John McVey

@asfaltics
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asphalt, hardware stores, telegraphic codes.
putterings. a something of's.
tuning out.
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8776 . goggle skies . 20251224
7037 . infrastructure . 20251109

Somehow, perhaps, by means of the grapevine wireless with which every business office is equipped, both Miss Morse and Miss Harris, who had conscientiously done their bit to make life hard for Crystal, seemed to know that she was “thru.”

[from her employ at the Pruitt Hardware Co.]

ex Anne Austin, "The New Saint and Sinner," serialized in The Rocky Mountain News (Tuesday, December 10, 1928)

https://www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=RMD19281211-01.2.126

8335 . lunar glue spots, Barilla linguine fini N⁰11 . 20250812
End of Tenure - Some remarks as I close a long chapter in my journalism career: https://newsguy.substack.com/p/end-of-tenure
End of Tenure

Some remarks as I close a long chapter in my journalism career

The Newsguy -- Steve Herman
20250622
KTLA - Narciso Barranco, a father to three sons who are all US Marines, pepper-sprayed and punched in the face by alleged federal immigration officers while he was working as a landscaper at an IHOP. He was then forced into the back of an unmarked car in Santa Ana. https://ktla.com/news/local-news/masked-men-in-u-s-border-patrol-vests-brutally-beat-take-santa-ana-father/
In an address at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, President Trump tells troops that Los Angeles is a trash heap which "we will liberate."
20250606
insert subject to whim and weather
interesting analysis of Philippines' midterm, at excellent substack whose roots go back to the FEER —
https://open.substack.com/pub/asiasentinel/p/philippines-2025-midterm-elections-massacre?r=8nyd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
The Philippines’ Midterm Massacre

Ferdinand Marcos’ unwanted showdown

Asia Sentinel