“Well Ezra, it’s pretty simple - we didn’t believe women.” “I think that’s a good place to leave it. As always our final question: what are three books you’d recommend to the audience?”
Caroline Baxter
@ccbaxter.bsky.social
Impact and leverage are not verbs. I am not your key stakeholder.
Why do I feel like Knicks vs Spurs is a referendum on the American republic.
Reading conflicting press accounts of a shooting at a press event; waiting for the hydrocodone to kick in, prescribed b/c US medicine is ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ when it comes to women’s menstrual health; the NSF board was fired but a new bureau was created to oversee offshore oil drilling. Another day in America.
Constructed two raised cedar beds, planted herbs and leafy greens, took down old bushes, planted new bushes, pruned the silver maples, and planted a young blossoming apple tree. Deeply aware of my own privilege when I say that no tonic on earth is more potent than working your land by hand.
Experts on waffles? Waffle House? Teleportation? God? God’s hands? Georgia? FEMA? Journalism? Reality?
36 years and two audio formats apart, two kids - one who would become the parent of the other - select the exact same album as their first consciously purchased piece of music. Talk about synchronicity. 🥁
Joe Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, resigns over Iran war. x.com/joekent16jan...
At the airport this morning I heard that a flight to Salt Lake City was cancelled because there was no crew to fly the plane.
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6mo ago* TRUMP ADMINISTRATION SAYS IT COULD BE FORCED TO SHUT DOWN SMALLER AIRPORTS IF GOVERNMENT FUNDING STANDOFF CONTINUES, TSA OFFICIAL SAYS @reuters.com
Hello from the rollercoaster in the sky that is the flight I’m on! Welcome to my in-flight panic attack, where I look around my fellow passengers and wonder why they aren’t all screaming! Some are even sleeping! HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE! What’s great is that climate change is making this SO MUCH WORSE!
Do any other working parents feel incredibly morose the night before a big work trip? Boy and Spouse are a-ok and I’m moping around like I’m going into space, not a few airplanes. Ooof.
Sinners WAS better. Markedly better. It was the foundation on which OBAA rested.
Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 6mo agoWell, OBAA was good. Sinners was better. At least they both got several awards. 🫶
Sinners was robbed. Send twe — whatever the hell these are.
BREAKING Australia says won't send navy ship to Strait of Hormuz after Trump request
At the local playground and there’s a kid walking around quietly saying “shit…shit…shit…” They’re going to grow up to be a great American.
Meanwhile Russia has been helping Iran target US forces and the US has asked Ukraine for help fighting Iranian drones. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
For Russia, Trump’s sanctions pause means more money to fight Ukraine
The Kremlin hopes the Trump administration’s move to contain oil prices sent soaring by the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran will lead to further relief.
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It’s comforting to think this is the reason why Trump started a war with Iran b/c the reality - he just wanted to - is worse. Don’t overestimate the amount the public cares about children and women. Everybody who’s anybody either knew about or cavorted with Epstein and nothing happened.
Qasim Rashid, Esq.@qasimrashid.com · 7mo agoBREAKING: The Pentagon is sending thousands of Marines to the Middle East. The same strategy used with the first wave of Marines sent to Vietnam. You can bet your mortgage that Barron Trump isn't in that unit. Trump is launching a ground invasion to prevent accountability for the Epstein files.
According to CNN there’s a “strong odor” coming from a VA-based ATC tower. One can only hope it’s something benign, like RFK Jr in his exercise jeans doing pull-ups to motivate the unpaid air traffic controllers.
James Fallows@jfallows.bsky.social · 7mo agoVia FlightAware, only planes visible right now in airspace around Dulles IAD, National DCA, and Balt-Wash BWI are those *overflying*, at 30,000+ ft, en route someplace else. None of the usual long approach-and-landing queues for all three airports, plus those departing. Awaiting more info.
Yesterday at this time I was in a tank top. Then it got cooler and rained a whole lot. Then this morning is got real cold and snowed. Then it rained. Now it’s sunny and melting the snow. Did we live thru a year of weather? Is it 2027 now? How’d the midterms go?
$11.3 billion is a third of USAID's annual budget. It could fund USIP for 205 years.
Seung Min Kim@seungminkim1.bsky.social · 7mo agoWASHINGTON (AP) — Pentagon tells Congress the first week of the Iran war cost the US $11.3 billion, an AP source says.
*throws computer against the wall* *quits field* *moves to New Zealand* *becomes an apiarist* *names her bees* *learns their language* *becomes a bee* *pollenates* *dies unknown and content*
It doesn’t matter whether the rate of global warming is increasing. It’ll never cease to amaze me that people don’t care that it’s happening at all. It should be the most alarming thing ever.
Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds
Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño
theguardian.com
Input: "I need new pants." Output: "The PLA's logistics doctrine explicitly prioritizes material readiness. We must not fall behind. Acquiring new pants, ideally reshored and domestically manufactured, is not a lifestyle choice. It is a strategic one." *dying* timhwang.github.io/because-china/
Because China
Justify anything through the lens of great power competition.
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Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas is the lamest addition to the Marvel Universe.
Just another data point to reinforce the hypothesis that are are, in fact, living in the dumbest timeline.
A US submarine sinking a lonely, dinky Iranian surface ship an ocean away from the theater of the main conflict—and 9000 miles from North America—makes it pretty clear the US is fighting a general war, without the declaration required by the Constitution. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
U.S. sub sinks Iranian warship off Sri Lanka, killing 87 and expanding war zone
A U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship off the southern coast of Sri Lanka, killing dozens of sailors and dramatically widening Washington's pursuit of the Iranian navy.
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You're a freakin' igit, kid. Like wicked fakkin dumb to pick this fight. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
RFK Jr.’s dunk on Dunkin’ riles up New Englanders: ‘Come and take it’
“We’re going to ask Dunkin’ Donuts and Starbucks, ‘Show us the safety data that show that it’s okay for a teenage girl to drink an iced coffee with 115 grams of sugar in it,’” the health secretary sai...
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