This piece resonates. Folks want Badges of Honor to be the Band-Aid, to heal the grief when something—your job, the class you teach—is ripped away from you with pain. But honor isn't enough, not when the attacks pile up as they have every day. Give this a read.

it is almost as if someone was promoted beyond their ability

Here's a fundraising email I received for some reason. Turning Point is really embracing the civil, non-incendiary discourse we were told Charlie Kirk championed.* (*He didn't really champion those things, and I'm sure he would have been fine with this email.)

Clase made $4.5mm this year and had $13 mm guaranteed on his contract. Gambling makes you do some crazy shit. www.nytimes.com/athletic/679...

agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

Dear Democratic Senators: if you vote for this selling out of the ACA it will be the end of your careers. Depend upon it. You are there to defend this country against Trump and the fascists, not collude with them. If you become Quislings, you will forever REMAIN Quislings

What should one make of a supposed job posting that has a salary range of $106k to $277k? We are not fools.

Excellent piece from @alexvitale.bsky.social. Public safety will play a crucial role in quality of life, and Mamdani is up against an NYPD team of 86 PR flacks, with a rote story that only the police can keep people safe. We know that's not true. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

In job search land, I spend hours reading postings, rewriting cover letters, and scrolling LinkedIn. Wordless music is essential. Tortoise is an anchor of my Music to Write By playlist, and their new record fantastic. Just give it a spin. intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/touch

For the remarkable number of folks in excellent law firms, corporate suites, non-legal academia who still aren't really sure "where we are" country-wise, I'm just not sure how much clearer he can be. Countries in which opponents of the government can "never obtain power" are not democracies.

We couldn't ask for a fairer, more deeply reported story. It's not easy to read this, knowing the plans we had won't take shape. But personally I'm really proud of what we did for 30 years and how I was able to be part of the solution for the last 7. I will keep fighting, keep building.

Neither he nor his flunkies gives a crap about public safety. If they did, they would not defund an entire landscape of work that has played a huge role in tamping down violence across the nation. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Newark is a community-based public safety ecosystem. I'm proud of EJUSA's role in that ecosystem, from our Trauma to Trust program to our alliance with so many actors in that ecosystem. It continues to work. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/n...

A Brief History of Baseball is Dying 🧵

This

President Trump is propping up a foreign government with a $20 billion taxpayer bailout while he cuts funding for American communities and shuts down our own government. So much for America First. I have a bill to stop this bailout.

This from the great @sulliview.bsky.social on the media's anemic (or non-) coverage of the massive No Kings movement is such a great point

Why is it so hard to use precise language? He cheats. Simple.

Women get about 7% of revenue. Kinda all you need to know. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Agreed. Very simple and easy to understand the point of this dog and pony show.

Spot on.

That Darius Rucker name drop is some communications 101 shit. Welcome to the senate.

It’s a 3:3 knockout! People organizing to boycott and protest made it happen. We did. We can. And we will win freedom for all. @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social @wgaeast.bsky.social @50501movement.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2025/09/26/m...

This will not get the attention it deserves. A community recognized the harm that traditional policing does and made a change. They are addressing the causes of violence rather than just responding to violence through punishment. This is public safety. www.inquirer.com/news/camden-...

Star Wars Fans of conscience: join members of 50501 and Get Free’s Project Fulcrum to demand Nexstar and Sinclair free the airwaves, show Jimmy Kimmel, and refuse to comply with future regime attacks on truth and freedom. RSVP to a rally near you: friendseverywhere.network

🚨CALLING ALL ANDOR FANS: BOYCOTT DISNEY-ABC🚨 We have the power and responsibility as Andor fans to demand these corporations stop bending to the MAGA regime. Not one more dollar if they keep caving to white supremacist demands to silence our freedom of speech. secure.everyaction.com/iGih_Z5w20-x...

Kudos to Hulu/Disney for a pretty simple cancellation process. So often you have to click I'm Sure a half a dozen times before you can cancel something. Now just stop censoring free speech.

🚨NEW: "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" just dropped its first response to ABC, FCC chair, and Disney firing Jimmy Kimmel. Trump ain't sleeping tonight. 🤣 This is a must-watch. 🔥

How would Mr. Garvey pronounce Markwayne's name? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd7F...

KAMLAGER-DOVE: Dylan Roof, who followed white supremacist propaganda, murdered 9 Black parishioners in 2015. Do you deny this? PATEL: I'm sorry. Dylan Roof? Can you give me more information? KAMLAGER-DOVE: You're head of the FBI

Three teams that don't offer maternity leave?! Bonkers. Who else besides the Tigers? (who have been working on it?...how long does that take? Are they trying to find a workable model? Someone who has broken into this new frontier of employee benefit?) www.nytimes.com/athletic/661...

Remarkable how much this is the polar opposite of last year's joyous season. Most Metsy.

Look, this post claiming that the right is behind almost three times as much political violence as the left can’t be trusted, bc it comes from that noted far-left think-tank, the … oh, um, hm. Well, this is awkward.

I admire this person who has built a white supremacist organization AND who proudly espouses white supremacy because HE REFUSES TO BACK DOWN FROM DEBATE. Unlike the woke mob, he stands in the shoes of his open white supremacy & bigotry. HE DID NOT BACK DOWN. Liberals should do the same - U.S. pundit

This is vile. VILE. You and the NYT should be ashamed to be doing the fascists’ work for them.

As a till-death-do-we-part #Mets fan, I already hate the Yankees. But this is absurd and offensive. I'd love to know who made this happen.

On the assassination of Charlie Kirk and the new era of political violence www.thenation.com/article/soci...

One of the many bitter pills to swallow is that there will be not one single consequence for Jerry Seinfeld basically complimenting the KKK and equating them to the phrase Free Palestine. There will be little, if any, media pushback. It’s terrible.

Her new record is fantastic. You can pick it up quite easily at Bandcamp: gweniferraymond.bandcamp.com/album/last-n...

We could save billions annually instead of jailing innocent people, pour that into education and housing and improve public safety. Data proves that cash bail is BS, no matter what kind of fear Trump tries to sow into the public paranoia. @bailproject.org www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

at no point did we defund the police. it's important when we talk about defunding the police to note it never actually happened. would it work? we don't know! but merely phrasing the idea succinctly incited a reactionary backlash that put fascists in charge of all 3 branches of government. curious!

40 weeks after Trump dies, maternity wards will be pushed beyond max capacity.

The end of one of my favorite columns. Ginia Bellafante has a way of recognizing what we should be talking about in any given moment. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/n...

“My career is an extension of who I am.” That quote resonates quite a bit. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...

YES. Glad to see someone pointing out that this is not a "distraction."

Day 10 unemployment. I'm not good at "chilling." Torn between reading The Dispossessed (Le Guin novel, really good) and excavating all the weed grass overtaking the walkway in the front yard. What would you do?

Remember when these banks committed to racial justice and equity, 5 long years ago? truthout.org/articles/ban...

The SEPTA shit show. "Our region subsidizes everybody else, but we have limited power to get what we need from the state, or even to marshall our own local resources to fund what they won’t." thephiladelphiacitizen.org/southeastern...

I'm glad that the story is out there, that other orgs might do what they can to take protective measures. I'm also tired of living the story. And it's just my first day of unemployment. rollcall.com/2025/08/14/w...

"We need to directly address the connections between poverty, trauma, violence, and substance use through intensive therapeutic interventions rather than policing and incarceration."