“The Clinic currently treats about 450K neurological patients annually . . . More than half of Americans are affected by a neurological disease or disorder, according to a 2025 American Academy of Neurology report.” reader.pd.cleveland.com/2026/03/04/w...
“As Paul Krugman has argued, these crypto geniuses might have bought themselves the wrong president.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/o...
All according to plan. Rep. Green has a standing 9:30 reservation during every SOTU. “My work is done here.”
@mjtoma.bsky.social great piece has prompted me to take yet another look at The New Republic. For 50 years I've never before intentionally skipped the SOTU. newrepublic.com/article/2068...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/h... Abundantly clear to my wife and I after our respective surgeries this year: After the cutting, human support alone is no match for ChatGPT and its rivals. Humans are still the most important piece of the business we used to call healthcare. But AI is essential.
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
—FDR, 1937
“The administration . . . aims to hire 10,000 new agents and double its detention capacity to 100,000 people. But what if, instead, we diverted that money away from a punitive effort to uproot immigrants and toward assistance for Americans in need?“ www.ms.now/opinion/ice-...
I remember when Bennetons were polluting charming small-town Main Streets all over the U.S. Local shops are worth the fight. Another bullseye from @theguardian.com’s RLC.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Courage is grace under pressure.
The misrule of my country is now so hideous and profound that I am running out of things for which I am as an American rightly proud: Baseball, barbecue, Broadway musicals, African-American music, peanut butter cups & a walk on the streets of any diverse, pluralistic metropolis.
Wish I was joking.
And definitely the only one I know how to use. slate.com/technology/2...
“When we ask about liberal arts education, we’re asking, ‘What kind of society do we want?’ Do we want a society in which, generally, we are an educated and empowered populace? The opposite of that is what we have now.”
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/06/m...
Especially valuable as a reminder of the breadth and depth of the carnage. No #Thune, who must become a focus in ‘26.
www.meidasplus.com/p/25-worst-v...
You can follow her for free on Substack, but after a few episodes you’ll be eager to pay. thedreydossier.substack.com/p/trump-isnt...
“This is already happening. When Mosseri says ‘DMs are where people share now,’ he admits something basic: people are talking and sharing in private, not in the public feed. That is a big business problem for Instagram.” om.co/2026/01/01/w...
Thanks for your efforts last year in what was undoubtedly a challenging transition. I know I’m not alone in my gratitude that you’re still available, informative and entertaining.
1981 time machine
If you went back 45 years, the built world would be eerily similar--the clothes, the cars, even the haircuts. Except you'd quickly notice that there were no personal computers and no smart phones. That for seven or ten hours a day, every day, people were interacting in real life,…
Just watched a short clip of CC and remembered instantly how valuable he and the show were. RIP Stewart Cheifet.
hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/12/...
Another reminder to follow The Holderness Family wherever you can find their work.
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Thank you Liza and HRC. Love the #NORAD story! There was a time when Stephen Miller wouldn’t have fired Col. Harry Shoup and shut down the Combat Alert Center for the insubordination. www.youtube.com/watch?v=teda...
Missing #WestWing? You don’t even need to see the previous episodes in this series to love the Christmas episode of “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.” Bonus: Trombone Shorty / “O Holy Night.” tv.apple.com/us/episode/t...
The White House has been caught.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
Presidents who attended Kennedy Ctr events since its opening in 1971 and did not dream of putting their names on it
Nixon
Ford
Carter
Reagan
Bush I
Clinton
Bush II
Obama
Biden
Very different people. None of them this vulgar.
Would have made more sense for DJT to put his name on the Supreme Court.
“What the world interprets as Italy’s eternal culinary self-confidence is, in reality, the afterglow of that moment. Italians did not inherit abundance. They walked into it, slightly dazed, like people entering the wrong cinema screen and deciding to stay.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The pathetic cowering of Republican politicians to the anti-gun-regulation extremism of the NRA the last 30 years was *the* foreshadowing precursor to Republican politicians’ pathetic Trump-cowering of the last 10 years.
Greatest city in the world.
