This story is about the Kings Road Merch warehouse. Punk artists work there shipping punk merch. Last year, it was acquired by Sony Music. One month ago, workers voted to unionize. On Tuesday, before the first bargaining session, Sony Music announced they’re shuttering the Minneapolis warehouse.

"Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children." —MLK Jr.

Teenage Politics by mxpx came out in 1995, this shit ain’t new

Inventing the air conditioner

It’s worse even than @joshgondelman.bsky.social is making it sound: You create your empire at your own cost on infrastructure owned by the big existing entity that’s making money from you without having to pay you to do it, and they can take your access to the audience away at any time.

Bluesky is winning the World Cup

I just spent two weeks in Chicago and I'm pleased to report that it's still the greatest city on the fucking planet

I was spreading some of my mother’s ashes yesterday and we had our first official “Donny Situation” when a wave sent some of them right back on to my shoes. She’s laughing about it somewhere

The 250th anniversary of America is exactly what I thought it would be: with America losing wars constantly and the president arresting you for disrespecting his pool

Translation.

It's actually kinda amazing how mind-bogglingly stupid this plan is on every level. Bernie might as well suggest Americans take part ownership of the three card monte game being run by some sketchy dude on Hollywood Blvd.

A timely sign for this Cubs fan on Pride Night at Wrigley as Pete Crow-Armstrong steps to the plate after hitting for the cycle:

Damn form way to spend the evening. Love that the Rockies are terrible and tickets were cheeeeap

This is the best thing to happen to Scotland since Thatcher died

The Scots found the Boston cop slide @everyone @edsbs.bsky.social @brianmfloyd.bsky.social @cjzero.bsky.social

This bozo has non idea what they’re talking about. I’m drinking iced coffee…

these assholes didn't deserve this many words written about them

I never was in the bring back Poch camp until last night. I forgot how fun his teams can be

The owner inherited them, is an asshole sex-creep, could not be dislodged after five decades of incompetence, and used his money to build a surveillance state to harass anyone who complained. So yes yes you get it

My favorite thing about flying into O’Hare is that the plane lands in Crystal Lake and drives the rest of the way for some reason.

The idiocy of this statement is sort of unbelievable. The one thing Northern Irish loyalists do *not* want is to be Irish.

It's hard to be excited about the Artemis III mission announcements when the CEO of the company making one of the mission's rockets has spent his week inciting racial violence via his personal social media platform.

🫡 Captain 🐅🐓 www.gq.com/story/son-he...

prediction markets doing press and paying people to make society trust they’re accurate, then giving someone the trump admin has hailed as a “journalist” a paid sponsorship post to cast doubt on elections is horrifying. prediction markets need to be made illegal immediately

There are lovers you forget and sandwiches that haunt you for the rest of your life.

The gas station I worked at had muzak that played the same songs at the same time every day, so if I ever hear Goodbye Earl by the Chicks, I get to go home in 10 minutes

Shows you how broken football is that none of us expect Infantino to pressure Trump, nor senior Fifa execs to pressure Infantino, nor national associations or governments to pressure Fifa, nor teams, players or referees to boycott. Even with such grotesque racism, it's hopelessness all the way down.

My day job is at a rural branch of a public library, and we have a Pride display. Yesterday I was at the desk when a man came in. Fifties, maybe, or sixties. Plaid shirt, mesh trucker cap, suspenders. He went up to the display and just stood there for a long moment. Then he came up to the desk. 🧵 1/

honestly this is nuts, they're establishing an 8-hour security perimeter around the most used transportation hub in North America, so one guy can attend a basketball game

Jun 8th 1998 - Peter Gibbons had a bad case of the Mondays and gets reminded about the new cover sheets on the TPS reports. Michael Bolton (not that one) tells the guys he could write a virus to rip off the company. 📽️📅 Office Space (1999)

The Western Hemisphere should never be allowed to host the World Cup. The whole point is to be able to get to work and watch soccer all day until I need to pick up my kids from summer camp. I should be watching Ghana-Uzbekistan at 9am.

This is the ideal male body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like

listen, obviously Trump is the asshole here, but really, "all the way to Wisconsin?" It's not like you tracked Pol Pot down in the Cambodian jungle, it's just the midwest.

the single biggest takeaway i have from this interview is that on top of being profoundly incompetent, bari weiss and her flunkies at CBS are genuinely terrible human beings. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/m...

Last night I was offered Malort in Brooklyn, and it should be a crime to bring that stuff across the Illinois state line.

They’re packaging it like this so it looks like a shallow trend, but Gen Z has gone through two financial crises, a pandemic, rising fascism, active shooter drills since they were toddlers, and are now being told by the oligarchy they’re to be replaced by robots. Socialism is the logical conclusion.

First gig - Green Day/Rancid Last - Dance Hall Crashers / Hepcat Worst - Marcy's Playground Loudest - Butthole Surfers Best - Rolling Stones (I took my mom) Seen the most - Hold Steady or MU330 Surprising - Le Tigre Glad I saw - Wesley Willis Bucket List - Operation Ivy

@jonbois.bsky.social Watching baseball

Counter point: It's time for guillotines, motherfuckers

Eggs are disgusting and the reliance on them as the centerpiece of American breakfast is an affront to humanity

The rampant greed of FIFA knows no bounds. You already bled these fans dry with ticket prices, but it's Infantino's life ambition to drain every possible penny out of people

My crankiest old man take is that referring to all art/entertainment/journalism/criticism/comedy/advertising as “content” helped pave the way for broad-ish acceptance of AI slop.

bringing it back for pride month I guess

These could be bike paths or fixed potholes or better train tracks or more frequent subways or…

Babe the Blue Ox took out the Loon and jumped the start of the Twins mascot race so TC Bear de-cleated Babe before the finish line

Sen. Andy Kim: "It's a choice. Delaney Hall is run by GEO Group. GEO Group is getting a nearly $1 billion contract to run Delaney Hall. They tell me there is one full-time doctor for 800 detainees. They could have more doctors if they wanted to, but that's cutting into their profits."

Happy Pride month to the whole LGBTQNJ+ rainbow!

Before every devastating burn he says, evenly, "I'm Scott Pelley."

Outside Delaney Hall today.