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A photo I shot from the Bluffs two weeks ago…sending comfort today to all who are aching on the East and West Sides, to Altadena, Topanga, Malibu.To those displaced and unsettled. To those grieving and suffering from the health effects of the smoke. To those who moved away but are right here still.

This is painful and, for me personally, too soon...BUT it's really good. "The fires" could happen again, and DWW outlines some practical prevention measures. @dwallacewells.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/o...

I am reminded here to tap the sign encouraging you all to support independent, worker run, billionaire free newsrooms how and where you are able

It’s here! 90th & West End Ave. Not to be picky but it could use a door and a dial tone.

Goodnight, sweet angel. @matteowong.bsky.social, in mourning for the MetroCard (and with a lot of cool new photos and videos of the MetroCard factory in its final days):

Wildest of the year. www.dezeen.com/2025/03/31/m...

Amtrak’s “Next Gen” proves again to be an utter debacle, and MTA a miracle.

Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.

10,000 jobs www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/c...

Again, from Michael Grynbaum, here is Sharyn Alfonsi's full email. It must be read:

do leaders of the top investigative newsroom in the country not understand what makes their journalism valuable??????

“…even in the midst of chaos and violence, we can remain compassionate and fearless.” -Tuan Andrew Nguyen www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/a...

We're thrilled to announce that Nina Lakhani will be joining Drilled as senior global climate justice reporter in January, based in Mexico City. We've long admired her incredible ability to tell the human stories of the climate crisis and can't wait to collaborate!

Oh lord what a beautiful piece: “His brainchild now consorts with the bad buys The sinker, clinkers, dogs and dregs, The Edsels of the world of moveable type, The bummers that no amount of hype could shift, The unbudgeable turkeys.” h/t @beijingpalmer.bsky.social web.cs.dal.ca/~johnston/po...

No student journalist should ever have to write this kind of story www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...

Officials in Washington State are especially concerned about the Skagit and Snohomish Rivers, which were rising on Thursday and expected to crest at record levels by Friday. But it could be days before the full extent of damage from the floods is known. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/w...

Or if you're more of an audio person: drilled.media/investigatio...

The Bright side: French Christmas ad starring vegetarian wolf goes viral

Here's a little goldmine: recordings of author talks/interviews at Shakespeare & Co. in Paris. (I'm a huge fan of Francesca Wade's new Gertrude Stein bio, and this interview!)

Trump hung up on a ProPublica reporter after being asked whether his Florida mortgages were similar to those of others he had accused of fraud. Read our full investigation here 👇

“They aimed weapons at witnesses that included staff and students while many more students watched from their windows. These tactics, with the implicit threat of violence, are unacceptable, dangerous, and profoundly disturbing.” www.augsburg.edu/now/2025/12/...

This Hanya Yanagihara quote feels bullseye to me: "But perhaps Gen X's greatest contribution...is not the irony or apathy with which we're popularly associated but our against-all-rationality dedication to making things our way—even when the world is hostile, even when it seems no one cares."

Amazing that Paul Goldberger (who wrote Gehry's biography) had just yesterday written about the firm's latest project...the day before Gehry passed away at age 96. It's such a beautiful case for never retiring. www.architecturaldigest.com/story/archit...

The writing in this New Yorker at 100 Netflix thing is so, so bad...."he quipped."

Gift link. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved. Don't look up!

I love this photo by Denise Sofranko of Raitt & Prine performing in ‘93. (New doc! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/a... )

“Mr. Trump has said publicly that he would like a ballroom big enough to hold a crowd for a presidential inauguration.” So, about 1,000 people then. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...

Northwestern throws trans women under the bus to please the Trump administration (while also paying off the Trump administration).

And one more other thing I’m seeing now, that Northwestern unsurprisingly didn’t mention in its statement, effectively banning gender affirming care at NU school of medicine

This is the second largest payout from a private university to the Trump admin yet, second only to Columbia’s $200m

Free spirited joy from E.B.White, responding to a U.S. Dept of Ag bulletin re: bees resisting breeding... "Man is meddlesome, man is dull, Man is busy instead of idle, Man is alarmingly suicidal... I am a bee, I know about love: You go upstairs, you go above..." www.badbeekeeping.com/ebwhite.htm

arguing about AI on here today is the coward’s path and you know it, you gotta go do it with your worst uncle

"I don’t know what kind of impervious boor you have to be not to notice that everything in France looks better than things look anywhere else. There is some sort of atavistic aestheticism embedded in the French soul. The smallest objects of daily use are touched with beauty." -Janet Malcolm

“Israel has destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in areas of Gaza that have remained under its control since the ceasefire. “Many of the razed buildings did not appear to be damaged prior to being destroyed. There were houses with gardens, trees and some small orchards.” www.bbc.com/news/article...

"...her writing, which is often called journalism, is in fact some other wholly original form of art, some singular admixture of reporting, biography, literary criticism, psychoanalysis, and the nineteenth-century novel—English and Russian both." www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6...

“If we drive the carbon cycle far enough from equilibrium, it will respond in kind, no matter how hard we try to subordinate it to the market, or tame it with panicked legislation.” - @peterbrannen.bsky.social (quote from Peter’s excellent new book)

Delhi’s pollution is a crisis of democracy as much as public health, citizens say

Writers! Applications for the Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award are open. This year, we've increased the prize to $15,000 to account for the higher cost of pasta. Apply now: journalism.nyu.edu/about-us/awa...

"Emissions appear to have stayed nearly flat in China and Europe, but rose significantly in the United States and much of the rest of the world." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/c...

I've posted before about how much I enjoy the random and detailed pedantry of fact-checking. Just off a call that required watching YouTube clips to parse the correctness of a simile involving the way Imperial Walkers fall over in Star Wars.

A siege-breaking snowstorm followed by the strongest aurora in living memory is proof that Chicago has the Mandate of Heaven and its enemies will die by her sword

“Climate-related disasters forcibly displaced 250 million people globally over the past decade, the equivalent of 70,000 displacements every day, according to a report by the UN refugee agency.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"Fossil demand has been flat for industrial energy since 2014, for buildings since 2018, for road transport since 2019, & may peak for electricity this year. 2/3 of countries have already seen peak fossil demand in end-use sectors, & half the world has seen a peak in fossil fuels for electricity."

Marvelous family…they found me Janet Flanner’s postwar love letters…for $26 including shipping. 🙌 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/n...

Adaptation 🤝 Mitigation

Are we invading Poland

Gross