Just had the pleasure of introducing the not-online @cristinabeltran.bsky.social to the Count Binface story

Christo, "Wrapped White House" (2026)

“This is what it looks like, apparently, to make ’flying great again.’”

They're gonna have investigations! They're gonna impeach!

surprising that Trump is still concerned about election security when he solved the issue nine years ago

This is a pretty great way to apply your mega celebrity influence. youtube.com/shorts/DEoCp...

Five living writers whom you've read five books by each Anne Tyler Jane Smiley David Mitchell Mark Helprin Susan Orlean (+ Michael Chabon, Charlie Huston, Carl Hiaasen, Ann Patchett, Michael Lewis, John Irving, Barbara Kingsolver, Richard Russo)

Had no idea! We saw ARCADIA yesterday, at Duke of York's Theatre. (Mixed feelings about the play, but that's probably our fault.)

It's a massive theft of our tax dollars from us. Intolerable.

Had no idea! We saw ARCADIA yesterday, at Duke of York's Theatre. (Mixed feelings about the play, but that's probably our fault.)

"the peace president"

I knew @rschmidt65.bsky.social would be in high demand this week, but damn, give the guy a chance to take a breath

TBH would rather not

The White House's new attack on American history pointedly, purposefully makes white people the protagonists. When it comes to slavery: "Enslaved people are inherited, freed, and mourned in the aggregate. They are acted upon at every turn. They never act." The grammatical decision is no accident.

It's not only in @nytimes.com that the ongoing war in Iran = "testing fragile truce"

The list of people who falsify this statement is long... but at the end he says that who he has in mind is MATT GAETZ , elected as a GOP Rep three times after the allegations came out, *then* initially chosen by Trump as his AG nominee. The Republican Party took *no* action against him.

Well, we may have lost but at least we look like we cheated

Seven years ago: "Sir Kim Darroch, one of Britain's top diplomats, used secret cables and briefing notes to impugn Trump's character, warning London that the White House was 'uniquely dysfunctional' and that the President's career could end in 'disgrace'." Britain's man in the US was spot on.

Since RFK Jr. is obsessed with healthy sperm, surely he'll highlight this research, right? . . . except that his boss is explicitly working to *increase* air pollution, so no

Oh, to have a political leader who understands literary references

Visiting London, we considered staying up and going to a pub to watch at least the first half of the UK–Mexico match, but kickoff was delayed until 2am, so glad we opted for bed. Was less fun watching an online highlight reel this morning, but still.

I finally got my VPN and cable login working for this?

This year's #PrideInLondon parade felt particularly special, and not only because we got to be here rather than at home, avoiding updates about Trump's desecration of America's 250th. Great to see so many companies & government agencies sponsoring floats & T-shirts & more. Cowardice is a choice!

Four years ago today! Happy "the legal doctrine of starry decisiveness" to all who celebrate

“America, in their view, is an arena of supremacy where only a select few are allowed freedom. America, if you ask them, becomes less the more people it welcomes. America, they will tell you, belongs only to those with the right accent or the right shade of skin.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

One of America's leading airplane experts & enthusiasts:

These videos about America 250 have brought me so much joy. Absolutely hilarious shit happening over on TikTok.

Crowded House released my favorite album of 1991 thirty-five years ago today. WOODFACE, the band's third, is somewhat incoherent, with half of Neil Finn's songs originally written for a Finn-brothers project & replacing seven tracks that A&M Records rejected. But the LP highlights are [chef's kiss].

Budweiser introduced its BUD MAN character in 1969, and my family collected posters & stickers & steins & salt shakers throughout the '70s because, c'mon, the name. A highlight: a 1976 set of bicentennial stickers, with Bud Man in a series of iconic Revolutionary War scenes. America!

A fun @danamilbank.bsky.social report on Trump's fair . . . though I swear I've read more journalists' reports than there are fair attendees visible in photos and videos. How are writers not just interviewing each other?

Personally, I'm gonna need a lot more time & distance & analysis & context before picking up another book about the Trump administration. But 300,000+ copies sold suggests that an awful lot of people, even now, are trying to grapple in real time with all of [gestures wildly] *this*.

Great digging into a fascinating story—one that absolutely fooled me because why would anyone manufacture such an article?

Quite something to be watching this match in a packed London hotel bar

Trump stole your tax dollars and redirected them from projects across the nation toward his "extravagant, expensive and time-consuming" Washington projects because, like a toddler, if he doesn't see something personally, it doesn't exist.

I wonder whether MAGA people would be so overwrought if, as originally predicted, SCOTUS had slapped down Trump's executive order 8–1 or 9–0 instead of 5–4. They're now 100% convinced that ending birthright citizenship is a no-brainer rather than a fringe opinion.

Not the least bit tired of seeing these clips! Keep 'em coming. We visited Washington in February, and there were *far* more people just strolling on the Mall on any given evening than this

prepare to have your daughter accused of being a boy and face demands that her gentials be inspected if the dad on the other team thinks that she fouled his special snowflake too hard

TMZ DC with perhaps the most brutal video from Trump's Great American State Fair, showing Dr. Oz on stage bragging to Dean Cain about how big the crowd is, only for the reporter to pan around and show absolutely nobody is there. Original post: x.com/i/status/207...

“America’s milestone birthday feels particularly joyless, less a celebration of the world’s most powerful country than a case study in how a demoralised, self-doubting nation has fallen prey to culture wars and the narcissism of its leader.”

I'm sorry to report that a hardcover copy of Herman Wouk's War and Remembrance has appeared on the giveaway shelf in my building's laundry room. As I have explained, in Jewish tradition, this denotes the passing of an elder.

“America’s milestone birthday feels particularly joyless, less a celebration of the world’s most powerful country than a case study in how a demoralised, self-doubting nation has fallen prey to culture wars and the narcissism of its leader.”

GATTACA [1997, dir. Andrew Niccol]

Spotted in the window of a flooring store in Berwick-upon-Tweed yesterday spelling: 3/5 letters 60% correct: D minus

Wishing Rosemary's baby a happy 60th birthday

Today in LinkedIn job listings

Not everything is terrible 🏳️‍🌈

I now fervently believe this. Relatedly, I think celebrating good news and embracing joy are equally radical. You have to remember what you’re fighting for. We cannot sustainably organize around sorrow.

This is the one true recipe for a Reflecting Pool: 2oz rum, 4oz pineapple juice, 1oz blue curacao, one Blue Razzberry Fruit Roll-Up

Welcome? Does he think passports are visas?

The tech bros said they went Republican because Joe Biden was less laissez-faire than they preferred. Now that "the Trump administration is tightening the reins on AI regulation" and creating "an open-ended and confusing regulatory landscape for AI companies to navigate," will they go back? Nope.