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The Prince and the Poisoner//The Poisoner of Bengal

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Dan Morrison @danmorrison.bsky.social · Nov 16
Scene of the crime.
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Dan Morrison's book, The Poisoner of Bengal, in front of Howrah Station in Kolkata, where Amarendra Chandra Pandey was injected with plague germs in November 1933 in an act of fratricide among the Indian aristocracy.
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Dan Morrison, from USA Today, reveals Trump’s pattern of construction in his time as a private real estate developer and explains the White House Ballroom build.

The Golden Age with Andrew Zucker “Did Trump Tower Predict the East Wing Demolition?” with @danmorrison.bsky.social
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Did Trump Tower Predict the East Wing Demolition?
YouTube video by Politicon
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November 5, 2025 at 10:46 PM
danmorrison.bsky.social
Join me for a crazy fish tale of unabashed sustainability and business success, with a Texas fisherman straight out of central casting, a marine biologist with a plan, and several hundred million tons of spawning biomass. My latest, at @usatoday.com www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
How America's fisheries rebounded from collapse and over-regulation
An unlikely alliance saved U.S. fisheries from collapse - and made them more profitable.
www.usatoday.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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sanho.bsky.social
Sen. Rand Paul: “what were their names” and “what was the evidence linking them to being part of a gang?”
“The Coast Guard, when they interdict boats, … about 25% of the time the boat that they board doesn’t have drugs on it. So they have made an error, but they don’t kill them.”
US strikes another alleged drug-carrying boat off Venezuela coast
The strike marks the fifth deadly strike on an alleged drug-carrying vessel in the region.
www.militarytimes.com
October 15, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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The perverse excitement of a cancelled plan.
October 16, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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sanho.bsky.social
Habemus felis parva! #Caturday
October 4, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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gonebabygone.bsky.social
Kash Patel and Zohran Mamdani both being the children of expelled Gujarati Ugandans is a real "duality of man"
September 14, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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This striped formation may contain the oldest intact rocks on Earth.* A new study suggests that they are at least 4.16 billion years old--relics from a time before plate tectonics, probably before oceans, even.

* The pocket knife is a more recent element. 🧪

www.sciencenews.org/article/eart...
An ancient intrusion of magma (the striated rocks at center) in the Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt is 4.16 billion years old, researchers say. Credit: Jonathan O’Neil
August 16, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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'Women, horses, thrills along the way': Some Russians want Alaska back

Theories that the United States swindled Russia out of Alaska in 1867 are back as Trump and Putin prepare to meet in the former Russian America. My latest, at @usatoday.com

www.usatoday.com/story/news/w...
August 16, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.
Quote from a story on changes at the U of Chicago that notes they are "pausing" doctoral eduction in Classics, Comp Lit, Germanic studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Romance languages and literatures, and South Asian Studies.
August 13, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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On the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, @usatoday.com's Davis Winkie shows the Smithsonian in hiding -- and not for the first time -- over America's conficted nuclear legacy. #history #histsci #museumarchive #booksky #japan

www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Atomic bombings' 80th anniversary a quiet one for embattled Smithsonian
In the absence of special events, the plane that bombed Hiroshima will quietly remain on display at the National Air & Space Museum's airport annex.
www.usatoday.com
August 6, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Surviving a swank writers workshop in Morocco: Silk Road Slippers, a five-day writers workshop at a delicious Moroccan resort, was more scrivener’s boot camp than a luxurious path to self-discovery.
My latest, at @usatoday.com.
#booksky

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Savage but fair: Surviving a swank writing master class in Morocco
Silk Road Slippers, a five-day writers workshop at a delicious Moroccan resort, was more scrivener’s boot camp than a luxurious path to self-discovery.
www.usatoday.com
July 26, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Live your life so that Ruth Gordon would be proud of you.
bcdreyer.social Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · Nov 30

Words To Live By

"I don't know the problem with being pretentious if you can follow it up with something."

—Ruth Gordon
bcdreyer.social Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · Nov 30
"I cahn't tell ya how encouragin' a thing like this is."

My god I love her.
June 23, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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In the endless dogfight between purity and pragmatism it’s never clear who to bet on.

