A fantastic, accurate, and depressing read.

Waiting for a @propublica.org TMZDC collab. Kind of not kidding???

Happy Surrender and Freedom Day! On April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant and the Army of the Potomac. home.nps.gov/apco/planyou...

Artemis II is 170K+ miles from Earth today.

But yesterday, Pilot Victor Glover was asked if he had any thoughts leading up to Easter.

His response is worth listening to.

And his advice is worth internalizing in advance of a difficult year ahead.

Jobs and Workers Are in Balance. Nobody Is Happy About It.

Job growth has slowed nearly to zero. But unemployment remains low because the labor force isn't growing either. So the labor market is "balanced," but workers feel stuck.
Great @lydiadepillis.bsky.social story unpacking the implications of a no-growth labor market.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/b...

It’s lovely that many first-generation Americans feel pride in securing citizenship under the 14th Amendment, but I think it’s important to understand that they became citizens the exact same way as an American born here to descendants of the Mayflower. There is zero constitutional distinction.

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AI— a repeat of 2007-08?

So much for being prepared for the last crisis.

Accurate. I may quit my job, hire a film crew, and start hanging around idiots.

Recommend #Manosphere on @netflix.com

Definitely keeping a close eye on this.

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

Excellent piece. Highly recommend.

Heeey, what’s $700 billion between friends? Not a lot, at least for all the “fiscal conservatives” running the show.

I think it’s both. Deviousness doesn’t require intelligence- just a primal sense of another’s weakness. I think that explains a lot about the very online contemporary conservatives.

Remember the moral panic about safetyism? Trigger warnings? Snowflakes? Well, its actually happening in Texas.

Man. Remember when Sarah Palin said Obamacare would empower "death panels"

It’s certainly true that the top 20% of earners are responsible for 80% of current consumer spending … but that is *not* a good thing.

Why CBS Didn't Broadcast Stephen Colbert's Interview With James Talarico YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

youtube.com/watch?v=oh7D...

Remember the @harpers.bsky.social “Letter on Justice and Open Debate”?

Good times.

Wow.

If you missed the Olympics opening ceremony, go back and watch it. Wow, Italy. The world needed that.

WHAT?!?!? NO! My students and I use this literally every day, including in my class this afternoon!

And in tandem: Expand funding and support for student papers and journalists, high school and higher ed. As local print media have been hollowed out, some of the best reporting now comes from student-run papers— Univ of Fl and FSU, Brown and Columbia, Harvard, among many, many others.

The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023.

The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets.

https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3

screenshot of text from Adam Serwer in The Atlantic: "The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they're the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive - because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about "Western civilization," while armed brutes try to tear it down by force."

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I get this question a lot (not always in such polite language), so worth addressing directly. (Short thread)

What can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

Fun, fun thread.

Opinion | I was a red state governor. What I saw at Harvard surprised me. The spirit of association remains alive in unexpected places.

1/ This op-ed is like 75% of the way to getting it ... www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | I was a red state governor. What I saw at Harvard surprised me. The spirit of association remains alive in unexpected places.

This is an incredibly revealing op-ed

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wapo.st/4aQQABT

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I’ve said it before but it’s worth repeating: Student journalists around the country are doing amazing work, helping to fill the void left by the unfortunate collapse of local print media.