When I was a high school senior in 2001-02, it sure seemed like the right wing wanted to destroy the country. I read the beat poets, Ken Kesey, watched Bob Dylan in Dont Look Back obsessively. This is a video for my little beat poet dropout fantasy album from all my “studies” youtu.be/ePDp-mDF4lI

Due process is ending after 250 years. The demise of the long-running pillar of democracy made our critic think of another thing: maybe the government should just kill everybody they don't like immediately and get it over with.

🔥 SPRINGSTEEN: "I’m here to support Stephen Colbert, the first guy who lost his show because a president can't take a joke - and the Ellisons feel they need to kiss his ass… small-minded people with no idea what freedoms of this beautiful country are supposed to be about." 🇺🇸

Most don't know when they're going to die and they are often unable to spend their final days in a state of love and grace. Barney Frank knew his death was imminent and he spent his last public moments lecturing us about how supporting trans rights isn't politically expedient. Fuck that.

LET ME IN

if i could live in hope as an album is perfect, but i love this very atypical late-era track. such a beautiful evocation of healing coming out of a deep wound, or the realization of what could have been but wasn’t youtu.be/DfQQvHvIPHI

Orson Welles: I worked with Grogu. Not in film you see but on the stage. Brilliant performer but a cruel disgusting wretch of a soul. Interviewer: Pourrions-nous parler de Citizen Kane à la place, s'il vous plaît ? Welles: yes he did sell out his friends to HUAC, I will never forgive him for that

i have been checking in here less as an experiment, preferring to soak in the heartbreaking destruction of my own country ambiently instead of in moment to moment detail, and. man. take care of yourselves, everyone

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Paul McCartney's mother forbade him from listening to The Beatles when he was growing up. "It wouldn't make sense," she'd say. "It doesn't make any sense.."

hey i just met you and this is crazy but i’m the grogu yoda baby

Omfg. Study after study has shown that the reason 12-step groups work is because of the human connection. Literally community is the treatment for addiction. This “AI AA” bullshit is going to kill people who would otherwise have sought help where it actually exists: IN MEETINGS.

This is the longest story I have ever written. It is also the most meaningful. It will go out in The Small Bow's newsletter tomorrow. You can read it here now: www.thesmallbow.com/p/consider-t...

The author sent me a copy, and it's really something to behold in person.

Barney Frank’s final interview from hospice was painful. His comments on trans people made it worse www.advocate.com/opi... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Truly, everyone needs to come around to the understanding that RFK jr and the MAHA movement do believe that many people are unworthy of life

The Met Gala is the new Bradley-Martin Ball of 1897. In the midst of Gilded Age, workers faced poverty & unemployment. New York elites held a lavish costume party, spending $400,000 (=9 million) to dress as kings and queens. I hope Mamdani also raises taxes as happened in the wake of that ball.

Jeffrey Epstein is still alive and stunning all the haters in RESPLENDENT Stella McCartney as he enters the Met Gala--serving looks, settling scores, and owning the red carpet!

Wile E. Coyote breaking his penis on a glory hole that's only painted on the wall

Local Drunk Can't Stop Talking About Breathalyzer Installed in His Car "None Of My Neighbors Have This. Guess I Must Be Cooler."

i’m wearing a dress made of sea salt and silk to the bezos funded met gala to symbolize the tears shed by those mourning the loss of human freedom at the hands of mr. bezos. lauren told me it’s one of her favorites

i am extremely tired of being this pissed off all the time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

every trans person has been effectively drummed out of the mainstream media but you can be a pulitzer finalist if you look around the situation that your fucking newspaper helped create and go “wow so this is pretty interesting huh”

new york times pulitzer finalists for their podcast series about trans youth where they don't really talk to any actual trans people. good shit....great shit!

The most coveted free agent in American politics is "The Genocide Ogre."

Living a moral life in an age of bullies requires collective action; it cannot be done alone. Each of us must organize and participate in a vast network of moral resistance. From this solidarity we will grow stronger. This is what our current moment requires.

glad @pitchfork.com gave this person’s born again Christian album a 7.4 and found it “surprisingly moving.” surprisingly moving my bowels

"what's the last time you've really been *happy*? i mean 'kris kristofferson beaming at recently converted Dylan performing Gotta Serve Somebody' happy." www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Mzy...

trump: and she's so scared of the hanter virus, she just. dies of it right there. blood like you wouldn't believe. and dana tells mulder- she's a doctor of some kind- it must be fear itself killing these people. tony dokoupil: and this was an episode of Cops? trump: kash fired mulder, i checked

just don’t let your guard down. if you see this, it might be too late

Oh good I have something to blame my browser history on

have a Faraday cage handy. security experts say that evil spirits have been studying how to use Wi-Fi routers and have been getting much better at it

Found this deeply cursed doll at a yard sale. It’s vintage so thought it would be expensive but they only wanted one dollar for it, which is extremely concerning

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Wendy Carlos (though she is very private and maybe wouldn’t want one, she does deserve one in theory)

And also that Christian Zionism is antisemitic. The dominant political interpretation of Zionism is antisemitic.

One "fun" aspect of transitioning in your 30s is being suddenly compelled to do all the things you would have done in your youth had you not been disgusted with yourself. Now I am the old bitch in the punk scene hoping that people do not clock my geriatric nature. Oh God, I've become Alan Vega.

Heckuva military campaign the U.S. government is enabling here. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

i like my minimalist “America has fallen” art for my Jeremy Strong Versions EP, but these Walmart plates are a more pragmatic purchase goodbyetheband.bandcamp.com/album/jeremy...

Well... it did, tho?

interesting that none of the replies here care about stopping 9/11

Slightly diminish a book 99 Years of Solitude

Disability isn’t a vacation. It isn’t fun. It isn’t easy. It isn’t something people do for the “perks”. It’s a 24/7 job. It’s managing doctors, wrangling medications & fighting with insurance. It’s coping with ableism & abandonment. It’s doing all of that while in legislated poverty.

this era’s mental health and addiction crises are intensified because of increased poverty and the overall destruction of the country by the rich. instead of a New Deal, we’re getting “reparenting farms”; institutions and benefit cuts instead of more SSI. minorities will be punished yet even more

"what's the last time you've really been *happy*? i mean 'kris kristofferson beaming at recently converted Dylan performing Gotta Serve Somebody' happy." www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Mzy...

Tucker is obviously setting himself up to be the redeemer figure in the “the Jews puppeted/betrayed Trump” MAGA narrative that is emerging on the right.