"The request for a gift for King Charles came from a State Department liaison who used the email address “giftgirl2025” and initially told the museum that they were looking for “like a sword or something,” according to a person familiar with the discussions." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...

👏 stop 👏 requiring 👏 recommendation letters 👏 in 👏 the 👏 first 👏 round 👏 of 👏 academic 👏 job 👏 applications

The new call for entries for the Herzog August Bibliothek Artist’s Book Prize 2026 is now open. Create a new work in response to the collection. Prize: €6,000 plus a four-week residency at HAB in Wolfenbüttel, Germany. Application deadline: 31st December 2025. Info at: www.hab.de/en/artists-b...

This piece is smart throughout, but the ending really knocks it out of the park💥

Trump is rescinding road safety grants all over the country, in blue states and red ones. The reason: those projects are "hostile" to cars. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Fuzzy’s Deary, ID

zine psa: please number your pages please

*80 percent* drop in mail to the US because Trump is taxing every single small package anyone might want to send someone here

this is real chaos for small businesses: overnight, shipping to the US became impossible. the small publisher I’m working with in Portugal suddenly has to totally reimagine their business or else forfeit the entire US market www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

40 issues of my Public Collectors project QUARANZINE from 2020 are on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago now until July 2026. That is 11 months. It just occurred to me: What will this country even be in 11 months? What will it be in 4 months? That feels like an eternity right now.

“Calvinball jurisprudence.”

Miners Cafe Laurium, MI

What's wild about the 85th percentile is that lots of US states use it to set all speed limits, but the original idea (from the 1930s) was to let observed driver speeds shape speed limits on **rural roads**. It was never intended for urban areas w/pedestrians & cyclists!

so, in the course of a month, the New York Times reassigned four veteran critics, the Washington Post’s film critic took a buyout, Vanity Fair decided it doesn’t need a film critic at all, and the Associated Press got rid of book criticism altogether? Cool.

"Perhaps social-media influencers are today’s critics and curators, but even as our feeds promise 'discovery,' they mostly serve us what we already like. We have no idea what we’re missing." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Prairie dog Mellette, SD

Neat to have lived through the tail end of a rare bubble of stability and normalcy.

This is in diplomatic language because it has to be, but the upshot is: Hi, NH arts orgs, 6/7 of us have been laid off and the 7th is being forced to sell imaginary tax credits that won't fund the arts b/c the state legislature is full of brain-damaged loons.

“There is no more crucial time than now to speak up on behalf of libraries + the IMLS than now. There are 17 members on the Labor, Health + Human Services, Education, + Related Agencies Subcommittee... Each and every one of them should be contacted over the next couple of weeks”

As an artist who makes signs I was proud that my son gravitated to this sign puzzle. But the Judy Instructo "Safety" instructional toy thought that kids should be taught the no bikes sign instead of a bike lane sign? And they say there is war on cars. @thewaroncars.bsky.social

Kastle Kreme Galesburg, IL

Thanks to everyone who has purchased, shared or stocked my Signs to Save Your Library book. Today, with your help I donated $135 to the @americanlibraryassociation Show Up for Libraries fund. www.shortteditions.com/product/sign...

Election worker: “Emily Mandel. Isn’t that a writer’s name?” Me: “I’m a writer.” Election worker: “Oh, I was thinking Hilary Mantel, never mind”

Japan's zine scene is booming, in a quiet yet radical determination to uphold and celebrate the handcrafted, the analogue, the unashamedly individual. www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025...

Someone in Chicago made protest flyers that mimic the design of handbills that contractors put on people’s garages. I saw one on my garage this morning and then noticed many more when I went out for an early walk. A lot of contractors are undocumented so they will surely see these.

Like many of my colleagues, today is my last day at the NEH. It seems like a good time to share that on June 20 I’m returning to the Univ. of Florida libs to lead work in copyright and scholcomm. Big thank you to the letter writers who helped ensure I could start fresh with tenure and promotion.

I believe that today, June 10, is the day that the RIF'd NEH @nehgov.bsky.social employees officially separate from the government. What a complete (and completely unnecessary) loss for us all. And what a betrayal of their service to us. Sending gratitude to all public servants this morning.

Butch's — Shirley's Rosebud, MO

Can someone buy me this from the David Lynch Auction: www.juliensauctions.com/en/items/142...

I'm excited to announce one of my most personal books. How to be a Toddler! This book was inspired by things my son Arden has done over the last two years. I'm offering free US shipping now through Saturday on my entire store. Use code: FREESHIP www.shortteditions.com/product/how-...

This Sunday, the Baltimore arts community will commemorate the vital contributions made by Kim Domanski. BmoreArt has gathered together many fond remembrances of Kim, and I was honored to reflect upon her contributions and our shared sense of grief. bmoreart.com/2025/05/reme...

Thank you @cetracey.bsky.social for your generous review of «The Company»: lareviewofbooks.org/article/form... <3

personally i just want to post to my friends and read my friends’ posts, and maybe find other people to connect with who could be friends. i don’t want Larger Debate. i don’t want to be in a marketplace of ideas. i don’t want algorithms or ads. i just want to be able to talk to my friends

My booth at last weeks Printed Matter LA Art Book Fair #laabf2025 Sadly I lost my voice on Saturday, so not as much fun as normal.

Taking the whole ROAD ✔️ Distracted (singing) ✔️ No helmets ✔️ No lights ✔️ No reflective vests ✔️ Riding in a pack ✔️ Textbook radical anti-car cyclists.

I had a dream at was at John Waters house for a Pope Party and there was lots of Capicola: youtu.be/YsBipoG22Nw?...

"A leading museum in the Netherlands has said it is reconsidering lending works from its collection to museums in the US amid the uncertainty wreaked by Donald Trump’s funding cuts and ideological impositions." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

You can find me tabling here next weekend! I'll be at booth N10. Shortt Editions.

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

The Environmental Protection Agency plans to end Energy Star, a popular program whose iconic blue labels have certified the energy efficiency of home appliances for more than three decades, according to two people briefed on the matter.

I’m just a boy staring at an emergency room TV asking it for subtitles.

Congratulations to MEET ME BY THE FOUNTAIN and THE DESIGN OF CHILDHOOD author Alexandra Lange, who is the 2025 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Criticism!

But I don't think it will be enough. I don't think we can mutual-aid our way through the collapse of institutional support without innumerable casualties. And of course, the constriction of funding always means that arts & media become more the provinces of only people who can afford to do them.

Two years ago, I heard that Taiwan's govt had unearthed surveillance files from the secret police of its authoritarian era. They were finally becoming open to the public, nearly four decades after Taiwan's democratisation. I wanted to see what was inside: www.economist.com/1843/2025/05...

NYPD Tickets Dead Cyclist For Obstructing Bike Lane

Working on the first book inspired by my 2 year old son.

So insulting to the diligent employees, reviewers, & applicants. That second paragraph alone suggests prior awards weren’t merit-based & erodes any confidence I might have that future awards will be merit-based. Phrases like “extreme ideologies based upon race or gender” are racist & misogynistic.

I wrote about Christian Marclay’s video piece Doors, its US premier is now at @icaboston.bsky.social dadadrummer.substack.com/p/fear-and-f...

one other way to think of this is that it is a massive program of upwards redistribution to wealthy business owners who can skimp on worker, consumer and environmental safety to juice profits for themselves www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/u...