I don’t know *all* of the research based reasons behind this but I do it this way in my solfege warm-ups. So much of Western music relies on the “sol-mi” so that goes first. Key of D is usually where we start with kindergarten, as well.

Am I correct in assuming we’re all preparing for them to make Charlie Kirk into their venerated MLK, complete with national holiday and equal moral stature in the culture?

Couldn't take Chicago, so he's going after Portland. Like a high school bully that got bodied by a wrestler so he tries to take it out on a theater kid. Pathetic.

It’s important to know the stakes. I learned some things here.

So I feel very strongly that there aren’t enough good resources to tell people what mobile games are actually fun and not just a Delaware corporation lunging for your wallet and I’m going to start a thread. Sam’s IOS Game Thread START:

The Alito Brothers Band (May God forgive me for typing this cursed thing)

Eddie Murphy beat us to it

Be sure you take a moment today to remember Charlie Kirk for exactly who he was.

No one has been more vindicated than normie resistance Dems, women’s marchers and never-Trump Republicans. They were right all along about the threat. The anti-anti-Trump Republicans and reactionary centrists, and the far left “it’s always been this bad” folks have been proved wrong over and over.

1) One of the interesting things is that the relationship between modern law enforcement + mainstream journalism and the Extremely Online Right has entered the "Quincy Punk" phase.

[the shooter is unidentified] the left must be purged with the sword [the shooter is, again, a compulsive masturbator who loved Hitler] I believe it was pascal who said that the heart has reasons that reason may not know

Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative

1/I do not relish or applaud the murder of Charlie Kirk. I am going to make a conscious effort to be kinder in my thoughts toward him and his family than he ever would be toward me and mine. However: I’m particularly galled at the outpouring of loss and grief by the supposed Christians I know.

“Dear Baby Jesus, we beseech you, to still the tongues of the victims of Jeffrey Epstein and his 'friend' and turn a blind eye if we are called upon to bear false witness—like denying identifiable signatures—as we unwelcome strangers, kill the sick, and take from the poor in your holy name. Glory!”

I desperately want to believe that his push to fill the internet with badly automated, focus-group tested homogenized slop will create a value premium on real people/artists/journalists with something useful to say, but then I've met many of my fellow Americans, and I don't think I'd bet money on it

Lately, I’ve noticed that it’s become fashionable to bash Rogue One. I will concede that initially it was a bit overpraised, coming in the midst of the mostly miserable sequel trilogy. But man, the battle of Scarif is some truly exciting filmmaking. I’m always on the edge of my seat.

what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.

1/🧵A thing I think about from time to time is that in the early Obama years I read that the McCain campaign tested an explicitly racist message and were surprised at how successful it was, but decided not to use it for reasons of basic decency, I guess. Trump is the path previously not taken.

Tapping the sign

we’re going to have to throw a lot of people in jail after all this is over

I don't know what people think is about to happen, but history is pretty clear

How is this not a screaming massive headline across every news site? This is insane, a virtual declaration of civil war. We fought a revolution to not be subjected to this kind of tyranny

“I saw Goody Epstein at the Devil’s Sacrament!” “WTF were you doing at the Devil’s Sacrament?!”

I typically describe conservative politics as requiring disingenuous literalism. Like we all know what’s really being said/legislated, but we’re forced to pretend. And now that’s how SCOTUS rules — pure intent with no consideration of outcome — so it’s kinda the foundational legal truth of the US

pedonatalism www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-t...

1/🧵 Something came up in a casual group conversation this weekend, and it’s got me pondering: When was the last time American politics seemed “normal”; that is, things operated within the bounds of what you consider to be acceptable partisan behaviors and rhetoric?

Texas loaded busses with desperate migrants and dropped them off in Chicago like trash in the middle of winter. We welcomed them into our communities. Now Texas is sending its National Guard to terrorize them on our streets. In our neighborhoods. What the fuck.

A pre-dog-walk 🧵 on the pandemic. To me, the lesson of the pandemic is a very familiar one, although as far as I can tell, no one is talking about it or learning it (which is also familiar). It's about the contrast between America's two political parties.

Get well, Mr. Mayor. Whoever did this is dethpicable.

The thing about a lot of these never Trump Republicans is that, unlike a lot of institutionalist Dems who think the fever will break and we can all return to comity or whatever, these guys saw the rot up close and know the only appropriate response is to tear them out of government root and branch.

New York’s hottest club is Blame Zohran Mamdani for Crimes Committed While Eric Adams Is Mayor Under Laws Signed by Andrew Cuomo. It’s got everything—corrections officers who aren’t registered to vote in New York City, etc etc etc

The billboards on the way through SF to SFO are like a parody of the city. “Wooza can push to Splorg. Can your TSMP?”

If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you

Almost 100% of “why did everyone behave like that” questions can be answered with “they expected the immediate future to resemble the recent past”

It is of course extremely important to put front and center that Robert E. Lee was literally a traitor and he was a traitor on behalf of the institution of slavery which he strongly supported. But in the battles we have over public memory - which is what the statues and portraits and base names ...

The SCOTUS is corrupt as hell...

To Donald Trump and his administration: If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me — not time or political circumstance — from making sure you face justice under our constitutional rule of law.

If you are a hostile intelligence agency, you can get more out of a well-aimed rock at the right place and time today than entire Cold War expenditure of the KGB combined.

Ah, the halcyon days when we were bullying Vance for sport

It’s amazing to me when I consider that, by any normal definition, I’m far more “conservative” than whatever the fuck is going on with those assholes right now. This is absolutely not intended to be a “no true Scotsman” thing. I’m just so much more into stability while they wanna flip every table.

Crucial question.

Trump going to hell and being like they’re calling this southern heaven, in many ways it’s actually better.

legit laughing my ass off

I get the cowardice. I'm a coward too. The hope that the midterms won't be rigged and Democrats will take the House and Trump can be blocked via government action is comforting. Because the other option, the actual historical answer to how fascist regimes fall, has an incredible body count.

I just want a Dem representative from a major metro to respond to one of these rural district chuds saying that American cities are crime ridden warzones with "you call the people of my district a blight on society when the economic center of yours is a meth lab."

Did you ever read my Hegelian/Hobbesian take on Trump's presidency? jennifermercieca.substack.com/p/trump-is-o...

Ignorance is how we got here. Sigh.