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We need to bring back the hatchback. The people don't want sedans. They don't want stationwagons. They don't want SUVs and crossovers. They want indestructible sporty little hatchbacks with carrying capacity that feels like a bag of holding.

Forcing disabled people into institutions and stripping us of health care is part of the admin's larger eugenic project: We have a right to live joyfully and supported in our communities, and this deprives us of our rights, freedoms, and, ultimately, lives.

A handful of pardoned Jan. 6 rioters launched Republican congressional campaigns this year. They’ve all lost badly. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Republican Rep. Tom Barrett running an ad decrying "politicians cozying up with Big Tech billionaires to force data centers on our communities" shows how toxic the politics of this issue have become. But he can't escape voting for data center tax breaks and AI regulatory relief. From me:

In case you missed it: ChatGPT has been fueling mass shootings and other violence. My comprehensive investigation of a shooter's chat logs is the first of its kind, and includes some troubling questions that OpenAI would not answer www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...

A year after the White House accused Biden of “abusing and targeting Christians,” Team Trump has, among other things: - surveilled churches - hauled off a nun to DHS detention - sued a diocese to seize land for border barriers - picked dumb fights with the pope - shot ministers with pepper balls

Worth noting re:that last that being nice to some people and fucking awful to others is how abusive people thrive. They know who's vulnerable and they know how to perform for other people, who then go 'oh, she's not like that' or 'that's not the man I know.'

idk what's happening re:spreadsheets in the discourse today but I'm going to throw this one in the ring.

After announcing a big clean energy deal earlier this week, Carney took a victory lap. “We're living through the consequences of a world that collectively hasn't taken climate change seriously enough,” he said. It's part of his latest effort to greenwash his climate record:

“doctor overton” c’mon man

FYI @theflytrapmedia.com is extremely hostile to AI so if you’re into hostility you should definitely become a subscriber so we can continue to find our profligate lifestyle (paying freelancers fair rates and trying to get our candle budget under control).

Is Claude Code making us stupid? www.thenewatlantis.com/publications...

As noted: “Minnesota’s entirely plausible concern appears to be that release from a border town like Brownsville would allow Castro to slip into Mexico—at which point no interstate rendition warrant, however belatedly signed, would be worth much of anything.” To fill out that picture a little ...

Melania unhinges her jaw and swallows Natalie whole

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remember when henry kissinger died that's when bluesky became a real online community

IT. CAN. ONLY. GOOD. HAPPEN.

whenever the entire front page of the nytimes is about the fed and treasuries and the bond market, that's when you know it's good happening

Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller apparently took a lil nap yesterday

If I got a letter like this I would immediately get a restraining order

$6 million down the drain on a 2-time loser (now 3-time) candidate in head-to-heads with Wahab. Maybe AIPAC can waste more money on the 4th time in November.

I know so many people doing really cool stuff with machine learning and I find it ~intriguing~ that a year ago they were leaning hard on ‘it’s AI!’ and now they’re backpedaling because genai has poisoned the well so thoroughly. People can be mad about the context collapse but it’s inescapable now.

In this house we believe that Conan was the best late-night host of the 21st century

Excited to share the first piece of our partnership with @gillianbrockell.com. This covers a new entrant in Trump's list of third country removal sites: Liberia, where the first flight just touched down today. prospect.org/2026/08/20/l...

im getting the sense the real structural fundamental stuff about the US/global economy is starting to get a little creaky and as a millennial im just relieved to remember that it can only good happen

“He won't fight for the little guy, even when the little guy is literally a puppy,” says James Talarico as Ken Paxton’s animal rights record comes under scrutiny.

Donald Trump’s first appearance in the NYT— “Major Landlord Accused of Antiblack Bias in City” from 1973

they've lost like a half dozen races they should have absolutely have won because they kept nominating absolute nuts, and what do they do? that's right, throw andy biggs at the problem

NEW: a vice chair of VoteVets, which has spent millions to boost establishment-friendly candidates in elections this year, also operates a front group for the credit card industry, which is fighting to keep merchant fees high. Co-pubbed with @thelever.bsky.social. prospect.org/2026/08/20/c...

I'm still waiting for car companies to realize that we all want EVs that look like cars from the 1980s (or earlier)

NEW: Religious plaintiff's lawyers claim DHS insisted agent's actions did not qualify as “immigration enforcement actions." But plaintiff's lawyers rejected that, and said DHS couldn't explain how ICE could investigate anything unrelated to immigration laws. religionnews.com/2026/08/20/1...

starting to wonder just how quickly this from @brianbeutler.bsky.social is going to seem prescient

What a stupid thing to say. Raman should tour the city in a taco truck

WATCH: According to new reporting, a private GOP memo warns that data centers have become a “toxic brand” and a sleeper issue that could weigh down Republicans in key 2026 races.

