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The United States Disappeared Tracker is “tracking persons politically arrested, detained, or...
The United States Disappeared Tracker is “tracking persons politically arrested, detained, or disappeared by the Trump regime since March 9, 2025”.
The view from Europe, courtesy of Zeit Online: Thanks America, That’ll Be...
The view from Europe, courtesy of Zeit Online: Thanks America, That’ll Be All. “Now that lunacy has installed itself in Washington for the next four years, the time has finally...
What Will America Look Like in 10 Years?
With the election of Donald Trump in 2016 and, especially, again in 2024, the adjacent possible of American society has shifted dramatically. For the Washington Post, Philip Bump asked a...
White House Correspondents’ Dinner Scraps Host In Favor Of Terrified Silence. “While...
White House Correspondents’ Dinner Scraps Host In Favor Of Terrified Silence. “While we respect the legacy of a presidential roast, if you so much as cough, you will be forcibly...
A thread from Berkeley political science professor Omar Wasow about how protests...
A thread from Berkeley political science professor Omar Wasow about how protests are effective actually. Cites research about the Women’s March, BLM protests, the Muslim ban protests, etc.
The End of College Life?
I have one kid entering college this fall and one a few years away, so I’ve been thinking (with fury and sadness) about the effect that Trump’s authoritarian regime is...
DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Code Base in Months, Risking Benefits and...
DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Code Base in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse. This will not work — ok, actually it will totally work to achieve the long-time conservative...
Roxane Gay and Debbie Millman are buying The Rumpus. “They are committed...
Roxane Gay and Debbie Millman are buying The Rumpus. “They are committed to staying true to the magazine’s core mission of publishing both emerging and established risk-taking writers and artists…”...
“The federal government isn’t just pressuring universities over speech — it’s literally...
“The federal government isn’t just pressuring universities over speech — it’s literally disappearing students for their political expression. If you support actual free speech, now is the time to speak...
From the Center for Third World Organizing, an Organizing 101 bootcamp, “a...
From the Center for Third World Organizing, an Organizing 101 bootcamp, “a multi-day day intro to organizing training designed for organizers, activists and community leaders”.
Multi-Player plays a grid of multiple copies of a single YouTube video,...
Multi-Player plays a grid of multiple copies of a single YouTube video, each with a slight additional delay. The site requires a bunch of bandwidth, but the effect is trippy...
Conan O’Brien’s Mark Twain Prize Acceptance Speech
This excerpt from Conan O’Brien’s acceptance speech for the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor is quite good. Twain was suspicious of populism, jingoism, imperialism, the money-obsessed mania of the...
Rembrandt to Picasso: Five Ways to Spot a Fake Masterpiece. I’ve always...
Rembrandt to Picasso: Five Ways to Spot a Fake Masterpiece. I’ve always loved this sort of thing, even before I owned a probably-fake Basquiat. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org...
TV Garden: stream television channels from all over the world for free....
TV Garden: stream television channels from all over the world for free. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Steve Coogan Plays Four Roles in Dr. Strangelove Stage Adaptation
In a stage production that premiered last year in London, Steve Coogan played four roles (Dr. Strangelove, Captain Mandrake, President Muffley, and Major TJ Kong) in an adaptation of Stanley...
March 2025 Anti-Trans National Risk Assessment Map. “The risk level for transgender...
March 2025 Anti-Trans National Risk Assessment Map. “The risk level for transgender youth and adults has significantly deteriorated in the latest update. Most notably, the United States has now been...
Apple has added the Lumon Terminal Pro computer to their devices lineup,...
Apple has added the Lumon Terminal Pro computer to their devices lineup, right alongside the iMac and Macbook Air. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
The Design of the New Swiss Passport
There are so many reasons these days to covet a Swiss passport but let me give you one more: the design kicks ass. First issued in 2022, the document was...
Finally got around to reading Craig Mod’s “rules” for running his membership...
Finally got around to reading Craig Mod’s “rules” for running his membership program. Two that particularly resonated: “The program exists for the goals, not the members” and “Fundamentally, you are...
The Atlantic handled ‘Signalgate’ with good judgment. “The journalists’ actions ‘could be...
The Atlantic handled ‘Signalgate’ with good judgment. “The journalists’ actions ‘could be a college journalism class in careful, ethical handling of sensitive information’, said David Boardman, dean of Temple University’s...