Today, while the facade of my home was being torn down, I picked up the terrible pile of trash on our corner. It's always kind of bad, but the snow and deep freeze, it was unusually filthy. A new neighbor joined in! She had wanted to pick up trash but felt a little self conscious.

Katyal: "I was able to go to court - the son of immigrants-- & say on behalf of small businesses, 'Hey, this president is acting illegally.' I was able to present my case, have them ask really hard questions, & at the end of it they voted & we won. That is something extraordinary about this country"

Incredibly satisfying shot/chaser

They are putting the exhibits back up about the people George Washington enslaved at the President’s House site at Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia and someone is playing “Fight the Power” and “Celebration.” It feels like such a relief to see humanity, history & sanity prevail.

Hell is something akin to developing a runny nose just hours before a two-plane flight home with insufficient tissues and only one N95 mask

What if Lemon Party and Grindr did a cross-promotion.

I remember this dumb talking point back when Google News first came out. These right wing creeps have no concept of how out of step they are & get very upset when their little bubble gets burst. Everything they complained about was a projection, and a roadmap for when they buy out leadership roles.

A yellow what now

Recent CBS News news: 1. Anderson Cooper leaves 60 Minutes after two decades 2. Stephen Colbert reveals network won’t let him air interview with Dem 3. Producer says politics dictating what airs 4. Owner’s bid for CNN parent back on the table. 5. Not firing Epstein pal.

The revolution has already happened and the bad guys are in power

Hell of a start to the opinion ordering the restoration of the President's House displays share.inquirer.com/Gpah5j

It's also worth remembering that this narrative is Nazi in a way that actually pre-dates the Holocaust. Hitler rose to power telling a story of a Germany shackled by guilt and shame (and of course the material concessions fallout) from WWI

Now fire it into the sun

Restore Customs and the Secret Service to the Treasury. Restore TSA and the Coast Guard to the Dept. of Transportation. Restore FEMA to its original independent status - hell, make it a whole Department, we're going to need it. Restore all the small random agencies to Justice. Be done with it.

Hanging out with old pals at the Nine Inch Nails show in Washington DC I am so tired right now

Melissa is stuck behind some tall Meathead

I might be a little unhinged right now

Today is definitely a "doing too much" day. Trash truck for our demolition garbage showed up at 7:15 instead of 8. Started work as usual at 9:30 Catching public transit into NJ so Melissa can pick me up on her drive from Rutgers to DC for the NIN show Flying to STL in the morning. Slept poorly, too.

Cmon now guys. If any Dem says anything besides shut down until this is all gone then there's no need for federal government at all. These are concentration camps. If you're too scared to say so then you're part of the problem.

Getting recruitment emails from a company called "Hirecrap". Being unemployed is not demeaning, but it is demeaning to know that money is so loose in tech that some asshole can get investment for a service called "Hirecrap"

Today is the 5th anniversary of the release of the infamous #Lawyercat video, which I posted roughly thirty minutes after the start of the second impeachment trial. Who would have thought it would have such a lasting impact on the world! Happy Lawyercat Day for all who celebrate!

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'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

A good thing you can do about this instead of dooming is Google “how to become a poll observer in [your town]”

Surely a deadly pandemic that sits the world down for a year or two will finally sort out public health care in the US Ah well nevertheless

The revolution already happened and the bad guys are in charge

Talked this week about why removing the fascist boot from your neck will help you find a much bigger audience and, also, your soul. "There's a reason the Washington Post is going to die before The Onion becomes one of the biggest newspapers in the country: They licked the boot, and we kicked back."

the Barbara Kruger mural the chase is happening in front of reads: "WHO IS BEYOND THE LAW? WHO IS BOUGHT AND SOLD? WHO IS FREE TO CHOOSE? WHO DOES THE TIME? WHO FOLLOWS ORDERS? WHO SALUTES LONGEST? WHO PRAYS LOUDEST? WHO DIES FIRST? WHO LAUGHS LAST?"

I try not to steep myself in nostalgia, but it was time to replace a well worn pair of shoes, and my favorite plaid and green color combo turned up on ebay, practically new, for a reasonable price. Second hand clothing ftw RIP gray canvas Palladiums

On Facebook, friends of mine are posting photos on the set of the Muppet Show, because I was on staff at the National Puppetry Conference for over a decade. On LinkedIn, I scroll past a video of lifeless AI muppets, generated by an old colleague who once told me he doesn't "get music"

@wyden.senate.gov's record of warning that there is deep and constitutionally-serious dirt being done by the intelligence agencies in secret is unblemished. The vaguer he is, the filthier the dirt is. This is the vaguest I've ever seen him

Real journalism that meets the moment

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

Bezos has the resources to make WaPo into the BEST sports outlet and BEST science outlet and BEST place to get trusted news without feeling any sort of negative financial impact but is happy to turn it into Quillette because he’s lost whatever creative spark he had and turned into a vapid dullard

Not another fucking dime for this. Not one single penny. Your body cam BS ain’t gonna cut it, Chuck

I used Curb to hail a can to the instead of Lyft today. Taxi got here in two minutes, I saved $20, and my Tunisian driver was amazing! (Technically I saved the company I work for $20, but it is hard to let go of frugal habits.)

All the stars are here: Brantley Gilbert, Brice Bradley, Gabby Babby, Bibb Glibsy, Slab Gabbert, Brice Bryce,

Some jawdropping CBP crime statistics here...

When this is playing, I'm probably behind a self-imposed deadline, but I'm on the fifth loop of the album and closing the gap real fuckin' fast

The FBI was able to access Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson's Signal messages because she used Signal on her work laptop. The laptop accepted Touch ID for authentication, meaning the agents were allowed to require her to unlock it. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Hundreds of people spelled out the distress signal "SOS" on Bde Maka Ska in Minneapolis on Friday, Jan. 30. 📷️ Provided by Jeff Schad

The nazis redistributed the stolen property of deported Jews to the German population. It was called Aryanization. This is no different. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryaniz...

This horror obscures a previous one. That previous horror—was that normal? What was there before? How does it relate to the previous one, and to those we see coming? We can't capture every detail, but refusing consign present struggles to the fog of "losing track" is one bucket in the brigade. 3/3

It's hard to get a fast, accessible picture of what happened four months ago just from the media firehose. The ever-overwriting 24-hr news cycle shreds memory and discernment. 2/3

Last repost: Unbreaking.org is a thing I do with my fighty brain cells. I never know if it matters enough, or how much, or to whom, but I have to think that keeping track of events in a durable, intelligible way is meaningful. 1/3

How are you supposed to explain to people how this entire social, political, and economic reality is entirely downstream from anime getting banned on some dipshit's forum 25ish years ago

4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government

Here's an opportunity to support the other journalist arrested today; Georgia Fort, who will have far fewer resources available to her than Don Lemon.

Logging in to social media Step 1: I have a silly thing to post, annnd - posted! Step 2: let's look at the ol' feed. Oh, shit! That's crazy! Repost. Repost. Repost. Wow man. Step 3: Well, I had better eat lunch before I get back to work