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How the fuck do I keep a normal work day when students are being disappeared by the government. I just can’t. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/u...

Being against the Palestinian genocide—implemented by the Israel settler state and funded by the US—is irreproachable. Being convinced to attack the Capitol because of election lies—implemented by the President and funded by billionaire dark money—is insurrection.

People over property

“Give the power to the states” they say. But then they threaten states about the way they operate—from transit to congestion pricing.

Crash symbols

wrote about how phoneworld is killing our political imaginary and making us profoundly miserable in this, a moment when we need to be stronger than ever www.late-review.com/p/the-eterna...

H&R Block and Blick Art Supplies are collaborating to inject art into accounting!

This theory absolutely nails our current situation: the oligarchs ARE next government. Trumpism is just a way to get there. open.substack.com/pub/shanealm...

The USPS is being threatened with massive layoffs and privatization. I made these postcards which—when mailed—will be seen by mail handlers, scanners, carriers and the recipient. I just printed 3,000 more. Order cheaply from halfletterpress.com or message me your email for the PDF to print them.

mRNA vaccines are the biggest breakthrough in disease prevention and treatment in decades. We're curing *cancer* with mRNA vaccines. To eliminate research in this field, at this moment, is fall-of-the-empire-grade stuff.

In the “roaring twenties,” AI Capone ruled an empire of crime in America: bribery, grifting, robbery, “protection” rackets, and murder. And it seemed that law enforcement couldn’t touch it.

Makes sense that our used-car-salesman-in-chief would turn the White House into an auto dealership. It’s grifts all the way down.

Look, folks, this is it. The entire ballgame. Either we're a Republic of laws & the Constitution, or we have a dictator. This is fascism, & the impeachment vote should be happening today. Every single university president in the country should be out, in front of microphones, condemning this.

There’s nothing “unfair” about trans athletes in women’s sports. It’s sports—it’s just for fun. What’s unfair is creating a “gender apartheid” where a class of people can’t participate in society.

Imagine DOGE opens your mail and finds your household electric bill. To eliminate this cost, they burn your house down without warning. Then they total up the bills that, as a homeless person, you will never again pay. On its website, DOGE boasts about the money it has saved you.

No, this is the most ashamed you've felt as an American *so far*.

I've been writing a series of essays for PBS on men whose style I admire. The latest is about James Baldwin, a man who knew how to sing through clothes. www.pbs.org/wnet/america...

The real “Gulf of America”

The age of “soft power” is over. This new USAID logo proposal creates an opportunity to transition from “foreign assistance” to “trolling foreigners.”

One of the world’s richest designers is now a member of the oligarchy fascist sympathizer shadow government.