Kyle Copas

Out of Sight.

NewsWire • @NewsWire_US U.S. National Debt Has Risen by $2.3 Trillion Since Trump Took Office

Bookmarking this to use whenever Republicans tell me how much they care about the national debt

Chernobyl promo poster, using an awkward, lumpy typeface.

Fonts are in the news, so I'm going to take the opportunity to port over an old thread: what was typography like in the Soviet Union?

Spoiler: they did not just have 1 font everyone had to use. As a matter of fact, there were 39.

One of them, you can see here, used to great effect for "Chernobyl."

YouTube video by Tom Perriello Tom Perriello For Congress Launch Video

Former Rep. Tom Perriello, a Virginia Democrat who won his sole term in a huge 2008 upset, unexpectedly announces campaign against GOP Rep. John McGuire. Trump carried the current version of #VA05 56-43, but it could look a lot different if Democrats convince voters to approve a new map this spring.

Roberto Calasso edition

"I guess I have a very different view of the dangers and real-world consequences of your position than what you explored with Justice Kavanaugh. My understanding was that independent agencies exist because Congress has decided that some issues, some matters, some areas should be handled in this way by nonpartisan experts—that Congress is saying that expertise matters with respect to aspects of the economy and transportation and the various independent agencies that we have. "So having a president come in and fire all the scientists and the doctors and the economists and the PhDs and replacing them with loyalists and people who don't know anything is actually not in the best interest of the citizens of the United States."

Justice Jackson to Solicitor General Sauer (just now, in Trump v. Slaughter arguments):

Can’t find photos of you two together, is why I ask

Wait: …ARE you DB Cooper?

My org @fightforthefuture.org has been “de-googling” for the last year.

We’re totally off Google suite, Google docs, Drive, Calendar.

We’re using Signal and Element for chat, Nextcloud for docs, etc

Planning to publish a “how to” guide for other nonprofits and activist groups soonish.

RIP Martin Parr
Some of my favourite photos

In America, captured drug lords face a choice: Snitch or suffer. Under pressure from the Trump administration, Mexico turned over 55 imprisoned cartel leaders to U.S. authorities this year in two airlift operations kept secret until the planes crossed the border. The prisoners represent the top echelons of Mexico's biggest criminal organizations. Rival drug lords who had ordered the killing of thousands of each other's men sat side-by-side during the transfer. U.S. officials expect many of the prisoners will share firsthand knowledge about the operations of Mexico's underworld in the hopes of getting reduced sentences and more comfortable prison conditions.

And Guantanamo is essential because…why?
www.wsj.com/world/americ...

On #LostSpeciesDay, I think there’s still no finer work of art than W.S. Merwin’s elegy, “For a Coming Extinction” (1967)—even if its righteous, prophetic fury remains improbably, gratefully premature for its addressee, the gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus):
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57936/...

That’s an impressive body of work @wildambience.bsky.social—thanks for sharing #openData with @gbif.org to benefit science and society!
www.gbif.org/occurrence/m...

13000 species! The incredible (10k+ recordings on XC!) Marc Anderson aka @wildambience.bsky.social contributes it: xeno-canto.org/species/Limn..., a frog from the Malay peninsula. Thanks for sharing Marc! #bioacoustics #frogs

Love all these guys and have seen Jimmie Dale many times, but live? Man, Joe Ely came on around noon at Farm Aid IV and torched a sleepy Hoosier Dome with a set ending on Butch’s “Boxcars” as a raging agrarian protest song. Only band to touch G’n’R that day—no survivors: youtu.be/k3vvsYAu0PI?...

Pope stands holding a baseball bat on a plane

Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat

Hagueseth

This is the funniest piece imaginable in the dull world of the otherwise sickly sycophantic tech review.

For real. Read it, even if you don’t give a rat’s ass about printers.

Portrait of Dr. Rita Colwell with short silver-gray hair, smiling warmly at the camera. She is wearing round glasses, pearl earrings, a pearl necklace, a white blouse, and a dark blazer. Her arms are confidently crossed, and she stands against a plain medium-gray studio background.

Microbiologist Dr. Rita Colwell was born #OTD in 1934. She is recognized for her study of global infectious disease spread through water sources. Her research on cholera helped save 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 lives.

She was the first female director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), 1998-2004. #WomenInSTEM

Brisk, sunny day in Copenhagen, but it’s 2:30pm, and the shadows are getting noticeably long. Payback for those long summer days…

Look me in the eye,
then tell me
that I'm satisfied.
Are you satisfied?

Something led me tonight to Wharton Esherick's dictionary stand (via American Craft Council), which reminded me of his library ladder — one of my favorite things digital.craftcouncil.org/digital/coll...

Gift link: wapo.st/4ifEGDx

Trump Says He Plans To Meet With Bolsonaro Before Learning In Real Time That He's Been Arrested

OK so wait. Trump talked to Bolsonaro last night and was planning to meet him “in the very near future”? Sounds to me like he was in on the escape plan. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Trump filling out his NYC DSA membership card to vote on primarying Jeffries right now

Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.

He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

We need more honest language:

Theft Tech (AI)

Grift Tech (crypto)

Death Tech (automated weapons and military surveillance)

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Billie Holiday ~ Paris, Olympia, November 1958

Screenshot of toot by Damian Carrington World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds - Fossil fuel emissions to hit a record high in 2025 - Analyses also show worrying weakening of the planet's natural carbon sinks #COP30 #climatecrisis 个 Guardian World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds

Screenshot of toot from Business for Nature "Biodiversity is the new CO2" But many companies don't know where to start. Our It's Now for Nature Accelerators, like The Biodiversity Shift by @wwf.eu F and The Shift, guide businesses through developing credible nature strategies.

Shot, chaser 😱