I reviewed this interesting book about how weird work feels in late capitalism www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/b...

There it is. The first ever Heat Advisory issued in Alaska. This is the first year it has been an option. @alaskawx.bsky.social

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Brian Wilson was having a breakdown before a tour in Japan and Al Jardine said “just stay home - play around with all your pet sounds.” Which is why…if there’s a second spirit that matters most in The Beach Boys, it’s Al. Who played with him till the end. Farewell genius. I’m sorry for the world.

if you don't like bluesky then don't use it, it's not that deep

NEW: A data broker owned by major airlines sold domestic US flight data to DHS, telling the dept. not to disclose that, according to records obtained by @404media.co—copublished in partnership with @wired.com. No paywall bc FOIA @josephcox.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/airlin...

Think about all the incredible writers you know who can’t get any publicity but James Fucking Frey gets the front page glow up in the Sunday NY Times, called a “literary outlaw” for making shit up in a book billed as non-fiction, and a whole paragraph devoted to him describing his orgasms.

Jonathan Haidt & co like to scold parents for overestimating the dangers of letting kids roam free. But it really is more dangerous for kids to be alone on the streets now. Not because of kidnappers — because of cars.

🚨BIG STORY: Senators put a line into the crypto bill requiring bankrupt banks to prioritize remunerating crypto investors over depositors. The provision could require banks to take cash from your savings account & use it to pay senators' crypto donors. www.levernews.com/cryptos-new-...

He needed air. The price was $539. When OptumRx dropped coverage of his $66 inhaler, Cole couldn’t afford the new price. 5 days later, he died from a severe asthma attack—with no inhaler. He paid with his life. www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news... #MedSky #SciSky #PedsSky #PulmSky

Lmao the future sucks

California renewables are currently producing more than total state power demand. Exporting clean energy to Arizona, Nevada and the Pacific Northwest.

New from @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social: When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked even me.

The Top 1% of U.S. earners now have more wealth than the entire middle class

Lynch’s politics are obviously far left because he was smart and not a monster but there is A truth here, however accidentally, which is that his work and right wing politics are both based almost completely in one emotion: fear

I'm seeing that people around here have been reading Victor Klemperer's diaries lately (there are two volumes), and I can't recommend them too highly.

The parties included a 7, 8, and 4-year-old. "None of the children were accompanied by parents or attorneys." "The 4-year-old girl in the tie-dye shirt raised her hand, dangling her pink plushy above her head. It wasn’t clear – was she responding to the question, or just playing with her toy?"

US FDA suspends milk quality tests amid workforce cuts reut.rs/4cHdnz3

I reviewed this book! www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/b...

I wrote a bit about Joan Didion. Also I’m so incredibly sorry about the state of the world! www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/b...

Holy cow! This has been an extraordinary week of impact for @propublica and our journalists. I wanted to take a moment to share the power of accountability journalism to make a difference. Here we go!

In re Claremont, Paul Fussell rightly pointed out back in the 80s that think tanks and institutes with all their talk of “scholars” and “fellows” was just people playing at university without having actually to put in the work—or, I’d add, having to face oppositional views from colleagues.

Retweeting praise /sorry not sorry

been thinking about this a lot. journalism, books, music, and film industries, all severely damaged or destroyed by Big Tech “innovation”

Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1k/month. A year later, nearly half had housing. They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays. The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k. www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...

one of the biggest lies that is told about climate change is that: it's too late. it's out of our hands. our fate is sealed. but we know how to stop the heating up. great post from @andrewdessler.com www.theclimatebrink.com/p/climate-ch...

Feel like soap and chocolate are similar enough that it seems like Dove are up to something suspicious

No crossing the picket line!

A May study in the Lancet estimated that vaccines against 14 common pathogens have saved 154 million lives over the past 50 years, a rate of six lives every minute.

The problem isn’t government waste. The problem is that billionaires don’t pay taxes.

I think the story of media, particularly online media, in the last couple decades is basically “market becomes more efficient, society realizes inefficiency was load bearing ”

EVERY. WORD. OF. THIS.

Does anyone else skip the AI search result on principle

I am not even kidding: the dems should run Matthew McConaughey on a broad populist platform. It’s a new world, adapt or die.

This is going to piss a lot of men off, but ignore them, too!

Have the Democrats tried running a populist for president the last half century? Might want to give that a shot

At least one Democrat should make this a slogan in 2028.

Had the pleasure of writing about Jean Strouse’s new Sargent book for the Boston Globe www.bostonglobe.com/2024/11/21/a...

I was late to Chappell and that’s on me

I strongly believe that we underestimate the power of existential despair in our current cultural and political moment.

Inherit 😭

One thing I find interesting about the echo chamber complaint is that an echo chamber just won a presidential election. Put aside the convo of whether it’s “good” or “bad” for a moment. The far right has devoted enormous resources + time to building echo chambers & loathes spaces they don’t control

If you want to remember what the last year of Trump’s last presidency was like, the bleach, the lies, the insurrection - this is the book I wrote about 2020…

Pete Hegseth has published three books in four years. Jonathan Chait spent the last week reading them—and concluded that Hegseth is almost certainly the most dangerous of Trump's cabinet picks. theatln.tc/80Muc59S

gotta hear both sides

It's kind of amazing that we showed we could cut child poverty in half for roughly 100 billion/year (absolute peanuts in a 7 trillion dollar budget), did it for a year, and then just stopped doing it.

Bluesky has 'em shook

I know everyone is talking about Matt Gaetz but please don't miss this: Georgia fired every single person on its maternal mortality review committee. Why? They didn't like that reporters found out that the state's ban killed two women www.propublica.org/article/geor...