Hal Espen
@halsf.bsky.social
Formerly at The New Yorker and Outside, currently in Santa Fe, presently in Seattle and environs. Now listening to on vinyl.
Tom Stoppard’s traveling bookcase (includes Gravity's Rainbow).
November 29, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Tom Stoppard’s traveling bookcase (includes Gravity's Rainbow).
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This is profoundly irresponsible by AGSulzberger’s NYT, @by-cjewett.bsky.social +eds.
The normalization, “view-from-nowhere”, “born-yesterday”, stenography, “both-sides”, irresponsible headline are disgraceful.
THE story is the CDC&FDA are being destroyed by antiscience & Americans will die.
1/n
This is profoundly irresponsible by AGSulzberger’s NYT, @by-cjewett.bsky.social +eds.
The normalization, “view-from-nowhere”, “born-yesterday”, stenography, “both-sides”, irresponsible headline are disgraceful.
THE story is the CDC&FDA are being destroyed by antiscience & Americans will die.
1/n
November 29, 2025 at 5:40 PM
A🧵
This is profoundly irresponsible by AGSulzberger’s NYT, @by-cjewett.bsky.social +eds.
The normalization, “view-from-nowhere”, “born-yesterday”, stenography, “both-sides”, irresponsible headline are disgraceful.
THE story is the CDC&FDA are being destroyed by antiscience & Americans will die.
1/n
This is profoundly irresponsible by AGSulzberger’s NYT, @by-cjewett.bsky.social +eds.
The normalization, “view-from-nowhere”, “born-yesterday”, stenography, “both-sides”, irresponsible headline are disgraceful.
THE story is the CDC&FDA are being destroyed by antiscience & Americans will die.
1/n
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Everyone is currently acting like it’s his normal gibberish, but also maybe American planes are in the air right now shooting down Venezuelan aircraft, and there’s literally no basis to believe either because the president is insane.
November 29, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Everyone is currently acting like it’s his normal gibberish, but also maybe American planes are in the air right now shooting down Venezuelan aircraft, and there’s literally no basis to believe either because the president is insane.
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If they ever get around to building this thing, it should be bulldozed on Day 1 of a new administration. No messing around, no hemming and hawing about procedure or costs. Order heavy equipment in and start knocking it down immediately, as surely as an overthrown tyrant's statues would be torn down.
Even the architect Trump hired to build his massive addition to the White House objects to the president's vision. The two have argued about the size of the 90,000-sq-foot project that would dwarf the mansion. @jonathanreports.bsky.social @ddiamond.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Trump wants a bigger White House ballroom. His architect disagrees.
The president and James McCrery had argued in recent weeks over the project’s size, with Trump pushing him to expand the ballroom.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:56 PM
If they ever get around to building this thing, it should be bulldozed on Day 1 of a new administration. No messing around, no hemming and hawing about procedure or costs. Order heavy equipment in and start knocking it down immediately, as surely as an overthrown tyrant's statues would be torn down.
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A central issue at trial for the My Lai massacre in Vietnam was whether an Army lieutenant, or the Army captain who was his superior, was responsible for the order to leave no survivors.
Neither suggested the SecDef would have given such a command.
Neither suggested the SecDef would have given such a command.
If the U.S. was at war, Pete Hegseth's order would be a war crime, a military lawyer said. Instead, it might just be murder. wapo.st/49KbUJ1
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:47 PM
A central issue at trial for the My Lai massacre in Vietnam was whether an Army lieutenant, or the Army captain who was his superior, was responsible for the order to leave no survivors.
Neither suggested the SecDef would have given such a command.
Neither suggested the SecDef would have given such a command.
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That Eli Lilly Alzheimer’s commercial was some depressing shit.
November 27, 2025 at 4:23 PM
That Eli Lilly Alzheimer’s commercial was some depressing shit.
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True
The Sixth Mass Extinction is the vilest crime of our time, bar *nothing*.
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‘A precarious position’: almost 3,000 species at risk of disappearing from Wales, report finds
Environmental body says modest investment and changes can help preserve long list of animals, fungi and lichen
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November 27, 2025 at 12:39 AM
True
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Writer Caroline Fraser argues a chilling link between industrial poison, deadly design, and a generation of serial killers in the Pacific Northwest.
Listen to a new episode of 99% Invisible wherever you get your podcasts 👉 https://bit.ly/48kcCKC
Listen to a new episode of 99% Invisible wherever you get your podcasts 👉 https://bit.ly/48kcCKC
November 25, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Writer Caroline Fraser argues a chilling link between industrial poison, deadly design, and a generation of serial killers in the Pacific Northwest.
Listen to a new episode of 99% Invisible wherever you get your podcasts 👉 https://bit.ly/48kcCKC
Listen to a new episode of 99% Invisible wherever you get your podcasts 👉 https://bit.ly/48kcCKC
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Never stop eastside
November 25, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Never stop eastside
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You understand that when you do this, when you promote this, you are actively ENCOURAGING the mass theft and plagiarism of every writer, every author, every artist and journalist and musician's life's creative and intellectual output? How do you possibly justify that?
November 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM
You understand that when you do this, when you promote this, you are actively ENCOURAGING the mass theft and plagiarism of every writer, every author, every artist and journalist and musician's life's creative and intellectual output? How do you possibly justify that?
