Dan Morrison

YouTube video by Politicon Did Trump Tower Predict the East Wing Demolition?

Dan Morrison, from USA Today, reveals Trump’s pattern of construction in his time as a private real estate developer and explains the White House Ballroom build.

The Golden Age with Andrew Zucker “Did Trump Tower Predict the East Wing Demolition?” with @danmorrison.bsky.social
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Join me for a crazy fish tale of unabashed sustainability and business success, with a Texas fisherman straight out of central casting, a marine biologist with a plan, and several hundred million tons of spawning biomass. My latest, at @usatoday.com www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

US strikes another alleged drug-carrying boat off Venezuela coast The strike marks the fifth deadly strike on an alleged drug-carrying vessel in the region.

Sen. Rand Paul: “what were their names” and “what was the evidence linking them to being part of a gang?”
“The Coast Guard, when they interdict boats, … about 25% of the time the boat that they board doesn’t have drugs on it. So they have made an error, but they don’t kill them.”

The perverse excitement of a cancelled plan.

Habemus felis parva! #Caturday

Kash Patel and Zohran Mamdani both being the children of expelled Gujarati Ugandans is a real "duality of man"

An ancient intrusion of magma (the striated rocks at center) in the Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt is 4.16 billion years old, researchers say. Credit: Jonathan O’Neil

This striped formation may contain the oldest intact rocks on Earth.* A new study suggests that they are at least 4.16 billion years old--relics from a time before plate tectonics, probably before oceans, even.

* The pocket knife is a more recent element. 🧪

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'Women, horses, thrills along the way': Some Russians want Alaska back

Theories that the United States swindled Russia out of Alaska in 1867 are back as Trump and Putin prepare to meet in the former Russian America. My latest, at @usatoday.com

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Quote from a story on changes at the U of Chicago that notes they are "pausing" doctoral eduction in Classics, Comp Lit, Germanic studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Romance languages and literatures, and South Asian Studies.

Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.

Atomic bombings' 80th anniversary a quiet one for embattled Smithsonian In the absence of special events, the plane that bombed Hiroshima will quietly remain on display at the National Air & Space Museum's airport annex.

On the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, @usatoday.com's Davis Winkie shows the Smithsonian in hiding -- and not for the first time -- over America's conficted nuclear legacy. #history #histsci #museumarchive #booksky #japan

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Savage but fair: Surviving a swank writing master class in Morocco Silk Road Slippers, a five-day writers workshop at a delicious Moroccan resort, was more scrivener’s boot camp than a luxurious path to self-discovery.

Surviving a swank writers workshop in Morocco: Silk Road Slippers, a five-day writers workshop at a delicious Moroccan resort, was more scrivener’s boot camp than a luxurious path to self-discovery.
My latest, at @usatoday.com.
#booksky

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Live your life so that Ruth Gordon would be proud of you.

Rebels, gangsters and presidents animate biography of radical lawyer Paul O'Dwyer “An Irish Passion for Justice: The Life of Rebel New York Attorney Paul O'Dwyer,” takes readers through the civil rights era, Northern Ireland.

In the endless dogfight between purity and pragmatism it’s never clear who to bet on.

It’s even harder to know who to love.

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The Terrible Truth About Sherita, Brooklyn’s Beloved Billboard Dinosaur The vanished icon of Atlantic Ave. was the relic of a secretive family who grabbed buildings from immigrant owners across the booming borough.

An amazing tale of pure terrible larceny.
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Picture of the OJ Simpson car chase with the caption "millions expected to travel this Memorial day, breaking 20-year-old record"

Please enjoy this stock photo the local CBS affiliate chose for a story about traffic this summer

we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.

Today I learned that the author of this 1977 op-ed was the most important college mentor for the current head of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division.

THE NEW YORK KNICKERBOCKERS ARE AMERICA’S TEAM.

Headline in the arts section of the Federalist: "Art Shouldn't Get A Free Nudity Pass Just Because It's Art"

The Federalist is coming for your artistic nudes. By which I mean the ones in museums.

"A number of Christian men I’ve known have expressed discomfort at viewing nudity in high art... these are honest men who care about honoring God and womanhood.

University of Toledo suspending nine undergrad programs in compliance with Ohio higher ed law • Ohio Capital Journal The University of Toledo is suspending nine undergraduate programs in response to a controversial new higher education law that is set to take effect this summer.

The U. of Toledo is suspending nine undergraduate programs in response Ohio's new higher ed law:

Africana studies, Asian studies, data analytics, disability studies, Middle East studies, philosophy, religious studies, Spanish, & women’s & gender studies ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/04/23/u...

Judge says Voice of America staffers can go back to work The government-funded VOA has been locked in a court battle to stay on the airwaves.

Judge says Voice of America staffers can go back to work

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Lots of interesting things in AP's obit of Pope Francis, but probably what humanizes him most is the sentence that reads:

"Bergoglio went to Germany in 1986 to research a never-finished thesis."

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Big Tax Breaks Get Bigger as Mega-Developers Challenge Assessments Properties in Hudson Yards and Times Square are among the buildings that win millions of dollars in tax appeals even after getting up-front tax reductions — a maneuver New York allows that some other ...

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The poster for Barbarella Queen of the Galaxy (1968). Featuring Jane Fonda as a sexy space babe

Rewatched Barbarella (1968) last night. It’s a hoot. Sex angels. Sex skunks. Sex labyrinths. Sex everything. Jane Fonda breaking the Orgasmatron. Anita Pallenberg wearing a giant horn. Evil children with terror dolls. Perhaps the most French film ever made in English. Best not to be completely sober

Next up: Calicut-Kolkata-Banaras-Jaipur
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I got to be friends with David Lynch when we were both at Universal years ago. A very kind man, he was a fan of Bob's Big Boy. So was I. I'm going to miss him. R.I.P. David.

Vital City | Congestion Pricing’s Belated Lesson History tells us that the only way to reduce traffic congestion is to provide more public transit.

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Start Godfather II at precisely 10:16 and 11 seconds and Michael and Fredo will kiss at exactly midnight.

A patriotic true crime biography is an entertaining read of legendary newsman Jimmy Breslin Author Richard Esposito brings a news legend to life through the lens of true crime - from the JFK assassination to the Son of Sam murders.

A book for Boxing Day.
My review of Richard Esposito's layered true crime biography of Jimmy Breslin, at @usatoday.com.

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An insurer denied a CT chest scan. Now an NJ dad has terminal lung cancer EviCore, a third-party vendor, denied the request for Horizon to cover the CT scan. An NJ bill would prohibit insurers from requiring pre-approval.

They can rightly lock up Mangione but this isn't going away.
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