It’s even harder to know who to love.

www.usatoday.com/story/entert...
Rebels, gangsters and presidents animate biography of radical lawyer Paul O'Dwyer
“An Irish Passion for Justice: The Life of Rebel New York Attorney Paul O'Dwyer,” takes readers through the civil rights era, Northern Ireland.
www.usatoday.com
May 29, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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An amazing tale of pure terrible larceny.
www.thecity.nyc/2025/05/19/s...
The Terrible Truth About Sherita, Brooklyn’s Beloved Billboard Dinosaur
The vanished icon of Atlantic Ave. was the relic of a secretive family who grabbed buildings from immigrant owners across the booming borough.
www.thecity.nyc
May 23, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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Please enjoy this stock photo the local CBS affiliate chose for a story about traffic this summer
Picture of the OJ Simpson car chase with the caption "millions expected to travel this Memorial day, breaking 20-year-old record"
May 14, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
May 15, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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Today I learned that the author of this 1977 op-ed was the most important college mentor for the current head of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division.
'Roots' Was a Racist Attack on White People THIS IS going to be a harsher column than l ordinarily care to write, but the whole "Roots" phenomenon deserves some blunt comment. Tens of millions of Americans sat through the eight TV episodes of "Roots" and apparently did not understand that they themselves were being attacked both directly and unjustifiably. This fact is at once alarming and profoundly depressing. The attack made by "Roots," more-over, was deeply racist, practically all of the whites being unattractive louts, practically all of the blacks nature's noblemen. This is the sort of thing many of the commentators are calling "mythic truth." That is, people with white skins are, morally speaking, unattractive louts. As Susan Sontag once put it, whites are the cancer of the human race. "Roots" was just as blunt. Is it possible that the white audience for "Roots" was unaware that it was being assaulted? If so, then perhaps that audience really does deserve to be ripped off, picked clean - for that is what "Roots" is really all about. "Roots" does not have much to do with histo-ry, which is scarcely present at all in the series, but with concrete political claims in the present. The message comes through loud and clear, viz., because of the slavery experience in the past, contemporary Jeffrey Hart blacks have special valid claims on contemporary whites. Contemporary whites, indeed, should feel guilty in connection with blacks. now awarded status" Haley. "Roots" means to offer blacks a mor. al blank check, figures to be filled in at leisure: quotas in jobs and colleges, privileged access to the federal kitty, favorable court decisions on highly disputed matters, and so forth. An audience willing to ooh and aah over "Roots" is not about to resist very strongly when the political rip-offs arrive. To achieve its propagandistic goals. "Roots" makes a mish-mash of histo. ry. In historical fact, marauding bands of whites did not go into the African bush and grab nativ…
May 11, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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THE NEW YORK KNICKERBOCKERS ARE AMERICA’S TEAM.
May 6, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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The Federalist is coming for your artistic nudes. By which I mean the ones in museums.

"A number of Christian men I’ve known have expressed discomfort at viewing nudity in high art... these are honest men who care about honoring God and womanhood.
Headline in the arts section of the Federalist: "Art Shouldn't Get A Free Nudity Pass Just Because It's Art"
April 25, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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The U. of Toledo is suspending nine undergraduate programs in response Ohio's new higher ed law:

Africana studies, Asian studies, data analytics, disability studies, Middle East studies, philosophy, religious studies, Spanish, & women’s & gender studies ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/04/23/u...
University of Toledo suspending nine undergrad programs in compliance with Ohio higher ed law • Ohio Capital Journal
The University of Toledo is suspending nine undergraduate programs in response to a controversial new higher education law that is set to take effect this summer.
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April 23, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Judge says Voice of America staffers can go back to work

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Judge says Voice of America staffers can go back to work
The government-funded VOA has been locked in a court battle to stay on the airwaves.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 23, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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cmonstah.bsky.social
Lots of interesting things in AP's obit of Pope Francis, but probably what humanizes him most is the sentence that reads:

"Bergoglio went to Germany in 1986 to research a never-finished thesis."

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April 22, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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www.thecity.nyc/2025/04/11/h...
Big Tax Breaks Get Bigger as Mega-Developers Challenge Assessments
Properties in Hudson Yards and Times Square are among the buildings that win millions of dollars in tax appeals even after getting up-front tax reductions — a maneuver New York allows that some other ...
www.thecity.nyc
April 11, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Rewatched Barbarella (1968) last night. It’s a hoot. Sex angels. Sex skunks. Sex labyrinths. Sex everything. Jane Fonda breaking the Orgasmatron. Anita Pallenberg wearing a giant horn. Evil children with terror dolls. Perhaps the most French film ever made in English. Best not to be completely sober
The poster for Barbarella Queen of the Galaxy (1968). Featuring Jane Fonda as a sexy space babe
February 2, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Next up: Calicut-Kolkata-Banaras-Jaipur
#booksky
January 20, 2025 at 9:33 PM