Lindsy Van Gelder

Great piece. Have you read her book?

How far along are we with Project 2025? Brace yourselves: our sobering yardstick of progress of its Key Proposals shows 80% are completed and AI is a magic bullet of acceleration. But legal and popular resistance could change the calculus.

Project 2025, well on its wretched way: resistingproject2025.substack.com/p/how-far-al...

Yes, and I know some researchers have tracked it down. What’s your time frame? I’m out of the country for the rest of the month with no access to my files.

“A Night of Questions” by Joy Levitt and Michael Strassfeld.

Trump walks to Marine One to head to Mar-a-Lago to play golf on the taxpayers dime.

This trip will cost us $3.1 million, which could be used by USAID to feed 710 starving children for a full year.

Dickissima!

MusKKKeteers.

Q: I was disillusioned to read of instances where groups of male dolphins sexually harassed a female. Can you shed any light on research into this phenomenon?

I was reminded today of how much I love A.J. Liebling. Any other fans here? I salute every pearl that ever rolled off his Royal standard but a friend was wondering about his best short piece on the subject of journalism. #booksky 💙📚

Beautiful flora, beautiful fauna. Ugly politics.

I didn’t think anything could make book bans look good, but….

Strangely I feel a lot more threatened by the rapists in high government positions than I do by any transwoman in the next stall.

You’d think someone with such contempt for chosen pronouns wouldn’t be so quick to rename international bodies of water.

One of my favorite encounters was on a boat pointing south in the Sea of Cortez when suddenly a pod of at least 60 dolphins took off toward the east in a single perfectly synchronized line. They kept in formation until they were out of sight. It was like watching the dolphin Rockettes.

I got a glimpse of one in India and I was actually swimming in the Amazon near the pink river dolphins in Peru. Fascinating how different they look from their pelagic cousins.

The last time I had to take a magazine to court I found myself wondering why writers can’t collect late fees like Mastercard.

I would be a binturong. I always thought it would be great to have a tail, and with the binturong you don’t have to choose between prehensile and fluffy. Plus their pee smells like popcorn.

BUT he’s going to protect you from marauding transwomen in rest rooms!

So….assaulting cops and smearing poop all over the walls of Congressional offices are patriotic acts, but promoting blacks, women and queers in other government offices is now illegal. Yeah, check, got it….

She’s a monster but I still don’t like the sudden embrace of the term “illegal aliens.”

Still it’s bizarre to me that the people who want a Daddy chose Abusive Erratic Thin-Skinned WackDaddy.

AND…she’s apparently a Jersey Girl

Do you know the work of Ron Ortner?

I suspect that Gulf of America will catch on about as well as Avenue of the Americas did.

I love that place and don’t understand why the Michelin Guide doesn’t. Or for that matter why the whole world doesn’t know about ALL the great places in that little stretch of ruta.

I’ve been a pescatarian for nearly 40 years, although I own some leather and feed my cats all sorts of dead shit. Are you tempted by meat itself or the social convenience?

Have you read The Postcard, about a French family jolted by an anonymous postcard referring to their experiences during the Holocaust? I was more than halfway through it before I realized it wasn’t fiction.

Great for travel, too. I also use mine as my extension phone.

So who will throw the first pie at Anita Bryant’s grave?