NO MERCY FOR INSURRECTIONISTS!

They’re used to living in a culture of impunity. That’s over.

FROM SARAH A. HOYT:  Witch’s Daughter.

Some letters come from the living. Some come from the dead. This one comes with a formula that turns a rowboat into a miracle.

Seventeen-year-old Lord Michael Ainsling — youngest brother of the Duke of Darkwater, builder of mechanical marvels, survivor of fairyland — receives a letter from a man sixteen years dead. The inventor Tristram Blakley has not perished; he has been imprisoned by his own genius and begs the one mind in all of Avalon brilliant enough to understand his work to set him free. All Michael has to do is find seven missing brothers first and walk a magical path..

Fifteen-year-old Albinia Blakley has spent her whole life under her mother’s iron thumb — and her mother is a witch. The day Al finally escapes down a rope of knotted sheets, she lands in a world she doesn’t recognize, with no money, no magic kit, and no idea that the stranger who catches her is about to become her greatest ally.

Together, a girl with more secrets than she knows and a boy who builds machines that try to murder him must outwit a sorceress, navigate the treacherous courts of Fairyland, and unravel an enchantment years in the making — before a family is lost for good.

Witch’s Daughter is a gaslamp fantasy brimming with wit, warmth, and wonder, for readers who love their magic wrapped in velvet and their adventures served with morning tea.

COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: Strength training linked to lower risk of death, research finds. “According to a study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, people who performed 90 to 120 minutes of strength training exercises each week had a 13% lower risk of death compared to those who did not participate in strength training. Researchers also found those participants had a 19% lower risk of dying from cardiovascular disease and a 27% lower risk of dying from neurological conditions.”

AMERICA DOESN’T SEE WELL INTO WHAT THE BRITS ARE DOING AND THEY’RE UTTERLY BLIND TO WHAT WE’RE DOING:  Why Don’t British Men Do Something?  … except, apparently, in Northern Ireland?

Even under the autopen, we were never as silent and cowed as they are publicly. OTOH we do have the constitutional defenses, and never got as hard-repressed.  We’re not where they are. We could get there, in a few more cheated elections (hello, California) but we’re not there yet. They have a heck of a battle to come back. I know they’re trying. They’re doing more than we see. But it is their fight.

OPEN THREAD: Tuesday’s groovy.

DIDN’T EARN IT: Woman who emptied Knicks trashcan on street— then stole it — fired from JPMorgan Chase, was DEI exec.

A woman caught on video emptying a public trash can on the street then stealing it during New York City’s Knicks championship parade was a director at JPMorgan Chase who was fired Tuesday over the incident, The Post has learned.

Angie Báez, 40, was promoted to Executive Director of Community and Industry Engagement for Card and Connected Commerce at JPMorgan Chase more than a year ago, according to her LinkedIn profile.

She previously served as Executive Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at New York-based review website The Infatuation, which Chase acquired as part of its broader push into lifestyle and experiential content.

Kira Davis spots a unique circularity to the above story: