Steve Yelvington
@yelvington.com
Former enemy of the people, now mostly just an annoyance. Digital news pioneer. Cancer survivor. Newspaper journalism survivor. Would-be traveler.
Held senior positions at startribune.com, Cox, Morris.
Self-hosting Mastodon @[email protected]
Held senior positions at startribune.com, Cox, Morris.
Self-hosting Mastodon @[email protected]
Christmas morning, Savannah, Georgia.
December 25, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Christmas morning, Savannah, Georgia.
The days of collecting visa stamps in your passport are slipping away as border control points switch to electronic systems that scan the biometric data stored in chips.
Efficient, yes. Romantic, no.
#travel
Efficient, yes. Romantic, no.
#travel
December 22, 2025 at 5:39 PM
The days of collecting visa stamps in your passport are slipping away as border control points switch to electronic systems that scan the biometric data stored in chips.
Efficient, yes. Romantic, no.
#travel
Efficient, yes. Romantic, no.
#travel
The one true version...
December 22, 2025 at 3:16 PM
The one true version...
Herblock, 1961. What's old is new again.
"I help to support the establishments I have mentioned—they cost enough; and those who are badly off must go there"
"I help to support the establishments I have mentioned—they cost enough; and those who are badly off must go there"
December 13, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Herblock, 1961. What's old is new again.
"I help to support the establishments I have mentioned—they cost enough; and those who are badly off must go there"
"I help to support the establishments I have mentioned—they cost enough; and those who are badly off must go there"
Trump is on a campaign to blame all 80,000 Somali descendants in Minnesota for “billions of dollars” in pandemic rescue fraud. The leader of the fraud ring is here. Notice anything about her?
PS: It was $250M, not billions. Trump has trouble with numbers.
PS: It was $250M, not billions. Trump has trouble with numbers.
December 13, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Trump is on a campaign to blame all 80,000 Somali descendants in Minnesota for “billions of dollars” in pandemic rescue fraud. The leader of the fraud ring is here. Notice anything about her?
PS: It was $250M, not billions. Trump has trouble with numbers.
PS: It was $250M, not billions. Trump has trouble with numbers.
It's that time of the year again!
December 13, 2025 at 1:51 PM
It's that time of the year again!
Trump has changed architects for his ballroom because he wants it bigger, bigger, bigger.
December 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Trump has changed architects for his ballroom because he wants it bigger, bigger, bigger.
Njinga Mbende, queen of what is now Angola, was my 10th great-grandmother, according to FamilySearch dot org. This came as a surprise. It may not be true (officially she had no children) but her story is amazing.
December 6, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Njinga Mbende, queen of what is now Angola, was my 10th great-grandmother, according to FamilySearch dot org. This came as a surprise. It may not be true (officially she had no children) but her story is amazing.
Njinga Mbende, queen of what is now Angola, was my 10th great-grandmother, according to FamilySearch dot org. This came as a surprise. It may not be true (officially she had no children) but her story is amazing.
December 6, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Njinga Mbende, queen of what is now Angola, was my 10th great-grandmother, according to FamilySearch dot org. This came as a surprise. It may not be true (officially she had no children) but her story is amazing.
It's Rosa Parks' birthday.
December 1, 2025 at 6:45 PM
It's Rosa Parks' birthday.
From a 2016 visit to Lviv, a poster in Ivan Franko Park: "Stop Putin, Stop War."
November 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
From a 2016 visit to Lviv, a poster in Ivan Franko Park: "Stop Putin, Stop War."
The illusion of power:
X began disclosing the location of influential users and it turned out that many of the most prominent magats weren't American at all, but ... you guessed it.
Russian.
X began disclosing the location of influential users and it turned out that many of the most prominent magats weren't American at all, but ... you guessed it.
Russian.
November 23, 2025 at 5:41 PM
The illusion of power:
X began disclosing the location of influential users and it turned out that many of the most prominent magats weren't American at all, but ... you guessed it.
Russian.
X began disclosing the location of influential users and it turned out that many of the most prominent magats weren't American at all, but ... you guessed it.
Russian.
Prices are up. Prices are down. Prices are higher but it's not the economy. What am I supposed to believe from this journalistic chaos?
November 21, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Prices are up. Prices are down. Prices are higher but it's not the economy. What am I supposed to believe from this journalistic chaos?
I think it's interesting that in dismantling the Department of Education, you-know-who has transferred key functionality to the Department of Labor.
November 19, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I think it's interesting that in dismantling the Department of Education, you-know-who has transferred key functionality to the Department of Labor.
Snazzy packaging, but I was disappointed to find that there's nothing in it having to do with green eggs. It's just Spam.
November 11, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Snazzy packaging, but I was disappointed to find that there's nothing in it having to do with green eggs. It's just Spam.
What do you suppose is in the Epstein files?
November 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
What do you suppose is in the Epstein files?
I wonder how many Democrats Trump managed to get elected with this photo.
November 5, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I wonder how many Democrats Trump managed to get elected with this photo.
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
November 2, 2025 at 1:40 PM
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
195k in Potosi, Mo.
October 31, 2025 at 11:53 PM
195k in Potosi, Mo.
I had to retire my Ossoff sign, which I saved after his election. It was looking ratty. I'll get a new one when they open a local campaign office. I'm not paying the crazy shipping charges to get one delivered.
October 30, 2025 at 9:32 PM
I had to retire my Ossoff sign, which I saved after his election. It was looking ratty. I'll get a new one when they open a local campaign office. I'm not paying the crazy shipping charges to get one delivered.
Trump says he's prepared to escalate his war on American cities.
October 28, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Trump says he's prepared to escalate his war on American cities.
"It's a joke. I looked at the people. They are not representative of this country. And I looked at all the brand new signs I guess paid for by Soros and other radical left lunatics. We're checking it out. The demonstrations were very small. And the people were whacked out."
-- Man losing his grip
-- Man losing his grip
October 20, 2025 at 1:49 PM
"It's a joke. I looked at the people. They are not representative of this country. And I looked at all the brand new signs I guess paid for by Soros and other radical left lunatics. We're checking it out. The demonstrations were very small. And the people were whacked out."
-- Man losing his grip
-- Man losing his grip