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Today is Samuel Weisberg's centenary, better known (barely) as poet Samuel Menashe. Despite talking beautifully & deeply about everyday things using everyday words, he was so neglected, they gave him a Neglected Master award of $50k. Here's how I knew him. danfriedmanme.substack.com/p/an-undisco...

As per JB Pritzker: "thirteen of the top twenty cities in homicide rates have Republican governors. None of these cities is Chicago. Eight of the top ten states with the highest homicide rates are led by Republicans. None of those states is Illinois.”

On one hand, Republican officials call themselves "warfighters." On the other, they become whiny crybabies at the thought of setting foot in DC streets and New York City subways that literal schoolchildren navigate every day without incident. Real macho stuff.

Does anyone care that the new Cuomo social media team sound absolutely nothing like Cuomo? Or is it just good theater?

Just over a month ago, trailblazing particle physicist Mary Gaillard passed away. Today, we induct her into the Archive. Her work on kaons, strange and charm quarks, the Higgs boson, and supersymmetry was central to the Particle Revolution. tinyurl.com/mrx3dwzh #WomenInSTEM #Physics #HistSci 🧪⚛️

It's like they want Americans to be sick.

I reviewed @anneleen.bsky.social's new book which, btw, would serve as the basis for an amazing cartoon series.

I wrote a thing about Marc Maron’s new show.

The subway risk chart you've been waiting for (Sawyer County, Wisconsin, is where Sean Duffy is from). Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Fawlty Towers is about to turn 50. We revisit the cringe, chaos & comedic genius that made these 12 short episodes Britain's finest. bookandfilmglobe.com/comedy/dont-... @danfriedmanme.bsky.social #FawltyTowers #ClassicComedy #BFGTakes

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August streaming roundup: @netflix.com Wednesday S2 (Aug 6), Hostage, Hulu King of the Hill reboot (Aug 4), Alien: Earth @primevideo.bsky.social The Pickup (Aug 6), Butterfly & @criterionchannel.bsky.social @streamonmax.bsky.social bookandfilmglobe.com/netflix/ever... #StreamingAugust #BFGTakes

Genius at 50.

I asked AI image generators to draw me. See the surprising results… www.gordonhaber.net/i-asked-ai-i...

Or, as @stevevladeck.bsky.social says: open.substack.com/pub/stevevla...

The show they couldn't categorize is snubbed by the Emmys. bookandfilmglobe.com/comedy/very-... @dropout.tv @vipeopleshow.bsky.social @vicmmic.bsky.social @theemmys.tv #VeryImportantPeople #Emmys

The thing about "new normals" is that until the whole global economy gets off of fossil fuels, new normals will soon become old normals. These are snapshots on an upward climbs not a stable new resting place at the top of a hill and... www.bbc.com/news/article...

OK I at this point I am 100% convinced that a malicious government with sway at FIFA designed the Club World Cup trophy to be as gold as possible so Trump would keep it in the Oval Office and then filled it with listening devices. It's been there for months!

Important piece by the excellent @dfriedman.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...?

I am just learning that Trump went to the Club World Cup championship, got booed, hung awkwardly around on stage after the game, then stole the trophy. www.thedailybeast.com/trump-kept-g...

Wow, check out the art on that! @michaelwashburn.bsky.social

For @bookandfilmglobe.bsky.social, I wrote about Ry Russo-Young's Call Her Alex--one of Hulu's most-watched offering this month--which feels more like Alex Cooper's Call Her Alex. If anything, that take-charge aproach has been a significant factor in Cooper's success. @seattlecritics.bsky.social

No shit.

📣👋 New paper from @sierraclub.org out today! It's been a long time in the making. It challenges conventional sustainable investing and urges asset owners to confront climate change as a systemic threat to the global economy and long-term portfolios. 👉 Full paper: www.sierraclub.org/systemic-cli...

As the countdown to the 2026 World Cup advances, FIFA must do more than claim "the world is welcome in America"—when all the evidence is to the contrary.

Why are masked, unidentified men carrying out extrajudicial arrests not immediately fired, then sued? #bradlander

Reminder: Elon Musk and DOGE ILLEGALLY stole $80 MILLION from New York City taxpayers on the basis of a LIE about them using it to protect immigrants. Brad Lander, the comptroller, has been speaking out since. Today:

So I just want to be clear that the gentile President's anti-immigrant goons illegally assaulted and kidnapped the leading Jewish candidate for Mayor in New York City for walking into a federal building for the crowd that is keeping track of The Antisemitism Problem

As long as they’re hiding their faces, badges and names we should stop calling them “federal agents.” Call them masked goons or unidentified thugs or whatever, unless and until they provide proper ID.

I really wish Simone Biles (& others) would read this – or literally any of the similarly in depth analyses of the research & complexities surrounding trans ppl & sports (no paywall) on Substack: juliaserano.substack.com/p/trans-peop... & Medium: juliaserano.medium.com/trans-people...

Imagine abstract art but in literary form, and roughly science fiction in genre. Oh, but it's also a critique of late capitalism and the carceral state. Definitely too ambitious, but interesting. bookandfilmglobe.com/fiction/audi...

Phang: There’s a Texas Tribune article that reveals that the Trump administration knew the vast majority of the 238 Venezuelan immigrants sent to CECOT in mid-March had not been convicted of crimes in the U.S.—even though the administration wanted to label them as terrorists before deporting them.

My latest from @newscientist.com about the future of public access to weather data

Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

When people get drowned in sea water in a Chicago high rise and a superhuman "Nigerian" starts talking to people in a weird 1930s Hollywood patois in Bristol there's an SF mystery to be solved. But is it worth solving? My review at Book and Film Globe. bookandfilmglobe.com/fiction/espe...

"It's not a fight over whether Democrats become more moderate or more progressive. Voters want Democrats to be more aggressive. They want to see Democrats standing up to Donald Trump, pushing back, fighting. It's not really related to policy, it's about posture and attitude."

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS New York City” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

"Furthermore, I expect the German legal profession to understand that the nation is not here for them, but that they are here for the nation" Hitler, 1942 Doesn't sound much different, does it?

Snapchat harming children on an industrial level. www.thetimes.com/uk/london/ar...

Tainted? Bought by murderers. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

No one wants the Club FIFA Money Greed Shite. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Maybe @scalzi.com got too cheesy with his new book out today? @torbooks.bsky.social bookandfilmglobe.com/uncategorize...

BREAKING: This executive order would block tens of millions of American citizens from voting. Presidents have no authority to do this. This order, like the SAVE Act now before Congress, would hurt voters and suppress the vote.

According to a source I have at the CIA, Director Radcliffe lied today under oath. Signal is absolutely not loaded on agency computers. As a matter of fact it’s specifically prohibited as an outside app. Skype is allowed for conference calls but not Signal. He’s lying. @markwarner.bsky.social

This isn't how gov't is supposed to work: The acting commissioner of Social Security admitted “I was ticked at the governor of Maine for not being real cordial to the president,” so I ended a program in Maine. www.pressherald.com/2025/03/25/s...

WOW: @miamiherald.com reveals that a person imprisoned in El Salvador had LEGAL REFUGEE STATUS. He entered the USA legally in January and was detained because of his tattoos, EVEN THOUGH he had previously passed a full background check. Without warning, he was sent to El Salvador on March 15.

When they start black bagging US citizens for criticizing Trump or opposing him, it won't matter if its unconstitutional if you can't get a lawyer to represent you. There's a reason the phrase "where law ends, tyranny begins" is engraved on the front of the Justice Dept. This is why.