The Power Fantasy of Superman is you still have a staff job on a newspaper.

I have a very bad feeling about this...

Jonathan captured Colin in mid yodel!

Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.

Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival

Reminder: Most mass shootings are carried out by cisgender men.

Guerrilla art from my kid for my wife’s group practice.

Kurt Vonnegut man

This is Autumn. She was born without one paw. Gets along just fine with three, but still sometimes uses a prosthetic leg when she wants to blend in. 13/10

Remember Cory Booker's marathon speech? If you want to read the whole thing, or extract golden nuggets, it's available through the Congressional Record. It starts on page 52 of pt 1 for March 31 www.congress.gov/119/crec/202... and goes through page 124 of pt 2 www.congress.gov/119/crec/202...

Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) has a bill to return tariff authority to Congress. If it were to pass, the purposeless tariffs would end. Speaker Johnson is blocking it. Call your member of Congress, R or D, & urge a discharge petition on the bill, which forces a vote. U.S. Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121.

Remember that "I'd like to teach the world to sing" Coke commercial? I think that's what alot of people think a protest looks/feels like. I have some footage from 2014 I'd like to show them.

Tucson, Arizona today. Original projected attendance was 3,000 people. 23,000 showed up.

The Bloomington Center for Connection is doing a free CARE workshop (2 sessions) that is worth your time. www.bloomingtoncenterforconnection.org/2025/03/care...

Five years ago, I was waking up to my first day of remote work, which was meant to be a beta test with just some of the organization but ended up being a thing that lasted a long, long time. Still valuing my hybrid schedule today.

Always speak up. open.substack.com/pub/erininth...

Five years. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/3...

1. Major news in transgender care. Germany, Switzerland, and Austria have just released their trans youth care guidelines. They strongly recommend trans youth care and slam the Cass Review in England. Europe is not "pulling back" on trans care. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Anyway, I strongly believe in the power of play to revitalize our high-cultural spaces, re-engage with the rest of humanity, and rehearse different possible forms of being. My 2-minute scholarly manifesto: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Trusted toys kept me safe at night. Cowboy is probably still on duty somewhere. open.substack.com/pub/zestdeli...

Ian Fleming's original James Bond novels haven't aged well. For example, Moonraker - published almost exactly 70 years ago in April 1955 - features a villain who's a super-rich industrialist and rocket-maker seeking to cause chaos because he's a secret Nazi. Such a silly idea!

Somebody somewhere Needs flowers today

Trip #3 through "For All Mankind", an alternate history TV show on Apple. open.substack.com/pub/zestdeli...

Brilliant front page

I'm begging people to remember that 'meritocracy' was coined for a work of satirical fiction. It is not a real thing, and, as the satire suggested, defining 'merit' as a standalone measurable individual quality is impossible.

Democratic leadership does not lead the *citizens*, they lead the party. We elect people to be our voices and represent us in the shaping of laws and legislation. We tell THEM when we're angry. They don't give us instruction. Fighting regimes has never worked that way anywhere, ever

Apropos of nothing but I'm reading Black AF History by @michaelharriot.bsky.social and it is phenomenal so far! Fierce, funny, unflinching. His narration of the audiobook is fantastic.

Remembering John Lewis on his birthday (February 21, 1940 – July 17, 2020) #GoodTrouble 💙🕊

Whitman Walker sold out the trans community for the false idea that it will protect care for everyone by continuing to receive federal funds. It won't. They'll come back for more. You can't appease fascists. www.erininthemorning.com/p/no-more-co...

There’s something happening in this country.

Holy shit! You’ve got to see this town hall. Republicans are starting to get torn apart by their own constituents. Rep. Rich McCormick: “You don’t think I’m going to stand up for you?” Woman in the crowd: “You need to stand up.” Another woman: “Don’t bend over.” 🔥

A defining policy battle is about to come to a head in this country. The Republican budget will force everyone - especially Congress and the White House - to make plain whether they are prepared to harm the rest of us in order to fund tax cuts for the wealthiest.

“We had to erase trans people or we couldn’t get our federal funding” Fuck the federal funding. You fight, you sue, you do not become complicit in our mass erasure. We are all in this together, and we all go down together. I will not allow us to be jettisoned or erased.

One of the first targets here will almost certainly be blocking the mailing of abortion medications like mifepristone. If I'm right, it'll be a the biggest blow to reproductive freedom since the repeal of Roe.

CSPAN Caller from West Virginia: I’m a diabetic and I’m on Medicare. When Biden was in there, my insulin was $6 for a 28 day supply. I just went to CVS, it went back up to $80…

If you're worried about democracy, history or freedom of speech under the Trump-Musk administration, relax... The coup has already happened. And, apparently, no one cares.

Yet another social scientist's warning: "The most underestimated element in the current crisis of our democracy is the degree to which many politicians fear for their lives if they cross or defy Trump....Fear...is the most visceral indication that...the future of democracy" is in doubt: is.gd/hyJxsd

Scream Cipher xkcd.com/3054

I miss my friend, Fake Toynbee Tile, but its spirit still invokes a smile and inspiration. open.substack.com/pub/zestdeli...

20 minutes submerged in hot water clears away more than dirt. It's a reset to the day and fuel for the next challenge. open.substack.com/pub/zestdeli...

Events: 16th Annual Trashion Refashion Runway Show Sponsored by Plato’s Closet Returns to Buskirk-Chumley Theater on April 13, 2025 bloomingtonian.com/2025/02/16/e...

One of my most enjoyable things to think about right now is the notion that For All Mankind is the prequel to The Expanse.

We have such reliance on help coming from systems. substack.com/@themadredne...

The NAACP is re-mixing 1930s-era "don't buy where you can't work" campaigns to confront the neo-segregationists targeting DEI. apnews.com/article/blac...

I gotta " catch up to the new tools of the industry" but the world is being destroyed by a teenager who can't recognize COBOL??!! and I am not even being egotistical I am in constant communication with people on my phone going "ARE YOU SEEING THIS SHIT"

New, from me: DOGE's mass firings of probationary employees are a masterclass in how not to manage public organizations. They don’t have a plan to fix what they are breaking because they don’t understand or care about the damage they are doing. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-misma...