If you credulously do a segment about the vote in California in which you don’t say the president is lying, you’re spreading disinformation to your listeners.

Such a disgrace. This guy’s worked his whole life to be selected for the World Cup. He’s earned it.

Holden Thorp is an institutionalist. He's been a university chancellor, provost, now EiC of Science. When institutionalists pull the fire alarm, we listen, because the call to action he issued this week exposes the dire nature of the threat we are facing. 1/ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Some thoughtful person provided a link to a non-paywalled version of this article: gcaptain.com/drowning/

On the tube

NEW: The Colorado Democratic Party has formally condemned and censured Governor Jared Polis for granting clemency to Tina Peters. Polis is hereby banned from speaking or being honored at party events. 90% of CDP central committee members voted to reprimand Polis.

Do you know I actually think that these people are so inoculated from any public sentiment that they are legitimately shook by a handful of boos at commencements this week?

So you CAN get reparations you just have to be a reactionary white person who tries to overthrow the government because black votes shouldn’t count

DEVELOPING: Elected officials, candidates, and local party leaders have signed a complaint to the Colorado Democratic Party re: Gov. Polis' commutation of Tina Peters. They call it "conduct detrimental to the interests of the Party." They want Polis censured & temporarily shunned from party events.

Sir, another graduation ceremony in which the students booed AI has dropped. "College graduates were pissed after their school used AI to announce graduates’ names and missed hundreds of names" (via @/FearedBuck on Twitter)

There's a major civil rights protest taking place in Selma, Alabama, right now in response to the SCOTUS decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act and the ongoing attack on Black Americans’ political power (video: defiancedispatch/IG)

Raising the Flag Follow my work and writing on Substack: nickanderson.substack.com

In 2017, Criselda Vasquez painted this portrait of her parents and titled it "The New American Gothic." Last month, her father, the man in this portrait, was abducted by ICE after being in the US for 30+ years. The family is now struggling with bills. A GoFundMe has been started: gofund.me/456d8a193

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

One side is like “can we disenfranchise all the Black voters by this weekend” and the other is like gotta follow the rules that govern the rules that control the rulebook

30 percent of Americans are against [squints at notes] the Pope urging peace

Today is a good day to pitch your local outlet something about the canvas hack. Put TIMELY in the subject line. Describe yourself as an educator in a few lines (two sentence!). Then make an argument.

virginia voters should call their delegates and senators and demand that they ignore this illegitimate ruling

What the hell www.newyorker.com/culture/prog...

anyway here's me at the art-themed Met Gala

🧵(1/5) 🗺️REDISTRICTING UPDATE This is where the redistricting battle stands after SCOTUS ruled this week in Callais v. Louisiana to gut the Voting Rights Act, and effectively invalidate a key tool used to fight racially discriminatory maps. Here's where state efforts currently stand👇

The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.

NAACP President Derrick Johnson responds to the Supreme Court's decision to gut the Voting Rights Act:

it is important to emphasize that this was *the point*. this was *intentional*. elon musk is a vicious white supremacist who thinks poor african children ought to die, so that the world can be whiter

After every war someone has to clean up. Things won’t straighten themselves up, after all. Someone has to push the rubble to the side of the road, so the corpse-filled wagons can pass. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52955/...

Christo & Jeanne-Claude did numerous works using oil barrels. In June 1967, following the Six-Day War between Israel and a group of Arab states, the artists proposed to close the Suez Canal with a wall of 10 million oil barrels, a project that was—unsurprisingly—never realized

Christo & Jeanne-Claude, "Wall of Oil Barrels—The Iron Curtain" (1961–62), an installation of stacked oil barrels that completely blocked the historic rue Visconti, one of the narrowest streets in Paris, and slowed traffic through the city's Left Bank

Men in women's sports

Happy National Library Week to whoever did this.

Neguse: "Despite all of that, Speaker Johnson made the decision to gavel the House & send everyone home. Now we're back 2 weeks later & what has the majority decided is the most pressing issue to debate? Apparently it's a resolution commemorating a bill that the GOP passed last year. It's absurd."

virgin mary punching the devil, england, 13th century

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto https://theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-cocktail-at-sam-altmans-home-claims-he-was-following-chatgpt-recipe-for-risotto/

The U.S House of Representatives voted to permanently undo protections for the watershed of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northern Minnesota. Now it's up to the Senate who will likely vote within the next two weeks. Please speak up for this important wilderness area. ⬇️

men can’t understand what it’s like for women to see story after story after story of women being victims of sexual violence in a culture where it’s routine; what it’s like to live in a world that is fundamentally hostile to our existence. it’s a wonder we leave the fucking house, let alone thrive.

To climb these coming crests one word to you, to you and your children: stay together learn the flowers go light --Gary Snyder

Death and destruction every which way

you do not have to hand it to tucker carlson or marjorie taylor greene or alex jones or megyn kelly. they're all rats who see trump as a sinking ship and they're getting ready to jump in preparation for their next act. you do not have to fall for it.

Massacre upon massacre in Beirut in the last hour. AUBMC announced a “code disaster.” Over 100 airstrikes in 10 minutes across the country. One hit right behind my house. Sirens ambulances & the smell of sulphur. The city is in total chaos the people in complete panic

We didn't deserve this day.

Here goes nothing. Tbh can’t think of anything else to actually DO to try and stop this. Cc @ivey.house.gov

Boundless love and human connection in space making these earthbound eyes weep

On the 58th anniversary of Dr. King's assassination, it's time to reckon with the media's troubling role in the civil rights struggle. (I pitched this to @nytimes.com who found it "fascinating..[but] the news is making deeper & certainly more historical pieces very hard." But they're the news.) A 🧵

At Dr. King's funeral, Harry Belafonte lost his cool with a NYT reporter: “this grievous moment was in part the result of a climate of hate & distortion that the New York Times & other papers had helped create.”It wasn’t just Southerners who laid the ground for King’s death—Northern papers had too.

i said last year that these people were segregationists and that “merit” just meant “white and male” to these people

My latest. "The only place I know how to begin is here: We are at war, and I want it to stop."

caveman’s best friend www.bbc.com/news/article...

This is the first report I've received of ICE agents performing actual TSA duties. Not good.

🎵 Carry on my based milk son 🎵

Holy shit we might have a cure for sickle cell anemia