This is a brilliant idea. I have a note in my calendar to cancel my @nytimes.com subscription in May bc they won’t extend the lower sub rate I’ve had any longer. I can’t afford what they’re planning to charge. For crying out loud! Give me a senior discount! A longtime subscriber discount! Something!

I’m the daughter/mother/sister of soldiers. I know how ppl rally, then forget. Don’t turn away from Ukraine. They are fighting for their existence. They are showing US how this is done & it’s a lesson we had better learn. open.substack.com/pub/martinku...

No disrespect to the athletes that participate, but don’t get me started on the Olympics. Ugh. I don’t even watch them. Stuff like this is why. Write on, Martin. Right on. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

open.substack.com/pub/martinku... Don’t just pass this first-person reporting by because that’s “yesterday’s news.” The goons might be leaving Minneapolis but headed to your city next. DHS bought a warehouse for human beings in a town about 12 miles from where I live.

It’s astonishing that someone with the resources that Bezos has couldn’t have brought together a management team that could successfully manage The Washington Post. It’s as if he intended to run it into the ground.

Buck up, Phil! Get your act together!🦫

Catherine O'Hara was a comedic genius. Timing, physicality, wit. She had it all. We love this audition piece from Waiting for Guffman: youtu.be/fggXs7oIP7Q?...

Tonight’s Global Heartbeat on NCPR is a Robert Burns special — music celebrating Scotland’s national poet and his enduring legacy. Hope you’ll tune in. 9pm ET. www.ncpr.org

Residents in Minneapolis are standing together to stop a despot who rivals Russia’s. They know Trump will not change. We must link arms with them if we want to defend freedom in America. The time is now.

Please read my buddy Ray Glier's post about an inspiring 'Geezer Jock' runner in Ukraine. We should all be so bold. geezerjocknews.com/blogs/news/p...

Highly recommend⬇️⬇️⬇️

The Delaware, because either way we went when we crossed it, we were almost to our cousins’ house. Runner up, the PeeDee and Little PeeDee for giggling purposes.

I’m getting over a bad bout of the flu. I have T1 diabetes and a compromised immune system. I was vaxxed, but we all know it’s bad out there. This is my 2nd dance w/the flu this season. Take my advice: Mask up. If you haven’t gotten the vaxx, get it. It could make it easier if you do catch it. 😷✌🏼

open.substack.com/pub/martinku... In times like these, writer @martinkuz.bsky.social urges Americans to summon their “inner Ukrainian,” to resist tyranny and to remember community. A great read.

Since everyone seems to want to talk about human rights and how important they are, here’s a Q&A I did with Jill Savitt, Pres and CEO of the National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta. www.georgiatrend.com/2025/12/31/c...

While recovering from heart failure, Jeff Galloway learned that decades of using the run-walk-run method he popularized likely helped save his life. Now, he's determined to complete one more marathon.

My top 5 Robert Redford movies 5.Barefoot in the Park 4.The Sting 3.Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid 2.All is Lost 1. The Natural Honorable mention: Jeremiah Johnson Three Days of the Condor

Man, this is good. Forget Prime Day. Find an indie bookstore and pick up a good read. 📖#takealookitsinabook

Beautiful🥰

Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting

Quite simply, this president is off his flaming rocker. Trump Praises Military, and His Return to Office, in Memorial Day Remarks www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/u...

Do read and listen but prepare to be infuriated. www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...

Today I almost used the phrase “Hope is not a strategy” in my writing. I try so hard not to be cynical but it’s hard these days. Then I saw this. Glad I didn’t use that adage. I’m going to stay hopeful. www.instagram.com/reel/DJk1iWD...

Fear has a way of being contagious. But courage is also contagious.

Secretary of Defense Hegseth says he doesn’t know if Russia invaded Ukraine. This you?

Zelensky, please just leave the Oval Office. Just walk out. He's not worth it.

I'm really hoping Zelensky shows up in Washington tomorrow just to tell the president to his face that he has no intention at all of signing any agreement to share Ukraine's mineral wealth. I trust Zelensky knows that the president is a bad-faith actor, not deserving of any trust whatsoever.

I’m going on record as one American who is well aware that the current President of the U.S. is spouting lies about the war in Ukraine. Truth is truth no matter how often you repeat lies. 🇺🇦 Trump Flips the Script on the Ukraine War, Blaming Zelensky Not Putin www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/u...

Hey @itsajwillingham.bsky.social! Don’t be nervous. (Although, tbh, I rarely post anything either). A newsletter reader☀️

My grandson’s basketball team re: today’s tournament, said this morning, “I’m kind of nervous.” I channeled every manager, coach & athlete I ever interviewed during my sports writing days &told him not to underestimate his competition. Play the game in front of him. They’re currently leading 56-0. 🫣

I grew up going to DoD schools, some of the best schools in many of the communities we lived in, with outstanding teachers. The new defense secretary should brush up on the meaning of E Pluribus Unum if he thinks diversity harms unity in the military and in our nation. wapo.st/3WRYF1H

Quote of the Day: “Get of your ass and do something” My dad

Unpopular post alert: The idea that anyone would cheer, applaud, “like,” or defend the murder of another human being is puzzling to me. I thought the people on this platform were different. (News flash to self: they’re not). & the excuse, “but his company caused the death of others” doesn’t work.

Day 12 #booksky 20 Influential books (to me), covers only, no explanation. (My editors will say none of it sunk in🤷🏻‍♀️)

@drmoore.bsky.social I thought your Top Ten Books List was 👍 I will use it to guide my future reading. I'm currently reading Louise Penny's latest mystery, The Grey Wolf. It resonates frighteningly with our times. I'm not done, and I'm told there's a twist.😬

Hey Wednesday, what’s up?

Day 11 #booksky 20 Influential books (to me) covers only, no explanation. (From the “ya gotta start somewhere files”…)

Banana breadin’ for real. 🍌+🍞=🪄

Monday, amirite? Look up…⛅️

Day 11 #booksky 20 Influential books (to me), covers only, no explanation.

Day 10 #booksky 20 Influential Books (to me), covers only, no explanation (here’s a lil one anyway, the whole series is great, but read to the end. Always read to the end.)

Day 9 #booksky 20 Influential books (to me), covers only, no explanation. “This book means something,” my 7 or 8 y/o son upon finishing, 30-some years ago. Yep.

Vito beat out nearly 2,000 other dogs to become the first pug to win the National Dog Show. The two-year-old pup became a sensation on Thursday, when the competition, which was held earlier this month, was broadcast on NBC after the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/u...

Day 8 #booksky 20 Influential books (to me), covers only, no explanation …But this one tore me up.

You’re not doing it right! Happy Thanksgiving! 🍁🍂🦃 #gratitudeandstuff

Day 8. #booksky 20 Influential books (for me), covers only, no explanation. #thanksdad

Day 7 #booksky 20 Influential books (to me), covers only, no explanation. #wordshaveimpact

I’m in rainy Carlisle, PA, waiting anticipating another day of adventures with my buddy.

Day 6 #booksky 20 Influential books (to me), covers only, no explanation. Today I’m using the title page because the cover was blank and didn’t show the title.