St. Louis Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol believes in the "no shirt, no problem," mantra.

Featuring @garrettepps.bsky.social, @glastris.bsky.social, @nateweisberg.bsky.social, @alexbronzini.bsky.social, @kennethbaer.bsky.social, @gillenmartin.bsky.social, @stacyfmitchell.bsky.social, @thomastoch.bsky.social, and more. Explore the issue:

From @glastris.bsky.social: Why the U.S.-led Liberal World Order is Only Mostly Dead washingtonmonthly.com/2026/05/04/w...

Yes, Trump is decimating the U.S.-led international order. But declarations of its permanent death are premature, writes @glastris.bsky.social. washingtonmonthly.com/2026/05/04/w...

Historically, accreditors have led the so-called regulatory triad in higher education because states and the federal government did not want to act against colleges. That is clearly no longer the case. www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

Regarding supposed security gaffes last night, they didn't happen. USSS built the correct plan which worked perfectly to achieve its goal – to protect the president. Garrett Graff is the only person you need to read on this. Thanks for taking the time to write this one, @vermontgmg.bsky.social!

I really think it’s important to underline that there was apparently no security breach. The gunman was confronted and stopped where he should have been according to the design—at the magnetometer perimeter. What this piece argues for is an *expansion* of the security perimeter in time and space.

I’m going to wait to post until one of their books comes out and tells what actually happened tonight.

I’m at the combination Comedy Central Roast of Adolf Hitler / Reichstag Fire

Folks, don't worry. They had the line of succession all worked out. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Report: Every Place On Earth Has Wrong Amount Of Water https://theonion.com/report-every-place-on-earth-has-wrong-amount-of-water-1851544516/

A late night comment about two kinds of American exceptionalism – a First Amendment that ensures a free press and a Second Amendment that makes emergencies like tonight's all too frequent.

Editor in Chief @glastris.bsky.social went on The Julie Mason Show to break down the Democratic field for 2028: whose policy hits the mark, who can (or can’t) electrify a crowd, and––crucially––who’s tall.

An unheralded provision in the “big beautiful” tax act creates a beachhead for quality control in higher education that both parties have worked towards for three-quarters of a century, @glastris.bsky.social and @nateweisberg.bsky.social write. Will it survive?

Some of America’s biggest companies rely on public benefits to subsidize their employees. Why aren’t they defending their workers against cuts? @anne-s-kim.bsky.social unpacks.

Newport, Oregon, is another battleground in President Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigration as the administration plans numerous detention facilities in small towns. @garrettepps.bsky.social reports. washingtonmonthly.com/2026/03/09/i...

Jesse Jackson was furious over injustice. He was also full of hope. His funeral was a reminder that the two were never meant to be separated, David Masciotra writes.

At least some Americans are benefiting from Trump’s Iran War.

On affordability, Democrats have the stronger hand. They just need to stop folding. The winter issue of the Washington Monthly is here, featuring @glastris.bsky.social, @jrakove.bsky.social, @alexbronzini.bsky.social, @billscher.bsky.social, @gooznews.bsky.social + more: shorturl.at/38NmN

If you want to understand the roots of the MAGA crack up we are witnessing in real time, read this review essay @washingtonmonthly.com washingtonmonthly.com/2026/01/29/t...

If you want to know the reason why Russia is not going to win, read this @washingtonmonthly.com washingtonmonthly.com/2026/01/29/p...

A public option for grocery stores, based on the proof of concept provided by the commissary model, could not only vastly improve food access; it could inject more competition into the broader grocery market and bring down food prices for all Americans in the long term. By @clairek.bsky.social

Is FEMA ready for this storm? How will cuts impact Americans? Will Trump provide equal support to red and blue states alike? This will be one of those tests of governance that every administration faces...and that Trump-led administrations regularly and often disastrously fail.

Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.

More of this please. Screw the water’s edge. The world needs to hear from national leaders of both parties that Trump’s foreign policy is broadly detested in America on borrowed time. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

The number of representatives House Rs can afford to lose on a floor vote: Yesterday: 3 Today: 2 Soon after Jan. 31: 1 After GA-11 special (which will happen next) (barring upset): 2 After NJ-11 special (barring upset): 1 After CA-1 special (sometime in May) (barring upset): 2

Had a great discussion with the hosts of the Tests and the Rest podcast about which colleges provide the best value for your tuition and tax dollars, based on @washingtonmonthly.com’s 2025 college rankings. gettestbright.com/best-college...

To pay for tax cuts, Republicans cut graduate student loan support for female-dominated professions. That turns out to be bad policy and terrible politics. @glastris.bsky.social washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/22/g...

finished Death By Lightning, pretty good! nice plotting, well acted etc. didn’t really buy the saintly portrayal of Garfield but boy are we loaded up with a lot of Guiteau type people today

Israel isn’t going to disappear and calling for its liquidation spurs antisemitism. There’s a better way. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/16/a...

The Trump administration has broken with decades of settled practice on corruption issues, and the American people will pay the price, writes Christian Caryl.

This devastating NYTimes assessment of the American military’s broken weapons development and military industrial systems is spot on. But if you’ve been reading @washingtonmonthly.com…/1 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

1. Thread: Why America fails to build public infrastructure cost effectively. High Costs Are Not an Engineering Problem They Are a Political–Fiscal Design Problem Countries like Sweden and Germany do not build transit cheaply because they have better engineers per se. They build cheaply because:

Mad respect for this headline. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Now Trump gets to count the war twice

China’s predatory economy is the problem. Uniting with our allies to fight back is the only sensible response. Instead, Trump is undermining our allies, and hence we are losing. There was an alternative. /1 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/b...

Without a higher education program, the University of Nebraska is going to have a hard time recruiting and keeping the next generation of higher education leaders when competing institutions offer the chance for staff members to further their education. This decision will backfire.

One aspect of the "affordability" story that the great minds who write on this shit seem unable to see is that Trump and his rich friends are trying to end work from home and force people back to the office. This is equivalent to an 8% pay cut, but I guess that's too simple.

Trump's dementia has grown so extreme that a select group of advisors are now running the country without his input. To find who those advisors are and what their plans are, buy my new book, which will appear in March 2029.

Oh this is so definitely going to happen.

Norwegian Institute of International Affairs and Corisk did the math Europe's politicians haven't. Arm Ukraine to win: €522-838 billion. Let Russia win and rearm Europe: €1.2-1.6 trillion—double the cost. Plus 6-11 million additional refugees.

I'm not sure it's in the self interest of America's tech bro billionaires to suggest that we bring back public executions to punish the most destructive people in our society.

“.. Federal data shows corporate investment levels are roughly in line with last year, with companies on track to invest over $5 trillion in 2025. The $20 trillion surge Mr. Trump has claimed does not appear in the available data.” @cbsnews.com www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-2...

Will Europe finally stand up in the face of Trump’s betrayal and Putin’s savagery?

If the five familes had a foreign policy it would look like this. It’s the U.S. making its terms of extortion explicit. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u...

Most working Americans have employer-provided health coverage, and costs are out of control. Here’s a comprehensive plan to save money, put checks in their pockets, and give Democrats a winning issue. @gooznews.bsky.social washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/02/a...

Ezra Klein's housing chart doesn't tell the story he thinks it tells deanbaker22.substack.com/p/ezra-klein... Bubbles have consequences

A populist reaction to Trump is brewing. Liberal governments in Europe, Canada, and elsewhere must join the fight. @glastris.bsky.social washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/17/a...

"This 'populist-moderate' movement in the Democratic Party is just emerging. But I think it is the future." –– @glastris.bsky.social washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/17/a...