JD Vance absolutely killing it this week

Your federal government on Trumpism: "More than 10,000 veterans lost their homes to foreclosure since May 2025, when the Trump administration shut down a key safety net in the VA home loan program... "Another 90,000 vets are heading toward foreclosure..." www.npr.org/2026/04/02/n...

Prediction markets aren't just corrupt. They are a sign of our nation's spiritual atrophy - as every moral question became commodified and wagering becomes a growing source of meaning and purpose. My latest substack:

My new short story, MESTRA, comes out as a standalone this September! I rediscovered this myth from Ovid while working on my Persephone novel, and it absolutely electrified me. In case you want to pre-order, thank you from the bottom of this author's heart, links are here! linktr.ee/madeline.mil...

Our sprawling research report is now available on substack! 🎺🎺🎺 Why Dems underperform! How voters think! How many of them think the 1% is the problem and not immigrants and DEI! (lots!) How many more mods are D than R! Clear signals from massive complicated data! Something for everyone, really! 🎁

Research is here btw bsky.app/profile/wayt...

Looking for a last-minute gift? We teamed up with @give-directly.bsky.social and a whole bunch of other pods to send $1100 each to 700+ families in Rwanda. Your donation -- on behalf of yourself or your secret santa -- will change lives. www.givedirectly.org/podsfightpov...

One last time: Every time I post it he goes up five more points.

We have never taken outside funding, but I would seriously consider it to hire as many people who were fired from Teen Vogue as I can. Inquire within.

@leximcmenamin.com Hey Lex -- I'm so fucking sorry about Teen Vogue. I'd love to talk about what you need and how we can help. I wish I could just hire the whole staff, but in the meantime, I'm very happy to publish your team's work on a freelance basis. Give me a shout.

Normalize driving slowly through leafy college campuses windows down playing Defying Gravity at volume one million #ourwizardlies

Internet friends: We offer a free 30 day trial for our Membership, and I want to get an automated Slack message from Stripe when someone has 2 days left, so I can reach out personally. Tried to figure it out in Zapier, but can't. Any ideas?

Michele Kang let me invest in Washington Spirit challenge

Are they selling Power Straight jerseys yet or no

A women's sports job board from Togethxr? Oh hell yes jobs.togethxr.com/jobs jobs.togethxr.com/jobs

Week in and week out "learn about meaningful careers", "organize for affordable housing", and "donate to disaster relief" are among the top searches on WCID and boy it feels like the tea leaves aren't difficult to read sometimes

WCID is currently down. We’re working on it.

Been diving back into the world of Earthsea to shut out this one at night. None better.

Helpful reminder: Gaza is not starving, the people of Gaza are *being starved*. Always use the active voice. And always say who is *doing* the starving. In this case, Israel is starving Gaza! Using US taxpayer dollars and weapons. To do the genocide. Thanks!

You're my soda pop little soda pop stop funding genocide

"A New Generation of Magazines is Getting Kids to Put Down their Phones" in Fast Company featuring Kazoo magazine's Editor in Chief @erinbried.bsky.social. www.fastcompany.com/91364687/a-n...

I'm sure this is fine www.ft.com/content/50f9...

I, too, have general soreness

Until recently, tools for tracking fish were too big for small swimmers, limiting our ability to understand the lives of diminutive species. New technology is changing that - a potential boost for conservation. My story for @biographic.bsky.social (with edits from @colinschultz.bsky.social!)

I don't care which administration does it. It's fucked. DHS Faces New Pressure Over DNA Taken From Immigrant Children www.wired.com/story/dhs-an...

Most home runs in a season, made multiple pitching starts, MLB history: 2021 Shohei Ohtani: 46 2023 Shohei Ohtani: 44 2025 Shohei Ohtani: 34 2022 Shohei Ohtani: 34

Elderly Woman Keeps Mind Active Justifying Trump’s Actions theonion.com/elderly...

404, nailing it as usual

This has been the second most humid summer in DC on record (since 1945) based on the number of hours with dew points over 70 degrees or the level considered GROSS.

Jacob deGrom has thrown more major league innings so far in 2025 than he did in 2022, 2023 and 2024, combined.

The US-funded genocide continues.

Want to be an election worker? Or a nurse? Or maybe just save public media? Or all 3? Get our Recommendations (or your own), for nursing, yelling at senators, and volunteering all over the world. Check it out: www.importantnotimportant.com/p/wcid-want-...

Fuck cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social World's oldest marathoner hit by car, dies at 114 www.espn.com/olympics/sto...

Get fucked, Randy Fine.

Well this sucks Loss of the methane hunter carbonrisk.substack.com/p/loss-of-th...

Man who gave two Hitler salutes and almost $300m to re-elect a white nationalist felon says his chatbot was "too compliant to user prompts." Musk breaks silence on Grok's Nazi bender www.axios.com/2025/07/08/e...

Nerd alert: re-organizing the folder hierarchy for all of our design files. Going with: - Media type (email/web header, YouTube banner, social media, sticker, etc) -- Property (specific newsletter, podcast, app, or a merch design) --- File type (EPS, PNG, JPG) Or reverse media type and property?

Me, 5 minutes into a 2 hour quarterly planning call: "I bet Etsy has some great Chappell Roan merch home decor items, hold on"

Comically inept

Battery storage just hit a watershed moment: $51/kWh in China, down 30% in 12 months. While fossil fuels get slower & pricier, batteries are getting cheaper and better. This isn’t a trend—it’s now a rupture. Solar + storage is now the default for new energy. Everywhere. ⚡📉 #BESS #EnergyTransition

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On Prime Day, please remember that Bezos doesn't give a shit about you or his workers -- but @bookshop.org and @libro.fm sure do.

Last week we launched a new column a long time coming: Life Finds A Way: The Original Diversity Initiative. We kicked it off with a beautiful essay from one of my all-time favorite writers: @restingdinoface.bsky.social. Enjoy. www.importantnotimportant.com/p/every-body...

Under Trump's Big Ugly Bill, America's poorest families lose about $1600 per year. The richest households gain about $12,000 per year. It's Reverse Robin Hood. (Via CBO)

i can’t express how much i stan rick steves

Something is coming

Brilliant. 10/10. No notes.

If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?

Oh my god MUNICH but Andor. Give it to me.