"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...

@nerd4cities.bsky.social is in Level 11 elite snark mode in his latest, and I am here for it. (You should be too.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdCy...

New @milesintransit.com content! www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Oz_...

I know we're supposed to hate the Met Gala. Still glad Luke Evans was there.

Great new content/convo from @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com and @besttrousers.bsky.social . @whstancil.bsky.social FYI. www.youtube.com/watch?v=moQz...

Thank you, @charlotteclymer.bsky.social . Everyone else: Watch and share!

@aduralde.bsky.social and Christie reprise the OG in front of the sequel. Alonso's opening rant is everything. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBWb...

I typically refrain from platforming these "Trump voter ruminations" but the quotes in this one are just something else. No paywall. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Gift article/no paywall. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/u...

So good. Watch for free here: archive.org/details/cnmp...

New @milesintransit.com drop! www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6JZ...

Correct.

It’s taken awhile for South Dakota’s 2024 general election results to be uploaded and incorporated into the NYT interactive map. Took a peek just now and was pleasantly surprised at the results in the part of Rapid where I grew up.

I'm listening to the latest episode of "Today, Explained". They're interviewing Doug Wilson - the head of Moscow ID - based CREC, the church Pete Hegseth attends - and it's fucking horrifying. I encourage you to listen and learn about his evil too. podcasts.voxmedia.com/show/today-e...

1. In a landmark ruling, the Montana Supreme Court has declared that the constitution, one of the most progressive in the nation, entirely protects transgender people. The ruling is even insulated from SCOTUS decisions, due to how state constitutions work. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Latest from @nerd4cities.bsky.social : Visits to Santa Rosa and SF, a trip on SMART, and a well-done deconstruction/roasting of Prop. 13. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWvz...

Fast food price nostalgia is the dumbest, reactionary impulse that is all over social media. People are doing "RETVRN" over Chipotle burritos.

JD Vance only converted to Catholicism in 2019. He's been Catholic just as long as a class of second graders who just took their First Communion. If Vance disagrees with the actual pope, he's free to fuck off and find a yet another faith he can cynically exploit for his own political career.

100%. More of this please.

Watching Part II of the fantastic PBS FDR documentary, which dropped on YT today. Here: The Hoover/FDR "drive to the inauguration" New Yorker cover that was never published. The film clip is in part II. Part I: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJaE... Part II: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA1t...

"On the stump, Magyar constantly said that Orban was running a “mafia state.” If that hadn’t resonated, he probably wouldn’t have won by so much.” Gift article/no paywall. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/o...

Blue Monday ...

Latest from @regularcars.bsky.social 😅 www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3oO...

Gift article/no paywall. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/u...

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Oh hello Charlie Carrick ("The Testaments", Hulu) Charlie is just one of many, many reasons to watch. It's fantastic; even better than "The Handmaid's Tale" IMO.

New @milesintransit.com content! 👍Great to see Alaina again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEds...

Some context: China's population is about 2X Europe's (for now) The US records about 3M births/year, with a population about 1/2 of Europe's and 1/4 of China's (for now).

Via the NYT: Current screenshot of the results of yesterday's Wisconsin Supreme Court election. This gives Democrats/liberals a 5-2 majority. One of the two remaining GOP judges, Annette Ziegler has announced she's retiring in 2027 - triggering another election.