It's subjective, but eight seems like a lot to me! There's a new war (or a new phase of one) and there was an assassination. That seems more newsy than "many mostly middle-aged and old white people who watch MSNBC and are on Bluesky really don't like Trump". We've known that for a while.
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The assassination seems like the most important domestic news. Israel/Iran is important, but happening 15,000 miles away. Trump's birthday parade and a profile of Amy C-B, not so much?
Trump is an historically unpopular president doing historically unconstitutional/illegal/dangerous things. Seems like big protests against that are v important.
I'm not bsky, I'm just a dude. But I personally find the NYT fascinating because there is a very clear editorial effort from the top to do *something* (not sure what -- neutrality? business as usual?) particular and it's weird.
Idk what to tell you - in ~any other country 2% of the pop getting on the streets to protest the incumbent govt. would be a major domestic news story.
Maybe just an artefact of a big news day, but certainly strange to me.