Trouble is … the alternative to good (and good local) news isn’t no news, it’s “news” dictated by folks who are powerful and rich enough to have a platform and an agenda. Functioning society needs reporters to challenge their skewed or false stories.
I don't know when I last read something like the transcript out of Minnesota, so I spent the evening putting this together.
www.lawdork.com/p/the-minnes...
Warm spots outside our kitchen window
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, we remember the six million Jewish people murdered by the Nazis, as well as countless other victims.
We honor their lives by rejecting the evils of antisemitism, dehumanization, and authoritarian violence wherever they appear.
Never again means never again for anyone.
"A competent autocrat selects his enemies with skill. Trump’s Achilles Heel is that he gets worse at this with experience." Me on his administration's darkly comical and profoundly inept depiction of Pretti and Good as terrorists. Free to read. as.ft.com/r/60a0a558-2...
Appropos of, you know, whatever, Vanity Fair is having an amazing holiday sale on subscriptions… And Christopher Anderson is a genius
July 4, 2000, Ray Charles playing A Capitol Fourth. (It was a fun summer in a different, more hopeful era … in DC for a nonprofit internship, I waited all day to see the fireworks with some fellow interns, sitting on the Capitol steps to hold a good spot—worth it!) DSLR scan of 35mm Kodak Gold 200.
no kings
love this interview -- Sebastião Salgado on music and photography, in Gramophone
www.gramophone.co.uk/features/art...
Roses and irises are blooming here in Virginia
total clarity here from @edwardluce.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/4c4b...
All the supposed Christians in the Trump administration should be appalled by this, especially during Holy Week, when we remember another man unjustly imprisoned...
"U.S. Renews Opposition to Bringing Back Maryland Man Wrongly Deported to El Salvador" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/u...
Booker!
weeping cherry blossoms and weeping willows, yesterday in East Potomac Park
riotous loveliness cherry blossom peak
Seriously, creative folks: Don't be afraid to let people know your stuff is out there for them, or worry that "now is not the time for that." People are stressed and freaked out and looking for the things that will give them a moment of rest and joy. It is EXACTLY the time for what we do. Tell them.
and here's some helpful background, from 2002, on the idea of "competitive authoritarianism": scholar.harvard.edu/levitsky/fil...
Mostly I mean to post about work and life and things I find beautiful, trivialities in the storm, things that keep me going. Necessary exercise for me. Hope it helps someone else a little, in between the bigger work.
Maybe worth saying that political engagement here means a lot to me, but I don’t think I’m the best or most important voice on big issues. I’ll try to repost things that seem especially helpful.
The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...
Moon and Venus heading into the Kennedy Center tonight. Lovely program—for such a fabulous audience
Anyway, 10/10, highly recommend library+kid+random number generator.
