Guys, squeeze in: I found the magical middle of the political Venn diagram. It's...AI data centers. We all hate them. A developer brought a plan for an AI data center to Pocatello's city council. Hundreds flooded in, the farthest right, the farthest left, united in hate. The plan got rejected.

I swear, I'm an evangelist for every dang thing @tressiemcphd.bsky.social writes. Just time after time, I'm out here gobbling it up.

Richie is concerned that, despite great exhaustion and a warm, sunny day, work was worked today.

A book club that I once attended read JAMES and had a long convo about abolition that lead to a long convo about enslavement and several people felt strongly that the country should have done something to better manage that time. Only one other person had even heard of Reconstruction.

Next week, 7 May at 4:00 pm BST, please join the London School of Economics and Political Science in welcoming @jbrownsaracino.bsky.social for a discussion of her book, The Death and Life of Gentrification. Register here for this in-person event: buff.ly/izYB8Ny

I read the focus group, against my better judgement, and I know there are bigger things I should focuse on but I can't move past the idea that we should stop paying property taxes once we've paid off our houses. What. I mean. Does one stop using roads, sewers, fire stations, street lamps, schools

The number of people who have never had to confront the reality of a four-day K-12 school week. Just a bunch of lucky ducks.

Richie graduated (WITH HONORS) from his third and final obedience class. This sweet little goofball has made us all so happy and somehow he manages to look both like a doofus and also like he’s so proud?!

Despair at tomorrow being Monday again, but surely this week can’t be worse than last. Even if it is, though, this little guy is still gonna give it his best.

My lil vb player is obsessed. She loves him.

I’m sorry but…what?

Julia Sonnevend, author of Charm: How Magnetic Personalities Shape Global Politics (now out in paperback!), offers her thoughts on how Péter Magyar defeated Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. Her book features a chapter on Orbán for those who’d like to learn more. Read her piece:

It’s true, days are hard right now but he’s such a good boy.

sorry, yes, we still have to talk about AI. Here's what #feedingtheelephant's contributors @jasminemulliken.bsky.social @alanpharvey.bsky.social @rlevay.bsky.social @emily-elliott.bsky.social Marissa Mercurio and Courtney Smotherman are thinking a year later: networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

Imagine the NYT wanting to know what me and my pals think about stuff.

My kids’ school is considering a four-day school week, which is increasingly popular in Idaho.

I wish everyone a sick day best bud.

Available for pre-order now, publishing in August! The New Old Style: Anachronism in Contemporary Comics.

In What We Inherit, Sam Trejo and @daphmarts.bsky.social debate the use of genomic tools and their societal impact. Now available worldwide! Find it here: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #Biology #ReadUP

I ran this morning before the sun rose and felt this huge sense of wonder and awe looking up at the nearly full moon and thinking of the people who, in this time in which hope is so hard to find, are hurtling toward the moon through complete darkness, full of optimism.

How our reliance on Child Protective Services makes motherhood precarious for those already marginalized. Investigating Families by @kelleyfong.bsky.social is now available in #paperback. Learn more & save 30% with code PUP30: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb... #Sociology

It’s impossible to overstate the harm that Idaho is willing to inflict. It’s endless and heartbreaking.

My kids' school does a lovely Speech Festival every year where the kids recite either speeches or poems they've researched or written on topics related to their courses of study. It's a great event. This year somewhere around half the kids are attributing their speeches or poems to "author is AI."

Parenting two girls is approximately 75-85% picking up hair ties.

I was surprised, in the best way, to take part in a robust conversation about Iran at my local ski & bike shop this week. In Pocatello. Idaho. And no one liked what was happening.

This is so true! I have two best friends who are both ~15 years younger than me and I have close friends who are at least 25 years older than me. It’s amazing.

Imagine turning women‘s big air off for the Super Bowl

A genuine question for those with experience: what’s of more significant value in the upcoming election, working polls or observing polls?

Listen: @ninabandelj.bsky.social speaks with @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social for @kqedforum.bsky.social about her new book Overinvested and intensive parenting:

@publisherswkly.bsky.social calls Alexandre Frenette's Blame the Intern "a clear-eyed examination of how internships can be problematic introductions to professional life." Read the full review here:

You do not critique your father for having a heart

Just imagine how different our lives would be if Democrats reversed violent policies instead of focusing on making them more respectable.

Dems just profoundly unequipped for this moment. It’s maddening beyond measure to see the most ordinary people exhibit incomprehensible bravery and Dems be like “okay but body cams plz, then we’ll be all good.”

It's publication day! A different cover, a (slightly) different title, a brand new preface! Happy (second) birthday to The Last Human Job

You’ll feel less confused if you admit to yourself that some people don’t care about the suffering of others, and some people like it.

I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc... Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.

Tell me your pet’s name with a gif

right now the floor for me is abolish ICE and put every agent on trial and the average elected democrat is like what if we told them to cut it out

I’ve largely stayed offline today after ending up in tears a few times yesterday and opening this to see that baby, I can‘t even describe my rage.

Just cried on a Zoom call with someone in Minneapolis. My mental health is so good.

It’s the strangest feeling, reading about breakthroughs that could have cured a loved one who has died of a disease. It’s hard to describe the painful joy I feel thinking about those who won’t know the heartache we almost could have missed. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

2026, home with a six-year-old freshly positive with Covid, spiraling with anxiety and sadness but also cackling at videos of fascists soaked from water balloons in bitter cold

I spend some serious energy worrying people will think I use Chat GPT for my emails but truly, I’m just a long time, deeply committed em-dasher.

Less than a month before my debut book "What We Inherit" gets released! You can place pre-orders now: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... Lucky to have gotten to collaborate (and argue) with Sam Trejo for the last 5+ years on this.

My friend and colleague @michellesphelps.bsky.social explains how the history of community organization prepares Minneapolis for this moment. @newrepublic.com

“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...” A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today. lithub.com/renee-nicole...

…it should break your heart to kill.