Astounding!! Finally you can see the cover of the anthology I've been working on for the past couple of years with co-editors @npub1mmsl...gq3g and Karen Lord! "We Will Rise Again" is full of essays, interviews, and speculative stories about protest, social movements, and hopeful resistance -- all informed by the experiences of real-life movement leaders and community organizers.

Want to know what US government workers actually do, vs. the propaganda spewed by DOGE? This incredible website, "We the Builders," is full of first-person testimonials from government workers about their actual jobs, and how they make the government work for the public.

We the Builders

We the Builders

For decades, we've done our jobs in the background. We helped with filing taxes, getting veterans' benefits, applying for financial aid, refugees n...

Are you in the New Haven, CT area on 3/31 at 4pm? Want to hear me and brilliant science journalist Carl Zimmer have a conversation about building a more sustainable future? Well come on out to Yale! March 31, 2025, 4:00 – 5:00 pm, Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Room 101 Registration Link: https://cglink.me/2dA/r2292706

Made this helpful little graphic after reading a recent issue of Judd Legum's newsletter, where he and Rebecca Crosby wrote about how DOGE has pushed the NSA to delete internal and external web pages (i.e., digital documents) that contained any of these 27 words. Please share widely.

The NSA's "Big Delete"

Today, the National Security Agency (NSA) is planning a "Big Delete" of websites and internal network content that contain any of 27 banned words, ...

In 1973, a brilliant critic named Stuart Hall created a diagram that changed the way we study media, and could help you survive this moment. Just dropped: the second letter in my series about how to analyze the media in a time of crisis. It's all about codes.

The man who discovered media codes and how to resist them

Morpheus is ready for some discourse theory, in The Matrix (1999). How do you analyze something that is imaginary, symbolic, and exerts its power o...

#media #stuarthall #mediastudies #discourse

It's been a horrific week, but we are going to survive. I've been thinking a lot about how we'll do it. That's why I loved being part of this incredible episode of "To the Best of Our Knowledge," which is about how to survive in an age of disasters. We're going to need history, science, and storytelling to get us through.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Surviving in the Age of Disaster

Floods and fires have always been with us, but now we’re crossing over into a new stage of permacrisis. What survival strategies do we need for t...

Right now, the U.S. is in a media crisis. Just in the nick of time, I'm starting a newsletter series about understanding media in the twenty-first century. I'll teach you how to challenge and change the messages that our media carries. Let's go.

What is "media"? A primer for Americans.

Just in time for a massive transformation in the way we use and consume media in the United States, I’ll be sending you a lot of letters. They’...

Hey #Vancouver friends! I made it to Old Xi'an Noodle House in Richmond!! So happy rn.

I am in #vancouver! I will be here for a couple of months. Any recommendations for good Chinese noodle places (literally any kind of noodle, from any part of China) or hikes or both?

I'm going on a 3-month vacation to Canada with my partner, who needs a biologic to, you know, stay alive. Despite everything I know about how fucked up the US insurance system is, I am still gobsmacked at how cruel they are in their attempts to block his 90-day supply. They gave him a one-week window to fill his prescription with a "vacation override" -- and every day they cancel the pharmacy orders, using various bullshit excuses. It's day 5 and he's still trying to get his prescription filled.