Sent in another 30,000 words of my next book today, a second collaboration with Brett Adams. Almost completed now. Looking forward to sharing it with you someday, almost as much as I'm looking forward to us being finished writing it!

This is too wholesome

BLANK SPACE: A Cultural History of the 21st Century November 2025 Cover featuring the artwork of Andrew Kuo www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/769187...

Greetings from Wisconsin

Hey, wouldja lookit that! The cover's up for my new book, due September 23rd. www.amazon.com/Comic-Book-H...

merit is back baby

He fired the black chairman of the joint chiefs for being woke and hired his brother.

FunFact: if the salts, heavy metals, & radioactive components in fracking wastewater get into drinking water supplies... Most US water treatment plants can not filter them out.

A gobsmacking story. Water companies let toxic waste disposers, for cash, dump their loads into sewage farms. The sewage sludge is then spread, untested, on farmland, potentially poisoning vast areas, entire ecosystems and the people (you and me) eating the food. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

1. What you see here is clearest illustration why things are so messed up and why it cannot get any better until this asymmetry is addressed. Put simply: the right-wing has narrative dominance. My org @mmfa.bsky.social did this study and has been sounding this alarm for years. Some thoughts...

"The Forest Service is increasing its timber harvest to 4 billion board ft -- That’s enough lumber to circle the globe more than 30 times...The agency does not account for carbon effects when setting its timber targets because it 'does not manage for carbon.'” 🌏 wisconsinwatch.org/2025/03/fore...

Bad Company Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream June 10, 2025

Somewhere, Jeff Bezos is angrily clicking “track shipment” to see what happened to his new editorial page.

As someone who spends a lot time thinking about the values I want to teach my kid (besides PLEASE DON’T EAT DIRT), the thing I keep coming back to is this: I want him to believe that the strongest, bravest thing he can do is give a shit about other people—especially ones who aren’t like him at all.

NOTE: The opponents of DEI are purging anyone who is not a white man from military leadership This is not about merit; it’s about normalizing racism and misogyny

If I wrote this, you all would say I was taking the bit too far, wouldn't you?

Breaking: FDA's March meeting to select flu shot strains for 2025-2026 season has been canceled per email sent to committee members, a VRBPAC member told me. drug companies need about 6 months leeway to make shots in time for fall vax campaigns. #healthpolicy

Maddow on the @msnbc cancellations ( @joyannreid.bsky.social @katiephang.bsky.social Wagner etc ): “A mistake. Indefensible. And I do not defend it.”

This truly breaks my 💔 Thank you @joyannreid.bsky.social, I’ll be watching for what’s next. 🙏🏽

Someone at the American Bar Association ate their Wheaties this morning.

Weekend read for the coffee lovers: a guide to "co-fermentation," the controversial and mysterious process that might make your next cup taste wildly like watermelon, lychee, or other fruits and spices. slate.com/life/2025/02...

Same... it's flattering when people ask and I love reading the books before they come out.

Digital Drugs Have Us (Me too!) Hooked. Dr. Anna Lembke Sees a Way Out. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/m...

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

This @davidwondrich.bsky.social is magnificent, a marvel, the best piece of food and drink writing I've read in ages, a great respite from a stressy news world, amazing: punchdrink.com/articles/coc...

Thrilled to see you sharing these over here @alpinejohnny.bsky.social 🙌🏻

Thanks for this @ericasimov.bsky.social I heartily concur 🍷

Love this cover @steveredd13.bsky.social 🍸

4 fabulous books were not considered for this list, which in my VERY BIASED opinion, you should check out: Cured by Steve McHugh and myself, Jesse Griffith's Turkey Book (which I edited), Joe Yonan's Mastering the Art of Plant-Based Cooking, and Hot Sheet by Olga Massov & Sanae Lemoine

Thanks for choosing The Bartender’s Pantry as one of your best cookbooks of 2024 @paulaforbes.bsky.social ☺️ We’re honored to see our book in such brilliant company.