Michael The Lion

New EP on @soulclap with @AmyDouglasSings out today at all digital outlets PLUS 12” vinyl of extended remixes from @JohnTheMixer. Go to michaelthelion.bandcamp.com or any streaming site, digital retailer or vinyl outlet. We always put a message in our music, we hope it moves you

Where is the US Senate? NATO is a Senate-ratified treaty - it's the law of the land.

Carl Sagan's prediction of America, made 30 years ago.

This platform has become completely unusable, my whole feed is just dubious algorithmic content. Think I might be done here.

"A government of laws, not of men."

Upcoming - 4/25 - Earth Night @broadhallphl – Phila 5/8 - Rancho Deluxe show on @greatcircles 5/16 Hooked @DolphinPhilly – Phila 6/12 - Rancho Deluxe show on @greatcircles 6/18 - Dante's HiFi - Miami 7/3 - Bayleine - Cape Cod, MA

@kyle_e_walker Thanks Kyle - you are saving my bacon for my students' final projects.

Users of the tigris #rstats package: the Census website is acting up again, so the package installed from CRAN isn't working Install with `remotes::install_github("walkerke/tigris")`; I've got a new patch in place that will handle the errors for you github.com/walkerke/tigris

Franklin Roosevelt’s four freedoms- Freedom of speech, freedom of religion. Freedom from want and freedom from fear.

Censoring books.

Users of the tigris / tidycensus #rstats packages: The Census website has been blocking requests from tigris (and curl) since yesterday. (Don’t worry, the datasets are still there!) I’ve patched tigris, install with `pak::pak("walkerke/tigris@ftp-patch")` and it should work.

@kyle_e_walker Oh man. Picked today to sit down and make the final knit on a huge module for my class and the API goes boom.

The level of lawlessness, stupidity, cruelty, and vandalism .... just off the charts bad.

The view from Germany - "Forrest Gump is Dead."

What a nightmare of vandalism, stupidity, bigotry, and cruelty.

If you can, please make a donation to help fund the funeral for Andy Williams aka Yam Who? x gofund.me/199dcf1a

As I've written before: "Once a society starts accepting attacks on entire swaths of Jews—for being too liberal, too religious, too secular, too pro-Israel, too anti-Israel, too whatever—that acceptance will grow." theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Trump cuts a Tesla ad at the White House, and Elon thanks him with a $100 million donation. Outright corruption.

One of the key tenets of American society is tolerance. Other people have a right to express views you find abhorrent. Support that right - especially when you disagree! If and when there comes a day when you're the one in the jackpot - you'll want your rights supported.

It's cool that I filed a report on this service about misinformation in the form of holocaust denial and got an email back like "that doesn't violate our terms." What a great internet website.

Absolutely disgraceful and shameful.