Few things more satisfying (first rise)

Good morning from Stanfordville NY, Matt Welch David Burge

A WH press release several days ago indicated the time Trump would sign executive orders. He's up to 183 this term alone. (Obama signed 276 in two terms.) I find this "my way or the highway" extremely troubling. Andrew Sullivan digs further into the autocracy andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/the-permanen…

I think this is why Twitter exists

The Frog Serenade

Facial Scar Discrimination Experiment

Her 8-year-old son, by dint of helping chop vegetables for dinner, "is currently in training to be a not-useless man." Sous chefs of the world rejoice! In other news, who in absolute holy hell assigns these articles for The Cut? thecut.com/article/corinn…

"We have an administration inventing globe-reshaping tariff policies based on quarter-assed emergency declarations... and wielding comically large pens for Oval Office photo ops." New from Matt Welch reason.com/2025/08/12/for…

I just ate a piece of last night's homemade white peach-blueberry crisp with a gob of whipped cream while sitting in the sunshine and I hope your day is as good as mine

Oh just some big oomphs for Tom Holland and The Rest Is History's latest six-part on Mary Queen of Scots. From just-dropped Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em

This is a very dangerous person. He should be nowhere near a position of power in government.

My late stepson and his baby half-sisters, my girl on the left (I remember those booties!). More to come on this incredible sadness

Join Ethan Strauss and me, today at 4pm ET! Nancy Rommelmann joins Random Offense youtube.com/live/EQvdaOxSw… via YouTube

This is such a revealing moment: Ross Douthat, moved by a poem about the beauty and gift of procreation, asks the woman who wants to take it all away if she thinks something will be lost, and she responds, “what do you mean?”

"Every American needs to get in their car, and drive 1,500 miles, and talk to five Americans a day." @nancyromm talking with Ethan Strauss on Random Offense Watch the whole episode with Nancy and Ethan here: youtube.com/live/EQvdaOxSw…

"What Rufo and his acolytes do not understand is that St. Félix doesn’t work at The New Yorker in spite of such tweets. She works there because of them." From Meghan Daum. NB: Rufo strikes me as the 5th grader who shows off by kicking kids in the nuts theunspeakablepodcast.com/p/doreen-st-fe…

Foundations and trusts "continue to pour millions of dollars into reshaping math education for black and Latino kids... even though there exists no credible research showing that the social justice approach improves their performance." New from Lee Fang realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/…

Ass, boobs or legs: Tell us what you like, we'll tell you who you are. "The Class Hierarchy of Attraction," from upcoming Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em podcast, with Sarah Hepola

Also the same energy as food blogs in the early 2000s with a meandering memoir before every recipe.

Best baking sites? I’ll start: Sally’s Baking Addiction has never steered me wrong. I currently have the fam hooked on a laminated white bread that is like eating a giant croissant sallysbakingaddiction.com