I could not possibly be more pumped to open my mail today @mollycrabapple.bsky.social

I am also glad about this, Melba

I love to text my spouse 17 unconnected ideas in a row that he will have to contend with the moment he awakens every day for the rest of his life

That same white supremacist then hit on me almost immediately after learning that I’m Jewish. Not really relevant just horrifically funny

"When female researchers investigate the far right, the stakes are especially high. Misogyny is a thread that runs through almost all groups on the far right."

Also, beyond the money in the New Mexico case, there will be a bench trial in May to adjudicate NM's claim that Meta needs to change its product to comply with state law.

At least this would preserve the option of going overboard if the takes got too nuclear www.theatlantic.com/press-releas...

The vast majority of research about diversity from the last 30 years shows, unambiguously, that diverse organizations outperform non-diverse ones. DEI policies are not some weird leftwing social engineering project; they are what happens when you follow the data on organizational performance.

The airplane backseat didn’t have to be this shady

This is what struck me; it’s such an incredibly bad lack of media training. Isn’t the husband a semi-public figure himself? And more importantly the spouse of a writer who is famous for responding to her trolls? How do you not Know Better Than That

This article is darkly fascinating as an example of how transphobia infects your entire ideology. The core argument is that we should not believe people when they say they are trans, were sexully abused or have a mental disorder.

I didn’t know this but current and past members of the Blue Man Group always refer to one another forever as Blue Men. “There’s a Blue Man in Ottawa,” etc. No one is a former Blue Man. They live in an endless Blue present

If you live in Paris and want to see the absolute wildest band imaginable playing their only French show ever, please come out tonight. Things will be on fire and for once I don’t mean that metaphorically: withfriends.events/event/iRPG2Y...

Lots of things are bad but there’s also “riding a bike in Paris in the springtime with my friends”

Jewish people spiritedly disagree amongst ourselves so forcefully that there’s an old joke about a desert island with two stranded Jews and three synagogues (one for him, one for him, and one “we never step foot in, feh”). If you think this hasn’t happened about Israel you’re not paying attention

“It also approaches the compilation of an enemies list.” www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/01/1...

I love the slightly janky lynx with all my heart

I will be sitting in this chic French library desk-chair until conditions improve

SCOOP: One of the nation's top "justice facility" architecture firms will no longer work on ICE detention centers or deportation facilities after its employees staged a revolt.

If you write a memoir people might have opinions about it, idk

"Someone mentioned you in a post on LinkedIn" okay well I spoke their name into the breeze and let the wind carry it away across the mists of time and space

Pro-Trump media outlets seem unsure how to cover the invasion, toggling between a neutral accounting and— sometimes in the same breath—kowtowing to the president. Meanwhile, the new Pentagon press corps often follows up questions with some manner of praise.

So far, it's been a combination of fight, flight, fawn, and freeze.

The number of people I’ve seen in comments on Instagram insisting that the Michigan synagogue attack was a “false flag” makes me just absolutely despair on about five different levels personally and professionally

Synagogues pay for their own security. Building bollards and gates, installing cameras, etc., require capital campaigns or added membership dues. A police presence is not free. Plus synagogues train their members to volunteer as security guards. We do this because safety is not a choice.

great story. tangentially, this issue has been really devastating in health care (which anna also follows closely) a friend of mine that's an ob-gyn has hella stories of patients developing bad complications because of grifter misinfo and algo-driven spirals that make them wary of all meds

Far-right figures have come out unequivocally against Trump's war on Iran, including Steve Bannon, Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Infowars kingpin Alex Jones.

As always to our international readers: I’m sorry and thanks for caring about this

Hegseth gutted offices that would have probed Iran school strikes

I think about this all the time and Anna did a really great job articulating it.

It was inevitable that one day MAGA media would be forced to cover an actual news event that does not always reflect favorably on the president. With the invasion of Iran, that day has now arrived.

i still think the response to this should not be "giving up" but dramatically changing media consumption habits to prioritize irl and collective sources with physical proximity + high trust

Great point. I'd add that Google is a big contributor to this problem, a tragic violation of their mission statement "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." It would help if Google returned to helping people find reliable information.

it’s exhausting, as it’s created to be; it also means that i, attempting to be discerning, am much more apt to share things i feel confident about based on my own education, but folks shouldn’t have to be years-worth of confident in a subject matter to feel as though they can trust something 😮‍💨

This is already such a massive problem, from a completely anecdotal sense. Every day, something is shared in a group chat or Discord that I'm in, and the inevitable response of "Is that real?" comes through. Not sure how that is going to affect us psychologically long-term, but it can't be good.

yes JESUS FUCKING CHRIST YES

I'm going to share this story one more time, because I think the problem it describes -- being unable to determine what is true online or in the news, and just giving up entirely on trying -- is going to get more and more common. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

“When disinformation is constant, the everyday cost of knowing what’s going on rises. People spend more time verifying the basics, or they stop trying."

It was inevitable that one day, the reporters, influencers, and others in the MAGA-flavored press would be called upon to cover an actual news event that does not always reflect favorably on the president. With the invasion of Iran, that day has now arrived.

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NEW: I wrote about how the far-right press and usually pro-Trump conspiracy outlets are covering the Iran war, and I have to say, it's a bit more interesting than I anticipated. For once, Alex Jones has found a news event that he thinks is both real and worrying: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I accidentally slept an extra hour today and now will live forever

I just saw Good Luck Have Fun Don’t Die and both REALLY enjoyed it and got actively annoyed several times, which I think means it was a good movie

I love the Bummer Beat 🫠

Is the premise of this story that the mayor should make lighthearted video content about an ongoing criminal investigation www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/n...

I tell you what, I love doing my taxes amid the Omnicrisis

A few weeks ago, I saw a group of people in a Facebook comments section trying to figure out if a picture of Ilhan Omar was real. (It was not.) I couldn't stop thinking about it, so I wrote about what I'm calling "strategic memes against public participation." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The primary aims of AI images targeting Trump's political opponents are, of course, to harass, demean, and discredit them. But they have a secondary effect: to overwhelm the internet with unusable, false, unstable information, and then to mock the idea of finding out what’s true at all.

Manipulated images undermine our shared reality—and the democracy built upon it.

Perhaps the biggest point of interest convergence between AI and fascism is the way they exhaust people's capacity to belief in the very concept of knowable truth www.rand.org/pubs/perspec...