GIVEAWAY! GIVEAWAY! GIVEAWAY! On Goodreads, we're hosting a giveaway for the ebook of The People United. Sign up before June 10, and you may be one of the lucky 10 to receive a copy! www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

Thurday's great thing about my book is a two-fer. First up is this review by Nina Liakos, @indivisiblemontmd.bsky.social member. "when I learned [Chris] had written a memoir ..., I had to get it, and I read it in about a week. The book did not disappoint." nliakos.wordpress.com/2026/05/10/t...

It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.

Russell Vought’s war on US science and scientists continues. The public comment period for this catastrophic OMB proposal ends July 13. It took me 2 minutes to leave a comment here: www.regulations.gov/document/OMB...

A thoroughly compelling saga. . . . It's these features, combined with Pickett's personal involvement and reflections, which make The People United such a powerful documentation of struggle and hope. -D. Donovan, Midwest Book Review #Resist #ToRead

the clear takeaway here is that the administration wants to unlawfully seize the smithsonian and make it a temple for white supremacist “history” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/a...

imagine being president of the united states and getting snubbed by a group popular 40 years ago and best known for lip syncing and also one of them is dead

This is the destruction of federal funding for scientific research & universities as we know it. A total, comprehensive politicization of the process & an end run around Congress.

This is a substantial power grab by OMB. Comment period starts tomorrow. Here are two relevant excerpts. 1/3

Keeping this going: I will be at the @peoplesbooktakoma.com Local Author Bazaar on June 14! I'll be selling and signing books from 10am to 2pm. Hope to see you there!

has this story broken through at all? i can’t tell.

COGE and Project 2029 are both stupid names for the same reason—we need new ideas to build a new world, and slightly altering the names of fascist programs does not give the impression you’re changing much.

BP seems to be using record oil prices to give themselves breathing room to break the union. Just in case you were wondering who benefits from the Iran war.

It will buy you one gallon of gas by the end of Trump’s term. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

This should please the lottery fans. Right, lottery fans? Speak up now so everyone can respect your huge win.

yeah you gotta willie horton ken paxton. have the party committees and super pacs run ads explicitly accusing paxton of covering up for a child abuser. “you love your children and would do anything to protect them. so why would you vote for a man who lets child abusers run free”

And what is the point of scoring?? Really depressed that I agreed to be a regular member of a study section recently.

Fuck this demented bigot and fuck everyone who supports or apologizes for him

Proposed NDA language goes well beyond draft regs. NDA unconstitutionally tries to bind federal employees from disclosing any info post-employment. This goes against existing & well-settled case law. No one should sign. And we will sue to protect 1st Amendment rights.

Next: We got word last week the Montgomery County (Maryland) Public Library system will be carrying The People United! It is currently on order, but folks in MoCo can place a hold and get it as soon as it comes in. I'm very excited the book will be in the library system.

In two weeks, Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine will have lasted as long as the entire World War I.

On the grounds that there’s no bad time to share this video of a squirrel having a jolly good go, here’s this video of a squirrel having a jolly good go

yeah this is just lying like, this isn’t fudging, “we’ve only used this projection that’s favorable to us” type statistics manipulation like we’re used to, this is just flat out up is down black is white lying in the service of pushing nazi policy and it should be treated as such

They think Americans are idiots and they gleefully base their propaganda entirely on lying.

First up: This fascinating blog from @illustrada.bsky.social about the process of designing the cover. Paul goes through how we started with some loose ideas and ended with something fantastic! Fun fact: The banner image in the post was the runner-up cover choice. illustrada.com/project/poli...

Look at this crazy thing

Ending Reconstruction before hanging every Confederate was a mistake

This is one of the reasons “we can’t run AOC” makes zero sense. The gop accused Bill Clinton of being a secret communist! They said Obamacare was socialism! The underlying policy just doesn’t matter, they’ll always make this attack. So why don’t we run someone who believes in things?

Kicking off a week of five great things happening with The People United! For more about the book, check out chrispickettauthor.com

The phrase “according to prediction markets” is functionally equivalent to “according to ChatGPT” which is functionally equivalent to “according to the vibe out there on the streets.”

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The Trump Administration is starving Cuba.

Cowardice and complicity do not pay. The National Academies should have been standing up for science, not trying to appease the regime. www.aip.org/fyi/republic...

There are people who will tell you that this is not a complete surrender by the US Navy. But it is.

Love it: the night after he was kicked off of CBS for good, Stephen Colbert hosted a public access show in southeast Michigan.

So, it turns out that when you abandon your principles to mollify bad-faith actors, it doesn't help. Indeed, it may hurt because you are perceived (accurately) as being weak. Surviving as weak and unprincipled (and I do hope that NASEM survives) is only slightly better than not surviving. 3/3

A more complete description of the situation... www.aip.org/fyi/republic... 2/3

If you want to see the hugely positive effect of the leadership of the National Academies of Science in shying away from topics that are deemed controversial based on partisan positions, here you go... 1/3

Abrego Garcia should apply for compensation from the weaponization fund

This is...breathtakingly xenophobic. "NIH officials are telling grantees...to remove papers that name co-authors affiliated with foreign institutions if NIH had not previously approved a foreign component for the grant." www.science.org/content/arti...

I was told that I needed to request permission to collaborate with physicians from European countries before testing the effects of patient mutations they identified on an enzyme we study. For each collaborator, NIH is asking for email, institution, street address, phone number (!!). Insane.

I’ve said it before and will say it a few more times. When Trump 2.0 came for accreditation I knew we had crossed into a different era of white reclamation. Precise, focused, stealth. Anyway, you probably don’t want these reforms.

this might just be the most blatantly corrupt act ever committed by any president in U.S. history

1. These threats remain insane and impeachable and we should resist normalizing them 2. How many bluffs will it take before Axios stops reporting them credulously?

just open contempt for the united states as a pluralist and secular democracy. and a reminder that the function of the fiction that the united states was founded as a fundamentalist christian nation is to establish a hierarchy of human worth with white christians at the top

my personal take on this as someone who spent much of last year organizing cross-ideological popular front mobilizations against authoritarianism is that DSA turned out big while Third Way's major contribution was giving concern troll quotes to journalists worrying about the optics

In a cowardly move that he waited until late on Friday afternoon to announce, Colorado’s Democratic governor is commuting the sentence of a Trump ally who was convicted for tampering with election equipment as part of Trump’s Big Lie. This is a stunning betrayal of our democracy.