A totally misleading #headline in the #WSJ, deliberately meant to scare you. Not until you get two-thirds of the way down you see "or another compliant ID, such as a passport." What is up with this shit?

It's ridiculous. They have to be complete masochists to keep attending these.

This is important. The ultimate target of ICE etc. is a lot more than "illegal immigrants" (though the Trumpists certainly hate them). Immigrants are just the easiest initial scapegoat. The machinery being set up is clearly meant for something much bigger.

I don't think I'm being biased when I say that several long-running WFMU DJs have permanently transformed days of the week. Sunday afternoons are associated w/garage rock (Bill Kelly), Saturday afternoons are associated w/greasy RnR (the Hound), and Sunday mornings have long been reggae time (Jeff).

Newark airport.

Just got this very cool GIF from @WFMU DJ and graphics guru Greg from Zone 5 that he made to help me PR my archive-only reconstituted '90s WFMU overnight show, The True Hallucinations Tapes. check it out!

At Monty Hall, this Sat., 11/15: Meet volunteers from rescue organizations in NJ. Ready to adopt a cat or kitten? Meet your new friend and apply to adopt! Or just say hi and admire the best cats in town. With DJ sets by Abbie from Mars, and hosts DJs Amanda and Bucci. Details:

Here's a live one that almost got away, one you won't want to miss. What is it? It's installment number ten of The True Hallucinations Tapes, that back-to-the-future late-night radio show discovered in a lost and forgotten box of cassettes, recently... 1/4

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms). It’s also concerning. 1/

horror movies are not scary to cats. Sandal has seen hundreds and is not impressed. horror movies made for cats would basically just be those youtube videos of a bunch of birds having a nice time outside and living their lives. cats would be rioting in the theater over those

1/3 SHHHH, be quiet! My FAVORITE RADIO SHOW is about to start! That's right - it's a new installment (number NINE, number NINE) of The True Hallucinations Tapes, with music from Skip Spence, Lothar & the Hand People, Uncle Wiggly, The Stooges, Velvet Monkeys, Massive Attack, The Nice ...

#Vegan #PlantBased They say “animals don’t cry.” That’s because slaughterhouses don’t have microphones.

@mmasnick.bsky.social has written a lot of brilliant posts. But I haven’t wanted to frame any of them before now. I’m on my way to the frame shop. Who Goes MAGA? | Techdirt

We're so relieved to see Germany reaffirm its opposition to the dangerous Chat Control proposal--the one that would mandate mass scanning of communications. Germany's long been a solid champion of privacy, and the news that it was considering backing mass surveillance was alarming. 1/

#BlackRabbit : Great series, but what's with the bad lighting in every scene, every shot? Do they need to save $ on production? You see it in a lot of #movies now, too

We all need to align our chakras occasionally, and what better way than to listen to the latest installment of The True Hallucinations Tapes - the back-to-the-future 1990s late-night radio roller coaster, featuring ... 1/3

📣 NEW -- In The Economist, discussing the privacy perils of AI agents and what AI companies and operating systems need to do--NOW--to protect Signal and much else! www.economist.com/by-invitatio...

1/ Over 20 Robert Altman films are now on the #Criterion Channel. Pret-a-Porter was almost universally panned on its release in '94. . . .

#Seaweed farms are a dual solution for climate change & sustainable energy. - don't require freshwater, fertilizer, or arable land to grow, making it one of the most eco-friendly resources - naturally absorbs massive amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through photosynthesis helping 1/...

We all have a choice. We either support cruelty to animals or we don't. If we don't we go vegan, it's that simple. Veganism is an abolitionist movement, not a diet.

My nose, when slightly congested, makes a sound like an iPhone vibrating with a silent notification. My wife and I would check our phones until I realised. I have now mastered the skill and do it in any quiet room. Sorry but it's just funny to have people pull out their mobiles.

1/2 On the most recent episode of The True Hallucinations Tapes: H.P. Lovecraft, Juju, Jack Nitzsche, The High Spirits, Space Debris. Alexander Tucker, Spirit, the Deviants, Gard Nilssen's Supersonic Orchestra, W.I.T.C.H., El Michels Affair, Anjo Gabriel, Larent Garnier, Zone Six,

Incredibly, I found a box of cassettes with my @WFMU shows from the '90s that I long ago had given up for lost. The first 5 shows are now available (plus 2 guest shows before I had my own), with more to come as I'm able to clean up, convert and post them: wfmu.org/playlists/HL

FUCK WEBP!!!! - dashare.zone ADMIN

Under the spectacle of the Epstein Files and the horror of migrants being disappeared to foreign gulags, the bureaucratic assault on democracy is all too easy to miss. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/what...

