Eler de Grey

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interdisciplinary artist working across painting, photography, sculpture and others • deletes habitually • the least online for someone on this app may god help me • [email protected]

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I need help getting the word out... My friend Jes created a TikTok post about this and if you're on there, please consider sharing: www.tiktok.com/@jfds1111/ph...

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these people cannot win and they know it, their entire schtick is pretending that the reich on the march will keep everyone quiet and scared, but, again, we do not have to believe them, and if we do not, they lose.

sure. fuck these people. we do not have to agree with them. they are a minority. i am not going to spend the next four months cowering in dread and fear.

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Scholars often ask me what they can do, and this is a tangible thing. State and local media are, in particular, hungry for opinion pieces from experts. Lots of people targeting that media is more effective than lots of people trying to land that one NYT op-ed

Junior Scholars: Project 2025 is now breaking through to public consciousness. The more people learn about it, the more they hate it. Now is a great time to search that website, go to the section of your expertise, and write an oped. Keep the drip of bad news for them coming, all the way to Nov.

The other 5% of us are wired, caffeinated and unreasonable

I think it's helpful to remember that 95% of the people who yell at other people online about voting aren't doing any electoral organizing at all. Yelling online IS what they think organizing is.

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I know a lot of white Americans keep calling Twitter the Nazi bar and lament people still on the app, but Twitter has been integral to the current Kenyan protests. the individualist approach of leaving and judging everyone who remains doesn't do anything.

Check this from Rolling Stone. At this point, I enjoy rap as an art form a lot, but am not heavily invested in pop culture, but I'm handing Kendrick the victory on this. He dethroned the abuser Drake successfully, & his music is inspiring Kenyan popular resistance. @wagatwe.com

How Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us’ Helped Young Kenyans Lead a Successful Protest in Their Countrywww.rollingstone.com Young Kenyans protested a proposed tax hike in their country by using a hashtag and a rap song that sampled Kendrick Lamar's 'Not Like Us.'

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Lenacapavir did so well at preventing HIV infection that it hit the threshold where the only ethical thing to do was stop the randomized trial and immediately offer it to literally every participant. That's huge news. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

A new way to prevent HIV delivers dramatic results in trialwww.npr.org The testing of lenacapavir was halted because results were so impressive — 100% effectiveness. The decision was made to give all participants the injection rather than the alternative daily pill.

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"The whole fear about ChatGPT and the creation of imagery is, I think, fear based on the fact that we live in a world where everything is up for grabs," Errol Morris told generative AI reporter Andrew Deck. "Everything is manipulated, everything is challenged, everything is endlessly falsified."

Errol Morris on whether you should be afraid of generative AI in documentarieswww.niemanlab.org “Our task is to get back to the real world, to the extent that it is recoverable.”

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Only 5 more days left to nominate someone great for the Ann Snitow prize, a $12,500 award for an outstanding feminist intellectual/artist and activist working in the United States: annsnitowprize.com

Nominations for the 2024 Ann Snitow Prize are Now Open - The Ann Snitow Prizeannsnitowprize.com Nominations for the 2024 Ann Snitow Prize—a $12,500 award for an outstanding feminist intellectual/artist and activist working in the United States—are now open. To learn how you can nominate someone ...

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🚨 NEW POLL: Opposition to Project 2025 grows as people learn more about the plan. After reading 19 proposed policies for Project 2025, opposition grows from 49% to 63% (net +14) while support for the plan declines from 31% to 24% (net -7%).

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Huh. Why might that have happened

Breaking News: A Parkinson’s expert visited the White House eight times in eight months from last summer through this spring, according to official visitor logs. The administration has said that President Biden has no signs of the disease.

Parkinson’s Expert Visited the White House Eight Times in Eight Monthswww.nytimes.com The White House has said that President Biden has no signs of the disease and that there has been no reason to update the most recent testing, conducted in February.

Bill Signed: H.R. 2365 | The White Housewww.whitehouse.gov On Tuesday, July 2, 2024, the President signed into law: H.R. 2365, the “Dr. Emmanuel Bilirakis and Honorable Jennifer Wexton National Plan to End Parkinson’s Act,” which requires the Department of He...

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If interested, this is the summary of Project 2025 that I read over the weekend. democracyforward.org/the-peoples-...

The People’s Guide to Project 2025 - Democracy Forwarddemocracyforward.org

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Is there any lesson to be taken from the French moderate liberal and left earnestly trying to cooperate and help one another defeat a reactionary threat to democracy? Yes there is, until anyone one degree off from my personal political leanings pisses me off over anything, and I mean anything.

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Stephen Miller now following Trump's lead and saying he has nothing to do with Project 2025. 1. His organization is on the Project 2025 advisory board. 2. He recorded a video as part of Project 2025 training tools 3. You can see Mandate for Leadership, the Project 2025 publication in the background

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Black trans folks, if you need some short-term therapy to take care of some things, The Okra Project may be a resource for you. They provide 3 months of free therapy to Black trans folks in the US. Check it out. www.theokraproject.com

The Okra Projectwww.theokraproject.com

Realizing I do not have the temperament or energy for this format, so if you'd like to receive art/music/book thoughts w occasional interim essays ranging the gamut, sign up here: buttondown.email/eler This account will be deleted in 4wks I might post on Instagram later this year but don't bet

MULTITUDESbuttondown.email An experimental art studio newsletter by interdisciplinary artist Eler de Grey.

