He’s treating our capital like some shitty AirBnB that he won’t have to clean up.
Paul Waldman@paulwaldman.bsky.social · 4d agoIn case you were wondering, they STILL haven't managed to fix the Reflecting Pool, six months after work began
Martin Padgett
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“A Night at The Sweet Gum Head,” “The Many Passions of Michael Hardwick,” and "The Queer Revolution Was Televised" (coming 2027). Generation X.
Paul Waldman@paulwaldman.bsky.social · 4d ago
i’m telling you all, we’re going to start hearing more calls to repeal obergefell and loving.
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 5d agoThis fucken guy
Breaking News: A sheriff in California was ordered by the state Supreme Court to return about 650,000 ballots to election officials after he confiscated them for an investigation into voter fraud that state officials said had no basis in fact. nyti.ms/4hejTBu
There is something so unbelievably bleak about an article that calmly walks readers through how to navigate being laid off after 50, losing your health insurance, and somehow surviving the years until Medicare. What a broken country.
Laid Off After 50, and No Health Insurance? Here’s What to Consider. (Gift Article)
At best, older workers will struggle to find health insurance that bridges the years before they qualify for Medicare at age 65.
nytimes.com
From banning partisan gerrymandering to giving citizens a chance to sue for voting rights to expanding the U.S. House of Representatives, here are eight solutions to protect every eligible U.S. citizen’s right to vote in free and fair elections. bit.ly/4j4uGiG
Eight Solutions to Protect Voting Rights and Improve Representation
Congress must make voting fairer and more accessible for U.S. citizens and mitigate damage done by states, the executive branch, and the Supreme Court.
brennancenter.org
found a new naming convention for my writing drafts
“Shame is one of the ways that groups of people mediate their norms without state intervention,” Jay Caspian Kang writes. “This, of course, is not always a good thing. But any community without shame must have moral consensus.” newyorkermag.visitlink.me/oOtftg
The Death of Shame Is Tearing Us Apart
Increasingly, people are ignoring social norms in favor of a narrow self-interest. The results are disastrous.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
Oh, and that week, temps in Detroit fell to -50 and I called home on a satellite phone from the jungle, where it was 85 degrees.
Martin Padgett@martinpadgett.bsky.social · last mo.I flew down a day early to Belize City and was warned not to leave the hotel by myself. Then I saw the TV news from the U.S. about the Northridge earthquake and found out half the attendees would be a day late when they figured out how to get them out of LA. Fun times.
I flew down a day early to Belize City and was warned not to leave the hotel by myself. Then I saw the TV news from the U.S. about the Northridge earthquake and found out half the attendees would be a day late when they figured out how to get them out of LA. Fun times.
Martin Padgett@martinpadgett.bsky.social · last mo.This was the trip where I hung from the "door" in the back of an RAF chopper tilted sideways so I could shoot overhead photos of a Mayan ruin. Right leg wedged between the two seats in front, no belt, just a left foot on the runner to brace me.
This was the trip where I hung from the "door" in the back of an RAF chopper tilted sideways so I could shoot overhead photos of a Mayan ruin. Right leg wedged between the two seats in front, no belt, just a left foot on the runner to brace me.
Bengt Halvorson@ben-gt.bsky.social · last mo.Happy to see a throwback from @martinpadgett.bsky.social -- Land Rovers, Belize, 1994, in my feed this Saturday afternoon. Although LR was one of the earliest partners of "Tread Lightly!" Stewardship and, well... www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a735...
The editorial Internet is ceasing to exist.
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · last mo.BET Digital has permanently removed all its digital news articles from its website to 'prioritize video content,' I'm told. Years of news articles are now gone forever. Some writers were able to save their stories; some weren't
Indexing, the big tell that your Gen X mind is distinctively warped.
Shocking story in here of Byron White and his clerks shredding his papers… www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/u...
How the Supreme Court Locks Away Its Own History (Gift Article)
After Justice Scalia died, the justices held private negotiations about locking away their papers. We may not see the ultimate record of the Roberts court for decades.
nytimes.com
I’m sure most of you aren’t watching the US Open right now which means you missed this instantly iconic moment, now available in gif form
Those were wigs?
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2mo agoDolly Parton may have been only five feet tall, but she made herself larger than life. She challenged stereotypes about women and appearance with a wink, a healthy dose of self-aware irony and a refusal to apologize for what she wanted, Vanessa Friedman writes. nyti.ms/4qyrUny
Breaking News: Dolly Parton, the country singer, songwriter, entertainer and entrepreneur known for her outsize persona and prodigious vision and talent that placed her in a class by herself, has died at 80. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/a...
Go out how you want, leave a comet trail of good behind.
NBC News@nbcnews.com · 2mo agoDolly Parton, who rose from a loving if impoverished upbringing in the mountains of East Tennessee to become the “Queen of Country” music, a Hollywood star, and a beloved American icon, has died, her family announced on Tuesday. She was 80.
I think that Dolly Parton was, for a lot of people, an ambassador of the "good" values people think of about the South: kindness, hospitality, can-do spirit, sharp and witty and down to earth. I think for a segment of people, too, she was theantithesis of a lot of noxious masculine country stuff.
Nitish Pahwa@nitishpahwa.com · 2mo agoI think the universal grieving comes in no small part from the fact she represented the best of what America could be, and that she never stopped chasing that ideal, artistically and socially
John Roberts is Natalie Harp in a robe. A cringeworthy handmaiden
Wes Siler is an independent journalist who has spent the last 24 years writing about the intersection of public lands, conservation, and politics. He tells the story of the brief battle that forced Native American displacement from most of modern-day Ohio. #WeAreAmerica250
Most transphobia, or so it seems to me, is about wanting culturally contingent hierarchies and identity scripts to be Inscribed in Nature in some deep way that obviates the need for reflective examination, and getting very anxious and angry about anything that makes it clear that’s a fantasy.
Eric Columbus@ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe term “transphobic” is so inadequate for bigotry like Hegseth’s. He doesn’t fear trans people like some fear spiders or heights. He hates them with a passion. It’s an evil choice, not a psychological malady.
A new study, published in the journal JAMA Network Open, found a 15% increase in traffic fatalities on the days major new albums are released, compared with the days immediately before and after. https://cnn.it/4g2Sl1d
Such a shame. He also did a remix of Erasure’s cover of Supernature, the opening sixty seconds of which are among the most exciting in electronic music. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a...
William Orbit, pop producer for Madonna, All Saints and more, dies aged 69
Musician’s projects included Madonna’s Ray of Light, Blur’s 13 and All Saints’ chart-topping singles Pure Shores and Black Coffee
theguardian.com
