This is masterful writing. So good, I read it twice. harpers.org/archive/2026...

Some good food for thought in this piece about how to frame the role of LLMs in any work that is change-focused. “Change doesn’t emerge from patterns or averages; it emerges from the slow, messy, human work of showing up, listening, and building together.”

the funny thing about the constant misappropriation of MLK is that the guy left a massive body of writing specifically aimed at explaining his views of those of the movement he represented to the broad public. it is extremely easy to know what the guy thought on a variety of subjects and yet

The vast range of prison rules makes it nearly impossible to avoid infractions – and the punishments are horrific Should people really face solitary confinement–a form of torture–for receiving a minor violation behind bars? www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/disc...

Everything is a distraction from everything else. The only right thing to be talking about is nothing, which is also a distraction

They say phones only make us miserable but I just got this news alert and laughed for a solid minute so who is to say

my children very politely asked if they could just please read their own books tonight rather than listen to me read. which is fine btw. it's only been every night for 9 years. with voices. some people might mind but not me. GOOD voices too, with real drama. but it's fine of course,

I need you to understand that if you heard a song you liked in the 80s, you couldn’t Shazam it. You couldn’t Google the lyrics. You had to sing it to the guy at Tower Records.

We asked people who experienced "sweeps" of homeless encampments to write about it in their own words. In Portland, Teresa Stratton told us about how her husband’s ashes were taken in a removal:

“What I want is to grow beans, tomatoes and strawberries, but my collection of donated planters sits empty because I can’t afford soil. Dirt is not in my budget.”

Great stuff

I'd just like to point out how weird it is that places with hundreds or even thousands of reporters — the NYT, WaPo, CBS, NBC, AP, etc. — are all getting pummeled on every major story by the dozen computerboys at Wired. To fumble the bag this consistently is, at some point, cowardice and a choice.

Das Texasdeutsche ist hier eindeutig der Gewinner:

I like to imagine that in all the cell-phone interactions, Cuomo is asking New Yorkers to help him use his phone

I love that former NYT public editor @sulliview.bsky.social is public-editing from the outside. "With this made-up scandal, combined with the pre-election editorial, the Times looks like it’s on a crusade against Mamdani. "And no lofty explanation about the mission can disguise it."

Can ChatGPT make “in this essay I will” jokes?

Organizations across Wisconsin have been severely disrupted by a roller coaster involving federal funding cuts that were announced by the Trump administration in May and then reversed by a judge in June. What's next? We asked leaders in Eau Claire, Green Bay, Dane County and beyond.

Watched Oppenheimer yesterday and had to chuckle at the line “You're not just self-important. You’re actually important.” I can't tell whether it's the most or least self-aware line Christopher Nolan could have written.

Brad Lander: "I also need to thank some of the most important people in my life and on this campaign—I mean, of course, the NYT editorial board. Just kidding, of course: I love Wordle and Connections, but I really urge the Times to cancel their new feature 'Editorial Riddles.' No one likes those."

If you're a member of the Democratic gerontocracy, the chances of you catching a primary challenger just went up 1000%.

Some people get into journalism because they’re skeptical of power, and others do so because they’re impressed by it. Moments like this are clarifying with respect to who’s who.

I’ll repeat.

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people: 1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money 3) We won’t need a lot of troops 4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq 5) We’ll find WMDs 6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators 7) It will be easy 8) It won’t take long All lies.

I don't think I've ever felt more like burning it all down than I have while witnessing the elite project to turn Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander into scary, incompetent monsters while turning an actual incompetent monster, Andrew Cuomo, into a merely complicated fellow who just made an oopsie.

It’s not just that it’s clearly intentional, it’s that it’s clearly intentional knowing that he’s being recorded. They know they can do whatever they want with complete impunity.

“Why are these police dressed like they’re going into combat” Cause we gave them the clothes and the gear. There was a very public discussion about it.

Talk to people irl, even smart people, and you'll quickly find that the vast majority do not know that AI makes things up, or plagiarizes, or destroys the environment. Knowing the things about AI we take as given here is like knowing internet memes; people who aren't Very Online tend to have no clue

"You lose people, you lose property. You lose so much through a transfer… You want to be in the hell you already know, the hell that you already got comfortable in." New briefing examines the troubling reality of prison transfers 👇 www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2025/06...

(pounding table) trains. trains. trains. Trains. Trains. Trains. TRAINS. TRAINS. TRAINS.

All these years people on the left and right have been calling their peers feds, meanwhile the literal feds just openly subscribe to your newsletter with a dot gov domain.

You: They did the math. Me: ᵀʰᵉʸ ᵈⁱᵈ ᵗʰᵉ ᵐᵒⁿˢᵗᵉʳ ᵐᵃᵗʰ You: What was that? Me: Nothing. Me three hours later in a whisper: ᴵᵗ ʷᵃˢ ᵃ ᵍʳᵃᵛᵉʸᵃʳᵈ ᵍʳᵃᵖʰ

"Grandma, why didn’t you call me? You said you’re going to call me." Every year, prisons & telecom companies make MILLIONS off phone calls and tablets – all at the expense of incarcerated people + their families, who are struggling to even get in touch

We scanned hundreds of California government websites that offer services for undocumented immigrants for trackers, and found one site had over 60 of them. themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2...

Whose house? OUR HOUSE. #bucks

Bluesky, you’ve really shown up for our writers. No ask today. I just wanted to say we see you, and we thank you. --Lyneka

Our latest 'Ask Wisconsin Watch' looks at how unauthorized immigrants pay taxes and how that might change due to an April 7 deal between the Department of Homeland Security and the IRS to share taxpayer data on unauthorized individuals under final removal orders.

Wisconsin’s recent Supreme Court election, with $100 million in record spending and wall-to-wall attack ads, spotlighted how politicized the state’s “nonpartisan” high court has become. How did we get here? The story of former justice Michael Gableman's rise and fall provides some clues.

You know you’re with the right person when you both realize, simultaneously, at 9 pm, while at the bar, watching the Bucks teeter on the verge of losing, yet again, that it is your wedding anniversary.

“I always heard in Milwaukee, you can’t do this, you can’t do that. And I didn’t realize I was already doing what they told me I couldn’t do. I was working seven nights a week.” -- Manty Ellis, 96, known as the godfather of Milwaukee jazz

Absolutely devastating read. “You tell them they didn’t ruin anything,” West said. “When you’re the first to do something, you’re going to get a lot of criticism, you’re going to get a lot of ridicule. But then, 20 years later, they honor you.”

“Louisiana’s death row is not only a cross-section of its most marginalized populations, but it also has a staggering rate of wrongful convictions. Between 1976 and 2015, more than 80 percent of people condemned to death in Louisiana eventually had their sentences reversed.”

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“… a multicultural populace held hostage by voter suppression, gerrymandering to high hell, and the failures of legacy media establishments who refuse to acknowledge that humanity can exist in barefoot barbecues, not just on charcuterie plates with fine wines.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

My first taste of ketchup in 10 years. A writer shares his quest to secure a bottle of Hunt’s in prison.

Trump Signs Executive Order Making Official Language Of U.S. Remedial English

I need everyone to stop posting about how planes are bad for a few hours while I get on a plane ok. Planes good and normal for the next five hours.

And now, I, too am obsessed with cleaner fish. www.theguardian.com/environment/...