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Class Politics reporter at The New Republic. Tips on Signal at monicabpotts.57. Past: 538, The American Prospect. BUY: The Forgotten Girls monicapotts.com

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That's a good plan!

09.03.2026 11:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Get two. Very seriously, two kittens are better than one because they entertain each other and make your life easier. You'll get fewer behavioral problems than you will with one.

08.03.2026 21:48 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

Change your clocks tonight! Change them into doves. Release them into the cold March sky. A single feather drifts down, but your clocks are gone. Hold onto the feather, keep it safe. One day the clocks will return, if they love you.

08.03.2026 04:15 β€” πŸ‘ 195    πŸ” 57    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

For the second time in two years I have read a beloved bestseller and low-key hated it and both involved anthropomorphic viewpoint chapters from animals. I don't want to yuck anyone's yum but these feel like barely adultified disney stories.

08.03.2026 14:30 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Music was great but people resisted change. Lots of radio stations REFUSED to play hip hop or alt-rock. Cities were still recovering financially from disinvestment in the 80s. It was genuinely hard to get around without Google Maps!

08.03.2026 14:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

90s nostalgia has gone too far. Y'all the 90s weren't better they were just *different.* I mean go back in time if you want an eating disorder and want people to run away from you if you mentioned mental health. Otherwise no

08.03.2026 14:27 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I know war in Iran is causing this but also Americans could stop choosing to buy gas guzzlers any time they want to!

08.03.2026 00:20 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Imagine all the cool, fast trains we could have with the billions we spend on bombs.

07.03.2026 01:59 β€” πŸ‘ 4201    πŸ” 773    πŸ’¬ 28    πŸ“Œ 66

My entire journalistic career, editors & owners & bosses told me again & again that my stuff was too long, too in-depth, too wonky, no one would read it.

Again & again, readers flocked to the longer, wonkier pieces, passed them around, wrote me to thank me for them, cited them years later.

06.03.2026 20:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1413    πŸ” 161    πŸ’¬ 72    πŸ“Œ 23

So when meth was homegrown they passed a bunch of laws making it harder to get the ingredients, and hard for people to even get Sudafed. Instead of tackling the addiction problem they tried to restrict supply, which never works.

06.03.2026 12:19 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

Reuters Exclusive

"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."

"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

06.03.2026 02:50 β€” πŸ‘ 10005    πŸ” 5278    πŸ’¬ 628    πŸ“Œ 639
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Wrapping up an extraordinary @harvard-jchs.bsky.social Dunlop Lecture @gsd.harvard.edu
by Kenzie Bok with comments by Bernardo Zacka. As she noted β€œif we want to think about housing policy, we have to have a theory of housing justice”

06.03.2026 00:48 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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ICE detains reporter Estefany RodrΓ­guez in Nashville - Nashville Banner Reporter Estefany RodrΓ­guez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.

They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

05.03.2026 23:41 β€” πŸ‘ 12277    πŸ” 7420    πŸ’¬ 293    πŸ“Œ 337
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Cornyn Seeks to Overcome Senators’ Shaky Success Rate in Runoffs An endorsement from President Donald Trump would elevate Sen. John Cornyn in a Texas Republican runoff against state Attorney General Ken Paxton. It may not be decisive.

Wrote about the past few times US Senators were pulled into party primary runoff elections: news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...

06.03.2026 00:27 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Right-wing pundits want Trump to heal the MAGA rift over the Iran war via the mass deportation of American Muslims

Here’s Hegseth buddy Benny Johnson saying earlier this week that we need mass denaturalization and deportations of those with β€œideologies that are incompatible with Western civilization.”

They want to start with Muslims. Very unclear they’ll stop there. www.mediamatters.org/us-iran-rela...

05.03.2026 23:28 β€” πŸ‘ 339    πŸ” 87    πŸ’¬ 24    πŸ“Œ 5

It implies that we are visitors in someone else’s country.

05.03.2026 23:24 β€” πŸ‘ 3419    πŸ” 682    πŸ’¬ 146    πŸ“Œ 12
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Trump’s War on Iran Could Screw Over US Farmers The Middle East supplies a huge amount of the world’s fertilizer. Conflict in the region has sent prices soaring ahead of the critical spring planting season.

Lol, Trump has found yet another way to fuck over the farmers:

05.03.2026 21:00 β€” πŸ‘ 146    πŸ” 40    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 3
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Close to 650 federal agents remain in Minnesota weeks after border czar announced end of operation There are still more than quadruple the 150 agents Tom Homan said there would be in the state by the end of last week.

They’re still lying to us.

www.startribune.com/close-to-650...

05.03.2026 02:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2027    πŸ” 884    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 28

Many things are bad, but it is reassuring to know that Chotinings continue to happen.

05.03.2026 05:00 β€” πŸ‘ 345    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 1
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Federal funding for people in poverty heading to anti-abortion centers instead The bulk of the money Missouri gives to its crisis pregnancy centers comes from federal funds meant to assist families experiencing poverty with basic necessities and child care, Republican Rep. Jason...

The bulk of the money Missouri gives to pregnancy centers comes from federal funds meant to assist families with basic necessities and child care.

As many as $3 of every $4 was from the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program in 2024, and in 2026, it will be $2 out of $3.

From me:

04.03.2026 18:00 β€” πŸ‘ 206    πŸ” 110    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 10
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Governor Hochul's 2026 budget chicanery? Watering down the state's climate law.

hellgatenyc.com/climate-kill...

03.03.2026 21:15 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 4

I really and truly think this admin thought war is actually easy if you're not worried about following the law and previous administrations have just been woke idiots and they can show them how it's done and just win quickly by bombing everything.

05.03.2026 02:40 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

No

05.03.2026 02:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Anti-vaxxers are bad parents. Not vaccinating your child is abuse.

We should eliminate all non-medical exemptions for vaccines.

Sorry, not sorry.

03.03.2026 23:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2531    πŸ” 581    πŸ’¬ 48    πŸ“Œ 11

right? people fucking LOVED Vine and they just shut it down

also Google Reader

05.03.2026 01:04 β€” πŸ‘ 176    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1

All these companies are like "We can't just turn these chatbot services off," really, I'm old enough to remember Vine

05.03.2026 01:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1481    πŸ” 229    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 13
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Video: How Trump Decided to Go to War President Trump’s embrace of military action in Iran was set off by the determination of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel to end diplomatic negotiations. Our investigative reporter Mark Maz...

I don't know a lot about global politics or foreign policy but man, this is bad.
www.nytimes.com/video/world/...

04.03.2026 20:58 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hey that’s about the cost of the SSI Restoration Act, which would cut recipient poverty by 60%, eliminate marriage penalties, and modernize draconian asset limits.

04.03.2026 19:54 β€” πŸ‘ 2187    πŸ” 691    πŸ’¬ 41    πŸ“Œ 15
Billboard ad for public transit visible from a freeway filled with cars and congestion, that says β€œYou are not stuck in traffic. You ARE traffic.”

Billboard ad for public transit visible from a freeway filled with cars and congestion, that says β€œYou are not stuck in traffic. You ARE traffic.”

One of the best of all time.

β€œYou’re not stuck in traffic. You ARE traffic.”

Wish we had come up with that one. #UrbanTruth

04.03.2026 19:42 β€” πŸ‘ 460    πŸ” 99    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 5