Beg to differ. GOP obsession with voter “fraud” goes at least as far back as 2000, when I started covering issue. Check out Sen. Kit Bond (R-MO) on Ritzy Meckler the voting dog!

On NPR, former White House attorney Ty Cobb, from the first Trump admnistration: Q. What did you think about when you heard of the FBI search of John Bolton's house and office? A. Well, I went down and locked my door.

Journalists everywhere need to stand in solidarity on this reuters.com/world/middle-e…

Paris was liberated today 1944, here celebrated with homemade American flag:

I cannot overemphasize how close we are to AGI. Exponential progress is an amazing drug!

The Baked Potato doesn’t get ambushed. He ignores the menacing look, and just saunters past MeanCat cuz he’s Bakey, damnit, and no one is mean to Bakey.

Active shooter hoaxes at universities (recent) 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝟐𝟓 𝐀𝐮𝐠. University of Arkansas, Fayetteville 𝐒𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝟐𝟒 𝐀𝐮𝐠. Villanova (PA) again! University of South Carolina 𝐓𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝟐𝟏 𝐀𝐮𝐠. Villanova (PA) University of Tennessee in Chattanooga

National Park Service was formed today 1916. (FDR enjoying Yellowstone, 1937):

We are a pathetic nation for allowing this person to have any say over anything more than his lunch order.

Every November 11, I retweet this thread from the hundredth anniversary of the end of World War I. It's a family story about something that happened that day that's literally unbelievable... but it occurred.

Phenomenal backstory to launches of New Yorker and CBS from Michael Socolow open.substack.com/pub/linttrapof…

Had a great time consulting with the “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” team over the past couple months, and they kindly gave my book a shoutout during the episode.

I keep this on my desktop: “Words are innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across the incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they’re no good anymore. “I

PhD candidate Cheyenne Zaremba’s essay, “Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder?”, is now published in Death, Commemoration, and Cultural Meaning, exploring how COVID-19 memorials transformed visual remembrance. A free introduction is available here: mailchi.mp/berghahnbooks/…

I'm quoted in today's Portland Press Herald on the huge amounts of money being poured into Maine's 2026 Senate race already. Many factors, including a competitive Democratic primary and an incumbent with a huge funding base in D.C., are playing a role. pressherald.com/2025/12/19/mai…

Lou Cannon was a giant of political reporting - an authoritative figure on Reagan who came up in California newspapers He offered clear prose, strong reporting, incisive analysis - and generosity to a young reporter cc: ⁦Carl Cannon⁩ washingtonpost.com/obituaries/202…

alas it needs to be said. again.

I Never Promised You a Cursive Sign open.substack.com/pub/harryshear…

We are going on the road in April. Tickets for MULTI NIGHT STANDS in Boston, Brooklyn, Chicago, Detroit, Indy, Philly, and Woodstock go on sale Friday! Different LP spotlight set every night. TMBG dot comm...

Crash on US 322 westbound between Exit: BURNHAM/YEAGERTOWN and Exit: PA 655 - BELLEVILLE/REEDSVILLE. All lanes closed. 511pa.com/Event/166894?l…