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Korean book Twitter taught me this. We publish A LOT—highly literate nation, invented moveable metal type centuries before Europe—but the print runs are usually minimal. So if you see anything remotely interesting, just buy it. It won’t always be in print. Read it later, but buy it NOW.

ICMYI I wrote about the importance of being a citizen archivist. We've seen so much incredible art and writing from marginalized people, and we need to preserve it in the face of a huge, well-funded backlash. This is something concrete you personally can do! buttondown.email/charliejane/...

We Should All Be Archivistsbuttondown.email Lately, I keep obsessing about two seemingly opposing but interrelated trends: 1) The past decade has seen an incredible bounty of art and self-expression...

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Would be extremely funny if NYT's approval rating was the only one to take a hit from the Biden coverage

NEW: Biden has narrowed Trump’s lead in swing states despite a widely panned presidential debate performance, the Bloomberg News/Morning Consult poll finds

Biden Narrows Gap With Trump in Swing States Despite Debate Losswww.bloomberg.com The incumbent trails his GOP rival by just 2 points across key states, a Bloomberg News/Morning Consult shows, even as three in 10 Democrats say he should leave the race.

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I have no idea the best path re Biden but I do know a solid week straight of “Biden Old” and “Rich Dems Worried” above-the-fold stories are *obscene* in the face of SCOTUS using the Constitution to wipe their asses purely in the service of reinstating a felon rapist as president. Crazy-making shit.

Once again, at what point is this officially a disinformation campaign

Cannot emphasize enough how pathetic these editorial boards are revealing themselves to be.

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When I was a teenager, I organized a protest with a couple of friends after Michael Griffith was killed in Howard Beach. Almost no one showed up. I think we had 6 people [including us 3 organizers]. I was crushed. I cried to my dad & he asked: "what did you say to the three people who joined you?"

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TL;DR: There is procedurally no viable path to replacing a Presidential candidate at this stage which doesn’t result in losing ALL ballot presence in a number of keystone states Furthermore, the fact the Heritage Foundation loves the possibility for this reason - should be enough to kill the idea

I need everybody, moderate leftist and whoever, to learn to recognize a far right plant when it happens The move to replace Biden would be a gift to far right extremists in our country - and given the number of “anonymous tips” to NYT, it was probably their idea

I sure hope all the Dems calling for Biden to step aside have gamed out the fuckery that the Heritage Foundation is planning www.notus.org/2024-electio...

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In other Heritage Foundation news:

I sure hope all the Dems calling for Biden to step aside have gamed out the fuckery that the Heritage Foundation is planning www.notus.org/2024-electio...

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really cannot emphasize enough how plainly all this proves that the first priority of the next Democratic administration needs to be democracy reform --filibuster --electoral college --court reform --dc and pr statehood --new voting rights act --gerrymandering

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Being really annoying is praxis. Phone, email, fax, show up in person if that’s an option. Just don’t let up until you’re too irritating to ignore.

the unexpected thing about Talking To Your Representatives is that it can actually work, if enough people are similarly mad about the same thing. you won’t get the elected on the phone. but they will hear about it from their annoyed staff, who might not have time to do anything else

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I started my career reporting on how people were using the Internet in dictatorships, and if there's one BIG thing I learned from talking to a bunch of people who literally had served jail time for political blogging, it was "choose your battles wisely, and don't say dumb things in dumb places."

if there is one survival skill I would REALLY like everyone opposed to the fascist GOP to learn right now, it's "do not say things on the public internet that will provide authorities with useful pretenses for coming after you."

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Gonna keep saying this & will die on this hill: Bad news without any guidance on what to do about it [at least some ideas] demobilizes and often encourages inaction. We on the Left(s) have to avoid cynicism which is deeply corrosive and also counterrevolutionary.

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I was just in St. James Parish, LA interviewing local residents about the overwhelming pollution in Cancer Alley. I don’t think most people understand how bad it is. I didn’t.

It's hard to explain how widespread the repercussions of overturning Chevron deference will be. Even if you narrow the scope down to tech policy, you're left wrangling a super-explainer on a friday afternoon www.theverge.com/24188365/che...

What SCOTUS just did to net neutrality, the right to repair, the environment, and morewww.theverge.com The end of Chevron deference will touch on everything from broadband policy to climate change.

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Last week I wrote about why a mass employment program modeled on the Civilian Conservation Corps should convert America’s 3,000 miles of abandoned canals into chinampas This week I wrote a short story about a linear feast along one such converted canal open.substack.com/pub/thelastf...

Utopian Mega-Projects, Part 4open.substack.com A Letter From The Future: Paddling A Linear Feast

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For the “nothing happened” after 2020 crowd. Actually something is still happening-changes sparked by movement are ongoing.Police departments are smaller&experiments (yes experiments!)in public safety beyond policing are more funded&widespread than ever.This is actually how durable change is built.

Hey, look, it's The Minneapolis Reckoning at Slate! slate.com/news-and-pol...

Police Departments Have Shrunk. Crime Is Plummeting. Now What?slate.com New, surprising data has lessons for all sides of the “defund” debate.