Rusty Long

the CPB shutting down is a history defining event in the arc of journalism’s existence as a practice

A blue ridge mountain inspired water color

An abstract monochromatic study in spirals and perspectives

A woven water color jellyfish painting

Making steady progress toward my daughters fundraising efforts for her summer pre college program! I’m biased, sure, but I think she’s a natural. gofund.me/e7196b5f #artist #dadlife #blueridgemountains #jellyfish

Two white-on-black line art pieces, one of an owl, one of a cat.

Stoked about my oldest’s opportunity to study art this summer in New York. She’s pretty darn talented. gofund.me/c5f2d7f6

Housing May 26th Weekly Update: Inventory up 2.6% Week-over-week, Up 32.4% Year-over-year Altos reports that active single-family inventory was up 2.6% week-over-week. Inventory is now up 26.0% from the seasonal bottom in January ...

Housing May 26th Weekly Update: Inventory up 2.6% Week-over-week, Up 32.4% Year-over-year www.calculatedriskblog.com/2025/05/hous...

The War on Rot: Architects Turn to Science to Future-Proof Wood As wood reclaims its place in modern facades, researchers worldwide are racing to outsmart decay—without poisoning people or the planet.

New options for preserving wood are on the horizon. www.architectmagazine.com/Design/the-w...

With everyone’s imagination atrophied, no one will ever be a threat to the world.

~Chuck Palahniuk

Until it’s as useful as your appendix. He’s making sure your attention is always filled. And this being fed, it’s worse than being watched. With the world always filling you, no one has to worry about what’s in your mind.

Big Brother isn’t watching. He’s singing and dancing. He’s pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother’s busy holding your attention every moment you’re awake. He’s making sure you’re always distracted. He’s making sure you’re fully absorbed. He’s making sure your imagination withers.

Disabled people were Holocaust victims, too: they were excluded from German society and murdered by Nazi programs In 2023, International Holocaust Remembrance Day marks 90 years since the Nazis assumed power. Disabled people were the first Holocaust victims; Nazi programs discriminated against and murdered them.

Important reminder about where exclusion of disabled people leads: theconversation.com/disabled-peo...

YouTube video by Noah Lee We are gonna have tryouts | The Dark Knight #joker

EPA offering folks who just got laid off the ‘opportunity’ to reapply for about 20% of their own jobs, like: youtube.com/shorts/7YEbn...

Can we get a sequel to Playing with Fire? Where John Cena and Judy Greer are fired without cause, wrecking their careers and sending them into a deep despair about their time in government service?

DOGE Goons Physically Drag Social Security Worker from Desk The high-ranking civil servant had opposed a plan to push out migrants by falsely listing them as dead.

www.thedailybeast.com/doge-goons-p... what could possibly go wrong?

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So DRP 2.0 (Fork Part Deux) comes with a threat of imminent RIF, includes roughly two months less Admin Leave time, is open for a whopping seven days, and closes a day after many folks are forced to return to under-resourced over-occupied offices.

‘Dignified and fair departure?’

Right.

Book banning at the USNA? archive.is/2025.03.29-0...

🙄

New DRP? Forget that noise. Hold the line.

I’m a Navy vet who was fired by DOGE. I’m helplessly watching the service buckle to Elon Musk When DOGE asked her to explain what she had accomplished at work, she sent back a limerick.

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This is what an old officer colleague of mine would have referred to as a CLM (Career Limiting Move)

a man in a military uniform and tie is sitting in a room . ALT: a man in a military uniform and tie is sitting in a room .

On a DEFCON scale, where to we put texting out imminent battle plans to an international journalist on a group chat with 17 other administration folks, all outside the chain of command?

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Crimethink double-plus ungood.

A tweet from Elon Musk reading “Exactly. My son, Xavier, died. He was killed by the woke mind virus. Now, the woke mind virus will die.”

Imagine being so angry and full of hate as to declare your child dead rather than acknowledge their gender identity. He makes a lot more sense in this context.

Can Trump Void Biden’s Presidential Pardons? — TIME President Donald Trump announced Monday he wanted to void the presidential pardons issued by Biden

The short version being “of course he cannot” apple.news/ABw3pVxpdS1y...

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If this is what has to happen. So be it.

Trump’s Florida golf weekends are costing taxpayers $18 million, report says President has played golf on six out of seven weekends since returning to White House

Freedom is expensive. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Interior Department Announces Next Steps to Remove “Sq___” from Federal Lands | U.S. Department of the Interior The Department of the Interior today announced a list of candidate replacement names for more than 660 geographic features with the name “squaw,” which was officially declared a derogatory term as a r...

Undoing the good work of the last four years is ‘making America great again’ www.doi.gov/pressrelease...

Second death reported in growing measles outbreak The death of a New Mexico adult comes eight days after a 6-year-old child succumbed to the disease in Texas last week.

Goddamit.

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

@maddow.msnbc.com I’m 80. I decided to call Social Security