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I hate talking about the ballroom bc I don't give a fuck about the White House and nothing there is sacred to me, but it feels obvious to me that allowing an authoritarian, who attempted a coup the last time he lost an election, to build a "top secret" military complex under the WH is a bad idea.

The only thing Trump and Jesus have in common is that some of their biggest fans badly misunderstand what they’re actually about.

I don’t fuck with the aesthetic but I admire the bravery of furries.

“Why aren’t college students protesting” stories are almost always wrong (they are protesting), omit crucial context (they were brutally punished for protesting before), and somehow suggest that 19 yr olds have more moral responsibility than elected officials three times their age

Things are so bleak that I’m studying Buddhism again.

What if Republicans followed the constitution? What if we had a constitution which made it possible for us to have more than two parties? What if we didn’t have a president?

One of the things in the Pitt that feels very accurate is that anytime we listen to the music that Dr. Robby is listening to, it’s absolutely dogshit.

Every time I hear men talk about destroying this planet so they can travel to a dead one, I think about how miraculous the existence of Earth is, and how capitalists should never be permitted to make decisions about space exploration.

One of my fave phrases that’s seemed to have gone out of use is “white girl wasted.” Because everyone knows what that means somehow.

Seeing Matt discovering in real time that Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia is a sight to behold.

Played with some of two best bands we’ve ever played with tonight, who were insane 20 something punk jazz hip hop freaks, (imagine if the blood brothers we in death grips and tom morello was in morphine but it worked) in a garage in a horse farm at dusk, to like 20’people and it absolutely ruled.

Democrats should say that Trump’s attacks on Iran are unconstitutional. The American people do not want a war in Iran. The Congress did not authorize a war in Iran. It is an entirely illegitimate action that has no legal or constitutional basis. It is the act of a lawless regime.

the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light

Important insight. ALSO, I have no patience (and I mean ZERO) with people who say "they won't ban birth control." They will eventually try BECAUSE WHAT THEY WANT IS TO CONTROL YOUR BODILY AUTONOMY. We need to be proactive about BODILY AUTONOMY IN GENERAL.

John Waters came to our show last night

look at my country man, we’re getting out-No Kings’d by the fuckin’ british

The decline of right wing cultural production is just due to the fact that they don’t like culture, they like the signifiers of culture, ie “classic sculpture means white people are better.” They don’t like art at all except for this purpose. They don’t even like the nerd stuff they whine about

Dua Lipa’s book podcast is good. A pop star talking to authors is a social good in like a reading rainbow way.

Passing gas for science: UMD researchers launch new fart study

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

i think about this every day and the more history i learn, the truer it becomes

Why are so many undocumented immigrants being held in detention for so long instead of being deported? Simple. The billionaires who own the detention centers get paid for keeping people here. They don't get paid for people who get deported. It's not about the law, it's about taking your money.

time is a flat circle

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

I just spent several days with my cousin and her teen son, and while I know social media is bad for all of us, seeing a teen be absolutely addicted to the dopamine from it was super eye opening. We’re all carrying casinos around in our pocket that spy on us.

always bears repeating that this is NOT a financial decision. jeff bezos is worth over 250 billion dollars. he can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. this is, at its core, a political and personal decision by bezos to destroy the post

The Paris public prosecutor’s office said its yearlong probe was recently expanded because the Grok chatbot was disseminating Holocaust-denial claims and sexually explicit deepfakes.

Jeffrey Bezos is destroying the Washington Post for the same reason Musk destroyed Twitter and Ellison is destroying CBS—oligarchs oppose the free press when if it threatens their wealth and power. They don’t want normal people to see what is happening in America.

Last thing about the brewer’s art thing. If you have a place you love to go and would be sad to see go out of business. Go support that spot, especially if you have not been for a bit.

Hiked into the Grand Canyon this weekend and didn’t want to come out.

4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government

Arresting Black journalists is also vice signaling. Their base is racist and hates journalists and they want to get them excited again. The mainstream media industry has never protected Black journalists or journalists of color the way it should.

From New Year’s Eve til the end of January, Baltimore’s music scene carried 2026 in with packed rooms, benefit shows, album releases, and familiar venues beating with new energy. baltimorebeat.com/night-lights/

Today is the last day of my job of 10 years. I’ve had two weeks to get ready but it’s been super hard to focus with such a big change looming. I’ve curated about 100 shows in the gallery, give or take, in that time.

The 2025 shootings of Minnesota legislators were treated far too lightly. Media and the public moved on too fast without grasping the seriousness of assassination. These are life and death issues, not just differences of opinion the USA is working out. The reactionary right is ready to kill.

“One day, a woman wrote to me on Signal, asking me not to respond. She lived alone, she messaged, and planned to die that weekend. Before she did, she wanted at least one person to understand: Trump had unraveled the government, and with it, her life.” @hannahnatanson.bsky.social essay:

there are sandwich guys everywhere for those with eyes to see

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i think it is ok to reiterate that the victim as a us citizen. yes, noncitizens are equally entitled to human rights. but also, it's important to illustrate how ice isn't about immigration at all

For the last time

The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.

Rapturing at holy frijoles

modesty laws prevented showing even one lousy frame of John Waters' PINK FLAMINGOS (1972) in the trailer, so the only footage in it is of people reacting to a screening they just came out of. every single type of extant queer person is contained in the specific sequences I have selected here

LeMonde said, not on our watch

Highly recommend exile on Main Street loud in the car with the windows down at night, regardless of temperature

"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—" You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.

I wrote the captions on this video the night Osama Bin Laden was killed and it’s probably the most shared thing I ever created.

If ICE can threaten arrest for filming, then journalists, watchdogs, and protesters can all be silenced the same way. You don’t have freedom of the press if recording police is treated as terrorism.  #holdfast www.cato.org/blog/dhs-pol...