feels like we're living through some kind of cultural gas leak

From a story published yesterday by @nlanard.bsky.social

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Very much worth reading parts of Judge William G. Young's ruling taking on the Trump admin's assault on the First Amendment.

Notable that a decision from a Reagan appointee is filled with paragraphs like this one.

Story here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I’m a person who has never gotten cholera, without even trying. Sewage systems are sexy.

I know very little about military decorum, but I wouldn’t have expected applause in this context. Even if Hegseth or anyone else did, can the silence really be taken as an indicator of sentiment?

The Conviction Integrity Unit helped overturn 248 wrongful convictions between 2016 and 2024. It's overturned exactly 0 in the last year.

Important work here by @danhinkel.bsky.social!

www.injusticewatch.org/project/deny...

For the November/December issue of @motherjones.com, I dove into the history of the word "able-bodied"—including how it's been harmful to disabled Americans since the 1930s and it most certainly will be when Medicaid work reqs come into play again. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

““We welcome the court’s decision to stop a rushed, lawless attempt to make essential funding contingent on a community’s compliance with harmful and unlawful restrictions the Trump-Vance administration is trying to impose,” they wrote.”

A total about-face by Metro Chamber and allies, trying to repeal the portrait of Portland crime they drew up during the post-COVID years, when it seemed politically advantageous.

Now, the crime narratives are “outdated,” because the people who constructed them decided so. Sleight of hand.

the Command & Conquer series is 30 years old today we so have an excuse to share this iconic moment with Tim Curry

I have not been able to think about the word at the end of this video—*without* thinking of this video—since I first watched it.

nom de mer*

tuesday marked the 5th time in 5 weeks that shrimp was recalled for possible radioactive contamination

yesterday, two NEW recalls were issued. then, literally as i was reporting those out, *another* company announced a radiation-related shrimp recall www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

Possibly Radioactive Shrimp is my new nom de guerre

even the high lifted and chivalric Crusaders of old times were not content to traverse two thousand miles of land to fight for their holy sepulchre, without committing burglaries, picking pockets, and gaining other pious perquisites

you don’t need to!!!!!!!!

losing my mind

Anyone else hoping to spend all their free time this weekend on Hades II?

Medicaid work requirements are just bad. But, as I wrote for @motherjones.com, there’s an extra level of vileness going on with them being implemented as more work-from-home jobs disappear.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Whewwww

This is an essential point given the irony poisoned nature of our information ecosystem

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

I've been part of the movement to stop detentions and deportations since the early 2000s. I wrote a book about this movement, freely available here: mitpress.mit.edu/978026202820...

Never ONCE have I ever heard any activist on the left say 'anti-ICE.'

I'm not exaggerating.