by far the worst tendency on this platform is its tendency to interpret a description of something that happened or is happening as an endorsement of that thing I have been reading Mark on conversion therapy cases for years and he has always been very clear about how awful it is

An underrated addendum to the Bowling Alone story is that North America's largest bowling operator (Bowlero) is a publicly traded company whose business model involves buying mom and pop alleys, shutting down the leagues, and trying to attract casual, higher paying, one-off players.

The essence of all the Russia stuff from the first campaign and first term was that Trump was an insider threat to the US, NATO, the UN, etc.—a manifest danger to the whole complex of post-WWII arrangements to defend free societies, stave off world wars, and advance the cause of human rights.

I've said it before, but this kind of journalism only made sense in an era where it was important to document what powerful people said because people might not be able to find it any other way Now? If you're not fact-checking or contextualizing comments like this, you are just doing free PR

Good news! OpenAI is canceling so many large purchase orders and datacenter expansions that the global price of RAM is dropping.

In a healthy democracy the government would have collapsed by now and instead we've got at best just over 7 months to know if there will be electoral consequences and until january for them to start to take effect

We already do this and it is not working. You can’t fund a newsroom in $20 increments until you have massive scale and you need money to get there. Commentary is easy to stand up at low cost. Reporting is not.

Ah, the parable of the bread and cigarettes.

Calling the defeat of imperial Japan in WW2 an "elusive goal" is fucking wild.

“elusive”

"why your protest aesthetics should utilize the most median established sentiment and visual language"

The NYT says today’s #NoKings protests had “no shortage of skeptics,” and then quoted exactly one of those skeptics: The chairman of the Ole Miss College Republicans (as of 2025.) But of course, the Times doesn’t ID him as such. He’s just a Concerned Youth.

i like to call this "electoral college brain," when politicians (or hell just regular people) confuse the fact that the electoral system privileges closely competitive interior states with some deeper, fundamental meaning

Again, the first Tea Party rallies in April 2009 -- heavily promoted in advance by Fox News -- only had about 300,000 attendees across 750 cities, but the media treated it like the Second American Revolution. There will be multiple *individual* No Kings rallies today that have more people at them.

#OTD 128 years ago, the Supreme Court decided that Wong Kim Ark–the son of Chinese immigrants born on U.S. soil–was an American citizen by birthright. Now, Trump is threatening that promise. The Constitution is clear: ‘all persons’ born in the U.S. means ‘all persons.’ No exceptions.

Note this is Jeremy Peters taking a break from his transphobia beat to return to his anti-left beat.

But all (small-d) democrats in America must dispute this claim of “real American” normalcy and replace the repressive norm of white Christian patriarchal dominance with a promise that the expected norm is an acceptance of pluralism and diversity in all spheres of life.

www.ft.com/content/4f09... Genuinely hard to overstate how much of a strategic defeat it would be for the United States if the war ends with effective Iranian control of the Strait.

In fairness it’s not like the consequences of having a mad king unilaterally take the country to war on a whim were so incredibly obvious that you could see it coming from the 18th and 19th centuries www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Truckers suffer another setback in their long-standing fight against truck rolls. https://bit.ly/47MYWZh

2021 Republicans: How dare tech companies talk to government about moderating speech!!! We’ll create a whole false narrative about it and take it all the way to the Supreme Court! 2025 Republicans: We run things now so

We should prepare ourselves for a 2036 Republican candidate who promises to reverse income inequality and not starting foreign wars, positioning themselves against Trump, who cut taxes for the rich and started foreign wars by campaigning on being against Bush's tax cuts for the rich and foreign wars

That 25% support among independents for Trump is consistent with my estimated vote by party reg in the recent Florida special elections

White ethnonationalism is really unpopular.

“Decapitation” is such an org chart strategy. Ah this fellow is at the top of a hierarchy, he must be crucial! Boy, I’ve worked in organizations where decapitation would have improved workflow

This describes a suspected collection method -- one that was EXCEEDINGLY sensitive -- when I pointed to it in 2018.

