If anyone missed my long-form explainers, I have great news!
As Trump attacks unions and occupies our city, we’re called to remember how we got here.
Labor Day would not exist without the workers who fought and died at the Haymarket Massacre and the Pullman Strike in Chicago.
It’s not a coincidence he’s targeting Chicago:
Labor Day would not exist without the workers who fought and died at the Haymarket Massacre and the Pullman Strike in Chicago.
It’s not a coincidence he’s targeting Chicago:
September 1, 2025 at 10:54 PM
If anyone missed my long-form explainers, I have great news!
The verified joke explainers are weighing in.
October 28, 2024 at 10:10 PM
The verified joke explainers are weighing in.
oh no, we’re doing credit default swap explainers again
Explainer: What are credit default swaps and why are investors watching Oracle's? reut.rs/3YkoQOG
Explainer: What are credit default swaps and why are investors watching Oracle's?
The cost of insuring Oracle's debt against the risk of default has shot up after its latest earnings reignited worries about how much the broader corporate sector is spending on AI and the borrowing surge to fund it.
reut.rs
December 12, 2025 at 12:10 AM
oh no, we’re doing credit default swap explainers again
99% of chronic explainers quit before their abusers decide to understand them
May 22, 2026 at 7:29 AM
99% of chronic explainers quit before their abusers decide to understand them
Explainers will be banished
September 26, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Explainers will be banished
Lefty news sites used to pay trans writers to write basic explainers about this and states actually listened and started allowing us to change our ID sex. And then lefty news sites stopped hiring trans writers to write basic explainers about this and now we have this.
"Imagine having to choose between not driving and outing yourself as trans every time you enter a club, buy an alcoholic beverage, go to a building where security personnel check ID (an office building, your kid’s school), vote, rent a car, check into a hotel or are stopped for a traffic violation."
M. Gessen has written a truly extraordinary piece about the "soft fascism" faced by transgender people in America, and by trans people in Kansas particularly. Beautifully written and reported, deeply humane. I really hope you'll read it.
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/o...
August 13, 2026 at 10:03 PM
Lefty news sites used to pay trans writers to write basic explainers about this and states actually listened and started allowing us to change our ID sex. And then lefty news sites stopped hiring trans writers to write basic explainers about this and now we have this.
January 5, 2026 at 1:20 AM
A lot of people are doing testosterone explainers, but you should read the one written by a trans man.
Testosterone is a hormone surrounded in myths and misconceptions, which the Right loves to use to both demonize trans people as well as to fuel their weird beliefs about masculinity. Today, Jules Sherred dives into the science of testosterone and the reality of the effects it can have on the body.
Pete Hegseth is Obsessed With Testosterone. Here’s All the Neat Science the Manosphere’s Not Talking About - Assigned Media
Hegseth says, "It's well-established science that as we age, testosterone levels, often, naturally drop." But that's not the full story.
assignedmedia.org
July 16, 2026 at 9:19 PM
A lot of people are doing testosterone explainers, but you should read the one written by a trans man.
I too think more networks should run "pro-America content" like handy explainers on the constitutional limitations on the president's powers and the independence of Congress
BARTIROMO: Patriotism is spreading. You announced your Pledge America Campaign, encouraging broadcasters to air more pro-America content, such as starting each day with the Pledge of Allegiance
CARR: We're in the midst of a great revival. President Trump is truly the political colossus of our time
CARR: We're in the midst of a great revival. President Trump is truly the political colossus of our time
February 27, 2026 at 9:24 PM
I too think more networks should run "pro-America content" like handy explainers on the constitutional limitations on the president's powers and the independence of Congress
We are about to enter a media golden age of hastily-written jury nullification explainers
December 11, 2024 at 4:19 PM
We are about to enter a media golden age of hastily-written jury nullification explainers
Mmm, took the Blue Wave joke explainers less than five minutes to find this post.
July 20, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Mmm, took the Blue Wave joke explainers less than five minutes to find this post.
Devin Stone turned punchy legal explainers into a YouTube empire. Now he’s warning that the sheer volume of Trump administration scandals is distorting reality itself. www.wired.com/story/the-bi...
