make a difference--after all, folks at either side of a time zone experience close to an hours difference in sunrise-sunset, so we already sort of run the experiment.

You can take upward pointed hands. Me, I prefer not to deal with a 4:11 sunset time in early December.

That's mine too, but I can't stand 4:11 sunset times (our fate here in the Hub of the Universe in early December). So depressing.

I'll take a little bit of sub-optimality not to have the walls close in so thoroughly Nov-Feb.