Jim Meehan

Sent in another 30,000 words of my next book today, a second collaboration with Brett Adams. Almost completed now. Looking forward to sharing it with you someday, almost as much as I'm looking forward to us being finished writing it!

I had the most wonderful flight home from Denver. I met the nicest young man who sat next to me. He offered to put my bag in the overhead compartment and helped me with my tray. He was always polite, saying "yes ma’am" or "no ma’am." Anyone would be proud to have him as a son or grandson—so polite. People walking by were saying congratulations, great job, or even taking pictures. I turned and asked him, “Who am I sitting next to?” I looked at his Jaguar pants, smiled, and asked, “Are you an athlete?” He smiled and said, “I’m Travis. Yes, I was drafted by the Jags.” I already told my sons I want his jersey. He’s so humble and down-to-earth—I would have never guessed he was a professional athlete. JACKSONVILLE JAGS, you did good! I will be buying tickets. United Airlines, thank you for my seat assignment!

This is too wholesome

BLANK SPACE: A Cultural History of the 21st Century

November 2025

Cover featuring the artwork of Andrew Kuo

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/769187...

Greetings from Wisconsin

The Comic Book History of the Cocktail: Five Centuries of Mixing Drinks and Carrying On (Comic Book Story of) The Comic Book History of the Cocktail: Five Centuries of Mixing Drinks and Carrying On (Comic Book Story of) [Wondrich, David, Kotz, Dean] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Comic Book History of the Cocktail: Five Centuries of Mixing Drinks and Carrying On (Comic Book Story of)

Hey, wouldja lookit that! The cover's up for my new book, due September 23rd.
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merit is back baby

He fired the black chairman of the joint chiefs for being woke and hired his brother.

FunFact: if the salts, heavy metals, & radioactive components in fracking wastewater get into drinking water supplies...
Most US water treatment plants can not filter them out.

What’s in the millions of tonnes of sludge sprayed on to farmland? The answer won’t make you happy | George Monbiot Thanks to breathtaking negligence, the liquid fertiliser used to help grow our food bubbles with a lethal cocktail of toxins, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

A gobsmacking story. Water companies let toxic waste disposers, for cash, dump their loads into sewage farms. The sewage sludge is then spread, untested, on farmland, potentially poisoning vast areas, entire ecosystems and the people (you and me) eating the food.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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1. What you see here is clearest illustration why things are so messed up and why it cannot get any better until this asymmetry is addressed.

Put simply: the right-wing has narrative dominance.

My org @mmfa.bsky.social did this study and has been sounding this alarm for years. Some thoughts...

Forest Service cuts more trees despite their carbon-capture ability Advocates argue that we need trees now more than ever and that an increase in the timber harvest doesn’t make sense.

"The Forest Service is increasing its timber harvest to 4 billion board ft -- That’s enough lumber to circle the globe more than 30 times...The agency does not account for carbon effects when setting its timber targets because it 'does not manage for carbon.'” 🌏 wisconsinwatch.org/2025/03/fore...

Bad Company
Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream
June 10, 2025

Somewhere, Jeff Bezos is angrily clicking “track shipment” to see what happened to his new editorial page.

As someone who spends a lot time thinking about the values I want to teach my kid (besides PLEASE DON’T EAT DIRT), the thing I keep coming back to is this: I want him to believe that the strongest, bravest thing he can do is give a shit about other people—especially ones who aren’t like him at all.

No More Female 4-Stars: Franchetti Firing Leaves Top Ranks Filled by Men Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fired Adm. Lisa Franchetti, the Navy's first female chief, last week without any clear explanation -- part of a purge of top uniformed leadership that included the Joint...

NOTE: The opponents of DEI are purging anyone who is not a white man from military leadership

This is not about merit; it’s about normalizing racism and misogyny

If I wrote this, you all would say I was taking the bit too far, wouldn't you?

Breaking: FDA's March meeting to select flu shot strains for 2025-2026 season has been canceled per email sent to committee members, a VRBPAC member told me. drug companies need about 6 months leeway to make shots in time for fall vax campaigns. #healthpolicy

Maddow on the @msnbc cancellations ( @joyannreid.bsky.social @katiephang.bsky.social Wagner etc ): “A mistake. Indefensible. And I do not defend it.”

This truly breaks my 💔

Thank you @joyannreid.bsky.social, I’ll be watching for what’s next. 🙏🏽

ABA It has been three weeks since Inauguration Day. Most Americans recognize that newly elected leaders bring change. That is expected. But most Americans also expect that changes will take place in accordance with the rule of law and in an orderly manner that respects the lives of affected individuals and the work they have been asked to perform. Instead, we see wide-scale affronts to the rule of law itself, such as attacks on constitutionally protected birthright citizenship, the dismantling of USAID and the attempts to criminalize those who support lawful programs to eliminate bias and enhance diversity. We have seen attempts at wholesale dismantling of departments and entities created by Congress without seeking the required congressional approval to change the law. There are efforts to dismiss employees with little regard for the law and protections they merit, and social media announcements that disparage and appear to be motivated by a desire to inflame without any stated factual basis. This is chaotic. It may appeal to a few. But it is wrong. And most Americans recognize it is wrong. It is also contrary to the rule of law. The American Bar Association supports the rule of law. That means holding governments, including our own, accountable under law. We stand for a legal process that is orderly and fair. We have consistently urged the administrations of both parties to adhere to the rule of law. We stand in that familiar place again today. And we do not stand alone. Our courts stand for the rule of law as well.

Someone at the American Bar Association ate their Wheaties this morning.

I Was a Barista Snob. Would I Hate the Latest Big Trend in Coffee? A technique called co-fermentation is on the rise. It’s controversial.

Weekend read for the coffee lovers: a guide to "co-fermentation," the controversial and mysterious process that might make your next cup taste wildly like watermelon, lychee, or other fruits and spices.
slate.com/life/2025/02...

Same... it's flattering when people ask and I love reading the books before they come out.

‘The Interview’: Dr. Anna Lembke Is Scared About What Modern Life Is Doing to Us The psychiatrist and author of “Dopamine Nation” wants us to find balance in a world of temptation and abundance.

Digital Drugs Have Us (Me too!) Hooked. Dr. Anna Lembke Sees a Way Out. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/m...

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

Why Is My Drink So Damn Weird? When every cocktail is an experiment in novelty, ordering feels like a gamble. But if history teaches us anything, it’s that this era won’t last forever.

This @davidwondrich.bsky.social is magnificent, a marvel, the best piece of food and drink writing I've read in ages, a great respite from a stressy news world, amazing:

punchdrink.com/articles/coc...

Thrilled to see you sharing these over here @alpinejohnny.bsky.social 🙌🏻

Thanks for this @ericasimov.bsky.social I heartily concur 🍷