“I just don’t get the kind of engagement on Bluesky that I get on X” the engagement:

This is Wiley. He has never seen snow before and wants to make sure he gets a real good look at it. For science. 12/10 (IG: smileywileydog)

bluesky ran into an error trying to pull in the headline for this article but the result is frankly evergreen

We need NYC-based authors/writers to use their skills to share the importance of public libraries in the 21st century. If this is you, write things and post them to all of your networks. Also sign a letter to the City Council: actionnetwork.org/letters/city...

BREAKING Former ICE agent: On my first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a judicial warrant.

Some bullet points that I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could our journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.

The U.S. women’s hockey team declined an invitation by President Trump to attend Tuesday’s State of the Union address at the Capitol, a spokesperson said.

“This is probably one of the most unprecedented memos — introduced to impose trauma on refugees.” Legally, vetted refugees who arrive in the U.S. have to wait a year before they can receive permanent residency and thus their green cards — although how long it takes is out of their hands.

On February 18, DHS sent a memo sent to field agents, stating that refugees who have been in the country for more than a year and still don’t have their green cards will now be subject to arrest and indefinite detention while their cases are reviewed, approved, and processed.

The Ford Pinto had a death rate of 85 people for 10 million cars sold. The Cybertruck hasn't sold 10 million, but the fatality rate so far maths out to 1,452 people killed per 10 million sold. The Cybertruck may be the deadliest road car, for the occupants, ever sold. fuelarc.com/evs/its-offi...

Come on @arimelber.bsky.social @beatwithari.bsky.social your graphics dept needs to do better. Look at the 2024 election. For som reason, Biden’s blue line of 48.3% is higher than Trump’s 49.8%. WTH? Do better.

The hypocrisy is the tell. It tells us what they really, truly believe. Laws for thee, not for me. Impunity is their birthright.

This is worse when you see the quote because he is describing professors getting fired for calling Kirk a racist piece of shit and then his college fired him. Also: the origins and defining ethos of Turning Point is getting professors fired. That part, and not free speech, is baked into their bones.

🇺🇦🪖 Kyrylo Budanov announced a POW swap between Russia and Ukraine is expected this week. “We are working on it, and I hope it will happen this week. The number will be significant, larger than the previous exchange,” Presidential Office chief Kyrylo Budanov said in response to my question.

NEW: Documents from two anonymous whistlebowers obtained by Sen. Blumenthal's office shed light on how DHS has lowered training & testing standards for new recruits to meet ambitious hiring targets for ICE Enforcement Removal Operations officers ahead of public forum today 🧵

so the longevity guy held on a little longer than expected, but the inevitable came for him anyway?

Where's @gallup.com? D'oh!

2 system where treatment is free for citizens. That is a deliberate choice — and a fundamental part of our society. That is not the case in the United States, where seeing a doctor comes at a cost. 💵💰 We are always open to dialogue and cooperation — including with the United States.👇

Orla Joelsen #HandsOffGreenland🇬🇱👏 @OJoelsen Premier of #Greenland #Jens-FrederikNielsen posted the following on Facebook: It will be a no thank you from here. President #Trump ’s idea of sending an #American hospital ship to Greenland has been noted. However, we have a public healthcare 1-3 👀

3 But please speak with us instead of making more or less random statements on social media. 👍 Dialogue and cooperation require respect for the fact that decisions about our country are made here at home. 🇬🇱 (Photo of Jens-Frederik Nielsen with his Minister of Health) #HandsOffGreenland💪💥

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Democrats should get on the same page as progressives about billionaires, and what to do about the billionaire class, even if they don’t agree about every piece of rhetoric or every idea to constrain their influence over politics. www.offmessage.net/p/the-case-f...

wow the SOTU tomorrow is going to be a shitshow of historic proportions. he's going to go off the rails in ways we can't even imagine.

And, of course, there is never a shortage of McLuhanisms. I had fun stitching these together...

Some of my favorite Ongisms that I quote in The Gutenberg Parenthesis... 2/ www.bloomsbury.com/us/gutenberg...

Oh, how I'd love to nerd-out with Joe Wiesenthal and @dkthomp.bsky.social about Ong, McLuhan, and the Gutenberg Parenthesis. 1/ www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

This @lollardfish.bsky.social piece about the current moment's learning loss among Minnesota children is excellent. No surprise — David has found gold standard sources. 12/10 no notes. I do, however, have a longtime MN-based but national education reporter observation to add. 1/

The virus killed my uncle in just four days during the initial wave. He died alone in the ICU on a ventilator because nobody was allowed in the room. These trolls want to make a “comedy” out of it.

Somebody tell the swells at Punch Bowl bsky.app/profile/purr...

to be fair, Woodward is still around and withholding information we need until his next book comes out.

Woodward and Bernstein are gone. Now we have Copy and Paste.

Come on, reporters, do your thing, finally.

Cannon repeatedly says that Trump's request to permanently bury the second volume of Smith's report is "unopposed" because, of course, Trump's Justice Department agreed. But free press groups opposed it! Cannon just denied their request to intervene. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Cannon scathingly suggests that Jack Smith violated her order dismissing the criminal case against Trump when he continued to prepare his report on the prosecution from transmission to DOJ. Calls it a "brazen stratagem" meant to "circumvent" her authority. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NEW: Judge Aileen Cannon permanently forbids the Department of Justice from releasing Volume II of Jack Smith's report on his prosecution of Trump. Also bars DOJ from sharing "any information or conclusions" from the volume. A sweeping, perpetual gag order. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

No court has authority to prevent the report from being subpoenaed by congress and read into the congressional record, FWIW

I resent the pivot to video so much. I do not want to become an "on air personality." I do not want to boil everything down into little pithy viral slogans. I don't want to worry about my f'ing hair. I hate it all. Hate it.

Breaking: The Olympic gold-winning U.S. women's hockey team DECLINES Trump's invitation to his State of the Union address after he was caught on video mocking them.

It seems like Republicans are really not very good at identifying bad guys.

Btw AOC saying “um” is the on same level of a staffer you fucked killing herself by self-immolation according to Punchbowl

re-upping

Senate Democrats call for government to start refunding $175bn in tariff money Ron Wyden, Ed Markey and Jeanne Shaheen unveiling bill requiring CBP to issue refunds and pay interest ...

Let's play fill in the blank! The flood of cheap renewable energy is transforming the economy of ________. Today's answer: Romania!

Six weeks ago, Donald Trump called me. He said he wanted to cap credit card interest rates. There's still no relief for the American people. Ahead of Trump’s State of the Union address, I wrote about his broken promises on credit card affordability.

Beatrice Loayza (@bealoayza.bsky.social) on Kleber Mendonça Filho’s The Secret Agent https://go.nybooks.com/4tO578u

Nice pull here right before Trump tells us the state of our union.

Imagine an America without hedge funds and private equity devouring newspapers, hospitals, nursing homes. Without megacorps dominating media, technology, and data analytics. Imagine true local independent ownership of retail, restaurants, & service providers.

What’s apparent to those of us who live in the actual world is that it’s not liberalism, but *unbridled capitalism* that has exhausted itself. It is responsible for: -Corruption of our elections -Untenable & growing income inequality -Gutting of institutions to extract capital, leaving them hollow