The Internet’s Favorite Lawyer Says We’re Living Through ‘Multiple Watergates per Week’
Devin Stone turned punchy legal explainers into a YouTube empire. Now he’s warning that the sheer volume of Trump administration scandals is distorting reality itself.
www.wired.com
April 21, 2026 at 10:33 AM
Devin Stone turned punchy legal explainers into a YouTube empire. Now he’s warning that the sheer volume of Trump administration scandals is distorting reality itself. www.wired.com/story/the-bi...
Kind of feel like we especially don’t need fancy law explainers at the moment. “Can the president just take money when he wants?” A third grader could answer this. A Yale law prof is likelier to write the wrong answer so their 2L can work for Alito
May 20, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Kind of feel like we especially don’t need fancy law explainers at the moment. “Can the president just take money when he wants?” A third grader could answer this. A Yale law prof is likelier to write the wrong answer so their 2L can work for Alito
Can anyone link me to any explainers for anonymizing leaked images — scrubbing any metadata from them?
February 3, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Can anyone link me to any explainers for anonymizing leaked images — scrubbing any metadata from them?
I'm lucky to work with @lizdye.bsky.social, who's unsurpassed at explainers of this sort:
Trump uses reporters as human shield, gets feted as guest of honor
Steepest of learning curves.
www.publicnotice.co
August 12, 2026 at 9:36 PM
I'm lucky to work with @lizdye.bsky.social, who's unsurpassed at explainers of this sort:
"Can he do this?" legal explainers are very Trump first term
Kind of feel like we especially don’t need fancy law explainers at the moment. “Can the president just take money when he wants?” A third grader could answer this. A Yale law prof is likelier to write the wrong answer so their 2L can work for Alito
May 20, 2026 at 5:39 PM
"Can he do this?" legal explainers are very Trump first term
Sphelonious Donk and his badonkadonks. TomDonk Explainers! Yuri Time!!!!! I meant to make a Ship-Explainer post but this is way cooler.
September 25, 2026 at 6:37 AM
Sphelonious Donk and his badonkadonks. TomDonk Explainers! Yuri Time!!!!! I meant to make a Ship-Explainer post but this is way cooler.
one of the most charming things about human beings is that they need explainers like this, something literally no other creatures in the animal kingdom need at all
June 6, 2024 at 12:35 PM
one of the most charming things about human beings is that they need explainers like this, something literally no other creatures in the animal kingdom need at all
uhh so Ann Leckie just reposted one of my science explainers and I'm gonna try really hard to be very normal about that
September 22, 2026 at 1:01 PM
uhh so Ann Leckie just reposted one of my science explainers and I'm gonna try really hard to be very normal about that
We love @washingtonpost.com vertical video explainers of what’s in the “One Big Beautiful Bill.”
June 30, 2025 at 8:55 PM
We love @washingtonpost.com vertical video explainers of what’s in the “One Big Beautiful Bill.”
i hope that people never stop trying to put on festivals that go really really badly so i can watch youtube drama explainers on them later
May 15, 2025 at 2:58 AM
i hope that people never stop trying to put on festivals that go really really badly so i can watch youtube drama explainers on them later
Seeing younger Smiling Friends fans doing explainers on Jesse Ventura. I feel a million years old despite being just under 40
October 22, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Seeing younger Smiling Friends fans doing explainers on Jesse Ventura. I feel a million years old despite being just under 40
We made some quick explainers on Project 2025's impact on bookbans for Authors Against Book Bans-- please feel free to share with your own networks.
July 18, 2024 at 4:38 PM
We made some quick explainers on Project 2025's impact on bookbans for Authors Against Book Bans-- please feel free to share with your own networks.
it's amazing how many youtube explainers about why Blockbuster or whatever failed completely omit HOW these companies acquired unserviceable debt.
June 23, 2025 at 7:02 PM
it's amazing how many youtube explainers about why Blockbuster or whatever failed completely omit HOW these companies acquired unserviceable debt.