Latest from @nerd4cities.bsky.social. Some of the cities on this list may surprise you! www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAFg...

Ahead of its 250th birthday, I make the case that the greatest work of American art ever produced is made of garbage and was assembled at the behest of God by a Black man working the night shift as a janitor in DC johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/americas-g...

OTD in 1976, the Bicentennial editions of Newsweek and Time went on sale.

Monday's temperature forecast for eastern SD/western and central MN/NW Iowa. 😱🔥

Important reporting in today's LA Times. No-paywall reading link: archive.ph/B7LzG

From r/imaginarymaps: A US of 300 states of equal population. It's bonkers and I love it. Here's the interactive version link which contains all the underlying data - political lean, size etc. demoose.vercel.app/dougymander/...

"In an interview on Wednesday with The Advocate, Platner welcomed the endorsement of the Christopher Street Project, a political action committee dedicated to electing transgender rights advocates." www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

Test drive video of the new Slate EV small pickup. We also get a walkaround of a model fitted out with factory accessories as a five-seat small SUV. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZal...

Headline OTD 100 years ago. TL, DR: 5.2B was the max. planet carrying capacity. Advances in science could help make their lives better; with 1926 levels, though there would be widespread famine and political unrest. A retrospective from 2025: www.thenews-messenger.com/story/news/2...

Good new reporting on the Slate EV small pickup. The author was an auto design engineer before going into journalism and his background really helps here. www.theautopian.com/i-drove-the-...

Latest from @mattbaume.bsky.social : The story of same-sex marriage, from the 1600s to the present day. Five hours and watchable every second. www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4F2...

Happy Father's Day! Here: Pop Wolf on the Rushmore Memorial baseball team in Rapid City, c. 1940s. The team's name came from the fact that most members had worked on the creation (blasting, carving. etc.) of Mount Rushmore.

"Just by the numbers, society kind of needs men and women to get along. Fixing our society seems to require, in some respect, fixing heterosexuality."

Premiered OTD in 1980.

(1950) via r/VintageAds

Great interview with @shteyngart.bsky.social. Read "Super Sad True Love Story". It's prescient and terrific. Gift article/no paywall. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/o...

Monobank in Kyiv is now offering the "UFO" scene from this morning's drone blitz on the main refinery complex in Moscow as an image on their debit/credit cards. 🙂

Gift article/no paywall. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/w...

@nerd4cities.bsky.social's love letter to D.C., an objectively terrific city. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiLR...

Tonight's palate cleanser: The B-52s live at the US Festival (1982). Props to Shout! Studios for this high quality video/audio post! (59 minutes) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta13...

NEW: A trove of internal records from Dialog, the secret society cofounded by Peter Thiel, was left exposed online. WIRED obtained a second cache of records that reveal who's really attending, how they're screened, and what personal details they were promised would stay private.

Good words and perspective from @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social . Gift article/no paywall. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/o...

In case you were wondering what Herschel Walker's been up to.

Remember this scene the next time a corporate reporter tries to insist that a rural diner full of white men in their 60s is somehow a more authentically "American" place, somehow more representative of who we are as a nation.

Last image from tonight (short film in the morning): this brother out here with his Singer sewing machine, gifting people a custom embroidery on their jerseys and hats with the name and the date, was more artistic than anything at Burning Man and ad gorgeous as a Caravaggio. Magic! Goodnight.

@whitstillman.bsky.social's "Barcelona" is now free to view on YT. 😍 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn-3...

A fun read from Out in STL's @chrisandoe.bsky.social outinstl.com/finding-q-mm...

via r/starterpacks www.reddit.com/r/starterpac...

(no paywall) "The top 10 states for well-being in the study, in order, are: Minnesota, New Hampshire, Iowa, Vermont, Massachusetts, Nebraska, South Dakota, Wisconsin, North Dakota and Utah." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/06/o...

From The Economist, 06/04/2026 No-paywall reading link: archive.ph/miJkJ " ... It shows India’s population peaking in 21 years and then falling as sharply as it has risen. By the end of the century India’s population would be just over a billion—a contraction of nearly half a billion."

No paywall. For most of the history for which we have data, the median US home sales price was about 3x the median household income. In 2026 it's almost 5x. In California it's about 9x. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Mayor Z keeps it real. (No paywall.) www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/n...

The latest on who no longer is performing (situation is fluid, and it's not just the artists in the headline). No paywall. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/a...

"The left had become exacting and illiberal about speech, and in that environment, it seemed safer to remain silent. But that freed Republicans to fill the void ..." washingtonian.com/2026/05/28/s...

The reason certain people are still on Twitter or complain how this place isn’t Twitter is because for a brief amount of time Twitter allowed specialty journalists, opinion writers, pundits, etc a chance to feel somewhat famous, or that they actually had influence, and they miss that like heroin.

Colbert guest hosted a public access TV show in Monroe, Michigan a day after the Late Show ended. Guest star: Jeff Daniels Special appearance by: Eminem Musical director: Jack White Genius. youtu.be/jJTXB5uT_C4?...

I hope you are not one of these people.

An important watch.

@nerd4cities.bsky.social deconstructs the BQE. I had casually heard of its awfulness but this is an important deep dive. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBFL...

So what shitty trade deal has tRump negotiated with the ambassador of Tau Ceti 4?

This episode of "The Splendid Table" was rebroadcast today, and it is a light in these troubled times. www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2QT...

Reuters reporter Ben Welsh has created an index of all FiveThirtyEight articles preserved on Internet Archive. fivethirtyeightindex.com Credit: redditor Express_Love_6845

No-paywall reading link: archive.ph/aNqOq TL,DR: Seems like the rise of smartphone use, especially in places with historically traditional gender norms is a catalytic event for keeping people single and childless. Women who have any kids still have 2-3 on average.

"Forty scenes of grain elevators, Main Streets, railroad tracks, and towering beers." Terrific photo storytelling by @thejvandy.bsky.social and @racketmn.com racketmn.com/exploring-mi...

"Forty scenes of grain elevators, Main Streets, railroad tracks, and towering beers." Terrific photo storytelling by Jordan van der Hagen and @racketmn.com. racketmn.com/exploring-mi...

A lovely Chicago moment.

Decent NYT reporting on the US public school enrollment situation. (no paywall) www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/u...