Farm bankruptcies in MT greater than surrounding states #mtpol

It is truly fascinating what has happened with Atari in recent years. An absolutely spectacular pivot from the deeply weird and dubious company it was. Not usually a fan of praising CEOs but this one does seem to have hit a leadership groove.

"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in." Leonard Cohen. The paradox itself is the crack. Meno's challenge to Socrates: "How can you search for something you don't know? If you don't know it, you won't recognize it when you find it. If you already know it, why search?"

As Stephen Colbert's “The Late Show’s” finale nears, questions still linger about how the move came down, becoming a kind of murder mystery about the role politics played in CBS’ “financial decision.” Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/stephen-co...

Josh @tyrangiel.bsky.social Salutes. Heard you, Josh, on @11thhourmsnow.bsky.social

Yes!

Hemingway - "The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth and the capacity for sacrifice." Instead of polished, explanatory speech, his characters talk the way people actually do, indirect, restrained, often avoiding what they truly feel.

Goals. First pass (catching logic holes, plot threads). Second pass (prose refinement, tone consistency). Final polish (line editing, punctuation) Jim_Writes, yep, got his mission plan.

My Pepper's Ghost Staging, add Cronkite's line: AI CRONKITE (to the Jorno-Student) They stole the archive first. Then offered to pay for it. (beat) That's not a licensing deal. That's a receipt for the crime delivered after the fact. JW©2026. @craignewmark.bsky.social @virgobrain.bsky.social

Janet held a pen, a typewriter, a press credential and filed dispatches from Paris while it burned and while it was liberated ... jpwwrites.com/blog/for-who... @newyorker.com , Historical.

Janet held a pen, a typewriter, a press credential and filed dispatches from Paris while it burned and while it was liberated ... jpwwrites.com/blog/for-who... @maddow.bsky.social, historian.

And it reads like this morning's dispatch. Rod Serling named the mechanism with surgical precision, intimidation, threat, muzzle, control, coerce, surrender. Six verbs of suppression in one sentence 2026 Fifty-two years later ... You know what's more dangerous than censorship? The "tendency"- 1/2

There are 1.65 million veteran-owned businesses in this country generating $952 billion in annual sales and $180 billion in payroll. patrickmurphypa.substack.com/p/stop-just-...

"Où suis-je déjà effacé comme une page qu'on a brûlé ?" "Where have I already been erased like a page that was burned?" Proof-reading, edits ongoing. ©2026. Diamonds, Jazz and Mélange. New Orleans French Quarter. For my French Readers. Montréal, Quebec, Swiss, France, Cajun, Belgium. Oui, Yes

These awards arrive at a moment of "heightened pressure on the press," with the administration restricting White House and Pentagon access, defunding public media, and pursuing investigations into outlets and individual reporters www.poynter.org/reporting-ed...

1/2 2026 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Nonfiction: There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America by Brian Goldstone Poetry: Ars Poeticas by Juliana Spahr Music: Picaflor: A Future Myth by Gabriela Lena Frank Public Service: The Washington Post Breaking News Reporting: The Associated Press

The bottle-builder was not a villain. History is disappointingly short on villains and overwhelmingly long on well-intentioned people who never thought to ask the right question at the precision moment. jpwwrites.com/blog/the-bot...

One journal log entry on the ships bridge while inside the Bermuda Triangle ocean area ... A Notions Alarm saga. JW jpwwrites.com/blog/experie...

#Writers #Audiobooks #History These women worked under the restriction of their era and sharpened their craft against it. They could not simply state strength - they had to signal it. Breath, pause, timbre, the half-second before the lie or the undiscovered truth. jpwwrites.com/blog/the-voi... - JW

"Notion," is a modest word doing ambitious work. Writers, sojourners all ... It invites the reader in. "I have a notion ..." is an opening, not a pronouncement ... jpwwrites.com/blog/a-jazzy...

From those grey streets to global stages, from Live Aid to the corridors of the Vatican and the White House, Bono navigates his story with humor, self-awareness, and a faith he refuses to apologize for or oversimplify. - Jim_Writes jpwwrites.com/blog/rock-an...

Chapter: Zephyr Upree The Court of Two Sisters, Late Evening It's been said, old folklore, myths circulated that the driest place in the French Quarter during a rain storm this harsh is the Court of Two Sisters. Detective Vincent Ruffino stepped inside ... jpwwrites.com/blog/advance...

Les Ruines du Silence -The Ruins of Silence • A Sensory Noir Thriller Series • The French Quarter Mosaic Vault Thrillers • Introducing ... Dr. Helena Syracuse, Orleans Parish Medical Examiner finds her forensic philosophy from a french chanson vocalist ... jpwwrites.com/blog/excerpt...

