This is my oldest art instruction book, a deliciously bitchy work from 1918. I have a Mid-Century reprint but I liked the jacket

‘Death sentence’: Trump’s EPA to open habitats of endangered species to logging and mining www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... Deplorable.

Let’s go ahead and call it witness tampering here too

More excellent work from @truthout.org. Highly and gratefully recommended!

Just talked to my old friend Mitch McConnell for 20 minutes.

ICE is not about immigration. ICE is not about the southern border. ICE is about normalizing paramilitary force on our streets. It cannot be reformed. It cannot be retrained. ICE must be abolished.

Hungry Ghosts

There’s a scene in the dystopian sci-fi movie Minority Report where Tom Cruise’s character is riding in an autonomous vehicle that gets remotely commandeered by the police to bring him into custody. The audience is supposed to see this as flagrant disregard for privacy and due process.

"Hark ye yet again--the little lower layer." 🥺

This morning. Yes, my city is STILL occupied by roving military fireteams, for no reason whatsoever. The fact that the president has personally ordered this occupation to continue indefinitely/permanently, and self-styled Conservatives say nothing, makes it more of a poisonous outrage—not less.

I think America will find that electing a serial liar who reinvents reality to suit his needs several times a day is a bad choice to make "deals" with...too late in the day.

Perspective. "Every minute spent fighting other women is a minute not spent challenging the structures that benefit from that fight. The competition is rigged, no one wins it except the patriarchy that set it up in the first place." Highly recommended!

BREAKING: Donald Trump executed 3,642 securities transactions during the first quarter, averaging nearly 58 trades for every U.S. trading day. This translates to roughly nine trades every hour or about one trade every seven minutes during market hours, per YF

End of Kaijune double feature monster mash ! Mechagodzilla vs Hedorah grand collaboration with @rapidpunches.itch.io #kaijune

So this is the sort of thing that having a robust counterdisinformation team can swiftly prevent from getting into policy - but we needed the backing of institutions and we had all just been defunded when this happened. This is what we had been putting a stop to previously

Highly and gratefully recommended!

Excellent essay by @professormeredith.bsky.social, particularly on some misleading elements of "choice feminism," a term I'd never heard before. Highly and gratefully recommended! substack.com/home/post/p-...

TikTok's latest illegal 'life hack' seems to be 'dispute credit card transactions for free stuff' and legality aside I am here to beg you: Do not do this to small businesses. It really fucks them over in ways you may not be aware of beyond stealing from them (which is, to be clear, what this is).🧵

Wondy

This isn’t just oddly inappropriate. It suggests that the ongoing Middle East negotiations are intertwined with private profit-making opportunities for the Trump family.

And yet, ’tis a noble and heroic thing, the wind! who ever conquered it?

Meanwhile in real life: “Great Britain has paid at least six times the normal price for imported power as millions turn on air conditioning”

I had the honor of copyediting Stacey Patton's "Strung Up" from @beaconpress.bsky.social, to be published in October. This is a great promo for it. Looking forward to the conversation about this excellent book and the devastating history it uncovers.

This week's comic now up on @dailykos.com - www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

Leaders around the world are banking on tech advances to solve climate change. One leading idea involves capturing carbon pollution from the air and then burying it underground forever. It sounds practical. Here’s why there's no conceivable way it can work: (THREAD)

scotus decision day! it’s like a sneaker drop but instead of shoes we get fresh horrors

my child was born with an aggressive, life threatening cancer. he would have died if he had been born 10, even 5 years earlier. because of advances in treatment protocols, he's currently curled up in my arms. this is dangerous, murderous bullshit

I missed that late last night, the Senate held another vote on an Iran war powers resolution -- they already passed the one that passed the House, earlier this week -- for the sole purpose of voting it down in a show to Trump that they support him. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 OMG

Feds tracked down a poll worker on election day at a polling place, allegedly for a post accurately naming the ICE officer who killed Renee Good and calling for him to face charges for his actions. The intersection of draconian censorship and potential interference w/ elections is 🆘

All that glitters must be the new gold adornments in the Oval Office. President Donald Trump’s aesthetic changes in Washington aren’t just about visuals. They’re about symbolizing power.

From @andreapitzer.bsky.social. "We appear to be destroying human possibility even as we’ve arrived at a seemingly unprecedented moment in history, in which we would be capable of providing for everyone and protecting the planet." Highest recommendation!

In one of the oldest cities in Lebanon, once besieged by Alexander the Great, ordinary people struggle to survive Israeli attacks. n.pr/4xZmZQ6

Another day, another disappointment.

Post from March 1st about Turkey:

Just saw this meme, so don't know how old it is, but the tech-bro loser on the left doesn't deserve to have his brazen propaganda appear alongside -- as if somehow commensurate with -- @naomiaklein.bsky.social's incisive correction.

U.S. government claiming Musk has the right to poison Memphis because xAI is "vital" to national security, because the Pentagon signed a contract with them. Elite immunity is a cancer that causes cancer, among countless other ills. www.wired.com/story/doj-la...

A 22-year-old just got a $30 million investment valuing his new futures exchange at $300 million. He graduated Stanford, wrote for Thiel's Stanford Review, interned at Andreessen Horowitz. His mom? Pro-crypto Sen. Gillibrand, D-NY. Bipartisan capture in full bloom. fortune.com/2026/06/18/t...

My latest Substack post. substack.com/home/post/p-...

The purpose of this technology is not to accurately identify people but rather to instill in everyone the fear that they are constantly being watched.

Lovely lovely porcelain pots ❤️ dont think i’ll ever stop making these Available on www.roseschmits.com

The Minneapolis activists arrested for defending their communities this week heartened and comforted each other in their jail cells by singing.

someone should tell hegseth that disease has taken out more soldiers than any armament

Before Trump paused Jay Clayton’s nomination, Democrats thought they were on a “glide path” to renewing FISA. Now the president wants to tie domestic surveillance to voter suppression. interc.pt/4aW6JoR

No one does a better job of centering and advocating for the targets, victims, and survivors of systemic abuse and injustice than @mskellymhayes.bsky.social. Highest and most urgent recommendation!

From @andreapitzer.bsky.social. "GEO Group experienced a nearly eightfold increase in profits between the last year Biden was in office and the first year of Trump’s second administration, now earning a quarter of a billion dollars in profit." Highest and most urgent recommendation!