Logged into Ticketmaster to sign up for a presale & was directed to verify my ID with selfies via Persona, who I know zilch about. 1. I have bought dozens of tickets on TM over the years; how do they not believe who I am already? 2. How does Persona verify anything about me with a selfie? Creepy.

Happy 45th birthday to Duran Duran’s debut single. Not a bad kickoff to an incredible career if you asked me. youtu.be/8NF6Qa84mno?...

I realize that so many people in the music industry die every year that they can’t put them all on during the Grammy telecast, but I felt like they could have given 10-15 seconds to honor Dave Ball, Perry Bamonte, Mike Peters, and Mani during the show. Ah well - we still remember.

The Cure just won Grammys for "Alone" AND "Songs Of A Lost World" and aren't there because they are attending Perry Bamonte's funeral. :( But Jesse Welles read a lovely note from Robert Smith that (among other things) thanks the Cure's fans. 🖤

“JD Genocide” and American Nazis initiated what will soon likely become state-sponsored ethnic cleansing in Springfield, OH. Don’t think it can’t happen here - it is. Do not be silent. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

Holy shit. Trump's secret police just arrested journalist Don Lemon, apparently after he reported on an anti-ICE protest in a church.

Happy 30th birthday to Tortoise’s timeless second album this #CDFriday. The rest are just different vibes.

One thing I found deeply moving about resistance in the Twin Cities was the universalism of loving your neighbor, the philosophy driving the opposition to the ICE/BP invasion. I couldn't help but notice the contrast with the blood and soil-ism of Miller and Vance. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Funny how that worked out…

RIP Sly Dunbar (1952-2026)

Media: do not lead with the false government framing of what happened

This is such an important point. This family tried to follow the rules. The distinction is going to get more important when they start mass deporting the people whose TPS status Trump revoked. They’ll call them “illegal” too, even though they were here legally until Trump yanked the rug.

Today’s #CDFriday theme is: Albums I listened to as a kid on cassette so much that they became unlistenable after a few years, and have since been reissued on CD with bonus material.

Newly unsealed evidence makes it even clearer that Rubio and Noem knew they were targeting students based solely on their political speech and that they knew this policy was unconstitutional. They just didn’t care. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...

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So - this album is exactly thirty-five years old!! Happy Birthday, "doubt" - where have all those years gone?

I have been told that this undercover ICE agent tried to get observers to scan a QR code “for his website”. The QR code did not resolve to a link. DO NOT SCAN UNKNOWN QR CODES FROM STRANGERS. This is a massive security risk! Bad things can happen to you if you do it! Stay frosty, friends.

My son suggested that someone should inform the president that if he manages to avoid invading Greenland, he just might put himself in line for an unprecedented, second consecutive FIFA Peace Prize.

"....President Trump is stress-testing American law, and the law is failing the test. The health of the American experiment rests far more on the integrity of any given American president than we realized...."

Again, I’m going to keep banging the drum that the fact we are threatening the territorial sovereignty of our closest allies is not only a gross violation of our UN & NATO treaty obligations & poses a massive threat to national security & world order but also should immediately end this presidency.

I'd say it's hard to walk back the optics of shooting a suburban mom in the face, lobbing a concussion grenade at a toddler, and sending a bunch of paramilitary goons door to door asking for papers.

Yes. ICE service is being sold to disaffected MAGA goons as an opportunity to wage a campaign of cleansing, restorative violence against Americans as an act of patriotic national service. And most normies now see that this isn't anything akin to real law enforcement. newrepublic.com/article/2052...

#CDFriday arrives. We take comfort in music we love.

I thought that per CBS News’s new guidelines they would have held off publishing this story until they got a statement from Renee Good. Did they even try to get one?

I was dreaming that I had woken up alone in an unfamiliar house, and couldn’t figure out how to turn off the alarm clock. Turned out it was my actual alarm clock.

