The budget agreement that Biden and McCarthy announced tonight is almost exactly what @billscher has been predicting @monthly since February. McCarthy’s hand was weak, Bill noted, and the White House could cut a deal with very modest cuts. https://t.co/HToC2OLT2i

The comments section on this one just keeps on giving

This is what every Twitter trending topic looks like to me now

Fwiw, the guy sitting next to me recommends Less (Arthur!), and my mom (not on Twitter) weighs in with the Louise Penny series featuring Inspector Gamache, who apparently meets my specifications. Kinda looking for a standalone novel though

Hey Book Nerd Twitter. I’m looking for a book with a main character who is both fundamentally good but also really fun to be around (funny, wry, weird). Recommendations?

Hard to overstate what a radical step this would be, given that many swing-state legislatures are gerrymandered in ways that self-perpetuate GOP control. Would decimate checks and balances.

Not to freak anyone out, but there are still cases to come, including one that could shake the power of the federal government to its core. It’s called West Virginia v. EPA, and the most extreme ruling would declare that Congress lacks the power to delegate authority /1

"Somewhere along the way, many in the mainstream feminist movement convinced themselves that the soft power of cultural representation seemed as important as the hard power of votes and seats." @CharlotteAlter on feminism and the end of Roe https://t.co/HDGqzmNfuq

There ya have it.

79 pages and an appendix, let's go

What's the name of the particular anxiety of seeing someone typing a response on Slack for much, much longer than the question necessitated, thus implicitly communicating that they must be trying to find the nicest way possible to say you're an idiot?

Hard to believe Tim Horton's is the tip of the spear on app surveillance. Seems more likely we just don't know the extent of what everyone else is doing. Cool cool nothing to see here

Read this A+ piece of narrative explanatory journalism by @GiladEdelman to learn how, beneath the mountain of toxic waste that is cryptocurrency, an idealistic hacker community is trying to use the underlying blockchain technology to save the world https://t.co/1D34ywM1WU @WIRED

Wrote this years ago with @luscombeland. Nothing changes except the size of the club's membership

"The 20-year nostalgia cycle, climate-change nihilism, information saturation, streaming-era content overload, and our collective Long COVID of the soul have converged in a tidal wave of tackiness." @judyberman's latest https://t.co/TovqPNFJo5 @judy

“They have their own tough guy in Donald Trump,” says George Bonser, a retired steelworker. “He’s gonna be our blue-collar tough guy.” Read @CharlotteAlter's entertaining profile of Pennsylvania's John Fetterman

“Your geolocation data, apps for contraception, web searches, phone records—all of it is open season for generating data to weaponize the personal information of women across the country,” says Sen. Ron Wyden. @abbyvesoulis @TIME https://t.co/fTsqeen9xg

NEW: Pelosi announces the minimum salary for House staffers will be set to $45k. (Previously, many were earning mid-30s.) The House will also vote next week to allow staff to unionize. Read my behind-the-scenes feature on the group that made this happen.

Happening now: Join us for a live discussion about the implications of overturning Roe v Wade. 🎙️@abbyabrams 🎙️@CharlotteAlter 🎙️@EricCortellessa 🎙️@VeraMBergen

Last week, journalist Merrill Goozner was denied entry to the supposedly public meeting where the AMA effectively decides (and ratchets up) health care prices. No other reporters were there. What are they hiding? https://t.co/FXdltrGSS9 @monthly