Now available in paperback! Great talking with my admired colleague

The Joe Kent nonsense is an excellent opportunity for your semi-regular reminder that Jewish Americans opposed the Iraq war more than any other religious group, something that will be obvious if you stop mainlining online brain poison. news.gallup.com/poll/26677/a...

An interesting NYC fact!

RFK is a menace, glad he lost this round. I hope HHS can't appeal this ruling.

Meme is worth a thousand words

He’s flailing. He’s leading the country—and the world—toward catastrophe. When incompetence mixes with arrogance, the result is dangerous for everyone.

Buttigieg: "We lived through a war that was sold to us on false pretenses when I was younger. This war has not been sold on any pretense. The president just went ahead and did it."

Inside the Department of War are two wolves: "We've shut down the Colleges of War because book learnings are woke, gay, and irrelevant to war fighting." "How come no one told us the Strait is important, there are different kinds of Kurds, Iran is big, and air power historically doesn't win wars?"

Thank you, Wab Kinew, Premier of Manitoba, Canada, our good friend.

On March 17, 1776, the forces of a tyrant decamped, ending the siege of Boston. These are precedented times. Installation by @silencedogoodbos.bsky.social. Photos by Mike Ritter.

A blast from the past. My discussion with bio legend @crollyson.bsky.social about Malcolm Browne. open.spotify.com/episode/5mnl...

Useful reminders below.

DarkWinter Press is thrilled to announce the release of Hopper, the ekphrastic poetry collection by Steve Denehan @steverinod.bsky.social! See below for details and how to purchase this beautiful collection, available now in paperback or e-version for Kindle! www.darkwinterlit.com/post/darkwin...

Buttigieg: "Trump's political operation was raising money off images at a dignified transfer. Any politician who does that has no business leading American troops into war. If the president is willing to raise campaign funds over the bodies of America's war dead, he's unfit to be commander in chief"

Major props to Maine congressional candidate Jordan Wood for holding a town hall where he jousted verbally w/a racist and homophobic voter. I'm contributing to the @jordanwood.bsky.social campaign. #Maine youtu.be/lmRGlFU22Qg?...

No words. www.cnn.com/2026/03/13/p...

The Castle of Otranto is a novel by Horace Walpole. First published in 1764, it is generally regarded as the first Gothic novel. In the second edition, Walpole applied the word 'Gothic' to the novel in the subtitle – A Gothic Story. Set in a haunted castle, #BookWormSat 🧵

Bravo, Paul Goldberger for his column comparing Tr*mp’s ballroom obsession with Mussolini’s buildings in Rome. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/o...

Keg-seth is such a weak snowflake! These innocuous photos made him ban press photographers from the Pentagon? What a dweeb he is! talkingpointsmemo.com/gallery/slid...

I've been struggling with how to express my dismay at the war coverage by our top newsrooms, and how it dances around the central fact that Trump is deranged and unfit to command. I finally wrote something. Please read it. presswatchers.org/2026/03/the-...

"For the next phase of my career, I look forward to some independence and finding new spaces to share my work in line with my personal goals." Another CBS News journalist leaving and talking about independence. Bit of a not-so-subtle hint at what's happening over there.

Rothkopf eviscerates the normalcy bias that is stalling a proper reaction to Trump's insanity.

And Dump has the nerve to deny what’s being widely proven, and claim that Iran bombed the girls’ schools w/170 killed in the strike. #NotTrue

This archived NYT obit by the late Alan Riding of Leni Riefenstahl is filled with/historical nuggets. “Riefenstahl was both propagandist and genius…she enthusiastically put her talent at the service of the Nazis.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/w...

I was a judge on the NEH’s American History panel in 2024, from which we recommended many excellent grant applicants. It’s infuriating to read how these Doge bros just trashed it all, using AI no less, and all w/out regard for the law that created the NEH. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...

Trump might end the war on a claim of victory, dial back paramilitary violence against Americans, and enjoy some kind of economic resurgence. Yet right now, George W. Bush’s fate is beckoning. trib.al/WvMvquy

The train window is one of the best cinema screens It forces us to stitch together narratives from the briefest glimpse. In a blurred moment whole stories race into us. We see a track and know it is older than the line we travel. We see a track and all of its treading ghosts wave to us. – #DAKilroy

“The sinking seems to be part of Hegseth’s new policy of ignoring ‘stupid rules of engagement’ and ‘punching them while they’re down.’ It raises questions of what the Trump administration would say if a country like Iran attacked an American ship it knew was unarmed. newrepublic.com/post/207429/...

Really worth watching this.

Coming up at 7:30 tonight, eastern time, Jim Harrison biographer Todd Goddard will be discussing his book Devouring Time, from the Ketchum (Idaho) Public Library.

I’ve spent years, decades, obsessing over the Bush Administration’s Iraq WMD lies, writing about them, debunking them. I can think of no lie about Iraq WMDs told by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al that comes even close to the enormity and absurdity of this lie from Donald Trump.

What Mr. Chimpanzy says

It took the NY Times a few days to get an obit of John Paul Hammond up—I'd begun wondering if they were gonna skip him—but Clay Risen has made a good job of it, reporting on Hammond's fiercely authentic blues playing—a faithful inheritor of thetradition. #blues www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/a...

On the 6 US troops who died at Shuaiba port in Kuwait: Troops asked for more drone defeat capabilities, none came. It was recommended that the makeshift tactical operations center not be used because it was hard to defend and concentrated too many troops in one place. www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-st...

👁👁➡️The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has already fielded 110 complaints from service members being instructed that they are fighting Armageddon.

The part at the end ("of really terra") is particularly disorienting -- I can't tell whether or not he knows he is not making sense.

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints. One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

Chris Murphy: "It's just so disgusting to listen to the president be waxing poetically about the drapes he's buying while there are six Americans who are dead. There are six families who are about to bury their children because of a war of choice that no one in this country wanted, an illegal war."

“That’s the way it is…”

Trump ripped up the Iran nuclear deal and created this mess. Now, he's putting servicemembers in harm's way with no clear plan and no Congressional approval. The American people deserve answers — and Congress needs to do its job.

Infuriatingly evergreen 👇

Thank you, Mayor.

Excited to share a guest post published on my blog by my wife Kyle Gallup about a collage painting of hers, "The Last Days of the Metro Theater," which she recently sold into a private collection. The post includes an image of the work, her artist's statement... philipsturner.com/the-decline-...

For fans of Jim Harrison who haven't yet heard Todd Goddard discuss his bio "Devouring Time—Jim Harrison, a Writer's Life," he will be w/Martha Williams, of the Ketchum, ID, public library on March 5 at 5:30 MT/7:30 ET w/a free livestream at the link provided here. vimeo.com/event/5736991 #BookSky

Sad news—Malibu Diner in Manhattan, which catered to blind customers, is closing. “George Ashiotis, 78, one of the first people to move into Selis Manor over 45 years ago, said he just had to say ‘Malibu!’ and his guide dog would take him to the diner.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/n...

Nearly blind refugee found dead in N.Y. after Border Patrol dropped him off READ MORE: www.ms.now/news/nearly-...