Amazing hire, good job Atlantic.
Read Sara Herschander’s handy guide to helping people in Iran and across the Middle East suffering because of the war. www.vox.com/future-perfe...
Radical opinion: It's a bad thing for there to be zero legal consequences or process for state actors who kill hundreds of children. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u...
Stay off* X, god I can't type today
If you'd like to take of X here is the chart from @ourworldindata.org
That thing people always say about hippos killing more people than any other animal is a myth. It's actually snakes, mosquitoes, and dogs at the top. HIPPOS INNOCENT. x.com/OurWorldInDa...
New piece from @pratik-p.bsky.social on the frightening increase in parents now declining the Hep B vaccine for their newborns. www.vox.com/health/48175...
I'm mostly fine with offhand Boomer bashing but imagine if anyone of our generation had made a song this cutting, catchy, and popular (!) about Afghanistan or Iraq. Or today about Iran, or Gaza. It's practically completely unthinkable; the only thing remotely close is FDT.
Is there any more appropriate sentiment right now? Well there ain't no time to wonder why, whoopee, we're all gonna die! youtu.be/eRl6-bHlz-4?... RIP.
The inaugural FIFA Peace Prize recipient is a Bizarro Oprah handing out wars hidden under everyone’s seats.
Good morning. Happy Texas primary day.
To get yourself situated, here's a piece from @christianpaz.bsky.social about Talarico, who polls suggest is either about to win by 12 or lose by 14, because polling is a science.
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This is correct and reminds me of what has been the best Subway Takes take so far which is the guy who said the internet needs to be turned off for 5 years for the sake of everyone's individual and collective sanity.
. @joshuakeating.bsky.social , @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social and others at @vox.com are covering the rapidly more horrible and batsh*t new war that Trump and Netanyahu launched this morning on Iran. Follow their updates here: www.vox.com/politics/481...
We are at war for no good reason because we created a presidency with unbounded war powers and then elected a madman to it www.vox.com/politics/481...
Important under-the-radar story from @pratik-p.bsky.social : Foreign aid is back — on paper. Question is, will the Trump administration actually spend it? And if they don't, will there be any consequences? www.vox.com/future-perfe...
Kash Patel got his Make-a-Wish. You paid hundreds of thousands of dollars so he could cosplay as a gold medal winner with his hockey heroes. Dream weekend, very happy he could live out this fantasy @slate.com slate.com/culture/2026...
One has to ask what goes on in mfers' hearts and what goes on in their minds imo
It really looks like we're about to bomb Iran again My latest for
My latest for @vox.com
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I’ll be cross posting some of my Boston Globe articles on Substack and will be launching a (free) newsletter soon. If you’d like to follow me there, you can subscribe at: substack.com/@abdallahfay...
Let me be the first to call James Talarico "Pete Nüttigieg" send skeet.
RIP to Jesse Jackson, who in this debate w/David Duke in 1977 delivered (until the host cut him off) a message of unity and against "national isolationism" that's important to hear today. He also ended the show w/one of the sickest burns ever directed at Duke: "You're not even a legitimate Klansman"
I've thought often of @jamellebouie.net's old piece on Jesse Jackson's presidential campaigns and the useful lessons they hold for Dems in our new reality, written after Trump's first victory. The import of those campaigns have only grown; a good one to revisit today. www.slate.com/articles/new...
Really one of those “would've been a huge and damaging scandal in the past but is now a blip” stories. Christ.
NEW: “CBS Evening News” producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note:
Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”
He's running
The MAGA court decision that just supercharged ICE www.vox.com/politics/478...
Read Vox's chief Bad Bunny correspondent @izzieramirez.bsky.social on the references to Puerto Rican culture, history, and politics you might have missed during Benito's set last night. www.vox.com/culture/4784...
There's so much distressing and infuriating happening in the U.S. and the world that you owe it to yourself, therapeutically, to watch Olympic slopestyle and say "whoa" at the world's superhero snow freaks for a little while.
I believe the debate about whether Bezos is "obligated to fund $100m+ annual losses" misses the point. He intentionally expanded those losses by millions of dollars for basic corruption reasons, so that the Trump administration would be nicer to Amazon and Blue Origin slate.com/business/202...
