NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine. My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...

the Louvre heist was cool and all but it still doesn’t top Brian Eno pissing in Duchamp’s urinal while it was in a secure display at MoMA

Sorry but this is the funniest headline I will read all year

just found out there’s a street in pasadena called hürlbut. with the umlaut and everything

that last episode of Slow Horses had one of the best cliffhanger endings i’ve seen in a long time

There's been a 300 PERCENT increase in FBI domestic terrorism investigations this year www.kenklippenstein.com/p/secretive-...

oh your a bad bunny fan? name five members of his warren’s owsla

this whole portland thing is just a distraction from amelia earhart

oh really? that’s cool, but in -my- culture we throw out plastic grocery bags immediately after their first use. just right out the window as soon as the groceries are put away, let the wind take it where it may.

reinventing the umbrella

nice to see a small but enthusiastic anti-trump protest in small town north carolina (statesville) with plenty of support from passing cars. a good reminder that in spite of red state/blue state discourse, our divisions do not run neatly along state lines or even urban va rural identities

in the presence of history

not only is it far too early to believe anything about anything, but personally i still have doubts about who killed the _original_ horst wessel.

🌐new album🌐 .mp3neptune x Sanyo Static Alright, Goodnight! do you like vaporwave? it feels like it's been a while since i made vaporwave. i hope you enjoy! mp3neptune.bandcamp.com/album/alrigh...

rat in a drain ditch, caught on a limb. you know better, but i know him.

night vale is returning to the road and coming to a blood forest near you

Go, a college student, has a dependent visa (her mother, an Episcopal minister, is here on a religious worker visa), which doesn't expire until Dec. But when she tried to renew it early, ICE nabbed her and sent her halfway across the US to a detention center. www.wthr.com/article/news...

#MosaicMonday 👀 #Roman mosaic unearthed in the Villa di Negrar di Valpolicella, near Verona, #Italy in 2022. #Archaeology #History #AncientBlueSky🏺

a chat with the neighbor

No cheating, your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist. Who is it?

next week i am playing my first solo show in a long time. tuesday august 5th at visionarium in south pasadena, 7-9pm. its a wine bar, gallery and italian restaurant. i'm playing some new piano/mandolin/electronics pieces and they have very good proscuitto, if you are in town come check it out

i haven’t used this app in a few weeks. last time i was here there were people talking about looking for a “joe rogan of the left”. today i log back in and it’s escalated to “democratic stephen miller”. i say fuck it the dems should just go ahead and put george w bush on the ticket why not.

and if you piss me off i’ll invent something even Worse

i think im a little late for my meeting with hanako at embers

maybe i’m paranoid but an “ice reporting app” sure seems like a pretty easy way for someone, even a well-meaning someone, to build a database of people who oppose ice, along with their current locations. imo using local hotlines seems safer

What to Know About Measles: It wasn't a problem for decades until a roadkill-eating rapist whose academic background is "drug dealer" made it a problem and papers like the Times didn't treat it as a crime or emergency on par with "the Democrat in an election between two senile people is senile."

7 days until tour 😬

i haven’t had a mail/clerk related job in some years and i kind of miss working the old pitney-bowes postage meter.

If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029: - $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion - $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million - $8 billion for hiring/retention - Billions more.

NASA is being told to cancel 19 *active* missions to save $6B, which looks to be less than the ICE *hiring/retention* budget going forward. I need people to let that sentence sink into their bones for a minute.

horrible to hear about the passing of Rebekah del Rio. i just saw her live a couple weeks ago at a special screening of Mulholland Drive and it was such a magical performance. gone far too soon 🖤

The United States of America has regressed roughly 160 years in terms of basic legal rights of citizenship and this regression has occurred in little over five months.

i lived in NYC for ten years, a lot of my family is from there, but i don’t understand why the mayoral races always need to be some big national conversation. its just a city. but at the same time, fuck Cuomo tho

"Purity politics got us here!" No they fucking didn't. A coordinated billion dollar right wing propaganda campaign combined with mainstream media going all in on anti-trans views is what "got us here." Also, wanting equal rights is not "purity politics."

holy shit. Cuomo halted an investigation into the Weinstein case after a donation from Weinstein’s former lawyer’s firm to his reelection campaign… guys, this was in 2018 AFTER the Weinstein exposés (multiple) had been published & the #metoo movement was ascendant

One thing you will never think after reading a great book or listening to a great album or seeing a great piece of art is, “I’m really glad this person remained cautious while they were making this and guarded against being perceived as weird.”

Remember all the assholes in 2003 who insisted that we’d be greeted as liberators and called you anti-American for opposing the war and then changed their minds many years later to pretend like they always opposed the war? They’re doing the same schtick again.

people who use the phrase “echo chamber” as a criticism of a place have obviously never been in an actual echo chamber. once i was wandering around phoenix and found some random wizard who’d set one up and guess what: echo chambers are fucking awesome

happy james joyce day to all who celebrate

If you’re in LA in a public space this month and someone tries to get you to sign a petition about wages and voting DO NOT SIGN IT. this is businesses trying to repeal an ordinance that increases wages for workers in hospitality spaces ahead of the Super Bowl, World Cup, & Olympics. Do not sign!

i think gavin newsom’s next move should be proving that he is more of a man than trump by eating more hamburgers, more quickly.

my most LA experience to date: tried to go to special screening of Mullholland Drive, got the day wrong, took a walk instead, noticed a weird/creepy apartment complex on the walk, went to see the movie on the right day, and saw that exact complex as set of some of the movie’s most intense scenes