R.Eastman
@reastman.bsky.social
Boston-based writer crafting personal narratives drawn from unfinished family stories, overlooked lives, neglected places, and the dustbins of memory. Reformed Technology analyst. Divides his time between Boston, Cape Cod, and who knows where else.
I am already scrambling my 2-days old reading plans for 2026,,and inserting The Roar of Morning (Tip Marugg. Margellos World Republic of Letters, 1988; English translation 2015, Yale University Press). Tip Marugg is one of the few notable authors from Curaçao.
December 28, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I am already scrambling my 2-days old reading plans for 2026,,and inserting The Roar of Morning (Tip Marugg. Margellos World Republic of Letters, 1988; English translation 2015, Yale University Press). Tip Marugg is one of the few notable authors from Curaçao.
This kind of integrity is utterly baffling to Pres Donald Trump.
“The decision to bring charges against President Trump was mine, but the basis for those charges rests entirely with President Trump and his actions ... I would do so regardless of whether the President was a Republican or Democrat." trib.al/2SjC4D5
Jack Smith Testifies That He’d Prosecute Trump All Over Again
The former special prosecutor is standing by his prosecutions of Donald Trump.
trib.al
December 28, 2025 at 2:16 AM
This kind of integrity is utterly baffling to Pres Donald Trump.
I had a premonition. . . that you did not have the right to open a single book unless you engaged to read them all. With every line you read, you were breaking off a portion of the world. Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Rainer Maria Rilke, Germany 1910. Translation by Michael Hulse)
December 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I had a premonition. . . that you did not have the right to open a single book unless you engaged to read them all. With every line you read, you were breaking off a portion of the world. Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Rainer Maria Rilke, Germany 1910. Translation by Michael Hulse)
I resolved that reading would be one of the things that ushered in changes of this order. . . I would behave towards books as I would towards acquaintances; there would be time for them, a specific amount of time. . .
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Rainer Maria Rilke, Germany 1910)
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Rainer Maria Rilke, Germany 1910)
December 27, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I resolved that reading would be one of the things that ushered in changes of this order. . . I would behave towards books as I would towards acquaintances; there would be time for them, a specific amount of time. . .
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Rainer Maria Rilke, Germany 1910)
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Rainer Maria Rilke, Germany 1910)
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Give the Trump regime a ‘kill switch’ and they can make all of its illegalities and problems disappear. This has serious reverberations for the credibility of 60 Minutes and CBS News, journalism, & the ability of Americans to know what this regime is doing.
www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-r...
www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-r...
Snapshot: Rejecting the Regime's 'Kill Switch'
CBS News' Bari Weiss blocked a rigorous '60 Minutes' story about the brutal CECOT prison. This is not tolerable.
www.americaamerica.news
December 24, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Give the Trump regime a ‘kill switch’ and they can make all of its illegalities and problems disappear. This has serious reverberations for the credibility of 60 Minutes and CBS News, journalism, & the ability of Americans to know what this regime is doing.
www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-r...
www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-r...
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Gavin Newsom is 600% one of my heroes of 2025.
December 22, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Gavin Newsom is 600% one of my heroes of 2025.
WTF? New challenge for the designers: Account for the added weight of the rampant gold ornamentation.
President Donald Trump said they would be "AI-controlled" and he said that the design would be led by the US Navy with his aesthetic input.
Trump says 2 new 'Trump-class' ships will be added to 'Golden Fleet'
President Donald Trump said they would be "AI-controlled" and he said that the design would be led by the US Navy with his aesthetic input.
www.businessinsider.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:59 PM
WTF? New challenge for the designers: Account for the added weight of the rampant gold ornamentation.
What he did not want to forget was his childhood. It was important to him. And it was altogether proper…. when he gazed within himself it lay before him as in a clear Nordic summer's night…
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Rainer Maria Rilke, Germany 1910)
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Rainer Maria Rilke, Germany 1910)
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December 21, 2025 at 1:56 PM
What he did not want to forget was his childhood. It was important to him. And it was altogether proper…. when he gazed within himself it lay before him as in a clear Nordic summer's night…
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Rainer Maria Rilke, Germany 1910)
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Rainer Maria Rilke, Germany 1910)
Worth a listen (44 mins): Andrew Keen interviewing historian Daniel Bessner on capitalism, politics, Marx, and the future of liberalism in an engaging conversation. Don’t be fooled by the podcast’s title. keenon.substack.com/p/hollywoods...
Hollywood's Last Dance: Time Warner and the Death of the American Dream Machine
Episode 2642: Daniel Bessner on how Media Consolidation Mirrors American Decline
keenon.substack.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Worth a listen (44 mins): Andrew Keen interviewing historian Daniel Bessner on capitalism, politics, Marx, and the future of liberalism in an engaging conversation. Don’t be fooled by the podcast’s title. keenon.substack.com/p/hollywoods...
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I’m not even going to publish a copy of Trumps comments about Reiner and his wife. But occasionally he reminds me that he is simply one of the worst, most degenerate individuals who has ever existed in American public life. Hard to think of any more vicious, vile and sociopathic.
December 15, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I’m not even going to publish a copy of Trumps comments about Reiner and his wife. But occasionally he reminds me that he is simply one of the worst, most degenerate individuals who has ever existed in American public life. Hard to think of any more vicious, vile and sociopathic.
Reading “BOOKS | In the Shadow of the Beats: How Women Shaped a Movement They Never Could Claim” at The Wire. m.thewire.in/article/cult...
