The inaugural FIFA Peace Prize recipient is a Bizarro Oprah handing out wars hidden under everyone’s seats.
06.03.2026 15:12
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The inaugural FIFA Peace Prize recipient is a Bizarro Oprah handing out wars hidden under everyone’s seats.
Good morning. Happy Texas primary day.
To get yourself situated, here's a piece from @christianpaz.bsky.social about Talarico, who polls suggest is either about to win by 12 or lose by 14, because polling is a science.
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This is correct and reminds me of what has been the best Subway Takes take so far which is the guy who said the internet needs to be turned off for 5 years for the sake of everyone's individual and collective sanity.
. @joshuakeating.bsky.social , @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social and others at @vox.com are covering the rapidly more horrible and batsh*t new war that Trump and Netanyahu launched this morning on Iran. Follow their updates here: www.vox.com/politics/481...
We are at war for no good reason because we created a presidency with unbounded war powers and then elected a madman to it www.vox.com/politics/481...
Important under-the-radar story from @pratik-p.bsky.social : Foreign aid is back — on paper. Question is, will the Trump administration actually spend it? And if they don't, will there be any consequences? www.vox.com/future-perfe...
Kash Patel got his Make-a-Wish. You paid hundreds of thousands of dollars so he could cosplay as a gold medal winner with his hockey heroes. Dream weekend, very happy he could live out this fantasy @slate.com slate.com/culture/2026...
One has to ask what goes on in mfers' hearts and what goes on in their minds imo
It really looks like we're about to bomb Iran again My latest for
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I’ll be cross posting some of my Boston Globe articles on Substack and will be launching a (free) newsletter soon. If you’d like to follow me there, you can subscribe at: substack.com/@abdallahfay...
Let me be the first to call James Talarico "Pete Nüttigieg" send skeet.
RIP to Jesse Jackson, who in this debate w/David Duke in 1977 delivered (until the host cut him off) a message of unity and against "national isolationism" that's important to hear today. He also ended the show w/one of the sickest burns ever directed at Duke: "You're not even a legitimate Klansman"
I've thought often of @jamellebouie.net's old piece on Jesse Jackson's presidential campaigns and the useful lessons they hold for Dems in our new reality, written after Trump's first victory. The import of those campaigns have only grown; a good one to revisit today. www.slate.com/articles/new...
Really one of those “would've been a huge and damaging scandal in the past but is now a blip” stories. Christ.
NEW: “CBS Evening News” producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note:
Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”
He's running
The MAGA court decision that just supercharged ICE www.vox.com/politics/478...
Read Vox's chief Bad Bunny correspondent @izzieramirez.bsky.social on the references to Puerto Rican culture, history, and politics you might have missed during Benito's set last night. www.vox.com/culture/4784...
There's so much distressing and infuriating happening in the U.S. and the world that you owe it to yourself, therapeutically, to watch Olympic slopestyle and say "whoa" at the world's superhero snow freaks for a little while.
I believe the debate about whether Bezos is "obligated to fund $100m+ annual losses" misses the point. He intentionally expanded those losses by millions of dollars for basic corruption reasons, so that the Trump administration would be nicer to Amazon and Blue Origin slate.com/business/202...
Trump’s occupation of Minneapolis has broken the Justice Department www.vox.com/politics/477...
Whatever you think of the Washington Post at this moment, here's a chance to support the dedicated, hard-working journalists who were just laid off. If you have the means, your donation is most welcome. If you don't, a kind thought and maybe spreading the word to others is support enough 💙
A lot of people cannot just start a paid newsletter or become freelancers to sustain their careers. The sports, metro, and international desks did work that requires *team* resources, like legal checks, documents, access to archives, and long-term beat experience.
A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."
Jon is one of the best editors and colleagues one could hope for in journalism. He built something great at the Post. The people now running that place are short-sighted morons for cutting him and so many other talents today. This industry makes no goddamn sense.
Seven years ago yesterday, this ad ran during the Super Bowl.
Is a new US-Russia arms race about to begin?
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i.e. When mainstream artists create accessible art about the bad times, it means most normal ppl far beyond passionately political or very engaged ppl know what's happening and that it's fkd up.
A good thing abt the Bruce MPLS song is that it's a sign that corniness is back baby. When the bad times come art that lasts is often at least a little corny, and that's as it should be. We are so back (to mass knowledge of and therefore extremely direct mainstream art responding to the bad times).
