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A New Poll on the Trump Indictments Has a Surprising Result
A New Poll on the Trump Indictments Has a Surprising Result, Ankush Khardori, Politico Magazine
A new POLITICO Magazine/Ipsos poll finds one thing that unites people on the Trump indictments.

According to a new poll commissioned by POLITICO Magazine and conducted by Ipsos, most Americans — including a large number of Republicans, who the former president is currently courting for his 2024 campaign — believe that the trial in the pending federal case against Trump for mishandling classified documents should occur before the GOP primaries and well before the general election.
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A Georgia teacher’s plight exposes the essence of anti-woke MAGA fury
A Georgia teacher’s plight exposes the essence of anti-woke MAGA fury, Greg Sargent and Paul Waldman, The Washington Post
At first glance, the plight of Katherine Rinderle, a fifth-grade teacher in Georgia, might seem confusing. Rinderle faces likely termination by the Cobb County School District for reading aloud a children’s book that touches on gender identity. Yet she is charged in part with violating policy related to a state law banning “divisive concepts” about race, not gender.

This disconnect captures something essential about state laws and directives restricting classroom discussion across the country: They seem to be imprecisely drafted to encourage censorship. That invites parents and administrators to seek to apply bans to teachers haphazardly, forcing teachers to err on the side of muzzling themselves rather than risk unintentionally crossing fuzzy lines into illegality.

“Teachers are fearful,” Rinderle told us in an interview. “These vague laws are chilling and result in teachers self-censoring."
We tried Threads, Meta’s new Twitter rival. Here’s what happened
We tried Threads, Meta’s new Twitter rival. Here’s what happened, Kari Paul, The Guardian
Kari Paul tested the social network minutes after its launch – did it fail to impress, or should Elon Musk be shuddering?

Unlike Twitter, Threads does not seem to use hashtags and does not have a feature that allows users to search for specific text or phrases. It also allows users to share up to 10 photos in a single post – the same limit that exists on Instagram – as opposed to Twitter’s limit of four images.

We tested the app from the US, but it’s now live in Apple and Google Android app stores in more than 100 countries including Britain, Australia, Canada and Japan.
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Our two-party political system isn’t working. The fix? More parties.
Our two-party political system isn’t working. The fix? More parties., Lee Drutman, The Washington Post
There’s a better way to represent the country’s diversity and offer more citizens a hopeful, engaging vision for the future: create more parties.

But real, vibrant, healthy parties. Not top-down one-shot presidential candidacies, built only on the passing winds of celebrity and whims of wealthy donors. Not parties whose completely open primaries leave them vulnerable to populist outsiders. We need parties that do the hard work of candidate-vetting and gatekeeping and organizing and coalition-building that political parties are uniquely able to do; parties that organize from the bottom up, giving disaffected voters a voice, a collective identity and a long-term institution for building real power.
Twitter threatens Threads lawsuit against Meta
Twitter threatens Threads lawsuit against Meta, Jody Godoy, Reuters
Twitter has threatened to sue Meta Platforms (META.O) over its new Threads platform in a letter sent to the Facebook parent's CEO Mark Zuckerberg by Twitter's lawyer Alex Spiro.

Meta, which launched Threads on Wednesday and has logged more than 30 million sign ups, looks to take on Elon Musk's Twitter by leveraging Instagram's billions of users.

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