David Dobbs

Cracks me up to see enviro groups blaming a certain bestseller (hint: rhymes with Schmabundance) for slapping an intellectual veneer on standard-issue environmental deregulation. I don’t disagree!

Bookshop.org’s 100 Bestselling Books of 2025 (So Far) Online bookseller bookshop.org recently released a list of their bestselling books of the year (so far). The list is quite a bit different than what you might see from larger booksellers and looks more like what your l

Bookshop.org’s 100 Bestselling Books of 2025 (So Far). Lots of folks reading about how to reckon with our new reality (On Tyranny, Parable of the Sower, Let This Radicalize You, How Fascism Works, etc.) [kottke.org]

Between two crises: Living with Post-COVID Vaccine Syndrome in a Long COVID world - The Sick Times What I thought was a minor reaction became Post-COVID Vaccine Syndrome (PCVS), a condition I now live with alongside thousands of others. PCVS shares symptoms with Long COVID, including nerve pain, dy...

The Sick Times: 'Between two crises: Living with Post-COVID Vaccine Syndrome in a Long COVID world'

Content warning: This story includes details of medical dismissal and disability from Post-COVID Vaccination Syndrome (PCVS) and Long COVID.

thesicktimes.org/2025/07/25/b...

I've been writing about Russia's invasion of Ukraine since 2016 (it did not begin in 2022) and have yet to talk to a Ukrainian who wants to accept peace on Putin's terms.

So if you're an American pushing for that, please just admit it's because you don't care about Ukrainians.

The Dark Heart of Trump's Foreign Policy Podcast Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 03/01/2025 · 1h 21m

Listen as two smart guys spend an hour trying to impose some sort of coherence or legibility on Trump's foreign policy.

It's kinda funny that our center-left elites literally can not process how stupid & crude their opposition is. They *need* it to be some kind of evil grand plan.

Once again, NYT politics is trash. They’ll elegantly write us toward the fall of the republic.

Today I was randomly thinking about “men in women’s bathrooms,” and since trans men ARE MEN, I realized that it’s the Republicans who want to put men into women’s bathrooms

Trump Moves to Increase Logging in National Forests (Gift Article) The president wants to circumvent environmental regulations to expand timber production, something sought by homebuilders and the construction industry.

“Trump’s order will unleash the chain saws and bulldozers on our federal forests.” Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/c...

The Trump admin wants us to die.

That is, they would if they had a gnat's grasp of what they were doing but the hallmark of this crowd is a lethal combination of ignorance & incuriosity.

We'll pay the price. Musk & Trump & a captive media will try their damndest to ensure no one connects the dots.

JD Vance cut his Vermont vacation short, perhaps because of the cold or because he felt unwelcome. Protesters lined his route all the way back to the airport in Burlington (about a 50-minute drive). Reports are that he didn’t even say thank you. [reddit.com]

Just want to pass on my fellow Vermonter @kottke.org’s observation that when JD Vance fled his Vermont ski vacation a day early, maybe bc cold weather and/or protests, he didn’t even say Thank you.

My effing god. Putins’s wet dream.

You first.

Boycotts are taking hold. Protests are on the rise. Federal courts are hitting back. The Trump-Musk-Vance regime's popularity is plunging and DOGE is losing credibility. In these dark times, it's important to recognize that people are fighting back. Join them.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/o...

Never thought a bus metaphor would have enough gas to get this far in time. But here it is! Thanks for the flashback.

Brooklyn #Dodgers legend Jackie Robinson lays down a perfect bunt for an infield single during Game 7 of the 1952 World Series vs. the New York #Yankees at Ebbets Field! ⚾️ #OldSchool #MLB #Baseball #History

Everyone should follow this man. A wonderful journalist tirelessly doing interesting reporting on important and fascinating stories. He's one of our best.

@courtneyboen.bsky.social FWIW, I took it upon myself to download the entire CDC.gov & CMS.gov websites last week...at least the publicly-accessible portions of them.

Around 100 GB of files combined.

This photo is priceless. As are you!

Can’t even.

Awesome! Back to you presently.

This is... actually a fairly reasonable takeaway from this year.

Indeed! Though the one time it was clear and they were just roaring, we were walking home from dinner out and there was also a comet (Bopp, maybe?) and a partial lunar eclipse. Trifecta. Also we were about 5 months into our romance, total infatuation stage. World was our oyster.

Hope y’all r good

Quick! We need a metaphor for what 2025 will bring

This has happened so many times for us here in Vermont.

I'm not sure I believe that you haven't already so regaled them.

@alexis-madrigal.bsky.social Hello, amigo, I'm trying to reach you and somehow lack your email. Shoot me a note here? Will be in your area soon and hope to meet up...