@barackobama.bsky.social My Fellow Bluemerican 💙

In WSJ Off Duty this weekend; Dan Neil the car critic at WSJ decides to buy a car. He talks about the bad timing here: www.wsj.com/business/aut... Photos by Lauren Vied Allen

Recent favorite of mine and a podcast for music fans: One Song hosted by @dialloriddle.bsky.social and @luxxury.bsky.social

remember when frank fukuyama warned that social media platforms having full control over the algorithms disseminating information was an authoritarian risk bc that control could be co-opted

and then musk took over twitter and got himself the presidency and proved fukuyama exactly right

After literal years of organizing + months waiting in suspense, the NLRB officially ruled that the WSJ Photo Editors can vote to join our colleagues in the staff union, IAPE 1096!! I can’t stop crying, I’m so happy!! 💗 Read more: https://www.iape1096.org/iapework/2023/8/1/wsj-photo-editors-win

Meanwhile in Canada

The vibe here is good because bigotry is unwelcome by the community.

Portraits I took of my dog Llewie and my cat Dahlia. 👋🏼