JT Morgan
@jtmorg.bsky.social
Reveler in words, sounds, images, nature, history, science, facts. Food. Flâneur. Probably reads too much. In and out of airplane mode. Grateful for all the wise, sane, informative, inspiring people here.
Central Park moody tonight.
December 24, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Central Park moody tonight.
Current reading: an exhaustive scholarly synthesis of wide-ranging historical sources — 1087+ pages of narrative from 150+ pages of condensed notes and citations alone. Thus far an apt historical reframe of the Eurocentric narrative … and contextually essential to contemporary economic machinations.
December 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Current reading: an exhaustive scholarly synthesis of wide-ranging historical sources — 1087+ pages of narrative from 150+ pages of condensed notes and citations alone. Thus far an apt historical reframe of the Eurocentric narrative … and contextually essential to contemporary economic machinations.
But that’s just life.
December 6, 2025 at 1:13 AM
But that’s just life.
I love figs and dates, don’t get me wrong. A vacuum-sealed bag of dates from the Death Valley Date Man somehow survived many apartment moves of a younger, more naive I — that is, until I met a certain someone who was not as sentimental about fruit.
December 6, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I love figs and dates, don’t get me wrong. A vacuum-sealed bag of dates from the Death Valley Date Man somehow survived many apartment moves of a younger, more naive I — that is, until I met a certain someone who was not as sentimental about fruit.
Half-speed remasters on 180 gram > figgy pudding. Just saying.
December 6, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Half-speed remasters on 180 gram > figgy pudding. Just saying.
Back from Caucus dispatches and European walkabouts.
This week’s speed = Black Krim tomato ripening on a sunny sill
This week’s speed = Black Krim tomato ripening on a sunny sill
August 11, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Back from Caucus dispatches and European walkabouts.
This week’s speed = Black Krim tomato ripening on a sunny sill
This week’s speed = Black Krim tomato ripening on a sunny sill
Midweek poppy morning.
This is Papaver somniferum ‘Lauren’s Grape’ (w hover fly friend), a variety that has self-sown in drifts all over the gritty parts my garden for over a decade now.
A delicate, ephemeral crowdpleaser that works best amid a meadowy plant matrix.
#gardening #bloomscrolling
This is Papaver somniferum ‘Lauren’s Grape’ (w hover fly friend), a variety that has self-sown in drifts all over the gritty parts my garden for over a decade now.
A delicate, ephemeral crowdpleaser that works best amid a meadowy plant matrix.
#gardening #bloomscrolling
June 18, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Midweek poppy morning.
This is Papaver somniferum ‘Lauren’s Grape’ (w hover fly friend), a variety that has self-sown in drifts all over the gritty parts my garden for over a decade now.
A delicate, ephemeral crowdpleaser that works best amid a meadowy plant matrix.
#gardening #bloomscrolling
This is Papaver somniferum ‘Lauren’s Grape’ (w hover fly friend), a variety that has self-sown in drifts all over the gritty parts my garden for over a decade now.
A delicate, ephemeral crowdpleaser that works best amid a meadowy plant matrix.
#gardening #bloomscrolling
Iconic novella. Diamond economy.
“Raymond Radiguet’s Count d’Orgel’s Ball is a prototypically French novella: irreducibly classical, ruthlessly analytical, and so thoroughly disabused that it is hard to believe anyone so young could have written it.”
-Andre Aciman
#booksky
“Raymond Radiguet’s Count d’Orgel’s Ball is a prototypically French novella: irreducibly classical, ruthlessly analytical, and so thoroughly disabused that it is hard to believe anyone so young could have written it.”
-Andre Aciman
#booksky
June 18, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Iconic novella. Diamond economy.
“Raymond Radiguet’s Count d’Orgel’s Ball is a prototypically French novella: irreducibly classical, ruthlessly analytical, and so thoroughly disabused that it is hard to believe anyone so young could have written it.”
-Andre Aciman
#booksky
“Raymond Radiguet’s Count d’Orgel’s Ball is a prototypically French novella: irreducibly classical, ruthlessly analytical, and so thoroughly disabused that it is hard to believe anyone so young could have written it.”
-Andre Aciman
#booksky
Very illuminating.
It’s Digital News Report Day.
The yearly, data rich, insightful report from @reutersinstitute.bsky.social dropped 🔥
Insights on news usage, influencers, trust, (new) platform dependencies and more.
Thanks for this continued resource.
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news...
The yearly, data rich, insightful report from @reutersinstitute.bsky.social dropped 🔥
Insights on news usage, influencers, trust, (new) platform dependencies and more.
Thanks for this continued resource.
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news...
Digital News Report 2025
The most comprehensive study of news consumption, covering 48 markets around the world.
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk
June 17, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Very illuminating.
