Best news in about a decade..

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Go go go is all I can offer from here.

This was my favorite piece of news today. Also, why do Vance and Rubin need to be accompanied by the private army (ICE) when they are in Italy for the Olympics? Isn’t that what the Secret Service does? Bad precedent.

Three cheers for Philip Glass, whose Solo Piano record has been my boon companion for decades whenever I'm painting. (I notice that Glass didn't use the current administration's name for the center in his letter.)

The coordinated, nonviolent resistance in Minneapolis, George Packer argues, “offers a compelling answer to the question that democracy-loving Americans have asked for the past year: ‘What can I do?’”:

"They say they're coming to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, & right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."

Further proof that the @nzz.ch is the world’s finest German-language newspaper: today’s front page photo. Subhead: In Davos the US President meandered from one anecdote to another and spoke primarily about himself. Chef’s kiss!

“O” happy day! This fascinating tome from @dannybate.bsky.social finally arrived to my Swiss doorstep. (We had to wait for the second printing, apparently.) Výborně!

Happy Holidays to all who also feel like a deflated Grinch at this time of year.

Anyway time to post this again. AI is a tool of fascism.

"We have two ways of having a relationship with the language all around us [...]. We can either be defined by it or rebel and re create it." Peter Pomerantsev, 'How to Win an Information War'

You know what you have to do.

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Some news: tomorrow at 9am, Ted Koppel + CBS Sunday Morning will air a two-part story on the devastating surge of full-time workers being pushed into homelessness. I'll be interviewed along with two families from There Is No Place for Us. It would mean a lot if you'd watch and help spread the word.

The Writer’s Dilemma

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me 2,379 times, hi, I'm @schumer.senate.gov.

BBC really burying the lede there

I opened this week’s Economist and what did I see? A review of @dannybate.bsky.social ‘s “charming” new book! Huzzah!

In another era, ICE raids would be described as persecution of Catholics.

I feel so powerful.

Always unexpected, the NEORSD folks.

I love this a lot. Finally a suitable expression of my uneasy Angst regarding AI: the golem.

Well, I made it this far.

Is this look too provocative for northern New York? Wrong answers only.

Where is home, and why? My personal exploration takes an unexpected turn.

It’s a long holiday weekend in the US, which has just received an un-birthday gift in the form of legislation with a name out of a Dr Seuss book. I’m sorry.

Post of the day.

The cultural anthropologist in me got loose again.

Happy Mother’s Day to those who celebrate. This year, I had the misfortune to be in Portugal last Sunday for Mother’s Day there, and in Switzerland this weekend for Mother’s Day here. Bah humbug x 2. Must plan better next year.

So over for you hoes

BREAKING: POPE'S BROTHER CONFIRMS: THE PONTIFF PLAYS WORDLE

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

Friday photobomb.

Switzerland, unlike the US, does not write legislation with loopholes. This exactitude leads to delightful absurdities.

ouch

White smoke from Pete Hegseth's phone signals the election of a new Pope.

I gotta say, the headline did not prepare me in any way for the subhead.

I do not know the reality of being a woman, apparently. But it seems I am not missing out.

Good Lord, what madness rules in brain-sick men

As I was just reminded, for Christians it’s Hol(e)y Week. Here is some appropriate reading, from a country where the judiciary still functions as intended.

Team Keanu. Always and forever. ❤️

I wish there was some fancy economic term for when a person deliberately lowers the price of every single stock on the planet before then raising them all with a wave of their hand, in a manner you might say would grant immediate, near-infinite wealth to anyone informed of such plans beforehand.

This is high art

Actually, you billionaire douchebag, people want fulfilling & good paying jobs that are now out of reach b/c the ultra wealthy find it more profitable to exploit working people so you can buy mega yatchs, palaces, jets… but thanks for throwing crumbs our way & allowing folks to screw little screws.

It will be 5 years in July since we lost my father to pancreatic cancer that spread so fast the oncologist was shocked. Every report of cancer research being cut is like another gut punch of grief even all these years later.

Sackets Harbor, NY is so small that there’s one pre k-12 school with 475 students. Three of those students were disappeared by ICE. Here is a statement published today by school principal Jaime Cook: