Pentagon To Livestream Firing Squad Execution https://theonion.com/pentagon-to-livestream-firing-squad-execution/
Jonathan C Slaght
@jonathanslaght.com
Author: Tigers Between Empires (2025). Owls of the Eastern Ice (2020, Best Book per NYT/WSJ, PEN America winner, Nat Book Award longlist). Work: Regional Director Temperate Asia @wcs.org. Home: Mpls https://linktr.ee/jslaght
I've wanted to come here for a long time. Finally in Tajikistan!
I’m in DC scheduled to give this talk today. But the organizers flagged slides in my deck that mention racism, structural gaslighting, New Jim Code and other themes that are off limits in the Land of the Free.
You may have heard that nonfiction's having a rough time. I investigated for @thewalrus.ca. And it's very true, but not for the reasons you might think. thewalrus.ca/nonfiction-i...
I think this analysis is correct. Reports out of Russia for the last six weeks show huge diesel shortages and long lines of cars trying to get it. Russia doesn't have the diesel Trump says he's buying for them. This is all for another purpose, which is psy ops.
This is completely outrageous and disgusting. This must immediately be blocked by Congress and Trump should be impeached for this. The US is now funding Putin’s war machine as he murders civilians including children. We are lost as a country.
for some reason I am being attacked for taking a picture of a dog
so I am in China but had a new concrete driveway poured in Minneapolis this morning so I checked the Ring camera and a loose dog walked all over it
living through the AI bubble must be a bit what it felt like to live in the late 1800s when people were talking about how, like, every river town in the midwest would become the biggest city in the world
Terrible news: I just heard from @jonathanslaght.com that Dr. Soniya Rozenfeld, a talented and dedicated Russian Arctic biologist, has just been jailed for 3.5 years over an anti-corruption donation made years ago. See the details in his Facebook post, linked here.
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so I am in China but had a new concrete driveway poured in Minneapolis this morning so I checked the Ring camera and a loose dog walked all over it
my kids are into Pokémon cards and the damned things are near-impossible to find in the United States unless you have some secret connection, a lot of time, or want to pay huge markups. Refreshing to walk into a mall in Beijing and find them 1. In ample stock and 2. At reasonable prices
Scooters at the Beijing National Stadium, or Bird's Nest, tonight
In Beijing so slow on the news: 2026 National Book Award Nonfiction Finalists are here! Colin Asher, @elgendy95.bsky.social, Camonghne Felix, @novicsara.bsky.social, @reluctantlyjoe.bsky.social have written stunners. I'll be in NYC next month when the winner is named & yes I have a fancy outfit
77th National Book Awards
77th National Book Awards
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I'm not suggesting a five-alarm fire or anything but not opposed to a little smoke in this Beijing hotel just to give one of these babies a go
Activists have spent the last 70 days camped around and inside a cottonwood tree right along the border, the last of a grove estimated to be up to 250 years old. (via @kjzz.org) n.pr/4hKJ79B
At least 10 arrested at Arizona-Mexico border as 250-year-old cottonwood tree cut down for wall
Activists have spent the last 70 days camped around and inside a cottonwood tree right along the border in the tiny town of Lochiel. The tree was the last of an old grove estimated to be up to 250 years old.
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Are you a postdoc or new faculty member who would benefit from an invited talk? My department is looking to bring someone for spring. Due to budgetary reasons, you must be either: 1. In driving distance to Orono, ME OR 2. Working on alpine or Arctic plants
You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.
must admit I have never seen a notice like this when booking a flight - now I'm going to be paranoid about not dropping the $10.42 to make sure I don't get stranded in Central Asia. And one of the flights I've booked is on "Scat Airlines" which similarly does not instill a ton of confidence 💩✈️
trump going on an emergency 17 state media tour to support republican candidates before the midterms and he is going with “nobody knows that dumb has a b on the end”
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Trump: "Nobody knows that dumb has a B on the end"
By examining bones from a mid-19th century military latrine, @archaeomather.bsky.social found remains of passenger pigeons and concluded that Brown rats arrived in Minnesota between 1846-1851, via steamboat. Really neat work.
David@archaeomather.bsky.social · last wk.I wrote about rats for @racketmn.com!
During the ICE surge, Lisa Demuth signed a letter thanking ICE and praising Kristi Noem for her "steady leadership."
these are our pianos, not theirs! I know this stuff can feel secondary with all of the immediate pain this admin causes, but in the face of such personalism, it also feels important to assert the democratic principle that these cultural inheritances don't belong to the president, they belong to us
Sarah Burris@sarahburris.bsky.social · last wk.Y'all I just caught the Kennedy Center claiming it isn't closing while telling vendors it's closing and now they're selling all of their Steinway pianos www.alternet.org/alternet-exc...
