Gonzo Jayhawk reporting for duty

@harvardbookstore.bsky.social Signed First Ed 2 of 5 stars for at times discordant autofiction. Read the LRB review and mostly agree I'd prefer my autofictionaires to have done more than ride a bike around town Buy a train ticket, leave home for ten years & then tell me THAT story #booksky

Barro gets it backwards: having a decent moral compass, ethics, and concern, caring, empathy for one’s fellow humans comes first; the liberal-to-progressive opinions on issues flow downstream from there.

Giving credit when due, love that Q is giving Cameron a chance at the 7th

Re-read of Children of Dune, this time a Fancy Folio Society version, third of five Dune books by Frank Herbert. Here is where it starts to get weird. Still worth the while, plans within plans & etc. #booksky @foliosociety.bsky.social

Fellas pouring on runs, Carter Jensen's 1st hit, Cag rolls one fair, SALVADONG & Kolek gets QS. Nice game #Royals

A well needed boost/kick in the ass for your truly. The people Nov last delivered a blow that still has me staggered. But what can we do? For myself that will be to re-engage with the local party, we have a state senate special this fall. #booksky @ositanwanevu.com - thank you!

Let's do this #Chiefssky Tank 7 & Gates Extra Hot here in Cascadia for the win!

Ready for the end of Smoketember. Rain returns tomorrow, huzzah! Mount Peak, view west towards Olympics & Tacoma, not that you can tell. #hikesky #Smoketember

That's my Senator!

RFK Jr. is a charlatan. He is undermining the whole health care delivery system and taking away the science and technology that has saved millions of lives. www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_Sq...

#booksky #2 Rescued from a clearing out of my Aunt-in-law's a decade or more ago, rediscovered while looking for something else. Browsed my own shelves. Chapters on miners, tribes, railroads, cattleman, homesteaders and the bankers that preyed upon/enabled them.

A little behind on my #booksky @grantamag.bsky.social 172 Highlights for me: Vollman touring the badlands of war-torn Ukraine Photo essays of Mexico City firework celebrations and 1960s Malaga Haunting fiction (Leopold O'Shea) of an elderly women's dementia stream of consciousness

Arch Manning ain't it. In a shocking development, Texas football enters its 40th season in a row severely overrated.

1. nationalize the amazon corporation 2. tag every ice agent like cattle 3. make them work in the warehouses until they die of exhaustion

Hey @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social this isn’t a distraction, this is the thing, they’re all the thing

Royals/White Sox apparently playing _IN_ Lake Michigan

You know who DIDN'T have trouble registering voters or raising money this summer? @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social. Whom the clowns in this photo haven't yet endorsed. The answer is RIGHT THERE but party leaders are pretending they can't see it.

Non dairy whipped Cream The B-47s The Dung Beatles The Door Hangers

Justices Alito, Barrett, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Roberts, and Thomas wouldn’t let a President Mamdani do away with DHS by firing everyone in its building. But they’ll let Pres. Trump do it to the Dept of Education, and they don’t feel obliged to articulate a principle that would lead to both outcomes.

Really Q? This isn't going to work.

Why are they booing Soto at the K???

Memoir of Wallace Stenger's childhood on the Saskatchewan prairie. Includes a fiction interlude imagining the survival tale of cowboys stuck in a 1906 blizzard. About what I expected. Bought used at Book Club of Washington annual sale in February. www.bookclubofwashington.org #booksky

Read a review copy of TOC Berlin's Time of the Magicians. The book is letterpress printed and wonderful to hold & read. We follow our magicians - Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, & Heidegger from the Great War into the 30s. The author presupposes our interest without really making a case for it

hey @nytimes.com fuck you

Bobby takes second! @royals.com

HIT IT HERE SALVY @royals.com

Once again, THAT'S MY REP Get 'em, Dr.

That's my rep! Doing WA 8 proud.

Finished this over the weekend. Four interlocking tales, a venn diagram of women aging into regret and life. Sex in the City if the characters were West African emigrees, and bouncing between NYC, London & Nigeria. #booksky @harvardbookstore.bsky.social First Edition Club

Finished Granta 171 over the weekend. Solid issue, personal fiction fave was Gary Indiana's 'Remission'. Enjoyed two portraits of famous men by potential but misfiring disciples - VS Naipaul & Andy Warhol. And maybe after it all I'll be brined in KOH... #booksky @grantamag.bsky.social

And I resent the way companies are trying to force it. The other day Slack emailed saying they were adding AI to their product that already functions fine. I immediately cancelled that account. I don’t want it. It is not a benefit or feature. It is a yoke. I am happy on this hill even if I am alone

You might not be interested in politics, but politics are interested in you

Boy the Dodgers are really bathing themselves in glory this week. Totally misunderstanding and abandoning their fanbase in favor of corporate cowardice. Woof. But the money will keep rolling in so who cares, I guess.

This is what Trump's government thugs are willing to do in broad daylight, to a US Senator, with cameras on. They are sending the message that anyone who disagrees with Trump isn't safe in America. This is authoritarianism.

This is it for me. Sure, Biden old, but he didn't do his job protecting the country right out of the gate. Hoping and praying the ballot box was gonna save us because no one in the administration wanted to have the hard conversation when that is their entire job.

one thing the Dem establishment doesn’t understand is that Rogan is *downstream* of the right-wing misinformation machine. he doesn’t originate reactionary conspiracies, he absorbs them, and that’s why he turned toward Trump

This should have been done 35, 20 and ten years ago and should have included local radio stations

I dunno. I remember Socrates from Phaedrus: "...they will appear to possess much knowledge, while, in fact, they will, for the most part, know nothing at all; and be disagreeable people to deal with, as having become wise in their own conceit, instead of truly wise" leaps to mind

New(ish), from me: Andor returns on April 22. The first season detailed how bureaucracies in a totalitarian regime function, what is the toll of living under such regimes, and what causes people to rebel. Those themes feel more salient than ever. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-return...

@jaysonst.bsky.social I’m sure you’ve seen this, but just in case… www.mlb.com/news/minors-...

EXACTLY.

People who have principles and a moral core do not have to convene a fucking committee every time a political issue arises. They know what they believe and they fight for it. That -- the value of decisiveness, of knowing who you are -- never shows up in polls, so Dems are blind to it.

@mlb.com @royals.com Took the afternoon off for opening day & the MLB app is broke. Do better

the Republicans have increased their House majority by two over the first two months of the term due to the deaths of two Democrats who were terminally ill at the time they ran for office. the Democrats plausibly lost the White House and definitely lost a Supreme Court seat over age within 5 years.

I am 54 years old. I stepped back from Moms Demand Action after 11 years because I understood that power is finite. Organizations and nations can’t evolve if they don’t have new rolling leadership. This isn’t about age, it’s about hoarding power.

Rep. Kim Schrier joined advocates in Issaquah to rally for Apple Health (Medicaid). The message is clear: Apple Health saves lives and we must protect it!

About a third of the way through_Flights_. From the Fitzcarraldo Decade collection. Not sure where we are going, but enjoying the car/train/ferry ride so far #FridayReads @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social @librarything.com

I really wish Dem strategists would just once go on TV and acknowledge that Trump only won by 1.5% and didn't even get a majority before they start with the tiresome "Democrats have completely lost touch with average Americans etc, etc." That's how you think after a landslide loss not a squeaker.