Meanwhile, in New York:
Rob Reiner FanMake your own interpretation.
Villen, lefty, runner, engineer, in that order. Formerly @christopherlay on the former birdsite. Formerly chrislay on Zuckbook. Also @chrislay at extinct pachyderm dot online. Some ville, Mass
if the moderate wing of the Dem party would spend even half of the energy they are spending fighting the DSA on fighting Trump they wouldn't be losing so many primaries to the DSA
Peter Baker"We are preparing for the next war that is coming": Abdul El-Sayed's victory in Michigan and the rise of DSA candidates in multiple states have Democrats at odds with each other over the identity and future of the party. @shanegoldmacher.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/u...
my fav @michaelhobbes.bsky.social hot take that i have now stolen as my own: we need broken windows policing for white collar crime.
Philip BumpA central part of why it seems like powerful, rich people live in a consequence-free world is that the social incentives to hold them to account have withered. www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar... 𝟏𝟐-𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞-𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬
This seems accurate to me @brianbeutler.bsky.social
Brian BeutlerTwenty-seven thoughts on the Michigan race, and the unofficial end of a brutal primary season. www.offmessage.net/p/27-thought...
good piece. though I'd add that we could easily reform the online ad market such that journalism got a much larger slice of it www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/paying-for...
I am seeing this exact exchange playing out across social media. Moulton going so low is turning away voters.
Big Tech and AI companies have refined these prior industrial tactics into what I call 'algorithmic agnotology': the exploitation of technical complexity to obscure accountability and naturalize inscrutability as inherent to digital systems.
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Journalism is a public good. It needs to be publicly funded, for the same reasons that health care needs to be publicly funded. The privatization of public information has created a true crisis. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/paying-for...
Bull moose, Antelope Flats, Grand Teton National Park. November, 2021. 📷 Fujifilm X-T3 + XF100-400mmF4.5-5.6 R LM OIS WR 🎞 400 mm – 1/450″ – f/8 – ISO 12800 🏷️ #Wildlife #Moose #Photography #NationalParks
uh oh, Third Way is coming in, with their efforts and skill we might see DSA double again in size by 2028
Michael Caleythere are moderate Democrats who want Democrats to win elections and govern, and there are moderate Democrats who want Democrats to lose this is wrecker behavior
I hear a ton of bellyaching that the cars are too expensive now, I guess we'll see if people will accept the necessary sacrifices! www.wsj.com/business/aut...
The mystery of Google's fixation on "the transwoman in the WNBA" defector.com/the-mystery-...
Dying at the right-wing activists that (1) held a call with Todd Blanche in which Blanche made a lot of anti-abortion promises, (2) said "uh this is off the record" like doing so would magically ward off journalists, and then (3) UPLOADED IT TO THEIR YOUTUBE CHANNEL www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
What percentage of car "accidents" are true accidents and couldn't have been prevented with slower speeds or more competent drivers? 3%?
New from me: More than a trillion dollars flow through the federal government in grants. We have more and more evidence that the Trump administration has been directing those grants on purely partisan grounds, denying them to blue states. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/governing-...
An entire party driven by grievance and a desire to hurt people
Steve HermanThe Senate committee chaired by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) votes to refer former chief White House medical adviser Anthony Fauci to be held in contempt. thehill.com/policy/healthcare...
When trans people told you what the likes of Stock were doing wouldn't just stop at them, this is what they meant.
𝔐𝔞𝔤𝔫𝔢𝔱𝔰 🧲this horrible fucking vulture is now coming for disabled women using mobility aids