Link Roundup: Tuesday, May 30th

On Rick Best and Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche, who stood up for two young women being subjected to racist abuse on the MAX in Portland on Friday night, and lost their lives.  How Maggie Haberman works her sources, does her thing, and never, ever gets beat. HMMMMM: Russians discussed “derogatory” information about Trump and associates during […]

On Rick Best and Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche, who stood up for two young women being subjected to racist abuse on the MAX in Portland on Friday night, and lost their lives. 

How Maggie Haberman works her sources, does her thing, and never, ever gets beat.

HMMMMM: Russians discussed “derogatory” information about Trump and associates during campaign

I loved this comic by Lucy Bellwood and Sarah Mirk: What Does Wonder Woman Actually Represent? (and again, if you are not yet reading The Nib every day, time to get your life right).

It’s the first big profile of Hillary Clinton since Election Day; pour one (or two) out and have a read:

The anger at Clinton from some quarters — in tandem with the beatification of her from others — reminds us just how much this election tapped into unresolved and still largely unexplored issues around women and power. In the aftermath, the media has performed endless autopsies. We have talked about Wisconsin, about Comey, about Russia, about faulty messaging and her campaign’s internal conflicts. We have fought over unanswerable questions, like whether Sanders would have won and whether Clinton was particularly mismatched to this political moment, and about badly framed conflicts between identity politics and economic issues. But postmortems offering rational explanations for how a pussy-grabbing goblin managed to gain the White House over an experienced woman have mostly glossed over one of the well-worn dynamics in play: A competent woman losing a job to an incompetent man is not an anomalous Election Day surprise; it is Tuesday in America.

This, too, was a lot, but I am glad I read it: The Place Where Letters to Hillary Clinton Go

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race

Mallory’s TinyLetter, The Shatner Chatner, always drops in my inbox right when I need it most. Please enjoy “Andrew Lloyd Webber Sends a Text Message OR the Adventures of Webbsy and Steve” (if anyone tries to tell me this is not 100% what Sir ALW is like, I will refuse to believe it):

I’VE GOT A CHRISTING BARONY AND ALL HE’S GOT IS A QUARTERLY REVIEW NAMED AFTER HIM
WHAT ARE YOU A BARON OF, STEPHEN?
LONELINESS???
THAT’S NOT AN INHERITABLE TITLE

Mr. Sondheim is not yet arrived, sir

I KNOW THAT
DON’T YOU THINK I KNOW THAT

of course, sir

BUT HE CAN HEAR ME JUST THE SAME
JUST AS I CAN ALWAYS HEAR HIM
THAT POLYPHONIC SON OF A BITCH

A teacher in Texas gave a seventh-grade student a “Most Likely to Become a Terrorist” certificate while other faculty members looked on and laughed, and I hope many, many people are fired.

It is honestly so difficult to choose amidst this cavalcade of horrors, but dear old Betsy might be the one I loathe most, after Trump.

This is a very cool editorial job in SURPRISE New York (admit it, you did not see it coming).

Fuck you, 2017

Things are really so tough out there* for racists.

* on fictional starships

Last week I found the above list, which my now-nine-year-old daughter wrote back in kindergarten. SPACE DAYS, amirite, friends? I shared it on Twitter, and then my very talented friend Greg Pak drew this perfect picture for my daughter:

It made me smile so much and it still does! Hope everybody’s week is off to the best possible start.