Bluesky's userbase tilts pretty far towards liberals (gonna count progs as libs, but apologetically and with all due respec). But to everyone calling this place an outlier / echo chamber let me give you some admittedly unscientific anecdata:
One of the funniest things about the oligarch group chats story is the implication that the story leaked now due to the chats falling apart from Trump tarriffs. Like people are getting disappeared and the president's son is "joking" about no elections in 2028 but it was tarriffs that triggered them
In Vietnam, the war is called "the American War." The Verge's package commemorating the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon is now fully live: [www.theverge.com/cs/features/...]( ) [American War]( )
This morning's addition to our extraordinary American War package is this beautiful comic by Matt Huynh: [www.theverge.com/cs/features/...]( ) [American War]( )
the funny thing about signalgate is that it wouldn't have been funny 6 months ago, it would be very serious and horrifying, but our bodies have stopped producing cortisol and signalgate is only funny thing to have happened in months
good reader comment RE: https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:4t2ziwnnescprzorvmrfduey&cid=bafkreid2xihrkgdzh2yxgnhwdmsuokwok3ee7obnsuy2edcpntf4amm5l4 View quoted note →
come read this story that makes you want to jump out of a window [www.theverge.com/tech/650015/...]( ) [This ICE-snitching app is actu...]( )
ok so!!! something I found really interesting after talking to Korean protesters was... well, it was actually me realizing something about protest in the US: protest is trapped in an unwinnable spiral about "peaceful" versus "violent" protest, and even people who know it's dumb can't break free RE:
On Tuesday I edited a story about the FTC firings. Readers took issue with our framing — not just us, but other publications as well. And you know what? Y'all were right. [www.theverge.com/policy/63339...]( ) [We ran the wrong headline abou...]( )
every day I think about the comms strategy of the korean opposition party in the wake of the coup and I get so burningly resentful that other countries have legislators who are awake