Thank you, @aselrod.bsky.social. As far as I can tell, zero internal evaluations are going on at the big news orgs on how to deal with this basic problem, yet any discerning reader can see that it's a major impediment to conveying what's really happening in the US to readers and viewers.

More relevant than ever.

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

"Within his own party and social circle, sympathy for fascism was not unusual." www.liberalcurrents.com/a-popular-fr...

Thanks, Trent!

Decided we’re gonna spend a night in Des Moines next weekend on our way up to the Twin Cities.

Honestly I am excited. I feel like it’ll be a fun place to stop over.

It's official:

-2025 is now a more threatening year for the survival of the republic than 1968.

-John Roberts will now go down in history as a worse chief justice than Roger "Dred Scott" Taney.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

To reiterate, we have passed through the veil.

Trump's list (obviously not composed by someone as illiterate as him) doesn't mention Jefferson and mentions Pope and Delano without noting that their government work was New Deal. More inside baseball, but where's Bramante? The most admired architect of his time. It's a weird paragraph.

I was going to angrypost about this, but the underlying story seems to be "rando says something stupid"? Can Trump even appoint people to the TikTok board?

I mean it still absolutely sucks, but this looks like "UK papers will say anything"
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

The America we used to live in—the America we want to think we live in—is gone.

We’ll have to build again.

I’ll be extremely happy if it’s a nothing story because this would obviously be insane

I mean this puts even Orbánism to shame.

“the conventions of political reporting today are poorly suited to capturing this naked use of sheer pretexts and the bottomless bad faith they rely upon.”
@gregsargent.bsky.social is absolutely right. Big, legacy media has got to catch up to reality.

This is really interesting, in a horrifying way.

Some really important points here

Soldiers and Sailors Arch in bk when trump lost in 2020

there will be a another celebration related to trump there again

on the architecture of oppression - some of our current government’s waste, fraud, and abuse

There's resistance to Trump's building program within the profession, coming from a variety of worries. One of mine is the certainty that authoritarian building programs are above all vehicles for public corruption. And Trump's redo of the Oval Office is a fat warning.

All this needs to be loud.

As a historic architect who got his architectural history degree in a time and place in which classicist architecture was held in high regard (UVa in the 1980s) I've been pointing out that Trump is perverting American noeclassicism. I don't know that I'm getting exceptional traction.

Hartford Has It!

Interestingly, some of America’s most iconic triumphal arches are related to the victory over the Confederacy—a piece of history MAGA seems determined to revise.

Interestingly, some of America’s most iconic triumphal arches are related to the victory over the Confederacy—a piece of history MAGA seems determined to revise.