At WelcomeFest where the moderate vibes remind me of Garrett Epps’s novel “The Floating Island,” where one character wears a T-shirt that reads “Fewer Nukes.”

With the great @ruthmarcus.bsky.social resigning from the
@washingtonpost.com, reupping this photo, from the 1993 article by @jacobweisberg.bsky.social in @vanityfair.com on WH press corps. L to R: Marcus, me, Mark Halperin, the late Gwen Ifill, Jeff Birnbaum

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Doubt the Veep will give a free speech talk in Hong Kong or Moscow

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It’s a cross between “Triumph of the Will” and a heist movie. The grift is built into fascism, but this is Die Hard. The terror ideology is cover for the grift.