Lawrence Dudley, author of New York Station & The Hungry Blade

Doubly or triply true if you're writing historical fiction, even as little as fifty years ago.

Quite true, and it's done in other countries, for instance in Germany there are labor representatives on corporate boards. That's one reason Germany didn't go so far in oursourcing jobs to China.

the fact the president of the united states is even thinking about asserting emergency powers to disrupt an election - just a few years after he incited an armed coup attempt - should be the top issue. but the media mostly shrugs and the opposition doesnt focus on it.

What's interesting about this is that we all know who he is referring to without referring to anyone in particular.

Awesome! Art for our times.

Some states do this but the federal government has absolutely nothing to do with it. Performative, demagogic nonsense.

Cartoon by Nate Pyle. Library launches seeds that turn into little Free Libraries..

#booksky

It's well worth a visit now, that would be even greater!

Outrageous thing to do in a constitutional democracy but also incredibly stupid to tip your cards to anyone with a telephoto lens.

Democrats warn USPS changes could threaten mail voting in midterms The lawmakers stress that voting by mail has been repeatedly shown to be secure and that any changes to postal operations must not interfere with ballot delivery.

🚨 A coalition of House Democrats is sounding the alarm over new U.S. Postal Service changes.

They say a new program could put millions of voters at risk in the 2026 midterm elections, particularly in rural communities and states with strict election deadlines.

Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.

How about a non-profit foundation?

The release today of millions of pages of Epstein files put the arrest of Don Lemon, the FBI raid on Atlanta's Board of Elections & maybe even investigating civil rights charges in the Alex Pretti murder into context: drive the files off the front pages. With Trump everything is about Epstein.

The regime is going to try to rig the election. They're going to flood the zone with misinformation and suppress the truth on X and TikTok.

It really depends on what state you live in -- the degree of state regulation varies. In some they really are the best option or at least a good option. The answer is to clean up the bad ones, now throw them all out. I live in New York and I am quite happy with mine.

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

Greg Bovino Loses His Job The Border Patrol chief has been ousted from his role as “commander at large,” and will return to El Centro.

Cosplay Nazi Greg Bovino has been fired. A strong case can now be made that the tide has turned. Trump's effort to steal the 2026 election is probably heading south, too, because that relied on intimidation and brute force. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

ICE & CBP agents now supposedly fear ostracism. If only! Many will be going to jail for years & maybe the rest of their lives. For instance, how many ICE & CBP managers had to be involved in moving those murderers out of town? All are guilty of harboring fugitives from justice. That's a major crime.

strange to me that a lot of people on this website simultaneously agree that the administration is run by incompetents who struggle to carry out their agenda without major political blowback AND that they’ll pull off a complex and sophisticated effort to rig elections and prevent defeat in November

Minnesota National Guard members have arrived at a federal building and were directed to distribute donuts, coffee, and hot chocolate to anti-ICE protesters. Guard members were issued reflective vests so they would not be mistaken for federal agents.

I get it's for a young adult audience, but when were quality artistic or literary projects (which is what it is) ever based on a marketing decision? That's why, overall, STA feels like it was written by a committee, there's a lack of authorship. That was the genius of TOS. It was Gene's vision.

It depends on where you lived. I had a SAAB and hands down it was the better winter car by far, in fact, here in the snowbelt you still see surprising numbers of them on the road even after all these years.

If the US holds Venezuela, we will seize 17% of oil -- yesterday's technology. If China uses this precedent to take Taiwan, it will own 60% of semiconductors -- tomorrow's technology. See what happens when you elect evil & stupid at the same time?

Really American FB

Timezones are so weird. Australia is in 2026, Canada is in 2025, and the United States is in 1939.

Insane they are shutting SNW down without the full seven year run most of the others series had. What are they thinking, if only from a purely business point of view?

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it is actually kind of bananas how unitary executive theorists have taken a straightforward clause requiring the president to "faithfully execute the laws" and transformed it into a grant for the exercise of limitless unenumerated power.

An inmate.

Gross. Whorehouse chic.