"Not like a shadow." Her finger traced the gnomon without touching it. "We are the shadow." The afternoon light held long. The shadow crossed the IV, moving toward V. They both saw it move. "Fiat iustitia," she said softly.

As predicted by many economists; The Treasury just declared the U.S. insolvent. The media missed it. fortune.com/2026/03/23/u...

Congratulations to Carolyn Roy-Bornstein, author of A Prescription for Burnout: Restorative Writing for Healthcare Professionals, for winning a gold award from the Nonfiction Book Awards.

Congratulations to Karina Vunnam, author of Conspicuous: How Modern Luxury Redefined Craft, Clout, and Culture, for winning a silver award from the Nonfiction Book Awards.

Congratulations to Jay Nelson and Lindy Nelson, authors of Consciousness in a Nutshell: A Psychonautical Odyssey, for winning a bronze award from the Nonfiction Book Awards.

Excerpt: The Piano Tuner / Mosaic Vault Universe - Embassy Row Murders. Jim_Writes © "WEST" A Mosaic Vault Scene, Michael Ravel & Dr. Julia Blanc, FBI. jpwwrites.com/blog/chapter...

#Legal; A US judge said Mr Trump cannot construct his planned $400 million ballroom on the site of the White House's demolished East Wing without approval from Congress, halting for now one of the Republican president's most visible efforts to reshape the seat of American power @legal.reuters.com

Reading the Sea State - Lunch-Tiime ... Surfboard at the ready ... as geopolitical conditions change overnight as does a sea state.

@markhertling.bsky.social Salutes Professor - where history is taught, we learn. jpwwrites.com/blog

jpwwrites.com/blog Cc- @lastwordmsnow.bsky.social

Free Speech or FCC Carrs Freezing Speech? Carr Blares the Horn The FCC chairman’s comments at CPAC laid bare that the administration views controlling the media and sidelining critics as a political victory. www.status.news/p/brendan-ca...

If the strait stays closed, the world will have to significantly reduce its oil and gas consumption - but not before prices spike to a level that forces consumers and businesses to fly, drive and spend much less.

Daily Reminder "[I]n such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners." - Albert Camus hac.bard.edu/amor-mundi/a...

Marc - - Not to worry @padres.com - - Padres will take it easy on your Red Socks. @mpolymer1.bsky.social Salutes.

Important Reads: Inside the writing mind of an Air Traffic Controller - his story matters. Opinion @ms.now @anacabrera.bsky.social www.ms.now/opinion/dhs-...

The best part - advocate - educate - protect.

Polymarkets - Polycrises Era. In Vegas terms the closest analog would be counting cards at blackjack. Except the pit boss can throw a card counter out. There is no pit boss at Polymarket. And the cards being counted are classified with controlled signal noise. jpwwrites.com/blog/polycri...

Benjamin Franklin understood energy as a republic's nervous system. He did not use the word "petroleum." He did not need to. The geometry of dependency is ancient ... jim_Writes. jpwwrites.com/blog/a-razor...

Thank you Bruce, @brucespringsteen.net

CULTURE ICONS - March 25, 1969 - The Day Roy Orbison Chose to Live Again. Jim_Writes - Spilled Ink Series. jpwwrites.com/blog/culture...

Tomorrow, Saturday, March 28, 2026, 3,200 communities across this nation will step outside. Not in rage. Not in despair. In the oldest democratic tradition the Enlightenment bequeathed to this republic, the peaceful, principled, pointed assembly of citizens who have.. jpwwrites.com/blog/satire-...

I learned as a kid that if you hit a hornets nest it’s the hornets that say when the fight is over.

A wordsmiths detective story, stars Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. jpwwrites.com/blog

Leonardo Da Vinci said, “Art is the father of science.” Queens, Brian May enjoying both worlds!

Own it, learn from it, and move forward ... The quote does double duty. On the surface it's a observation about scientific culture. But the last two sentences are the blade: I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion. That's not cynicism. That's a diagnostic

"A duty to warn" 20+ doctors reported -somehow the press missed it ... We were advised.

Trump’s Armageddon-Taco shuffle. "In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies,” said Winston Churchill. The truth inside ... All the other reasons he gives, from regime overthrow to regime alteration ... are noise. www.ft.com/content/2656...

