Oliver Sava writing for the AV Club:

Hickman leans into Xavier’s shady mutant mastermind qualities. This X-Men run begins with Xavier in an underground cavern where he watches adult mutants hatch from pods in the ground. These slimy naked figures reach up to their god, who utters four words that have never been creepier: “To me, my X-Men.”

Trump probably couldn’t bottle up the hideous forces he’s helped unleash even if he wanted to, and there’s little sign he wants to. If the president never did or said another racist thing, said [Daryl Johnson, a former senior terrorism analyst at the Department of Homeland Security], “it’s still going to take years for the momentum of these movements to slow and to die down.” As it is, Trump’s grudging anti-racism is unlikely to last the week. The memory of the mayhem he’s inspired should last longer.

Trump probably couldn’t bottle up the hideous forces he’s helped unleash even if he wanted to, and there’s little sign he wants to. If the president never did or said another racist thing, said [Daryl Johnson, a former senior terrorism analyst at the Department of Homeland Security], “it’s still going to take years for the momentum of these movements to slow and to die down.” As it is, Trump’s grudging anti-racism is unlikely to last the week. The memory of the mayhem he’s inspired should last longer.

A typeface created from (gerrymandered) congressional districts. Perhaps also aided by a coastline or two. Via Andy Baio.

Good discussion and plenty of tangents from Nilay Patel with Matt Yglesias on The Vergecast.

NYT profile on Teenage Engineering.

There was a Senator, I think it was after my pancreatic cancer, who announced with great glee that I was going to be dead in six months,” she recalled. “That Senator, whose name I have forgotten, is now himself dead, and I,” she added with a smile, “am very much alive.

Jamelle Bouie is simply the best political essayist we have right now.

I like to think he’s actually sitting there, wasting time each day poking buttons in the Twitter app, angrily blocking people.

– John Gruber