Oh, and of course, as an added bonus, it distracts from the story that the Narcissist in Chief is a PDF file.

Retaliatory Tariffs? Better strategy: legalize jailbreaks to target the Enshitification Barons that put Trump in power and liberate the internet from America's Monopolist Tech industry. Cory Doctorow's call to adversarial interoperability arms.

The Journalist who originally broke the Epstein story was being tracked by the DOJ of Trump the First. Somebody needs to explain why.

BREAKING: We won an Anthem Award for the #SpoonfulOfLaughter campaign!! Co-created by Dancing Fox and diaTribe: Curiosity, compassion, and connection are kryptonite to diabetes stigma; comedy is the Trojan Horse that gets all three inside the city gates.

"The Stories we Share" was my subject for the Stronger Roots Conference in Prague yesterday. Incredibly inspiring to hear so many stories of hope from these champions of democracy, freedom, and a just and empathetic civil society.

And now for something completely different. The wonderful Hilary Barrett interprets an I-Ching reading I cast in 1982, which nudged (or shoved) me to join Greenpeace. Who knew a 3,000 year old book could say "DUH!?!?"

Today I learned: About the "Millennial Pause." A Tik Tok phenom that separates people who grew up on video as a staged, prepared, analogue, professionally shot and unspontaneous form and the Gen-Z ers for whom immediate-on phone video is a native format. vm.tiktok.com/ZGdayR...

Trump's Government is corrupt. Shut it down, Dems, shut it down. @chuckschumer

On the train home from working with teen Junk Food activists Bite Back I discover Oli, who was in my workshop yesterday, in my news feed today via the BBC. That's Culture Jamming. @BiteBack2030 #CommercialBreak

On the Eurostar, preparing a training for the A-MAZING young activists of Bite Back. Their #CommercialBreak campaign is pure campaign improv: they flipped the refusal to run their award-winning ads into a people-powered pivot. #EverythingIsAGift

Loving Gavin Newsom’s Trump trolling. Taking him on at his own game. Superbly. His social media team is 🔥… or maybe he’s writing his own? Either way, it’s the first effective pushback I’ve seen from Dems.

A book that was written when I was 4 years old would one day change my life. Bill McKibben on Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. www.newyorker.com/ma...

The 1985 spy story of how the French Secret Service bungled their way across New Zealand to sink the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior in order to "anticipate" her protests against nuclear weapons testing in the Pacific. slate.com/news-and-p...

This is satire as nonviolent direct action. South Park episode goes meta with outrageous (1 of 50) taunt to parent company Paramount & Trump to cancel it "for financial reasons." #ColbertLives www.newyorker.com/cu...

Outstanding long read from Grist on the story behind Energy Transfer's 666 million lawsuit against Greenpeace. grist.org/project/indi...

Paramount cancels Colbert for "financial" reasons. In unrelated news, Paramount's Star Trek has cast a new Captain, with Donald Trump set "to boldly go someplace where, frankly, a lot of people tell me, a lot of people, that nobody, and I mean nobody, has ever gone before."

Until Dancing Fox worked with #HopeAndHomesForChildren, I generally thought orphanages were a good thing. They really opened my eyes to the need to get kids back to family, and not "warehouse" them in institutions. This story from Ireland is shocking. www.hopeandhomes.org...

If they come for Colbert, they'll have to get past the millions of us for whom he's the last bastion of sanity, essential therapy, and the light of hope. Pitchforks at dawn, people. #Paramount #CBS # Shakedown @colbertlateshow latenighter.com/news...

A lot of us elder hippies know exactly where they were on this day 40 years ago. open.substack.com/pu...

It ain't 4 dimensional chess, it's Improv Donald - the improv game where when he hears the bell, he needs to make a new choice - for example, "I hate dogs" 🛎️ "I hate cats" 🛎️ "I hate authoritarian narcissists" #Improv #Trumpmemes #Trumpsucks youtube.com/shorts/U...

My personal definition of a civilized city: not just no need for a car, but the same care and attention for the alternatives that car infrastructure gets.

Umm, maybe Brexit is where he should focus his actual anger. "Netherlands down a Nobel Prize as winner loses his Dutch nationality | NL Times" nltimes.nl/2025/07/02/n...

Shouldn't he be vowing to reward Republicans who show a spine? Money shouldn't be the determining factor in an election, but if you're gonna wield it, wield it to reward integrity rather than a cudgel to do what you demand.

Finding your Activist Friends. Yes, I've linked it before, but it's such a goody from @epilepticrabbit. blog.weareopen.coop/...

Canva Ads: Phil Agnew cites these as examples of "𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠...the idea that people judge value by the 𝐚𝐦𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞 that went into something." They're also very clever, which makes my heart sing more than the cost.

This is what courage looks like. Don't let tyrants redefine protest as insurrection.

