"To suggest that [Jack Schlossberg] has failed upward would give him too much credit because failing requires having been entrusted with some responsibility in the first place." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The administration is shooting people and then lying about them www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...

Turning Point USA staged its own halftime show to protest Bad Bunny’s performance—but the two shows had surprising overlap, @dgraham.bsky.social argues in the Atlantic Daily:

It's sort of ironic how Rosa Parks boycotted the Montgomery Alabama bus service. Montgomery wasn't exactly famous for its public transportation system. Maybe she should have brought attention to injustice and discrimination instead.

I actually saw a lot in common between Bad Bunny and the Kid Rock/TPUSA halftimes shows! Except for the music and the fun. That was pretty different www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

My don't panic memo is raising many questions already answered by the memo

Okay but on the other hand they should let Geese do the halftime show next year

Is there some sort of award for perfectly missing the point?

Yessss

Would you believe there was a time, in recent memory, when you could read Chris Richards, Ben Ratliff, Jon Pareles, and Nate Chinen regularly in daily newspapers?

Unc Rock

ICYMI, @dgraham.bsky.social on election integrity: www.wnyc.org/story/pres-t...

AKRON www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

The CIA World Factbook was such an amazing revelation for geriatric Millennials like me. It's demise is part of the Trump administration's war on information—on assault not just on truth but on basic data www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Dee Snider was unable to take it stereogum.com/2488241/twis...

King Charles: Well actually www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/w...

I wonder if Jesus said anything about prisoners. Or if any of the apostles notably spent time unjustly imprisoned politicalwire.com/2026/02/05/q...

A Duke bus driver who was a Honduran with TPS was forced to leave his job last year after 19 years of service. Under a new judicial ruling, he is allowed to come back, but Duke initially attempted to pay him as though he was a new employee www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...

Bawitablog

These are funny charges to lodge if you are, um, in the Trump Cabinet www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...

Sina Shaikh and Charles Stewart III: "Mail-ballot usage is associated with slower early reporting but *not with larger blue shifts*" papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

If you ever want to feel like you live in “the ruins of a once great civilization,” then read a local daily paper from the middle of last century — our predecessors had more and better knowledge of their neighbors, their societies, and their local democracies than we do about our own.

A really interesting and distressing piece nymag.com/intelligence...

Dan Ariely writes to @dukechronicle.bsky.social on his interactions with Jeffrey Epstein dukechronicle.com/article/my-c...

Reminder that Mike Johnson first rose to prominence by attempting to bolster Trump's bogus claims of 2020 fraud

Adapting to what? Living in a steampunk novel?

Can't wait to see the @ncrabbithole.com angle on this

One of the "overt acts" of the conspiracy was Don Lemon and Georgia Fort interviewing the pastor of the church:

Some thoughts about the arrest of Don Lemon. www.pbump.net/o/its-worse-...

Nothing will prepare you for where the last sentence of this graf goes

"70 percent of known political prisoners" are still locked up in Venezuela, "suggesting that either American officials don’t have as much control over the regime as they claim—or that they do and haven’t cared enough to use it." www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Chris Rufo is so upset about the Minneapolis protests that he is resorting to anti-Nordic racism christopherrufo.com/p/the-curse-...

The East Wing demolition is a metaphor for the entire Trump presidency www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Here's @rickhasen.bsky.social on the FBI search in Fulton County: electionlawblog.org?p=154020

WOW www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/a...

This track, holy shit

This is just so totally wild www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/w...

Good, likely ephemeral Wiki work here. Probably doesn't need a citation though en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Mo...

Can we stop writing about the 2024 election already?

Nominative determinism www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/s...

Go do important work with @jessicahuseman.bsky.social, who is smart and cool and cares about great journalism.

THE LYONS, THE SWITCH, AND THE WARD ROBLES

"Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not." Always read @adamserwer.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

This @nytimes.com was even better when @alibreland.bsky.social wrote it in @theatlantic.com six days ago www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Two books I'm excited about out today: One is EVERYBODY LOSES by @dannyfunt.bsky.social, which is a look at the horrible effects of widespread sports gambling bookshop.org/p/books/ever...

Federal agents who have killed peacefully protesting citizens are acting “with the expectation of impunity, backed by top government officials who are brazenly lying about what happened,” @dgraham.bsky.social argues in The Atlantic Daily.

The administration's willingness to lie and reflexively defend immigration agents all but guarantees more killings www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...