Oh look the Senator that broke a the arm of Veteran protesting the war a few days ago is also a green energy hypocrite www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
08.03.2026 18:27 β π 643 π 221 π¬ 28 π 8Oh look the Senator that broke a the arm of Veteran protesting the war a few days ago is also a green energy hypocrite www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
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Highly recommend this pod on AI where @chrislhayes.bsky.social interviews Gideon Lewis-Kraus, author of a big recent New Yorker piece on the subject. Tons of interestng discussion, especially for us ex-philosophy geeks.
Forthwith, a short π§΅
Last July. Art of the Deal.
09.03.2026 01:03 β π 2720 π 697 π¬ 150 π 39oh ... severe is bad right?
09.03.2026 03:17 β π 549 π 90 π¬ 20 π 2The covers of three books. Left to right: Gandolfini: Jim, Tony, and the life of a legend, about the late Sopranos actor. The cover shows Gandolfini looking shy, peering offscreen with one unobstructed eye and another that peeks out between the fingers of his right hand. CENTER: The cover of Cinema Her Way, a coffee table book by Marya E. Gates about female directors. On the cover is actress Michelle Rodriguez as the boxer heroine of Karyn Kusama's sports drama Girlfight, about a woman boxer. RIGHT David Hockney's painting collection The Arrival of Spring in Normandy, showing a painting of a verdant field. In the background of the field is green grass. in the upper foreground are the branches of a tree sprouting white, cottony buds.
A screenshot of the pre-orders section at mzs.press. Three screenshots of books that have not yet been released. I Am The Night, Daniel Dockery's book about Batman the Brave and the Bold, has a silhouette of Batman stretching from the top to the bottom of the cover, with the title of the book and a nighttime Gotham skyline circumscribed by the borders of the Batman silhouette. CENTER The cover of The Ring Cycle, Matt Zoller Seitz and Odie Henderson's book on the Rocky and Creed films. The cover is white except for a pair of black boxing gloves floating there RIGHT The cover of Documentary Now!, the 600-page, 7-pound coffee table book celebrating the aforementioned IFC Channel series parodying classic documentaries.
Screenshot of three books carried at mzs.press arts bookstore: LEFT: Cover of Lead Sister, a biography of Karen Carpenter, featuring a closeup of Carpenter playing and singing with The Carpenters. CENTER: The cover of Anthony Hopkins' We Did OK, Kid, a memoir of his life and career. On the cover is Hopkins in closeup as he looks presently, narrowed blue eyes looking directly at the spectator. RIGHT: Cover of Louis Armstrong In His Own Words, a collection of the bandleader's correspondence. The cover image is a photograph of a probably fortysomething Armstrong seated at the wooden desk in his office where he often wrote letters.
Screenshot of the covers of 3 books carried at mzs.press Arts Bookstore. LEFT: The cover of Gotham City Cocktails, a book of mixed drink recipes inspired by Batman. Art deco-style flowing border lines flow around and around the interior of the dust jacket. At the center are drawings of two tall cocktail glasses and between them, a shot glass and a tumbler with a sword-pierced cherry in it. CENTER: The cover of Downton Abbey Afternoon Tea Cookbook. Green cover, white writing and graphics. The central image is a teapot with stem lines coming out of it, and at the pot's base, a teacup and saucer and a separate plate of biscuits. RIGHT: Bob's Burgers "The Re-Recipe Box," a set of recipe cards inspired by the joke hamburger names featured on the small board at the front of Bob's joint. Red sides with small graphics, cover image of the restaurant.
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07.03.2026 04:16 β π 931 π 563 π¬ 21 π 42THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!
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the president has no idea what he has set in motion. none.
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
"We need to have a serious conversation about what the fuck is happening to this country, and who in the hell are these decisions being made for, and who is making these decisions" - Marjorie Taylor Greene on the Iran war
08.03.2026 05:00 β π 855 π 197 π¬ 49 π 15We can throw another $500,000,000,000 at the Pentagon this year and spend $1,000,000,000/day on a wholly useless war, but we can't afford to hire doctors and nurses to take care of our veterans? The United States is such an irresponsible, messed up country right now.
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Reverend Jesse Jackson called on each of us to be heralds of change, to be messengers of hope; to step forward and say βSend meβ wherever we have a chance to make an impact.
How fortunate we were that Jesse Jackson answered that call. What a great debt we owe to him.
Really worth watching this.
05.03.2026 23:41 β π 875 π 315 π¬ 17 π 11The cover has a light blue background tinge. Centered in the upper third is the title and underneath is the author. The illustrators name is centered in the lower one-sixth. In the middle is Stuart, dressed in a red shirt and yellow shorts. He's steering a canoe down a stream. There are various green plants in circled around the canoe, but Stuart and the canoe are center stage.
πBOOKS GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU
Ch. 6: Stuart Little
#UrsulaNordstrom is honored to receive E. B. Whiteβs first childrenβs book manuscript. Searching for the perfect artist, they agree on Garth Williams. The book is an instant bestseller. #nonfictionkidlit #abramsbooks
Free and fair elections are the cornerstone of our democracy. But right now, theyβre under attack.
Several Republican-controlled states have redrawn their congressional maps to give themselves an unfair advantage in the midterm elections.
The FT - no notes.
05.03.2026 13:22 β π 523 π 115 π¬ 19 π 1
*Brutal but absolutely fair and accurate
*Gives a new meaning to "special government employee"
*Yeah, thats her husband listening to all of this
Tom Tillis has been DESTROYING Noem for the last five minutes.
03.03.2026 18:07 β π 10486 π 2006 π¬ 485 π 86Tillis: You decided to kill that dog because you had not invested the appropriate time in training it, and then you have the audacity to say itβs a leadership lesson. You killed a goat and said it was behaving badly. Youβre a farmer β you donβt castrate a goat, they behave badly.
03.03.2026 17:58 β π 12108 π 2957 π¬ 587 π 422BREAKING: Credible whistleblower discloses that FBI forensic experts were ordered to stand down from processing the scene where Renee Good was killed, because Kash Patel did not want Good referenced as a βvictimβ in the warrant.
02.03.2026 20:52 β π 11028 π 4669 π¬ 212 π 266Take back our science
We must stand up for something bigger than us.
We must stand up for SCIENCE: the method used to ask questions and seek knowledge.
This is the corner of our democracy where we have power AND NOW IS THE TIME TO EMBRACE THAT POWER.
So, get in dorks!
March 7th, 2026
@standupforscience.bsky.social
That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers.
Reminder that Congress has the power to stop this.
Jack Shanahan, retired US Air Force General and first Director of the Department of Defense Joint Artificial Intelligence Center:
28.02.2026 02:46 β π 4874 π 1850 π¬ 309 π 972/ The Ellisons are building an oligarch run state media conglomerate based on CBS, paramount and its other media properties. And now CNN.
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Last month, a Pennsylvania farmer rejected $15M from data center developers to sell his farmland.
Another in Wisconsin turned down $80M.
America's farmers and others across the country are pushing back on Big Tech.
This is what integrity looks like.
Man, how mad do you think Savannah Guthrie is right now?
24.02.2026 01:05 β π 1514 π 249 π¬ 49 π 10Also, a βnot seeβ problem
24.02.2026 05:00 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0make that Pauline Shanks Kaurin, @queenofthinair.bsky.social π
23.02.2026 02:21 β π 112 π 22 π¬ 5 π 0@kschake.bsky.social: "Civilian leadership bears responsibility in this because they are the ones issuing the orders. Military ethicist Pauline Shanks Koran who identified the problem of the unprincipled principle and I think that's actually where we are in the Trump administration."
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