If Epstein’s claims are true, Trump lied about his involvement & knew about the abuse Bondi & Blanche, Trump’s former personal lawyers in DOJ, ignored their duties to the Constitution & victims This is corruption, plain & simple I broke it down on @weeknightmsnbc.bsky.social👇 - TN

I have a @nytimes.com op-ed today on managing power demand growth. Central point: load growth is an opportunity to *offset* upward rate pressure (and avoid gas overbuild), if we plan the system to make fuller use of infrastructure we’ve already paid for. 🔌💡 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...

An Air Canada flight right now

Obama: "The weird videos of a US president with a crown on his head flying a fighter jet & dumping poop on American citizens - that's not even worth booing about. Because all of that is a distraction from the fact that your situation, your life has not gotten better. They do it so you won't notice"

Neuroscientists have long believed that our bodies are paralyzed during REM sleep to prevent us from acting out our dreams, and the twitches we make are movements that slip through the cracks—but recent research tells another story.

The East Wing’s very plainness came to symbolize the functional modesty of democratic government: a space for staff, not spectacle; for the sustaining rituals of civic life, not the exhibition of personal glory. All of that is now gone, Adam Gopnik writes. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/p_9guI

Trump’s act of destroying the East Wing is exactly the point, Adam Gopnik writes. It’s “a kind of performance piece meant to display Trump’s arbitrary power over the Presidency, including its physical seat.”

“My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.

Read @andykroll.bsky.social's report on how Russell Vought is using the White House budget office to lay waste to the federal bureaucracy.

This interview by #AmandaPetrusich of #jefftweedy of #wilco about his new album #twilightoverdrive touches closely on several interesting ideas about music, art, meaning and the passage of time podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

A descent of the #HornbeinCouloir on #Everest had eluded the ski world for decades until… www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/ar...

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. Except it doesn’t bend on its own—it bends because we pull it in the direction of justice. What keeps me hopeful during times like these is being surrounded by people who are doing just that.

In a moment like this, when tensions are high, part of the job of the president is to remind us of the ties that bind us together.

Many media types and Dems continue to operate as if Trump is a politically invincible figure, a "Teflon Don." But in truth he's becoming an increasingly weak, failing, diminished, unpopular, naked-emperor figure, and it's time to treat him as such. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2000...

In the 80s, a fact checker found that an unedited issue of The New Yorker contained 1,000 errors. (This figure itself wouldn’t survive a fact-check, but never mind.) Zach Helfand delves into the history of the vaunted department.

Amory Lovins of @rockymtninst.bsky.social remains true to form on the perils of nuclear power - see: www.utilitydive.com/news/nuclear...

Is the only way to find yourself to get completely lost? Tomorrow on the podcast, I'm joined by Craig Mod @craigmod.com, who fled to Japan at 19 after his best friend's murder. Tune in for a conversation that made me rethink the relationship between movement, attention, and healing. Episode 913✌🏼🌱

What happens when you walk far enough for the noise in your head to quiet? This week on the podcast, I'm joined by Craig Mod (@craigmod.com)–artist, author, and photographer. We explore memory, movement, and how making space can heal what you thought was unfixable. Now available. Episode 913✌🏼🌱

Technology teleports us out of the moment and out of discomfort. Episode 913 with @craigmod.com  Watch the convo here: https://bit.ly/CraigMod913 ✌🏼🌱 – Rich

In a very quiet way, this article is quite terrifying. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Trump's insane beef with clean energy is going to wreck both planet and economy www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

If this is how deranged he is and they are 217 days in, what is the madness 1,242 days from now? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...

OK, y'all, as I mentioned, I went to see Paul Simon play last night. I found it unexpectedly moving, quite profound actually, and I want to do a short thread about it. I'll start by saying that, for a whole bunch of reasons, aging & mortality have been much on my mind lately.

This is raw, ugly, lawless, violent racism and everyone with any power or voice should say so while they still can.

“I’ve had to learn and relearn and relearn that believing in yourself means believing you have the capacity to evolve and get better - regardless of the outcome.” - Kate Courtney
Who is Kate Courtney you might ask? 
See: www.vaildaily.com/news/kate-co...

Trump's move to fire the government’s statisticians over bad jobs numbers won’t make voters any happier with the economy, Jonathan Chait argues.

wamu.org/show/1a/ The great wise Dr. Vivek Murthy on solutions to the serious public health crises of loneliness and social isolation.

Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show. The economics writer @kyla.bsky.social on how attention has come to shape politics, our economy, Gen Z and more. open.spotify.com/episode/6cbg... youtu.be/cZO1B4fZlOw?...

New episode of The Ezra Klein Show. The psychiatrist Mark Epstein shares his insights about the mind after decades of working with patients and practicing Buddhism. open.spotify.com/episode/1YWw... youtu.be/zTZlt0FsJj8?...

There's never a bad time to listen to the MSG Feel it Now horns. I swear that muted trumpet almost has a film noir type vibe to it. And then the saxophone is just a perfect compliment to Trevor's bass.

Why Does My Mind Keep Thinking That? So much enlightening conversation @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social with Mark Epstein (markepsteinmd.com?page_id=2) www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/o...

More shows should start with Bathtub Gin.

Trey Anastasio 7/3/25, Boulder, CO 📸: Peter Wallace #phish @wallyography.bsky.social

Thousands of people lined up at the Minnesota Capitol to pay tribute to slain lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark. Between the caskets was an urn containing the ashes of the family’s golden retriever, Gilbert.

Mikaela Davis joined the band last night at an INCREDIBLE festival performance! elgoose.net/setlists/goo...

GOONTZ

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Bruce Springsteen and Donald Trump are “two opposing faces of modern America as it was built and performed by their generation,” Eric Alterman writes in a guest essay. “They offer their fan bases a promise of entirely different futures.”

After Bruce Springsteen criticized the Trump administration on tour, the president said he should “KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT.” Springsteen, undeterred, included his comments on a new release.

The photographer Lee Friedlander’s portraits of his wife, Maria, thrum with gentle affection and capture the inexorable movement of time.

Jeff Toobin on why lawyers gain nothing by groveling at the feet of the kleptocrat: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/o...

During his tenure as a Supreme Court Justice, David Souter “inspired people who worked with him to extraordinary levels of affection and emulation.” Jeannie Suk Gersen reflects on her former mentor, who passed away last Thursday, at age 85.

“While my trade policy might cause some temporary hardships for investors, it’s ultimately intended to completely fucking destroy the livelihoods of the financially destitute,” said Trump theonion.com/trump-a...

Yet another ugly trend instituted and supported by the Trump administration- I am forever #teamfourinhand www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/s...

One thing that most people are missing in the group text scandal: The Trump officials don’t appear clear on what *exactly* Trump approved, which is a huge problem in using military force. Stephen Miller says “as I heard it … green light.” 😱😬 www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/six-short-...

There he is.

From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of fuckup imaginable. These people cannot keep America safe.

Remembering Terence Edward Hall, English musician and lead singer of The Specials, born on this day in 1959, Coventry, England. Photo by David Corio #punkrock #ska #skalegend #thespecials #2tone #terryhall #history #skahistory #otd

Holy shit. This is *the* gold-standard measurement of atmospheric CO2 -- the one in all the charts.