Targeted attack on a dockside restaurant in North Carolina. Three dead. Suspect a former Marine sniper in Iraq and Haiti who tried to sue the US govt for “genocide against straight men by the LGBQT community.” Flags at half mast? Endless op-eds? Victims’ faces on coins? www.cnn.com/2025/09/28/u...

I have a few authors I try to read every year. I've done Munro, McCarthy, D. Johnson, DeLillo, Hemingway, Greene, H. Green, Joy Williams, Kathryn Davis, Erdrich, Duras, P. White, Cather, Naipaul, Vollmann, Gordimer. Still need to get through Dick, Shakespeare, and Nabokov.

Book #98 of 2025 (working on a review of the new Joy Williams at #97): Half a Life by V. S. Naipaul. One of his better novels, I think. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2025/09/half...

No jumping to conclusions, but the claim here is that an anti-ICE sniper just missed and hit a detainee instead... like, three times?

everyone should take three hours out of their day and watch THE LEOPARD, a total masterpiece of a film. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

Morning Spew for Night Owls—Eric Adams Embraces Transphobia, the Last Recourse of Desperate Losers

Book #96 of 2025: Men of Maize by Miguel Angel Asturias. Incredible epic by the Guatemalan Nobel Prize Winner. My "Countries Read" list is now up to 112. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2025/09/men-...

Home of the nation's second-smallest post office

I was walking down a street in New York and I thought how lovely it was, with the trees and the light. Tried to take a photo and this came out. It’s incredible how blind we become to the ugliness of cars. They really do mess things up. Yet somehow we manage to filter them out.

Everything is gender.

This isn't even a slight exaggeration. He is actively working on destroying the US's entire vaccine infrastructure. The HepB vote will be tomorrow, where they will get rid of the birth dose and recommend it at 30 days, dooming a bunch of infants to chronic infection ft. cirrhosis, cancer, and death.

We can rent cameras?

One thing you could think about is that every "liberal" university has conservative student groups inviting fascists and reporting their fellow students to Breitbart for wokeness, but there isn't a progressive equivalent at Liberty University or Hillsdale. Wonder why!

Skagway, Alaska Pop: 1,005 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skagway,_Alaska Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=50678286 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=26301780 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=86307354

I’d never seen this one.

I genuinely cannot believe that Ezra Klein said we should run pro-life candidates in Kansas, Ohio, and Missouri; three states that recently held abortion referendums where the pro-choice side won!

As usual with this issue, Harris is calling for a compromise that already exists. Every sporting body has standards for how long athletes must be on hormones before they can compete as women. The problem isn’t that we’re ignoring ‘reasonable concerns,’ the problem is that republicans are lying.

The funniest thing about this is that he literally did do it. Without knowing which countries he was doing it for, I guess

donald trump and the white nationalists that run his government want you to think that slavery was just fine www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

far more disrespectful than anything any liberal school teacher posted about kirk. incredibly ghoulish.

In the coming decades, you or someone you love will be diagnosed with cancer, and you will wonder if Trump and DOGE are why treatments haven't improved

Book #95 of 2025: The Dazzling Paget Sisters: The English Twins Who Captivated Literary Europe by Ariane Bankes. Bankes, the daughter of Celia Paget, describes how her mother and aunt became friends and lovers of Orwell, Koestler, Camus, Sartre, etc. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...

First child of a SAG president to become SAG president?

Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...

I am consistently frustrated that Chris, one of the best damn posters on this site, didn't even have 1,000 followers. Follow this man!

This is the line that Dems need to push. It can't be simply. "Political violence is bad" it MUST be "Political violence is bad and Trump and his ilk are responsible for creating conditions ripe for political violence"

I think this is one of Chris's best stories and you should read it! You can even hear him read a section of it, which I must say, is extremely erotic. #booksky

I have a new story out in @oysterriverpages.bsky.social. It's about Crown Vics and the Everglades and exotic finches and life as a ghost. You can also hear me read an excerpt, if you're into that sort of thing... www.oysterriverpages.com/slough

Joy Williams continues to be weird, and continues to rule.

Book #94 of 2025: The Means of Escape by Penelope Fitzgerald. Great little collection by one of my favorite writers, including a gruesome little ghost story fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...

Everyone loves it when Ishmael says stuff like this but when I try it at Union Pool people go get the bouncer

What a really beautiful and chaste-looking mouth!

Book #93 of 2025: A Cat at the End of the World by Robert Perisic. With the addition of Croatia, my "Countries Read" list is up to 111. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...

Democrats are actively refusing to treat Trump’s military campaign against American cities as a crisis, because they’re in thrall to a bunch of idiot pollsters who tell them to only ever react to Trump across a tiny range of kitchen-table issues. The Democratic Party is a huge part of the problem.

There is no compromise policy Democrats can offer Republicans to make them act normal on this issue. We simply have to state the basic reality — immigrants contribute to our country in myriad ways — and fight for it. I don't know how so many journalists convinced themselves this isn't an option.

Immigration Policy Compromise Theory has been tested. GOP moderates tried after Romney lost, then got primaried by nativists. Dems tried it last year, with a bill that gave GOP most of what it wanted. They blocked it, then won the election. Reasonable concerns about border security this is not.

Immigrants are a social good, anti-immigrant propaganda is basically all lies, and any approach to the "problem" that doesn't start form those two points is worthless

Book #92 of 2025: Getting to Know the General by Graham Greene. The story of Greene's friendship with Panamanian ruler Omar Torrijos. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2025/09/gett...

Bang and Blame or So. Central Rain

"the typical black American has much deeper American roots than the typical white American. Trump himself, whose grandparents were all foreign-born, is an excellent example of relatively shallow white American roots." www.niskanencenter.org/logic-populi...

Book #91 of 2025: The Evening Wolves by Joan Chase. I love love loved her other novel During the Reign of the Queen of Persia. Which made this one a really baffling type of failure fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...

LOL at the "just checking the till here, Mark" baldness of 'settlers, explorers and pioneers' that excludes, you know, slaves, refuges or the native Americans. Just straight up white nationalism, undiluted and unveiled in all its ugliness.

Mom? Can I call the suicide hotline?

starmer is doing all the anti-immigrant and anti-trans "popularism" stuff the centrists are demanding US dems do and this is the predictable result:

RIP Graham Greene. Every time he popped up on screen when I was a kid, my mom would excitedly point him out for being an actual Native on the screen. Able to be deadly serious and infinitely hilarious (even in smaller roles like Last of Us), he ate up the screen. Nʌki’wah brother.

This ‘blue states closed schools too long’ narrative is becoming increasingly entrenched in the Polite Center but it’s arguable at best. Republican states had far more deaths during COVID and their students have roughly comparable learning loss.

I'm sorry but this is insane www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Trying to erase LGBTQ commemorations in Florida is really absurd. It's clearly in the top five gayest states

Book #90 of 2025: The Name of the World by Denis Johnson. Not his best, but still DJ. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-...