Two Parties, Two Internets: Republicans and Democrats aren’t just messaging differently, they’re talking in entirely different places dcinboxinsights.substack.com/p/two-partie...

Imagine being a TSA agent, going on 5 weeks without pay, now told to train ICE to do your job. Do you show up for work?

The dirty secret about the filibuster is that many of the things Senators say they would pass if that pesky filibuster wasn't in the way are actually things they don't want to pass, and it's more politically convenient to hide behind the filibuster.

You can't scare me, I'm a #COYS fan.

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Absolute farce of an administration www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/u...

I know it's hard out there trying to navigate the AI slopcalypse, especially for small publishers, but demanding that authors provide a fully tracked version history of anything they submit is not the way.

I dreamed I was part of a panel discussion and also on the panel was Donald Trump but he kept falling asleep and eventually he laid down asleep sprawled across all of the other panelists so they cancelled the event.

Interesting milestone

Happy Liberation Day to all who celebrate.

Thanks @niemanlab.org for writing up our report! "The report is a substantive, measured look at early stats and lessons learned from the first year of Illinois’ Local Journalism Sustainability Tax Incentive Program, which created the country’s first refundable tax credits for local news."

As Jeff Amazon divests in journalism, Illinois shows a new way to fund local news by and for local communities.

I made a thing! Get all the stats you didn't know you needed about where you are right now: www.knowur.place

The Gary Larson prophecy has come to pass m.youtube.com/watch?v=bAk4...

I knew the day would come but didn't expect it so soon. We had to have the talk. The 6-year-old asked, "What's a crypto?"

Someone may need to investigate Google AI's implicit bias against the people of Germany.

Welcome @cliffordmichel.bsky.social and Caroline Ross to Rebuild Local News! Clifford joins as Development Manager with experience in nonprofit fundraising. Caroline joins as Senior Advisor, having led transitions of local papers into nonprofit ownership at the National Trust for Local News.

Favorite books I read this year! I finished 56 books in 2025. I usually pick five fiction and five non-fiction for this list, but this year's reading was more weighted towards fiction, so I went with six and four. In alphabetical order:

sorry everyone It’s The Phones and it has always been The Phones nymag.com/intelligence...

Throwing out into the universe that I appreciate the Amazon delivery driver's perfectly framed photo of my porch.

Your quick guide to this #WorldCupDraw

I've never before been one to enlist in the War on Christmas, but the 6 year old has an elf on the shelf in her classroom and is praying and praying that we get one at home...

"If you build it, they will come", but "it" is trillions of dollars in AI infrastructure, "they" is all of us, and "come" is constantly having our default preferences be reset to use AI without our consent.

I am 'the algorithm keeps trying to show me videos on techniques to fix back pain' years old.

It's too late for me but consider this a warning to any naive young Americans considering becoming a Tottenham fan...

Well played @fctulsa.bsky.social 😢

English Premier League votes to preserve the free market in professional sports salaries, rejects the top down control model of American sports www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba...

File under "the past is much stranger than we think."

Of the twelve humans who have walked on the moon, four are still alive. The youngest of them is 90 years old.

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Indiana Jones voice: "That belongs in a museum!" apnews.com/article/loui...

Fair to have different views about Democrats' difficult strategic choices in this moment, but people who are big mad about a vote to reopen the government for less than 3 months are missing some perspective.

Love to see a disclaimer about what my new toaster oven may or may not remember.

AI is failing the test when it comes to factual accuracy; the decline of news and journalism won't help. It serves the financial interest of AI companies—and the mission of the OpenAI nonprofit—to invest in reviving local news, says Rebuild Local News President Steven Waldman. buff.ly/gLr76Lz

A thing about authoritarianism is that the country has to be made small enough to fit in one greedy man's hand. Let's keep America big. #NoKings

Me in @thepickupdotcom.bsky.social: Supporting local news and information isn't a partisan issue—it's a community issue. What we do next will determine whether we're still a community that knows itself, or a collection of strangers who happen to live in the same place. thepickup.com/tulsa-doesnt...

Someday America will have a President who can leave the public eye for three consecutive days without creating speculation that they're dead.

How is the U.S. Supreme Court majority planning to spin their rediscovery of the rule of law next time there's a Democratic President?

PBS KIDS programming is genuinely higher quality than the kids shows on commercial networks, most of which is built to sell toys. Weather Hunters launched just on this month on PBS, and it's already the 6 year old's favorite.

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I know we're all supposed to skate past ridiculous lies by people in power nowadays, but think about the logic of being able to choose which state you will live on the streets in and choosing Oklahoma. The weather alone!

Imagine loving a corporate merger so much that you would trade the United States of America for one.

My take on political violence is that Donald Trump is an unpopular president with no ideas about how to become popular. Instead he's desperately trying to provoke violence by his political opponents in order to:

Forever asking everyone not to describe stuff as "Oklahoma is trying to..." when it's one guy sending out a press release who doesn't actually have the power to do the thing.

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It's interesting that of all the extremist ideologies floating around right now, memelord nihilism is the one that most reliably produces actual shooters. I hope our takeaway is to not spend so much time on the Internet and not let our kids disappear into it either.

The bad news is the University of Central Oklahoma appears to have turned its back on its mission to "empower students to become ethical, creative and engaged citizens and leaders." The good news is the students have raised the funds to put the show on anyway www.erininthemorning.com/p/oklahoma-s...

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Thankful for this reminder to not eat my computer.

I don't know about AI killing us all, but I do think a significant part of AI's kill count will be due to tech, financial and political elites abandoning solvable global problems to chase scifi fantasies.