Barron Trump is 20 years old and worth an estimated $150 million.

[spies a discourse from afar, like an ancient volcano smoking on the horizon] well that’s surely none of my business

California politics, brought to you by the National Invertebrates Society

DHS exempted its operation to spy on Minneapolis protesters from standard protections against law enforcement abuses

While a judge designated monitors to track whether children are being locked in immigration detention longer than a 20-day limit (they are), an online meeting the Prospect sat in on showed Trump officials pleading with detention contractors for more beds for children. prospect.org/2026/08/20/j...

UPDATE: Faith groups in this case have filed a motion to comply, arguing the Trump admin has committed "multiple egregious violations of the preliminary injunction in this case," pointing to newly released court documents describing surveillance at churches — particularly the Baptist church below.

For over two years now, the George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas has had facilities to accommodate the Muslim wudu ritual of washing hands, feet and face ahead of daily prayers. But Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is, just now, very concerned about it.

"They're still talking about fucking spreadsheets?"

NEW: You are reading this story only because the White House didn’t want you to Ossoff’s line about Trump’s close aide enraged the West Wing. But its efforts to silence the story inadvertently took it from the shadows to the mainstream Meet Natalie Harp: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

I read some of Jason Arday's work over the last few days and studied the events leading up to his death a bit and wrote about it at @flaminghydra.com. I hope people will talk about this man and his career more and more, in years to come. r.i.p. flaminghydra.com/issue-632/

Essential read on how farmworkers are being affected by the cyclospora outbreak, with implications for agricultural workers in general.

When I talked to Will Lawrence for this story, he said that he was going to expand his critique about technology and surveillance being installed in communities against their wishes: in particular, Flock cameras. So I wondered: has Congress ever voted on license plate readers? Well...

What your Claude subscription pays for— "Anthropic-backed Public First Action has launched a new $2.5 million broadcast buy boosting GOP Sen. Ashley Moody across Florida, its first big general-election push"

Natalie Harp stuff poking a series of hilarious holes in this sort of thing

From our new video series on crazy Republican candidates: "There's a lot of focus in the media on some of the kooky DSA-left candidates the Democrats are running, and I feel like the same focus is not being given to the Republican candidates running in very big races.… I don't like that asymmetry."

*Trump trying to decide if he can move a letter opener away from Natalie without her noticing*

similarly, scholars are increasingly skeptical that "stephen miller" ever existed as an individual, suspecting that the term was intended to reference a kind of archetypal psychotic vizier

we're moving out of our late-soviet era into a new khmer rogue aesthetic very strongly

look, to be fair, if you gave me a button and said "if you press this button, you can shut the entire UK media down until we figure out what the hell is going on" i would absolutely press that button before the person even finished their sentence. no one is denying that's the *ideal* scenario.

On the one hand, this isn't hugely surprising at this point. On the other hand, holy shit. www.reuters.com/business/fin...

X is a psyop “Notably, our study of the X social media platform shows that although the X feed algorithm promotes content to both Democratic and Republican users that contradicts their values, it does so more extensively for Democrats.”

Our current political landscape is so odd that when we talk about a controversial reality series starring a sitting White House Cabinet secretary, it’s now necessary to ask, “Which one?” www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Agh why do you move the buttons around for no reason, app developers and web designers? You make me hit the wrong thing for two months and then right as I get used to it, you move it again.

This is a really interesting read on yet another knockdown effect of climate change: Crops are less nutritious than they used to be.

The Prestige Press is trying so hard to smear her they may pull a muscle and I hope they do

The especially disturbing episode was revealed in an order yesterday by U.S. District Judge Sheri Polster Chappell of Ft. Myers, FL, who issued a writ of habeas corpus for a Colombian national whose case was repeatedly botched by an immigration judge. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

Just tried to figure out why folks are talking about "spreadsheet people" and got so confused by what I think is the original comment that I gave up in 30 seconds.

"Trump’s New Bank Is His Most Naked Scandal Yet" @timothynoah.bsky.social for @thenation.com

New: "Public Citizen Sues to Expose Shadowy Fundraising Effort for 250th Anniversary"

Still waiting for SCOTUS action. In the ballroom case, SCOTUS has to act by the end of Friday, otherwise the injunction goes into effect and above-ground construction would have to halt.

i have so many questions www.amnesty.org.uk/get-involved...

"The quality of right wing opinion writing... today in fact gives me great optimism for socialism, because our intellectual opponents seem capable of building little more than straw houses in the face of our mighty wind." www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/yes-obviou...

Did something deeply freeing and satisfying this afternoon and I will treasure this feeling so I can pull it out on a hard day and smile.

