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Girls Who Code’s “Five by Five” strategic plan is “reaching 5 million...
Girls Who Code’s “Five by Five” strategic plan is “reaching 5 million girls, women, and nonbinary individuals by 2030” with their programs designed to educate girls, women, and NB folks...
I love this week-by-week map of Gina Trapani’s life. “This is a...
I love this week-by-week map of Gina Trapani’s life. “This is a map of my life, where each week I’ve been alive is a little box. Tap a box to...
Allegra Goodman writes about the “life-saving power” of listening to audiobooks (Austen,...
Allegra Goodman writes about the “life-saving power” of listening to audiobooks (Austen, Caro, Dumas, Voltaire) with her son. “We spent hundreds of hours together and had a respite from each...
Wes Anderson’s next movie is called The Phoenician Scheme, an “espionage comedy-drama...
Wes Anderson’s next movie is called The Phoenician Scheme, an “espionage comedy-drama thriller” that will be released in US theaters in May 2025. Stars Benicio del Toro, Michael Cera, Riz...
Kevin Kelly’s 50 Years of Travel Tips
Kevin Kelly is the biggest traveller I know and he recently shared some of the advice he’s learned over his 50+ years on the road. Here are a few of...
Deadline: “Starz has acquired the rights to Miranda July’s buzzy novel All...
Deadline: “Starz has acquired the rights to Miranda July’s buzzy novel All Fours to develop as a TV series.” I wonder if July herself will be starring… 💬 Join the...
From Nolan RoYAlty (cReAtor of oNE Million chEckBOXES), A globAL CAPS LOCK....
From Nolan RoYAlty (cReAtor of oNE Million chEckBOXES), A globAL CAPS LOCK. “whenever AnYONE running the CLIENt Presses caPs LOck, it PRESSEs for everyone ELsE.” (i wrote tHIS POST WItH...
Jerry Lawson was one of Silicon Valley’s first Black engineers and is...
Jerry Lawson was one of Silicon Valley’s first Black engineers and is known as “the father of the game cartridge”. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
An Update
Hey, everyone. This week has been a little wonky/distracted for me — I was tending to a sick kid for a couple of days and am trying not to get...
How to stop Trump’s power grab. “Trump isn’t inevitable. Here’s a plan...
How to stop Trump’s power grab. “Trump isn’t inevitable. Here’s a plan to keep democracy intact.”
The Venn Diagram of Trump’s Authoritarian Actions
Professor Christina Pagel of University College London has mapped the actions of the Trump administration’s first few weeks into a Venn diagram (above) with “five broad domains that correspond to...
Really interesting essay about organizing: How Much Discomfort Is the Whole World...
Really interesting essay about organizing: How Much Discomfort Is the Whole World Worth? “If we cannot organize beyond the bounds of our comfort zones, we will never build movements large...
“Fuck the Middle Ground”
Jessica Valenti on why there’s no room for compromise or middle ground on abortion rights. Anyone still holding out hope for a ‘compromise’ on abortion rights needs to give it...
House GOP has reintroduced the SAVE Act, which would require voters to...
House GOP has reintroduced the SAVE Act, which would require voters to show a passport or birth cert. when voting as proof of citizenship. But 140M Americans don’t have a...
Elie Mystal on Elon Musk’s vision of neo-apartheid. “First and most important,...
Elie Mystal on Elon Musk’s vision of neo-apartheid. “First and most important, apartheid is a business plan. It’s a system designed to exploit cheap Black labor, without ever letting Black...
Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream is...
Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream is a forthcoming book that’s “an exposé of private equity’s devastating impact on American lives, communities, and the economy”.
Is This the End of the American Constitution?
Jamelle Bouie has started posting video essays on his YouTube channel about the current US political crisis. His latest one is an adaptation of his NY Times piece, There Is...
On a scale of +10 (full democracy) to -10 (full autocracy), the...
On a scale of +10 (full democracy) to -10 (full autocracy), the US now scores a 0, its lowest score since the Civil War. “The USA is no longer considered...
RFK Jr. confirmed as secretary of the Health and Human Services Department....
RFK Jr. confirmed as secretary of the Health and Human Services Department. There has been a lot of horrible news over the past month but this one is making me...
Heather Cox Richardson on the history of the liberal consensus, from Lincoln...
Heather Cox Richardson on the history of the liberal consensus, from Lincoln to Eisenhower, and how the country has been turning back toward “the idea of a small government that...