Joshua J. Friedman
@joshuajfriedman.com
Welcoming media and government (and everyone else!) to Bluesky. Formerly of The Atlantic, Boston Review.
Breaking: Democratic primary voters narrowly voted to oust Representative Shri Thanedar of Michigan on Tuesday, nominating democratic socialist Donavan McKinney for a deep-blue, Detroit-area district in the latest sign of the party’s hunger for new blood. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/u...
Shri Thanedar Is Ousted by a Democratic Socialist in a Michigan House Primary
Representative Shri Thanedar is among a wave of Democratic incumbents in Congress whom primary voters have sent packing in a surge of anti-incumbent fervor this cycle.
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Uggi’s morning started by waiting impatiently for me as I brushed my teeth. The way he lingers in the hallway, staring at me, is not creepy AT ALL. A picture 🧵
What is truly "shocking" about the polling miss in Michigan is that it is completely average for a primary "The expected error on the margin between two primary candidates in a race for governor or U.S. Senate is a whopping 13.0 points." blog.fiftyplusone.news/p/2026-texas...
Do we really know who's leading the Texas Senate races?
Primary polls have historically been rather unreliable, and a surge in new primary voters means turnout assumptions matter more than usual
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|horses|@chemotaxis.bsky.social · 6h agoPolling is like really fucked. Strikes me as a huge problem honestly.
My architecture column today. "Built in 1973, St. Mark AME Zion Church is one of the finest works of pioneering Black architect Wendell Campbell’s distinguished 50-year career."
National Trust grant provides preservation hope for modernist East Chicago church
The $150,000 award will help St. Mark A.M.E. Zion Church's congregation create a plan to preserve the unique 53-year-old structure designed by the late Black Chicago architect Wendell Campbell.
chicago.suntimes.com
Word on the street is the final round of absentees should be here ...... soon.
OK I'm the only reporter left in Huntington Place where they're counting Detroit's absentee votes AMA
New idea just dropped: a cat library. Like a cat cafe, but with books. Read your library book with a cat in your lap.
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Joshua J. Friedman@joshuajfriedman.com · 21h agoToday is election day in Michigan, Washington, Virginia, Missouri, and Kansas! Want to keep up with the coverage? Follow these local newsrooms and reporters for the very latest:
2.24.0 is up! - Added the Repost Queue feature, similar to Tumblr's, you're now able to have a queue of reposts with customizable frequency! - standard.site preview support - Group chat support! - Many other small QoL stuff and fixes! Full changelog here!
deck.blue v2.24 is up! | deck.blue
Hello everyone! I unfortunately wasn't able to complete this update by the end of July, but 4 days off is not that bad of a delay. This one
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one of my all-time favorite disgruntled reviews of THE ODYSSEY long precedes the movie & comes from my partner. His take: “Odysseus is a shit sailor. There was very little ocean to cross to get home”
I know it’s so pedantic, but I hate it when people throw toga parties and then wear a Greek chiton off Amazon with, like, a gold meander pattern. That’s why I always teach my students how to tie a proper bedsheet toga—because Rome.
SCOOP: The CDC has linked six additional states to a large outbreak of cyclosporiasis associated with iceberg lettuce — Arkansas, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire and North Carolina — bringing the total tally to 15. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/w...
C.D.C. Expands Cyclospora Outbreak to More States (Gift Article)
Arkansas, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire and North Carolina are now among the states linked to the outbreak associated with iceberg lettuce.
nytimes.com
Such a great long-running thread! Follow @rmartincole.bsky.social, curator and head of Northwestern's Transportation Library for more
Rachel Cole@rmartincole.bsky.social · 20h ago
Contact tracers and public health workers are astonishingly good at their jobs and would have excellent careers as PIs if they ever decided to leave the field.
Nurses Chase Cyclospora, Aided by Interviews, Fast-Food Receipts — And the Messy Details - KFF Health News
Yes, they’ve heard all the poop jokes. Public health staffers are painstakingly tracing the sources of this massive outbreak, combing through fast-food orders and lettuce purchases as they listen to p...
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Welcome to Flushes 2.0 The Internet's Bathroom. All-gender, always. 🏳️⚧️ Built on @atproto.com, Flushes is a silly app for sharing when you're flushing. You know what's not silly? Bathroom bills. They target & harm trans people. Try Flushes & join our fundraiser for @trevorproject.bsky.social:
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The Internet's Bathroom. Post your flushes, see who else is in there, and keep every record in your own AT Protocol repo.
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"After All That, Ken Griffin Is Not Leaving New York" -- www.curbed.com/article/ken-...
After All That, Ken Griffin Is Not Leaving New York
The hedge-fund CEO made a big to-do about Mamdani’s pied-à-terre message but in the end is sticking to his 350 Park headquarters.
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I have one last story from this weekend at Camden Yards. On Saturday’s game, the first hitter for the Orioles was Coby Mayo. He struck out swinging. The Phillies fan down the row from me yelled, “SIT DOWN, MUSTARD.” #creativity
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In the spirit of Zeus’ law, I’m honored to welcome Emily Wilson to the land of film criticism. As she’s learned, it’s an adventure that sails smack into islands of musky internet trolls and clashes with cinematic and literary titans. I'm here to broker a truce. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
Yes, Emily Wilson, Odysseus has been changed for the movie. Deal with it
Critical swords are clashing, but there's a way to cut through the debate and really talk about how we review art.
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I wrote about the Trojan horse, and what we can learn from her mouth about different cultural attitudes towards deception and violence. As someone comments below, the phrase GIFT ARTICLE is pretty scary in this context.
Chris Suellentrop@suellentrop.bsky.social · 24h agoTurns out @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social knows a lot about ancient epics www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
They’re calling it the most theater kid story of all time
Pixie Casey@pixiecasey.bsky.social · yesterdayin insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...
Absolutely wild story. www.nydailynews.com/2026/08/04/m...
High-ranking Mount Vernon police official arrested for Bronx attempted murder for being son’s getaway driver
Jennifer Lackard, the Mount Vernon police department’s Deputy Commissioner of Public Safety, and her son, Chase Lackard, 20, were arrested at their Bronx home.
nydailynews.com
gov. tim walz is allegedly staying out of the DFL senate primary but first lady gwen walz filmed an ad for angie craig 👀
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North Star Dawn PAC started airing this Positive ad about Craig for MN Senate on 08/04/26 in the MN Senate 2026 Primary election.
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We projected 45% turnout for this election, King County. As of 8 a.m., 19% of you had turned out. You've got until 8 p.m. tonight to make your voice heard! kce.wiki/DropBox has a list and map of all 91 official ballot drop boxes across the county.
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In court filings Monday, the U.S. Department of Justice argued it retains the "unconditional right to intervene" in a federal lawsuit against Evanston's reparations program, leaving it up to federal Judge John Kness to rule on the DOJ's motion to intervene
Justice Dept. argues to join reparations case - Evanston Now
Now up to judge to join the case challenging Evanston's program.
evanstonnow.com