A table & main course for Thanksgiving, from the fields of our local history. www.thereportingproject.org/wandering-li...

Moldovans dragged a downed Russian "Geran" drone to the Foreign Ministry building in Chișinău and summoned the Russian ambassador to deliver an official protest.

We still need to get from a situation where Russia pretends to negotiate to a situation where they need to negotiate. Extract from my press remarks following today’s informal Foreign Affairs Council ↓

I'm not a good person. I am a sinner in need of grace. www.walmart.com/ip/Heinz-Hom...

A well-told reminiscence of something in preparation right now, all over the U.S. & around the world. www.thebulwark.com/p/how-the-us...

"On the front lines of this transformation stand nonprofessional family caregivers... The need crosses nearly all demographic lines: age, race, geography, politics... In our fragmented society it is as close to a universal concern as you can find." Uh huh. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...

This was released in error.

He was 77 when he wrote it, in good health, sharp, energetic, but he admitted he had to manage his health & energy far differently than he used to, and he said that anyone running for president past 60 needed to have a hard look at themselves.

It's fashionable now to trot out Nixon being ahead of his time on Russia, China, etc - for good & ill I helped start it - but nobody talks about the last chapter of In the Arena, which is pretty much a no-holds-barred attack on elderly politicians who won't get off the stage & go demented in public.

Well, you know I'm a sucker for anything about the Moon. Gift link for y'all: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/s...

Dude, this is so cool. A canoe from circa 3200 BCE just chillin in the dirt in Wisconsin

Whereupon she told me to go in the freezer and get out what she would need. Well. I mean. She was on a lot of meds. BUT NO! The freezer was stacked with Bob Evans mashed potatoes. She threw them in a saucepan with two (2! TWO!) sticks of butter and a dash of garlic powder

I feel like this is truly the secret to a peak Bonkers Cooking Story. it's the delusional confidence. I've never made a turkey but if I was somehow drafted into doing it you know I would be glued to the Butterball Hotline like Jed Bartlet. everyone just vibing their way through this is hysterical

Dim Philby at work.

New band name just dropped

If you're always trying to figure out if medical advice is in your best interests, or to protect either a) liability or b) billing, it's not a rational economic system. Chapter 57 in "Why We're Going To End Up With Single-Payer." Gift link: wapo.st/3M65Hgt

Thanksgiving costs climbed about 10% this year over last year, according to new research from @groundwork.bsky.social @tcfdotorg.bsky.social & @aft.org. That’s an increase of more than 3X the overall inflation rate. Explore the research👇 https://bit.ly/4rj7Rtf

Pies are in the oven. Time to start inflating the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade balloons!

Shelley Script. I know you've been wondering, too. #FontGeeks wapo.st/4ilNzLQ

Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old

Thinking things through…

Good Morning From The Drummer, My Friends. Rest In Power, Jimmy.

Popularity isn't profitability. I have questions. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

MTG's departure Jan. 5th will make this math even harder, and puts the mercurial Massie in an interesting rumble seat, if not a driver's seat. www.cnn.com/politics/nar...

This actually gets more confusing the further in you read. www.delish.com/kitchen-tool...

Heading for Keith’s, his episode of #Dateline and his famous sushi pizza. Later: a Boggle®️ cage match

Beautiful elevation of James Forten in the final episode of “The American Revolution” with Morgan Freeman speaking for him. Get to know him: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_F...

Guessing Father Rob might have done some, uh, late night missionary work on South Jefferson c.1982

Sorry guys universe is splitting open starting today

March 15, 1783 may be a better birthdate for the United States as a democratic republic than July 4, 1776. Hoping Ken Burns carries tonight’s closing ep of “The American Revolution” to that date. www.americanacorner.com/blog/newburg...

"Wondrous is man, and mysterious the ways of God." ~ Father Mulcahy

Put it in The Louvre of US political history. The look on Mamdani's face is priceless.

It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.

An important part of the job for any WH Press Secretary is to clean up remarks made by the president or offer explanation/context or apology when warranted. But Leavitt never does that. She always crafts a response that makes it even worse by adding her own toxic twist.

A reflection spurred by memories churned up from news angles we've been hearing about the last few weeks. And this is the tidy 600 word version. But I hope with a productive point to make, in my @NewarkAdvocate column. www.newarkadvocate.com/story/opinio...

My @GranvilleSentinel column on the reckoning of time, with a hat tip to the Venerable Bede as I salute the indigenous builders of the @NewarkEarthworks. (N.B.: I have a last walking tour of the year coming Dec. 6 at noon from the Octagon!) www.newarkadvocate.com/story/opinio...

A visual feast; I wouldn't want to live there, but it was a fascinating tour. Gift link so you can go, too: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

God bless you, Annie. Wasn't expecting to see you this morning. Her work continues; thank you to Matt for carrying it forward. www.newarkadvocate.com/story/news/l...

“ChatGPT for Teachers will be free until June 2027, after which OpenAI says it will try to keep the price "as affordable as possible."” Snort. Yeah, I’m sure. www.axios.com/2025/11/19/o...

Still crazy.

Ecgberht, bishop (732-5) and archbishop of York, died #OTD in 766. Brother of Northumbrian king Eadberht (737-58) and recipient of Bede’s letter of 734, which helped shape his reforms. He founded the school whose alumni included Alcuin. Ælberht succeeded him. 📸York Museums Trust #medievalsky

DINNER AND KARAOKE WITH WILL FORTE! this is just one of the incredible experiences you can bid on for our Homes for Our Troops auction to build specially designed homes for wounded veterans! Auction ends Friday! Check out the items at eBay.com/HFOT

#ReliefWednesday - A fantastic panel showing soldiers of the Praetorian Guard in parade armour, from the triumphal Arch of Claudius in Rome: ca. AD 51-52. Much restored and embellished, but still rather fabulous! #Roman #AncientBluesky 🏺 Image: Louvre Collections (Ma 1079). 📸 My Own

✨Augustus and Victory✨ Augustus strikes an heroic nude pose while he and a winged Victory attend to a military trophy. Augustus is further distinguished by being attended by an eagle. Beneath the military trophy is a bound figure who represents those conquered. #ReliefWednesday #AncientRome

There is nothing you can do about Trump calling that reporter Piggy, and that is frustrating, but what you CAN do is if you're ever around a man who talks about someone like that, shut him down. Tell him right then it's vile and wrong. Call that shit out.

“ At just 16 years old, she took a job at Mar a Lago, believing she had secured a dream summer position. But that dream quickly morphed into a nightmare when Ghislaine Maxwell preyed upon her…. They trafficked her”

The law of unintended consequences may bite with particular fierceness in this case. thedispatch.com/article/vene...

GarrisonKeillor nods to the date, Nov. 19th: Dedication Day at @GettysburgNMP in 1863, when senators & dignitaries spoke w/ a brief address from the president to close. 3 Nov. 19ths at Gettysburg, two w/ my father, one w/ my son, the last time in 2013. garrisonkeillor.substack.com/p/the-storyt...

Going even deeper into this rabbithole, it's arguable that even an instituted acolyte (that's a properly authorised acolyte, not just a rando performing the role of acolyte) can make holy water, since the order of acolyte is above that of exorcist in old minor orders, and thus implicitly contains it