“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.

disgusting and embarrassing as an american

I am embarrassed that she is one my senators.

Sad, but that’s the reality in the U.S.

It's unfathomable to me that there is a group of people, leading our country, who are APPEALING the ruling that, yes, you have to feed the people you serve. You can't just let them starve because you feel like it. Rank evil that shakes some of my beliefs about humanity, frankly.

women to the rescue

Bill Ackman gotta be on the third draft of a tweet longer than Middlemarch right now

Wow

BREAKING: Democrat Ghazala Hashmi elected Lt. Gov of Virginia, making her the first Muslim woman elected to statewide office anywhere in America.

Montgomery Schnauzer P.I. spotted in popular #yaletown gathering place, Bosley's by @petvalu.bsky.social - No trick, just gimme the treat! - #kidlit #dogdetective

@matthewjdowd.bsky.social from1935!

GOP: I can't believe Dems are trying to stop us from taking away your healthcare. Just for that, no food for you.

on this day in 1892 Ida B. Wells first publishes Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases. “The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.”

You still want to believe the political fuel that powers the American collapse into authoritarianism isn't the deep, abiding resentment of white men who pine for an America that sees and services only them? Gaze upon Leni Riefenstahl's recent work for Donald Trump's U.S. Department of Labor.

Plotting our next National Park coast-to-coast road trip, but since it won’t come until June, I would expect there might be one or two shorter adventures along the East Coast this winter.

I am a @peterbakernyt.bsky.social fan, however, that last sentence in his post is just more weak sauce by mainstream media.

Whatever this is every day seems like a combination of Baghdad Bob and the Five O’Clock Follies

“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.” 🍁 Khalil Gibran

I dunno. Something about all the pics from yesterday. The big zoomed out ones with endless speckles of humans. Close ups on individual participants. I don’t know where we go to upend the fascism and fix the damage, but feels like something.

#NoKings Miami!

Nauset Light, Eastham, Cape Cod. This will be our new neighborhood, beginning December 1.

Loved this excerpt of Gary Ferguson's THE TWILIGHT FOREST in @orionmagazine.bsky.social. Ponderosas offer, he writes, "a feeling of being sheltered—a sense that even when the world is dark there are places you can go to feel some measure of belonging." orionmagazine.org/article/twil...

"“We got 27 historical markers around town. We have so much history. When you sit there and you listen to all the history that’s here in this town, it’s incredible."

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

The tech billionaire and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel says the antichrist is ... Greta Thunberg www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

@msnbc.com, you could really use these kinds of insights that @matthewjdowd.bsky.social regularly shares.

True words from one of the better public lands-based accounts: “Public lands need support now more than ever.”

Pope Leo yesterday: “Someone who says ‘I’m against abortion but says I am in favor of the death penalty is not really pro-life, someone who says that ‘I’m against abortion, but I’m in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States,’ I don’t know if that’s pro-life.”

National Congress of American Indians" "Wounded Knee Was Not a Battle. It Was the Deliberate Mass Killing of 350 Lakota." nativenewsonline.net/currents/nca...

Because Democrats prosecuted Republicans for crimes they committed (to be precise, there was probable cause), it's only fair that Republicans prosecute Democrats for crimes they didn't commit. Do I have that right?

“US Tourism Sector Hit Hard By Collapse In Canadian Travel, With Border States Like New York And Michigan Experiencing Historic Losses” 9/23/25 … 1/

Hakeem Jeffries twisting a huge dial labeled “appeasement” back and forth as he anxiously looks out at a crowd of consultants, waiting for them to boo or clap

First week of autumn in NH’s White Mountains.

Someone asked me recently what we do about #science stories that are lost or destroyed or buried. I was lucky to have diaries to reconstruct this story; what if we don't? I said art - fiction, plays, poems - have a lot of power to take fragments and show how things might have been, or could be.

YOUR BOSTON RED SOX ARE POSTSEASON BOUND!

To add to this, in 1990, both house of Congress, under President Bush, passed a resolution expressing "deep regret" for Wounded Knee. Anyone who takes pride in what happened there is a scumbag of the highest order.

Rick Moranis officially returns to acting in first photo from 'Spaceballs' sequel table read featuring a cast reunion with Mel Brooks, Bill Pullman, and more.