I wrote about a city being set in motion

@aedwardslevy.bsky.social do you know if there's polling that collects data on reported screen time? Wonder if there's been data gathered on difference in perception/attitudes on issues between people who spend like an hour a day online vs those logging 8+

Front-facing video is so easy. You can read a headline and describe it as breaking news even if the news is days weeks months or years old and your audience just believes you because they're watching in a walled garden with no easy way to site sources and no obligatory editorial review.

Ana Ng. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTa0...

The progressive bloc in Congress, led by the same senator who is currently trying to block weapon sales to Israel, was the group responsible for rallying support for the first ever War Powers Resolution passed by both chambers of Congress— and it was about Saudi Arabia. The whininess is obscene.

Democrats have now lost a net of six House seats in enacted or likely mid-decade redistricting across the U.S. They will need to win the House popular vote by 4 points to win the majority of seats. New House elec. simulations from Strength In Numbers www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-05-10...

"toddler upset because I wouldn't let them play with a jar of Trinitite during a diaper change" is a real thing that just happened but scans as self-parody

all politics is coalition work and so much discourse is around policing the edge. Worth taking a pause when someone suggests a hostile idealogue who stumbled onto an obvious right answer is being framed as part of it over someone otherwise consistently ideologically aligned who stumbled & corrected.

[at the last judgment] JESUS: And the baby prisons? EVANGELICALS: to own the libs, right JESUS: And the libs, who are they EVANGELICALS: uh mostly illegal aliens. if we really hate a pretty girl we call her fatherless. some widows JESUS: Alien, fatherless, widow, got it. So you see these millstones

bagels are good even when they're mediocre; if you could get a green chile bagel in the places where bagels are routinely excellent they'd be too powerful

Any "leftist" taking MTG's side over AOC's is either an op or the biggest mark at the carnival

send someone a haunting orchestration, that's a dreadable arrangement

Recent RAND research finds that the cost of building apartments in California is 2.3x higher than it is in Texas. RAND's Jason Ward outlines the key factors driving up housing costs in CA—and what policymakers can do to help. https://bit.ly/4tVTUm5 Read the study: https://bit.ly/48RTDYW

It apparently does not occur to Huber that maybe the working class voted for Trump in 2024 because energy prices were high and they blamed the incumbent party, not because Democrats were pushing for green energy policy (which is mostly popular).

J.D., what are you talking about, man www.alternet.org/jd-vance-civ...

The truth is out there.

If only there was a room they could put it in…. Maybe call it a baal room

Pop culture will never let Roswell be anything else but it is knowable and known and has been for 33 years. An under discussed part is that the rancher who found the crashed balloon didn't think to report it for weeks, & only did so after hearing about other UFO sightings slate.com/technology/2...

Well, that can't be right. John Roberts just reassured us all that the court just impartially interprets the law, and would never selectively interpret facts in order to justify a political outcome

who up having cheerios with their toddler that won't settle

"The Crack-Sucking Leggings Of Flagstaff, Arizona" is a Sufjan song, but "She took my order in a sports bra you know / as my wife got mad I ordered it to go" is a Hold Steady lyric

Sufjan Stevens (again) You hear the words "Chicago Pope" and swear that was on "the Avalanche". Moved on from the second city, settled in your third suburb, and while you miss the wind whipping you in line for shows, when you park your pride-stickered minivan Sunday mornings, it's in good company

TGIF Thank God It's Forty-eight hours until a friendly reporter drops optimistic news about the Iran War ending just hours before markets open.

a car where when go get in and the wheel fly off you think, that’s it! i’m toast! www.popsci.com/technology/c...

We knew this was coming. www.koat.com/article/new-...

laura loomer mattering at all to anyone is one of the most humiliating things that could've happened to the american government. i bet she's as surprised as anyone by this turn of events.

'The value of some may be minimal, including one report that contains a single cryptic sentence — “2X round white white hot UAPS dynamic south” — at the end of six entirely blacked-out pages.' taskandpurpose.com/news/pentago...

My colleague @stephseifertphd.bsky.social just published new groundbreaking work on hantaviruses in the United States as part of our shut down @viralemergence.org project. Want to prevent hantavirus outbreaks here? Fund her work. wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...

Opening screen in a Modern Warfare game-ass government website www.war.gov/UFO/

don't worry everyone, chuck is on the job!

If this is what *Puck* is reporting, Jake Sullivan's attempted rehabilitation is landing like a wet fart in a crowded elevator puck.news/the-return-o...

Excellent @harrisonmann.bsky.social piece about the need for these blood-soaked ghouls to never see the corridors of power ever again.

The Omni ICE flight has now landed in Vietnam, likely the last deportation stop. Migrant passengers onboard have now likely been shackled at the wrists and ankles attached to a waist chain for at least 69 hours, perhaps longer. Third Vietnam and Cambodia deports this year, fourth to Laos.

Swords of Damocles to Plowshares

Calm, measured reporting on the hantavirus that exists in New Mexico (not the one on the cruise ship, not one that has had human-to-human transfer), and a reminder that the best way to avoid it is avoiding rodents and using care when cleaning up after them. NMDOH: www.nmhealth.org/publication/...

Mid terms? Yeah, mid at best man

Listen, this is tit for tat until a national gerrymandering ban, and R legislatures in FL and OH already did this exact tit to get around their courts so the optimal next step appears to be tat

Mahsa's article on the eight Iranian protestors that Trump made appear synthetic is a must read

really great conversation with @mahsaalimardani.bsky.social about what AI-powered propaganda is doing to the information space

good piece here from @nikobowie.bsky.social on how the post-Civil War Congress faced down an autocratic court opposed to civil rights: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/02/o...

Everything is 2021 again: through extraordinary effort, ordinary people who want to see pluralistic democracy prevail put in place champions far more concerned with playing by the old rules than breaking the power of their massively unpopular and undemocratic opponents.

I could also be convinced of a trinitarian model too

Got 16 minutes away from finishing the last episode of Maul when one of my toddlers woke. Made it another 7 minutes after getting them back to bed before they started stirring and I stopped out of an abundance of caution. I'll finish it today, just very funny to have exactly that much left.

University claims community is "unlawfully discriminatory" towards data centers because of a 12 month pause on water to a proposed hyperscale computing center that would power nuclear weapons research

A lot of people used to (and maybe still?) scoff at this but the only long term response available to a constitutional court that is hostile to democratic republican rule is to overhaul the constitutional order itself and cripple the court

Proportional Representation is the way forward newrepublic.com/article/2098...

I don't ever recall making my MuckRack page, and the image for it feels like a prank. This is the avatar I commissioned from Matt Bors in *2013* except there's an F-35 photoshopped over the cartoon drone. Entirely possible I made this (and the MuckRack profile, tbh), just no memory of it.

President & CEO @nancyokail.bsky.social joined @ianmastersmedia.bsky.social to discuss Saudi pressuring Trump to make a deal with Iran. Listen here: www.backgroundbriefing.org/2026/05/07/b...