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Believe it or not, this quote is about Nicaragua and not the U.S. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/w...

@dgraham.bsky.social: “Speaker Mike Johnson called on the Senate to censure Padilla, though for what was unclear. Daring to challenge a Trump-administration official?”

@katherinejwu.com: “By appointing a committee that is poised to legitimize more of his own radical views, Kennedy is giving his skewed version of scientific reality the government’s imprimatur.”

Over the last decade, the US has grown into the world's biggest oil + gas exporter, and "begun to behave... more like a classic petrostate." Those tend to have "more autocratic governments, more belligerent foreign policies, and higher levels of corruption." www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

“When Harris eventually lost, she did so with the backing of two different efforts that sometimes worked at cross-purposes, an error that both sides still believe may have cost Democrats the election.”

It’s the smallest thing but it cracks me up that he was so busy being a pop icon and doing his own thing in the ‘80s that he missed that the “Churchill” photo was actually an “A-Team” reference.

What was the 1980s like? Well, there was a buff Australian man who starred in commercials for batteries where he just shouted “oi” and on the basis of that, he got a network series where he drove around in a big custom truck and solved crimes.

NEW: A Fox News alum in his mid-20s has been tasked by Donald Trump with overseeing the nation’s 250th birthday celebration as executive director of America250. Via @ashleyrparker.bsky.social @michaelscherer.bsky.social and Missy Ryan.

NEW: Trump had asked Israel to hold off its attack on Iran, Missy Ryan, @jonlemire.bsky.social and @jonlemire.bsky.social report. Now he’s scrambling to make a deal that some of his advisors say is hopeless.

To paraphrase a certain president: I prefer the war heroes who fought *for* the United States.

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Oh look, it’s @petridishes.bsky.social in The Atlantic www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME was beautiful—production-wise, Anderson is untouchable—and moving, in its exploration of faith and nihilism within a predatory Western society. Ridiculous to think anyone still pigeonholes him as "twee," or insists the early stuff is better; he's a generational filmmaker

I love blundering into a tiny stub of a street I was never aware of on Manhattan.

New @kerryhowley.bsky.social dropped nymag.com/intelligence...

@petridishes.bsky.social is BACK. And some things have happened www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

"If I want to work at a place that is excited to publish a wide range of opinions about things that aren’t free speech and free markets, that won’t involve getting a different job at a different publication...” Welcome to @theatlantic.com @petridishes.bsky.social! www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

“A former Israeli intelligence official told The Atlantic that Iranians opposed to the regime make for a ready recruiting pool, and indicated that Iranians working for Israel were involved in efforts to build a drone base inside the country.”