December 16, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Reading “BOOKS | In the Shadow of the Beats: How Women Shaped a Movement They Never Could Claim” at The Wire. m.thewire.in/article/cult...
Yeah, it pretty much is.
December 15, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Yeah, it pretty much is.
Reading The Katie Miller Podcast: an aggressively vibeless curriculum for the Maga mom, www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... (The Guardian).
The Katie Miller Podcast: an aggressively vibeless curriculum for the Maga mom
The wife of the Trump adviser aims to entice conservative women into Maga – but like much of the rest of the movement, her sales pitch is fundamentally lacking
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Reading The Katie Miller Podcast: an aggressively vibeless curriculum for the Maga mom, www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... (The Guardian).
I am reading with considerable interest, “The "Merit-First" Fantasy of Bari Weiss’ Anti-Woke University”, Meritocracy seems to me be, sadly, as elusive a concept as objectivity.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-mer...?
www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-mer...?
The "Merit-First" Fantasy of Bari Weiss’ Anti-Woke University
At the University of Austin, an anti-woke application claims to restore fairness—while promoting the opposite.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 12, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I am reading with considerable interest, “The "Merit-First" Fantasy of Bari Weiss’ Anti-Woke University”, Meritocracy seems to me be, sadly, as elusive a concept as objectivity.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-mer...?
www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-mer...?
Some sentences one just wants to read again and again.
That day, it had never really brightened up. The trees stood as if they had lost their way in the fog, and there was something presumptuous about driving into it.
The Notebooks of Malte Laurie's Brigge (Rainer Maria Rilke, Germany 1910)
That day, it had never really brightened up. The trees stood as if they had lost their way in the fog, and there was something presumptuous about driving into it.
The Notebooks of Malte Laurie's Brigge (Rainer Maria Rilke, Germany 1910)
December 11, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Some sentences one just wants to read again and again.
That day, it had never really brightened up. The trees stood as if they had lost their way in the fog, and there was something presumptuous about driving into it.
The Notebooks of Malte Laurie's Brigge (Rainer Maria Rilke, Germany 1910)
That day, it had never really brightened up. The trees stood as if they had lost their way in the fog, and there was something presumptuous about driving into it.
The Notebooks of Malte Laurie's Brigge (Rainer Maria Rilke, Germany 1910)
How many times in my career as a technology analyst did I say *this*?!
December 8, 2025 at 4:13 PM
How many times in my career as a technology analyst did I say *this*?!
(1/2) “‘Reading requires sitting alone, by yourself, in a quiet room,’” [David Foster Wallace] said in a 2003 interview. “‘I have friends, intelligent friends, who don’t like to read because they get—
Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
The Curious Notoriety of “Performative Reading”
Is the term a new way of calling people pretentious, or does it reflect a deprioritization of the written word?
www.newyorker.com
December 7, 2025 at 12:35 PM
(1/2) “‘Reading requires sitting alone, by yourself, in a quiet room,’” [David Foster Wallace] said in a 2003 interview. “‘I have friends, intelligent friends, who don’t like to read because they get—
Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
(2/2) “‘… it’s not just bored. There’s an almost dread that comes up.’” If our screens are adept at anything, it’s allaying this dread, convincing us to scroll until the loneliness goes away. |
Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
The Curious Notoriety of “Performative Reading”
Is the term a new way of calling people pretentious, or does it reflect a deprioritization of the written word?
www.newyorker.com
December 7, 2025 at 12:34 PM
(2/2) “‘… it’s not just bored. There’s an almost dread that comes up.’” If our screens are adept at anything, it’s allaying this dread, convincing us to scroll until the loneliness goes away. |
Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
The President’s taste is so tacky he should not be put in charge of designing a PortaPotty. But then, most people his age would realize that someone much younger should be designing such a national monument for the ages.
December 6, 2025 at 12:47 PM
The President’s taste is so tacky he should not be put in charge of designing a PortaPotty. But then, most people his age would realize that someone much younger should be designing such a national monument for the ages.
The Supreme Court is failing to live up to its constitutional role. (New York Times)
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/o...
Opinion | The Supreme Court Is Failing at Its Most Important Job
www.nytimes.com
December 6, 2025 at 12:43 PM
The Supreme Court is failing to live up to its constitutional role. (New York Times)
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/o...
My choices on GivingTuesday:
(1) Buckland Union Cemetery Assn (in honor /memory of John M / Sarah M Eastman)
(2) Fight Colorectal Cancer (in honor /memory of Nancy M Stack Eastman)
(3) Cristo Rey Boston (for our future)
(1) Buckland Union Cemetery Assn (in honor /memory of John M / Sarah M Eastman)
(2) Fight Colorectal Cancer (in honor /memory of Nancy M Stack Eastman)
(3) Cristo Rey Boston (for our future)
December 2, 2025 at 8:17 PM
My choices on GivingTuesday:
(1) Buckland Union Cemetery Assn (in honor /memory of John M / Sarah M Eastman)
(2) Fight Colorectal Cancer (in honor /memory of Nancy M Stack Eastman)
(3) Cristo Rey Boston (for our future)
(1) Buckland Union Cemetery Assn (in honor /memory of John M / Sarah M Eastman)
(2) Fight Colorectal Cancer (in honor /memory of Nancy M Stack Eastman)
(3) Cristo Rey Boston (for our future)
The “writing” has begun this morning. I am checking over my transcription of an 70+ year old notebook that will be the basis for this writing project.
December 2, 2025 at 12:54 PM
The “writing” has begun this morning. I am checking over my transcription of an 70+ year old notebook that will be the basis for this writing project.