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R.I.P. Jim Ledbetter. The smartest and most generous of writers and friends.

I didn’t do it on purpose, but my Twitter feed has mostly devolved into occasional tributes to the recently departed (plus comments on the feeds of some of the great people I still follow here).

Was just remembering this Trump banger today.

"California is America but sooner ..." Folks think of CA as a hellscape. Harris barely mentions it. But it's still where innovation happens --- from AI, to rail, to climate, to civic experiments... A dispatch from James Fallows in WIRED wired.com/story/californ…

“Hollywood is dead, according to Justine Bateman. Here’s what comes next” My Op-Ed on the future of the film business for Fast Company. fastcompany.com/91220089/holly…

I would think that "Jewkiller" is a simple case, but no

New Yorker cover this week.

I have noticed that blocking him (a huge upgrade to the experience here) doesn’t always work. nytimes.com/2024/11/03/tec…

Newspaper report on the May 31, 1964 event at the Coliseum at which Martin Luther King and Dick Van Dyke spoke. I didn’t attend, but I had a good excuse: I was less than two months old. This line gave me chills: “Van Dyke and King were both mobbed by autograph seekers as they

Please let this be true today: “There was always just enough virtue in this Republic to save it; sometimes none to spare, but still enough to meet the emergency.” —William Seward, Secretary of State during the civil war.

One of Trump's clearest "accomplishments" is how thoroughly he's desensitized America to behavior that, in another era, voters would have deemed disqualifying. Plenty of blame to go around—media, craven GOP pols, blundering Dems—but this may be one of his most enduring legacies.

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Popping in here long enough to heartily recommend OpenVibe, a unified client for Mastodon, Bluesky, AND Threads. Combined, they feel more like Twitter than this place does. openvibe.social

NPR filed a First Amendment lawsuit against the Trump admin this morning, alleging that Trump's order to defund NPR is a "clear violation of the Constitution." In Trump's first term, I would not have expected to write that ☝️ In Trump's second term, it was just a matter of time.