@samsherwood.bsky.social
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He sounds like a guy explaining “Settlers of Catan” to a group of people who will never, ever play “Settlers of Catan” with him again.
Miller: Denmark is a tiny country with a tiny economy and a tiny military. They cannot defend Greenland… Under every understanding of law that has existed about territorial control for 500 years, to control a territory you have to be able to defend a territory…
January 17, 2026 at 1:20 PM
He sounds like a guy explaining “Settlers of Catan” to a group of people who will never, ever play “Settlers of Catan” with him again.
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I long for a world in which you can catch up with a month-old unread magazine* without it seeming like a quaint artifact created by people who didn't yet know about the current horrors.
*"Magazines" are collections of articles and essays printed on paper and distributed on a regular schedule.
*"Magazines" are collections of articles and essays printed on paper and distributed on a regular schedule.
January 12, 2026 at 4:49 PM
I long for a world in which you can catch up with a month-old unread magazine* without it seeming like a quaint artifact created by people who didn't yet know about the current horrors.
*"Magazines" are collections of articles and essays printed on paper and distributed on a regular schedule.
*"Magazines" are collections of articles and essays printed on paper and distributed on a regular schedule.
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Every single one of them, cowards wearing plate carriers when facing people holding nothing more than snowballs.
January 10, 2026 at 12:45 AM
Every single one of them, cowards wearing plate carriers when facing people holding nothing more than snowballs.
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Rick Steves is an American treasure. Just all-around, one of the absolute best of us.
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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December 21, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Rick Steves is an American treasure. Just all-around, one of the absolute best of us.
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my latest is on the odd confluence of unitary executive theory with a president who is mostly AWOL from the business of governance (gift link)
Opinion | The White House Is a Lost Cause
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 10:15 PM
my latest is on the odd confluence of unitary executive theory with a president who is mostly AWOL from the business of governance (gift link)
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as of this week it has officially been 18 years since an anonymous user uploaded this bizarre image of an opossum cornered in a baby grand piano to Wikimedia Commons
December 15, 2025 at 2:45 AM
as of this week it has officially been 18 years since an anonymous user uploaded this bizarre image of an opossum cornered in a baby grand piano to Wikimedia Commons
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ICE trying to ORDER a church to REMOVE A NATIVITY SCENE is one of the most astonishing First Amendment violations I've seen in ever
ICE’s acting director ordered a Boston Catholic parish to tear down its Advent Nativity scene—stripped of baby Jesus and branded with the message “ICE WAS HERE.” The parish priest is refusing, citing he pope’s call to stand with migrants. It's another chapter in Kristi Noem's war on Christians.
“ICE Was Here”: Pope Leo-Inspired Nativity Scene Sparks MAGA Outrage
A Nativity scene missing Jesus — and marked with an “ICE was here” sign — has triggered cries of “politicizing Christmas.” The parish priest says he’s answering Pope Leo's call to welcome stranger.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:00 AM
ICE trying to ORDER a church to REMOVE A NATIVITY SCENE is one of the most astonishing First Amendment violations I've seen in ever
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1/ A few thoughts about @williambaude.bsky.social’s comment in yesterday’s NYT chat that, “It’s amazing how many of our problems today could be solved by a Congress that was willing and able to legislate in response to national problems.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/o...
Opinion | At the Supreme Court, Scenes From a Judicial Backlash
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:44 AM
1/ A few thoughts about @williambaude.bsky.social’s comment in yesterday’s NYT chat that, “It’s amazing how many of our problems today could be solved by a Congress that was willing and able to legislate in response to national problems.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/o...
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I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
December 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
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🧵 Just got done watching Jane Goodall’s Washington DC memorial from earlier today and her oldest grandchild’s eulogy had me 😭. I had to break it up into 3 short videos to post it. 🌹
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November 13, 2025 at 1:12 AM
🧵 Just got done watching Jane Goodall’s Washington DC memorial from earlier today and her oldest grandchild’s eulogy had me 😭. I had to break it up into 3 short videos to post it. 🌹
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Fourteen years later, I *still* think one of the best ways for us to repudiate Cheney's legacy of torture would be to recognize and honor the courageous soldiers and public servants who exposed the torture policies and tried to end them. www.nytimes.com/2011/04/28/o...
November 4, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Fourteen years later, I *still* think one of the best ways for us to repudiate Cheney's legacy of torture would be to recognize and honor the courageous soldiers and public servants who exposed the torture policies and tried to end them. www.nytimes.com/2011/04/28/o...
