reading this excellent book again—one of those I believe every American should read.

scholar-activists—Natural History Museum invites applications for the 2026-2028 Red Natural History Fellowship, a 2-year program dedicated to creating a natural history for a world in crisis, confronting systems that reproduce colonial & ecological harm thenaturalhistorymuseum.org/open-call-20...

I like the part where Wole Salinka calls him “Idi Amin in white face”

Need hope in this mess In Americ? Don’t know what you can do? Professor @hcrichardson.bsky.social has sage advice right here:

1 in 8 Americans are on SNAP benefits. a line for your east wing valediction.

“Don’t want to lose SNAP? Tell the Dems to reopen the government!” SNAP assistance gets cut in the big beautiful bill too. Healthcare is slashed as well. They’re withholding food for 40 million Americans to try and force the Dems to sign off on cutting food AND healthcare!

Arthur Sze, “Library of Congress,” New Yorker

This is just to say I have bulldozed the East Wing that you were probably hoping to pass down to future generations Well, fuck you it was in the way so inconvenient and so old

Lately I've seen many references to the 3.5% rule. A few years ago I pulled together this Q&A on potential uses and misuses of this statistic. www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/defaul...

“If you only purchase one chapbook in 2025, order COPIUM by Nada Gordon.”

www.artworkarchive.com/profile/indi... untitled, Ash Frantz

As always, Mike Masnick has a good take on the news.

General pattern in regime change: the comedy gets better and then it gets banned.

I, a comma inserted numerically into an empty space between capitalist gory holes Catherine Bresner, from can we anything we see (Spuyten Duyvil, 2025)

Can’t express in words how big this rally in Chicago is. The president’s fascist goon squad is not welcome here.

Thank you to our amazing volunteers for coming out to canvass yesterday! When we fight, we win!

yes.

the brothers—and a happy Caturyay to you

Koda!

Some remarkable quotes from these CDC resignation letters:

I know Democrats are overwhelmed (or rudderless, if you are less charitable) by the sheer volume of Trump authoritarian moves, but I’d like to see them unified behind specific goals like “RFK Jr is a threat to public health and needs to go.”

ICE took 2 firefighters OFF THE FUCKING FIRE LINE!?

didn't know until last weekend that Brown Pelicans migrate through and hang out along the coast in late summer, early fall. then they fly to Mexico. #OlympicPeninsula #birbjoy

Life comes at you fast

“It’s both a ruthless power grab and yet another distraction by a man who badly needs the populace to be dizzied into inaction in order to realize his despotic ambitions. unwantedpersons.substack.com/p/trump-expa... @mkaiasand.bsky.social

Scenes from today's overpass banners with @westseattleindivisible.com (we had two signs going!)

resistance and the Heathers www.youtube.com/watch?v=263F... poets.org/poem/what-he...

panicle

Alligator Alcatraz has been halted because of the Miccosukee Tribe. But look at how it's reported. Native people constantly fight for not only the land, but human rights -- and their contributions are consistently erased. And everyone does it. Erasing Native voices is the true American pastime.

Generational public health sabotage

Shi Shi I love this land and sea.

إيمان شاهين Iman Shaheen يوسف حمدان Yousef Hamdan غيث أبو ريا Ghaith Abu Rayya شام ابو عجوه Sham Abu Ajwa ملاك الرملاوي Malak al-Ramlawi

more news I like ictnews.org/news/stay-tu...

poetry date, merci

"(Note: By the time I finished writing this piece, another 31 Palestinians seeking aid were killed by Israeli forces.)"

less than two weeks to apply!

we went to the powwow yesterday—it will be an annual thing moving forward. video from the Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women & Relatives Switch Dance Special, sponsored by Lily Gladstone 1st prize winner enters from the right early in video— commanding energy, red yellow white black feathers.

meanwhile on Caturyay street

to all of you making #goodtrouble today & everyday—with you in spirit

🚨NEW: A horror story emerges from hacked flight logs of the March 15 flight to El Salvador: mass disappearances. It's possible there are DOZENS of additional people the Trump admin sent to be imprisoned in El Salvador without trial who are imprisoned there whose names have never been disclosed.

a Bastille Day reading of event scores from Instruction Manual for a New Era—a Pacific Northwest Conceptual Art Center project very grateful to be one of the writers/artists that created pieces for this book as a way to navigate current-state Amerika. thank you @adelaideblair.bsky.social

join us as we read from "Instruction Manual for a new Era"—an @adelaideblair.bsky.social/PNW Conceptual Art Center gathering with 'Literary Nights' at Issaqauh Train Depot, Monday, July 14—readings from 7pm.

kasína

The rise of fascism depends on the presence of aliens and enemies. Foreign “threats” may change with the times, but every gestapo is the same.

from the brilliant, incisive Brandon Shimoda: thebaffler.com/latest/alien... As terrified as America is of the aliens & enemies it has invented to defer dealing with its own deterioration, it is more terrified of the people, in their actuality & essence, on whom they have forced their inventions.

Finnegan Django Jirafa Turtleback, Esq.

“Immigrants are not only vital to our economy but enrich and renew our society. We the US-born are the beneficiaries, and our position should include gratitude and appreciation, as well as solidarity.” www.meditationsinanemergency.com/immigrants-a...