Hungarians celebrated the landslide defeat of Orban by singing "We Are the Champions" out in the streets

I doubt that Pope Leo XIV will lose any sleep over this, before he begins his pilgrimage to Africa tomorrow. But the rest of us should. Because it is unhinged, uncharitable and unchristian. Is there no bottom to this moral squalor?

Maine what can't you do? First you give us Cooper Flagg and now you're telling the data center scumbags to piss off. 🫡

Millions of American voters wanted to be villains. They came to believe it’s the key to success, while goodness is weak, woke, loser stuff, done only to signal. Offered the option of unvarnished villainy, they enthusiastically took it. Seeing others suffer more made them feel big. And here we are.

I tossed my beloved Ultra Fine Point Sharpies after yesterday. We take stands where and when we can. Sometimes in the smallest ways. Letters will still be written.

NEWS: Bette Midler just released a remake of Woody Guthrie’s classic protest song “All You Fascists Bound to Lose,” updated to fit the current moment and urge action ahead of the midterms. You have to listen to this.

Excited to share some personal news, and an answer when asked, "So Bob, what are you doing this offseason?" Extremely grateful to Joe Perry at Perry Literary, Peter Wolverton @stmartinspress.bsky.social and everyone who has helped me to reach this project's starting line. A long way to go! #BookSky

In Haverhill, Mass., WHAV Radio had already decided to drop CBS News and expects to announce an agreement with a different news service soon. “It is a sad end for what was once called the ‘Tiffany Network,’” says station president and CEO Tim Coco. #journalism whav.net/2026/03/21/w...

“Only yesterday . . . I looked so poorly the casual observer might have taken me for a Republican.” ~ Frank Skeffington, the lead character in Edwin O’Connor’s The Last Hurrah (1956).

The first Substack letter of March. National Park Road Trip planning begins. An important anniversary approaches.

I guarantee that huge swaths of "good people" in New Hampshire have NO IDEA this is happening. People are incredibly checked out of even state politics now, let alone the municipal stuff.

New omissions to the Medgar Evers home tour include why there are bloodstains in the driveway, and who killed him, and why mississippitoday.org/2026/02/12/m...

Today on Race Point Beach, Provincetown, Massachusetts

This is a great piece. Loved this anecdote.

This is who he is, and who he always was.

As these teens describe, AI can diminish human relationships; devalue art; threaten the environment; lead to laziness; give unreliable results; pose privacy concerns; and be misused. So, please, stop with the narratives of inevitability and let's embrace a pedagogy and politics of refusal.

I’m just going to pretend Bruce Springsteen owns the Patriots. That’s my plan.

"If the Minnesota resistance has an overarching ideology, you could call it “neighborism”—a commitment to protecting the people around you, no matter who they are or where they came from. [T]heir neighbors whether they were born in Minneapolis or Mogadishu."

Interesting essay by Jonathan Rauch on why he's concluded that Trump is an actual fascist. I've been calling Trump an authoritarian for a long time, and a racist hate-monger for even longer, but I wasn't quite sure how you'd go about defining fascism. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Pretti died after asking a woman he was with if she was OK. Good died after telling the man who killed her that she wasn’t mad at him.

really wish we'd opted against having the worst people in the world run my country

Someday corporations and technology companies will pretend they were always against this

you know this guy is a FOR REAL photographer because he's telling the story of his brutal, unconditional arrest by federal goons and can't help but slip in a gear review

That 31% is forever Trump’s base.

Trump accepting Machado's Nobel Peace Prize is a great insult to the FIFA Peace Prize committee

Me, reading and studying history: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me, realizing I am living through a historical event: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

In a world where Tr*mp’s jackboot icy thugs are an example of the worst of us, Provincetown is a heart healthy alternative, and seeks the best of us.

Just a reminder that you've never seen a Calvin & Hobbes animated movie or cartoon is because Bill Watterson didn't want to give Hobbes a voice so he could always live inside your head exactly the way you imagined him. And to this day you have no idea who he ever has voted for. But you can guess.

Deranged. bsky.app/profile/notu...

My morning routine of letter writing grounds me during these fractured, post-truth times. It centers my soul. The quiet and stillness is everything. “The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.” ~ Rachel Carson

Home Alone 3 looks awful

I watched an interview of a woman from Greenland. The interviewer asked her about Trump. She replied that she didn’t like Trump because he interrupts her sleep. I mean…same.

"This was a family that could've been like mine" -- Philip Bump breaks down crying on MS NOW when talking about the stuffed animals in Renee Good's car when she was killed

Losing the vocabulary to capture the grotesquerie we're witnessing.

Coach of the Year? The Patriots Mike Vrabel, who regularly signs autographs and interacts with fans, took a moment before Sunday’s game for a selfie (or, for fellow Ted Lasso fans, an “ussie”). Then his team went out and gave the entire home crowd a 14th win to celebrate.

Man, please.You're Bari Weiss's handpicked boy. Your whole job will be kowtowing Trump and corporate interests.

“Can’t believe NYC elected a Muslim as mayor.” In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.

This new Cape Cod life. Today marks one month, and so far it feels right. The goal remains the same: two winters, two books.

It's like the 9th stupidest thing in this one paragraph, but I'd direct the angry egg-shaped man to this speech from 2005 in which Obama literally namechecks like 50 White sox including (delightfully) Scott Podsednik. obamaspeeches.com/035-Chicago-...

Most gratifying (non-family) happening for my 2025 was the launch of the Satchel Paige Project. A work in progress, I have logged 1,909 games thus far. (I have another 145 as "plausible".) If you have questions, ideas, or wish to help, let me know! marklaurencearmour.wordpress.com/2084-2/

The more Kelly speaks, the more presidential he sounds.

Look for my sixth book to wash ashore this Spring! substack.com/@donwildings...

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

Yelling, lying; yelling, lying; yelling, lying. So inspiring.

Fact-check: true

First game back, dude starts 1-1 from the flippin’ tunnel, a 100 ft shot.

It's time once again for my annual #treebybike post. This is the 12/19/42 cover of @newyorker.com, so one full year after the attack on Pearl Harbor. This would be the first real Christmas alone, or without a family member, for millions in the US. Gas and tire rationing had begun earlier that year.🗃️

Happy 60! Emmy and Peabody Award winning animated holiday special, “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” debuted on CBS in 1965. It finished No. 2 overall for that week (behind NBC's "Bonanza"), with a 45 percent share of the audience.