Once again, one <very easy way> for the New York Times to escape the constant criticism which it has found itself subject to these last years would be for it to stop acting in ways that <completely justify> all of the constant criticism which it has found itself subject to these last years 🧐🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Jimmy Kimmel | 'The speech went on so long, Kristi Noem’s dog shot itself.' www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/a...

Appelbaum | We, as society, need to be grappling with those risks, figuring out frameworks for how we think about A.I. displacing jobs, like the government. One way of thinking about the role of government, economically, is that it gets to regulate the pace of change. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/o...

There are many things that should not be left to market mechanisms, like health care, education, other social goods.

This is the kind of thing a rich CEO says at the beginning of a science fiction movie to establish for the audience that he is a sociopath and the villain.

Ian Buruma | 'Hoping for better is still the right attitude, but only as long as we prepare for the worst.' Hope is not a strategy, however. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/o...

Binyamin Appelbaum | 'The [Supreme] court is finally checking Trump’s tendency to declare everything an emergency and to do what he wants by invoking emergency powers. That’s a victory for the rule of law, and the rule of law could use one.' www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/o...

Steph Brawn | 'The majority of Scots would vote for independence if a referendum were to be held tomorrow, a fresh poll has found.' They should. www.thenational.scot/news/2587177...

Erin Griffith |'Businesses can no longer simply promote themselves to potential customers — they have to win over the robots, too.' She means chatbots. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/t...

Elisabeth Bumiller | 'Ms. Spanberger’s big victory in November by 15 % points — Glenn Youngkin, the former GOP governor, won 4 years earlier by 2 points — was the largest margin for a Democratic candidate for governor in Virginia in more than 6 decades.' Blue wave. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/u...

Short Takes #17: Time's Unfolding William Stafford | Functional Freeze | Raise The Minimum Wage | You Can Always Take a Sick Day Nothing you do can stop time’s unfolding. | Willian Stafford, The Way It Is www.workfutures.io/p/short-take...

Peace In Ukraine? Is that the wrong question? Peace in Europe is the real question. medium.com/p/peace-in-u...

Is There A Single World? Beyond the different languages human beings speak, there is a single world. | Bruno Maçães www.stoweboyd.io/is-there-a-s...

Emily Galvin Almanza | 'When Washington state’s public transit systems stopped charging riders, in many municipalities the state came out more or less even — because the money lost on fares was balanced out by the enormous savings that ensued.' www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/o...

Maria Varenikova | 'Moscow is now recruiting fewer men into its military than are being lost in Ukraine, according to Western estimates.' www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/w...

Elliot Kirschner | 'In 2017, The Post adopted the motto ‘Democracy dies in darkness.’ Now Bezos is the one with his hand on the light switch.' www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/o...

Binyamin Appelbaum | 'There is a big hole in the seductively simple argument that Mr. Trump’s policy will push employers to hire Americans: For many jobs, the cheaper and more likely replacement is a robot.' www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/o...

We will defeat them, salt the earth under their fringe movement, and enact major change so the country does not see the likes of Trump or Miller again while any of us are alive

With every overperformance, it only seems likelier that Democrats will retake one or both houses of Congress by a decent margin. It's important that they run on a clear promise to hold Trump and his goons accountable, so they can hit the ground running in 2027 with a mandate to do so.

Chasity Martinez handily wins the Louisiana 60th House District by a 62-38 margin. GOP has flipped no special elections since Trump took office in 2025.

Carlos Lozada | 'If we’ve learned anything during America’s deepening political strife, it is that institutional principles — those much-lamented “norms” — matter most when they are challenged.' … www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/o...

Stephen Marche | 'America is becoming synonymous with dangerous randomness.' www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/o...

Maurizio Cuna's Precision Inquiry Framework Seven kinds of questions to ask during project meetings, to lead to a shared understanding. > If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking. | Benjamin Franklin www.workfutures.io/p/maurizio-c...

Reflation trade (amid a jobless boom)... Energy funds see 2nd biggest weekly inflow ever. BofA EPFR

The entire anti wokeness nonsense of the past decade was about making this kind of gutter racism broadly acceptable again bsky.app/profile/adam...