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i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
apnews.com
October 8, 2025 at 2:59 PM
i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...
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My god.
“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
chicago.suntimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 10:06 AM
My god.
“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
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The manager of Windows on the World survived 9/11. Seventy-nine of his employees died. "To tell Glenn’s story … is to share an uncomfortable truth: 9/11 was not the worst day of his life," Tim Alberta wrote in 2021.
https://theatln.tc/kBJO2mqs
https://theatln.tc/kBJO2mqs
September 12, 2025 at 12:15 AM
The manager of Windows on the World survived 9/11. Seventy-nine of his employees died. "To tell Glenn’s story … is to share an uncomfortable truth: 9/11 was not the worst day of his life," Tim Alberta wrote in 2021.
https://theatln.tc/kBJO2mqs
https://theatln.tc/kBJO2mqs
Thank you, Foundry UMC!
Washington DC - the bells of this church are ringing in support of the protest! 😁
September 6, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Thank you, Foundry UMC!
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One big question here is how Bill Pulte has gotten access to individual mortgage records — and if that itself is a legal violation
Via Adam Levitin:
www.creditslips.org/creditslips/...
Via Adam Levitin:
www.creditslips.org/creditslips/...
August 26, 2025 at 12:34 PM
One big question here is how Bill Pulte has gotten access to individual mortgage records — and if that itself is a legal violation
Via Adam Levitin:
www.creditslips.org/creditslips/...
Via Adam Levitin:
www.creditslips.org/creditslips/...
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SCOTUS thought they could ride the tiger and get what they wanted ideologically. In exchange, they would give him everything he wanted except the Fed. Just leave the Fed alone and you can ignore all federal law. But it ended the same way it has for everyone who tried to ride the tiger since 2016.
August 26, 2025 at 12:49 AM
SCOTUS thought they could ride the tiger and get what they wanted ideologically. In exchange, they would give him everything he wanted except the Fed. Just leave the Fed alone and you can ignore all federal law. But it ended the same way it has for everyone who tried to ride the tiger since 2016.
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absolutely loved this @albertburneko.bsky.social blog on art, AI, and a matte black monk
defector.com/whats-monch-...
defector.com/whats-monch-...
August 20, 2025 at 6:14 PM
absolutely loved this @albertburneko.bsky.social blog on art, AI, and a matte black monk
defector.com/whats-monch-...
defector.com/whats-monch-...
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BREAKING: Trump’s masked D.C. officers tase delivery man
August 16, 2025 at 5:26 PM
BREAKING: Trump’s masked D.C. officers tase delivery man
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This is such an important piece, by @jamellebouie.net. As I mentioned elsewhere, he has an uncommon ability to write essays that are erudite and informative, while also being easy and enjoyable to read.
This one puts the current moment and what's at stake in historical context.
Gift link.
This one puts the current moment and what's at stake in historical context.
Gift link.
Opinion | The Death of the Fourth American Republic
www.nytimes.com
August 7, 2025 at 8:43 AM
This is such an important piece, by @jamellebouie.net. As I mentioned elsewhere, he has an uncommon ability to write essays that are erudite and informative, while also being easy and enjoyable to read.
This one puts the current moment and what's at stake in historical context.
Gift link.
This one puts the current moment and what's at stake in historical context.
Gift link.
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Jesus, this is awful.
The heartbreaking statement from Jonathan Joss’s husband about his death.
June 3, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Jesus, this is awful.
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nathan fielder (narrating): to understand what it’s like to be in a plane crash, i needed to experience one myself. but i would have to defeat the god of death to return to the world of the living. so in a studio warehouse, i recreated the shadow realm of duat and the twelve gates of the underworld,
May 26, 2025 at 11:39 PM
nathan fielder (narrating): to understand what it’s like to be in a plane crash, i needed to experience one myself. but i would have to defeat the god of death to return to the world of the living. so in a studio warehouse, i recreated the shadow realm of duat and the twelve gates of the underworld,
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Read Nicole Krauss on why the end of reading and writing signals the end of human freedom. Gift link wapo.st/4kujPfo
Opinion | The end of writing and reading will be the end of freedom
Why graduation season is so heartening to me.
wapo.st
May 22, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Read Nicole Krauss on why the end of reading and writing signals the end of human freedom. Gift link wapo.st/4kujPfo