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ICE kidnapped a 17-year-old U.S. citizen named Christian Jimenez. Jimenez, a high school senior born in Newberg, Oregon, was driving on his school’s lunch break when ICE/CBP agents stopped his car, smashed his window, and abducted him on November 21, 2025.
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
November 24, 2025 at 11:36 AM
ICE kidnapped a 17-year-old U.S. citizen named Christian Jimenez. Jimenez, a high school senior born in Newberg, Oregon, was driving on his school’s lunch break when ICE/CBP agents stopped his car, smashed his window, and abducted him on November 21, 2025.
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
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seen on WT Harris in E Charlotte
November 23, 2025 at 3:35 AM
seen on WT Harris in E Charlotte
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In this tough and moving essay, Caroline Kennedy's 35-year-old daughter Tatiana Schlossberg reveals that she is terminally ill with leukemia. She has some choice words about how her cousin Bobby has made the limited time she has left worse. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
www.newyorker.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
In this tough and moving essay, Caroline Kennedy's 35-year-old daughter Tatiana Schlossberg reveals that she is terminally ill with leukemia. She has some choice words about how her cousin Bobby has made the limited time she has left worse. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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big bugs bunny getting elmer fudd to marry him vibes in the white house currently i see
November 21, 2025 at 9:30 PM
big bugs bunny getting elmer fudd to marry him vibes in the white house currently i see
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Remember the woman a Border Patrol Agent shot?
DOJ just dropped the case.
DOJ just dropped the case.
Feds drop case against woman shot by Border Patrol agent in Brighton Park
DEVELOPING from @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
DEVELOPING from @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Feds drop case against woman shot by Border Patrol agent in Brighton Park
It's one of the most high-profile prosecutions to result from the Trump administration's "Operation Midway Blitz." Defense attorneys have been aggressively challenging evidence and sought a speedy tri...
chicago.suntimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Remember the woman a Border Patrol Agent shot?
DOJ just dropped the case.
DOJ just dropped the case.
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One of the people arrested on September 27 at Broadview was a 70-yo Air Force veteran who was hospitalized with his injuries from ICE assault. First charged w/felony, then misdemeanor.
He was going to call Greg Bovino at trial.
It just got dismissed.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71489...
He was going to call Greg Bovino at trial.
It just got dismissed.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71489...
United States v. Briggs, 1:25-cr-00610 - CourtListener.com
Docket for United States v. Briggs, 1:25-cr-00610 — Brought to you by Free Law Project, a non-profit dedicated to creating high quality open legal information.
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November 20, 2025 at 3:37 PM
One of the people arrested on September 27 at Broadview was a 70-yo Air Force veteran who was hospitalized with his injuries from ICE assault. First charged w/felony, then misdemeanor.
He was going to call Greg Bovino at trial.
It just got dismissed.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71489...
He was going to call Greg Bovino at trial.
It just got dismissed.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71489...
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"I was trying to help my mom,” said 13-year-old Jayleane, shaking, as tears streamed down her cheeks. “I saw they were pulling her hair. They had the gun in front of me. I was scared.”
On Camera, Fed Agents Point Guns at Mother and Four Kids in Queens
The agents came looking for a relative who no longer lived in the apartment, the shellshocked mother told THE CITY. Days later, her children are terrified to leave their parents' sides.
buff.ly
November 20, 2025 at 4:17 PM
"I was trying to help my mom,” said 13-year-old Jayleane, shaking, as tears streamed down her cheeks. “I saw they were pulling her hair. They had the gun in front of me. I was scared.”
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/6 Also, it is the obligation of every lawyer who takes their oath and the Constitution seriously to shun from legal society every single AUSA and DoJ lawyer participating in this. Strike their names from every book and tablet, every pylon and obelisk, every monument of the rule of law.
November 19, 2025 at 11:46 PM
/6 Also, it is the obligation of every lawyer who takes their oath and the Constitution seriously to shun from legal society every single AUSA and DoJ lawyer participating in this. Strike their names from every book and tablet, every pylon and obelisk, every monument of the rule of law.
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When You’re Too Toxic for Other Republicans
When You're Too Toxic for Other Republicans - Lawyers, Guns & Money
While this might be a bit inside baseball for those who haven’t lived in New Mexico, when state Republican leaders are taking to the Washington Post op-ed to call out Trump naming former New Mexico congressman Steve Pearce to head the Bureau of Land Management, you know there’s a lot of hate for a very […]
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:40 PM
When You’re Too Toxic for Other Republicans
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An excellent review of three important books about the web, how it was captured by a new class of oligarchs who turned it into the opposite of Tim Berners-Lee's vision.
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
How the Web Was Lost | James Gleick
The Internet was not meant to suck.
www.nybooks.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:23 AM
An excellent review of three important books about the web, how it was captured by a new class of oligarchs who turned it into the opposite of Tim Berners-Lee's vision.
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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Because once we get rid of Trump, we need to have laid the groundwork for reversing this, for saying, "remember when we could have nice things? Well, the way to get that back quickly is to fire the kidnappers and rehire the cancer scientists."
November 14, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Because once we get rid of Trump, we need to have laid the groundwork for reversing this, for saying, "remember when we could have nice things? Well, the way to get that back quickly is to fire the kidnappers and rehire the cancer scientists."