A nice touch, indeed.

I enjoyed this short video from Corey. Funny how things work out.

Amazing story:

Re the FBI scrubbing the Epstein Files, this is abs true and is a much bigger deal than you might think. Should the dems retake the House and start investigations...

Great & illuminating discussion here with Dr. Rasmussen. Listen and learn! Thank you @jeremyfaust.bsky.social

Lots of concerning things in this analysis, particularly this: "The NYPD responded to an open records request...by claiming that it could not release information about test results or audits from its Palantir-powered predictive policing system because of a nondisclosure agreement with the company."

For your Sunday morning enjoyment:

Those wings

Required reading:

Great discussion here with @heather4dems.bsky.social & @gregsargent.bsky.social. Williams points out that "the idea that all of these gerrymanders are unreachable for Democrats or that there is not a path to the majority is just fundamentally not true.” Dems won in many places Trump carried in '24

Israel just wants to kill Palestinians, no matter where they are.

As @nogorobo.bsky.social says in comments below, this should be made into a PSA.

What this regime apparently wants is for most of our income to be eaten up by housing, healthcare, and food, leaving little $ for much else. But if it were to get to that point & ppl weren't able to afford the "unnecessary" things, you'd see a major disruption to the economy.

And counting:

Real antisemitism is on the rise in the country, and alongside it, self-inflicted antisemitism that endangers the Jewish community. Robert Kuttner reports on the difference: trib.al/23RAmPP

"...the increasingly transparent absurdity of the Republican position..." An apt descriptor of basically the past 9 months. I don't see how these people live with themselves.

UTK violating its own policy on free speech. And so it continues...

It isn't only scientists who are looking to leave...

A lot to like here. Check it!

I would choose to have permanent standard time.

Whatever happened to "states rights?"

<“At this point, the United States is so inconsistent in its approach to the war that its proclamations – which appear to vacillate depending on the day – have virtually no strategic meaning.” In other words, no one is sure whose side the US is on.>

Very impressive imagery of Melissa from late Sunday. Thank those at the Nat'l Hurricane Center, part of the Nat'l Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, which falls under the US Dept of Commerce.

What do YOU think?

Yes, we're the "baddies."

Another great shot from @mikemelton.bsky.social

New album Watch It Die is out 14 November. Order it now on Bandcamp.

"Once you elect or appoint someone who has no moral core — who then appoints people with no moral core and fires those who do — nothing else in the system of checks-and-balances turns out to matter."

Favorite track: Les Vosges La Drôme

brokensoundtapes.bandcamp.com/album/aspiri... It's still October so this is still a brand new release 💜

Departure 500 is up at @mixcloud.bsky.social - it features @beachhouseband.bsky.social, @charlienieland.bsky.social, @lwhickeys.bsky.social, @thebeths.bsky.social, @twiabp.bsky.social, Smokey Brights, Painted Vein, Hippo Campus, Darkswoon, and more! www.mixcloud.com/mjalexander/...

Guarantee you'll find something in here to like:

Coming out Tuesday 10/14. It's full of never-before-reported documents and photos. Pre-order wherever you get your books. Repost this to help spread the word.

Expand your mind with new music:

My rebuttal to this absurd take from The Atlantic: qasimrashid.substack.com/p/journalism... You don't compromise with fascists, you run on a proven values that the American people want, and you fight for them.

I'm sorry but it's just plain hilarious that we're still expected to hate Hamas after spending two years being shown exactly what it is that Hamas has been fighting.

Dr. Jane Goodall is speaking to you.

"Northwestern [seeks] to coerce its students, as a condition of their enrollment, to affirm their acceptance of inaccurate, tendentious and in some respects offensive viewpoints authored by external organizations that possess no scholarly expertise and have no standing to produce credible knowledge"

All these years later...

100% of your purchase price will go to charity. Today only!

The shoegaze and dream pop festival Slide Away have announced their 2026 lineup, which features the return of Chapterhouse and Hum. Slide Away is also coming to Chicago on top of NYC and LA. www.undertheradarmag.com/news/slide_a...

Pleased to announce that our new record, Under Dark Skies, will be out December 5 via Little Cloud Records (USA) and Shore Dive Records (UK/EU). #psychrock #shoegaze #rockandroll #vinyl @shorediverecords.bsky.social

Do UN “Snapback” Sanctions really Matter to the Iranian Economy and its Nuclear Program?

The US has presided over one of the worst crimes against humanity in modern times.

" 'Setting a million little fires to keep the press from focusing for too long on any one thing is part of Trump’s strategy,' a local reporter told me during the exchange program."

He makes a lot of good points in this interview.

Re-upping this because it seems like every week now, something happens that makes me think of it.

Rowdy Girl is a cattle farm turned into an animal sanctuary. They do good work there. Support if you can.

Trump just said Hep B is sexually transmitted so there’s no reason to give it to a baby, wait until they’re 12 years-old. If that’s not a tell I don’t know WTF is.

"An aggressively tranquilising effect on the soul..." Clash catches Nine Inch Nails live at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles - a crushing symphony of sound. www.clashmusic.com/live/live-re...