So in the Netherlands there's a bit of a branding problem with "No Kings" since we have a King, but he's a decent enough fellow who rides a bike and doesn't send armed forces against his own when people disagree with him. #NoTyrants nltimes.nl/2025/06/1...

+1 cautionary note about messaging Trump Always Chickens Out (TACO). I don't want him pettily deciding "I'll show those Dems" as he contemplates sending Marines to attack domestic protestors, or considers a nuclear strike. Think toddler psychology, people. www.messageboxnews.c...

"[The crew of the Madleen] knew they wouldn’t reach Gaza. But they also knew that the world needs reminders, loud, visible, defiant reminders, that what’s happening in Gaza is not normal, not justifiable, and not tolerable." -- Yossi Cadan www.greenpeace.org/c...

"We wake up to the news of Trump considering declaring California a police state, and Netanyahu considering killing Greta Thunberg if she dares to dock her humanitarian aid boat in Gaza." Michael Moore on Chris Hedge's paeon to Colonia Trumpiana. chrishedges.substack...

Our Climate Needs a Mythology: "This is the great paradox of climate change: it is both the most scientifically documented crisis in human history and the most poorly narrated. We have an abundance of evidence, and a deficit of meaning." solitairetownsend.su...

"If Sound can signal a change let it be this one." Brian Eno, who created the Microsoft Windows opening chime sound, bites the hand that once fed him for its complicity in genocide in Palestine. www.instagram.com/p/...

The Land of Hope and Dreams vs Make America Great Again. Great piece on two competing visions of the US. www.nytimes.com/2025...

Did I ever tell you about the time I fell out of a hot air balloon? If you're in Amsterdam, you can hear the whole story this Friday at the Tell Amsterdam storytelling night at #BoomChicago fareharbor.com/embed...

I've said it before and I'll say it again: the comments section of the NYT's Connections Puzzle may be the last vestige of my hope for America. ❤️🦋 #Connections @NewYorkTimes

I saw something extraordinary on stage recently, and it changed me. story4change.substac...

Biden was "Pushing Upward."

An Activist, a person with diabetes, and a comedian walk into a bar... Beth Strachan and I do a podcast about How Dancing Fox teamed up with diaTribe to shift cultural narratives around diabetes with sketch comedy and stand up 🥸 #spoonfuloflaughter brooks.digital/healt...

Fascinating report, wonderful integrity. At the end of the day, no matter who took it, that image shaped & cemented my generation's horror at US actions in Vietnam. It was part of my journey towards peace activism.

I love this so much: Relax… it's only the climate crisis Oilwell is a wellness app to help you embrace climate chaos. 🔥🔥🔥 https://oilwell.app/

I recently played a conspiracy-spouting rooster hawking quack cures for bird flu at #BoomChicago. 💥🐓💉 People, I swear: comedy is an undervalued 🐴 Trojan Horse of truth 🐴, improv is an activist's best skill set, and there was a time it saved my ass: story4change.substac...

It's for days like these that I added an "Explain" link to my HomeAssistant daily #XKCD #HACS widget. www.explainxkcd.com/...

Great Saturday read: My Miserable Week in the ‘Happiest Country on Earth’ www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/m...

Pretty good diagnosis of the need to recognize that politics sits downstream from culture: "A generation of 70-year-olds who called for the departure of an 81-year-old fail to understand how anyone under 60 gets information about the world." www.nytimes.com/2025...

Rümeysa Öztürk, a Turkish woman on a student visa, was grabbed near XKCD author Randall Munroe's home by 6 masked plainclothes agents and sent to detention in Louisiana. Her apparent crime: she signed an article protesting Tuft University's handling of protests over Gaza.

A community that didn't have a basketball team because of high rates of asthma, how they stopped what would have been the world's largest trash incinerator, and why you've never heard that story. narrativeedit.substa...

For second year in a row, Iceland won't kill whales this season. Meanwhile, the whale watching industry thrives. Andrew Davies hatched the idea of a reverse boycott in 2004: a pledge to visit Iceland if whaling stopped. Sometimes campaigns take decades. www.ruv.is/english/2...

Great use of House Media: Johnny Cashew's email footer. When you hit the banner, you go to this teaser to their (if we do say so ourselves) rather wonderfully written Impact Report: johnnycashew.com/che...

The Hungarian far right government just amended their constitution to limit LGBTQI+ rights even further. This goes completely against the right to protest. ✨ Pride is like glitter, you can never get rid of it. 🌈 We will be in Budapest on 28 June, no matter what. Sign here: www.tilt.green/pride

Empathy isn't weakness, Elon. The expansion of empathy in ever widening circles to people beyond the borders of ourselves, our family, our tribe, our race, our nation, and our species is the core measure of humanity's progress. #Empathy