Carl Hoffman

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A delicious read, this book. DC friends - please come see Lance and I discuss it at @politicsprose.bsky.social Saturday, 11/1 at 3 pm.

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Absurd as everything this admin does. And per usual just complete ignorance. Anyone interested in Amelia should read @lauriestories.bsky.social new book The Aviator and The Showman.

These people are nuts. They sound more and more like the Taliban or the right wing Israelis. They hate America.

Opinion | Trump Is Not Afraid of Civil War. Neither Is Stephen Miller.

“...you will live in exile, because the power of law enforcement under President Trump’s leadership will be used to find you, will be used to take away your money, take away your power, and if you have broken the law, to take away your freedom.”

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Congrats. I love True Nature and couldn’t agree more.

If safety was the real issue, billions and billions of dollars saved by just installing a roll cage and five point harness. More cars is a scourge. We don’t need them. All that money should be spent on trains and public transportation.

Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.

Ta-Nehasi Coates is doing a lot of things with this essay, but one of the most important is fearlessly using examples of anti-trans hate to describe Charlie Kirk's politics.

The contrast between his choices and those of other writers for major legacy outlets is revealing.

All five of my books, plus several translations.

America Tips Into Fascism Today is different than before.

The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...

Review | The bloody, muddy true story of the real Deadwood In his history of the legendary South Dakota gold rush town, Peter Cozzens explains how miners, outlaws, gamblers and other reprobates helped shape America.

Freedom, in the American context, has always meant the freedom to make bank at pretty much anyone’s expense.... My review of Deadwood: Gold, Guns, and Greed in the American West for The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com @bookcritics.bsky.social

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Can anyone really imagine him willingly walking away from that in 2028?

Spread your wings a bit. Watch the Fito Paez series on Netflix. Argentine music scene was and is still incredibly rich.

My favorites are the people who gave my book one star on Amazon because the pages were all uneven, as in deckled edged.

The whole point of throwing out all these good people who’ve come to this country was supposed to be because they’re taking all the jobs from needy Americans. Total Incompetence.

One hundred and eight five years after Melville shipped out of New Bedford, Ma., then the largest whaling port in the world, the city remains the highest grossing fishing port in the USA. Spending the next year reporting on it; heading out for ten days on the Debra C in pursuit of wild fish.

Well, I’m still here and still working! Not dead yet!

Review | On Norway’s coast, looking for an older, more thoughtful way to live In ‘The Place of Tides,’ acclaimed nature writer James Rebanks visits a memorable woman committed to helping ducks

Reviewed James Rebanks's strange and beguiling new book for the Washington Post.

Assault on knowledge and information.

How My Reporting on the Columbia Protests Led to My Deportation As an Australian who wrote about the demonstrations while on campus, I gave my phone a superficial clean before flying to the U.S. I underestimated what I was up against.

What we have become:

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Review | The gritty, unglamorous truth about the antiheroes of the Wild West In “The Gunfighters,” Bryan Burrough sets out to debunk the myth of the Colt-toting cowboy hero.

In this lawless landscape of frail masculine egos clinging to cockeyed, and often booze-fueled, notions of honor, the bullets fly, the bodies pile up, the pages turn fast and easy...." My review of Bryan Burrough's The Gunfighters for @washingtonpost.com

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‘Opportunistic’ cockatoos wait in line, drink from fountains, study finds The birds, which have also opened trash bins, were filmed operating fountain handles with complex maneuvers. Researchers say they are learning from one another.

I love sulphur-crested cockatoos.

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The Mysterious Disappearance and Lingering Legacy of Michael Rockefeller The late scion of an American dynasty died under bizarre circumstances 64 years ago. Now, a wing of the Metropolitan Museum named for him is reopening and putting him back in the spotlight.

Town and Country weighs in on the reopening of the Michael C. Rockefeller wing at the Met; alone of the other pieces so far the reporter delved into the complexities of his collecting and the uneven, colonial power relationships of it.

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I should also say that the objects ARE fantastic, beautiful and some of them haunting, especially if you know the story of Michael's death, and I can only assume the new room will be as wondrous as the old. One of my favorite places in NYC.

Totally different countries, easily checked.

No excuse, though.

The Asmat objects were acquired in exchange for fish hooks, monofilament fishing line, ax heads and tobacco; when they reached NY after Michael's death, insurance valued them at more than $200,000. The carver of one of the bisj poles began the chain of events leading to his death.

The Most Wondrous Art in the World in 1,726 Objects

Can't wait to go see the renovated and newly reopening Michael C. Rockefeller room in the Met. An error in the piece: the Asmat never lived in Papua New Guinea, but in Netherlands New Guinea in 1961, and what is today Indonesian West Papua.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/a...

Along with self driving cars and self whatever you call it vacuums.

This whole piece sounds like it was written by AI. Which should be banned immediately forever.