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I love the international cover for Omar El Akkad’s new book, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Bookshop, Amazon). It uses the original text of El Akkad’s tweet about the war in Gaza:
One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.
The US cover, like many American things, is somewhat less subtle & elegant.
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From poet Joseph Fasano: For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper. “I know your days are precious on this earth. But what are you trying to be free of? The living? The miraculous task of it?”
“Every time Social Security makes its way into the news is an opportunity to push for a better & more inclusive form of Social Security: one that rewards caregivers, expands benefits, and provides something like an American dream worthy of the name.”
Paris Marx writes that the US is “a rogue state that cannot be trusted” and that our former allies “must form new alliances and end their dependence on US tech in response to Trump’s trade war”.
A couple of weeks ago, I posted a YouTube video of Doechii singing and rapping about anxiety over Gotye’s Somebody That I Used To Know from 2019 that was going viral on Insta and TikTok. Well yesterday, Doechii officially released Anxiety as a single, so you can find it on YouTube (though I prefer the original video), Spotify, Apple Music, and anywhere else you stream or buy music.
P.S. Here’s Doechii doing a CATFISH / DENIAL IS A RIVER medley at the Grammys last month:
And of course, you can check out her Tiny Desk Concert too.
“De-extinction startup Colossal Biosciences has gene-edited mice to have mammoth-like features, creating what the company calls the Colossal Woolly Mouse.” (They eventually want to do the same w/ Asian elephants.)
“The ‘war on woke’ did not suddenly appear. It is an idea deeply rooted in a form of scientific racism that has been laundered into the mainstream over decades by the Pioneer Fund and right-wing activists connected with this group.”
On Saturday, Steph Curry dunked in a regular-season NBA game for the first time in 6 years (he’s only done it 27 times in his entire career). “That will probably be my last dunk.”
“No constitutional text is well written enough to save the rule of law when the American people elect a president who doesn’t believe in the Constitution, especially when he is joined by a Congress that refuses to hold him accountable for violating it.”
Good grief, the last two paragraphs of Heather Cox Richardson’s piece on Trump’s not-so-new alliance w/ Russia. Kremlin spokesperson: “The new administration is rapidly changing all foreign policy configurations. This largely aligns with our vision.” 😳
