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Walmart watches, Zionists worry, and more from The Lever this week.

A' concert's not worth a human life. It's not,' Langley said. 'So I would have made yesterday's decision 10 billion times over.' Continue reading…

The Acheson Sisters, 1902 #americanart #johnsingersargent

The stakes are rising and the clock is ticking

Mitusbishi’s North American dealers have been trudging along with an aging, badge-engineered model line for years – but overseas? It’s a different story, and the 459 hp all-wheel drive ASX VR-e electric hot hatch shown here is plug-in proof.

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Crooked Timber - how money matters;

Honest Graft - "Canada Effect" along the northern border for the midterms?

Mock Paper Scissors - about last week's debates;

One Damn Thing After Another - AI's Trumpian oversight: the ultimate human nightmare;

The Grim Historian - America's haunted grocery stores.

And here's Nora Ephron on something many New Yorkers (including me) understand - an unhealthy relationship with a building.

Send tips, requests, and suggestions to mbru@crooksandliars.com (with ‘for MBRU' in the subject line). Steve in Manhattan is on Bluesky.

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A long day’s haul in the video game slop mines.

Travel smarter with gifts packed by WIRED’s globe-trotting staffers.

From Red Pill coaches to “Dawah Bros,” influencers are dressing up hypermasculinity and misogyny in religious language—and finding audiences across social platforms.

The Garden of Hours, 1981 #surrealism #salvadordali

This cartoon says it all. Meanwhile, the right-wing media is attacking the victim. It's not surprising, but it is vile.

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By Eilene Lyon This is the first in a series of posts about a long-awaited trip to ride bikes from Pittsburgh to Washington, D.C. along the Great Allegheny Passage (GAP) rail trail, and the Cumberland & Ohio Canal (C&O) towpath trail. We spent the first full day of our trip in Pittsburgh, a city I […]

A different and alarming take on the economic risks

We had firewood delivered last week. “Firewood John,” as my phone identifies him, backed his battered farm truck onto the grass next to the house. He tipped the bed until a pile of split logs lay next to our homemade stand. I stacked the yellow wood Tuesday after work under a crisp blue sky in […]

From the Senate to governors’ mansions, candidates are trying to outcompete each other to be the most anti–data center in races across the US.

Here’s what we know about the record-setting El Niño on a record-hot planet, and the most important questions scientists are trying to answer.

Redwoods adapted to a cool, foggy climate. Now a new study shows they slow down photosynthesis when their environment warms.

Number 48, 1949 #americanart #jacksonpollock

A dramatic pop music comeback story is underway: Celine Dion is performing again. In 2022, Dion, the renowned Canadian singer, announced that she had stiff person syndrome, a rare and incurable neurological disorder that causes painful muscle spasms and affects roughly one i...

Rivian has a new ad, starring Bill Murray. It’s not a great ad (more on that below) but the remarkable thing is that it features the quirky, beloved and scarce Bill Murray. Between the movie rights, music and Bill, they had to have spent many millions of dollars, and it doesn’t look like they bought […]