Former teacher and state school superintendent

As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.

Anyway this entire thread is actually about how Emmylou Harris released the best album of her life in the 90s and I need, like, Natalie Merchant and Alanis Morrisette to up their fucking game.

All of these men are white.

Maybe you're a normal Democratic liberal. Ask yourself: Does the party inspire you? Do you think it's been effective at fighting the dire situation we're in? Do you feel represented in the party? Are you bothered that anyone can be a Democrat, and there are no democratic processes inside the party?

We are Legion.

I should be participating in the politics of joy but I've been captivated by the Cuomo party live feed. Hypnotic schadenfreude. Mind-blowing playlist.

RIP Peter Watkins. His whole filmography was an incisive stab to the gut. If you've never seen his work, I recommend starting with Punishment Park, an eternally troubling look at the swings of authoritarianism in motion. It's a masterpiece.

Jake Tapper is a stain on journalism

Set up a small monthly. So worth it.

Listening to the Prefab Sprout ep of @junkfilterpod.bsky.social. I start making connections to bands like Talk Talk that I am more immersed in and hear spiritual kinship.

Viva la rana.

I get why TechCrunch would write it this way, but I largely disagree with this framing. The broad conversation here is about power, respect, control and whether the voices of the vulnerable are taken seriously. This is the story of a leader and a team showing that they don’t get that.

Mountains of evidence that Ted Cruz is an awful person and derelict politician, and both are undergirded by his self-loathing.

Yes, it’s a weird theory. But no more weird than the president posting an AI video of himself promising to give Americans a magic bed that could regenerate limbs.

If Ollie Wainwright were On Here I'd @ him

Temple Grandin is 78 yrs old.

I feel like the day you learn you can't unilaterally overrule the First Amendment via getting your ass kicked by Jimmy Kimmel might be a bad day to announce you've discovered one weird trick to undo millennia of medical science. I feel like you might not be projecting the strength you think you are.

genuinely crazy that this is happening on behalf of charlie kirk of all people

In short: Happy Constitution Day!

I continue to be amazed at the absolute lack of courage

Y’all made me think there was something verifiable for a minute,

Museum of Jurassic Technology reopens after escaping destruction in fire | LAist

“Hey quick follow up for the History Respecter — what aspect of the Confederacy are you *most* proud of? The treason against the United States? The defense of slavery? All the losing? I bet it’s the losing.”

I'm going to let A.R. take the lead here for articulating what I have been holding back.

Wrote a thing about the Christian industrial complex art historian in charge of destroying academia and the left by calling them all terrorists’ book about art and democracy: “Coates’s idea of liberty seems ready to accommodate a lot of tyranny to get things done.” www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...

Reminder that The republicans do not plan on being voted out of power. They have spent decades attempting to get this far they will not be stopped by voting. They are out in the open building the systems needed to never lose power and hold elections and have been for 40 years.

I just had a terrible thought. LLMs training up on names in film credits from...way back till now

Been thinking about this guy a lot. He may not save the country on his own but I really believe there are millions of people like him and I think they will. (Link to full story in alt text)

It is absolutely time to re-release Peter Watkins' Punishment Park (1971).

do you ever think about how stupendously unnecessary it all is

Secret police” got the name because they do surveillance and are often plain-clothed (or in ICE’s case masked). But the thing that has defined them since the 18th century was that they operate independently of civil police with a goal of maintaining social and political control. Again, that’s ICE.

Happy to share that I'm offering photography book development and consultation through the great platform @photophlo.bsky.social. Here's the announcement covering my and Peter Krask's joining the esteemed faculty.

Highly recommended reading if your countercultural milieu was specifically Gen X

The Nobel Committee is duly impressed.

Hey, folks! UT Press is running a summer sale, and you can get 40% off on a copy of our book on the ancient ecosystems of West Texas. Use the offer code UTXSPRING during checkout! (What's in it? Some lovely @juliuscsotonyi.bsky.social sketches and some very nice writing, if I do say so myself.)

I just backed ProtoToto Design Lab for Kids on @kickstarter.com. There's still time to support this campaign! www.kickstarter.com/projects/suz...

They have made the world living hell for no reason whatsoever. People will ask why this happened in a decade and there will be tremendous effort to make it more complicated than “they were evil, stupid, and bored”

David Lynch's rain stick went north of 5k at auction. www.juliensauctions.com/en/items/142...

When you see a book that you edited in David Lynch's library, you know you're doing something right: www.juliensauctions.com/en/items/142...

We have to win. We will, ultimately. I believe that. I do not question that. But we do not have time to fuck around because people are being slaughtered now. They are being forced to suffer now. And their lives are precious. So please God, let this week be the match that ignites us all.

this is just what “mass deportation” looks like, it’s government stormtroopers kicking down doors and ripping parents from crying kids while pepper spraying their protesting family and neighbors

Indeed--for the average Joe, whether at a meter or in a garage, parking is *free in NYC!

The federal government is trying to kill 150,000 trans people in the United States. I can count the number of cis people talking about this on one hand.

Let's go!

Anyone here that can make this a gift article? (would love to read this but don’t have a NYT account)