The older, pre-Musk Twitter, while not perfect, would have been a useful place to be during and after the Brown shooting.

Now, it's place sowing confusion, conspiracy, misinformation, and harm. It has been wrung of its value and decency.

For now, suffice it to say how depressing it is that the federal government is putting its authority behind this incorrect, decontextualized, and frankly boring vision of history at the same time that it is cutting funding for the NEH and attacking the Smithsonian's independence.

Are you already in touch with PrYSM?

Yet Trump ignored every step, acting unilaterally through executive order, bypassing oversight, and ordering demolition as if he were a monarch. The result: the people’s house, altered without the people’s consent.

Less popular than litter. Less popular than pollution. Less popular than acid rain…