Jim Sturdivant

Late afternoon walk at Lake Martin, AL

Project 2025: It's On (Predictably) Before Bill Barr became Donald Trump’s third attorney general, he circulated a memo that was more or less an audition tape for the job he ultimately got.

Reading Joyce Vance this morning at tinyurl.com/yc4xkp2d
I'm starting to feel like I'm in the blast radius #HereNearDC. Tip of the hat to all who keep us informed. Scared, but informed.

Don’t know how old you are but this is my morning since 8th grade

The Bureau of Weights and Measures has yet to publish the formal definition of a Gaetz in Scaramucci units.

Aspirational but unlikely

The Second Coming - a poem by WB Yeats written in 1919.

Thanks!

Could you explain or send a link on how that works? Sorry to bother you but I’m confused on how to do this.

Yes he will cave.

The ‘now they’re going to find out’ argument is flawed Why are we expecting so much from Trump voters?

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Thoughts on this?

Love this time of year

Image of Hoggle from The Labyrinth, with caption

Can’t unsee it. Where are they know, Labyrinth edition.

Try this one out. This is about a little known battle in a remote corner of the Deep South that gave us Andrew Jackson as a national hero. More info at jamessturdivant.com

Truth be told, it does seem kind of silly to have the FBI do background checks on presidential appointees when the president is a convicted criminal and an adjudicated digital rapist.

Sorry the account is @bbc-beverages.bskybait.social.

Morning Joe going to mar a lago was not a good start to the week

So there is an account that tracks the guests’ beverage choices at the end of the In Our Time podcast on BBC Sounds. @bbc-beverage-bluesky.social. @bobjim.bsky.social this app is so good.

This is awesome. What a terrific idea!

Insanity

Finding my people, people.

Omg! Yes, yes, a thousand times yes! Those began to be added around 2016(?). My favorite part. And how everyone sort of ponders…hmmm, let’s see, do I want tea, coffee, water, or am I fine thanks? Plus the discussions are usually the best in the extra bc it’s the panelists who set the granular point!

That is my first reaction too.

Yes he is really excellent. And yes only 1000 episodes, haha. I find however that listening to them 3-4 times is still quite interesting because they are so dense in a good way that I pick up points or details I missed the first time.

Finding my people on this thing

I think you will like them - the format is extremely condusive to expert discussion being given priority but the moderator (always the same person) keeps it from getting too granular although it definitely gets granular.

Can relate

I love these sorts of podcasts. Are you familiar with “in our time” on BBC?

But making it the night before…. Challenging

Lake Martin, Ala. Happy Friday evening