Learned from my doctor that if you were born in some handful of years in the mid to late seventies, the FDA recommended a course of childhood vaccines that wasn’t optimally effective then switched back. As such, if you’re 50ish, you need to get your antibodies checked. I needed a new vax.

For those of you longing for the elegance of Milan as you watch these Olympics, let me direct you to the 76 Station near the Camarillo Outlet Mall.

Two retirees at a Walmart: Greeted Rivalry.

Actually, maybe this explains the Nazi trench coat…

I’m just surprised he found someone to let him sit on his shoulders in a trench coat so they’d let him in the bar. lasvegassun.com/news/2026/fe...

The first sign that the post is falling apart is that a well-staffed editorial operation would have encouraged this writer to continue the poem it began in paragraph one into paragraph two.

I’m available to start a book review cooperative. I don’t have any money, but I have a ton of editing experience, and I love doing it. And I write, too.

Insane that this legitimately qualifies as news-you-can-use content.

Ground control to

Would all of our representative be at least have this brave.

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Nonviolence is, in fact, working. This administration is weaker than it was a year ago. More and more of the public is becoming galvanized against it; its agents are being impeded.

looking good 👍🏼

pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things

More than an attempted coup, where a mob tried to seize Congress on live television did? There's not going to be an implosion about anything. It's either a slow slide towards oblivion where everything gets incrementally worse as people try to live normally, or a slow grind in the opposite direction.

Hey Bay Area folks! I'm coming to do a live show and book signing at KQED on Thursday the 22nd. Telling some stories. Talking to my friend, Roman Mars from @99pi.org on stage. Radiotopia Presents: The Memory Palace Live | KQED kqed.org

Today’s march took the same Fifth Ave route as the 1917 anti-lynching Silent Parade, one of the first American civil rights protests. Both started at 59th, by General Sherman’s statue, and headed downtown. For more on the Silent Parade: hyperallergic.com/naacp-silent...

A few thoughts about this lovely obituary. First, when you tell a story of someone's life this well , their memory becomes a blessing for anyone who reads it. It's just a beautiful thing... www.latimes.com/food/story/2...

Best morality.

We literally declared independence when England did this.

People ARE being trained. In communities around the country, regular folks learning legal methods to protect their neighbors from a masked goon-squad disappearing people based on the color of their skin or their accent. Meanwhile, the state keeps expanding reasons they can kill us.

In case you need a distraction from (gestures at literally everything else), @natedimeo.bsky.social snuck a little surprise into the Memory Palace feed yesterday. And yeah, I know, doesn't he always, but trust me on this one. #PublicDomainDay

Yes yes, nothing gets your constituents more fired up than statements that use the word “entanglements.” Golden age of political communication.

“Everybody is very, very just totally, totally, totally, troubled.” Preach, Leader. Your oratory fills my heart and gives me strength in these troubled times.

The FIFA Peace Prize used to mean something

I will be marching today.

The odds of this back to back in the timeline? Unless I’ve missed something and Trump has announced all performers at the Donald J. Trump John F. Kennedy Center must cover “Brick” or whatever

It’s been a solid year of me getting Cameron Winter’s “Love Takes Miles,” in my head, not really knowing the words, and then just making stuff up: walking around/doing some stuff/listening to Creed/eating a pie/learning sitar/rooting for Leeds/having a chat/ghosting your mom” etc.

if bari weiss had tried to do 9/11 there'd be three towers now

No one at the rap battle will wait for me to type my prompts

Mary gets it.

Beyond just “get yours in time for Christmas,” a tip: I’ve learned something having a modestly successful book. Very excited to say that there’s a paperback coming out in April (huge, unexpected coup, they’re excited, etc.) BUT, that means that it is slightly difficult all of a sudden..: 1/2

The way that Rowlf passes off the vocal with a small, “John…” is, no joke, one of my favorite moments in all recorded music. youtu.be/kZSVfxk8ouM?...

She thinks Paula Dana is bad at acting.

A robust Consumer Protection Bureau would never allow the stark discrepancy between the mirror in the bathroom in this Marriott and the one in the room. In one I look like a million bucks, in the other, like that million bucks were stuffed into a burlap sack.

Making draconian changes to Amercian copyright law for decades to protect Mickey and now they're -- just giving him away? Oh wait I paying $1 billion for the privilege of handing him over.

VERY EXCITED FOR THIS!!!

BAY AREA! Hey folks, I'll be doing a live show and book signing at KQED in January with @romanmars.bsky.social . Come on out and BE ENTERTAINED. www.kqed.org/event/5912

Here’s the latest episode of The Memory Palace. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

I’m surprised to say that last year’s can’t-miss gift is also this year’s, yet, here we are.

Favorite thing about the parade is how the singers use backing tracks that include crowd noise so the impression is that tens of thousands of people are roaring when the chorus comes in a Ciara song she’s debuting that day like it’s Champaign Supernova at an Oasis reunion.

Caring about and remembering other human beings is just too woke for the GOP, which, not coincidentally, did its very best to usher them into the grave.

Oh cool. There was far too much community and human connection in the holiday season.

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but you must try/try and try/try and try

BIG: FBI spied on Signal group chat of immigration activists CourtWatch, classifying them as violent terrorist extremists for quietly sitting in on court cases, as revealed in intel bulletin we obtained & shared w/ @samtlevin.bsky.social @us.theguardian.com. #FOIA www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Public announcement: I will buy any Golden Globes voter one (1) lavender shortbread cookie at Trails Cafe and use the phrase “Hey! You look great! No, seriously, you look terrific. It’s so nice to see you,” in exchange for their vote for The Memory Palace as Best Podcast.

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