The south portico has no doors into the ballroom. And all of the columns will block views and daylight from inside. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

“Love Story” began as a glossy time capsule of ‘90s NY, lapsed into cloying repetition of privileged irritability, & finished with the character of Carolyn’s mother commandeering the story for one gripping scene—featuring the coiled grief of Constance Zimmer. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/28/o...

Washington is comprised of good people who do thankless work because they believe in building and maintaining goodness. Thank you to Marilyn and Bill for volunteering at the Kennedy Center. And to Janay Kingsberry for writing about them. wapo.st/4lRlgXc

“‘It’s not the doodles I hate. It’s the people who own them.’” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

"Please stop asking questions about the $2 million that the Department of War has spent on crab in September alone. This is tactical crab." www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Trump, Melania & Barron all voted by mail in the House District 87 election. The president requested his mail-in ballot March 14; on Monday he referred to voting by mail as "cheating." www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

"These are the largest single points of consumption of electricity in history." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

"The wind should rather blow through the dusty regions of the mind, and the sun light up its dark corners, and thinking & talking should be saner and higher and more joyful than within doors. But one must have a friend along to open the windows." From Dec. 1912: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

"Trump is the most significant threat to the city’s architectural and design legacy since British forces burned the Capitol...." The art & architecture critic of The Post on the president's visual and symbolic desecrations of Washington: www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...

Wrote this about Robert Mueller in 2019. “He had taken a bullet to the thigh in Vietnam, steered the FBI through the wreckage of 9/11, and yet on Wednesday—during congressional hearings on his last act of public service—Robert Swan Mueller III seemed wary of the microphone itself.” wapo.st/41gGowC

"Practically overnight, we took an ancient vice—long regarded as soul-rotting and civilizationally ruinous—put it on everyone’s phone, and made it as normal and frictionless as checking the weather. What could possibly go wrong?" www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

"Moments after some of that abuse was described to her, Ms. Huerta broke down, sobbing and wailing." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/u...

"Americans allowed themselves to be infantilized by their government—which is why we now find ourselves surrounded by Disney adults...Our Star Wars became forever wars. With Hegseth, even the real war...is being propagandized as videogame kidstuff." thefutureisourstomake.substack.com/p/every-grow...

"Sooner or later you’ll replaced by artificial intelligence, so who cares if you blow past three hours, 3½ hours, closer to four hours? What are they going to do? Banish you to YouTube?" www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...

While Jared Kushner is negotiating on behalf of the United States with governments in the Middle East, he is also soliciting investments in his private business ventures from the same governments www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/b...

“The truth is: These are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.” — Deep Throat, “All the President’s Men” (1976) www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/b...

“The Pentagon recruiting effort dangles both money and access, offering Wall Street recruits the opportunity to manage ‘more capital than most investors deploy in their entire careers.’” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/u... Meanwhile:

“Practically overnight, we took an ancient vice—long regarded as soul-rotting and civilizationally ruinous—put it on everyone’s phone, and made it as normal and frictionless as checking the weather. What could possibly go wrong?” www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

“The Department of Defense employs nearly 3 million people, uniformed and civilian. All are subject to rules and regulations governing many aspects of their behavior. … All except one.” www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Chilling. youtu.be/C1jmAj9OUOs?...

300 billionaires and their immediate family members donated more than $3 billion — 19% of all contributions — in federal elections in 2024. Before the Supreme Court’s 2010 ruling that lifted campaign finance restrictions, the share of billionaire spending was 0.3%. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...

