Michael Jordan Speaks at a celebration of life for Kobe and Gianna Bryant

https://youtu.be/R5Ue3B_Eu94?si=6N5Mtu8mk08LkwHc8

 

Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World | Official Trailer | American Masters | PBS

https://youtu.be/B7bfYkgotBM?si=oodEqS3lqLMkki2e

My desk.  

 

The photographer behind ‘Nashville Skyline’

https://youtu.be/rJTekUl5wLo?si=hi5T5LGok-8WgHE7

David Remnick in ‘The New Yorker’. On Trump and his policies.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/20/donald-trumps-strategic-failure-and-moral-calamity-in-iran

 

The Mississippi Miracle in Reading

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/podcasts/the-daily/mississippi-schools-test-scores.html?context=audio&smid=nytcore-ios-share

 On second avenue, East Village, yesterday.

Interview with Josh Shapiro, today.

https://youtu.be/rvn4BQfJ2w0?si=p8MqhZ_39Pvt7_p_

 

A film: James Nachtwey: War Photographer (2001)

https://youtu.be/FUiohIC1dYU?si=GshXL0rUNFGrzke2

Saw this in the checkout line at the grocery store this morning. 

 

“FRAN LEBOWITZ

Last year, we asked Fran Lebowitz to weigh in on the concept of now. But that was then, and this is … a newer and (even) more fraught moment. So we asked for her appraisal on the current state of affairs: what’s changed, what hasn’t, and why revenge is best served when it doesn’t destroy the foundations of Western democracy.”.

https://apple.news/ArFlOIEJjS2KpZ65BSW9lYA

 

A Conversation about Photography—Joel Meyerowitz

https://youtu.be/V6xbdTMLYwc?si=qvSrBSCSTXh-Bnr4

K

The women that defined street photography.

https://youtu.be/PAT-x1YpcDA?si=aDdjn9rMgG_g_EVP

 

Celine Dion singing at the Olympics.

https://youtu.be/smKqMiGXxl4?si=wvgBvOyINCtoCpDY

I’ve spent a decade fighting Trump. Here are six lessons I’ve learned

        -Saul Austerlitz

 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/29/trump-grassroots-organizing?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

 

Nine Black College Students Were Arrested in 1961 for Reading at a Segregated Public Library. Their Contributions to the Civil Rights Movement Have Long Been Overlooked

Known as the Tougaloo Nine, the demonstrators staged a sit-in that helped the NAACP push for the desegregation of public spaces in Mississippi's capital”

https://apple.news/AdtM9wcPYSsemcLOpypmTkw

 ‘We Are the World’  https://youtu.be/zFStPLemFlc?si=oElRxtb2n9H366zR

 

 

Tonight watching a YouTube video on a photographer I took a photo with my iPhone of what was right in front of me. 

 James Baldwin.

 

 

Neil Diamond and Neil Sedaka. Wow.

https://youtu.be/TlnW2B9YO_A?si=M5rfgm3FDSjA0PAx

 On the subway back from holding the sign this morning.

 Newest ‘cityReader’.  #71. More than a year since #70. A daughter had a stroke. 

 Last night on Union Square.

Toni Morrison on language, evil, and ‘the white gaze’

https://youtu.be/FAs3E1AgNeM?si=0BiBQMo55ULm4mRA

Annie Leibovitz shares moments behind photographing some of the world’s most influential women

https://youtu.be/vkeGh7skl_Q?si=zdGrpQlAtB5u4Ib6

 

Bill McKibben on Trump’s Climate Rollbacks: ‘This is Economic Self-Sabotage’

https://youtu.be/HZdKKD0oLrs?si=GopMIzbWuvRv6quC

 

The Truth About Trump’s State of the Union   |   Sen. Bernie Sanders

https://youtu.be/W2qpYkLZxeY?si=poiEv-XamZ0bS4Zf

 I didn’t watch it.

Donald Trump’s State of the Union 

Was Long and Wrong

But at least the President thinks everything is going great.

By Susan B. Glasser

https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/donald-trumps-state-of-the-union-was-long-and-wrong

 

‘Unprepared For Tsunami’: Bernie Sanders’ Fiery Speech On AI Ahead of Trump’s SOTU Address.

https://youtu.be/BB9OhLZsvm0?si=JbsuEVrqFEy7wKkg

 

 

A Conversation with Martin Baron, Former Executive Editor of The Washington Post

https://youtu.be/Uplo4EcK110

Delivery person’s bicycle outside my apartment building.

 Overnight. On my walk to breakfast this morning. 

At the breakfast place yesterday a few blocks away. Big oatmeal to start. Coffee. Back there today. No sign.

Toni Morrison

‘She dared to be difficult’: How Toni Morrison shaped the way we think 

The Beloved author’s refusal to conform made her a hero to many – and the only black female writer to have won a Nobel prize in literature

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/feb/15/she-dared-to-be-difficult-how-toni-morrison-shaped-the-way-we-think

 From the book about Bernie. 

 

The Epstein Files Reveal What Trump Knew | The New Yorker Interview

https://www.newyorker.com/video/watch/the-radio-hour-the-epstein-files-reveal-what-trump-knew-the-new-yorker-interview

 

Pride flag reinstated at Stonewall after it was removed by Trump administration

New York City officials raise flag at site of rebellion once again after ‘act of erasure’ by administration

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/12/pride-flag-reinstated-stonewall

 

Banned Books and the Librarians Caught in the Cultural Battle (full documentary)

https://youtu.be/ywQOCY-qDzE

 Just got this. I thought it’d be not big. WELL, it’s 560 pages. I’m excited. 

 Reading ‘The New Yorker’ before bed.

So the Epstein scandal is about politics? Silly me for thinking it’s about the mass abuse of women and girls

Marina Hyde

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/06/jeffrey-epstein-scandal-politics-mass-abuse-women-girlsI’m