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June 16, 2025
June 16, 2025
At a news conference today, acting U.S.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
June 17, 2025 at 7:18 AM
June 16, 2025
June 16, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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via Benedicto.Uribe on TikTok
June 14, 2025 at 8:47 PM
via Benedicto.Uribe on TikTok
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Dodgers utilityman Kiké Hernández took to Instagram on Saturday to express his support for immigrants and decry the recent militarized raids in the city by the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
June 15, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Dodgers utilityman Kiké Hernández took to Instagram on Saturday to express his support for immigrants and decry the recent militarized raids in the city by the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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Good insight in this thread about new reporting Marines have detained individuals in LA, which raises the question of Posse Comitatus Act violation.
Important thread by an outstanding mind and expert in this. Will add a couple of things:
1. I suspect that the Marines were told that detaining civilians was allowable. Need clarification on what their operating instructions are. 1/
1. I suspect that the Marines were told that detaining civilians was allowable. Need clarification on what their operating instructions are. 1/
The Department of Defense has confirmed that U.S. Marines detained a civilian—reportedly an Army veteran who crossed a yellow tape boundary on his way to an office of the Department of Veterans Affairs. This is an apparent violation of the Posse Comitatus Act. 1/16 www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
June 14, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Good insight in this thread about new reporting Marines have detained individuals in LA, which raises the question of Posse Comitatus Act violation.
Fernando Pessoa
(“Alberto Caeiro”)
13 June 1888
from *The Keeper of Sheep* (*O Guardador de Rebanhos*)
Edwin Hoenig and Susan M. Brown, trans., 1971, 1985
The Sheep Meadow Press
Riverdale-on-Hudson, NY
#booksky
(“Alberto Caeiro”)
13 June 1888
from *The Keeper of Sheep* (*O Guardador de Rebanhos*)
Edwin Hoenig and Susan M. Brown, trans., 1971, 1985
The Sheep Meadow Press
Riverdale-on-Hudson, NY
#booksky
June 14, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Fernando Pessoa
(“Alberto Caeiro”)
13 June 1888
from *The Keeper of Sheep* (*O Guardador de Rebanhos*)
Edwin Hoenig and Susan M. Brown, trans., 1971, 1985
The Sheep Meadow Press
Riverdale-on-Hudson, NY
#booksky
(“Alberto Caeiro”)
13 June 1888
from *The Keeper of Sheep* (*O Guardador de Rebanhos*)
Edwin Hoenig and Susan M. Brown, trans., 1971, 1985
The Sheep Meadow Press
Riverdale-on-Hudson, NY
#booksky
Reposted by JT Morgan
We have long passed the point when impeachment is justified
June 12, 2025 at 7:17 PM
We have long passed the point when impeachment is justified
Reposted by JT Morgan
Former Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board members said the Trump administration usurped their authority by denying awards to "a substantial number" of the individuals it had selected for the program.
Almost all of the Fulbright board resigns, citing Trump administration interference
Former Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board members said the Trump administration usurped their authority by denying awards to "a substantial number" of the individuals it had selected for the program.
n.pr
June 12, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Former Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board members said the Trump administration usurped their authority by denying awards to "a substantial number" of the individuals it had selected for the program.
“Berlanguian” is a term used to describe the surreal comedic quality of being Spanish after the Spanish Civil War; the term comes from the film art of Luis García Berlanga (12 June 1921). His life is an example of how to maintain aesthetic dignity amid the “non-sense” of authoritarian censorship.
June 12, 2025 at 3:13 PM
“Berlanguian” is a term used to describe the surreal comedic quality of being Spanish after the Spanish Civil War; the term comes from the film art of Luis García Berlanga (12 June 1921). His life is an example of how to maintain aesthetic dignity amid the “non-sense” of authoritarian censorship.
Begins on Los Angeles rooftop, ends on roof of Europe.
Perhaps James Salter was best known for *A Sport and Pastime*; I prefer this book and *Light Years*.
He demonstrates how to include the world in each chapter w elegant, descriptive economy.
#booksky
James Salter
10 June 1925-June 19 2015
Perhaps James Salter was best known for *A Sport and Pastime*; I prefer this book and *Light Years*.
He demonstrates how to include the world in each chapter w elegant, descriptive economy.
#booksky
James Salter
10 June 1925-June 19 2015
June 10, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Begins on Los Angeles rooftop, ends on roof of Europe.
Perhaps James Salter was best known for *A Sport and Pastime*; I prefer this book and *Light Years*.
He demonstrates how to include the world in each chapter w elegant, descriptive economy.
#booksky
James Salter
10 June 1925-June 19 2015
Perhaps James Salter was best known for *A Sport and Pastime*; I prefer this book and *Light Years*.
He demonstrates how to include the world in each chapter w elegant, descriptive economy.
#booksky
James Salter
10 June 1925-June 19 2015