Mark Shore

a significant number of American and Israeli allies will be wondering what to do about regimes that not only undertake lawless and reckless preemptive decapitation strikes on adversaries, but that also fail in their basic geopolitical objectives, at great cost to themselves and others

can confirm that yes we do love this!

Coquina - Wikipedia

geologists side-eyeing you: you know that there are thousands of different kinds of rocks, each of them wonderful in their own way [not coquina! someone yells]
...except coquina, which is basically trash

~90+% agree, and subject matter expertise (understanding what the code is supposed to do and why, and details of the input data and outputs) is also critical - code by STEM researchers has parts of this but typically lacks professional structure, robustness, and safety

AI coding assistants can help

The Lord of the Rings (and many other adventure stories)
slightly paraphrased

Frodo: this really sucks, Gandalf, I don't like it at all
Gandalf: and do you think I do, Frodo? just shut up and get on with it... I *died*, remember?
Frodo: [inaudible angry hobbit muttering]

"in *one* place"

apologies for misquoting you, hypothetical future Cory Booker

counter-counterpoint: Cory Booker drops in the first Friday of every month, hands you five unmarked $100 bills, grins and says with a wink, "now don't spend this all in place"

100% presidential material

My name is Marisa Kabas, and I'm an independent journalist who publishes The Handbasket. I'm reaching out about a matter that involves your team and that continues to trouble me. In June of last year, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and I filed a FOIA lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan Police Department to compel them to release body camera footage from the March 17, 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace. What followed was months of back and forth with their lawyers, arguing why it was in the public interest to release the un-redacted footage in its entirety. Though tiny segments were handed over, that wasn't enough: We wanted all of it.  On February 18, 2026, a DC judge ruled in our favor, and your reporter Mark Segraves sent a kind note of congratulations that day. Then on Monday, March 2nd, the footage was handed over to me and excitedly announced I'd received it and would be reviewing it in the coming days and sharing what I learned. When Segraves emailed me this past Thursday asking for my phone number, I didn't think much of it. But when he called me just before 2pm on Friday to let me know NBC4 Washington would be airing a segment at 5pm, I grew concerned.  Segraves said he'd obtained some of the footage via a FOIA request that week after he heard the footage had been released to me. He said he'd credit the work of RCFP and me, but it was little comfort. I asked if he'd known the day before when he emailed me for my number, why didn't he tell me then? He didn't have a good answer for that. He acknowledged all the hard work I'd done getting this footage released. I asked him if he could hold the story until Monday, to which he replied that he's "not just a blogger" (implying that that's all I am, presumably) and that he'd have to check with his editor. I said fine. Nearly an hour later he called back to say his editor refused to hold the story, but that they were happy to interview me via Zoom to add to the package, and I said I would.

What followed was two hours of furiously writing and posting clips of the footage to Youtube so I could get something published before the 5pm broadcast, and in the midst of that, recording a quick Zoom interview with a person who was about to take credit for my work. At 4:59pm ET, The Handbasket published a piece titled "Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid." Then I tuned into NBC4 Washington via your website to catch the broadcast, and my instinct to rush to get something out first was proven right.  "It's a story you're seeing first on News4," your newscast began. "For the first time we're getting an inside look at what happened the day the Trump administration took over the US Institute of Peace. News4 obtained more than four hours of police body camera video from that day." What followed was more than six minutes of clips and commentary from Segraves, but it's not until six minutes and 21 seconds into the piece that he mentions my name (mispronounced though he asked for the correct pronunciation on Zoom), "The Handbasket blog," and the RCFP's foundational role in bringing this footage to light. I was angry, but didn't feel there was much I could do. Then I saw the version NBC4 posted to Instagram and TikTok—the video itself made ZERO mention of the RCFP or my work, only briefly acknowledging it in the written caption on Instagram, and not even bothering to do that on TikTok. An average viewer with no background on the case is lead to believe that this footage was released because of your efforts. When I saw that, I decided I couldn't let this go. It's difficult to explain what it's like to spend nearly a year working on a story only to have another reporter and outlet surreptitiously take credit for it; months of work and personal risk only to have another reporter lying in wait to swoop in. What NBC4 did was immoral, unethical, and to be frank, just truly sucked.

I just sent this email to the news director at NBC4 Washington about the unprofessional and disrespectful way they handled publishing the body camera footage of the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace that was obtained via my FOIA lawsuit:

what a pathologically corrupted society and culture

I have no idea if there's anything there that could be salvaged, or if it's even worth trying

1/ Messages hacked from a Russian general's phone illustrate the sweeping scale of corruption at all levels of the Russian army. They highlight a top-to-bottom pyramid of extortion and bribery to obtain promotions and influence, plus scams and theft of military resources. ⬇️

I think there was a sort of nod of understanding between two authoritarian populists, but their interests are too divergent for any kind of real support

I can guess what 3 is supposed to be saying, and 5 is simply a stoic philosophy of life, I suppose

GOP: Representative Ocasio-Cortez, according to your own public statements you *knew* this war would end badly, and yet you allowed it to continue?

binocular vision is easy, a solved problem!
under low light conditions, or with smoke, fog, blowing snow?
...uh, well those are edge cases

natural born American citizen Leo "Bob" XIV considers his options for 2028

"why is his Holiness asking about unpaid leaves of absence?" Vatican officials fret

sounds like Nike has independently rediscovered the world of auto manufacturing

it's hard for a company to internalize the fact that brands fade and - in the long run - complacency kills if executive management doesn't believe that themselves

her parents eventually notice that access to Fox News has also been permanently disabled

Striking illustration showing that the *only* coast on earth that has accurate measurements of sea level rise is the Atlantic coast in North America. Is this why decision-makers in Washington DC and New York City don't feel the same urgency as everywhere else? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/c...

Javert used to steal all the baguettes and croissants from the police café and the senior officers' packed lunches and blame Valjean, worked every time

in theory, an aftermarket exhaust system could be *quieter* than the OEM one

...in theory

been a long time since I had a dog, but possibly territorial defensiveness

goodbye lady it was nice to meet you, see you some other HEY WHY ARE COMING INTO MY HOME?

I wish I could find the source but repeated attempts have come up empty

someone ca. 2005-2010 wrote that the unexpected tragedy of the internet was that it let village idiots know they weren't alone

those nimble little hands aren't just for opening trash cans, they can turn pages too

I've had *passengers* get mad at me when I stop at a convenient gas station that costs a few cents more

a draft, but not for women or woke liberal socialist urban scum, but just for hardworking rural white True American Boys, the salt of the earth

and with Israel - mostly on the sidelines and exercising a plausible deniability strategy in the Iraq War - now front and center and burning every alliance it once had, warm or cool, to the ground

technically not touching *the stove*

[Alien supervillains arrive on Earth, looking for trouble]
Isn't Gotham actually New York City? they ask a human
Yes
But isn't Metropolis *also* New York City?
Yes
So they're the same city?
No
Uh
But Superman and Batman *are* friends
Ah
At least most of the time
[Alien supervillains leave Earth]

haha, maybe extend that to the logical endpoint that Superman is actually just an illusionist and a really convincing liar

plumber [shutting off main supply valve]: so, was it hard timing this with all your neighbors?
you [shiftily]: uh, no, not at all... but can you hurry it up please