how bout the 79th floor instead of 80 (sunstein on phone with jumper)

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Two-thirds of Greenland’s workers are employed by the state or its companies. In such a small country many companies are too big to fail. “It is arguably socialism. But it also inarguably works.” From Ryan Cooper: trib.al/1YyfLzt

ICYMI, this series is one of my favorite things I've ever done

"This episode shows not only the limited power of the administration but also of its central base of power: the thugs of the online right." www.unpopularfront.news/p/drawing-ou...

From me: Trump essentially took responsibility for a government shutdown in the most overt and clumsy manner, setting up a political fight well for the Democrats despite their own haphazard positioning. prospect.org/blogs-and-ne...

BREAKING — Notices for the Disney+ price increase went out at noon ET today, confirming my scoop from last night. Details: www.vulture.com/article/disn...

this is wild www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsTo...

new Big Apple Archbishop Daniel Flores here. seems like a significant upgrade:

Trump, pounding shoe: "We will bury ourselves!"

that ship has sailed, come around the world, and delivered a load of dirt cheap Chinese solar panels to Angola. it's over!

66 percent of Greenlanders are employed by the state or state owned entities🤯

Now 58 minutes into his scheduled 15-minute address to the United Nations, President Trump is excoriating world leaders for "canceling my dear friend, and let's face it, a very beautiful woman, Carmen Sandiego" and demanding that the detective agency and its "terrible woke Chief" be defunded

lol this is wild

great, just great

"To create the batteries we need to keep the whole world's lights on when the sun goes down and the wind stops blowing, we will need to extract *one seventeenth* of the amount of minerals we burn *every year* in the fossil fuel system" pluralistic.net/2025/09/23/o...

in Greenland, the government owns a bunch of businesses--a fishing company that is the largest single employer, a shipping company, a ferry company, several retail and logistics companies, etc, and it all works pretty well?? I traveled there to investigate: prospect.org/world/2025-0...

So @ryanlcooper.com went to Greenland. Not to scout it in accordance with U.S. manifest destiny; to check out one of the largest and best-run portfolios of state-owned companies in the world, including the territory's largest single employer. Ryan explains how it happened in this great report.

WAS THAT SO HARD??

at @economist.com, we think it's very important to hire massive pricks who are so notoriously dishonest and bigoted that reputable sources won't talk to them bsky.app/profile/juli...

holds up imo theweek.com/articles/797...

Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again

"I had pleaded with Joe [...] to extend the same empathy he showed to the suffering of Ukrainians to the suffering of innocent Gazan civilians" "But he couldn't do it: While he could passionately state, 'I am a Zionist,' his remarks about innocent Palestinians came off as inadequate and forced."

BEWARE: Surveys that allow anyone to "opt in" are vulnerable to those who create many accounts (using VPN to bypass IP limits) & use automated tools to generate bogus responses (such as saying "yes" to question about being licensed to operate nuclear submarines). www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Hog Sameach

lmfao

President Macron has just now announced at the United Nations conference on Palestinian statehood that France has recognized the State of Palestine

again what stands out about this compared to other would-be authoritarians is how utterly gratuitous it is, and solely because of Trump's lunatic fixation

I'd say it's clear now that Roberts is the worst CJ in American history. Taney is the only competition but Roberts has done more damage

For our October issue I wrote about the Roberts Court for its 20th anniversary, how it helped lead us to the current crisis, and what should be done about it:

true love right there

watched this on the morning Zwift, it's good

Fun story this morning. I spoke with Curtis Evans, the retired Marine in the viral photo below who took part in the anti-ICE protest at Broadview. He's a thoughtful guy, well read and with a dry sense of humor. Story @taskandpurpose.com taskandpurpose.com/news/marine-...

"Network news is not winning back conservatives. Trying to appease them by kowtowing to Trump will only drive away the audience — disproportionately highly educated, highly engaged Democrats — that remains." www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-lot-of-p...

i really have not seen yglesias et al reckon with the fact that kamala ran exactly the campaign they would have suggested and lost.

yeah this isn't happening www.reuters.com/world/china/...

you gotta read this @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social report on Wyoming trying to become the crypto capital of America. wild stuff prospect.org/power/2025-0...

"In the long run, these deluded CEOs may realize this isn’t realpolitik. It’s a suicide pact." www.wired.com/story/silico...

"Student arrivals to the US dropped 19% in August year-on-year to just over 313,000 – a fifth consecutive month of declines" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

the fact that in multiple cases the Supreme Court has worked to legalize bribery in the United States is a major corrosion of our civil order

86%, is that a lot

just formalizing a big part of Our Current Crisis, the utter collapse of Congress as an institution

dominos starting to fall www.bbc.com/news/article...

Nurses in Iowa are up against a massive anti-union campaign from UnityPoint Health, which is spending $34,000 a day to stop the union. @emmarjanssen.bsky.social has the story. prospect.org/labor/2025-0...

definitely something to this. not sure how you learn though www.unpopularfront.news/p/reflection...

As someone who knows probably more people convicted of murder than your average person, because of the work I do with incarcerated people, the answer is 1000% yes.

'in the Revolutions podcast, there’s a whole theory that built up: The Great Idiot Theory of Revolutions. Sort of the mirror image of the “great man” theory of history.' www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

"If your goal is to cement your power, then it’s rational to pardon your most ardent criminal supporters who have been convicted of carrying out violent acts on your behalf. They will be your civilian army." -- @govpritzker.illinois.gov contrarian.substack.com/p/be-loud-fo...

I am quite confident that if you picked any random person convicted of first-degree murder it's a 99.9% chance they would be a better president than Trump paulkrugman.substack.com/p/hey-lets-u...

Last month Anthony Scaramucci's investment firm hosted an annual crypto conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. We sent @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social to it. She saw glammed-out cowboys, designer dogs, and party time in the Pax Cryptomanica. This is a must-read.