I talked to this person years ago about a job writing about the ultra wealthy and he told me I was a bad fit because I was obviously going to make jokes about them. I remember this, to be honest, because the hat was present then too www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/b...

Forbes Fired Top Editor After Discovering He Received Secret $6 Million Payment (Gift Article)

Randall Lane, the magazine’s chief content officer, received the money from the founder of Shook Research, which has worked with Forbes on content about wealth advisers.

nytimes.com

Scout: "one cup for one pup please."

NEW STORY// Seattle Council Passes Wilson's Junk Fees Ban, Aiding Renters By Doug Trumm via @theurbanist.org

Seattle Council Passes Wilson's Junk Fees Ban, Aiding Renters

In a 8-0 vote Tuesday, the Seattle City Council approved a ban on rental junk fees like pet rent. Mayor Katie Wilson celebrated passage as part of her affordability agenda.

theurbanist.org

This, imo, is still boring and true.

Where is he going to get his eyebrows threaded? They hate him.

Philip Bump@pbump.com · 22h ago

ok

Should I read the piece that will make me mad?

Families of sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln spoke to Military Times about multiple incidents in which sailors have attempted to go overboard amid the ship's extended deployment in support of combat operations in the Middle East

Multiple USS Abraham Lincoln sailors have tried to go overboard amid extended deployment, families say

Multiple sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln have attempted to go overboard as the carrier's deployment stretches into its ninth month.

militarytimes.com

The thing about polling is that it is done and then mediated through a turnout model. That's why primary polling is notoriously bad, for example.

Social Security has changed a lot since 1935. Our new report from @suzmkahn.bsky.social and Sarah Hastings looks at how the program evolved while preserving its fundamental promises: guaranteed benefits, greater protection for lower-income workers, and broad access. 🧵

Social Security Reform Must Preserve Its Core Promises

Social Security has endured because benefits are guaranteed, progressive, and broadly accessible. Its history offers a guide for strengthening the program today.

rooseveltinstitute.org

They left Secretary of State Marco Rubio on the decoy plane that was in danger of getting shot down. But they made sure to rescue the lady who does the 3 am posts that show Trump and Jesus storming Iwo Jima together

Dan Lamothe@danlamothe.bsky.social · 13h ago

SCOOP: People on the airport catering truck used to secretly move President Trump off an Air Force One 747 in Turkey included: - Dan Scavino - Walt Nauta - Natalie Harp No Cabinet-level officials were on that truck. wapo.st/3S47ztG

My school just skipped it.

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 12h ago

I recently learned that my husband went to a school that required parental permission for the students to learn evolution. Let me tell you —- this is bad.

they did this, with some success, about Joe Freaking Biden who spent essentially his entire long career as the Median Democrat

lauren@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · yesterday

"no one will be normal about AOC if she runs for president" is both true and a bad reason for her not to run. you could run the most milquetoast middle of the road clean cut straight white man alive and the right is still going to act like the deranged freaks they are

This is almost certainly the same thinking that led people to defend the necessity of child labor during the Industrial Revolution lol

Every last person who signed up to do this has to be held accountable.

Aaron Fritschner@fritschner.bsky.social · yesterday

Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.

Abolish this agency. Burn it to the ground. Scatter the ashes. Imprison those involved.

Aaron Fritschner@fritschner.bsky.social · yesterday

Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.

BREAKING NEWS: The Seattle City Council just passed legislation that will (eventually) ban landlords from charging pet rent. Congratulations to everyone, especially my dog Lou, seen here asking me to cover him again for the 72nd month in a row.

UPDATE on unaccompanied kids story. The good: lawsuit for backpay successful and the incredible lawyers working for 7 months without pay got $65 million. The horrific: HHS now awarded even larger contract to NGO disgraced for founder's alleged sex trafficking. prospect.org/2026/08/11/o...

Disgraced Anti-Sex-Trafficking NGO Gets $244 Million to Rep Migrant Kids - The American Prospect

The founder and CEO of Our Rescue resigned in 2023 amid allegations that he had sexually abused and trafficked women himself.

prospect.org

Anat Shenker-Osorio@anatosaurus.bsky.social · 6d ago

The incredible Sarah Mehta of the ACLU breaks down what is happening with unaccompanied immigrant kids.

Baltimore cut homicides 68% with 400 fewer cops, which is a deeply inconvenient plot twist for the “more police is the only way to safety” narrative.

How Baltimore Achieved Historically Low Homicides—With Less Police – Emerald Book

◆ Emerald Pages ◆ public safety / urban policy How Baltimore Achieved Historically Low Homicides—With Less Police Emerald Book Publication August 4, 2026 Updated: August 6, 2026 9 min read Baltimore h...

emeraldbook.org

Hi. Eek missed me.

New Census Working Paper: "Screening Out the Needy: The Effects of SNAP Work Requirements" by Lexin Cai, Hyewon Kim, and Pauline Leung www.census.gov/library/work...

Screening Out the Needy: The Effects of SNAP Work Requirements

SNAP work requirements reduce participation by 7% without raising employment and disproportionately screen out lower-income recipients.

census.gov

SNAP work requirements reduce participation by 7% without raising employment and disproportionately screen out lower-income recipients.

This kind of "it's just common sense" talk that doesn't understand the basics of anything is what I hear from Trump voters all the time.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

RFK Jr on autism: "'Oh, we're just noticing it more.' But this is an absurdity ... if we were just noticing it more, we would notice it in older groups. But we're not ... so something happened in the mid '90s that changed our children"

Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention

My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.

thenation.com

I’m learning that the people who gamified paragraphs are having trouble reading books. www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...

Women accounted for all job losses in July. That's just how the Trump admin wants it, as I wrote last year: newrepublic.com/article/1994...

Mothers Are Fleeing the Workforce—and That’s Just What Trump Wants

Remember all of those reasonable, pandemic-era work policies? Poof, they’re all gone. And it’s hurting our entire economy.

newrepublic.com

Every reporter who was on board Air Force One when Trump abandoned it as a decoy to be attacked knows exactly which administration staffers were also left as sitting ducks there. There's a real opportunity here to get some inside dirt from people who have every right to be bitter and spiteful.

Garrett M. Graff@vermontgmg.bsky.social · 2d ago

STUNNING: Trump left the White House press corps in Turkey as a decoy to be attacked by Iran—and instead flew out on a secret plane: wapo.st/4i1OByh

Pedophile Protector Predator Party

Sir O.D. Bastard, OBE@captainannoying.bsky.social · yesterday

“‘He would get in trouble and just—nothing ever seemed to happen,’ a former Shaker Heights High School classmate and baseball teammate of Miller’s told Politico in 2021 for a story that documented no fewer than four arrests between ages 18 and 22 on criminal charges…” prospect.org/2026/08/11/m...

Never flying again

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 2d ago

Gamergate 9/11 incoming.

“The boy, whose age is unknown, had repeatedly stressed that he was afraid to return to Guatemala in his native K’iche’, translated through two interpreters relaying his words from K’iche’ to Spanish, then Spanish to English.”

Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · 2d ago

“At immigration court for detained children in New York City on Wednesday, a boy named Diego represented himself in front of the judge, Lisa Ling.” "I don’t know how to do it,” he said about an asylum form he was asked to fill out in English. “I don’t know if you can help me fill it out.”