Hi there, this is Evan of Assigned Media. I'm hard at work finalizing our efforts to leave Squarespace behind forever, and if you haven't heard we're going to have to (ugh) cancel all our member subscriptions and ask people to re-subscribe in our new system. That's capitalism, baby!

"It took Orban in Hungary over a decade of hard work to get such uniformity in the press on social issues. Trump and the American fascist movement have enthusiastically and brutishly gone after media freedoms and have achieved nothing close to this.The British media have just done it to themselves"

Finally caught up with the "Black Arts Admin B**ch Culture Hour" episode with my friend Calida Jones, and I should have known I'd need more paper to take notes. "We're all in the same storm, but our boats look different." open.spotify.com/episode/7em5... /1

Have questions for these Florida representatives? Saturday Fringing commences...

I remember getting into marketing and media and seeing how a PR rep pitched all of her clients (including one we shared) for a piece about the "best LA small theaters" and wondering why the fuck we'd share such an obviously fake piece on our channels. We tout authenticity while faking accolades. /1

Truth By the great @dennisgoris.bsky.social $1.8 Billion Felon to Felon Slush Fund

1. A Kansas Judge has struck down the anti-trans "experts" the ADF parades. "Cherry-picked information, conjecture, and research taken out of context," ruled Judge Folsom III. He then established 349 facts that support trans care and reversed the Kansas ban. Subscribe to support our journalism.

I really loved talking to @alexaphillips.bsky.social about the Teen Media Renaissance and how their online cultures shape identity--and where they fall short. www.futurecommerce.com/posts/inside... #Commerce

Senator Bill Cassidy compromised all his values to confirm RFK Jr and he still lost his senate seat in a primary.

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)

I probably should have warned our teachers that there's catnip in those fragrant bouquets we have them for Teachers Appreciation Week......

Journalists, let’s be careful about the language we use when writing or talking about AI. Here’s a thread — @emilymbender.bsky.social, I know you pay attention to this, too, so feel free to chime in. (1/x)

Unions.

Ugggh. That’s why I wrote this bsky.app/profile/thed...

If you have candidates who can use remote work help after May 20, lmk. In the meantime I'm signed up to help @annaforflorida.bsky.social with some office support: mobilize.us/s/3RyBUi/n

Look, the Republican Party is pushing white supremacist policies to destroy our ability to change the system through democratic electoral politics. So it's time to stop giving their billionaire benefactors our money. Cancel ONE THING from a billionaire today. You can do it! #CancelParty

Every book I’ve bought this year (and it’s been a lot of books) I bought because of Bluesky.

Tried to clarify something about the Canvas hack and now it has hacked my day.

Unironically this was perfect comms strategy.

What I wish for everybody to remember when Canvas comes back online: The reason OUR data can be held for ransom is because Instructure, their owners (KKR private equity & Dragoneer venture capital), & our own employers (see ASU Atomic) monetize it. It's Canvas that hacked education & stole our IP.

This involves our K8 school and our entire school district too. #CanvasHack www.cnn.com/2026/05/07/u...

A nightclub in Mexico City has gone viral for charging Americans a nearly $300 cover charge, while citizens from any other country pay just $20 for access

I get to talk to Kacie Luaders, host of the Could be Pretty Cool podcast, soon and was reminded of how eye-opening every episode of hers is: open.spotify.com/episode/6xjK...

You just showered please don't dig up your dead hamster welcome to Tuesday!

Just hours before the 2026 #MetGala, hundreds gathered in the Meatpacking District to watch people walk down a different red carpet in custom couture. The "Ball Without Billionaires" - a runway show co-hosted by fashion stylist Gabriella Karefa-Johnson and 'Abbott Elementary' actress Lisa Ann Walter

Less than 800 NSF grants awarded over the first half of the fiscal year for the entire country. Previous years were already over 2-3k awards by now. It is not particularly overdramatic to say we are seeing the death of federally funded science research in the United States.

I support the hell out of people showing their power to defy and strike at the oligarchy on May Day. But a lot of folks can’t afford to lose a day’s pay right now, and that’s exactly the problem. Do what you can. Speak up. Show up however you’re able. That still counts. #MayDay

Please someone do this for me.

This might seem like gossip, but the Duggar Family (19 Kids/Criminal Charges and Counting) is imploding and it's a good model for a decaying patriarchy from within.

'We've been a little bit too romantic about the idea that we should have employees and give people long-term job security' is an extraordinary thing for a video games CEO to say on record: aftermath.site/video-game-job...

As an author and reader, I stand with the folks at Hachette Book Group in forming their union.

If I saw this in a film set in an awful dystopic future I'd call it unsubtle, ham-fisted, bad writing...

Listening to my friend Calida on the best named podcast ever, the Black Arts Admin B*tch Culture Hour. Jumping right into what the arts field is willing to align with to stay alive.

If you want to make a point, don't start by bemoaning the lack of babies. I've had 2 amazing babies and the only argument it should start is 1) why abortion is reproductive health, and 2) here's universal healthcare and childcare until 5.

"When RFK Jr. says he wants to "clean up the risk pool"= a euphemism for eugenicist depraved heart murder... When Trump regime takes health insurance away frm people who rely on health insurance to pay for medically necessary services that keep us alive? We die." www.patreon.com/posts/156210...

Over 50% of American adults can't read above a 6th grade reading level, and this is an absolutely catastrophic civil rights crisis with implications for every facet of individual and collective life, including processing political statements by politicians, doctors, and so on

I seriously sent my subscribers a recommendation to watch a video on the moral dilemma that Fritz Haber's story leaves us with on this Monday the 27th day of April in the hellscape year of our Loki, 2026. This is why I'm fun at parties.

It's been clear for a hot minute an anti-autism diagnosis campaign is in the works but I am truly stunned they are literally just going for the Detransitioner playbook

The Chernobyl accident was 40 years ago. For a decade I had a weird connection to it via staged charity readings and keynote speeches. Here's a bit of a ramble that ends with a promise I made to myself. www.patreon.com/posts/130375...

Present Cindy is mad at Past Cindy for choosing to review YouTubers which has led to a crash course in the boymanosphere. Which not oddly overlaps with my research on child actors and Kidfluencers. But makes for a grumpy Saturday sometimes.

I've done my time in Florida long enough to own that this is the most Florida front page I've ever seen.

This is such a lovely and rich paean to public benches and everything we lose when American cities remove them or make them more hostile placesjournal.org/article/the-...

I've got a neat something coming out with two other parents working in the civic knowledge space: Civic Parenting - through the National Constitution Center! www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRLJ...

I spent years making it an "O" for a play adaptation and you really hang me out to dry like this, AP?

It's honestly adorable watching these legacy newscasters discover the Webbies and how YouTube works.

It's funny that I can tell which YouTuber is in trouble based on my website hits.

I'm spending so much time on MOMENTUM outreach that I forget to post it here 😅. Come with me to build new Board Models in Oklahoma, Bahamas, Seattle, and Minneapolis this summer: momentumrevolutions.com

I guess I should get this job because it's the first time in years that the cover letter was like butter and I didn't have to finagle my background to fit what they want, because it works.