every private equity guy for some reason: step 1 to improving this company is firing everybody who knows what they're doing

A maternity ward doctor donated his own blood during surgery to keep a pregnant patient alive. One woman gained fewer than 10 pounds over her entire pregnancy. Another collapsed and had seizures during labor. (Published Dec. 2025)

THIS SHOULD ALARM EVERYONE Trump’s DOJ is sending election monitors to Detroit, Lansing, and East Lansing for Michigan’s August 4 primary. The real target isn’t just the election. It’s public trust in blue cities.

Get Loud: Public Library and School Internet Access Is Under Threat. The FCC wants to change the e-Rate program, which could eliminate discounts libraries and schools get to provide internet to their community. bookriot.com/proposed-fcc...

I was back in Immigration Court this week, this time for the hearing of a sweet little three-year-old girl, I’ll call her Estrella. She’s been in federal custody, separated from her family for more than 10 months – even though her mom lives here in NYC. The cruelty is truly mind-boggling. 🧵

Historian of science Margaret Rossiter (b #OTD in 1944) coined the term #MatildaEffect (1993). Named after suffragist Matilda Joslyn Gage, the Matilda Effect describes a systemic bias where women's scientific achievements are ignored, minimized, or directly attributed to their male colleagues. 1/3

WOW -- Danish reporter *goes there* with Rutte "You sit next to Trump when he talks about conquering Greenland, lashes out at allies like Spain -- things it doesn't seem like the old Mark Rutte would approve of. Does this have any affect on your self-respect when you sit there and say nothing?"

Street art, London

Abolishing ICE is the bare minimum we can accept from a democratic nominee. We need tribunals, prison time and beyond.

NEWS: Rep. Andrew Clyde owns a gun store. He sits on the committee that funds the ATF, and he's spent years trying to gut its budget. A gun sold by his store just turned up in a federal trafficking case.

I agree 👍🏼 Do you? #BookSky

You will never get away from the Epstein files….. never…..

It would be nice if the media was as interested in Ken Paxton as they are in Graham Platner.

ICE is still kidnapping and killing people. 4 kidnapped today in Long Beach alone... And one killed in Houston...

What does a wealth tax actually look like? We sent Brighty Buoy and his tiny balls to Wimbledon to chat to fans 🎾

Tech Bros are trying to call the shots on AI data centers bc they believe they’re smarter than everyone else www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Belgian team celebrating their win in the locker room.

I spoke to Mitchell McConnell for 20 minutes today. We talked about various artistic versions of Dante’s hell. I asked him which rung he was on. “Well, there are stairs connecting all of them,” he laughed. “But my knees aren’t what they used to be.”

Timeline cleanse: American pikas calling to each other in the Canadian Rockies. Sound on to hear the loud “MEEP!” made by these potato sized alpine mammals. They’re way off under those cliffs but the calls travel. *this is likely a niche post, but it’s one of my favorite sounds in the world.

Yes. Reform the Supreme Court. Term limits. Expand the Court. Enforceable code of ethics. It’s time we address corruption on the highest court.

Playing badminton with Mitch McConnell. We talked about the midterms and Iran. I took the first game 15-0 because he is unresponsive and lying on the ground.

there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.

Next month! Join @wajali.bsky.social and me at the @cwclub.bsky.social in San Francisco on August 24. We'll discuss my book and deliver lots of catty quips on the state of tech fascism. Tickets available now! www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2026-...

Now that edits for my upcoming book are almost done, it feels good to come up for air. I did not know this would take 5 years of the hardest work I’ve E done. And between the upcoming book tour and the preorder period, it ain’t over. BAD GIRLS coming soon. 2027. Available everywhere books are sold.

Le Guin on the idea that there is a secret to getting good at writing.

Private equity is buying America's hospitals and nursing homes. The playbook: pile on debt, sell the building, cut staff. The result, one landmark study found: patient deaths up about 11%. #news #information #privateequity

Meta Glasses are like, a Cybertruck for your face.

Election markets have been portrayed as a way to give equal access to knowledge. But treating prediction markets such as Kalshi and Polymarket as trustworthy sources for election-related information raises the risk of confusion and misinformation. bit.ly/4aARuBS

This Disability Pride Month, we're celebrating the disabled characters helping kids see disability as a normal part of our world. 💛♿📺 When disabled kids see characters who share their experiences, it can foster confidence, belonging, and possibility.

Stock trades by President. The blatant corruption is just staggering

Trump told you he’d run America like a business. He is. It’s called asset stripping. You go in, sell the profitable pieces, gut the workforce, load it with debt, & walk away rich while everyone else holds the bag. Venture capitalist politics. Cartoon by Jorge Gonzalez

All the Bros - Bernie Bros, Pod Bros, Yglesias, Stoller, whatever - who pushed Platner now claiming they get to pick his replacement if/when he drops out need to sit the eff down. I propose a replacement be named by Maine women Dems and women Dems only. No men. At all.

Half of all Americans die in hospice care. Easy money and a lack of regulation transformed a crusade to provide death with dignity into an industry rife with fraud and exploitation. (Published 2022 with @newyorker.com)

To those who subscribed for free to my YouTube channel for my "Hey Donald Trump" videos. Thank you. To the rest of you...I'm sure you're busy.

Whether it be reflecting pools or fireworks or state fairs or soccer teams, everything Donald touches turns to crap.

The USMNT and Knicks being really good except for the precise moment when Trump involves himself is really funny

Schrödinger’s turtle

From this thing I wrote not long ago that I thought I'd share for no particular reason this afternoon.

Reminder that "real Maine guy" was recruited by two consultants who were not from Maine

“These guns are going to start to percolate back out into the community over the next couple of years. I sadly expect that we will see an increase in violent crime.” - Marianna Mitchem, Everytown Senior Firearms Industry Advisor & former ATF official

🇳🇴 Norway manager Stale Solbakken: “Bad bad bad bad bad decision by FIFA that will hurt the World Cup. Not good for the sport. If they beat Belgium it will always have that extra thing about it. What happens with the next Red Card?” (From @bbcsport)

𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚 🚨 ICE AGENT SHOOTS AT PROTESTER & DRIVES AWAY! This is Trump's America! This #ICELawlessness is appalling! There's no oversight or disciplinary action & Trump is personally invested in the for-profit prison companies that run the detention centers that ICE is filling up. Truly evil!

Les lunettes connectées, un gadget coûteux et inutile de plus conçu par la Silicon Valley, remettent en question les fondements même de la notion de vie privée et nous enfoncent encore un peu plus dans une société de surveillance de masse