The ancient scrolls tell us that, in the Before Time, a president's admission that his administration had not considered the obvious likelihood of the war widening when they first attacked Iran would lead to immediate congressional hearings.

On Tuesday, Reuters reported that Iran's demand in any peace talks would include "guarantees against future military action, compensation for wartime losses and formal control of the Strait of ​Hormuz." In other words, war reparations and full control of the Straight of Hormuz.

Bluesky v Rumble mentions in official congressional e-newsletters. As I see it, it's not "echo chambers", it’s nearly entirely separate media ecosystems.

Wow, Congress passing a statute attempting to preempt state abortion laws, I wonder how the justices who wrote the opinion striking down the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act would have possibly wriggled out of that one

I was in a store today that had Fox News on. I was in there for maybe five minutes. In that time, they had no fewer than five different clips of either Republican electeds or Fox pundits saying Democrats have refused to fund TSA. And this was literally just a five minute sample of their programming.

The voting laws that people like me support—universal vote by mail, same day registration, and automatic registration—increase turnout but have no partisan effect either way. The SAVE Act is designed specifically to have partisan effects (mostly bc they’ll implement it differently in blue states)

Good news from the union world: DC's first cat cafe that was previously shut down in an apparent attempt to quash their attempts to unionize is back. And yes -- their staff is now unionized. www.instagram.com/p/DWIHsbRkSh...

I am choosing to believe this movie got made because of the Bluesky Bookclub back in the day.

Man, the effects of the ICE occupation are vast and ongoing. A family I am helping, like so many others, is trying to figure out how to rebuild their lives. Trying to make rent, needing to find work, adjusting to an existence without family members. There may be less ICE but these are huge wounds.

this goes for so much of the right wing ecosystem. the same guys who scream “DEI hire” would sink to the ocean if they weren’t kept afloat by their far right sugar daddies

That’s impossible. Idiots who are never right about anything told me democrats never do that.

Welp, let’s all check in on how the party UK’s Labour wants to model itself after is doing…

An important fact to bear in mind for *both* of tonight's specials: Registered Republicans outnumbered Democrats. #HD87: 46% R, 36% D, 18% independent #SD14: 46% R, 37% D, 17% independent This almost certainly means some Republicans are voting Dem—very worrying for the GOP.

The most amazing story isn’t just that Democrats flipped a Trump +12 seat from red to blue — it’s that Trump literally voted by mail in this election while arguing mail in voting should be illegal for everyone else.

Interesting and important new finding from @gelliottmorris.com's monthly poll: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-03-24...

Well, this is obviously the most fascinating graph of this 🧵

4️⃣ Online video is very popular amongst young audiences, but many still prefer to read Adults under 25 are more likely than older groups to favor listening to or watching news online, but the preference for reading is still ahead in most markets.

The number of displaced persons in Lebanon is now over a million. 20% of the population, roughly, is unable to sleep their home tonight.

The fluid definition of "libs," "the left," or whatever on Bsky is social poison because it simultaneously puts everyone at risk of excommunication and lets nobody be accountable for their claims about this or that group. "Liberals" can mean anyone from Paul von Hindenburg to Bernie Sanders here.

The 2026 Save The Bay Seal Count results are in! 🦭 Learn More: https://savebay.org/annual-save-the-bay-seal-count-results-590-seals-seen-across-rhode-island-waters

Marla Miller bringing gender & labor (and a hint of imperialism) to the Betsy Ross legend of the "first flag," which is "usually framed as a story of design, but it’s not: It’s a story of production." theconversation.com/what-betsy-r... 🗃️ #skystorians @shearites.bsky.social @ncph.bsky.social

This is my theory Current Moment. Huge swathes of the MSM really really wanted a 10-15% shift to the right relative to Peak Woke, in large part because they were very extremely afraid of the consequences of gender equality as seen in MeToo. They thought Trump II would be the vehicle for that....

lol, just learned that this brewery is Audrain-owned.

Conservatives before 2026: No, you cannot have information related to my gun ownership, vaccination status, health history, biometric identifiers, financial transactions, etc! Conservatives in 2026: