South to North, incredible

This halftime performance is a good time for Americans to come together and say we’d like to give Ricky Martin just a little smooch if that’s all right

Today is the 58th anniversary of the Orangeburg Massacre. An event where the South Carolina national guard opened fire on a large group of high school & college students at an HBCU that injured at least 28 and killed three. One person was punished, an innocent student named Cleveland Sellers

The US embargo on Cuba goes back 66 years. According to a state dept memo at the time, the people of Cuba supported Castro, who had removed the US backed dictatorship. Thus it was decided to "deny money and supplies to Cuba" to "bring about hunger, desperation, and the overthrow of government"

R.E.M. Live at Circle Pavilion - University of Illinois at Chicago 1987-11-04 https://archive.org/details/ajc02667_rem1987-11-04.aud

Barcelona BCNegra festival in Spain

Damn this infernal machine for creating within me the demanding, inescapable image of RFK Jr's carrion-threaded ,magmatic bowel movements

The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children

Never Forget

UK Traitors: win or lose I’m well chuffed from making some good mates US Traitors: My name is The Botox Bitch and I will have your children killed

From "The Iliad, or The Poem of Force" by Simone Weil.

ah i can answer this trick question actually. novels are not a race

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

I don't see how self-publishing world survives GenAI. It's going to be an absurd increase in slop books with no reason to expect any increase in paying readers. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b...

Concentration camps: “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."

MAGA is the most explicitly racist it's ever been and centrist media is still on its late-2024 "this is the silent majority and we must respect them" tip so we're getting explainers like "Why both comparing Black people to apes and being Puerto Rican are controversial"

hard to think of a better example of "you may not believe in class war, but billionaires know they're in one" than this

I recommend putting your favorite words into the Tubi search bar. If this doesn’t bear fruit for you, get better favorite words

Hi Gentlemen! Have a February gift, a preview of V2! Here is the first episode with the updated video and better translation to show how far we have come since the inception of this project! Let us know what you think in the comments! Thank you once again! mega.nz/folder/sSkTQ...

I have never in my life heard of the nation of Kiribati but the food looks good

A more ambitious person than myself would begin a new publishing line to bring pocket pulp book racks to coffee shops and revival movie houses

Not to be obsessive on this topic, but here’s what I found on my own shelves.

“I have deep respect for Mayor Bass. But over the last few months in particular, I’ve really begun to feel like unless we have some big changes in how we do things in Los Angeles, that the things we count on are not going to function anymore.”

Well this is interesting

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

The data suggests that Noam Chomsky was Epstein’s friend rebound after losing Prince Andrew

They've disabled quotes but Beethoven, Toulouse-Lautrec, Van Gogh, Frida Kahlo, Goya, Matisse, Cyprián Majerník, Dorothy Stanton Wise

if you haven't read it, read it

Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams

Japanese mascot mindset. Learn👇

"Harper’s latest (after The Last King of California) displays his sublime storytelling talents ...Uniting three disparate lost souls in a case of blackmail, human trafficking, and murder involving the glitterati and power brokers, this novel is perfect for fans of James Ellroy and Raymond Chandler."

this truly is the ‘sucks to suck’ administration on top of being the ‘everybody is twelve’ administration

"Be sure to put in the paper not to boo this man"

Walter Benjamin (from the early text “The Metaphysics of Youth”): “In despair, he thus recalls his childhood. In those days there was time without flight and an ‘I’ without death. He gazes down and down into the current whence he had emerged… (1/3)

“If it weren’t for these, I reckon I might not have gotten into reading what I do.” Truly a loss. Mass-market paperbacks made me a reader. So Long to Cheap Books You Could Fit in Your Pocket www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/b...

seth harp (writer of The Fort Bragg Cartel) debated ross douthat (from the epstein files, nyt oped writer) about foreign policy and it went so poorly for ross that he refuses to release the video

I wrote about WILD AT HEART for this release: viavision.com.au/shop/after-d...

Warning comes as US threatens tariffs on any country that supplies oil to the Caribbean island.

Missed connection: You were the American guy walking in Barcelona talking about how Minnesota protestors are terrorists. I’m the guy who yelled “fuck you” at you out of nowhere. I wasn’t done, please hit me up for the rest of my thoughts.

Meditations On A Delivery Robot Steering To Avoid A Homeless Man On The Sidewalk That robot steering its way around that man on the sidewalk is revealing more truth about the kind of world we are living in than you will ever receive from the corporate media. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/meditation...

Harper’s wild prose and allusions to the likes of Samson and “war between the gods” raise tawdry situations to mythic, biblical proportions. www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

It's hard to overstate how uniquely aggressive, unprofessional, insular, and ideological Border Patrol is compared to all other federal law enforcement agencies. Among other things, USBP is distinct for being the only federal LEA to employ an active serial killer. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u...

The testimony was harrowing; you can watch it all here www.youtube.com/watch?v=UagE...

Harper’s wild prose and allusions to the likes of Samson and “war between the gods” raise tawdry situations to mythic, biblical proportions. www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

I am jetlag’s bitch

Climate change is real. 15 short stories from some of the best crime fiction writers today. Guest-edited by Anthony winning author @curtisippolito.bsky.social Listen to what @jordanharper.bsky.social says and order your copy today: bit.ly/4nOVXoK

This is a staggering work of literary criticism and an absolutely vital accounting of both the auteur and the hideous predator hiding beneath it. Also with a lot of discussion of the artists who actually drew all those comics!

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

They get the axxon api setup to direct feed this shit into their facial rec system so they don't have to carry phones and can free up their hands for more canisters and triggers