True.

Bruh it’s Good Friday

Wow I had no idea. He never brings this up

The next generation, huh

Are we living in the "Trump regime"? www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

The Orioles are going wire-to-wire this year. (1/162)

One of the great benefits of working at The Atlantic is I can spam @shaneharris.bsky.social with questions. Now you can do that too.

No shit

"The route to durable faith in God often runs not through logical proofs or the sciences, but through awe, wonder, and an attunement to the beauty and poetry of the world, natural and otherwise." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Just pure, uncut bigotry

I wrote about how Trump keeps creating self-inflicted crises, then demanding that other people bail him out www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

If you have 36 hours in Raleigh, spend a half driving each way and the other 35 in Durham www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Still too flattering a comparison. How about "Less Aspin"?

It's the best day of the year

Here's how things are going where I am www.newsobserver.com/news/weather...

Wow, Flea on the cover of Downbeat

This just tells me that Mike Johnson knows better than to believe what Donald Trump says

"an alumni"?!

Are you a seasoned editor? Come work with me on @theatlantic.com's newsletters team: atlanticmedia.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Career...

If true, I can’t think of any reason why members of the media would have overestimated this phenomenon 🤔

The Jerry Brown Problem

NOTHING BERGER www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...

What a magnificent songwriter Jason Molina was www.youtube.com/watch?v=Grv1...

The investigation into the deadly collision between a plane and fire truck at LaGuardia was initially slowed because the specialists traveling to New York were delayed by long security lines at other airports. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

A requiem for Phil Berger, the most powerful man in North Carolina for 15 years and now, apparently, a loser by 23 votes in his GOP primary www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/... #ncpol

Monitoring the situation

Confidential to Moby: Don't start a beef with anyone who feuds so intensely with their own brothers pitchfork.com/news/the-kin...

"the throes of a real possibility of making a deal"

if you build the LEGO container ship in the US is it technically Jones Act compliant?

Wait, I thought the official line was that Mueller exonerated him

Phil Berger has been the most powerful person in North Carolina for 15 years—but his primary campaign for state Senate fell victim to national dynamics, @dgraham.bsky.social argues in The Atlantic Daily:

Trump is trying to spin off reopening the Strait of Hormuz (which he apparently needs military assistance from NATO to do) as a *separate* conflict from the Iran War, which is apparently over? (Good news, we won!)

Pouring one out for a master who long defied aging. Not that one. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/a...

<Don McLean voice> The day ... the meeeems died

Talking with CBC's Front Burner about how Trump threatens the midterm elections: www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

TIRED: FEMA's Waffle House index WIRED: FEMA officials teleporting to Waffle House www.cnn.com/2026/03/20/p...

This kicker quote is 😵‍💫

Jon Scheyer in the locker room rn:

okay but then what

Big iced tea matchup on Friday

You used to be able to buy a shirt that said, "I'd rather be shot in Durham than bored to death in Cary," but between the otter attacks and the cartoonish corruption, maybe Cary is actually cool now?

Well yes. He himself has been found liable for fraud. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/u...

All of “In the Aeroplane Over the Sea”

if you want some good ambient music for working and especially if you like pedal steel, I recommend BALSAMS by Chuck Johnson.

They ought to be reporting without fear or fava

The Iran War, 2026:

Looks like a less attractive Dorton Arena, as my fellow North Carolinians may notice en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorton_...

"Before you die" is a curious qualifier here. What books should I read *after* I die?

[email protected] from the top rope: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

“I nominated someone who I always thought was weak on security as Director of the United States National Counterterrorism Center.”