What do you want to bet this little tantrum on the WaPo's opinion page is because someone ahead of Professor Jakub Grygiel in the queue at some coffee shop had an elaborate coffee order and he hasn't been able to let it go ever since

LOUIS!! 😍

R.I.P. Alex… Alexander Butterfield, Who Revealed Nixon Tapes in Watergate Scandal, Dies at 99 www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...

Oh that’s my friend Montressor’s wine cellar

Kids may marvel that the funereal ballad Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald was a #1 pop song in the 70s but trust me it went great in your 'songs for the gas line' 8-track mixtape

we need a no history month. historians deserve a break.

“All the President’s Men” was a warning Nearly 50 years later, the film feels less like a triumphant ode to journalism than a warning about media decay www.salon.com/2026/03/07/a...

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

If I were to recommend only a single exhibition in NYC right now it wouldn't be a big, splashy museum presentation but rather a small, ravishing show of Édouard Vuillard's early interiors at Skarstedt in Chelsea. Absolutely stupendous. Open through April 25 (thread) www.skarstedt.com/exhibitions/...

Thank you @timeshighered.bsky.social for publishing my essay advocating for the value of developmental editing in scholarly writing & publishing! Takeaway for authors: learning to edit your own work in this way will help you get published better (and faster)

unironically one of my favorite kinds of chicago weather

The most famous line from Lincoln's second inaugural address is also probably the most misunderstood: "with malice toward none, with charity for all." I'm a fan of Frederick Douglass's gloss on it.

Astoria the Wild Turkey shows her iridescence in the warm evening light in The Battery. 🦃 ❤️ 🌅

Between roughly 1971 and 1994 there was only one year with less than 1500 murders in NYC. In 1990 there were more than 2200. Six per day basically Six murders. Per day. Last year, 2025, there were 305.

I know the world is a nightmare right now, but I just discovered that India has squirrels that look like this, and I need you to know it too.

On 1 March 1973: Harvest (UK) and Capitol Records (US) release #PinkFloyd's 8th studio album "The Dark Side of the Moon"; it stays on the Billboard Top 200 Album chart for most of the next 14 years, selling over 50 million copies worldwide.

🪬🧿 Edinburgh Castle in Autumn buy my photos as prints: scottishwallart.com #edinburgh #castle #scotland #cemetery #autumn #travel #history #architecture #landscape #graveyard #alttext

I love Chicago

A 2,000 year-old Roman blue glass drinking cup found in Trier, Germany. Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier 📷 by me #Archaeology

World's Largest Box of Chocolates, Kansas City, Mo Has 5,000 lbs of real, edible Chocolate 😋 www.worldrecordacademy.org/2024/7/world... / @tebarrett.bsky.social @chaosonpaper.bsky.social @piperformissouri.bsky.social @lesliejones4mo.bsky.social @docsociology.bsky.social @lalawriter71.bsky.social

The month of March Mars, Le Château de Lusignan, Poitou Miniature, on vellum,1412-16 & 1440 Two oxen pull a peasant’s plough; vines are pruned, soil turned & seed sowed. A dragon (Mélusine) flies over the right tower. Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry Musée Condé, Château de Chantilly

Now watching Judgment at Nuremberg (1961).

If you are younger than 83, you have never seen the US drop a single bomb as a formally declared act of war according to its constitution.

“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “lmao" said Gandalf, “well it has.”

Master of illusion: perspectival frescoes at Villa Farnesina Rome, by Baldassare Peruzzi, versatile Italian Mannerist architect & artist (1481-1536); apprenticed to Bramante, worked with Raphael & Sangallo, left drawings to his pupil Serlio for publication. Sala delle Prospettive, Villa Farnesina

I have really come to dread Friday nights that’s when the Trump administration always tries to slide their most illegal shit under the radar when they think no one is watching and they can get away with it

Ich thynke but litel of a Mondaye bleake Tuesday grey and Wednesdaye eke Thursdaye Ich care not for thee Yet Fridaye Ich am yn love [dreamye lute arpeggio] Mondaye thou kanst fall awaye Tuesdaye, Wednesdaye, myne herte slaye No mirthe ys founde upon Thursdaye Yet Fridaye Ich am yn love

I'm told that the East Coast of the US (including Boston) will experience a rare event, the selenelion when the rising sun and the setting moon will be visible at the same time, at around 6 AM Tuesday March 3. www.wcvb.com/article/rare...

We won't know for a long while just how bungled the case got, but I will say that as soon as I saw that first big press conference with the sheriff in way over his head and the FBI guy clearly pissed off, I knew it wouldn't be solved anytime soon.

Hallmark Carrousel Spring Collection (1969)

“Goodbye to all that!” shouts Robert Graves, as he throws your radio into the sea.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/w...

Casey Means left residency 4.5/5 years of the way through 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩

here's to the most elegant and endearing aging process ever seen in an Oxford meeting room

The woman has no criminal record and is unsure what prompted the threat of removal. She fears being deported to Iran given her father's military service and her Christian faith. n.pr/4rB8gap

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

The traveling exhibition Composing Color: Paintings by #AlmaThomas opens next at Chicago's Smart Museum of Art, where it runs March 24-July 5, smartmuseum.uchicago.edu/exhibitions/... Read the illustrated #ArtHerstory review of the SAAM version of the show at artherstory.net/science-natu...

New research: Paleolithic artifacts hint at earliest protowriting Geometric shapes on 40,000-year-old bone and ivory suggest early European Homo sapiens long possessed cognitive tools for language. www.science.org/content/arti...

A tale of two woodpeckers: the largest pileated I have ever seen on the left and a petite downy on the right

Some good news! bbc.com/news/article...

I'm old enough to remember when polio ripped through the globe and put my friends into iron lungs. We dutifully lined up at school to get vaccinated. We eradicated the disease. We protected the common good and saved lives. RFK Jr. is a disgrace.

every name is a winner here.

Just found The Secret History wedged next to my computer desk. Maybe a sign that I should read it.

There are certain queer times in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke

In cold weather, you may worry about the cats you see around your neighborhood. If you've got time to help, the kitties will thank you! Follow our tips to help your local outdoor cats during the cold months: www.humaneworld.org/en/resources...

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing people local newspaper reporters are rarified elites instead of ink-stained wretches driving their Honda Civic to a crime scene so you know don’t have to rely on Nextdoor and the police press release.

A detail from Rivera's mural highlighting indigenous knowledge about medicinal plants of all sorts

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/w...