Amanda Mull

There is almost certainly a real change in population-level disability post-covid because covid causes disability in some people, and norms do change reporting rates. But so does increased reliance on data collection done by a handful of large vendors who prompt you to select yes!

I am bumping this because it’s the kind of thing that drives me nuts in trend stories—you have to think through everything that could plausibly be affecting data over time, and this kind of change in collection methods can have a huge impact when the underlying change in people is much more modest

I think it’s so that companies/schools are aware of people who may be legally entitled to request accommodations of some sort

Brother….ya got me

There's been a lot of debate within the Democratic establishment about what rhetoric to use via ICE.

Well, an incumbent doesn't lose by 48 percentage points very often—and her vote on collaborating with ICE was the defining issue here.

Ah, yes, the invaluable wisdom of the markets.

That’s not a vacation in Dubai though. That’s a flight connection in Dubai

Matt I hope you don’t have any pressing obligations tomorrow brother

Melissa Auf der Maur, a ’90s Rock Linchpin, Is Spilling Her Stories

Now is a great time to read this great Melissa Auf der Maur profile that published a few days ago

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/a...

I mean, if your idea of decadence is Gucci logo buckle belts

"The CIA conspired to make me less cool than I was when I was 25" is the most succinct Gen X manifesto I've ever heard

Yeah what triggered it for me was ADHD, but all of those very common things were suggested as qualifying disabilities too!

What

I had never declared myself “disabled” at a previous job or in school, though nothing about me has changed. If the companies that sell this kind of data collection software to schools and employers have changed their collection methods to get more accurate data, that might be like…most of it!

I wonder if this might also be a software thing? When I onboarded at my job, one form (from a large vendor, not created internally by BBG) asked if I had a disability and listed some common things that would qualify but that I wouldn’t have thought of as such. I selected yes as a result!

NOT JUST THIS:

Two other Democratic lawmakers in North Carolina who sided with the GOP to overturn vetoes of major bills (e.g. anti-trans legislation) are also losing in their primaries so far to progressive challengers.

This could be a major night in NC.

Since July, more than a dozen pregnant children have been moved to a single facility in the small town of San Benito, along the south Texas border. The children kept in Texas are as young as 13, and about half are pregnant because of rape, according to a joint investigation by the Texas Newsroom and the California Newsroom. In Texas, abortion is banned in nearly all circumstances, including rape and incest.

the phrase “more than a dozen pregnant children” ringing in my ears www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Boy did you ever

One of my fav things on Instagram is when dogs that have been trained to use those word-buttons to “speak” use them to call very small dogs cats, so it does stand to reason that small dogs might also mistake cats as One Of Us

Yeah tbh a lot of places have leveraged flag-carrier airlines to create or bolster tourist destinations—you normalize traveling to somewhere as a connection and/or you offer well-priced or high-amenity flights to popular destinations that require you spend the night in the city you want to promo

Oh man the knives are OUT

Fitch Downgrades Paramount After Warner Bros. Deal Announcement The $81 billion deal for Warner Bros. Discovery is highly complex and poses credit risks, Fitch Ratings said.

After Warner Bros. deal, Paramount's debt has been downgraded to junk status

Basically, the ratings agency thinks the combined entity faces a ton of competition & there's a risk the entire enterprise fails -- debt attached to it is therefore high-risk

www.wsj.com/business/med...

people will send their golf clubs anywhere it's wild

somewhat more legible to me for Brits than Americans because it's closer, at least

i have spent my career in fashion and media so i accept blame in many things tbh

yeah but like...we don't lack for those in other, closer locations with better weather, so why Dubai?

when i was in elementary school i had a friend whose parents had moved to Georgia from Pittsburgh and his mom—the wonderful Miss Vicki, she of the perpetual big 80s blonde hair—used to volunteer for lunch duty at school and that accent used to take me out as a child of the Deep South in, like, 1995

but a fleet of poop tanker trucks is sort of like a sewer system???

years spent listening to @trashfuture.bsky.social has given me a keen understanding of the coke white Range Rover Essex man

shawarma district sparks joy