Four-byline alert: 🚨 “.. A broker for Pete Hegseth, the US defence secretary, attempted to make a big investment in major defence companies in the weeks leading up to the US-Israeli attack on Iran, according to three people familiar with the matter.” www.ft.com/content/744e...

Two-year-old Kaleth is being locked away at the Dilley trailer prison. He is getting sicker with each passing day. He will not eat the food CoreCivc serves, which detainees have said sometimes has mold and worms. He now has a fever.

As @jamellebouie.net noted, these white supremacists' arguments were shot down by the same Supreme Court that enshrined racial segregation in Plessy v Ferguson. We don't need "originalists" badly playing amateur historians to figure this one out. This idea was roundly dismissed at the time.

Dozens of people showing up at members’ town halls in 2009 was enough for The Media to declare the Tea Party Movement™️ as a key force in American politics — for years — as the Obama administration was getting going. Consider that when you see how those same papers cover today’s protests.

Time for some game theory.

This is a nationwide phenomenon. The centrists and normies are more viciously angry than the socialists and anarchists, who gave up long ago on the illusion of a working system. Would encourage leftists of all stripes to take it seriously, welcome them in while they’re receptive.

Thinking more, and the very clear, unambiguous messaging that would be clunky in other shows works here. Also maybe shows got too subtle. I thought Breaking Bad was an excellent show about how doing bad things makes you a bad person. Some people just liked the bad guy and celebrated him.

There are so many reasons we moved from rural Arkansas to rural New York, climate change chief among them, but also a big one is that we didn't want to live in a place that didn't want to fund its libraries. Look at this glorious main branch near us.

There is nothing wrong with this kind of writing.

I love The Pitt, but one of the things I love about it is how almost every episode there is a character spelling out something happening in real life that people in the U.S. should know. Yesterday it was rural hospitals closing because of Medicaid cuts. We need more shows like that.

You really can't exaggerate how squarely contrary this rhetoric is to the basic foundational precepts of this country. These people *hate* the actually existing United States.

Also I love how people look for complicated reasons that the U.S. has wore health compared to other countries—it must be the food dyes!—without acknowledging we don't have a universal health care system. There are other problems too, of course but I mean, health care would make people healthier!

This isn't true. I wish people would stop saying this. Specifically the banned additives. The US actually bans slightly more additives than the EU, just different ones. The EU for example allows cyclamates the US doesn't

Oh no! What a loss.

caveman’s best friend www.bbc.com/news/article...

Meta and YouTube were both found liable by a California jury for harming a plaintiff's mental health with the design of their products. A massive ruling in a bellwether case that will open the floodgates for other lawsuits

I wrote about a simple way to make housing cheaper: newrepublic.com/article/2080...

Bari Weiss and wingnuts like her know how to destroy and wreck things but they never have any ideas on how to build or rebuild something. Move fast, break things - and then leave things shattered and everyone at a bad place. Losers.

One of the greatest marketing tricks pulled by centrist opinion writers is to convince people they somehow speak for a silenced, contrarian, rational minority — when in fact what they write is 80-90% exactly what mainstream corporate Dem thought is on any given subject

When movies were shot on physical film, the film was measured in feet. This is why any recorded thing is now called ‘footage.'

Related, if you ever want to know if something is a small town or rural or not, the USDA has a complicated definition system. Generally, I think it's safe to call anything with less than 10,000 people a small town, and more than 50,000 people a city. www.ers.usda.gov/data-product...

A lot of what Trump is doing is incredibly unpopular w the average American. The Republican Party is heading for a wipeout in Nov. Yet Trump—and those around him—keep doubling down on the most toxic parts of his presidency to appeal to extremist audiences on social media. The made-for-X presidency.

CRFB is searching for Social Security solvency in the wrong place. The problem isn’t retirees getting too much—it’s unchecked income inequality starving the system of revenue. Capping benefits isn’t reform; it’s a distraction from the real solution.

Happy Flannery O'Connor's birthday!

