Tom Scocca
@tomscocca.bsky.social
Executive editor, features, CNN. Serial fiction and archives of nonfiction at Indignity.net. This Bluesky is about the Machines.
Celebrate a voice who was entirely lovely and entirely Philly by heeding this infographic of his he sent along when he found out we had the same bee in our bonnets
![Three renderings of the Wawa logo of red lettering and yellow flying goose silhouette, with the text styled differently and a small black text caption floating above each one:
[caption] Wrong!
WaWa
[caption] Even worse!
Wa Wa
[caption] Yay, you got it!
Wawa](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lyspo2bgxpznqtug5ir2q33g/bafkreibw6ajqacswnwgmzrordbshi5ubbb7uze4atfudpdwxij4zab45vi@jpeg)
January 29, 2026 at 2:38 AM
Celebrate a voice who was entirely lovely and entirely Philly by heeding this infographic of his he sent along when he found out we had the same bee in our bonnets
Trump renewed his calls for America to own Greenland on December 22, 2024, before even taking office
![[Highlighting begins] Over Trump’s past year, what originally looked like an effort to make the government his personal plaything has drifted distinctly toward doctrinal and operational fascism. [Highlighting ends] Trump’s appetite for lebensraum, his claim of unlimited power, his support for the global far right, his politicization of the justice system, his deployment of performative brutality, his ostentatious violation of rights, his creation of a national paramilitary police—all of those developments bespeak something more purposeful and sinister than run-of-the-mill greed or gangsterism.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lyspo2bgxpznqtug5ir2q33g/bafkreiayifpcwvdn6bjayb5frourordcl746cb6ifin6kbyttiby2vluye@jpeg)
January 25, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Trump renewed his calls for America to own Greenland on December 22, 2024, before even taking office
HUGE development in Posting Law
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Singer then asked the jury if prosecutors proved that $10,000 was offered for Bovino’s murder.
“Was it true? Who knows. But you can’t guess. Because they have to answer those questions,” Singer said. “And if they can’t answer those questions — which they can’t — Juan is not guilty.”
[Highlighting begins] Singer also said prosecutors didn’t highlight an “lol” message from Espinoza Martinez, which goes against their claim that he never indicated he was joking. [Highlighting ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lyspo2bgxpznqtug5ir2q33g/bafkreietpjxegq5qgg4bel2modssvzt3rbzp2z3wvrbsgaogbjm6bsk3au@jpeg)
January 22, 2026 at 10:42 PM
HUGE development in Posting Law
The George Floyd protests (or you could also say "the murder of George Floyd") would be not quite halfway up an already steep rise on the graph of the monthly homicide rate
January 10, 2026 at 8:04 PM
The George Floyd protests (or you could also say "the murder of George Floyd") would be not quite halfway up an already steep rise on the graph of the monthly homicide rate
Technically Douthat is only describing a chronology, rather than outright claiming cause and effect, but the chronology is false on its own
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By Ross Douthat
Opinion Columnist
It may seem hard to believe when you’re inside the social media cascade, but American society actually stabilized meaningfully across 2025. The homicide and crime rates dropped, finally erasing the [Highlighting begins] surge that began with the George Floyd protests in 2020 [Highlighting ends]. Life](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lyspo2bgxpznqtug5ir2q33g/bafkreidjl2d5iyke6sq2uowzlbnqkkfuxmkanfg2vbn4fp6dgnqb3sj63q@jpeg)
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Homicide rates [bold] spiked by 68% [end bold] [highlighting begins] from April [highlighting ends] to July 2020 in a sample of 30 American cities.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lyspo2bgxpznqtug5ir2q33g/bafkreihpaun4effjbrnkevy7yoxwozktuxs2535hql6itqjxgqmavi6aru@jpeg)
January 10, 2026 at 7:57 PM
Technically Douthat is only describing a chronology, rather than outright claiming cause and effect, but the chronology is false on its own
“It costs more, and the light is a little uncanny and watery, but it will last for years”
December 29, 2025 at 3:46 AM
“It costs more, and the light is a little uncanny and watery, but it will last for years”
[Adds a new line to the list of LED failure types]
December 29, 2025 at 3:42 AM
[Adds a new line to the list of LED failure types]
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December 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Answerable question! Ten out of 14 players in Mattingly's immediate neighborhood on the all-time batting list are not in the Hall of Fame.
December 8, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Answerable question! Ten out of 14 players in Mattingly's immediate neighborhood on the all-time batting list are not in the Hall of Fame.
Taps the sign, wearily, with a lifetime's worth of commingled contempt and futility hmmdaily.com/2019/05/14/g...
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Which—OK, this was, in its categorical wrongness, the perfect summary of the ersatz generational experience. Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, by Douglas Coupland, was the one incontestable constituent of Generation X. It started the whole thing. Writing Douglas Coupland’s Generation X out of Generation X is like writing Queen Victoria out of the Victorian Era. [Italics] But the Victorian Era was an era of rapid technological and industrial advancement, and she just sat around being queen without designing a single railway engine [end italics]—nope. It’s her era. Generation X is Generation X.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lyspo2bgxpznqtug5ir2q33g/bafkreifxquxu4jfgmcqr3t7mukaeq6yuzpugftah3hrr5i27mc2adlpezi@jpeg)
December 2, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Taps the sign, wearily, with a lifetime's worth of commingled contempt and futility hmmdaily.com/2019/05/14/g...
They really went and slapped a "born between 1965 and 1980" banner on top of Douglas Coupland, b. 1961, explaining how he wrote his book defining his generation
December 2, 2025 at 7:13 PM
They really went and slapped a "born between 1965 and 1980" banner on top of Douglas Coupland, b. 1961, explaining how he wrote his book defining his generation
“Toyota Corolla or similar”
November 26, 2025 at 4:34 PM
“Toyota Corolla or similar”
People need to stop retconning literally the worst era in American popular music history into something it wasn't, just because there were also some amazing records that like 250 people happened to be hunting down and listening to
October 29, 2025 at 4:16 PM
People need to stop retconning literally the worst era in American popular music history into something it wasn't, just because there were also some amazing records that like 250 people happened to be hunting down and listening to
How did this become a thing at all, let alone the default?
October 23, 2025 at 1:45 AM
How did this become a thing at all, let alone the default?
OK the leak came from someone even worse, got it
October 14, 2025 at 6:27 PM
OK the leak came from someone even worse, got it
"Students who...oppose Israel’s war in Gaza...rarely have to worry that their campus speakers will be disrupted by protesters or generate security concerns"
October 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
"Students who...oppose Israel’s war in Gaza...rarely have to worry that their campus speakers will be disrupted by protesters or generate security concerns"
Name of the game since at least 2019 hmmdaily.com/2019/04/25/d...
October 12, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Name of the game since at least 2019 hmmdaily.com/2019/04/25/d...
Still dying at Flanagan accidentally writing one true sentence in her blog through her own illiteracy
October 12, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Still dying at Flanagan accidentally writing one true sentence in her blog through her own illiteracy