Triumph of the Schill

👋 First post — 2 days left on my campaign. Kai — Chinese Malaysian Australian writer-director in NOLA. Short On the Seventh Day won the Judges Circle Award at Louisiana Film Prize. Crowdfunding ROPE, a queer psychological thriller. 105 follows to greenlight — free. Link in bio. #QueerHorror #FilmSky

I am completely exhausted. I didn't want this life, but I've reached a point where I'm risking my life to feed my starving family. I'm malnourished. I've been without income or work for over two years. If you would like to donate, please do so through Chuffed. 😔⬇️🍉 chuffed.org/project/1635...

Instead of prepping tomorrow's lecture, I find myself wanting to fantasize w/ you guys about the contents of a Goth garden. What else, beyond black tulips (below), would one grow? I've got chocolate cosmos for the colour & wolfsbane/ monkshood for the name & the fact that it's poisonous. What else?

He "spent years quietly acquiring his arsenal," @bloomberg.com says about buying a pistol and a shotgun. If the media wants to say people with more than one gun (≈20% of US) have an "arsenal" and are inherently suspicious, fine, but they never talk about Republican gun policies that way.

I marched to a concentration camp yesterday. We need to call it that. open.substack.com/pub/thecause...

We just dropped a limited batch of $5 tickets at gothamfc.com/mayor for the Gotham FC May 9th home game vs. Boston Legacy. I'll be there. Will you? Grab a $5 ticket at gothamfc.com/mayor before they're gone!

Grassley warned last year in a floor speech - before the Iran war and the subsequent diesel and fertilizer price shock - that U.S. could see a wave of farmer suicides not seen since the 1980s.

Sweet Jesus. This wave coming at the same time the tech bros are looking for massive sites for data centers is not going to end well.

Amazing to me that people keep screaming about security failures in a situation where security did not fail. Bad things didn't even happen to bad people, so you can stop pretending to be worried about that. Stop whining for a bigger, badder police state.

For the “tone down the rhetoric” crowd, Trump literally posted Obama’s address and the next day a 1/6 guy armed to the teeth showed up casing the residence.

a) We fucking called this before Roe fell ffs LISTEN TO US b) if they win this will set our whole society back to the 1950s or earlier. Workplace equality? Sexual freedom? What??? THIS MUST BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY AS AN ALL HANDS ON DECK ISSUE c) (see next skeet)

Cis women get to use T to satisfy their sexual urges and it's celebrated. Trans people take T to eliminate their gender dysphoria and they're villainized and called perverts.

“No place for violence in a Democracy” say people you may remember recently encouraging drivers to run over protestors for being in the way

Excellent reporting here on the Trump administration’s successful assault on the food stamp program, undertaken as the ranks of hungry Americans desperate for assistance include more and more “working families who cannot keep up with the cost of living and inflation.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/u...

Thinking about this thread again, in light of the fact that Trump fired the entire National Science Board all at once, today, placing their replacement appointments entirely under the political whim of… This man. These fucking people. This is very very bad.

Trump and Elon Musk destroyed most of the global H.I.V. program that saved hundreds of thousands of lives in Zambia. Now the US is threatening to cut remaining support, unless Zambia gives access to the country’s mineral resources. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/h...

Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes are sold by a single private company, with its name, Uline, stamped on the bottom. Many may not know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country. (Published 2022)

Pour one out for the Hilton staff who are working perhaps the worst shift in food service history rn.

If this was, in fact, an active shooter situation, treating it like a minor inconvenience so you can go back to your fancy dinner is the most end-stage American capitalism display I could possibly imagine

Luke Russert on MSNOW saying that when the shots were fired he ran down the middle of the aisle in the room, right towards the president, thinking it would be safest near him. Yeah, man, I'm not sure you've really game planned how "rushing the president during a shooting" might end for you

This photo is insane www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...

Heated Rivalry karaoke (Caitlin Russo’s Bad Things is on the list)

Please help the very kind Hassan and family if you can. gofund.me/57cee04b0

Chillingly explicit blood and soil nationalism here

If he apologizes for this, there must be incontrovertible proof that the company is responsible for much worse, even if I cant quite imagine what that worse is.

UPDATE: The plane transporting the El Gamal family has been turned around and is heading back to Denver. They deserve fair treatment under the law.

What the fuck are we doing here

I resigned from the National Science Board in May when meaningful oversight became untenable. I respect colleagues who stayed to serve the NSB's mission. Today's news clarifies that was an erosion of oversight and function has become open elimination of the Board itself. 🧵 time.com/7285045/resi...

There's a tradition of film directors and studios congratulating each other for beating their box office records. In 1977, when STAR WARS beat Jaws to become the highest-grossing movie ever, Steven Spielberg took out the below ad for George Lucas in @Variety 1/11

Denmark's coal-to-wind transition is one of the most dramatic energy transformations of the past three decades. In 1990, coal provided 90% of Danish electricity. Today it is under 3%. Wind now covers roughly 60% of electricity generation. The last coal plant is scheduled to close by 2028.

Good morning. I watched a livestream of a local airport commission meeting earlier this week. What I saw was, well, what we've been seeing in blue areas for decades now -- public outcry vs. so-called public servants. gillianbrockell.com/public-outcr...

“If someone you knew kept threatening you and your friends with torture and rape in jail – and if that someone kept doing it with a grin – would you go to their dinner party?” zeteo.com/p/journalist...

*staring into the camera with the light behind my eyes entirely extinguished*

Reading Carl Phillips is always a distinct pleasure, an awakening into the world as if seeing for the first time.

Something we don’t address enough is how many people, especially adults, do not have a working imagination.

Pope Leo turned the question around like the boss he is.

this account is run by a human at NASA JPL who only posts real images with their receipts. it only has 11k followers compared to the 200k the ai slop space account has

I keep thinking of a novel with character names from spam calls. I’ll probably never do it but also the names are very dull lately.

This is the final result we were waiting for from the April 7 elections in Alaska. The result means the right failed to flip any seat in the Anchorage local government as they’d hoped to, and liberals will continue to hold their strong majority.

From behind the paywall, my recent piece on Leslie Fiedler, "Love and Death in the American Novel," and the current state of criticism. chronicleofhighereducation.substack.com/p/was-leslie...

I get in on the fun Nancy Lemann renaissance with a look at her trio of new and republished books--two pendant novels and a work of quasi-reportage. Her New Orleans reminds me a little of Winnie-the-Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood, but more humid and soused. Gift link: www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

Yeah, something like this has to be the real answer. The President can't sue an agency he currently controls, it's ridiculous.

Hammam and his family are struggling with hunger and medical needs. He's looking after his brother with disabilities. Any amount makes a difference. Please give if you can.

Just as a raw politics level, Janet Mills' veto of the data center moratorium in Maine suggests that she ultimately has no interest in running for office anymore

PARK CHAN-WOOK WESTERN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good story, which would benefit from noting that this guy is the brother of Casey Means, Trump's woebegone nominee to be surgeon general www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/h...

"We've built a rapid response network to stop ICE detention centers before they start. Receive immediate alerts if a facility is planned for your community and help lead the local fight to stop it..." gtfoice.org