Happy Friday, friends.

"exposure"

I still think often of how The Huffington Post was allowed to rise off the back of people writing for free, how it normalised it, and how the person behind it sold up for hundreds of millions, and is regarded as a legend of business. I'd also suggest the value of writers has never really recovered.

Gonna have to teach everyone from scratch that the president isn't your boss, he's your employee

nothing matters ::throws confetti:: thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...

The cult classic “The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces,” long passed around on bootleg copies and shown on classroom projectors, features lovingly edited footage of people doing things city planners often overlooked: sitting, talking, people-watching and shaping their environment in real time.

Very illustrative way to frame this: more money has been spent on this lop generator than on the largest and most expensive infrastructure project this nation has ever undertaken. Seems dicey.

Republicans on Supreme Court continue their Article I nullification campaign

The very concept of “yes we’ll try to get you medical care but like we also need to make money off you” is so vile

What if instead of this whole spectacle, we simply assured Pete Hegseth that he is indeed a very special boy.

Many thanks to @agu.org for recognizing my piece on sea level rise for @newyorker.com with this year's Walter Sullivan Award for Excellence in Science Journalism - features. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... www.agu.org/honors/sulli...

so ICE is a jobs program for men who like to hit women and get away with it

I have a feeling this is going to be an important story.

We are so back

Sorry not sorry for not tolerating the fact that 80% of the music industry is made up of misogynistic thieves and everyone just accepts that as the price you have to pay if you want your shot. Everyone can be ethical, it’s not fucking hard.

Trump has single-handedly destroyed the U.S. Soybean market. Right now, it’s about a $2 loss per bushel of soybean… We need to demand: 1) Trade Not Aid. Farmers don’t want bailouts, they want markets. 2) We need more competition both on the market side and with inputs! 🇺🇸

We cannot wait for the markets or the midterms.

Mark Zuckerberg is introducing a feed that's just 100% AI slop. No pesky creativity from real people to get in the way. Eat up little piggies

There’s this very sticky refrain about how we need open dialog with people across the political spectrum and that’s great but I want to be clear fascism is not part of a ‘political spectrum.’ It’s like how Twinkies aren’t part of the food pyramid. Our children need to play more Wolfenstein.

The average American voter doesn't like "socialism." And self-proclaimed "socialists" could easily run as "FDR New Deal capitalists" and actually get elected without needlessly scaring away voters. There's a reason MAGA hasn't embraced the term "fascist" or "authoritarian."

This policy is the ultimate expression of what is wrong with the last three decades of technocratic liberalism. It hands public money to bad private sector actors. It will win over zero of the reactionary voters it is supposed to mollify. It will massively annoy every other voter in the process.

More and more international researchers I talk to are choosing not to visit the US in the current political climate. Over time, I think this will complicate information exchange between US and international researchers, slowing the process of scientific discovery.

ICE is partnering with Amtrak to stalk cruising spots in Penn Station to arrest and deport gay immigrants using “public lewdness” laws.

Grocery prices are rising at the fastest rate in years, btw.

Jesus Christ on a skateboard, we do not have to both-sides math. We do not have to caveat math.

"experts say" www.cnn.com/2025/08/11/b...

Along with the abortion drug, mifepristone, RFK could have Ozempic and Prozac in his sights. www.forbes.com/sites/alexkn...

this is what rfk jr. is going to replace your vaccines and tylenol with, and he and his friends are going to get filthy rich off it

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Much of the electorate is old enough to have spent their formative years during the cold war with the USSR, which had “socialist” in its actual name. It has an inescapable negative association, even for many on the left.

I cannot express how wild this quote is. This is a top tech analyst at a well-regarded firm saying that there is not enough capital to actually pay for all the stuff that NVIDIA and OpenAI has promised. It is so important that everybody realizes that *there is not enough money to do this*

What might not occur to you upon reading this headline is that, in other words, ICE is targeting gay men of color Every queer press org should be picking up this story

“Anyone who has spent time on TikTok knows when someone finds a formula for capturing mass attention, imitators rush in. It’s the kind of problem we might be able to address if we had a baseline social compact abt the speech private platforms should allow & promote.“ www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/o...

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A mass walkout of the UN General Assembly as Netanyahu prepares to speak.

learning that “scoop quotas” are a thing helps me to better understand the current state of US journalism.

you are about to see the nation’s beer distributors—aka “the toughest lobby you’ve never heard of”—lose their fucking minds

Imagine having such a planet sized ego that you believe Taylor Swift - Taylor fucking Swift - needs "exposure"

It's very weird to me how little media coverage can distinguish between a potential government shutdown with divided government vs a potential shutdown when a party has a trifecta.

Does anyone have any good home remedies for treating the aching void inside the dark hearts of men

It drives me nuts that outlets like this have to worry about finances while two dudes who start "Politico, but yellow" can get millions in VC cash just for farting out milquetoast takes on the hour.

Whiskey Apocalypse

Just the dumbest reason for your child to die. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

They're Making Their Move to Criminalize Peaceful Opposition (new post) nomoremister.blogspot.com/2025/09/they...

Holy fuck. One gets inured to insanely brutal ice videos. But this one stands out. He just throws this woman into the wall basically