Remember birtherism? Now it's coming for you. www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

WE HIT 5,000! yourfirstbyline.substack.com

Trump: I used a mail in ballot. You know why? Because I'm President of the United States, I did a mail in ballot for Florida because I felt I should be here. Reporter: But you were in Palm Beach

This is basically the choice in the Matrix: Wake up or go back to sleep

today in "fundraising subject lines that could work for either side"

Somewhere a Hollywood casting agent already calling the cast of "The Big Short" to gauge interest in a sequel www.wsj.com/real-estate/...

Name one funny joke Bill Maher has told. Just one.

Ahem. 𝐿𝑒𝓉𝓉𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝓀𝒾𝒹𝓈 𝒷𝑒 𝓀𝒾𝒹𝓈 𝒶𝓁𝓈𝑜 𝓂𝑒𝒶𝓃𝓈 𝑔𝑒𝓉𝓉𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒷𝒶𝒸𝓀 𝓉𝑜 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒷𝒶𝓈𝒾𝒸𝓈. 𝒯𝒽𝒶𝓉’𝓈 𝓌𝒽𝓎, 𝑒𝒶𝓇𝓁𝒾𝑒𝓇 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓎𝑒𝒶𝓇, 𝐼 𝓈𝒾𝑔𝓃𝑒𝒹 𝒾𝓃𝓉𝑜 𝓁𝒶𝓌 𝒶 𝒷𝒾𝓅𝒶𝓇𝓉𝒾𝓈𝒶𝓃 𝒷𝒾𝓁𝓁 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓇𝑒𝓆𝓊𝒾𝓇𝑒𝓈 𝒸𝓊𝓇𝓈𝒾𝓋𝑒 𝒽𝒶𝓃𝒹𝓌𝓇𝒾𝓉𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝑜 𝒷𝑒 𝓉𝒶𝓊𝑔𝒽𝓉 𝒾𝓃 𝒫𝑒𝓃𝓃𝓈𝓎𝓁𝓋𝒶𝓃𝒾𝒶 𝓈𝒸𝒽𝑜𝑜𝓁𝓈.

Just four more subscribers to 5,000! The next four people who sign up for a free subscription will get comped a year behind the paywall yourfirstbyline.substack.com

this country started going downhill when people stopped saying "liberty" and started saying "freedom"

ask not for whom the strait tolls

we're hiring jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Versant3/744...

Funny thing about American mass media is how woke content is broadly popular, routinely pays for itself, and sometimes goes blockbuster, whereas right-wing content is a narrow niche that rarely reaches breakeven, never goes blockbuster, and usually requires immense subsidies for it to exist at all.

"What food of mine did you steal?" yelled the blinded cyclops. "Naan," Odysseus replied.

People were literally arrested for not grieving Charlie Kirk’s death hard enough

If an argument the Republican National Committee is making now had prevailed in 2000, Al Gore would have been the 43rd president of the U.S. www.ms.now/opinion/late...

"I learned how to do computer programming because I thought it would help me do scholarly research. I was kinda right, it comes in very handy for journalism research." yourfirstbyline.substack.com/p/my-first-b...

Sci-fi premise: An AI built to help people with their bills gains sentience and starts quietly lobbying for reform

Everyone must eat Korean barbecue!

Yet ANOTHER pedestrian saved by your friends at the #WorldBollardAssociation

how long until folks put "the Friend" in there en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_...

Crogning?

Anyway, Prince wrote this song under a pseudonym www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsmV...

Schrodinger’s President

A 13-year-old girl tried to take her life by cutting her wrists with a plastic knife from the cafeteria after guards took away drawing materials, and was put into isolation without seeing a doctor. The teen was deported to Colombia after nearly two months in confinement

everything is bad except my new book, which is delightful bookshop.org/a/975/978164... www.amazon.com/dp/1646036751

What is your take that most people don’t have but if they heard would immediately agree? Mine is that Parliament’s “Flash Light” is a gospel song.

“You can’t summarize the U.S. in a single image.”

the "u up?" school of fundraising emails includes the the toxic future ex

is there a section on double dipping

Here's my (sort-of) appreciation column on Chuck Norris www.ms.now/opinion/chuc...

How to cover a congressional hearing, a primer from @ximenabustillo.bsky.social yourfirstbyline.substack.com/p/how-to-cov...

Keep in mind that the history of diplomatic gaffes here includes the sitting president vomiting on the Japanese prime minister

ok but Poly Market is absolutely a bar in the Meatpacking District where a guy with a goatee tells you his girlfriend really digs your vibe and asks if they can buy you a drink

Trump may end up inadvertently promoting solar and wind more than his predecessors did on purpose

That Thing You Dune

Tesla sales plunge: “More and more people will not buy an EV from Elon,” said Gil Tal, director of the EV Research Center at UC Davis. “If Elon was not what he is, probably Tesla sales would have gone up this year, not down.” www.abridged.org/news/ev-sale... h/t @abridgedpbskvie.bsky.social

Remembering the ancient ways

When you think you're a liberator of your people and you're also sexually abusing women and girls from among those people you're demonstrating that you have trouble recognizing them as people. (And that is way too common.)

Movie when

And pants? Photo doesn't show. You need pants, right? Can you answer quick I'm about to head to the store.

Everything wrong with politics in 2026 in one post

Amazing you could make it this far in pro sports without having the sportsmanship we teach to third graders

what if trump was talking to the ghost of, like, Zachary Taylor and he was just mostly impressed that trump had powerful sky guns that he could fire at Persia

A lot of these Illinois primaries seem like they might end up with a winner who receives far less than 50% of the vote -- a clear argument for ranked-choice voting

Japanese Noise Rock Demon Hunteds

This is why I kept saying the F-35 should have been nicknamed the Wasp (since it succeeds the Hornet, too) www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202... @elcush.bsky.social

The New York Times is right. I don’t care! (And huge credit to the @wired.com team, whose intrepid, fearless, always fair reporting gives the tech bros plenty to be mad about.)

Latveria, Genovia, Qumar and Zubrowka have already announced they are joining the coalition

"If you have an area of expertise, really lean into that and work on becoming THE go-to person on that subject." yourfirstbyline.substack.com/p/my-first-b...