If you are interested in how languages work—and why—I highly recommend @languagejones and his YouTube channel youtu.be/kraGzMOLYeQ?...

“The basic, irrefutable truth is that we are the luckiest people in the history of the world. We have created a stable democracy from disparate sources, from the world over.”

—Joe Klein op-ed

www.nytimes.com/2024/10/11/o...

Everyone is saying: Mets.

In addition to Democrats vs. Republicans jockeying for position on election day, we need campaign coverage in which the day-to-day story is structured differently: defenders of democracy — from all parties — vs. the MAGA movement meant to "empower one man," as @marcelias.bsky.social puts it.

the hottest trend for 2024 is transparency girl summer, which is when everybody who's releasing a poll posts their toplines and a full methodology statement

This AP reports stands out as "stakes" reporting because it describes what is happening in a way that prevents normalization — and banalization — of him and his party. apnews.com/article/dona...

Read the first few paragraphs. See what I mean?

a useful exercise is to ask how the political press would be framing the election if the positions were reversed, meaning, if Trump were an incumbent presiding over a strong economy wielding a powerful campaign apparatus and Biden was the shambolic challenger on trial for multiple criminal offenses

Well this feels refreshingly like stepping back a decade