Not to be grumpy but is that in inflation adjusted dollars?
Don’t get me wrong, DOGE didn’t reduce federal expenditures, but if that is nominal dollars, it seems misleading on the (very fine) margin

I was -3 at the time but I believe that if we could subtract the Vietnam war from US history we would look on JFK’s assassination differently. I will note that this belief of mine may be influenced by the X-Files

Not sure I realized who the Clash were copying on the album cover of“London Calling”. I should have known and am happy to know now!

And from r/cocktails we’ve got a noticeably different color cocktail. I don’t know if that’s the run, the syrup, or both

www.reddit.com/r/cocktails/...

Here’s the drink on the web:

www.cocktaillove.com/recipes/suns...

^some of us !

And some of, whose ancestors came here in the 19th and 20th centuries are proud of this country for letting us in, if not exactly welcoming us, even though we didn’t quite fit the paradigm

The Barnard Center for Research on Women has some of her lectures on YouTube that look interesting

Because I’m not awake yet, I read that as inventing “christianity’s celebration of elizabeth castelli” and had to read it again.
Now I google Elizabeth Castelli!

Looking at this image a few hours later, this should definitely go in “post your favorite Time Lord” thread. Blake is clearly holding a sonic screwdriver

Ok you actually have to wait until May for the grounds to open again

Or come in the spring and also visit the Daniel Chester French grounds in Stockbridge. www.chesterwood.org/lincoln-memo...

On social media I’m not all “[citation needed]” about claims that are implicitly quantitative but in the NYer, especially from David Wallace Wells, I turn into some irritating “data me up, bro” kind of person. (I’d make a physicist/economist joke here but I can’t make emoji work for some reason)

Here's some meat: Re the expense of New York’s subways: "the latest studies identify some specific culprits... more mezzanine levels in its stations than is the case in stations overseas, and it hires more consultants. How much of that is really about liberalism?"
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

That photo is from the Bancroft Garden in Walnut Creek. My brother is on the board there and gave me a bit of a tour

www.ruthbancroftgarden.org

I was going to merely say “without congress declaring war” but I will take yours

All I know about the Haitian revolution I learned from @mikeduncan.bsky.social but this fits