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Severance: Music To Refine To

A Robert Frost poem from 1918, ironically entitled “Nothing New”, has been...

Amy Sherald and Michelle Obama

“Egyptologists have discovered the first tomb of a pharaoh since Tutankhamun’s was...

The Sutro Tower in 3D

Craig Mod on how “leave no trace” and “pack it in, pack...

Here’s what it’s like watching all 24 hours of Christian Marclay’s The...

ANXIETY: Doechii Raps Over Gotye’s Somebody That I Used To Know (2019)

Betty White is getting a stamp from the USPS that commemorates her...

I saw Paddington in Peru last weekend and so it’s been difficult...

Edith Zimmerman imagines books written by fairy tale and Disney princesses in...

Reflections on 25 years of Interconnected. Big congratulations to Matt Webb on...

Wind It Back

Trump expected to take control of USPS, fire postal board. “This is...

An essay on the role of music in political change, with example...

How to Organize Our Way Out of the Trump-Musk Putsch. “The one...

Surviving Fascism: Lessons from Jim Crow. “Accept that this is happening. Denial...

Thing I should not be surprised by but I am somehow surprised...

How Democracy Supporters Can Still Beat Back the Rising Tide of Fascism....

“Masses of enraged, terrified people are looking at the analog, slow-motion leadership...

My Open Letter to Elon Musk. “I will use every tool at...

A bunch of libertarians took over a small NH town and couldn’t...

Judith Butler: To Imagine a World After This, Democracy Needs the Humanities...

Political scientist Adam Przeworski (born in Nazi-occupied Poland) is keeping a diary....

“If you’re looking for some great databases of the ongoing resistance (as...

87% Of Loud Crashing Noises Are Nothing, Report Top Experts From Other...

Microsoft claims they’ve made a significant breakthrough in quantum computing involving Majorana...

Where Do Trans Kids Go from Here? “I never thought that my...

The Information Overwhelm

Here’s a site that tracks how much of Project 2025 has been...

“Firing civil servants and dismantling government departments is how aspiring strongmen consolidate...

“The odds of a city-killer asteroid impact in 2032 keep rising. Should...

Timothy Snyder recaps what he heard at the Munich Security Conference about...

They’re Purposefully Traumatizing the Federal Workforce

If you’re wondering “where are all the protests?!”, they are happening all...

Wokeness Is Not to Blame for Trump. “I believe that it’s we...

Lizzie Wade’s forthcoming book is about human resilience in the face of...

Unbelievably Cruel ASMR Video by the White House of Deporting Immigrants

Over the past 20 years, archaeologists working in the Amazon have found...

Good read. “Dismantling the federal government to prevent that from happening was...

The War on DEI Is a Smoke Screen. “MAGA’s attacks on ‘wokeness’...

Ethan Marcotte resigned from his job at 18F (a GSA subsidiary) rather...

Musk and the Trump Administration are lying about not purging anyone from...

In case you need a new t-shirt: READ BOOKS PUNCH NAZIS. “All...

150-Year-Olds Aren’t Collecting Social Security

Marisa Kabas: Elon Musk & his young acolytes are actual, open Nazis....

The Personal Toll of the Trump/Musk Government Purges

“The future of the Department of Education — and of the students...

NBA star Victor Wembanyama brought a book with him to the All-Star...

The Global Economic Policy Uncertainty Index is at an all-time high right...