"Munching on a few nuts right out of the bowl, it occurred to me that much of the weight we carry is not in the work. It's in the waiting."
tothebone.substack.com/p/crackin-nuts
"Kavanaugh pointed out that the 'Court says nothing today about whether, and if so how, the government should go about returning the billions of dollars that it has collected from importers.'"
Is he saying we must allow more lawbreaking because it's too hard to stop?
www.npr.org/2026/02/20/n...
"The group was in the Castle Peak area, where an avalanche ..."
Years ago I led snowshoe hikes for groups of friends in this area. After a storm I wondered, "Am I taking my friends into danger?" So I took a beginning avalanche course and learned that I wasn't.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
"Are you going to stand with them, or was it all just talk?"
Where are all the ‘Don’t tread on me’ Americans?
thehill.com/opinion/civi...
I think your final sentence is as likely the reason as any other possibility.
So, if I understand this correctly, Customs and Border Protection has used a laser weapon inside a major US metro area, near an international airport, to "neutralize" a party balloon. And unintentionally close that airport for several hours.
I'm not feeling any safer right now.
"However, the misidentification of the balloon raised questions about the circumstances that led to both the shootdown and the temporary grounding of flights."
www.newsweek.com/us-military-...
“individuals who pose a risk to national security” or “any other cases ... that the division determines to be sufficiently important to pursue.”
www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
This seems suspicious.
And it will almost certainly affect USPS, UPS, and other delivery services here in the Borderlands.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Hey, national media editors at @nytimes.com, @wsj.com,
@washingtonpost.com, @theatlantic.com, @latimes.com, and many others. How about if you stop referring to ICE as "law enforcement"?
Because it's clear that's not what are.
Please read this piece by Heath Haussamen. Then ask yourself if your political identity outweighs your stated values. If it does, then you are part of the problem.
Border Patrol took a man’s gun, then executed him haussamen.com/2026/01/25/b...
Al Jazeera making a valiant attempt to explain our constitutional rights when we encounter the secret police seems almost quaint at the moment.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/...
I love this.
This is going to be a fantastic show.
Shit's about to get real.
"Minnesota may be the first test of whether constitutional limits on domestic military force still hold – or whether the United States is about to cross a line from which it cannot easily return."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This is pretty exciting.
"Anger is not wisdom. It is not a plan."
This is wisdom, from Hank Shaw.
tothebone.substack.com/p/anger-into...
@valwestonnm.bsky.social is rocking this. And she even lets me help with it.
"The system has evolved into a subsidy program for ranchers."
www.propublica.org/article/graz...
"When four companies control 85% of grocery store meat, when one distributor can determine what most restaurants serve and when a few internet giants mediate nearly every online transaction, the market is not open. It is captured."
localfirstaz.com/news-blog/th...
I'm in!
It's gonna be great!
"the AI slop ecosystem is full of scammers: people selling tips and courses on how to make viral content – who often make more money than the AI slop producers themselves."
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
This is a beautiful memory of a wonderful day.
I can't tell you what it is just yet, but it's going to be very cool.
"Providing this kind of context isn’t just ethically permissible — it is ethically required. Good journalism requires a complete analysis. When the press ascribes Trump’s public rudeness to simple boorishness, it is only telling part of the story."
thehill.com/opinion/whit...
"It’s worth noting that Trump’s proposed Patriot Games do not actually expect competitors to fight to the death."
www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...
Do you still think that the state of the US is Democrat vs Republican? Blue vs red? Progressive vs Conservative?
That is a construct. An artificial situation created specifically to distract us so that those with power become more difficult to dislodge.
Don't fall for this.
Fight the real enemy.
"It is not that men do not feel deeply. It’s that most have never been shown where, how, or with whom those feelings are allowed to land."
Another, from the wonderful Hank Shaw.
When the Bourbon Starts Flowing
open.substack.com/pub/tothebon...