There is a lot about this piece that I find obnoxious and wrong, but the biggest one is that journalists shouldn't rely on intuition. They should go to new, unfamiliar places and learn about them and inform with their writing. That's the point of journalism. www.slowboring.com/p/in-defense...

When people were worried about Biden's mental capacity, they were just implicitly accepting that Trump had none.

This very quickly became one of the most important legal cases in transgender rights

Just checking in on J.D. Vance's favorability ratings, as I do. Plus 14 unfavorable. I can get on with my day now. fiftyplusone.news/polls/favora...

This is a great list of techniques for getting real information out of a Google search and avoiding AI slop and paid results. (One thing not included is that if you add "-ai" to a search, you block the AI summary) cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

Monopsony power reduces the costs to employers of paying a slightly "wrong" wage. When firms have more wage-setting power, profit function is flatter near the optimum. A wage far below w* barely hurts profits, but costs workers a lot. Envelope theorem - from my class today.

NEW: Documents obtained by @wired.com show that the salaries of a small NH town’s while police department are paid by ICE as part of its 287(g) program. @sammysussman.bsky.social has the scoop. No paywall: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...

justice alito talmbout it "seriously undermines" voter confidence when a "big stash" of mail ballots arrives and changes the "apparent outcome" sir do you mean when all the votes are counted? bc it sounds like you're just describing when all the votes are counted

One of my favorite shows used to be Air Disasters because it was really about air crashes that led to thorough investigations and reforms so that lives wouldn't be endangered again, a kind of celebration of governing competence, so I'm really sad all of this is happening.

What's interesting is that Republican lawmakers clearly think some rights can be burdened to prevent potential crime. They think it's ok to make it harder to vote to prevent the potential for voter fraud. Interesting that this doesn't extend to the 2nd amendment and guns. thehill.com/homenews/sen...

I thought this segment from Enten was bad use of polling www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-03-22...

It's worth pointing out the obvious, which is that this, like so many media dynamics, is *not* symmetrical. "Hardcore Democrats still support the Democratic candidate" would not be viewed as news, even worth mentioning, by any of these people.

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maybe im doing it wrong but i feel like the various crises of 2026 have revealed the limitations of this platform for me. twitter was always invaluable to me in chaotic times bc you had a lot of subj matter expert weirdos coming out of the woodwork. just dont feel like there's a much of that here rn

“Chronic hunger” at American concentration camps reported by USA Today. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

It's a very Idaho day at ProPublica. First, here's my story about Trump finding the limit of what even a stronghold like Idaho will allow. I read through dozens of cards and letters Idahoans sent to Idaho's secretary of state, thanking him for his decision. www.propublica.org/article/idah...

This really sucks

Okay those first two things are deeply newsworthy but to be fair I've seen many a Waffle House patron in my life who did not appear to know how they got there.

Below, a one-sentence distillation of the national emergency. (And let us never forget that just three or four Republican Senators and Representatives, if they had the tiniest trace of courage or integrity, could change nearly everything.)

Meta is cutting end-to-end encryption for Instagram DMs, potentially setting a very problematic precedent in the industry. And they announced it in a way that was also extremely insulting to their users ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ www.wired.com/story/the-da...

A good reminder to support independent media, perhaps specifically @talkingpointsmemo.com during its membership drive. If @davidkurtz.bsky.social hadn’t been putting in the work, this crazy admission of incompetence and contempt might have flown under the radar. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/exclusi...

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I understand how well meant the "they're spending X on war in Iran when they could be spending on [good thing for Americans]" messages are. But this formulation implies war is evil cause of cost, fails to really shed light on how regime operates & destroys.

Unsurprisingly, Harold Meyerson offers additional context to the horrific allegations against Cesar Chavez. Essentially, he kept an iron grip on the UFW and turned it into a personality cult. The killings of King and Kennedy bolstered his image. prospect.org/2026/03/19/c...

jesus christ "He was criminally charged with theft for improperly obtaining gift cards worth $154.62. His bail was set for $150,000. Ge had no previous criminal record."

The dunks on this illustrate why this type of analysis usually gets done at the level of metro areas, rather than municipalities