is this the first product from the national design studio? trying to track how gebbia’s “apple store experience” design ethos gets eaten up by techno-fascism and regurgitated into 80s–90s-style ad campaign trash

In today's "fighting antisemitism" news, Cornell has suspended a Jewish professor and cancelled his classes because they disagreed with his political views

Under pressure from Texas government officials, Angelo State University in Texas is banning all discussion or mention of the existence of trans people along with banning the LGBTQ pride flag from campus and forced misgendering of trans people. conchoobserver.com/2025/09/19/a...

the president of the university resigned, the dean, the dept head, and the professor have all been fired or put on leave, meanwhile, there’s no law in TX that gender can’t be taught in a classroom

Essential resource. Also: it would help greatly if BlueSky allowed users to lock their accounts.

unfathomable www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Texas A&M’s President just removed a dean and department head from their positions after they supported a professor whose lesson on gender was challenged by a student. www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...

this is real chaos for small businesses: overnight, shipping to the US became impossible. the small publisher I’m working with in Portugal suddenly has to totally reimagine their business or else forfeit the entire US market www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

I love this story of a handwritten community newspaper and how its founder manages to keep it going www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

1. My newest Anti-Trans Legal Risk Map is here. Risk has increased sharply for youth in many states as clinics shutter under Trump and state AGs refuse to enforce civil rights laws. For adults, some increases in risk. Nationwide risk remains extreme. Subscribe to support my journalism.

Looking at these ridiculous images that the US Dept of Labor is posting over on X and questioning how to teach graphic design anymore

“maybe it will happen today” - early 21st century american proverb

No, you're not ineligible for the vaccine. Let me introduce you to the concept of lying.

🦊 I wrote about the administration’s “national design studio,” and how its shoddy construction isn’t a mistake. It’s a clear signal of priorities, and ones we need to actively, urgently rebuke. ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/a-noti...

Transgender studies professor Dr. Susan Stryker tears Gavin Newsom a new one while accepting the Transgender Legacy Award from the California state legislature 🔥🔥🔥 @susanstryker.bsky.social

National Design Studio has a site now, a single webpage to direct to American by Design, which seems to be all about going beyond what Nixon did ndstudio.gov

Come!Unity Press in the documentary The Disappearance of Shere Hite / recently learned that she printed her famous questionnaire there, also found this photo of her printing with Mercure in a 1978 issue of Off Our Backs

Just submitted manuscript 1.0 to the publisher, and even though it needs *so much work* it feels good, like something happened

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

the latest from homeland security

I shouldn’t be surprised but the comments, they’re just so terrible. they’re particularly bad. I wish there were more places for nuanced design discourse www.dezeen.com/2025/08/07/c...

trying something new for me, a performance. will go like this: an activation of an archive outdoors with a live audience, titled notes on transmission for live voice and circulation, and to say i’m nervous is an understatement, but also thrilling, just trying to push thru it

This violates R.I. Gen. Laws § 11‑24‑2.3 on its face which provides protections for gender identity in public accommodations in Rhode Island. Brown University is openly admitting it will brazenly violate Rhode Island state law. I expect lawsuits will follow.

Trans women can no longer attend: - Columbia University in New York - Harvard University in Massachusetts - Brown University in Rhode Island And they tell us we'll be safe in blue states. And they tell us it's not a pogrom.

the Brown U agreement with the trump administration, including monitoring and reporting of faculty evaluations www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

I remember measuring out different vaccine timelines against my own timeline in my early 20s, and wondering if I’d ever see a headline like this one in my lifetime newatlas.com/infectious-d...

now i've written thousands of words to fill a book, and I just finished the conclusion, and i still need to write the introduction, but i'm thinking that i'll save these for the book, not post them publicly

posting my most personal writing so far, an attempt at getting at intimate typographies, those letterforms that spell out other languages, remembered and imagined, artifacts on the timeline that were close by, around, nearby, or maybe not known at all soulellis.substack.com/p/proximity-...

the AIDS Quilt panel for educator and activist Katrina Haslip; it looks like there’s an actual braid of hair sewn into the quilt, above the “n” in Katrina, and the letterforms seem to be adorned with hair, too

such generic garbage

damn, today we’re exactly halfway between the years 2000 and 2050

Andrew Sullivan just appeared in my Hinge, thinking I should try to match with him just so I can tell him how angry his NYT op-ed piece made me

I wrote about the day the president attended the opening of an American concentration camp:

if Zohran wins in Nov I’m moving back to NYC

On the queer use of type in fascist times soulellis.substack.com/p/the-typogr...

When Palantir had DEI. since scrubbed from their site. can’t believe these are real but it seems they are.

Mahmoud is free! www.youtube.com/live/6CUKGZ7...

Next Friday in NYC! so excited to join Nat Pyper and the legenday Alan Bell for a conversation and font launch at O-R-G www.o-r-g.com/shop/a-queer...

US printers issued a boycott against German-made fascist typography in 1939 (found at www.paulshawletterdesign.com/2014/06/boyc...)

excited to see nyc folks at typographics next week

heading out in the rain to the RI state house, with deeply mixed feelings about visibility right now, but decided I don’t want to experience yet another thing on a screen

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Since yesterday, immigration and other law enforcement have inflicted terror and chaos on residents of LA. The leader of California's largest union was among those arrested for protesting ICE's cruelty. Congress must hold President Trump accountable and stop him from terrorizing our communities.

this thread, damn. starts from one hour ago but the situation is still happening, I’m watching on tt and just so sad

Was researching Instrument Serif, used at White House .gov (but designed for Instrument design agency), and realized that the default text used by Google Fonts is the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights fonts.google.com/specimen/Ins...

looking at the design and typography of Project 2025: Chronicle and Gotham

From a friend who was there today: MIT class president denounced the MIT administration and said “we MIT students showed the world what we want is an end to Israeli military collaboration," the crowd erupted in chants of "free palestine," flags everywhere, they cut the livestream 🇵🇸

really enjoyed this interview with licko & vanderlans letterformarchive.org/news/emigre-...