𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜
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- The best bon mot I'll hear from anybody for a while is— "Is the Roman Catholic Church a non-prophet organization?" —and I definitely cannot attribute it. But I wish it was mine.
- 2026 The year free speech-advocating plutocrats killed the people's right to be informed because they could. Because it was profitable. Because what they want is ologarchy.
- BREAKING: @ajc.com on Tuesday evening said it will lay off approximately 50 staffers, about 15% of its headcount, as it seeks to cut costs and marshal resources to invest in its growth. The AJC published its last print edition on 12/31. About half of those laid off will come from the newsroom.
- *^oligarchy. Argh.
- The world's 4th richest person, worth more than a quarter trillion dollars, cannot afford @washingtonpost.com because capitalist reasons. Oh well. apnews.com/article/wash...
- "We are all responsible." Spread widely. This is important.
- I'm delighted now to be a regular contributor to @flashesinsight.bsky.social. flashesinsight.com/2026/02/03/t...
- It's unnerving to see someone unfamiliar at your home. This person was peaceful and exercising a 1A right. Imagine how unnerving when it is a masked gang claiming to be law enforcement and lacking a warrant.
- @nytimes.com @nytimesoped.bsky.social If you're looking to fill a slot -- I have over 100 bylines, can turn copy around fast, as secretary of the Edmund Burke Society I am a conservative and also a Catholic, but not with Douthat's voice and never for Trump. I could be your guy. DM if interested.
- I'm never with the pile-on-the-natl-Dems crowd that prevails here. But the Don Lemon arrest is as much a confirmation that there's no "pivot" as the ongoing, unchanged ICE operation in MN. We have no signal an investigation into Alex Pretti's murder is active. Dems really need to hold out here.
- The death of Joe Ely snuck past me last month. A huge loss to American music. With the Flatlanders and on his own, he gave us melodies that rose up from the landscape like they were stolen from the soundtrack of a... Joe Ely, Influential Texas Songwriter, Dead at 78 share.google/5U6ixcVFAp77...
- ...John Ford film. How many musicians could be connective tissue from Tex Mex to Townes van Zandt to Warren Zevon to Joe Strummer. Treat yourself to this great American voice if you've never heard him before. I sometimes wonder what "Americana"... South Wind of Summer share.google/apSSPcXNyMj7...
- ...as a musical genre could mean. The country is so vast and diverse. Ely was a big slice of whatever Americana is. The music is a treasure. RIP Saint Valentine share.google/8T8VP2iR7Jzg...
- One more. The sound and voice of an America you want to love. A wall is a mirror that can only reveal One side of a story that passes for real But break it all down, it all becomes clear It's the fearless who love and the loveless who fear youtu.be/HOGhUBfiHvE?...
