I wrote about old rap magazines, the fight for the future of hip hop’s past, and the impact the digital age has had on history, for @defector.com defector.com/lost-recipes

Today is a momentous day for every Iranian. But this is also correct, this is a net evil that is becoming frightening to see.

Israel and Iran, the two countries I consider where I originate from, are at war again.

For now, but that AI bubble is popping and that’s about to be a big problem for a bid like this.

The 101 course on systems of oppression surely includes the part about how oppression doesn't manifest in the same ways for every oppressed group. At the very least you definitely failed the class if you think Jewish people aren't oppressed.

One of the fun facts about going outside the US is that largely everywhere, unless in the middle of a war, has less gun crime.

Romania has decoupled economic growth from pollution faster than anywhere else in EU. Its net greenhouse gas emissions intensity fell 88% between 1990 & 2023, so each euro’s worth of economic activity heats planet 10 times less. Emissions have plunged by 75%. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Anger.

Free Iran.

My mom has skin cancer now. Early stages, thank god. But also. WTF.

get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship

This whole month my social life has been dominated by 26 year old narcissists shit talking me.

I desperately need a vacation.

It’s quietly unbelievable that Trumps supporters would defend him as not a racist in 2016-2020

People are forgetting that Bitcoin works on trade. If countries are getting more closed off, it should be obvious that “universal digital currency” would take a hit.

Public sentiment is so anti-Trump and so geared towards the midterms that them announcing ICE will be at the polls will carry the absolute opposite effect. If the economy keeps flagging too? It’s a death knell for the guy. A lot of angry people who would get angrier.

For the moment, he’s the right horse to bet on somewhere. Big chance of him suddenly becoming a bigger crossover star.

This is the appeal of Star Trek. You watch the characters grow together and apart through adversity. The writing is relatively pliable and responsive to this. The space stuff adds surreality and the chance to explore in ways you can’t. And it becomes perfect comfort television.

Ahh the life of an ICE agent: you’re not really trained or paid or given benefits, you have an impossible quota for work, you have a bonus you won’t ever collect, you can’t sleep at any hotel chain or eat anywhere and you work for a pedophile. And every day you might be in a riot. What a job.

Petition to change Kid Rock's name to BAWITDABAD BUNNY.

Product of two Jews. Circa 1920 from the Ottoman Empire? Religious persecution And also circa 1977 from Iran? Religious persecution. Also my grandpa was from Lithuania… religious persecution.

“Less than two weeks before Jeffrey Epstein’s death in jail, his lawyers and Manhattan federal prosecutors met and discussed his potential cooperation…”

pizzagate and qanon were not onto something, they were orchestrated by pedophiles to make accusing people of pedophilia make you look insane so that they could continue doing pedophile shit. fucking christ

Among the batch of newly released emails from Jeffrey Epstein: Epstein telling Peter Thiel he would “gladly share…expenses for the Gawker suit.” This was sent the day after @rmac.bsky.social and @mattdrange.bsky.social reported in Forbes that Thiel was behind the lawsuit that would bankrupt Gawker

I don't think people appreciate enough the fact that, at a time where global warming was approaching an inflection point yet renewable energy was finally becoming economically viable, we decided to squander that opportunity because literal death cultists decided we needed Infinite Bullshit Machines.

I actually think you’re underestimating how big this is. /pol/ memes basically invaded Fox News at a time when it aggressively gained viewers. Gamergate was very effective at radicalizing men and Fox News was very good at carrying the message to them. Trump filled the void.

It’s not even none of them cared… all of them knew and the worst among them were like “fuck yeah” Buddy was convicted before MOST of the revelations in the document.

Vance’s benefactor Peter Thiel, Epstein, and Russia’s ambassador Vitaly Churkin having an “important lunch” 1 month before the 2016 election — right before the Podesta emails were released by Wikileaks Probably nothing! 🙃🥶

So what I’m gathering is a pedophilic billionaire successfully worked to destigmatize race science among the academic, political, and business elite partly by sex trafficking girls. Is that the shape of it so far?

So, let's get this straight. Christopher "Moot" Poole created 4chan as a gathering place for hentai and CSAM enthusiasts, started /pol/ the day he met with Jeffrey Epstein, then /pol/ memed Trump to the presidency and birthed Qanon, a conspiracy theory in which Trump is a good person who hates CSAM.

Barely a few hours after President Donald Trump named him as the next nominee to chair the Federal Reserve, Kevin Warsh was revealed to be in the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case files.

Microsoft kicked Jeffrey Epstein off Xbox live forever because he was a pedophile.. And Bill Gates is in the files. YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS UP.

We’re catching fraud! We’ll use our military! Give us your voter rolls and it stops! Just nonsense.

How many hours do they spend making terrible LinkedIn posts?

Music industry panel events always have panelists who give you no value and are just there to hear themselves speak.

How is it that out of 3 rappers on Kanye’s Monster, it’s only Jay Z who doesn’t live up to that billing?

Undoubtedly, everything was so much more fun before Trump showed up. it's a little hard to put your finger on as to what exactly it was. But it's the case.

"Turn over your voting records or we keep shooting voters."

Call the piece of legislation that ultimately abolishes ICE the Pretti-Good Act

I’m opening Tik Tok and getting a sexy Trump calendar ad. Think that app is finally cooked now.

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

GIVE ME THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE OR I WILL USE VIOLENCE ON UNSUSPECTING PEOPLE.

He’s basically putting the country into a nuclear standoff between Britain and France if he does. And he can already create trade deals with Denmark over whatever is in Greenland. It’s honestly so confusing why he would do this.

People have been waiting 50 years for the day that the regime ends in Iran. And instead of supporting the protesters, he bombs them to perhaps make them second guess about going outside. You can't make that up.

How can you be an immigrant, married to a black immigrant, with immigrant kids… and support Donald Trump. That is a recipe for disaster.

He’s in the files? We kidnapped a foreign president? We’re going door to door with ICE now? They shot someone innocent but she’s labeled a terrorist? They want to suspend habeas corpus? They’re suing the fed

There aren’t many undocumented Somalis. ICE can’t investigate fraud. You wouldn’t investigate fraud going door to door in towns. Yes. It’s to inspire violence.

The idea that in a time of layoffs Trump wants to lower rates… impossible. Bad judgement to the max.

The Onion with the first shot for Big Fiber.