Excellent news.

To my peeps, and my Brown and LGBTQ friends. Never forget that your light was so damn bright they handed the world to the first asshole who promised to dim it.

And that's how you end your canceled late night show in 2026. #StephenColbert #LateNight

Not only going out of their way to hurt trans people, and schools, and families, and kids; also hurting their party, their democracy, their country.

There must be no room in the public square or in public service for this bigotry. At the very least, she needs to be expelled from the Democratic party.

the fuck it will

I'm so tired of being shocked but unsurprised.

“I couldn’t stop crying yesterday, but I’m kind of jealous about them,” said Mr. Saleem, 75, who immigrated to the United States from Afghanistan . “They died in the best way that they defend other innocent people, and I wish I was one of them. And God chooses them.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/u...

The refugee and asylum system in the US was modeled on the UN protocols established to protect vulnerable people after WWII. Many nations signed on to that agreement as the horrors of Nazi Germany became clear. This is a repudiation and an inversion of that spirit of protection. History:

This is perfect

DoGE "accidentally" cancelled Ebola protection whilst raiding voter data.

Don't forget, these atrocities are still happening. Two years old. They are responsible for the murder of a two year old.

This is a great thread about musicians doing the work. tl;dr: It isn't just The Boss-- great as he is-- so spread the love and attention

Just scrolled by an anti-AI story from the Washington fucking Times so i'm really going to need Democrats to get on-message and start claiming that "AI==higher cost of living + lower quality of life + billionaire greed + consent violation" space, really fucking fast. Fucking MOVE.

"What happens when wars and crises are subject to real-time price discovery by a network of anonymous actors? What does it mean for geopolitical uncertainty itself to become a financial instrument?" Very good read from @seva.bsky.social on a troubling intl politics trend

Oligarchy is a helluva drug

Kudos to our Mayor and his administration, showing it's possible to avoid the scourge of austerity or jeopardizing social services to balance the budget.

There's been so much over 5 days, quick recap: —TN: GOP passed new map, erase Dem seat —VA: State SC struck down Dem referendum —AL: SCOTUS blessed GOP move to cancel ongoing elections, erase Dem seat —MO: State SC stalled veto referendum, allows GOP to end Dem seat —SC: Rushed GOP redraw derails

Paul Newman, Robert, Redford, Denzel Washington, Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Sophia Loren, and Audrey Hepburn aside... Adding Shashi Kapoor to this mix. Bombay Talkie 1969-Junoon 1979

“In particular, young women of color would struggle.”

Excellent news that Olivia Andre has been released. She never should have been detained. It's abominable. Gratitude to all the advocates who secured her release. (Also-- 💛 for Miss Rachel. What an amazing human.)

"What’s happening right now is probably the swiftest disenfranchisement of Black folks since Reconstruction, due to disenfranchisement by racist gerrymandering." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS (1966)

10/10, no notes

@tcmtv.bsky.social is a national treasure. Thanks to Ted Turner for that.

Horrifying. I've been in many conversations about the ripple effects of USAID's destruction. Some are not carrying the urgency of this stat. It's imperative we center these deaths and related collateral damage in all our strategies. Otherwise, we're just compounding the atrocity.

A mayor of and for the people.

The Kerala Model has been a guiding light in development and civic engagement for decades. I've been sitting in sadness ocer this news since I read about these election results this morning.

unsolicited recommendation: I learned a lot from the chapter on Rudy Giuliani and John Gotti in John Ganz's When the Clock Broke

Stressed out of my wits for a variety of reasons, so of course I accidentally sent this to my landlord.

"Today’s decision strikes a blow at the fragile infrastructure of our democracy. It casts aside the precious and noble actions undertaken by countless generations of activists, lawyers, and legislators, who worked to bring this country closer to becoming a true multi-racial democracy."

We must understand that the Voting Rights Act was not merely about ensuring Black Americans rights, it was about democratizing America. This ruling is not just a decimation of Black rights and Black Americans’ ability to have representation, it is a fatal blow to multiracial democracy.

This is the result of decades of organizing in the conservative legal community that’s been allowed to flourish in plain sight as anything but a committed ideological movement.

This is truly awful. Just digesting now and I'll have more to say soon, but just for now sending solidarity to all the RightsCon organizers and attendees.

Yes, Brooke Nichols at Boston University estimates that, as a result of Elon Musk spending the weekend “putting USAID into the wood chipper,” 500,000 children died I agree with @katzish.bsky.social: half a million tiny coffins is Musk’s legacy

WE HAVE NEW IMAGES OF EARTH FROM ARTEMIS II!!! LOOK AT HOW BEAUTIFUL OUR PLANET IS!! HAPPY EARTH DAY!

In London on my way up to Oxford tomorrow on behalf of Proximate Press. If you're in Oxford or at Skoll, send over a message.

it's true that you could pretty easily tune out the crypto hype era (which was only a few years ago!) in a way that is just not possible with our current AI hype era

Here in Perugia, halfway through the International Journalism Festival. Here wearing my hat as Interim Executive Director of Proximate Press. if you're here too, send over a message.

26 years old from South Sudan. He has been in the US since age 13, when he was recruited to the country for basketball. Now being discarded as if he was human refuse. Shame on Syracuse for not intervening. www.syracuse.com/news/2026/04...

Looks like my 2026 journal.

Every time this set of rice-and-jijaji* posts come up, I must stop everything and read it again. *noting my Hindi vocabulary bias

Wearing my documentary producer hat, I am happy to be a signatory to this Open Letter. There is still time to push back against this merger. If it succeeds, it will devastate media production and distribution, the creative sector, and our ability to shape our narratives. #BlocktheMerger

We should all be signing this petition. And agitating in any way we can to get not just Dilley but all immigrant detention centers closed -- and especially those run for profit.

Kudos to all the movement organizers and organizations in Hungary who have pushing back against the Orban regime and showing the world a path away from autocracy. The jury is still out on Magyar but this is a huge step forward. Gratitude and congratulations are due.

I just heard about Asha Bhosle's passing. Her voice is so deeply intertwined with Indian and diaspora culture, her passing is truly the end of an era. May she rest in melody. For those of you who don't know her, posting some of her Bollywood playback songs. I'll have these on repeat this week. 🙏

The intensity of the past few weeks has been astounding. In the midst of this I locate my hope in the works many of you are doing to transform our systems. To that, here is the Spring issue of "Notes on a Present Future" with an amazing roster of beautiful projects. buttondown.com/LinaSrivasta...

Jam packed with great initiatives and resources. 👇