New from Instrumental Comms -- how a culture of "ethical storytelling" led to Dalmar Ainashe & Hillol Sobhan's award-winning CARE (care.org) News story "What Famine Feels Like": instrumentalcomms.com/blog/you-dont-…

"A narrow Fellow in the Grass," written by Emily Dickinson, read by 56 actors

There is a word that comes from the Poetry Foundation version of the poem that was not in Emily Dickinson’s published version. Can you spot it?

New from the Instrumental Newsletter: Classrooms as the New #AI Frontier (YIKES!) instrumentalcomms.com/blog/eat-brain…

Live by the DOGE. Die by the DOGE.

Dang! I was going to try to stir the pot but I’m STILL BLOCKED!

The case for nationalizing SpaceX (and StarLink) is a good one. Let’s make this billionaire slap fight work for the people! jacobin.com/2025/06/musk-t…

Like many people around the country, Elon Musk has #TrumpBuyersRemorse

How #AI is like a #maliciouscompliance genie, as explained by a hairless cat.

In case you were wondering how far down the #Project2025 road (cf: Cormac McCarthy) we've gone: 42% of the policy blueprint has been completed or is under way, up from 36% four months ago, AND 57% of their environmental goals are ✔️ boingboing.net/2025/06/29/che…

The “prohibited foreign entity” & “foreign-influenced entity” labels in the #BigUglyBill -- § 7701(a)(51)–(52) -- would bake MAGA rhetoric into the tax code, making it easy for them to brand green nonprofits as Beijing-backed (& then go after them). congress.gov/bill/119th-con…

The MAGA “foreign agent by association” plan to kill climate groups (warning: wacky) #ClimateLawfare instrumentalcomms.com/blog/the-maga-…

On the 50th anniversary of #Jaws & the 80th of the sinking of the #USSIndianapolis (and ahead of #SharkWeek), a story about one of the victims, Body 19, my grandfather: instrumentalcomms.com/blog/body-19

80 years ago today, two torpedoes struck the #USSIndianapolis, starting one of the worst disasters in US naval history. instrumentalcomms.com/blog/body-19

An unearthed David Berman interview from 2003 (and a secret recording) instrumentalcomms.com/blog/an-uneart…

Koch Family Catapults Into NFL Ownership with Giants Buy instrumentalcomms.com/blog/julia-koc…

"The main thing to watch for is the 'terrorist' designation. Any org Trump officially designates as a 'terrorist' automatically loses its tax-exempt status...but, as of now, the organization must be 'foreign.' Hence the emphasis on Soros and China." instrumentalcomms.com/blog/welp-its-…