David Lawless

Selling Zohran | Defector On a cool Sunday in November, a few days after Donald Trump’s re-election, Zohran Mamdani stood on a street corner in Jamaica, Queens, holding up a hastily drawn cardboard sign that read “DID YOU VOTE...

watching the Mamdani campaign from afar during the primary, so many things were impressive, among them the incredible work his online video team was doing to spread the message in fun, creative, educational, invigorating ways that spoke to people

this is my story about how they did it

You can tell the campaign staff is good because you don't know any of their names.

(bluesky user bursts into Waffle House) OH SO YOU HATE PANCAKES??

War ravaged Portland.

Fixed

Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.

Velvet art museum, of course. Sadly now shuttered

The Media's Pivot to AI Is Not Real and Not Going to Work AI is not going to save media companies, and forcing journalists to use AI is not a business model.

"Betting that this time, hinging the future of our industry on massive, monopolistic tech giants will work out is the most Lucy with the football thing I can imagine." www.404media.co/the-medias-p...

Link is feeling empirical

I wish private equity could buy climate change so it would stop
working

It’s the billionaire-class flavour of the “risk-aversion” model, where periods of prosperity and stability ironically fuel a turn toward ideologically conservative/reactionary positions - rooted less in survival anxiety & more in boredom, identity threats, and perceived/invented external dangers.

Your favorite campgrounds, hiking trails, and forests could soon be up for auction Republicans want to make 250 million acres of public lands eligible for sale to housing developers.

I know everything is on fire but PLEASE contact your representatives about the selloff of public lands. It's a heartbreaking proposal that will destroy the soul of America.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

My god. 6 MILLION acres of public lands in Oregon, including the vast majority of our national forests, will be sold in a fire sale if the MAGA budget passes.

Trump Administration Abandons Deal With Northwest Tribes to Restore Salmon The Trump administration canceled a deal, signed under President Joe Biden, that would have enabled the removal of four hydroelectric dams along the Columbia River that are considered harmful to salmo...

"Trump signed an executive order in April to 'restore American seafood competitiveness' but in revoking the Columbia River agreement has canceled millions of dollars to support the programs that seed the ocean with fish to catch."

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

I gave up trying to reform it. We've gotta build something bigger and better. The propaganda, the copaganda, the immigrant panic is too thoroughly embedded in institutional journalism. It's part of why it's dying. I stopped mourning this and started seeing opportunity. We can build something better.

Cries of Defiance and Songs of Joy in Los Angeles The protesters are being called unspeakably violent by the Trump administration. I mostly saw clergy sit-ins and Tejano bands.

This took a while to get done, but I've chronicled my day among the protesters in Los Angeles, and the idea that this is anything but a celebration of cultural heritage and a firm, nonviolent demand to protect family, friends and neighbors is totally ridiculous.
prospect.org/justice/crie...

In-house agencies navigate a new phase of purpose and pressure When the economy turns sour, marketers are the first in their businesses to taste it, especially the ones on in-house teams.

“In-house teams, in particular, sit in a precarious spot. They live in the tension between big expectations and limited authority, a dynamic that becomes more difficult to navigate when the floor starts to shake.”

flip.it/_-Ur9t

Five favourite black and white movies:

La Haine
Ice Cold in Alex
A Bout de Souffle
Night of the Hunter
Sweet Smell of Success

Editor: You get the pictures for the air traffic controller story?

Photographer: Sure did boss. Real fucking sexy just like you asked.

Editor: What

What are the 5 best Tom Waits songs?

If you don't know who Tom Waits is, please re-post this until you find someone who wants to share their answer (while you're listening to every album).

Hold On
Looking for the Heart of Saturday Night
Kentucky Avenue
Jersey Girl
Heartattack & Vine

Nothing wrong with the name Lawless. Everything wrong with this picture but that badass lady who wasn’t going to get bullied

The Hollywood Reporter: Although the entertainment business is still grappling with President Donald Trump‘s post suggesting that a tariff on foreign-made films is in the works, the White House said in a clarifying statement Monday that “no final decisions on foreign film tariffs have been made.” “Although no final decisions on foreign film tariffs have been made, the Administration is exploring all options to deliver on President Trump’s directive to safeguard our country’s national and economic security while Making Hollywood Great Again,” White House spokesman Kush Desai tells The Hollywood Reporter.

lmao. every day, every time. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

Hey! Press covering Trump!

The statute that lets him impose tariffs at will? It EXPLICITLY excludes movies.

He has no authority to do this. Not just bc of an absence of authorization, but bc the law says “you CANNOT do this.”

Do NOT say “Trump has imposed movie tariffs,” bc he did not. He CANNOT.

SORRY, NERDS 5/4 1s DAVE BRUBECK DAY

#MusicSky #MayTheFourth

Steve Guttenberg as a retired assassin compelled to take up arms again to save his estranged grandkids

Movie u have watched more than six times using gifs

(Hard mode no Star Wars, Star Trek or LOTR)