Most of the wise seem to have.

President Trump adding:

“…It was like when you hire two Russian prostitutes to pee on you in bed in a hotel and then they just can’t go.”

Your health care premiums will be going up 500% or more so that Trump and the Republicans can use those taxpayer funds to build American concentration camps.

Some of Georges Simenon's best novels are his romans Américains, a baker's dozen surgical dissections of the American way of life in the 1950s -- most of them out of print, two of them never translated into English.

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I’d stopped calling him The Greatest Self-Parodist of All Time, but can’t restrain myself this week. Starts by suddenly demolishing the East Wing to build his new ballroom. Ends screaming that a brilliant Canadian ad will “illegally influence” SCOTUS to rule against him. share.google/gYn7FS0qdM2z...

Could eventually disrupting/curtailing Venezuela’s oil production be the motive behind all this?

Another one from @jesseduquette.bsky.social

First thing I’d do would be to scan it for listening devices.

Watch New York news and weather for free, 24/7 on NBC 4 New York News, Local News, Weather, Traffic, Entertainment, Breaking News

You can watch the Mamdani, Cuomo, Sliwa debate tonight at 7 PM ET here: www.nbcnewyork.com/watch/

BBC were the last to report it.

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

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Why should anyone read the story of some unknown woman written by some unknown writer? A little attempt to answer that question.

Coming January 2026 from @univnebpress.bsky.social
Virginia Faulkner: A Life in Two Acts
By Brad Bigelow

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@richvoorhees.bsky.social and I had a great talk about illustrating books at Core gallery last Saturday. Thank you friends for joining us and your enthusiasm.

The free press fights back... Introducing the Nerve. From the wreckage of my old newspaper, comes a new all-women, journalist-owned, independent publication. Join us!

Right. A bit more about what we’re up to.

Would love feedback, do stick a comment at the end. And do please consider signing up to find out more www.thenerve.news

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A special Monday surprise: a rare clip of Louise in showgirl outfit from a trailer of the lost film The American Venus (1926). A first time FLB post.

Our next virtual launch from the Recovered Books series at @bhousepress.bsky.social will be for Malachi Whitaker's unique memoir, And So Did I, on Tuesday, 14 October, at 7PM BST. Our special guests will be Catherine Taylor and Valerie Waterhouse.

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First they came for Keith Olbermann…

Working on a painting of my garden

Join our Seattle Art & Culture Week talk at Core Gallery
Sept 27, 1-3 Pm and get your latest copy of $22.50 Man by Rich Voorhees signed! I’ll have samples of my picture book dummies and show you my process! Listen of join our lively discussion about illustrating books!
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Jane Greer by Ernest Bachrach for Out of the Past (1947). #botd

The art of the translator: the translator Simon de Hesdin at work in his study

BL Royal 18 E III; Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia (or Les Faits et les Dits des Romains) translated by Simon de Hesdin and Nicholas de Gonesse; 1479 CE; Bruges; f. 24r

I read the book to my twins as a bedtime story. They still remember it.

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For a second I thought you were referencing James Thurber’s classic, “The Owl in the Attic.” Love your version.

From Russia(to Jeffrey), with Love The Epstein saga is even more interesting when you look at the Russian women who helped run his operation. Here's a look at Svetlana Pozhidaeva.

From Russia(to Jeffrey), with Love

Not all of Epstein's girls were underage sex slaves. Check out Lana Pozhidaeva(left), who became his emissary to the world of science, and, allegedly, may have been infiltrating Silicon Valley on behalf of Russian intelligence.

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Oú sont les neiges d’antan?

All this talk of wisteria.
Fall colors rather.
Or floods and AC.
#poetry #ephemera

Coming 30 Sept 2025 in the Recovered Books series from @bhousepress.bsky.social: And So Did I, Malachi Whitaker's unique, funny, down-to-earth yet spiritual memoir of 1937-38, a year of uncertainties and anxieties (not unlike 2025).

Introduction by Catherine Taylor
Afterword by Valerie Waterhouse

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Slow church bells sounding ~
Waves try shushing them tonight ~ Cassiopeia!

Bull Cook and Authentic Historical Recipes and Practices, by George Leonard Herter and Berthe E. Herter I flew back to Seattle this week to help settle my father’s affairs. Sorting through his books I kept an eye out for anything out of the ordinary but didn’t find much. When I was a kid,…

On this date in 2010, I wrote about Bull Cook and Authentic Historical Recipes and Practices, by George Leonard Herter and Berthe E. Herter, a book that teaches not just how to cook but how to sharpen a knife, make wines and beer, and respond to a hydrogen bomb attack.


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