Today I donated to @rcfp.org

We’re not mad. Just disappointed…

The Salt Lake Tribune had a photographer at the Charlie Kirk rally, who has sent back photos of the immediate aftermath -- www.sltrib.com/news/2025/09...

The follow-up to these types of responses should always be "Name them".

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph: link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

That post-walk vibe…

Jeffrey Epstein’s estate has given Congress a copy of the 2003 birthday book, including the letter with Trump’s signature that he has said doesn’t exist. Read more: 🔗 on.wsj.com/4nGGdnJ

The thing about basset hounds is they always look like you’ve disappointed them.

Texas legislature passing a law saying the 1-yard line is the end zone

Map projections in the news! “The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organisations of the 16th-century Mercator map of the world in favour of one that more accurately displays Africa's size.” www.reuters.com/world/africa...

The conservative network Newsmax will pay $67 million to settle a lawsuit accusing it of defaming a voting equipment company by spreading lies about President Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss, according to documents filed Monday. apnews.com/article/domi...

So about those crumbs on the ground…We had just sat down on a crowded train to York when I heard a kid behind us: “mom! Mom! He’s eating our food!” I looked down and Frank had snatched a whole ass bread roll from their bags under the seat. He looked at me like a puffer fish. Mortified.

Pritzker said he showed his son a book of all the Illinois governors. He turned to the back and said, "There's a 40% chance I wind up in prison after all this. But if you accept my collect calls we can talk all the time."

Our hounds are such messy drinkers that the restaurant had to put up the warning sign.

BREAKING: Donald Trump sues Dow Jones, News Corp, Rupert Murdoch, WSJ reporters for libel, court records show reut.rs/3TNpulG

"UnitedHealth has targeted traditional journalists and news outlets, a prominent investor, a Texas doctor and activists like Ms. Strause and her father" www.nytimes.com/2025/07/12/b...

@pmonies.bsky.social good news for your vibes

Check out this historical map I just snagged from the Blackheath vintage bookstore showing SE London poverty at the turn of the century. GIS before GIS.

However, there was no air conditioning. That part was ridiculous.

Some Okies came through…

IMO Definitely nailed my attire for tonight’s Turnpike Troubadours show in London

I tried to get them to look at the camera but the scent of foxes in the air was too much to ignore.

Twins.

I have to wonder what goes through your head when you decide to FAFO with wildlife that can obviously crush or consume you.

This is a very thorough analysis — including using repeat satellite images to look for “patterns of life”. In this case monitoring the overfull parking lot of a high-explosive factory. More on how to use satellite imagery in data journalism: nightingaledvs.com/from-space-t...

Sadly, this RDX production site and this scale of investment don't leave us hope that peace is Russia's long-term plan. We reported this story with @reporter-polina.bsky.social @mcneill.bsky.social @christianlowe.bsky.social @zverevlive.bsky.social www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Russia is expanding its military-industrial complex and building new facilities. An important investigation by @reuters.com with @mashatsvetkova.bsky.social, @reporter-polina.bsky.social, @mcneill.bsky.social, @christianlowe.bsky.social, @zverevlive.bsky.social. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Russia is undertaking a major factory expansion in remote Siberia to ramp up production of a powerful explosive used in artillery shells and other munitions, a @Reuters review of publicly available documents and satellite imagery found reut.rs/42NMw0X

By reviewing state documents and satellite imagery, my colleagues found that Russia is undertaking a major factory expansion in remote Siberia to ramp up production of a powerful explosive Moscow needs to wage war in Ukraine www.reuters.com/investigatio... @reporter-polina.bsky.social

In the remote RU town of Biysk, beyond drone attacks, major construction is underway at an explosives factory. Evidence suggests plans to produce RDX or HMX, both powerful military explosives. The new facility could significantly boost Moscow’s firepower 1/5 www.reuters.com/investigatio...

NEW: Reuters reveals the construction of a major new high explosives facility in the Siberian forest capable of significantly increasing Russia’s firepower. With @mashatsvetkova.bsky.social @christianlowe.bsky.social Anton Zverev and Polina Nikolskaya. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

BREAKING: Reuters has won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in investigative reporting for a series of stories on the international trade in chemicals used to make deadly drug fentanyl reut.rs/433a5Sq

Fascinating #BBCMonitoring 🧵from 4 May highlights #BBC’s essential role in World War Two: “The list of names that you can hear being read out from 26:00 in the recording are coded messages to the Danish Resistance. Such coded messages were a standard feature of BBC broadcasts to Europe.” 1/

Fixin’ to get rowdy

Timeline cleanser. First extended basset hound play session since Franklin’s sister Dixie joined our fam.

So Nilla wafers are a hit

The challenge now isn’t just teaching how to think critically it’s giving people an immune system strong enough to resist weaponised information before they even realise they’re under attack.

It's release week for Never Say Never, making today the last day to order the First-Run editions! backloungepublishing.com/neversaynever/

New basset hound album cover just dropped

We have a new member of the McNeill fam. Franklin’s sister (really, same litter) Dixie has come to live with us.

Reuters used flight tracking data, docs & interviews to document previously unreported effort to ferry Assad's assets out of the country. The jets carried cash, valuables and confidential documents mapping the corporate web behind his wealth. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

There are some very bad stories going around about the Mahmoud Kahlil case. The hearing today was before an immigration judge — which is located within the Justice Department. They are NOT a "federal judge" in the sense that anyone reading at least one nationwide story saying so thinks of it.

And be sure to check out the authoritative coverage in Rolling Stone by @jcrutchmer.bsky.social … You could say he owns this beat. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

We had a hootenanny in Stillwater last night with Cross Canadian Ragweed and all the Boys from Oklahoma.

Reuters US Economics Editor Daniel Burns explains how US financial markets reacted to President Donald Trump's stunning tariff reversal, temporarily lowering the hefty duties he had just imposed on dozens of countries while further ramping up pressure on China.

Put it on my tombstone.

When you’re on the Tulsa-bound flight…

Train conductor: “stand clear of the closing doors or you’ll end up like Charles I.”

And the struggle to convince my dad that we needed a Sound Blaster card.

This story is a gem. “But we were all very puzzled,” he said. “Italy is not the Wild West like the U.S.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/w...