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Breathless reporting across the industry on unconfirmed reports that Kirk's killer may have once breathed same air particles expelled by a trans person, meanwhile no interest in ironclad proof that yet another school shooter was a Nazi.

I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

I think it’s important to notice why so many Americans believe the criminal group exists: yes the media but also two political parties that kept talking about this criminal imaginary. Two. That appeal to Liz Cheney moderates shit is damaging.

The tragic landslide in Blatten gives me the excuse to tell you the story of how we found out Ice Ages existed. It's a cool story and the most important bit is rather similar to what's happening now.

Of 14,777 unique articles on the NYT's homepage over the 310 days from 1/1/24 to Election Day, 293 articles–almost one a day–focused on Biden’s age compared with just 27 articles focused on Project 2025, a ratio of 10.9 to one mediabiasdetector.seas.upenn.edu/blog/new-yor...

RESULT: Omaha's Republican Mayor Jean Stothert just lost to her Democratic challenger John Ewing. Stothert, who was running for a fourth term, resorted to anti-trans ads and messaging around who uses bathrooms in the final stretch of the campaign. Ewing will be Omaha's first Black mayor.

Your occasional reminder that tariffs are constitutionally a Congressional power, which they have delegated to the President under the premise that there is some sort of emergency. The Republicans in Congress can reclaim that power anytime they want.

This is how a Charles Schwab, a major investment firm, decided to celebrate International Workers' Day during a time in which workers' rights are being gutted and those who are lucky enough to have a retirement account are seeing it decimated. pressroom.aboutschwab.com/press-releas...

Notice who gets told that you gotta hear both sides.

On our modern day McKinley tariffs: This week I stumbled upon this clipping from the New York Times (Oct 6, 1890) quoting The Daily News of London

Via @abreezeclayton.bsky.social, here's a tool to find out if your vote is on the list of those being challenged in North Carolina, along with instructions on what you can do next/who to contact re: ballot curing. Please share widely, especially if you're in North Carolina

Democrats who voted yea on cloture for HR 1968: Cortez Masto (D-NV) Durbin (D-IL) Fetterman (D-PA) Gillibrand (D-NY) Hassan (D-NH) Peters (D-MI) Schatz (D-HI) Schumer (D-NY) Shaheen (D-NH) plus King (I-ME) Shaheen and King also voted for the bill itself