Fears I have as an artist

Here I am screaming about how I have never seen the @usmnt.ussoccer.com look so dominant and all of (my) BSKY is fixated on scaffolding. I think we have to destroy a Trumpism monument every time they play now. Genes the boys super powers. I don’t make the rules. 🤷‍♂️🇺🇸🎉

If Mamdani was mayor of DC, there would be city-sponsored bleachers, port-o-potties, and a mariachi band outside of the Kennedy Center right now.

The USMNT looks both confidence and dangerous and, as a longtime fan, I just don’t know what to do with that.

Nice thing to see on my way home.

I never imagined myself living in a cabin deep in the woods without any technology but that's looking more and more attractive every damn day now.

My response to that "Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences" is up. tinyurl.com/y39crkzp As I say on Facebook, I back-loaded the good stuff, like showing that the authors' account of the 2017 Hypatia controversy reveals them to be unreliable reporters.

Trans is beautiful because it's people living their truth! All of us will not be free until trans people are free.

You can tell that the conservative fix is on very early in the article because this discussion in THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION starts with a round of whining about how brave and silenced they all are.

What a cool story. The last sentence of the story really says it all, though, don’t it?

This is correct on all counts. I am so very tired of this entire country being built around the idea that “white men do whatever the fuck they want”.

One thing I distrust about a politician is when I see they have a life story that suggests entitlement & dilettantism. Platner's racist tattoo being "a bad decision after a night out with the guys" is a sign of someone who doesn't feel the need to think about the consequences of their actions

This is why they are attacking the humanities and trying to dismantle and restrain humanities programs at state colleges and high schools.

I'e long wondered what goes on at that newspaper to so reliably produce these genteel surrenders to right-wing talking points and so often distorts the realities in ways that pander to racists, misogynists, etc. Sometimes as contrarianism, or spiciness, or a one-sided pretense of bothsiderism.

NYT is always "progressives should abandon their principles! Sell out! Sell out! SELL OUT!" This is something you will constantly find at the NYT, a piece dressed up as a news article that is editorializing frantically for a political position, not neutrally presenting the facts.

I see raw milk is in the news. Allow me to introduce you to my favorite moment in West Virginia legislative history: www.eater.com/2016/3/9/111...

The fundamental, guiding principle of the right-wing political party in this country, however it existed at that point in time, is they only want white people to vote. Every political theory and opinion about how voting "should be run" stems from that ultimate conclusion. That is what they want.

James Joyce is gonna read this and come back from the dead so he can publish Finnegan's Wake 2 out of sheer spite.

No words. #BookSky

Solar power is now cheaper than coal, oil, or natural gas. The biggest barrier to widespread solar adoption is Public Utility Commissions that protect the utilities at the expense of the public

Condemning riots isn't enough. We need policy action, including an immediate appraisal of X as a vehicle for coordinating far-right disorder. And we need political leadership, to challenge white nationalism as an idea, not to validate it daily and then complain when it turns violent.

Unfortunately still just as true today as when Oscar Wilde wrote it in 1890.

classic example of juristocracy at work, all these legal intellectuals who throw a fit every time someone suggests forcing the Supreme Court to obey basic principles of democracy

This is why all of you have a DUTY to stop paroting austerity language at the Federal level. The money is there. It's just not going to supporting life affirming institutions and programs.

I have to say, listening to the Today programme dedicate an entire (context free) section about whether migrants are more likely to be convicted criminals *the morning after* hundreds of non-migrants of my own ethnicity committed a pogrom is blood boiling.

Trump’s regime tried to sue a jazz drummer for $1 million because his conscience wouldn't let him perform under Trump's name. A judge just threw the case out and ordered the regime to pay HIS legal bills instead. Read this incredible victory: 👇 www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/a-federal-...

Yup. And if you know anything at all about cops, it takes an insane amount of over the top behavior to get them excused. So yeah, I assume this is 1% or less of actual abuse of flock.

This will go down as a major stain on FIFA and its World Cup before a ball has even been kicked. Infantino has been banging on about the most inclusive World Cup and Africa’s top referee can’t even get into the country. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/w...

I am so ashamed.

This is always the landing point. “Democrats must moderate by adopting a position that is both harmful to civilians and terrible politics. Because I said so.”

Bowing down to federal pressure and echoing the ex-gay movement, the Cleveland Clinic is establishing a detransition center for trans people, the second of its kind nationwide.  Our writer S. Baum reports on the deal struck with Trump's government. www.erininthemorning.com/p/cleveland-...

A 40% pay increase, the right to walk off the job if federal agents (i.e. CBP/ICE) pose a threat to them *and* the contract expires in April 2028 so they can demand more ahead of the Olympics. Shoutout Local 11, shoutout unions.

"Something remarkable happened in April. For the first time in history, wind and solar generated more electricity than gas across the entire planet. Not in a country. Not in a region. Globally." Tons of great news here from Danny Kennedy (via @billmckibben.bsky.social's newsletter, which rules).

Everybody talks about how nothing is affordable anymore but no one talks about how poorly made and disposable things are. Part of the affordability crisis is because we keep repurchasing things, cars, appliances, clothes etc because things don’t last.

How is this farce of a do nothing government still going on? It's as if the system that protects incompetent white men and women in power was built to protect incompetent white men and women to stay in power.

You can think of this as a "reverse" or "turn" strategy. Reversing attention from the distraction & recentering attention on what is essential. Calling out the politics of creating hate-objects & turning attention back to those who profit from the strategy. It's a contrast. Well played. (from March)

No wonder the entrenched bureaucracy hates him to much. He's showing America that things REALLY can get better when you work on behalf of everyone, not for the Epstein class.

"France passed a single law and instantly unlocked 11 gigawatts of #solarenergy — without using new land. In 2023, France's government mandated solar canopies over all car parks larger than 80 spaces. The scale was enormous: There are 400,000 parking areas across France #ActOnClimate #Renewables

Can’t be repeated enough…

I suspect this might be the best photo I ever take

A story I love about Anthony Stewart Head. Thank you to this person for sharing it on Tumblr. What a mensch.

There's nothing quite as radicalizing as the day you realize that the ruling class doesn't like full employment

I am largely in agreement with this claim, and then I look at the work that Talarico, for example, is doing on masculinity and toughness in service of others and think that likely has a broad leftist appeal across multiple demos, as well.

"We don't need your mindset marketing." The marketed interventions that shift responsibility for structural injustice onto children have a long history. We trace it. 🎯 stimpunks.org/access/educa...

There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man." A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.

Basically, the only way to make care work both fairly paid and broadly accessible is to take it out of the market and make it a (sustainably funded) public good. And if we do that, there's a good chance men will be more willing to do care work, too.

Whoopsie:Jared Kushner & Ivanka Trump are taking over protected Albanian land in a $1.4 billion project to build luxury resorts and an Israeli-linked development. The Albanian prime minister changed the law to make it happen. Now his house is burning The Trump's don't know how hated they really are

In a statement to @benmullin.bsky.social, Scott Pelley disputes what Bari Weiss said in this morning's editorial meeting, claiming he was never offered "a way back" as she claimed. "These executives cannot gain the trust of the staff with lies. This is antithetical to everything we stand for..."

And here. We. Go! God this is going to be a cluster mess.