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This is not an exaggeration: There is not a single weather forecaster, TV meteorologist, airline pilot, computer scientist, or climate scientist in the WORLD whose work or life wasn't directly or indirectly improved or influenced by the science done at NCAR. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

The Boston-born Queen of Disco, known for such timeless tunes as “Love to Love You Baby,” “I Feel Love,” “Bad Girls,” “Dim All the Lights,” “On the Radio” and “She Works Hard for the Money,” has been posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, the hall said.

If you read one U.S. president's remembrance of Rob Reiner today...

Rob Reiner made my favorite movie (The Princess Bride) and two more in my top ten (This Is Spinal Tap and A Few Good Men). He was also a great human being. Lots of unnecessary death this weekend. Damnit.

The run that Rob Reiner went on between 1984 and 1992 is one of the most amazing hot streaks any director has ever had. Legendary stuff

god bless rob reiner for spinal tap

What a world, when you mention “the recent mass shooting” and the response is, “Which one?”

""I encourage everyone to double-check the source of the music they’re listening to and support real, walking, talking, crumpet-eating artists. "We are still here. Slightly wrinkled, perhaps, but gloriously human."" I love this man.

🚨 Today, I formally introduced articles of impeachment against Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. RFK Jr. has turned his back on science and the safety of the American people. Michiganders cannot take another day of his chaos.

Great show in the round at Arts At The Armory in Somerville last night with They Are Gutting A Body Of Water (and opener Hooky). Engaging noise-rock with groove, feeling and heaviness. Not easy to pull off, but they made it work.

The “garbage” destroying America isn’t in Minnesota’s Somalian community. It’s in the Oval Office. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

“What have I done!” 🤡

Why can't I get Bandcamp to work on my phone or my laptop now? And it says it's not down. Of course this happens. Sigh.

Who knows, maybe some AOTY candidates for #CDFriday today? Time will tell…

This is why we don’t publish our best-of-2025 lists until the year actually ends, folks.

Are you familiar with the Terminator movies?

A basic and intuitive understanding of the law is that punishments should not be retroactive upon a policy change. This is even worse. There is no formal policy change, they are simply penalizing couples for following common practice - explicitly allowed by Congress - for decades.

Grifter pardons grifter. We should have Constitutional-amended this particular power out a long time ago.

I’ll just say that “Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead” is one of the texts that I consider foundational to who I am today. RIP to a legend.

Murder www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/29/m...

Black Friday at Northwestern. So sad.

Happy Record Store Day to those who celebrate! As usual, got some stuff, missed out on some stuff, nearly froze to death waiting to get into the store, and enjoyed chatting with the other #RSDBF crazies in line.

Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵

Suno is a subscription service. You could literally spend the same money on a harmonica, or a real cheap guitar, or some claves, and have an infinitely richer experience of creating music.

As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.

Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81

Unfortunately, the concept of informed consent has become increasingly politicized and weaponized, particularly around vaccination.

This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

I mean, if you’re going to have any water-filled vinyl in your collection at all, the Jaws soundtrack is the obvious choice, right?

R.I.P. Jellybean Johnson (drummer for Morris Day & The Time and hitmaking producer) 😿

Please replace “challenge scientific orthodoxy” with “promulgate complete bullshit” in this lede, because that’s all this is.

Happy 60th Björkthday! #CDFriday

Happy 60th birthday to Björk youtu.be/bOrGYzNUBVM

Joint Statement from Goodlander, Slotkin, Kelly, Crow, Deluzio, and Houlahan

I shared this photo a week or so ago on Mani’s birthday - It never failed to bring a smile to my face - and that was exactly the same for the man himself. One of the absolute best in every way - such a beautiful friend Love you Mani x x Never to be forgotten

'It’s easy to look on LL Cool J today as something of a side-story to the major figures in hip hop’s evolution, yet back in the golden era, LL was hip hop’s first solo superstar, a teenage colossus of the mic' LL Cool J: Radio Versus Mama Said Knock You Out - Radio turns 40 today! buff.ly/LYHslbO

Happy 40th birthday to Psychocandy by The Jesus and Mary Chain, which was released on this day in 1985

It’s grift all the way down. We all knew it, but thanks to @propublica.org for helping uncover this particular fleecing of American taxpayers.

It’s #CDFriday time of the week. Got an email this AM mentioning the 30th anniversary of the Coldcut mix, so it seemed as good a reason as any to dig that one out.

So on Epstein, the Democratic position should be "Trump should resign." If you are a Democratic elected, practice saying "We demand the president's resignation" in front of a mirror as many times as it takes until the dry-heaving that comes from having a phobia about actually doing politics passes.

Happy 80th birthday to Mr. Neil Young.

I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable. We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina. A vote for this bill is a mistake.

When are people going to start talking about the clear cognitive decline of the president?

Bunch of different vibes this #CDFriday. Happens that way sometimes.

Conservatives 2016-2024: dumb libs think words are violence Conservatives in 2025: mean words are literally violence bsky.app/profile/robe...

I voted. If you can, you should too. #IVoted

In Chicago, a woman was driving to get coffee when a DHS vehicle fleeing an angry crowd crashed into her car. Armed agents jumped out of the vehicle, yanked her door open, pulled her by the legs out of her car at gunpoint, held her incommunicado for hours, then released her with no charges.

The New York Times likes to say Trump "has stretched the limits of his powers” and “tests the boundaries of the presidency.” But this is not a test or a stretching exercise. He’s a lawless politician building a dictatorship. Say it. 🧵 1/3

MLK Jr. and Rosa Parks state-institutionalized history are good examples. They are popularly portrayed as sweet, gentle people who won because they were nice. They were faces of a militant movement that won leveraging socio-economic power and scared the shit out of white establishment.