What a thrill to be part of @talkingpointsmemo.com's series about the past 25 years of digital media! I wrote about why private equity goons destroyed Deadspin and why it matters.

"I consider writing an act of good citizenship." Kurt Vonnegut

the ADL are literally neo-nazi collaborators and jon greeblatt is a fascist tool

Sincere question: Do Democrats not understand how the ACA works? Do they not understand they are bankrupting people Maybe the GOP was never going to fully cave on extending the tax credits but the “deal” the Dems settled for is worthless to most ACA users!

when u cancel spotify this is what they send you- what an evil and strange company

remember when the president of the united states at least pretended to be a good person?

The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald happened 50 years ago today. Gordon Lightfoot memorialized the tragedy in a haunting song. Bob Dylan once implied that Gordon Lightfoot was the greatest songwriter of all time. He was certainly one of the great ones. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV9P...

This is the meaning of life.

Yes, exactly, you and five neighbors can team up and negotiate a deal directly with a hospital. Sure, bruh.

hello sharks, it’s called mirco-boofing and we see huge market w/ the neowook demo

it is time

lmao, crying youtube.com/watch?v=K0OS...

o brother, where art thou might actually just be the best movie

tech innovation baby!!!

when the world is going to shit but you're having a great day at work

10 years ago today: at my 2nd-ever European gig -- in front of 300 people, in the Arctic Circle -- I got to play "When the Levee Breaks" with John Paul Jones and the absolutely wonderful Mike Mills, Steve Wynn, Linda Pitmon, Scott McCaughey, and Kurt Bloch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bKc...

I don't want to "feel like an entrepreneur"! I don't want to "negotiate" jack shit! if health care must be treated as a commodity* I don't want to contribute to the algorithmic setting of its prices! mind your business and tell me what I have to pay to not die *which it isn't; separate subject

Authoritarianism can only succeed when democracy fails to deliver for working people. Authoritarian parties can only succeed when the pro-democracy parties fail to fight for working people. We need a new democracy and a new party system which can represent working people.

*going on a 10 minute mini lecture about john dewey for someone losing interest*

v cool, now do boston!!!

call in the troops to ... shop? staff the empty stores? bring in customers at gunpoint?

all veterans are heroes but please don't ask what any of them actually did while illegally occupying various parts of the middle east

Rick Scott was CEO of a large, for-profit healthcare company called HCA. While Rick Scott was CEO, HCA stole so much money from Medicare they were fined $1.7 Billion.

I gotta say, even I am tired of the amount of politics were are forced to consume, and I do this for a living.

jesus christ

The funny thing about Oates taking Musk out to the cornfield and beating him with an aluminum bat is he was JUST pretending to have read Tolkien for his endorsement of Tommy Robinson. When she called him out, it seems like he forgot all about that and started inventing other books he's read instead.

when someone asks how i feel about cannabis or music

thinking about how wgbh took all that money from the koch brothers only to witness the koch bros and their political allies engineer the defunding of public media entirely- maybe that was always the plan

what do u tell someone graduating w/a journalism degree in 2025? where are the jobs? if you're someone who can write but doesn't want to engage in the self promotion necessary to gain an online following what are you actually supposed to do? are there any salaried positions left? serious question

so this is it, huh? they are gonna gut every news outlet in existence and replace it with corporate infotainment, wonderful

reading about the AI bubble and i keep thinking "wait, it can't be this stupid" but yup, it truly is

ah yes, garcia-branded weed using his famous palm print for its logo, who says the hippie dream is dead?

does newbury comics still do the "wicked good sampler"? those were such a huge part of my youth

Good Morning my Friends 🌲🌊🌞 Shadow boxing the apocalypse 🤯 Life directed, orders handed down, meal, sleep time. This is what they want. Control you, control me. Endless money, but not for thee. Pay & pay, with your life. Till they stand atop, endless- till we burn it down 😏🔥 🙏🏻👽🐦‍🔥💙🌞❤️🧚‍♂️💃🐢🙏🏻

Too bad Schumer won't fight for us like Bernie does. Schumer is diet maga. He had all the leverage and bent the knee anyway. Why? Big money donors. That's the difference. If you're beholden to big money you're working for them, not us.

nudging the barn door half-closed after the horses all ran away.

Paul McCartney and George Harrison at the session for I Me Mine January 3 1970 the #Beatles

"Starting this year the so-called 'media traffic apocalypse' caused by Google's pivot to AI search has cut our ad revenue by 70%. Prior to that, Facebook and X's deprioritization of links hurt too, but I can't downplay the brutal impact of AI Overview."

The Sacramento Star Wednesday, October 29,1913

The Best Of The Outbursts Of Everett True By A.D. Condo

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“neo-wook” lmao

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they were literally putting boxes on street corners of bangers and rarities marked FREE people would take the records out and glue them to walls to decorate their rooms

Grateful Dead 11/10/85 Meadowlands Arena East Rutherford NJ archive.org/details/gd85-1… 🌹💀💜💜💜🎵🎼🎶

when you’re about to talk shit and also a dog

For the late crew — I put together a live Zuma megamix in honor of the album's 50th anniversary. The 14-minute "Barstool Blues" is worth the price of admission alone.

I bet Jar Jar Binks looked kind of like the Eraserhead baby as an infant