Reskeet this with your home river. I grew up between the York and the James.

Congratulations, Brett Kavanaugh. Another success story.

I think this is delusional. The core value of the military is a commitment to civilian control. Some will try to deflect or slow roll, but most will follow orders. There will be no groups of senior leaders going to the White House to tell the president they will resign in mass, like we saw with DoJ.

Here is a video of a frozen creek that had begun to thaw, and the water was flowing beneath the thin ice on top. I took this because it was soothing and wonderfully bloopy and I wanted to listen to it for hours. You are all welcome to enjoy it, too. Let your brain settle here and rest for a moment.

Acquisitions

Anyone else hearing two dofferent audio streams at the same time on Mark’s iFollow feed? #askwxm

How is Dr. Robby carrying a helmet and not wearing it? Honestly made me angry. I probably wouldn’t care if I didn’t love everything about The Pitt so much.

@slate.com after today’s Culture Gabfest bonus episode, I would love a Culture Political bonus crossover about Lord of the Rings with special guest Steven Colbert. I fell asleep attempting to watch all three of the films and cannot bear to read any fantasy, but I adore Colbert and think there must

@sangernyt.bsky.social those aren’t sunglasses in the Maduro picture. It’s blacked out goggles being used as a blindfold. Doesn’t look quite as bad as a bag over his head, but it’s the same effect.

There goes my resolution to watch/read less news in 2026. Where are my sovereign immunity peeps at?

Cover reveal. It's about how & why colonies/states controlled international & domestic migration until 1888, why in the late 19th c the feds took over, & what it was like for politically disfavored groups to live under that arrangement of power. You can't understand voluntary migration history 1/

Folks, she brought a whole plate of spaghetti to the broadcast center to do her headshot. She then houses that spaghetti. Mattia sips on an espresso during his. Truly the heroes we need during these times.

On the nose.

Probably best to know it isn't going to work out early.

How I’m walking out of 2025.

(Well, I read it in the 80s.) Post a book you love from the 80s. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books

An apt metaphor for our ship of state.

Movie double header tonight. 👍👍

@jdickerson.bsky.social I think you would enjoy Bill Nighy’s podcast Ill-Advised, where he is a sort of an agony aunt, but along the way effortlessly demonstrates he’s one of the coolest people on the planet, in his own fashion, much of which I think you would appreciate.

It’s a two cup of coffee morning.

Really enjoyed this one. youtu.be/6voWeM-xQ4Y

Enjoyed this one. youtu.be/lKbcKQN5Yrw

Now I want to reread this.

Canceled my 20+ year subscription to Vanity Fair. Hiring that dumpster fire is too much.

Alt text in this one is spot on. 10/10

Ok. I needed this today! And yes - I cried heartfelt tears watching it.

Adding some color in my new place. Blue in the office and green in the library nook.

I want to give people the benefit of the doubt until they prove otherwise, but the number of people showing themselves to be untrustworthy or unkind lately, is… well… a lot. I suppose nothing has fundamentally changed when bad folks reveal themselves, but it’s shifting my understanding of the world.

I wrote about Trump’s missile strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific, and about the secret Justice Department opinion that underwrites them. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...

@cmolanphy.bsky.social loved the clip from Studio 60 in the Sting Hit Parade episode!

Could Mark & team broadcast commentary on another platform today? This is just - a bummer 😞 #askwxm @wrexhamafc.co.uk @finalwhistle.bsky.social

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

Really disappointed, but not surprised, VA has not joined this effort. Another reason to vote for Spanberger for Governor.

I just want Netflix to make ‘Cillian Murphy reads to you’ into a regular thing. It’s what I imagine heaven to be. youtu.be/yLz-u1awN2I?...

“Living his best life…” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/h...

#askwxm ahead of schedule losing the commentary feed in the first half today. Been the second half every other game. Crowd noise coming thru clearly.

It’s a two-cup-of-coffee bird-by-bird day.

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

(If you don't have time to read all 161 pages, jump right down to pages 95–100!)

Also he bookends the opening:

Judge Young—who has been on the bench for as long as I have been alive—calls it the most important case he has ever considered.

AAUP v. Rubio is out, and look at how it starts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Wife brought her 100 year old film camera to that pirates game from a few weeks ago and she got this shot that's just perfect

Age yourself with a film you saw in the cinema as a kid.

Submitted a consumer complaint to my local ABC station about my local ABC station’s refusal to broadcast Jimmy Kimmel tonight. Won’t go anywhere, but maybe they’ll tell the station leadership and Sinclair.

What movie do you consider perfect?

Before there was MilTwitter there was the Warlord Loop. The most deranged place there ever was

Catching up on last week’s Bake Off over dessert tonight. Need a treat after the last couple of weeks.