UNICEF says Israel blocking one million syringes needed to vaccinate Gaza children

This was fun to write. If the Democratic party was a boyfriend, he’d arrive at your house forty-five minutes late with carnations from the clearance bin at Walmart. He’d take you to Olive Garden... marypezzulo.substack.com/p/if-the-dem...

LOOK DOWN, JAVERT! HE'S STANDING IN HIS GRAVE!

The cat is terrified of the neighborhood possum. When I went out just now, the possum was eating the cat food and the cat was nowhere to be seen. The possum ran away, Charlie snuck out of her hiding place, and Charlie went back to the bowl.

Lazy freeloaders.

Damn them. I don't even care about their excuse.

The boilerplate as usual. The middle of the month is the trickiest time with rent due the 15th and bills all over the place, so please consider a visit to the tip jar or a paid subscription! More writing soon! www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...

For several days, the pumpkins stayed in the trunk with the spare tire. Every so often I’d brake too quickly, and the pumpkins would rumble around in the trunk, and I’d worry that there was something wrong with the new engine, and then I would remember the pumpkins. www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...

Two different factions of Irish rail workers, the Fardowners and the Corkians, fought each other in armed riots in the 1850s just on this spot, and some of them died here. It’s been said that some were even buried right on the park’s grounds. www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...

I was angry when he demolished the East Wing, but I don’t have time to be angry about this. It’s a bathroom. I don’t have time to be angry, because I’m too busy worrying about my friends. They don’t know how they’re going to eat this month. www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...

But it was still beautiful: beautiful just to be there, in the sunshine, in the late morning, with friends. People say all kinds of things about this part of America. But they don’t tell you how lovely it can be in Autumn. www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...

In the bright, blazing sun, in the sweltering humidity of a terribly rainy June, I panted for breath. To my right was a steep grassy incline, pleasantly warm in the afternoon sun. To my left was a steep drop, the museum building, and the city of Moundsville... www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...

“If I was there,” he said finally, with all the mirth drained out of his voice, “I would be carrying people on my back! I would be carrying the children and… the… the elderly. I would run with the elderly on my back.” www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...

I skirted around the burial plots, seeking out the big trees to shade my walk. That was how I found the Fighting McCooks. The Fighting McCooks were a family of Civil War heroes from Ohio... www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...

I found myself standing in a squadron of identical little semicircles, each decorated with a metal ornament painted to look like a flag. I read the plaque declaring that these were the Union soldiers who had fallen in the Civil War. www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...

Somebody once told me that it’s disrespectful to walk on graves. You have to walk BETWEEN the graves. But I didn’t know how to do that on such a small plot, where so many people had been buried for a thousand years or more... www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...

They complained of hearing damage and of shrapnel in their bodies. They had PTSD and could not sleep without medication. They settled down to civilian life and started families, though it didn’t always go well... www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...

I was in the second grade. My uncle gave me a boxed set of Newberry winners. I read "Number The Stars," and learned that you can still be courageous even if you're terrified.

If you were even a tiny bit agnostic. If you had even a smidgen of a suspicion that there might be an afterlife, with some kind of comeuppance in it. Karma. Hell. Anything. I can't imagine that you'd have anything to do with this administration. Because they are going to hell.

Lots of people are sharing my video from FRIDAY about the Senate deal of that day, thinking it's about the SUNDAY deal. It is not. They are two entirely different kettles of fish. A great reminder always to check dates, although I've now hidden it so it should stop circulating.

The boilerplate as usual. The middle of the month is the trickiest time with rent due the 15th and bills all over the place, so please consider a visit to the tip jar or a paid subscription! More writing soon! www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...

Do what @cyan.com did when they got started and just have the guys making the game put on sport jackets and play the only characters.

If you were an English major, you're finally using that seminar on Orwell.

Saying you inadvertently backed the US into a “National Security Event” isn’t the flex he thinks it is.

Powerful

Gov. Pritzker: “All I can say is that whether it was the loss in the elections a week ago that's led to Donald Trump deciding to pull CBP out or the fact that Greg Bovino is a snowflake…Whatever it is, the people of Chicago have deserved better than having CBP and Greg Bovino in this city.”

I'm not getting a two thousand dollar check, am I?

Breaking WSJ: Fannie Mae watchdogs who were removed from their jobs had been probing if Trump appointee Bill Pulte had improperly obtained mortgage records of key Democratic officials, including New York Attorney General Letitia James, according to people familiar with the matter.

The Neo-Nazi Groyper War to capture the Republican Party is a good example of "network war." A group existing mostly online ("in the cloud) takes power in the real world. When it becomes powerful enough to also take land, the victor of a network war can become a network state. That's the 101 theory.

POLITICO writes an entire piece today about this chart — and the political vulnerabilities that accompany it.

U.S. officials have confirmed more than a dozen attacks on suspected drug smugglers in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific since September, resulting in at least 76 deaths. Here’s a closer look at all the strikes:

This would be “worst NFP print since Dec 2020,” adds the Goldman desk.

#CA03 #redistrict

The thing to understand about this is that this catastrophe in the UK has redounded to the political benefit of the very same people and political movement that pushed for it! Extremely perverse.

Since today is Veterans Day, here’s a piece I wrote ten years ago about the history of the holiday we now mark every Nov. 11. I was fortunate to write several articles for We’re History, one of @hcrichardson.bsky.social’s great public projects. Go to werehistory.org to read lots of great articles.

In which @carlquintanilla.bsky.social casually kills a man

To be fair, I don't. I mean I know "it's a piece of metal that sticks to your fridge," but I have to look it up to remember why magnets are magnets.

Hiding the data - a sure sign that things are going great

Poor people can’t cope with a week’s delay. They may have already spent money they badly needed for rent or bills on their food this week. They might have made a bad deal with a payday loan company or any number of other things to get some grocery money. www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...

For several days, the pumpkins stayed in the trunk with the spare tire. Every so often I’d brake too quickly, and the pumpkins would rumble around in the trunk, and I’d worry that there was something wrong with the new engine, and then I would remember the pumpkins. www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...

Two different factions of Irish rail workers, the Fardowners and the Corkians, fought each other in armed riots in the 1850s just on this spot, and some of them died here. It’s been said that some were even buried right on the park’s grounds. www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...

I was angry when he demolished the East Wing, but I don’t have time to be angry about this. It’s a bathroom. I don’t have time to be angry, because I’m too busy worrying about my friends. They don’t know how they’re going to eat this month. www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...

But it was still beautiful: beautiful just to be there, in the sunshine, in the late morning, with friends. People say all kinds of things about this part of America. But they don’t tell you how lovely it can be in Autumn. www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...

In the bright, blazing sun, in the sweltering humidity of a terribly rainy June, I panted for breath. To my right was a steep grassy incline, pleasantly warm in the afternoon sun. To my left was a steep drop, the museum building, and the city of Moundsville... www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...

“If I was there,” he said finally, with all the mirth drained out of his voice, “I would be carrying people on my back! I would be carrying the children and… the… the elderly. I would run with the elderly on my back.” www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...

I skirted around the burial plots, seeking out the big trees to shade my walk. That was how I found the Fighting McCooks. The Fighting McCooks were a family of Civil War heroes from Ohio... www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...

I found myself standing in a squadron of identical little semicircles, each decorated with a metal ornament painted to look like a flag. I read the plaque declaring that these were the Union soldiers who had fallen in the Civil War. www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...

Somebody once told me that it’s disrespectful to walk on graves. You have to walk BETWEEN the graves. But I didn’t know how to do that on such a small plot, where so many people had been buried for a thousand years or more... www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...

They complained of hearing damage and of shrapnel in their bodies. They had PTSD and could not sleep without medication. They settled down to civilian life and started families, though it didn’t always go well... www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...