"When power corrupts, poetry cleanses." - JFK, October 26, 1963. jpwwrites.com/blog/paralle...

When power corrupts, poetry cleanses." - JFK, October 26, 1963.

"Now for the other life ... The one without mistakes." -Lou Lipsitz.

#Writers #Journalism #Scriptwriters #WritersRoom #Playwriters. I typed coffee. Auto-correct insisted on coffin ... It wasn't entirely wrong ... Jim_Writes. jpwwrites.com/blog/the-psy... @authorsguild.org

@craignewmark.bsky.social , Was hoping to watch the next generation of journalism student awards, thinking about Craig Newmark's School of Journalism awardees might have been presented? Guess we'll not know for tonight's disruption.

Across every project, a pattern emerges: Film Director Francis Lawrence reads carefully, adapts faithfully, and trusts the author's architecture. In an industry that too often treats source material as a suggestion, that discipline is its own creative statement. JW jpwwrites.com/blog/francis...

Wordsmithing this word, "proscenium." It's one of those words that earns its syllables. From the Greek proskenion, literally "before the scene." The arch that frames the world the audience is permitted to see. Everything beyond it is hidden, managed, controlled. Everything within it is declared.

Wow, just learned of an upgraded professional tool for writing stageplays, et Al novels. Thanks David, Break-A-Leg, craftwriter.

Route 66 to Sunset Strip is not just a road trip. That's the American literary spine. Steinbeck ran it. Kerouac circled it. Joan Didion watched it from the other end ... jpwwrites.com/blog/a-journ...

"It's a good thing for Americans when neither Iran or Kash Patel are getting bombed " - John Kerry, Veteran

Historian and MITP author Jon Peterson traces the route from Prussian military headquarters to Gary Gygax’s basement:

@lohyb.bsky.social Oui, Bio! Magnifique. "One can speak of serious things without forbidding oneself a touch of humor."

Faulkner ...

FYI @craignewmark.bsky.social @vetsintech.bsky.social #Veterans #SecondService

The number of veterans starting their own small business is now less than 5%. open.substack.com/pub/patrickm... Salutes Patrick - @captmarkkelly.bsky.social @petebuttigieg.bsky.social @stephruhle.bsky.social FYI #Veterans #SecondService

Didion understood that the narrative is the survival mechanism. Not decoration. Not entertainment. Oxygen. The Hemingway/Didion/le Carré method. A method I learned from then. That nonfiction feeds the fiction hence, feeds the life.

Joan Didion's "We tell ourselves stories in order to live." - Joan Didion (RIP) Widely regarded as a summation of her views on how narratives create meaning in life. Didion understood that the narrative is the survival mechanism. Not decoration. Not entertainment. Oxygen.

Joan Didion's "We tell ourselves stories in order to live." - Joan Didion (RIP) Widely regarded as a summation of her views on how narratives create meaning in life.

A spilled bottle of ink - dark, glossy, caught mid-fall or just after. The ink itself - the protagonist. The very instrument of the #writer's craft, upended Grateful to have a cool USAF Veteran buddy as a book cover artist ... helps to clean-up my ink-spot-blots! Salutes Greg Jim_Writes 2026.

Foreign Rights Licensing; #Writers #LitAgents; Best term for what I'm doing is the "Hemingway/Didion/le Carré method." The nonfiction chaos feeds the fiction-thriller, reality is always stranger, sharper, and more morally complex than anything one could invent, In any language. Qui2Si © jw

The foreign licensing target markets: Quebec and Louisiana Cajun readers share the cultural-linguistic DNA that makes FQ noir-land. Swiss/Belgium francophone market, often overlooked, voracious for literary crime fiction in that vein. Oui, Simenon's Maigret built a dynasty.#Writers #Oui #LitAgents ©

LET'S GO, VIRGINIA!!!

Yep a classic case of Sealioning & Ad hominem (Latin for "to the person") a logical fallacy where an argument is countered by LAWLER attacking the speaker's character, motive, or personal attributes rather than addressing the substance of their argument. Katy Tur - wins

Katy Tur @msnowreports.bsky.social - Very WELL done re; M.L. M.L.classic case of Sealioning & Ad homine - logical fallacy where an argument is countered by attacking the speaker's character, motive, or personal attributes rather than addressing the substance of their argument. Katy Tur - wins,

"More Cowbell" As a meme it's our universal shorthand for: whatever you're doing, do more of it. Louder. With less apology. - Jim_Writes Spilled Ink, April, 2026.

SCOTUS Hit by Bombshell Leak of Secret ‘Shadow Docket’ Memos www.yahoo.com/news/article...