Marc with a Sea 🌊

A favorite photo from Mount Auburn Cemetery in Watertown and Cambridge, Massachusetts. This photo was taken on a gorgeous summer afternoon in August 2023. #PhotoSky #photography #sunshine #trees

Just as a private equity firm buys out a corporation and strips it for parts, a consultant class is raiding the Democratic Party and getting “generationally wealthy” along the way New from me and @adambonica.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2163...

You knew they'd be pulling this because they can't win at the ballot box. And because they're garbage, of course. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

NEW: WDIV poll of Michigan Senate race

happy bday writer Sylvia Plath, b.1932, Boston, died too young by suicide age 30. “I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.” “let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences”

THE BREWERS ARE 1 WIN AWAY FROM THEIR 1ST WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONSHIP 💍

If you closed your eyes and just listened to this clip, you wouldn’t know the Rays are the home team

Oh my Goddess, it finally happened this World Series. The. Milwaukee. Brewers. ⚾

"Anyone committed to Ukraine’s freedom and sovereignty must be committed to stopping Trump."

Regarding this World Series, I'm just waiting for Dave Wasserman to pop in here and declare "I've seen enough"

The most beautiful sentence I ever wrote is being housed in a fireproof box underground. Everyone who ever read it spontaneously combusted in a blaze of glee. I couldn't get prose insurance for years after that.

Besides the racism, just want to say that just knowing of the existence of the Fields Prize and the Wolf Prize is way more elitist than thinking Cheesecake Factory decor is tacky.

Just finished watching The Diplomat S4 and it is wildly sharp and off-the-charts entertaining. Every one of the eight episodes ends on a season-finale-level OMG-what-now twist. Wall-to-wall fun, sterling performances, and a kind of current political resonance that doesn't feel smug or forced.

How many Nobels, Fields Medals, or Wolf Prizes do you have, Roadkill Robby?

The right firmly believes that they should be allowed to say whatever they want and you should not be allowed to dislike it in the slightest

NEW: Trump’s metastasizing “Alabama problem” youtu.be/eR0GHR2muws?...

I believe the precise wording was "Shove that ballroom up your FAT ass!"

Jay-Z pulls a Dick Cheney www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/a...

this thing moves so fast I need a pedo-meter to track it

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For the last month, I've been posting examples of Trump's authoritarianism that I call "Dictator Move of the Day." If you search that phrase, you'll see that the fascist president is constantly trying to undermine our democracy. I'm going to keep doing these posts. We've got to stop him.

"Self-confident men" don't act and speak abusively of #LGBTQ+ people.

Hi Trump

El-Sayed on Trump's cognitive tests: "I went to medical school...In my neurology unit, I would have to give that MoCA exam...The only people that you give a MoCA test to are people who you worry may have cognitive deficits. By definition, if you're taking one of those tests, something's wrong."

Anyone else deeply ashamed of our country for allowing a convicted felon, pathological liar, serial abuser of women, and traitor to seize power? Ready to fight back? Vote against all Republicans.

If Trump didn't keep bragging about these, El-Sayed wouldn't have even thought to mention them:

like I said, Vance is the big loser of 2026: www.contrariannews.org/p/who-has-al...

These guys can't take tough questions from women:

El-Sayed: "If you, like me, are sick and tired of wondering why we had to dodge lettuce all summer, wondering why the guy who leads HHS literally takes his grandkids swimming in shit's creek? I think we all could agree we probably need a public health senator right about now."

A stand of trees, roadside. #abstract #October

The campaign against Abdul El-Sayed is an example of a destructive, dangerous trend visible all over America: Republicans and their allies not even pretending to observe traditional standards of accuracy, civility, and basic decency in politics.

Bluesky has four types of users

Walter Koenig's Pavel Chekov was one of Gene Roddenberry's biggest swings with the original series. For season 2, he put a Russian on the bridge of the Enterprise, on prime time network television, just 5 short years after the Cuban Missile Crisis and during the height of the Cold War. 🥺

In a 55-page ruling, a Manhattan federal judge ruled that Trump's DOJ violated separation of powers, federal administrative law, and Ms. Comey’s due process rights when they unlawfully fired Maurene Comey in July 2025, and awarded her back pay. More: substack.com/profile/2357...

Francis Cadell first visited the island of Iona off the west coast of Scotland in 1912 and returned every year afterwards, frequently in the company of Samuel Peploe. He felt the light was of the same quality as that in the south of France. This is from 1928.

"Whatever dark power Trump has that has enabled him to become president twice while being quite literally one of the most morally despicable human beings on Earth, it’s not easily duplicated by your average Republican candidate for Senate, House, or governor." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social

An absolute must-watch if you haven’t seen it yet.

Mother Jones Washington bureau chief @davidcorn.bsky.social discusses Trump's long and baffling obsession with Putin and what it means for the Russia-Ukraine war

There’s desperation behind these Republican ads. But there’s confidence too—that scapegoating Muslims taps into biases many Americans still feel, and that it will be enough to alter some outcomes. The latest edition of The Breakdown from @citizencohn.bsky.social:

Syphilitic and insane 80 year-old insults Norway for not awarding him the Nobel Prize, which they have nothing to do with, and no one worries he has access to the red button? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/w...

Loved the Eva Marie Saint tribute on TCM. I'll miss her forever. #TCMParty

"We cannot remain silent: Amy Acton for governor" #Ohio

Encouraging sign that Democrats will play hardball if they win the midterms.

Yep. This is how I read it as well:

@citizencohn.bsky.social on Mike Rogers’s horrible interview with Meet the Press: “This was such a metaphor for the way he's run this whole campaign, which is he is desperate.”

If you go by the vibes we’re looking at a gigantic Democratic wave. If you go by the polls, the picture is . . . more complicated. Today we’re going to look at both of them in some depth. Come along in today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social:

Ossoff: "What a mistake [Trump] made coming to the cradle of the civil rights movement to launch that attack on voting rights. We are already seeing that the people's response is massive and determined and defiant...You're taking part in history."