Hello from Belém

Off to the Amazon for the first time! Mood:

Wow it turns out the entire country is not permanently reactionary because Trump won an election by 1.5%

Pathetic

Curious!

Blessing your TL with Lina Bo Bardi

Most people don't have high expectations from COP30. But with the US govt intent on wrecking climate policies at home and abroad, things could get testy. For a preview, tune into a conversation later today with Bloomberg's crack team on the ground at COP30. www.bloomberg.com/sessions/202...

Folha telling it straight

When no one at the école noticed your work

Getting down to the dregs here (I may have had a KitKat)

There’s a whole IG/TikTok genre of people renovating lovely period rooms in a bland contemporary style, and I see the president is now throwing his hat in that ring

“While reporting this story today, I conducted a brief review of the Free Press’ climate coverage and quickly found a unifying theme: that worrying too much about global warming is silly.”

This story about an alleged blackmail plot by a MD state senator against her former political consultant is *wild* www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

omg

Spent the day in meetings, catching up on Blazgate

those of you who are afraid of aging, please understand that one of the huge blessings of middle age is arriving at this exact station

Maybe not so unusual then? But striking as disaster declarations go down

me: so the world cup is a disaster now? @lawrencehurley.bsky.social: if england loses on penalties it will be

i’m sorry hwat

I wonder why fisheries proximate to offshore wind farms are now a focus of US public health efforts

Didn’t Sean Penn just play this guy in a movie

Heartbreaking. 21 years old

Dammit

At first glance, it might look like the US has exited the climate fight. But don’t be confused: America is still in the arena; it’s just fighting for the other side.

Melissa is a monster. Thinking of Jamaica tonight www.cnn.com/weather/live...

One of my favorite illustrations we’ve run recently (and the analysis by Jen and Akshat is 🎯 as usual)

20B well spent I guess…

I can’t believe there are not one but two articles, in major papers, with this dumb framing. It is not NIMBY to express dismay when a big part of the White House is suddenly rubbled

Symmetry and proportion, the hallmarks of classicism!

Perfect running weather in DC

My son should join Bluesky clearly (but he's about two decades too young, lol)

Today in unexpected texts from the college kid

Republican AGs, led by West Virginia's, are pushing the Trump administration to boycott the COP30 UN climate summit, saying it promotes anti-coal, anti-gas, anti-oil policies that are counter to 'America First' and that the US shouldn't legitimize. Gift link:

The Look Book Goes to Neighborhoods Under Federal Occupation

Never seen people on the Washingtonian Probs IG account more fired up than about the White House demolition

Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.

"No, this is not us, this is the splitters": every Episcopalian today

This is disheartening. I’ve read Governing on and off for years, and with so many battles between Trump and state and local governments, its focus is essential now. But not if it’s pulling punches.

Good article and wild to see NCPC and CFA staffing/politics in the national news. I feel like this is @jgbollard.bsky.social's time to shine

🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨 Many things are changing before our eyes. Others are harder to see Like the US economy Americans are spending more 💲 recovering from disasters and preparing for the next one. 36% of US GDP growth since 2000 is related to climate disasters. Welcome to the Disaster Industrial Complex 🎁🔗

This is our new feature on the rise of the disaster economy. The figures are jaw-dropping, yeah. But don't miss the story @eroston.bsky.social tells: A brewery in Asheville faced a difficult rebuild after Helene, and he breaks down its spending on sludge cleanup, plumbing, etc. That's Disaster Inc.!

In the US, many voted for this kind of policy but balked when they actually saw it in practice: neighbors being snatched as their kids wept. A jar of beads is abstract. Families and communities aren’t

How long before companies, roiled by internal discord and client complaints, miss the era of Woke

The White House contention is that commission review of WH building projects is not required for demolition, only construction. They may be trying to, uh, expedite approval by starting with a big hole. A WH staffer sitting in the NCPC chair seat won’t hurt either www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/a...

I think I missed a whole Nazi tattoo twist in the oyster guy story

Always find the local angle www.thebanner.com/economy/grow...

I'm not trying to be a "you're SURPRISED??" jerk, but gutting the East Wing after promising not to is exactly what a real estate developer with a dubious reputation would do. Extremely on brand

I don’t know how replicable this is (probably not very) but man. THE DREAM www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/s...

One thing about demolishing part of the WH and also planning to hold a UFC match on the grounds is it makes the debasement of the office very tangible