Hand it me

finally watched Casablanca. wild in this day and age for something to actually live up to the hype

"A big part of Noem’s legacy also will be her alleged corruption: her use of government planes for personal purposes, her abuse of her staff, her unprecedented choice to live in housing usually reserved for the commandant of the Coast Guard—the list goes on." www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-puts...

One was a small-scale farmer in eastern Ohio; the other started his adult life as a member of the Dutch resistance and after the war went into business

Happy 10th birthday to our pet gremlin, Mr. Bingley

While working at Hudson’s Bay on Bloor Street (RIP) just before closing one night, I sold around eight pairs of shoes to Shania Twain. They were all display models, so I spent the last several minutes of our interaction straining for nonchalance while prying staples out of the stickered soles

"It appears to be a compound fracture"

have evidently reached an age where before doing things that involve reaching, putting, stowing, hoisting, throwing, gesturing, etc. I need to collect permission slips from my rotator cuffs

If anyone is friends with any Georgian air traffic controllers, buy them a nice bottle of wine. As guardians of pretty much the only narrow gap still available between Europe and Asia that avoids both Iran, the Gulf, Ukraine and Russia, they are under some substantial pressure.

one more friendly fire incident like this and this Kuwaiti pilot could become this war's first fighter ace

Reminded today of a painting I saw at an exhibition in Toronto in 2019: "Lascar" by Laura Findlay. It's quite large in person. I found it engrossing and have often imagined it hanging on a wall in my home. (More from the artist here: laurafindlay.com/work.htm)

"Special combat operations are hell," "The lives of courageous American heroes may be lost and we may have casualties—that often happens in special combat operations," etc.

good morning mr president heres your daily read out on the war in iran…no sir, i didnt catch kimmel last night…yes sir, very mean and nasty sir…no sir ive never heard of joyce carol oates either sir

One of the most influential groups in hip-hop honors its legacy and the late Trugoy the Dove with a set of classics and new material. n.pr/4cj2DZE

Hey folks. A plea for help. Have you written your member of Congress about the war in Iran? Have they responded? We want to see the letters they're sending their constituents. If you have them, send it to us on our secure tipline. Here: thebulwark.com/tips

tales of terror told in words of mirth

Some interesting observations here but in general it feels like a missed opportunity—characters' more curious personal stylings are raised as questions and left in the air; the piece concludes that what you wear often communicates things about you www.permanentstyle.com/2026/03/dres...

I will destroy her

To whom?

A terrific essay worth returning to now, nearly a year later …

About to start the series finale of The Americans. Extraordinary show, but I admit I will be glad to shoulder off the stress of it at last

My boys have such a sense of humor. They hadn’t gotten up after their bedtime in weeks—until tonight, the night my wife and I had planned to watch the final two episodes of the Americans. Four interruptions so far. So funny! I am laughing and laughing. I am laughing. LAUGHING

One of those costs there’s probably no way to quantify but is obviously huge is just the huge deadweight loss of time and mental energy spent thinking and talking about Trump relative to a normalish president.

Not only is this maddening — it’s baffling. (See what I did there?)

Welcome to the resistance… John Piper?

Help me: I'm writing a thing for the book about the history of adjectival uses of "dad" (as in, "dad joke," "dad rock," "dad bod," etc...) and I need more examples. I want a very long, idiosyncratic list. So, what do you have?

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i always enjoy @thelincoln.bsky.social’s Counter Craft newsletter and i want to flag his coinage of ‘straw knighting’ because i hereby accuse yall of doing it all the damn time lol countercraft.substack.com/p/what-not-r...

Feel as though tonight some of us had as near a direct experience of "two hours" itself as it's possible to have

this speech in a nutshell:

here's looking at you, @cheetah.bsky.social

"I thought I was gonna make it an hour before drinking..." Condolences to @timmiller.bsky.social who is just starting a marathon solo-MST3K treatment of tonight's SOTU address www.youtube.com/live/I0UHb3C...

Livin’ la Vida Patočka

Trying something new tonight for my, idk, 10th state of the union/presidential address to a joint meeting of Congress: I will be doing a reddit AMA from inside the House chamber during tonight's speech. Ask me anything you wanna know that you're not seeing on TV www.thebulwark.com/p/a-republic...

Going to start bringing chalk with me so if I come across a mailbox I can mark it discreetly with a horizontal line. I just want to see what happens.

harsh but righteous review

TIL our newest aircraft carrier has such terrible plumbing that over the past couple years they’ve had to call toilet 911 dozens of times

This is going to be a new policy/enforcement nightmare for professors. But what breaks my heart is the way it entrenches (and profits from) the idea that students and professors are locked in some sort of zero-sum adversarial relationship.

underrated aspect of this: some kids might get to see special features about how movies are made

Is this bad

our purely arbitrary betrayal of Canada is one of the things which makes me angriest about Trump II

here is a case study in the benefits of pleats . . .

I'll say it again: Donald Trump ruined Canada as an object of gentle, good-natured mockery, one of our nation's longest-standing and most cherished pastimes.

What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses? Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

The Great Gatsby (1974) is, if nothing else, possibly the sweatiest movie I’ve seen