What's the matter with today's small children? www.afterbabel.com/p/30-facts-a...

El Paso closing for "special security reasons" sounds to me like the start of a movie about aliens and UFOs arriving. Not now, Aliens. Not now

@deanbarker.bsky.social Promising? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzw2...

Stream uncertain.fm TODAY 2pm Eastern / tomorrow 8pm ET for Indigenous winter holidays music from Decolonize Your Playlist. Tom Jackson, FONTINE, EZ Band, Celeigh Cardinal, Julia Keefe, Serena Ryder, Whitehorse, Don Amero, Sister Ray, Conrad Bigknife, Desiree Dorion, William Prince, and much more!

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

@rubengallego.bsky.social responds to Trump's threats on Sen. Mark Kelly: "This is fucking insane."

I’ve seen this before and I love rereading it every time.

NYC Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani makes promises to the travel industry, talks Airbnb in this trade-exclusive interview with @skift.com www.youtube.com/shorts/oRegw...

George was just trying to get to work. ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process. This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

Regret to report, dear reader, that I got a glimpse today in just how utterly awash in AI the K-12 teacher prep space is these days. Mostly it's in the service of work shortcuts; that's how the camel's nose gets under the tent, as it were.

Read this thread to understand the stakes for trans Americans in the current budget showdown.

Hike.

“Trump Shrank Staffing of National Parks. See How Many Are Struggling” 🎁🔗 @esullivannyt.bsky.social for @nytimes.com

Canadian book pals, my nonfiction story collection is in a handful of lovely indie stores already (e.g. Porch Light Books in Edmonton) but as we inch towards the holiday shopping season - yes, I'm sorry, it's happening! - I'd like to expand the list. Holler if you know of a store that might be game?

This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Yellen not at all pulling her punches in this op-ed for the FT www.ft.com/content/d2ea...

Frey: And don't just say, this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying. It was the first week of school. They were in a church.

Hyatt is giving its loyalty members new ways to use their points: World of Hyatt members can now earn and redeem rewards on experiences and other amenities at hundreds of hotels worldwide. First on @skift.com skift.com/2025/08/25/h...

An exclusive look at how Hilton is fine-tuning its flagship brand, skift.com/2025/08/23/h... via @skift.com

Sicher ausbaufähig, aber funktioniert auch mit längeren Fliegerinnen 😉 Ich fühl mich ganz #superwoman 😅 #kleineKunstklasse #wattiskunst #watercolor

Bolton’s home raided, Gen. Kruse fired, Epstein coverup proceeds, seizure of 10% of Intel another step towards state capitalism. Just one day in the somewhat chaotic but directionally purposeful march towards…despotism. Does anyone think they’re doing all this so they can hand over power in 2028?

"Of all the sadness in this story, and there is lots of it, the worst is AI writing the suicide note." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/o...

The list of Fed chair candidates keeps getting longer. And longer. And longer. Here’s a comprehensive grading of ALL the candidates on Alphaville’s highly rigorous and proprietary quantamental metrics: 🕊️ 🍊 and 🤮 on.ft.com/4fHufYa

Explain to me like I didn't live through the early 2000s in NYC why this is not a medicated eating disorder: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/d...

An Ennismore IPO: Can Lifestyle Hotels Impress Wall Street? by Luke Martin for @skift.com skift.com/2025/08/13/a...

Brutal reality for hoteliers. STR slashed its U.S. hotel forecast to -0.1% RevPAR growth for the full year. That's a spectacular fall from January's optimistic +1.8% projection. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

What's next for Accor? Selling stakes in Ennismore and Orient Express could free up resources at the French hotel giant to more effectively battle the Marriotts of the world. via @skift.com skift.com/2025/08/08/w...

Doctor With Positive Attitude Learns Something New From Every Malpractice Suit theonion.com/doctor-...

He just...said it, out loud!

Scoop at @skift.com LVMH secured an option to acquire full ownership of Orient Express by 2027, according to two people familiar with the deal. That agreement saw LVMH take a 50% stake in Accor’s Orient Express brand, sources said. Terms hadn't been previously disclosed. skift.com/2025/07/30/l...

Amex GBT-CWT Merger Cleared, Will Create Corporate Travel Management Giant Twice the Size of Nearest Rival via @skift.com by Dennis Schaal skift.com/2025/07/30/a...

Booking dot com's parent had a solid quarter... $BKNG My report for @skift.com skift.com/2025/07/29/b...

It said "Literature Only."

This is good. www.ft.com/content/95a7...

Canadians, long the top visitors to the U.S., aren't just talking about boycotting travel to America – the data shows they are traveling elsewhere. Crossings by car to the U.S. plunged 33% in June. By air, down 22%. via @skift.com skift.com/2025/07/11/c...

The U.S. inbound tourism recovery is stalling, not strengthening. June's roughly 3% year-over-year decline masks the real story: overseas arrivals remain stuck at just 80% of 2019 levels, six years after the pandemic. via @skift.com skift.com/2025/07/09/t...

It says something about the strong demand for extended stay in the U.S. that Hilton already has over 90 contracts signed for its new long-stay brand, LivSmart Studios. No paywall here: finance.yahoo.com/news/hilton-...

If the AI ruins journalism careers, one of my back-up plans is to be a short-person model for hotel guest room interior shots to make the rooms look bigger than they actually are, like this fella...

Allegiant dumps $720m Florida resort to Blackstone for $200m. Eighteen-month, half-billion lesson in staying in your lane. Meghna Maharishi with the story at @skift.com skift.com/2025/07/07/b...

Brent Efron, an EPA employee, was secretly recorded on a Tinder date discussing the agency’s efforts to allocate climate funding before Trump’s potential repeal. The recording, released by Project Veritas, was used by Lee Zeldin, the EPA administrator, to justify canceling $20 billion in grants.

The U.S. President keeps a password written on a piece of paper in his pocket that's needed to launch a nuclear attack. Per the WaPo. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...

Support for gay marriage in the U.S. is dropping -- almost entirely because of declines among Republicans. Nearly 2 in 3 Republicans now say same-sex relationships are not morally acceptable www.economist.com/united-state...

BREAKING: The Supreme Court rules insurers must cover preventive health care services (cancer screenings, STI testing, etc.) But in doing so, the justices gave RFK Jr. unprecedented power over the HHS expert panel that recommends what services must be covered www.notus.org/health-scien...

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

Indigo Girls!

Marriott is turning its mobile app, websites, and hotel guestroom TVs into advertising real estate. On Thursday, it became the first major hotel group to launch a commerce media network, serving ads to guests and loyalty program members. via @skift.com skift.com/2025/06/13/m...

Hotels Shrug Off Airbnb's Push Into Experiences – But They Still Need to Compete by me and Luke Martin at @skift.com skift.com/2025/06/11/h...

It's been a wonderful #worldpride in DC!

New Trump Travel Ban: Citizens From 12 Countries Barred Entry to U.S. via @skift.com skift.com/2025/06/04/n...