BofA Hartnett: US exceptionalism to global rebalancing $VEU $VTI

Three Economists Debate the AI Markets David Autor, Anton Korinek, Natasha Sarin: How can we protect the economy from AI? panel: David Autor, Anton Korinek, and Natasha Sarin. But, from my perspective, the important part of the discussion was what wasn’t said. www.workfutures.io/p/three-econ...

Marcel Dirsus | 'As an autocrat, you have to be paranoid. You’re constantly at risk. Everyone around you is lying all the time. You never know who is authentically loyal and who is lying to you.' I wonder when Trump will start purging his cabinet. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u...

Like I said: Now that allies can no longer count on America, it behooves them to acquire nuclear deterrents of their own. There is already a great deal of chatter about Canada, the Nordic countries, Germany, Poland, South Korea, even Japan going nuclear. wapo.st/3LXtW0R

Tressie McMillan Cottom | 'In these times, we ought to assume the worst-case scenario: that every technological layer added to our democratic institutions has the potential to be hostile to civil liberties.' They will use it to achieve their goals. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/o...

Short Takes #15: Being Valued Shift Sulking | Hybrid in 2026 | China and US Converging? > You cannot overwork your way into being valued. You cannot explain or fight your way into being valued. | Sara Wachter-Boettcher www.workfutures.io/p/short-take...

Ezra Klein | 'There is nothing unusual about a presidency being overwhelmed by crises. What is unusual about the Trump administration is that it has created those crises itself.' www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/o...

Smialek, Ryckewaert, Porter | 'Only 15 percent of Germans, the lowest figure ever recorded, now consider the United States a trustworthy partner, a survey carried out early in January found.' Great. Thank Trump. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/w...

Donald Trump must fire Kristi Noem immediately. Or Democrats will initiate impeachment proceedings against her in the House. We can do this the easy way or the hard way.

Short Takes #14: The Theft of the Future Sarah Kendzior | US Unemployment | US Construction Deaths | Tech Spending Matches 2001 Peak | Hating On LLM Users www.workfutures.io/p/short-take...

CNN reports that Bovino is leaving Minnesota

David French | 'The Trump administration breaks the law, and also ruthlessly exploits all the immunities it’s granted by law. The situation is unsustainable for a constitutional republic.' www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/o...

Sidney Blumenthal | 'The Donroe Policy appears to be piracy, the oldest form of imperialism'. Blumenthal points out that Trump no longer talks about the drugs in Venezuela, but just talks about oil and money, and not democracy.

So if Europe is convinced they need territorial sovereignty, why don't they send troops to Ukraine, now? Isn't Ukraine a European country? Wouldn't they do it for Bulgaria, or Estonia? They are already funding the Ukrainian army, right?

Trump's EPA set the value of a human life at zero dollars www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/c...

The Most Dangerous World greengale.app/stoweboyd.bs...

Tim Sheehy, Sheldon Whitehouse | 'Freddie Mac’s former chief economist has warned that rising sea levels and flooding could hit insurance and mortgage markets with an economic shock akin to the 2008 financial crisis.' Proof that markets are not up to it. Housing is a commons. archive.is/b3XI4

Short Takes #13: Certain Evils Hermann Hesse | Principle Decisions | Science Funding | New Zealanders Leaving | Manufacturing | 27 Million www.workfutures.io/p/short-take...

Jamelle Bouie | 'We have three years left with a mad king. It does not feel sustainable.' It is not. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/o...

Paul Krugman | 'A petulant, violent, and deranged individual is running America.' Don't forget sociopathic. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/its-sundow...

Company Childcare Is Not The Way Forward Universal childcare's time has come. It’s past time that we treat childcare as what it is – an element whose contribution to economic growth is as essential as infrastructure or energy. | Janet Yellen www.workfutures.io/p/company-ch...

Michelle Goldberg | 'For authoritarian leaders, lying itself isn’t enough; they must act as if their lies are true.' That's why ICE is fucking up Minneapolis. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/o...

Nate Silver | 'Democrats probably have a better chance of winning the Senate than Republicans have of holding the House, which I wouldn’t have expected a year ago.' archive.is/5DKAA#select...

Short Takes #12 Meta VR Layoffs | AI Layoffs. Oops. | Home Insurance Crisis | Trump’s Manufacturing Boom When you’re setting out to understand a culture, it’s best to seek diverse sources of information that demonstrate a variety of biases. | O’Toole, Bennis www.workfutures.io/p/short-take...