Perhaps in some moment of introspection Mr. Trump will explain why thousands of young people, members of the National Guard, were deployed to do little more than pick up the trash, why they could not spend Thanksgiving with their families, why tonight one of them, sightly older than a teen is dead

The lede of the day comes from Annie Karni in The New York Times:

"Speaker Mike Johnson said he was not reversing himself by voting for the Epstein files discharge petition that will be on the floor today, given that he has opposed it in the past."

A portrait of Ty Bennon on the Brooklyn waterfront.

Autumn in Brooklyn's Prospect Park.

On this Veterans Day I'm thinking of my fellow vets, especially those that have been deprived of the financial support they need from their government to put food on their tables.

The new issue of Time. How would you like to be the White House aide who has to show it to the boss?

Nicole Wallace: “This is the week that Donald Trump, wittingly or unwittingly, resuscitated the Democrats.”

In his first remarks on the collision of a passenger jet and an Army helicopter, President Trump went on the attack against diversity standards for air traffic controllers. Trump said, “I put safety first, Biden and Obama put politics first.”

It’s been about 48 hours now since rookie White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt claimed at her very first briefing that the government’s Office of Management and Budget “found that there was about to be 50 million taxpayer dollars that went out the door“ to fund condoms in Gaza for Hamas.

The office of New York Mayor Eric Adams has ordered all city agencies to set up Blue Sky accounts.

Before yesterday, had anyone ever heard the words "Tulsi Gabbard " and "intelligence" in the same sentence?

AJ Knapp, in the last rays of a setting autumn sun yesterday.

Hi everyone. This is my first Blue Sky post. Already I can smell the fresh air!