i maybe wasn’t paying enough attention when Greenspan died a few weeks ago to notice the droves of criticism he deserved for his despicable policies — mistakes he admitted to in 2008…. but here’s a great clip of Bernie DEMOLISHING Greenspan during a 2003 congressional hearing. Go, Bernie, GO!!

If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage. The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.” It’s about control.

another gorgeous day in NYC. happy father’s day to all who celebrate.

without a doubt one of the best dark beers with or without alcohol! @athleticbrewingco.bsky.social

It’s shocking to me how so many commenters here don’t understand the effects from the policies of these presidents (and Reagan/Bush 1) and how they led to Trump. From 1980 to 2016 rather than focusing on policies that would benefit people, so much gov’t policy benefitted corps and the wealthy:

if you like interesting/complex music and you don’t know about Roulette Brooklyn’s archive of livestreams… now you do. so much incredible music here:

little league baseball and the battle against originalism!! really looking forward to digging into this. @jgienapp.bsky.social

watch as NJ troopers tackle protestors sitting on a curb. @mikiesherrill.bsky.social you are protecting ICE rather that protestors. SHAME. @statuscoupnews.bsky.social

please watch the livestream from Delaney Hall it is unbelievable:

“Solving hard problems for music is what Spotify does…” fixed it: “Creating hard problems for music is what Spotify does…”

i’ve dreamed of seeing goat (JP) live for so many years. so psyched this is happening tonight! if you are in NYC and love music, it would be a mistake to miss this show at Roulette (Brooklyn)

when bette midler is pissed off, you know shit’s bad! am feeling a bit of a turning point! fükn fascists!

in the wake of Orbán’s massive defeat, if Dems aren’t shouting from every rooftop how Rs should never be allowed this much power again…. it’s hard to see how we survive this. As she often does, reading @hcrichardson.bsky.social‘s letter this morning gives me some hope that we will.

relieved to not wake up to a nuclear war.

i played too many rock shows in phoenix on tours over the years. once a club had “hippie A/C” to keep everyone cool in July: a waterlogged hay bail with a fan blowing over it. i maybe died a little that night.

Pam Bondi hasn’t been demoted. She’s just been reassigned to Ghorman.

You can keep track of Artemis II's progress here: artemistracker.com

thanks, Guardian. i’ve been trying to get a concise report of this accident; no thanks to the NYT, whose reporting is scattered amongst a trove of updates and (when i was reading this morning) no full report. our flight had taken off from LGA shortly before this happened. so shocking and horrific.

Astonishing. The goal of our war is now to undo the effect of the war we started. Gosh, if only we could rewind to, say, four weeks ago when the Strait of Hormuz was open and normal!

Updated:

“Tehran is burning. And smoke has filled the streets. It’s impossible to drive out of the city right now and even with the windows closed, heavy smoke is making its way inside." Read every word.

if i had a bakery it would be called: Good Enough.

blizzard-y

😆 lol ezra klein.

you know it’s cold AF when Saskatchewan, Canada is warmer than NYC. (temps in C)

mega doomerism? perhaps. but i don’t put anything past the Power At All Cost Crew. not really sure why TF they are fine destroying our country to achieve their goal, but they will, no doubt. We need to be considering all possibilities, including this end-game scenario. They have.

I’m begging lefties and liberals to stop posting things that erase the reality of how violent the US has been to Indigenous people and Black people (among other US populations) ever since its inception and along the way. PLEASE. Do not copy conservatives by erasing history.

Moon over Manhattan

on top of using their profits for AI weapons while trying to turn music into bottled air…. 88% of music on their horrid platform is demonetized, which includes music I recorded. Fük Daniel Ek and Fük Shittify. If you haven’t dumped your account yet, what TF are you waiting for?

i’ve never seen this idea articulated before in this way. i’ve had a theory for years about the “carrot on the stick” motivation for poor people to think they just might be rich some day, if only the could get rich, thus they are against taxing the rich, etc. this gives some research behind that!

i’ve been reading Ward/Brownlee’s classic (2020) book Rare Earth (Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe). I wish humanity could truly grasp how alone we are and how much we need one another. sadly, i fear we’ll never get there.

good info to know. was curious why Mamdani had to pay $9 at his official inauguration.

#Queens #snowscape #NYC

“The universe may have innumerable planets full of bacteria, but it may be nearly empty of engineers.” — ChatGPT

any mets fans on here…. this doesn’t make any of the past few weeks easier… but it’s a good explainer: www.reddit.com/r/mets/s/pdR... #mets

A bit inconvenient for potential alien life forms if they’re constantly being incinerated by their own suns

WOW! AN HONOR! — GCN

this!! New York Health Act. yes! If fed government can’t ensure healthcare for all, then NYS must.

don’t know if any of you use the “lists” feature on bsky, but i spent some time over the t-day break making a “Science Nerds” list… which was me adding everyone i follow who is a scientist. This gives me a custom feed with chronological posts by only these folks. It took time, but works great!

an existential horrorshow reveals a possibly fate for our planet: “Maybe, someday, billions of years from now, some alien astronomer on a far-off planet will look in our direction…and spare a thought for the beautiful world we once were.”

found a recipe for Levain Bakery-style chocolate chip/walnut cookies. If you know, you know. yummmmmmmmmm.

introduce yourself with five concerts you saw, but wish you’d have stayed home instead: - Jethro Tull - any time i had to sit through a Mendelssohn concert - Phish - Saint-Saëns’ cello concerto #1 - Queensrÿche

Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen: RATT 1984 Tortoise 1996 Xenakis’s Oresteia 2008 Horse Lords 2019 Asa Chang & Junray 2024

i can’t wait to see Stephen Miller in a perpwalk. Don’t know how far away this will be, but i can’t wait.

Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.

the worst thing about Pluribus is the episodes should be 4 hours long, not 45 min.

HCR FTW.

on a sim tip… a deep fave of mine in the guitar/drum duo zone is the inimitable Cheval de Frise. OUTSTANDING. youtu.be/X4TgVtUyHz0

anyone looking for a badass album for today?

the older i get, the earlier i arrive at airports. got to LGA 4 hours early yesterday. a bit extreme, i realize. but it felt glorious.