This woman tried to get into the White House Correspondents' Dinner 35 times open.substack.com/pub/petuladv...

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@rjhartigan.bsky.social is going to clear up what happened to Amelia Earhart once and for all ;) Join us for a conversation at People's Book on Mon. 3/2 @7pm about her new book, Lost. She'll be in conversation with @roncharles.bsky.social - I promise, we'll all learn something!

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Cancelled my WaPo subscription and replaced it with @theatlantic.com (already get NYT ofc), @51st.news, @thebaltimorebanner.com. Replacing Amazon/WF with local co-op, hardware store, Costco. For books: @bookshop.org, @tertuliabookshop.bsky.social, @thestorygraph.com, @peoplesbooktakoma.com

This makes me ill, and not just because I used to work there and have friends there. The people who add value to this world are the ones who are trying to understand it—like the people who cover sports, local news, books—not the people who are trying to profit from it.

Please help Bryan, a decent and hardworking person who was just kidnapped off the street in DC. He has been in this country since he was a child. He has a business and a family. He does not deserve such shameful cruelty. Please share. www.gofundme.com/f/help-bryan...

Lots of back and forth between bureaucrats and #AmeliaEarhart husband about whether she can see USN reports on 'Climactic Features of Pacific Islands' and 'Seaplane Anchorages and Landing Fields.' Very hush hush

There's a copy of the USS Colorado's weekly newsletter put out during the search for #AmeliaEarhart, the one in which the pilots saw "signs of recent habitation" on Nikumaroro/Gardner, but this isn't new.

The DNI released the Amelia Earhart files Friday, which has nothing whatsoever to do with any other files being released. I'm going through them (even though I'm on a writers' retreat, dammit). So far I've seen a portrait of Earhart, a gracious FDR letter, and a complaint about a ship's carburetor.