Amanda Mull

Decatur? The place that gave us the Indigo Girls????

Also I just looked up which chunk of Dekalb she represents and burst out laughing. You gotta be real high on your own supply to think that Decatur and Druid Hills aren’t gonna punish you for for this type of TERF mess

“You can go right to heck!” is SENDING ME, this is such a particular type of southern white lady

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT POLITICS YOU ALREADY LEARNED WATCHING SPORTS Sports fans already know how to translate the language of power into the truth. They don’t, most of the time, but they can.

this has been knocking around my head for a while, but for real: Sports get people prepared for the bullshit of politics like few other things can channel-6.ghost.io/everything-y...

One good thing about this very rainy week is that sometimes you get to see a long-haired dog who the rain has made very frizzy. Just some golden retriever ears looking positively CRIMPED

Bernard LaFayette, Selma voting rights organizer, has died Voting rights organizer Bernard LaFayette has died. LaFayette's son says his father died Thursday morning of a heart attack. He was 85.

Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died.

Israel attacking Turkiyë and forcing a showdown over article 5 is a situation made in a lab to drive the Reasonable Thinker caucus into Lovecraftian madness

ChatGPT Backlash Reveals New Pitfalls in Aligning With Trump Downloads of rival AI tool Claude soar amid feud with the Pentagon.

New Buying Power is out! I wrote about Anthropic's feud with the Pentagon, the OpenAI backlash, and the near-ecstatic reaction to seeing anyone with any power or influence in American life publicly break with the Trump admin. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I need to wait another hour and try again

After a dental procedure you may think that the numbing has mostly worn off but you never really know until it’s time to drink through a straw

ChatGPT Backlash Reveals New Pitfalls in Aligning With Trump Downloads of rival AI tool Claude soar amid feud with the Pentagon.

New Buying Power is out! I wrote about Anthropic's feud with the Pentagon, the OpenAI backlash, and the near-ecstatic reaction to seeing anyone with any power or influence in American life publicly break with the Trump admin. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

In addition to this, all of the "omg look at the lib echo chamber that is Bluesky!" stuff that people on Twitter say actually better describes Threads, tbh.

There is always gold in the comments

quoting this post directly because i think the author deserves to know that this is an instant classic. in a hall of fame vote i’d short list it with “bc his daddy ignored signs” and “you understand everything except how the tool addresses the can”

Florence ICE detainee dead after untreated tooth infection, official says An ICE detainee, who had been at a Florence detention center for four months, died Monday following an untreated tooth infection.

An ICE detainee in Arizona has died of a TOOTH INFECTION after it went untreated for weeks, a local official says. He was a Haitian asylum seeker imprisoned in Florence, Arizona. @emilybregel.bsky.social reports.
tucson.com/news/local/b...

I have decent tolerance for descriptions of body horror and nonetheless this one was doozy

The ugly, gory, bloody secret life of NHL dentists Broken teeth, smashed jaws, torn lips and slashed tongues: NHL team dentists repair carnage that is more commonly seen in battle. Here's why they're the unsung heroes of the sports world.

Have you ever read the long ESPN feature on NHL dentists? It’s incredible and harrowing www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/...

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