You cannot sanction your way through a minefield. You cannot tweet your way through the Strait of Hormuz. - Attention has turned to how best to neutralize such threats. A tweet versus a crewed tanker at anchor. One disappears in 24 hours.The other disappears forever. JW.

• Show Me The Highlights • The person throwing the ad hominem punch is the one waving the white flag on the argument. Remember that the next time you watch someone step to a podium and answer a reporter's question by attacking the reporter ... Jim_Writes ... jpwwrites.com/blog/attack-...

"Ad astra per aspera" - is a Latin phrase meaning; "to the stars through difficulties "

@maddow.bsky.social - my way to say thank you & team Maddow. The schwa of it all is this: the best journalism, like the best fiction, does not announce its significance. It reduces. It exhales. It trusts the reader, the citizen .. Cronkite and Murrow understood that jpwwrites.com/blog/dial-m-...

Craig, fyi - for your Newmark School of Journalism student body. Cheer's. @craignewmark.bsky.social

"Nobody saw" is the oldest institutional reflex in the language. Two words that close a room, seal a file, and send a grieving family home with nothing but the bureaucratic comfort of an absence ... But the crime reporter knows ... jpwwrites.com/blog/dial-m-...

... The mystery of conflict and resolve - it lives exactly there. In the gap between my writing effort and the character's ease. Between the pounding and the exhale. As the morning sun filters in my bay windows. I know my characters, pause, no, our characters did us justice. FYI @authorsguild.org .

The writer pounds. Wrists, keys, the carriage slam at the end of each line. My Coffee is going cold. The early morning dark still holding while somewhere between the words, the breath of dawn arrives. Every word, a small act of violence against the blank page ... jpwwrites.com/blog/the-sup...

So the market swings. Up on a presidential claim. Down on a Tehran denial. With no verified diplomatic infrastructure to arbitrate between them. • That is not a trading problem. • That is a governance problem. jpwwrites.com/blog/whack-a...

Joyeuse Journée de la Francophonie! 🇫🇷 "My favorite phrase is 'L'accordeur de Piano' the Piano Tuner." It isn't merely a title. In French, it carries a kind of metaphysical weight that English can't quite replicate, the image of someone who listens for what is almost right, then makes it true.

Democratic Backsliding Reaches Western Democracies, with U.S. Decline “Unprecedented” A must read. www.v-dem.net/news/press-r...

@weeknightmsnow.bsky.social excellent closing minute ,in one word regarding Press "Solidarity "

Ambassador-of-Frauds, Griff's and Bamboozls? (Allegedly.)

THE EMPTY CHAIR DOCTRINE • Where's The U.S. Ambassador? Jim_Writes Of 195 ambassadorial positions worldwide, only 75 have been filled. More than 120 posts, over sixty percent of America's senior diplomatic presence on the planet - remain vacant. jpwwrites.com/blog/the-emp...

Friends. Allies. Partners. 🇳🇴🇨🇦🇮🇸🇸🇪🇫🇮🇩🇰 Amis. Alliés. Partenaires. Geopolitical Truths .. . can we import some of it please.

"Keeping In The Shadows" took six years to film, focusing on surfing and universal themes. www.surfer.com/news/keeping...

You can borrow my surfboard J ! Chasing the Sunset Green Flash ... www.surfer.com/news/is-gree...

She set the Bar High!

The lighthouse doesn't argue with the storm, Friends. It just keeps its light on. @indivisible.org youtu.be/lJDCYh5iWQs?... I have my scars, you have yours-Don't let them take your power-Don't leave it alone in the final hours-They'll take your soul, they'll take your power -Stevie Nicks

@maryannefranks.bsky.social FYI I'm not gonna make any publishing Industry friends with this short, to the point non-fiction essay. #Writers need to know the AI backroom story. Advocacy takes a minute to reform a new industry practice. jpwwrites.com/blog/the-slu...

#Writing calls that pay up to $5,000. These #LitMags, awards, writing prizes, and grants are open to a wide range of #writers including writers of color, gender non-conforming and #LGBTQ writers, black #authors, and writers living with disabilities. 🔗 authorspublish.com/opportunitie...