Today is the day. The last day! Let’s go Virginia. Get out there and vote. Fight back! Vote yes!

Virginia Woolf, more than a hundred years ago:

just write it terrible for five minutes and see where it goes. or write questions to yourself into the draft—“what the fuck goes here, i don’t know, but it’s something about blah blah this will sound smarter later” is acceptable rough draft material

this small thread is a quenching chaser to the Palantir thread (& it’d be better if members of Congress were saying it)

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

it is, among other things, incredibly striking to see that roberts was so solicitous of the burden the clean power plan might put on fossil fuel executives, when, a decade later, he is indifferent to the way trump’s moves have thrown hundreds of thousands of lives into turmoil.

Over just five days, the justices had decided the issue. Even as they debated the Obama plan’s possible burden on the power industry, in the entire chain of correspondence obtained by The Times, not a single justice, conservative or liberal, mentioned the dangers of a warming planet as one of the possible harms the court should consider.

Another data point in “originalism is a fraud.” So much for the law is the law we can’t think about the impact. They rail against “results oriented judging” in public but when their corporate clients make requests they know exactly what to do. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

Who Is Blake Whiting? - The American Scholar The most astonishingly productive historian in recent times is someone you’ll never meet

Reading. theamericanscholar.org/who-is-blake...

I watched so many folks I care about have their lives destroyed by these people, while media dismissed their warnings or gaslit them about the harms happening to them. I genuinely feel it cost people their lives. And nobody even *mentions* it, let alone tries to hold these scumbags accountable.

It's all GamerGate all of it

United States Ambassador To Italy Mrs Clare Boothe Luce Listens To The Words Of Pope Pius Xii,During An Audience At The Pontiff'S Lakeside Summer Residence.13 October 1955

American conservative politician Clare Boothe Luce converted to Catholicism in 1946.

In a 1953 meeting with Pope Pius XII, she was fiercely lecturing the pontiff on the Church's moral duty to fight communism when the Pope finally interrupted her.

"You know, Mrs. Ambassador, I am a Catholic too."

Typical convert.

Israel has killed 11 Palestinians in Gaza today. Including children.

Just seen a horrific video of a man with half his head blown off.

Israel has not stopped killing Palestinians during the 'ceasefire.'

Stolen Children • EQUATOR On Switzerland’s hidden persecution of the Yenish people

Lots of cool stuff coming out of Equator, a new mag with an explicitly international outlook that challenges western dominance of culture and society.

This is a fascinating piece on how Switzerland harassed the Yenish and Sinti, two Traveler communities, from 1926-1973.

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain with $255 billion

A Story of Trans Genocide, Now and Then, in a Single Photo On the histories we forgot — and who burned them

When the Nazis came for trans people in 1933, they burned the Institute of Sexual Sciences in the street, setting back trans healthcare and advocacy by a century.

We were picking up the pieces again, and now the US regime has, as the Nazis did, make anti-trans panic a top priority.

2/16

CARDINAL CUPICH: “We’re dehumanizing victims of war by turning the suffering of people and the killing of children and our own soldiers into entertainment. It’s sickening.”

No wonder Trump lashed out at the Pope today.

raise your hand if you are old enough to remember Bush's 48 hours ultimatum or "Shock and Awe"

If you think you hate AI, I promise you don't hate it enough.

The United States is destroying itself | Rebecca Solnit The daily news can’t adequately convey the administration’s sabotaging of our government, economy, alliances and environment

The United States is destroying itself | Rebecca Solnit

A ghoul.

Hardcover edition of Strange People on the Hill as seen in my office. Out today!

Strange People on the Hill is out today!

If you feel this cultural moment—the “cold civil war”—has taken a toll on your psyche, this book will speak to you: www.boldtypebooks.com/titles/micha...

Impeaching Trump is addressing costs and corruption directly. But these brake pads in human form.....

25th

25th.

April 3 (the fall of Richmond) and April 9 (Lees surrender at Appomattox) are important emancipation day celebrations for formally enslaved communities in VA. April 9 was recognized as an emancipation holiday from Lynchburg east through King William county. Here is my little blurb for the library.

Congressman Ro Khanna speaks my language.

“The base wants fighters!”🔥

We didn't deserve this day.

NOW: B52 bombers are literally in the air on their way to Iran and hundreds of thousands of Iranians are in the streets waving flags and surrounding bridges & power plants.

Difficult to imagine this has any precedent in modern warfare.

(🎥 Al Jazeera)