Planet Patrol The 12” Single Collection arrives digitally this Friday, January 16. Stream and download classic singles like “Cheap Thrills,” “Play At Your Own Risk,” and more. Pre-save now link.tommyboy-records.com/planetpatrol.... 📹: Planet Patrol on Soul Train October 29, 1983

Very sad.

In under 48 hours, you organized nearly 1,200 marches and vigils in all 50 states and DC for Renee Nicole Good. There are more of us than there are of them — and We the People won’t stop demanding accountability for ICE’s killing of Renee. #ICEOutForGood

i think powell's response here is a demonstration of the folly of the idea that democratic accountability requires presidential control. what if the president is not acting in the public interest? you want independent agencies to be able to push back and pursue their *congressional mandate*

Post a pic of the venue where you saw your first concert, and a picture of the band/artist Dire Straits, October 8, 1985, Boston Garden.

NYT: Trump's appointees to the court of appeals vote for the Trump admin 92% of the time (113 for 12 against)-a much more lopsided split than judges appointed by other Republican Presidents (68% for 32% against) or Democratic Presidents (27% for 73% against). (& he's doing wildly illegal things)

This is also what’s happening in science: break the social contract between science, the public, and the govt and extract the value for the billionaires. THIS is why @standupforscience.bsky.social is fighting for more than a flat budget. We are fighting for science for the public’s good.

WSJ investigation: In the past 6 months ICE agents have fired at vehicles 13 times, leading to: * 8 people shot * 5 of which were U.S. citizens * 2 died * no victims drew a weapon The playbook: Agents box in a vehicle, block attempts to flee, then fire www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...

45 years old today - solo debut single: youtu.be/NX39p_UMJ_0?...

OK #CDFriday, all relatively new releases to get 2026 moving.

10,000 people honoring Renee Nicole Good at the site of her murder

Anyone withnessing the chaos and barbarism of the untrained thugs masquerading as law officers for the last nine months understands ICE is raw human trash gathered into a lawless street gang. That's all. This isn't policing. It isn't legal enforcement. It's just incompetent, undisciplined terror.

The first Degenerate Art post of 2026! I wrote about the end of the existing international order and why Trump, as the sum and simulacrum of all the worst parts of our history, is really just a small part of the problem we face.

We’d like to dedicate our final post for the day to the brave law enforcement officials who fought an angry mob on this day, five years ago. May their unwavering dedication to the service of our nation give us the strength we need to carry on in this fight against fascism. Good night, friends.

Never let a single goddamned person on the Right ever claim again that they’re the party of law and order without laughing in their lying face.

And opposing the Iraq war was not some sort of endorsement of Saddam or his actions. People tried to play that card back then, and they're trying it again with Maduro.

"Trump thrives on the ineffectiveness of his opponents. The operation in Venezuela is a warning that Trump’s imperial ambitions are growing. An ineffective anti-Trump movement is an indulgence American democracy cannot afford or accept." - @davidfrum.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

I wrote about Grok's CSAM problem and how journalists keep fumbling the story www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-...

After thoroughly enjoying the finale of one of the greatest 80s nostalgia simulacra ever produced (Stranger Things), today’s #CDFriday indulges actual nostalgia on my part. Cracking this baby open today.

My best of 2025 playlist (Top 25 Edit): music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

Annual 2025 music lookback thread: Albums of the year. Ended up with 30 that stood out: 30. Oneohtrix Point Never - Tranquilizer 29. Mogwai - The Bad Fire 28. PARKiNG - Portraits 27. Thor & Friends - Heathen Spirituals 26. Shriekback - Monument 25. They Are Gutting A Body Of Water - LOTTO

It’s a new year, y’all. Tired: Bookmarking videos to watch later. Wired: Realizing I’m literally never going to watch to those videos. Transcripts or it didn’t happen. 2026 in effect.

New Order - The Perfect Kiss (Dir: Jonathan Demme) youtu.be/x3XW6NLILqo?...