We've lost a first-rate journalist.

The Baltimore Banner has announced an opening for a copy editor.

Black and Latino voters are the spine of the Democratic Party, not white moderates. That’s what this election showed—when candidates actually energize the people doing the groundwork, the ones who show up rain or shine, they win. You can’t fake authenticity or build power without us. #Pinks #Momsky

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We will tell stories of what life was like during the reign of the Mad King.

Extraordinary how many establishment Democrats really wish they didn't have a talented rising new star who connects to people by talking to them and understanding what their interests are, then speaking to those interests. Like a job where the new guy makes everyone look bad simply by doing the job.

A hardy perennial that no frost can touch.

Third-term nonsense. Constitution be damned, does anyone who has watched videos imagine that he will be alive to assume office in January 2029?

AI? Not a fan.

People send me things, among them this from the once-great Baltimore Sun: “Armstrong Williams offers perspective on some of the controversy’s of the week. …”

My high school in Kentucky wants people to talk to students about careers. Here's what I would say:

I hear from informed sources that these #NoKings rallies are more than twice as big as last time, making them easily the largest protests in US history. Thanks to everyone and especially organizers.

Kathleen steps up too

Stepping up.

Forty-three years ago today.

Wonderful column by Margaret Sullivan at The Guardian on the terrible, weird choice of Bari Weis by CBS News www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The utter inability of legacy news media to be able to deal with being straight-up lied to is one of the primary drivers of this mess.

Saw the U.S. flag at half-staff at a Chick-fil-A this morning. Because Trump didn’t get the Nobel?

If you plan to eat at the Silver Diner at BWI, think about taking a sandwich along, lest you faint from inanition before seeing a server.

Wow 👇

This is true for students too. Yes there are many factors impacting student reading, but working 30+ hours a week to be able to afford college is definitely one of them.

AOC: "Stephen Miller is a CLOWN. He looks like he's 4’10”. He looks like he's angry about the fact that he's 4’10”. He's taking that anger out at any other population possible. Like, LAUGH AT THEM. Laugh at them."

Portland Protestors Baiting ICE Agents With Donuts on Fishing Poles, Calling it ICE Fishing...

Using the serial comma is either a personal aesthetic choice or deference to a particular style guide. So is its omission. Ambiguity is so easy that both omission and use of the serial comma can lead to it. (More in comments.)

They’re going to call us an adorable old couple. Grrrrr.

Guess where I am today, enjoying beer and oysters in the October sunlight.

What we lost when we did away with the copy desk.

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

Today's Pleonasm Award goes to outlets that referred to Thomas Jacob Sanford, who attacked the Mormon church in Michigan, as an "armed gunman." (Thanks to Steve Auerweck for the reference.)

That word "proximity" means "proximate, next, or very near (as in time, place, relationship) : immediate or close propinquity," or, in a word, closeness. When you find the word "close" in propinquity to "proximity," be a love and rip it out.

Dispensational premillennialism is evidence that the Fathers blundered when they voted Revelation into the canon.

Rich people saw before Covid that climate change would kill billions. They're following the idiotic "Don't Look Up" playbook ever since: they think pushing as many poors as possible off a cliff while building their bunkers will save them. That's wrong. Only cooperation could (have) worked.

You liked the idea of the You Didn't Read the Book Club. Now you can set one up.

If you can’t bring yourself to boycott Disney, at least don’t post about your trips on social media. You no longer have the choice of being apolitical. Being neutral in the face of fascism is collaboration. I’m sorry that it was ruined for you, but it was ruined.

I overlooked that yesterday was Samuel Johnson's birthday. Let's remember one of the most concise and durable of his observations: "We are more pained by ignorance, than delighted by instruction."

It is the job of the Democratic party to sell and defend the policies that most Democratic voters want, not to present a candidate slate that is palatable to moderate Republicans who might switch if they hate their own candidate enough.

crazy to see the "Rainbow Coalition" party come to this. Vocally and Publicly blaming their own voters and grassroots organizers rather than admit their centrist strategies are failing, and have been failing bscl since Clinton left office.

Sunny, breezy, and mild, but mark it: the rattle of dead leaves in the street.

Yes, you should be skeptical. You could use a checklist.

Maybe not release the hounds.

I have in mind to form a You Didn’t Read the Book club. Membership limited to English majors, who are not permitted to confess to not having read a book in the canon. It will be an evening of bluffing, exaggerated by drink.

RFK Jr. rolled out that old chestnut again about how healthy Americans were in the 60’s, so here’s a fact check. In 1965: -42% of American adults smoked; it’s 11% now. -The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; it’s 5.6/1000 now. -Overall life expectancy was 70 years; it's about 77 years now.

Can you also name a discovery?

What the Cracker Barrel furor is about.

For Throwback Thursday, some posts you may have missed.

People still read books?

If you have watched the excellent Australian comedy “Fisk,” be cheered to know that a third season is to drop on Netflix later this month. And if you do not know it (poor you), there are only six episodes in a season and you have ample time to catch up on the first two.

A colleague with whom I was discussing the traditional hostility of reporters toward copy editors offered this succinct advice: Don't bite the hand that saves your ass.

In English, just shut up. Link in comments.