Rich Hammett

I've seen two administration officials state that "as long as other countries don't retaliate" everything will be resolved easily. Putin made the same proposal when he attacked Ukraine. When YOU attack, YOU start a war. Not when they defend themselves.

But the outside world (with its prophetic pandemics and political intrigue) intrudes only rarely into the book, which is mostly about two young people suddenly alone and scared on a South Pacific island. There's death, and pain, sometimes a lot of both, but there's also strength and love and unity.

This is the audio book from libro. fm, but Bezos has it at Audible, and there are paper copies of it at any bookstore new or (often) used. _Nation_, by Terry Pratchett. It's set in a world more like our world than Discworld, in the mid-19th century range.

There was not an IG last week.

Nation Audiobook on Libro.fm New York Times Bestseller * Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize * Winner of the Boston Globe/Horn Book Award * Michael L. Printz Medal honor winnerFrom the pen of Sir Terry Pratchett, author of...

Is the daily flood of destruction from Washington too much?

We have to keep fighting it, but this book is a good break to help you remember WHY you want to fight for people. _Nation_, by Terry Pratchett. There's death and pain, but there's also strength and love.

libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

FREELOADERS ON THE BACK OF THE AMERICAN TAXPAYER!

That's almost a line from a play that we're rehearsing right now, though Zara probably isn't a cat in the play-within-a-play.

The List of Trump's Forbidden Words That Will Get Your Paper Flagged at NSF It's fascism, plain and simple.

DOUBLEPLUSUNGOOD!

gizmodo.com/the-list-of-...

The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Government Takeover Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure.

The men carrying out Musk's coup are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran. No one should ever hire these men again.

www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

I hadn’t thought of that… that was a fun story before it came true. I really enjoyed Abraham Lincoln as a peripatetic communist activist speaker.

IT’S NOT GREED, IDIOTS. EAT SOMETHING ELSE OR STOP WHINING ABOUT A FAST FOOD CHAIN!

I really like the unspoken implication in #LOTR #TheTwoTowers when Treebeard says “Some of these trees were my friends!”

Oh? Yeah? Which ones weren’t, bud?

Is he like “Well certainly not old Mossyrock. That guy was a real dick. Always talking a load of crap. HAAAARUMM. Yes. Fuck old Mossyrock.”

I haven’t found it yet.

I have two gut check questions that I ask myself while reporting: How do I know something is true? and What if I’m wrong?

I feel like we’re about to see the consequences of people in power being wrong about vaccines.

I met you at DragonCon several years ago. Because of that, I enjoyed the Fifth Season Trilogy. But then The City We Became was one of the best books I’ve ever read!

I like what you bring to fantasy and a new kind of hard sci-fi. Real people and real characters who haven’t been represented before.

Matt Gaetz as AG is laughable if it weren't so horrific and dangerous The nomination is really Trump's loyalty test of Senate Republicans: If they go along, there's nothing they won't go along with.

This: robertreich.substack.com/p/matt-gaetz...

I have a note on your page that your handle is invalid. I’m not sure why it let you select that handle.

I found you when I used a browser, not the app. That’s true for at least three other people, too, not found on the app.