Summer Song Leftovers Restock at 5:00 PM EST Today 🌺

"the duty of the writer ... is to remind us that we will die. And that we aren’t dead yet." --Solmaz Sharif

Those who do not remember the past are doomed to repeat it. Those who do remember it are also doomed.

No, I am not going to write about what Harris should have done, and pretend that my personal biases/preferences have some kind of universal significance

History = a series of endless cataclysms Poetry = in the middle of all this a human voice is trying to sing

Democrats don’t have a messaging problem. They have a distribution problem. Liberals need to get innovative about how they’ll push out the truth amid this information ecosystem dominated by a powerful right-wing disinformation machine.

To everyone who is afraid of what happens next, I share your fears. But what we do next is important. We have to learn from what happened. And then, make a plan. As we confront a second Trump presidency, here’s a path forward: 🧵

This is all true. And the great mobilizer? Racism, sexism, and grievance at those below, not above. This has its dark precedents in American history.

last hint before the big announcement is that thanks to the die cut sleeve, the cover is reversible and can be changed to display an alternate display with a song lyric 🤍

That was a cataclysm. Electoral map wipeout. Senate D practical ceiling is now 52 seats. R's is 62. Time to rebuild the left. We are out of touch with the crisis of meaning/purpose fueling MAGA. We refuse to pick big fights. Our tent is too small. 1/ Some early thoughts:

our biggest drop. an album that means the world to us. tomorrow. 11/11. only at vertigo

mitski drop today! here’s an irl photo of the test copy we were sent :)

is the left “obsessed” with gender, sexuality, race, etc, or are they just constantly having to defend people in marginalized groups against a right wing that’s ACTUALLY obsessed with gender, sexuality, race, etc

day 3/8 of hints for our 3 back to back 750 unit drops (nov 20-22) hint #3: think wedding veils, haunted south, guns, candles, tumblr, old chapels, and angels

The ability of demagogues & autocrats to surprise, to create a new scandal every day, is their superpower. It diminishes attention to the previous day's transgressions & normalizes them. It slowly numbs the senses, including outrage. Values are the only defense. Hold them dear.

This! The media let the Trump campaign and his media supporters frame the campaign.

Can’t think of a candidate who more disastrously meets the moment.

I’m now at @andy-silver.bluesky.social