My obit for NatGeo.

Portland has elevated protesting to an art form.

I mean who isn't avoiding America right now

also, in keeping with Vance’s view of american identity, only white people are fully American with the right to critique or dissent. nonwhites must show proper gratitude (supporting Trump or marrying JD Vance) before they can speak critically of the country (in approved ways, of course)

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

The world is more empty without her. www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

Opinion| Could releasing the Epstein files cause autism?

@NewYorker.com fact-checker story evoked nostalgia for NatGeo in past era. “At an exhausting stalemate..writer might say,”I think it’s O.K.,” i.e. “I know it’s not exactly correct, but you’re being a prig.” A checker might respond, “It won’t keep me up at night,” i.e. “it’s your name on the piece.”

Your tax dollars at work….. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Love to see FBI agents with accounting degrees walking the streets of DC bullying homeless people instead of doing their jobs because a DOGE cybercriminal named "Big Balls" got beat up by a 15 year old.

This is absurd and a pure dictatorial power grab. There is no state of emergency in DC. We survived the damn 90s without this type of power grab, it certainly doesn't justify one now. Under the law, even if this is not judicially reviewable, he can only do it for 30 days.

What he said…

I have VERY VERY mixed feelings about the NY Post but this rules

Delicious!

Money doesn’t buy everything after all!

Oopsie! White House confirmed extraordinary security breech w/ top gov officials: VP JD Vance & Defense Sec Pete Hegseth who discussed planfor military strikes on Yemen Houthi rebels in an unauthorized group chat that mistakenly included The Atlantic’s editor. Trump denied knowing about it.

5] Neither of Marco Rubio's parents were U.S. citizens at the time of Rubio's birth, but they applied for U.S. citizenship and were naturalized in 1975. So Maybe we should deport Rubio???

Shameful. No humanity. No compassion, most of all Trumpet has no brains. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/u...

Marina Hyde@The Guardian "You may well be aware that Backpfeifengesicht is the German word for a face...worthy of being slapped.. its dictionary definition would presumably be adorned by a picture of the face of VP JD Vance – already faultlessly playing the role of worst American at your hotel."

This is exactly what the Dems should have done last night!

Sent today to the National Geographic Board of Directors, signed by around 250 current and former staffers and contractors. #science

Line of the night…from WaPo opinion columnist Ruth Marcus in response to Trump SOTU lie.fest: "We're going to balance the federal budget." Yeah, sure. Balance it by adding trillions to the debt with a new round of tax cuts. Honestly, I would stop listening to this nonsense if it weren't my job.

Between Maine’s Janet “see you in court” Mills and Vermonters like this, New England is stepping up to the plate.

No one had died of measles in America for ten years, until yesterday. That 2015 death in WA was preceded by a 12y period of no US deaths. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... HHS Secretary RFK Jr. says it’s “not unusual.” apnews.com/article/meas... It is unusual. www.cdc.gov/measles/data...

Tesla sales in Europe have been halved.😅

OMG

You go girl… Maine Governor and Trump Clash Over Trans Rights Gov. Janet Mills of Maine threatened legal action after President Trump said he would withhold funding to her state unless she complied with the executive order banning transgender athletes.

NYT headline. And this my friends is all he cares about: “Kremlin Message to Trump: There’s Money to Be Made in Russia”

NYT:John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston is temporarily closed, according to a website notice. A social media post by Jack Schlossberg, J.F.K.’s grandson, said Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency fired its staff. The library is administered by the National Archives.

Lavrov and Rubio are the new Molotov-Ribbentrop seeking to carve up Ukraine.

This is not good. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/b...

Do you suppose we will finally see Trumpf’s return? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/b...

Trump eggs reach a record high, $5/dozen. apnews.com/article/egg-...

Cancer research budgets down 85%, clinical trials on vital HIV and malaria treatments ended overnight, but we did manage to update Google maps. This is what *winning* looks like. 🙄

“What if the people who resign are the people who process the Social Security payments?” said Terry Clower, an expert on the region’s economy at George Mason University.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/u...

Finally, the must read book on owls by Jennifer Ackerman as reviewed by me in The Economist. A raptor’s mystique inspires “What an Owl Knows” econ.st/4gDOeFQ

And this…

A break from grim.

Such a small man. BACK TO PLASTIC!': Trump says he will sign executive order ditching paper straws - USA TODAY

David Runciman:”The presence at his inauguration of America’s richest men–tousled Zuckerberg& gleaming Bezos alongside Musk with his pinched, jowly, Ozempic-ravaged face…is testament to how much more Trump has to offer in his second term than in his first. He is promising feeding time at the trough.

Worried about our nation’s descent into fascism? This one pot cacio e pepe will make you feel like you’re in 1920s Italy.