Hard to believe Fritz Lang made this in 1933, since it feels pretty damned timely:

Turns out it was pretty stupid of me to go to “law school” and pass the “bar” and practice “law”

If you have MAGA friends, it might be useful to get them on the record NOW about what things that haven't happened yet they would agree are fascist, so that if/when those things happen, you can remind them. Since they seem to forgive ANYTHING.

Sorry not sorry for all the posts. I came to the Big Thief concert by myself, so you all are the friends I'm chatting with while I wait for them to start.

I go back and forth on whether the conservative Justices really believe it when they spew these objectively bullshit claims.

AKA: every accusation is a confession. I mean, they literally say things like, "leftists are scum," while ALSO saying, "leftists' dehumanizing language is a criminal offense." The person in charge of finding and punishing people for "weaponising the government" is weaponising the government!

Your reminder that they cannot arrest millions of people no matter how hard they try. They lack the infrastructure, they lack the personnel, and the economy would straight-up collapse They are going to try to scare us by making examples out of a few people, and our job is to not fall for it

Indeed 😐

Democracy in the U.S. may be under unprecedented assault today, but it's hard not to feel hopeful waiting for Big Thief to take the stage on a lovely Fall evening at Berkeley's Greek Theater.

THIS. Every single R member of Congress, and the Supreme Court, has sold out their oath to uphold the Constitution. I don't know how they sleep at night.

Pay attention to this. They are seriously trying to make it illegal to oppose or even describe their actions accurately.

1. The Clash 2. Cinema history 3. Soul music

Big day for me. A box I've been saving for over 3 years was just perfect for something

If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.

Working on something for over half a year and then seeing it go live is always a treat. The piece I'm most proud of writing this year, and major thanks as always to @thequietus.com for accepting this joint @davidbowiereal.bsky.social and #ScottWalker swing-for-the-rafters. Hope you enjoy.

OK, Newsom is annoying as hell, but I have to give him credit for this burn.

Even worse: if you were a nationally touring indie band during that period, all your local openers were very poor clones of Pearl Jam, singing songs that made you long for "Jeremy," instead.

I concur! Ken's just as authoritative, but brings a refreshingly goofy humor to the role. He also seems more genuinely interested in each contestant.

Apropos of escalators, one of my favorite Steve Martin jokes, from a very old HBO special, had him standing halfway up a stopped escalator, complaining, "I've been stuck here for HOURS."

"It's gauche and uncivil to accurately describe me" is a core view of today's fascists

A police officer was killed in the attack on the CDC by an antivaxxer. Trump did not mention it. Use this as a benchmark to compare how the Trump administration responds to an attack on an ICE facility to judge which federal employees are deemed worth protecting. abcnews.go.com/US/1-week-af...

Not surprising, but still incredibly depressing, that a late night comedian does a better job of turning down the temperature while also defending free speech than the fucking president of our country.

Can confirm the ickiness. The ONLY thing I dislike about going to Oakland Ballers games (which are not MLB, but allow challenges) is when the announcer has to say whether the pitch was in or out of "the Red Pocket Mobile strike zone."

This essay is fantastic -- it explains quite succinctly (well, reasonably succinctly) that society has ALWAYS placed some notions beyond the pale of "debate." Debating such notions CAN be helpful when those goalposts have been placed poorly. But the debater's character and goals still matter.

for the first time in history the woke mob has un-cancelled somebody

Good riddance to the A's and Raiders. Oakland Ballers games are way more enjoyable, largely due to Scrappy, their mascot (who is an possum).

Canceling Disney+ because they canceled Kimmel is well and good, but if you really want to make them pay attention, there is no better way than fucking Goofy's wife

Subscriptions stay active through the end of whatever billing period you’re on, so conceivably people might have a week or two to binge.

Fascism+edibles+late stage capitalism leads me to this exchange, in which I can only hope the cog whispering agreement back to me is an actual human being rather than a robot designed to make me think so.

Andor would want you to cancel your Disney+ subscription. It's the least you can do for the Rebellion.

It's like a guy warning every woman he meets that he has a big dick. Also, he doesn't have a big dick.

Id tell you to watch Andie if you haven't yet, because it's the best commentary on our current movie I've seen on screen to date. Unfortunately, it's on Disney. So instead I must ask you to cancel your subscription if you have one.

Coffee shops are the heart of darkness for republicans. All their horror stories take place inside them. They have taken the place of the forest in middle American gothic.

This is lovely, the timeline cleanse I needed today 💜🙏🏾

generally speaking, and with the glaring exception of november 2024, the more directly democratic an institution has been, the better it has checked Trump (eg grand and petit juries); the more elite and insular, the less effective (the Senate, the Supreme Court, big business)

As a New Order fan, Drive-By Truckers ARE my Drive-By Truckers. (apologies for the quote post, but deck.blue won't let me just reply)

Charlie Kirk was a champion of free speech and anyone who says otherwise will be fired

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

At least 15 people including journalists and teachers have been fired or suspended for criticising Charlie Kirk online, Reuters reports. Free speech for us, not for you. #NorthKoreaShit

The three biggest pop-music victims of cancel culture in my lifetime have been Sinéad O'Connor, Janet Jackson and the [Dixie] Chicks. It has never, ever been about the overreach of political correctness.

When you become a civil, sober politics knower like myself, you understand that by noticing a bad person is bad, you become even worse than them. And they become good

Before this year I would have given the idea a disinterested shrug, but I'm now pretty much all-in that Pritzker should be the 2028 nominee and it's not even close, head and shoulders above any plausible alternative.

We're at a point now where a Fox News host can just casually suggests killing homeless people with a lethal injection on air and no one bats an eye but a MSNBC contributor gets fired for calling Charlie Kirk "divisive".

As we watch people get fired for saying the "wrong" things about Charlie Kirk (whether celebrating his demise or just accurately describing things he said), let's remember that the real threat of "cancel culture" is not individuals speaking freely, but cowardly institutions overreacting to speech.

The Big Takeover has some very kind things to say about Son of Sam I Am, and "My Past Lives" in particular.

there's a weird feedback loop where the media's reaction to kirk's death pushes you to speak more ill of the dead than you otherwise would because it's the only reasonable response to the simpering praise they're heaping on him

Thanks to Ghetto Blaster Magazine for premiering the video for our new version of "My Past Lives."