New Orleans to fund ‘right to counsel’ program with recovered Habitat for Humanity funds The decision came after Habitat sold dozens of apartments, including some in Musicians Village, to a slum lord last year www.nola.com/gambit/news/...

The administration appears to be readying an attack on the abortion drug mifepristone, a fixation for Christian conservatives.

"U.S. companies have spent an unprecedented $517 million on the 2026 U.S. House and Senate races in the 15 months through the end of the first quarter...data compiled by corporate accountability nonprofit group Public Citizen shows." @dawnkopeckinews.bsky.social for @reuters.com

america 250 baby we’re sharing listicles of various politically motivated buttsicknesses on a niche microblogging site

Ohhhhh no, oof, these are so much worse than I thought. For whatever reason, I imagined Natalie Harp's notes to Trump as short little Post-It Note messages. Not mash notes. www.thedailybeast.com/natalie-harp...

Via @yonat.bsky.social: 13 US citizens denied entry to Israel for weeklong trip to learn about Palestinian Christians —> religionnews.com/2026/08/19/1...

I think corporate entities should be barred from supporting candidates and all that excess cash sloshing around should be given to employees, or taxed and used by the government to pay for things that benefit everyone, like heath care or infrastructure or both, even

Did you know you can just buy a ‘fuck the algorithm’ sticker? It’s legal, no one can stop you.

The Manchurian Candidate (Frankenheimer, 1962)

these are poverty wages btw

The millennial furniture designer behind Ukraine's drones hitting Russia: "'I'm one of those women who doesn't know how to fight,' she wrote…in March 2022. 'But I'm sure of one thing: I'll do absolutely everything in my power to make sure nothing of this sort ever happens in my country again.'"

It's me, relentless self-promotion is really exhausting BUT I also CONTINUALLY hear 'I didn't know you had a book out,' so here I am, telling you I have a book out. bookshop.org/a/118950/978...

NEW: "Across the country, politicians are waking up to a simple fact: Voters hate AI and are gearing up to punish elected officials who seem to like it....Everywhere you look, politicians are suddenly sprinting away from data centers." www.thebulwark.com/p/politician...

I wrote about how the girlies are making cyberdecks for @conversationalist.org, and why that's tackling a multitude of tech-related issues all at once: conversationalist.org/2026/08/20/c...

A genuinely fun part of being a journalist is having conversations with experts who add stuff to how you're going to approach a topic. Bonus brain materials.

This is of course the same AG who thought he could oversee elections in other states when he tried to get the Supreme Court to overturn Joe Biden's win. Not really how it works.

I mentioned this in my BUFFERING newsletter this week, but @rosie.com has been crushing it all week guest hosting Kimmel, and tonight’s monologue was no exception. Great, great stuff. I really do hope this brings her back to TV on a more regular basis. youtu.be/59St41a2TRE?...

From @washingtonexaminer.bsky.social Right-wing lunatics impose their morbid trans obsession to the WNBA, then blame their victims for being unable to "have a controversy-free week." It's a textbook propaganda tactic.

Appalling: www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Here's a sublime three-minute video that may leave you awed and weepy: Apparently some chameleons flit through patterns of random colors as they die and the physiological mechanisms controlling their colors shut down. I can't find a name for this phenomenon of, let's call it, agonal metachrosis.

NEW: "There's clear evidence the Trump administration is cooking at least some of the books." From our @crampell.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/donald-tru...

spreadsheet people got no reason spreadsheet people got no reason spreadsheet people got no reason to live they got little numbers in little rows they strut around, holdin' up their nose

For years, Trump benefited from an almost bottomless reservoir of trust among Republican voters. Whatever happened, they believed there was a plan. Not anymore: In @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social's recent focus groups, that reservoir of trust looks like it's starting to drain:

In which I try to grab your attention so you'll listen to me talk about a bunch of new court filings by filming in front of…trees. www.instagram.com/p/DcRmZXApPIn/

need the inglorious basterds swatstika but for linkedin. if you choose to include this in your bio you shouldn't be able to delete it later.

A Bluesky thriller about a serial killer that targets every prompt poster, called What’s Your Favorite, Dead Man

Using CBAs to resist the application of AI in health care settings is a really good strategy!

Beyond excited to have @lesleyryder.bsky.social writing here @theixsports.bsky.social. #NWSL

the collective will of voluntary mandatory community struggle sessions, duh

Lindsey Graham’s Undead Sister’s Opinion On Taiwan Is ‘Men In Women’s Sports’ www.wonkette.com/p/lindsey-gr...

So... the same people who've been braying about how empathy is evil are demanding empathy from everyone else for views that really should get them kicked out of public life forever

A friend gave Trike some chicken at dinner last night and has officially created a menace even more horrifying than the popcorn monster.