Nathan Alderman

Look, it's simple. Be kind. Be curious. Tell the truth. Ask for help. Help others if you can. Don't hurt people. If you do, say you're sorry, mean it, and prove it. Think before you speak. Say less. Say please. Say thank you.

I should note that David Velazquez at the Daily Progress does a pretty terrific job of fact-checking McGuire's claims in the DP article that all this sprang from:

Is it normal when you're an official from the Justice Department interviewing a convicted criminal, and when they start to talk about crimes you say, "no, stop, don't tell me about any crimes"?

Crowd is forming early outside the middle school on Crozet waiting for the Three Notched Trail meeting. Landowners were invited 30min early. (Post delayed because the middle school was a data dead zone.)

Man With Eye Patch In Town For…Business

Falling down a Michael Giacchino hole this morning. I had forgotten just how much fun his career-making work for ALIAS was. In those first two seasons, that show was just GOING FOR IT in every conceivable way, including musically. www.youtube.com/watch?v=i62Z...

If you’re in any way a film buff, @attaboyclarence.com’s podcasts are a feast.

I deperately need to learn the story behind this business.

Early this year, I visited Ingram, a TX town of ~1,900, to check out a tip. The area was starting to recover from its worst flood in a century. But as Latino workers drove to jobsites to help rebuild, the tipster said, a cop in a black Dodge Charger kept stopping them ... 🧵

Throwing this group or that under the bus to win an election is basically just human sacrifice. It’s saying you gotta throw stones at the person who drew the black mark in order to get a good harvest. It is Dark Ages behavior.

Tim Sweeney is worth $9.6 billion. If he wanted to make this point in a comic form, couldn't he afford to pay an artist for it?

46 doors in today’s canvassing shift, each of them at the end of a driveway longer than “Finnegan’s Wake.”

For non-Texans, Whataburger is basically the national burger chain of Texas. Seeing one in an early episode of KING OF THE HILL was how I knew they were getting the details right.

It's just refreshing to see any public figure talk earnestly about something normal and positive that they really love. (Also, his voice sounds like Lin-Manuel Miranda on the HAMILTON soundtrack; this is a compliment.)

This man regularly says things on Wall Street earnings calls that you would usually hear from someone face down on the hood of a police car as the handcuffs go on.

Is there a reason why installing Adobe Acrobat Reader (which I have to use because some PDFs are refusing to open in Preview) will take 2.36GB, and if there is, do I want to know what it is?

Legit baffled that the Bond folks didn't just cast Patrick Gibson from 007: FIRST LIGHT to play the role onscreen. He's got Connery's smirking charm and Craig's ability to shade in subtle, wounded vulnerability. He's so dang good at being Bond!

I'll see you "I have no mouth and I must scream" and raise you "my fridge is full of leftover Chinese food and I cannot eat it."

EUMAEUS: so then I called back my flock and invited him to my home for dinner — POLYPHEMUS: — and then he blinded you? EUMAEUS: what? No! POLYPHEMUS: but you at least tried to eat him, right? EUMAEUS: I feel like we have very different ideas about how shepherding is supposed to work.

We are seeing a hunger disaster unrolling before our eyes. Since Republicans passed the Big Beautiful Bill, 2 million kids have lost food assistance. These are by far the deepest SNAP cuts in history, and each month, we find out it’s even worse than we thought. The worst is yet to come.

Local news reporting to small newspapers is the backbone of communities across the nation. The fact that they are dying and struggling will leave information holes that may never get filled.

The history behind Question 3 on our Virginia ballot is worth knowing. In 1901-02, Virginia rewrote its constitution to purposefully shrink the Black electorate. A delegate expressly said the aim was to eliminate "every [Black] voter who can be gotten rid of, legally!"

Well, this is certainly an interesting follow-up to my article from earlier this year. Although I suspect the Albemarle County School Board has bigger concerns at the moment.

Show me in the rule book where it says a dog can't play basketball!

"We've recreated Walter Cronkite as an AI avatar, and now he shills for Tesla."

No plan to make your children do their homework (at least prior to dinnertime) survives contact with their friends coming over.

Having trouble getting through @karenhao.bsky.social’s EMPIRE OF AI, because while she’s an incredible writer, through no fault of her own the book is just an ocean of waving red flags. The whole thing could be a sentence: “No one should ever have given these people money.”

This is a great article and vote yes on all 4 items! But also 🙌🏻 I really appreciate I’m not the only Sup who swears 😅. Maybe a benefit of getting more millennials into office? c-ville.com/voters-weigh...

... I somehow doubt that acclaimed actress Jenna Ortega is 1) on Bluesky and 2) liking my posts about local news in Charlottesville.