NYT headline when the economy added 266,000 jobs under Biden vs. NYT headline when BLS says the economy added 172,000 jobs under Trump.

Marjane Satrapi (1969-2026), the French-Iranian author and illustrator behind the popular graphic novel series and film “Persopolis,” RIP 🙏

"Mr. Pelley also wrote that senior managers at CBS News had pressured him to insert bias into stories for “60 Minutes” this past season, though he did not provide details about specific segments." Pretty important part of the story re his firing. Maybe *the* most important part. CBS = new Fox.

RIP, radio legend #MikeArlo. A tribute will air this Friday at 10am on The Fox. Thanks for the music, Arlo. 🎶 1069thefox.com/remembering-...

Listen to the rhythms of three red giants in the constellation Draco. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRXC...

Had to share - MSM seems to be ignoring it.

On the one hand, the exemptions are bad for Virginia, but on the other hand, the exemptions are bad for Virginia LOL

“I sometimes feel that the settled classes, the contemporary cultural czars who are the arbiters of taste in the arts and in literature, are often wary of the real, deep, unsettling politics that are not part of accepted pedagogy.” —Arundhati Roy

Inuk artist Kenojuak Ashevak, Birds from the Sea (1960) #WomensArt

Close Delaney Hall. Close them all.

The birthplace of Chief Powhatan — the father of Pocahontas — on 2026 list of most endangered places: https://mrf.lu/M_Sh

So it looks like I am going to have to retain a lawyer to fight off this ridiculous $50million lawsuit from Armed Forces Brewing Company. If you can support this fight in anyway it would be incredibly appreciated. This is an attack on the 1st Amendment and against journalism. gofund.me/d7d265b3a

impartial scientific research is the enemy of despotism and so naturally vought wants to destroy it

All states, please follow this!! cbs6albany.com/news/local/a...

I think about this a lot.

The Danish gov’t has installed floating platforms planted with wildflowers and native vegetation in the harbors and canals of Copenhagen, to create urban habitat sanctuaries for birds, bees, pollinators, insects, and even some aquatic life. #FlowersOfBluesky #InnovativeSolutions💡

Ok, I'll add one more thing which was weird that it wasn't noted in this piece - that this lawsuit is a specific and desperate attack on a journalist to try and shut him up and get back at him for printing his own words. It's also an attack on community organizing as an idea.

the president is raiding the treasury to put your tax dollars into this mans personal checking account as a reward for what hes doing in this picture

Clean drinking water is essential. This is not negotiable in any way. #datacenters

😍 🦋 #Norfolk #Virginia www.wtkr.com/news/in-the-...

#CreatureConserve's new exhibition 𝙍𝙚-𝙄𝙣𝙝𝙖𝙗𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙫𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 opens May 22 at #Goggleworks in Reading, PA. It reconsiders the role of artists in #wildlife #conservation & explores the possibilities of art informed by science. It features work by 38 artists & 13 writers (including yours truly).

This Day in Labor History: May 19, 1920. The Matewan Massacre took place in the small town of Matewan, West Virginia. Let's talk about this key moment of the West Virginia Mine Wars, made famous by the great John Sayles film!

#Virginia AG Jay Jones: “Let’s be clear about what is happening. Donald Trump, Republican state legislatures, and conservative courts are systematically and unabashedly tilting power away from the people for Trump’s political gain.” apnews.com/article/supr...

Did you know that Northern Virginia has more data centers than anywhere in the world? Now you do. And they’re about to build even more. A battlefield where thousands of Americans lost their lives—what should be hallowed ground—might be the next home for the chatbots.

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Manuscripts Don't Burn. Happy Birthday Mr Bukgakov. #sympathyforthedevil #themasterandmargarita #anniversary

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

Just what Atlanta needs: more traffic

Riding bikes is 10X more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities. And that’s just the climate emissions. Doesn’t include the massive public & personal cost difference, the air & noise pollution difference, the massive space difference, etc, etc…Via @theconversation.bsky.social

LET THIS SINK IN—the U.S. now has no confirmed CDC director, no FDA commissioner, no Surgeon General, an NIH director with no medical license, and the last Acting CDC Director was a George Bush speechwriter. In fact—the only doctor/scientist we have in the White House is… Dr Oz.

🧵1/2 Dani Bensky — an Epstein survivor — and @katiephang.bsky.social explore a candle exhibit at the Donald J. Trump Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room. Each of the 1,200+ candles represents a person (in many cases, a child) exploited by Epstein. #USDemocracy #MomSky #EpsteinFiles

The ambassadors of young people's literature I know and respect relentlessly and vociferously defend book access. The ambassadors of young people's literature I know and respect are relentlessly and vociferously condemning, denouncing, and working to defeat HR 7661. Silence is complicity.

The spring edition of the #CaliforniaQuarterly is out, including 2 of my poems: "Rough Magic" and "The Tower's Shadow." Thank you to editor Konrad Tademar Wilk for including my work! #poetry #poetrycommunity

“We are in the hands of men whose power and wealth have separated them from the reality of daily life and the imagination. We are right to be afraid.” - Grace Paley

More journalists and media workers were killed in 2025 than in any other year since the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) began collecting data more than three decades ago.* Two-thirds of the journalists killed were by Israeli forces.*

Virginia Dems think this Supreme Court will side with them on restoring the voting map chosen by the majority of the people. OK then.

“.. most months it’s the No. 1 consumer of water in the county.” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

'Belle' by contemporary painter Christine Robinson #WomensArt #Caturday

Owl Camouflage: the cryptic plumage that makes owls vanish against tree bark https://sinapti.ca/post/en/the-vanishing-owl-the-art-of-cryptic-camouflage-explained-su9tjg58

Gawd. It's definitely time for an escape to Amsterdam, even if murder and this grumpy cuss are involved.

did the Virginia Supreme Court stop Republicans from gerrymandering the piss out of VA state and congressional districts in 2012 without asking the voters at all? they did not

What news sources are NOT reporting about the Virginia Supreme Court decision to invalidate the Constitutional Amendment approved by voters on redistricting is that 3 of the 4 Justices who voted to overturn the law are lifelong, loyal Republicans. This wasn't a legal decision; it was political.

I would urge you to spend half an hour listening to this assessment of where we're at in the war in Ukraine. You'll learn a lot and be astonished by the grit and determination of the Ukrainian people pca.st/podcast/3041...

Medical research is being decimated. It’s has flatlined and now half of 2025 and 1/3 of 2015-2024 average. Future generations will suffer dearly because of delayed and missing treatments and cures. www.washingtonpost.com/science/2026...

Happy birthday, Sir David Attenborough! 🎉

#CTA: H.R. 7661 is a bill that would place the federal government in the role of censor, dictating what books, stories, & ideas children and communities are allowed to access in public schools. Call your reps & tell them to vote NO on #bookbans or send them a postcard. 👇

Can we just admit at this point that the Trump Administration just hates black women in public life? Can we?

A sample of the real cost of #AI and #datacenters 👇