Watched with my kids and they showed a view of the craft from space and I had to emphasize that the image was *right now* and showing the ship that *just took off*.

Space launches are so cool. Apex math.

I got a new job. I wrote about why I picked it. pbump.net

Last month, I had two job offers in hand: one with a national news org writing about national politics and one centered on boosting local reporting. I wrote about why I chose the latter. pbump.net

Sounds like President Trump left the oral argument at the end of Solicitor General Sauer's presentation.

Map of countries which have birthright citizenship. Virtually the entire Western Hemisphere has complete birthright citizenship.

Kavanaugh twice says that he thinks their arguments about other countries adopting different rules is a good argument as a policy matter (ugh).

Sauer falsely claims "almost every other country" doesn't have birthright citizenship, which is wildly wrong.

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Last month, I had two job offers in hand: one with a national news org writing about national politics and one centered on boosting local reporting. I wrote about why I chose the latter. pbump.net

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Next Monday, I will start my new role as an editor and columnist for Hearst, working both with the newsroom in Connecticut and with a national team that builds tools that can be deployed across Hearst’s newsrooms. My work will be centered not on what’s happening in Washington but more directly on what’s happening in communities.

Some (non-April Fool's) personal news. pbump.net

Trump signs an executive order to create federal voter lists The order, which is expected to be quickly challenged in court, is the president's second effort to use executive authority to shape the country's election rules.

Elections expert says Trump's new executive order on elections “will be blocked by the federals courts before the ink is dry."

Here's what was in this week's newsletter, gang.

I remember seeing this on a late-night music videos show in the Bay Area right after it came out and being blown away

Trump’s Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration Under Attorney General Pam Bondi, the DOJ abandoned a record number of cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — in just the first six months of Presi...

NEW: Trump’s Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration, by @kbmorales.bsky.social and @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social

lol

more apt

looking forward to engaging in this season with your posts once again

Sexual intercourse - Wikipedia

This:

I am very glad my book came out in 2023.

My “it’s not important how I discovered when the first Wikipedia entry for sex was written” t-shirt is raising a lot of questions already answered by my t-shirt

(The way I discovered it is that a friend of mine and I send each other Wikipedia entries that have NSFW imagery in their link cards.)

It's not important how I discovered this, but the first Wikipedia entry for "sexual intercourse" was written a few hours after the World Trade towers collapsed. en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...

ICE agents will be stationed outside Marine Corps graduation events in South Carolina As the U.S. continues to fight the war in Iran, the Marine Corps has boosted protection measures on bases, requiring everyone to present REAL IDs, passports or birth certificates to access any sites.

"ICE agents will be stationed outside graduation events for the nation’s newest Marines to identify whether any of their family members are undocumented, according to the Marine Corps."

Four-byline alert: 🚨

“.. A broker for Pete Hegseth, the US defence secretary, attempted to make a big investment in major defence companies in the weeks leading up to the US-Israeli attack on Iran, according to three people familiar with the matter.”

www.ft.com/content/744e...

The owner of the Comedy Cellar sandbagged me in a podcast interview where he tried to get me to argue that the Joe Biden impeachment inquiry was legit. So this tracks.

You’re really going to hate the golden idols.

Give it a shapefile and it does better.

This would probably be a more effective argument if Trump hadn't advocated and rolled out a policy by which people could become citizens FOR PAY.

oh no my nfts