FightClub Penny and the Peanut Butter Cup get comfy -- they know every day is #Caturday. #CatsofBluesky #CatsOfFediverse #cats #cats #cats #feline #FelineFriends

Wheres the news on this? I have posted this to every news outlet and large name independent news group and I have yet to see ANY one report on it. Yall... they want it quiet. Get it out there. He shouldnt even be in office at all. youtu.be/v5p1urol9uk?...

If you ever thought that *one man* could never ruin an entire society, an entire country and even horribly disrupt the entire world, think again.

NEW: A Twin Cities doctor challenged a powerful child abuse pediatrician whose diagnoses had been questioned. Reporter @jlussenhop.bsky.social of @propublica.org reveals what happened next in this terrific but troubling medical investigation. www.propublica.org/article/chil...

Incredibly, I found a box of cassettes with my @WFMU shows from the '90s that I long ago had given up for lost. The first few shows are now available, with more to come as I'm able to clean up, convert and post them: wfmu.org/playlists/HL

wargasm.

We still have no idea who the ICE agents are. They could be insurrectionists, extremist militiamen or criminals themselves, chasing law-abiding citizens down the street for recording their kidnappings. The odds they aren't are low. Congress must raise hell about this. A masked gang runs our country.

Too many Democrats are too timid to speak out against war with Iran, falsely believing that staying on the sidelines absolves them of the consequences of such colossal decisions. Email your senators: act.indivisible.org/sign/no-iran... Email your representative: act.indivisible.org/sign/no-iran...

The cruelest propaganda uses the beauty of these victims against their cause. The ear tags shatter the facade; these individuals are enslaved as units of production. Please go vegan for them. #AnimalRights

Those who demand “patriotism” and define it as the glorification of a mythical past that serves as justification for white nationalist rule in the present stand in a long line of reactionaries and rightwing extremists who defined pluralistic democracy as the enemy of their “freedom” to dominate.

open.substack.com/pub/thiswill... Rigged 🤬

The Supreme Court ALSO took action against New York's law requiring most employer health insurance plans to cover abortion. It vacated a lower court decision upholding the law and told the court to reconsider in light of its recent decision in Catholic Charities. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

According to figures from No Kings Day, we have reached the 3.5% figure. youtu.be/x4syl-hZ9_I?...

Absolutely horrifying. A politically motivated assassination of Democratic lawmakers. The regime calling protesters in LA “animals,” sending troops to “liberate” the city from Democratic governance. A military parade in the nation’s capital. All these events are intimately connected.

This is how it’s done. 👏👏👏

Beyond the calamity for low-income tenants who lack affordable alternatives, entire housing submarkets rely on Section 8 as a landlord income stream. Trump knows this! Jared Kushner was (is?) in that business, as @alecmac.bsky.social lays out here. www.propublica.org/article/the-...

"Things went too far, as evidenced by the New York Times being taken over by woke radicalism in 2019/20" is a) complete nonsense empirically and b) dogma among a certain segment of mainstream elite opinion from center-right to center-left, including among the people now in charge of the NYT.

Name something more important than what Graham said here???

When people say, “I treat others as I wish to be treated.”, we can assume that unless they wish to be violently exploited, brutally murdered before they reach adulthood, & their butchered bodies used to gratify another’s desire for a needless, fleeting taste sensation, it’s just empty rhetoric.

Really good write-up of major action at U of Washington. www.thestranger.com/news/2025/05...

Now reading: ABOLISH RENT: How Tenants can solve the #Housing Crisis, by Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis. #displacement #rentcontrol

At night in bed in the dark, I have to reach REAL-ly slowly for the eyedrops. If I hit that small round, super-light plastic bottle too hard, it falls off the bedside table & I have to get up, turn the light on, pull the table forward to find the bottle. Why can't they make square-shaped bottles?

Listen... she might be unqualified, unethical, corrupt, currently involved in a lawsuit over the sex trafficking of minors... There isn't a but.