“I voted for Trump three times. But I did not vote for this,” Jim Cunningham, a Republican who has held local elected office Media, Pa. “Trump is only a temporary occupant of the White House. It belongs to the American people. It’s not his personal property.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

"We’re nice people. My kids are amazing. New York City would have been so lucky to have my kids." An American woman, her undocumented husband, & their American daughters give up their life in the Bronx to move to rural Oaxaca: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Susie Wiles "organized a conversation" for Trump about "promises he’d made during his presidential campaign about avoiding new foreign wars." But, after Venezuela, he views the military as "an almost biblical force that can accomplish anything," an adviser says. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

“…we have so much money that people don’t have to care if they don’t want to.” Teton County is awash in wealth and run by billionaires. But the morgue is in an old garage, and students have to eat in hallways, and teachers can’t afford to live there. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...

In three straight elections, more Americans voted for someone else. 53.91% for Clinton or other 53.15% for Biden or other 50.2% for Harris or other

“…elite impunity is now an American national project. We might need to reframe ‘American exceptionalism.’ Instead of a New Deal, we have a Great Society for white-collar crime, a New Frontier of executive lawbreaking, a No Rich Crook Left Behind.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

in honor of a certain surgeon general nominee’s hearing today, here is the story of (among other things) the time I tried to take her advice about milk www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Phrases in Trump's SOTU: Blood all over. Gushing blood. Pouring blood. Bleeding profusely. Shot in the head. Shot violently. Violently murdered. Brutally extinguished. Shredding his leg. Lying dead in a bathtub. Viciously slashed a knife through her neck and body. Searing pain. The edge of death.

“One-ply provocation.” 👏 www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

Trump destroyed part of the White House and dumped the remains on an affordable public golf course, which he hopes to remake for rich people. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/u...

Last weekend. This weekend. @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics. "It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“It’s time to stop whatever you are doing, put on your stiffest blue jeans and go to the gym. You are a Kennedy. Kid Rock is already there doing push-ups. Make sure you bring your whole milk. We will be drinking it, as is customary, in the hot tub.” www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...

So after Trump pardoned Honduras's narco-president, the admin didn't just let him out--they canceled an immigration hold and sent a specialized team to **chauffeur him to the $1k/night Waldorf Astoria.** “It's "absolutely fucking nuts,” said one official www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Just pretend this is 'The Kardashians' by Andrei Tarkovsky, I kept telling myself, teeth clenched — until an actual semi-Kardashian, Kylie Jenner, appeared in one of the spa scenes..." Chris Richards on Charli XCX's "The Moment": thefutureisourstomake.substack.com/p/i-think-im...

Bogage did terrific work on taxes, trade, and spending. Bezos’ own goal continues.

How many lives would $15 million have saved? One of the ghastlier headlines of this era: www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...

Journalists in New Orleans have no idea how their work lives are about to change for the better. Or maybe they do! Either way, wonderful for everyone involved, @hankstuever.bsky.social especially. www.nola.com/news/veteran...

🚨 SCOOP: The IRS improperly disclosed confidential immigrant tax information to DHS, per sources. It opens up HUGE liability for the US government. Trump is suing the IRS over substantially the same disclosures -- for $10 billion. 🎁 Gift link:

The administration is shooting people and then lying about them www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...

Tina Brown rightly puts Fred Ryan's name in the mix of what went wrong; the N.Y. Times has omitted him in recent coverage. open.substack.com/pub/tinabrow...

Incredible sentence: "Elections officials told us they are now getting ready for interference from both foreign adversaries and the White House." www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

"Instead of the 'ICE out' show, this was the joy-as-resistance show ... We need towering mountains, endless fields, bottomless pits of joy to resist the violence our government is doling out right now." Chris Richards, newly liberated from The Post, on Bad Bunny: open.substack.com/pub/thefutur...

This is 18-mo-old Amalia waving to me when she was detained. She was hospitalized with a respiratory infection while at ICE’s Dilley facility for immigrant families. She’s one of dozens of detainees who I spoke to via video and phone calls, letters and an in-person visit. 🧵1/

NEW: ProPublica went inside the detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of what comes next.

👀 What if I told you there was a hidden art gallery scattered across the country? What if I told you some of its treasures had vanished? What if I told you that I found them? A project three years in the making (🎁 gift link):

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