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Marisa's entire piece is terrific, but this part has really stuck with me. A group of College Republicans decided that El-Sayed wasn't "welcome" in the Senate and set out to stop him.

🧵🧵🧵 The NY Times posted a 15-minute video today in which I got to tell NYT what’s wrong with its coverage. They said they saw my critical posts on Bluesky and invited me to do a video with them to air my grievances. Weird, right? I didn’t hold back. I blasted their sanewashing of MAGA extremism.

One thing about how Washington "works" is there are legal niceties to observe while paying gobs of money to politically connected people. Quids and Quos are supposed to be connected by at most a wink, not "hey I sent you $300,000 already and you better start delivering"

Nearly 600 Medieval Manuscripts from German Monasteries Now Online. www.medievalists.net/2026/09/600-...

I think it's good to remind people to keep their focus on their long-term goals, and not every day is a day in paradise.

I would simply feed the chameleon. www.slowboring.com/p/feed-the-l...

Rs who previously espoused free markets now backing price controls, diesel embargoes, ending wars, government ownership stakes in tech companies, massive tariffs and inflationary give everybody-a-$5,000-check-but-only-if-we-win policies right before an election.

Maybe it's just easier to have a fight over banning members of the press from the White House than it is to deal with the many other things weighing down the administration. In my 30+ years reporting, hostility to the press often is inversely proportional to how badly things are going for the pol.

! Trump says there is something “wrong” with a country that allows people to write “purposefully negative stories.”

This is outstanding =

Arlo Guthrie tells a great story about Dolly's generosity while he was making a tribute album to Derroll Adams. It starts at 3:40 if the time stamp doesn't work. youtu.be/KByQi4pbdwI?...

The 80-year-old is doing and saying all the right things and his younger opponent is dreadful. And we’re talking about a lawmaker, not a chief executive We can generally oppose gerontocracy without being dumb about it

JFC. She’s lifting this slop directly from AI… on a book she’s never read.

This is wonderful - if you need cheering up then this is a real tonic. ordinaryabundance.com

Unfortunately REM HQ has made a mistake here, this song was released six years ago.

Libraries make us a harder target for authoritarianism. Equal access to info, ideas, and space that doesn’t require a purchase to belong. Also: using the library means money stays in your community instead of streaming out to Amazon. 📚 What’s checked out on your card right now?

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Follow @bobbyallyn.bsky.social now and read his excellent report: bsky.app/profile/bobb...

Trump’s media company today began selling early access to the president’s posts on Truth Social for up to $100k a month to financial institutions. I talked to former SEC lawyers, who see the service as a violation of insider trading laws. And a Wall Street executive, who told me:

www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/o...

Excellent thread on what we are really facing:

"Great" is truly a load-bearing adjective

🎶GREAT MEANING LARGE OR IMMENSE// WE MEAN IT IN THE PEJORATIVE SENSE🎶

A good start to solving the Social Security problem.

Epic response!

Ok genuine question…so uh does this apply for women soldiers?

"Body cameras show cops are innocent 88% of the time" is not the flex you think it is.

@anthonymkreis.bsky.social

"I tried to stop," said the immigrant shot in the head and bleeding to death This is the new "I can't breathe" www.pressherald.com/2026/07/13/b...

NYC to babysit 500 kids for ‘Parents’ Night Out’ gothamist.com/news/nyc-to-...

Bede wrote that the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes invaded Britain en masse in the fifth century. Does the evidence agree? 🔓 This article is free for 7 days www.historytoday.com/archive/head...

I don’t think it’s hype, I think he has it in him to become a 2028 frontrunner. I wish there were some polling on what is numbers are among people who know who he is I think that’s what convinced me Obama could pull it off, back when Hillary was “inevitable” in 2006/7, but the Obama people kept…

Unfortunately, these two don't seem to know whose work ethic "actually" built this country - the cotton economy, much of Washington DC, the Transcontinental Railroad, etc. - slave labor. Having money to buy people to perform labor is not really work ethic, more like evil greed.

If LM and SC held the line earlier in the process or after a vote defeat, the dynamics might well have been different. Hard to say what the ultimate result would’ve been, but that Collins gave her political capital to BK at al…and giving the whole “I believe what he said about Roe” nonsense to boot.

Thinking about getting a bunch of bookcases and such for my home office, both because I need more shelf space and also to get something a little more uniform than the two decades worth of 'whatever I can get my hands on' solutions I've got. Any suggestions?

Thanks Elon! USAID cut funding that fed malnourished children in Senegal. It's horrifying. @jonlambert.bsky.social @npr.org www.npr.org/2026/06/13/n...

“Lazy Susan doesn’t know which way to spin. One she supports Donald Trump. The next day she’s concerned. One day she says she protects a woman’s right to choose. The next day she votes to ban abortions by confirming Brett Kavanaugh.” There ya go, @grahamformaine.bsky.social. Free brilliant idea.

On campus with Professor Jacqueline Stewart! In addition to being one of our fabulous five hosts, Jacqueline teaches full time as a professor at the University of Chicago. Take a look behind the scenes of our set at the university and learn how the magic happens.

Kate Wolf "Across the Great Divide". Perfect. m.youtube.com/watch?v=4fXV...

"One weird trick to reduce crime . . . "

If you’ve got no argument against @markey.senate.gov other than his age, you’ve got no argument worth making.

he’s going to be madder about this than the closure of the strait of hormuz

There’s this effort to shame abundance people into catering more to labor union interests but I think this is backwards — the actually existing abundance agenda is better for labor than the status quo and union-boosters should say that. www.slowboring.com/p/union-enth...

I pulled a physical book, myself, from the library today. I haven’t done that in a bit because I tend to buy the books I read. Sometimes RAs will pull them for me or they’re online. But there’s an art in finding the book you were after and browsing the nearby titles—spending time lost in the stacks.

By nominating Ken Paxton, a strong rightwinger who will mobilize the base, rather than falling for the RINO myth that swing voters exist who he might alienate, Republicans have set themselves up perfectly to retain the Texas senate seat.

A lot of attention is paid to craft traditions in Western Europe and North America, such as handsewn Hermes leather goods and bespoke Savile Row suits. But the uneven focus leads some to believe that things made outside of these places are low quality. This is not true. 🧵

Suzanne Vega releases “Luka” 39 years ago this weekend. She said she once received a fan letter about it: “Dear Suzanne, Luka is the most compelling piece of music I’ve heard in a long time. There are no words 2 tell U all the things I feel when I hear it. I thank God 4 U, Prince”

An extraordinary piece of writing that you will not regret reading. (and I am not transgender or a parent of a transgender person).