Happy International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month. The perfect time to reconnect with Tory Brown’s @downtowntbrown.bsky.social brilliant design, Votes for Women on the history of the Suffragist Movement. @fortcircle.bsky.social
I'll consider using Bluesky more if and when half my feed isn't people pontificating in the most tedious manner imaginable about how Bluesky is morally superior to other social media.
if you’re mad that i profiled will instead of writing about what “really matters” in minneapolis, may i direct you to my 6,500-word feature on the mutual aid networks there:
www.theverge.com/policy/87710...
Staggering profits add insult to injury for Bezos’ now-former employees at the Post, who could have kept their jobs in perpetuity if the billionaire valued the Fourth Estate as much as he’s claimed.
Latest for @theintercept.com
Clean read on how an obviously and clearly disgraced filmmaker is using a MAGA friendly project to launder his own reputation and find a path back into an industry that had, rightfully and justly, decided not to reward the sex pest with projects for almost a decade www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/m...
Love me an extended Gettysburg analogy. Inject @jamellebouie.net 's column into my veins. One quibble. Under the circumstances doesn't the 1st Minnesota deserve a namecheck here?
Graphic video of the latest ICE murder in Minnesota
Forget it Jake it’s Bluesky
Not really an instruction manual but lots of fun context in this book: www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-immort...
Kinda sounds like the fights are necessary for the houses, given towns’ revealed preferences.
Inglorious Basterds treatment for the Corps of Colonial Marines, culminating with the burning of Washington.
As I told @newrepublic.com, "Once last week, twice today, ICE has picked me up and thrown me on the ground. Honestly, it doesn’t compare to what our neighbors who are trapped inside the Broadview processing facility are going through. They’re committing crimes against humanity there."
statehood for DC on demand and without apology. If you live outside the district and care about democracy, a thing you can do is to decry the actions of the federal government under Trump to senators and representatives and urge them to support statehood for DC and withdrawal of Trump's forces there
Flashback to my ‘morning before school’ entertainment.
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Paradise by the Dashboard Light and I Gotta Feeling.
It is very poetic that on the latest BTB from @iwriteok.bsky.social about Eichmann there’s an ad transition joking about how Mitsubishi didn’t flee Berlin at the end of the war (they were far away doing… other things) which then immediately cuts to an ad for Mercedes-Benz.
Arete: The Battles of Alexander the Great on iOS App Store, Google Play, and on Steam.
Just a reminder my hex-and-counter game, Arete: The Battles of Alexander the Great, is now on 3 platforms: iOS, Android, and Steam (PC and Mac)!
iOS: apps.apple.com/us/app/arete...
Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d...
Steam (PC and Mac): store.steampowered.com/app/3570700/...
I'm old enough to remember when the mainstream narrative around Obama's election was that the U.S. had become a "post-racial society."
People just inventing whole decades of history to get mad at, completely divorced from anything that actually happened.
I suspect that all selective universities could still break even just teaching and abandoning research. The federal money pays for research, which has expanded a lot. It would be a horrible tragedy if the money went away, and what it would mean is the end of scientific research and many hospitals.
Right, there's no longer interstate travel even for verifiable citizens. The Constitutional Crisis continues apace.
vance is a detestable liar and an open enemy of the constitution. the central load bearing factual claim here is completely false and even if it wasn’t the constitution contains two explicit guarantees of due process
www.ctinsider.com/waterbury/op...
My heart goes out to every international student in the United States. Foreign students have helped make American universities the best in the world. Without them America will suffer.
In the ancient world, there were several ways that a city could be "sacked" by hostile invaders. Not all sackings involved the city being essentially leveled as in Carthage in 146 BCE or Jerusalem in 70 BCE. My understanding is there was also the concept of a light sacking.
I have a new report out with @carnegieendowment.org on the current state of Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 project, highlighting areas of achievement but with an argument for greater bottom-up accountability to curb its excesses (spending and otherwise).
carnegieendowment.org/research/202...
Today’s BTB from @iwriteok.bsky.social on Versailles is a lot of fun. Also reasonably sure when “Denmark” comes up it’s meant to be The Netherlands.
For MSNBC, I wrote about the JFK Library's temporary closure and what it made me realize about Trump's fixation on the Kennedys:
He's haunted by the specter of a predecessor he can never eclipse and has an animus toward anything that bears Kennedy’s name.
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www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
