Updating my LEGO White House

NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.

As we enter the home stretch of the endless NYC mayor's race, please take a moment and read this article to avoid any major surprises in the next two weeks

As someone from the humanities, it always seemed that the size of PhD programs was often driven more by concerns of faculty/department prestige than the needs of the field or the prospects for the graduates. Other areas are no doubt different.

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

Howard Hodgkin, Spring Rain, 2000-2002
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137849

Along those lines…my Asian market sells shredded, frozen lemongrass. Break off a chunk, defrost in the microwave and you’ve always got lemongrass at the ready. A tablespoon is roughly a stalk.

Trump posts AI video showing him literally dumping shit on America

So the president of the United States plans to meet with Putin in Hungary, and when a reporter asked where that plan came from, this was the reply of the United States government www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Just gonna start blocking anyone who complains directly to journalists about paywalls. Figure it out, man.

Just read a New Yorker story with 4 corrections, including misidentifying the plaintiff in a landmark Supreme Court decision that is the very subject of the piece. I continue to doubt the mythic reputation of The New Yorker fact checking department.

Incredible photo from @chicago.suntimes.com ‘s Anthony Vazquez. Pointing what looks to be a teargas launcher at someone’s head at nearly point blank range is incredibly dangerous. This is why I prefer a ballistic helmet in the field.

"People often ask me what journalism I trust. So today I’m handing out letter grades to some major players." —Mark Jacob. www.stopthepresses.news/p/im-handing...

I'm sorry...Dr. Phil had a media company that employed "thousands"?

One more from Japan.

Japan has the best ones I've seen.

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

My semi-regular Columbus Day message:

Columbus wasn’t called crazy because he thought the world was round. That had been known for 1000 years.

He was called crazy because he thought it was so small he could reach India by going west. And they were right! He was a delusional fool!

But lucky.

He died still deluded.

Makes sense. No one likes math.

The Post laid off seemingly the remaining of their liberal-leaning staff members on Opinion last Thursday, when some of them were observing Yom Kippur.

from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for Status
status.news/p/washington-post-opinion-cuts-adam-oneal

Good to see a "South" that includes OK. As native Okie who lived mainly in the South (Va., La.), I get the cultural difference. But if you're going to expel the native pop and corral them in a territory, then you have to deal with complexity of including that territory in your regional definition.

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Punch Drunk Love is absolutely worth seeing.