Marcellus Williams is scheduled to be executed for a crime DNA proves he did not commit. Sign the petition please. innocenceproject.org/petitions/stop…

What an honor to edit the *air* volume of Center for Humans & Nature newest boxed set, *Elementals*. I got to work with some of my favorite writers including Gabrielle Bellot, Benjamin Kunkel, Unfollow, sohini and more. Details and ordering here: humansandnature.org/elementals/

When you assume your conclusion

You got storyline fever, storyline flu It's filtering how everything looks to you Don’t you reckon it's affecting your attitude? Storyline fever got its hooks in you Storyline fever got its hooks in you

“There are also 30 farmers on the boards, twice as many as the number of conservation or ecology experts. Three national parks have no conservation experts – Dartmoor, Northumberland, and Yorkshire Dales – but all have at least one farmer.” theguardian.com/environment/20…

The crowds heading to donate blood are awe-inspiring. God bless our steadfast people.

If North Korea or Iran did something like this you'd hear the phrases "rogue nation" and "terrorist state" five thousand times a day on every news network.

Does this scumbag really not know the name of the country? His pronunciation suggests not

I’m no David Frum fan but this is seriously vile.

Fossil gas plants are booming in the US. Again. In the year 2024. For AI data centers. Energy addition, not transition. “In the first six months of the year alone, companies have announced plans to build more new gas power capacity across the US than they did in all of 2020”

One wonders how different these number might look if Democratic leadership had challenged the narrative of a crisis at the border, instead of trying to co-opt it. thehill.com/homenews/campa…

“Macron submitted the names of prime ministerial candidates to Marine Le Pen, who was free to make her selection. Barnier owes his nomination to her goodwill, which he presumably earned with his virulently anti-migrant remarks during the 2021 primaries” newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

I’ve been struggling for a way to say this. We know that the West’s intellectual, moral and ethical universalism has long been aspirational, observed in the breech, riddled with exclusion clauses and double-standards. But the past year feels like a sharp, qualitative degradation.

“It was too late to retreat—the world goes on existing solely because it is always too late to retreat.” — Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke (tr. Danuta Borchardt)

Morrisey

Absolutely disgusting that the state of Missouri still plans to execute this innocent Black man in 4 days. Call Gov Mike Parson and demand he intervene now.

It is a consistent Israeli practice in Gaza, for instance, to choose targets selected by AI systems and then strike with a heavy explosive that kills over a wide radius. The nominal 'target' is not the military purpose, it is the techno-legal rationalisation.

Vance outdoes his own fascism every other day, in this case by declaring a whole (racial) category of immigrant “illegal” *regardless of legal status*