#FirstPlayOfDay #MusicChallenge Three Imaginary Boys - The Cure youtu.be/PDVzELTbHPg?

open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/... "After months of total darkness, there is hope. There's a sense that liberal democracy can still triumph against the populist threat, it can withstand the joint assault from the Kremlin & the WH ... the war can still be won & the battles are still worth fighting"

The real strength of the collection is the comprehensive coverage of the live music of a particular region over time, not just that there are a few recordings of bands a lot of people have heard of. Also, back when I was involved in the project, we spoke about there being close to 30,000 recordings.

If I was a Democrat in Congress tomorrow I’m releasing a statement to the press announcing that we are in a national emergency, because the chief executive has lost his grip on reality and cannot do the job, and until he leaves his office, removing him from power will be my sole, overriding focus.

Pope Leo hit back at President Trump over the Iran war, saying the Vatican’s appeals for peace and reconciliation are rooted in the Gospel, and that he didn’t fear the Trump administration. Follow AP's live updates.

NEW: They're so much weaker than they want us to think they are. Orbán's out. J.D. Vance's weekend of shame. And a rant from the man at the White House. Tonight, at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/theyre-so-...

#IsmuasMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge Day 13: A song with heavy reverb production The Wake - Melancholy Man youtu.be/pvbY1Mqq-XI?...

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i really hate that i can tell when the president is coming back from his mansion in florida just with my ears however this does mean nighttime arrival photos: orban just lost edition are about to drop

This is deranged. And between it and Vance's bad meetings with the Pope, the Pope's upbraiding of Hegseth, and DoD's threat of unleashing another schism on the Vatican, I think it is fair to say no English-speaking world leader has been more actively at war with the Catholic church since Henry VIII.

Polls can change fast. Last week Eric Swalwell was the Dem front-runner for Governor of the most populous state in the US. Now he's not. Rep Swalwell's scandals were widely known to the press, just not the public. Maine voters should ask what they might not know about a new, unvetted candidate. 1/

"Leo's weak on nuclear weapons" is sending me

#GenreRoulette 🎡 #MusicChallenge 🎶 Day 4️⃣0️⃣2️⃣: #BluesMonday 🗣️ Otis Redding 🔊 Send Me Some Lovin'

Swalwell dropped out of the CA Governor's race. Who will you support now? As of right now, I am supporting Xavier Becerra the former CA State legislator, US Congressman, California Attorney General, and United States Secretary of Health and Human Services. www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...

Orban's inability to prevent last year's Pride protests—attended by 300k despite being banned—was a turning point in his authoritarian grip of the country. Queer people are always leading the fight against authoritarianism, as we are often its first targets. Never cower to fear.

#EcksteinsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge Day 13: A song from your favorite punk artist The Clash - The Call Up youtu.be/b8KE4fREfbE

April 12, 1980 Three men in white camo, hauling beer, cameras, and film gear. Seattle filmmaker Otto Sieber and mountaineers Brian Witt and Andy Sterne begin their ascent of Mount St. Helens before dawn to capture eruptions—and shoot beer ads. By afternoon, slush and muddy runoff slow the climb.

i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan

And let's not forget ordinary people taking to the streets to oppose what they believe is wrong, and contacting their representatives to remind them why they were elected.

Massive street party in Budapest right now: huge crowds dancing, hugging, crying, and opening bottles. (Reuters)

Peter Magyar just now: “We are going to be a strong EU and NATO ally.” As a European and strong Ukraine-ally, I can’t describe how happy I am. 💙💛 Thank you Hungary. 🙏🏼

Well, keep him away from the Pope, his record on killing popes is unmatched and we need this one.

Péter Magyar victory speech: "We want to make a country where no one is persecuted because they think differently or because someone loves in a different way to others." He may not have campaigned as a liberal. But this is a huge change of direction and rhetoric from Orbán’s anti-LGBTQ+ crusade.

🇪🇺🇭🇺People in the Budapest Metro, Hungary, shouting: “Russians, go home!”

Orban, Bolsonaro, Trump, and all the rest of these goons want you to believe they are inevitable and, once in power, invincible. They are not.

It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...

Orban concedes defeat. The support of Trump, Vance, Putin, Lavrov, Weidel, Milei, Le Pen, Fico, Babis and many others could not overcome Hungarian anger at a stagnant, corrupt regime www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

We literally have no authority to tell other country’s ships that they can’t use the Strait and I dread what those countries will do if we try.

We’ve gone from “I don’t care if they reopen the Strait” to “we’ll destroy your civilization if you don’t reopen the strait” to “well if THEY don’t reopen the strait then WE are going to blockade it ourselves.” What an extraordinarily embarrassing moment for this country.

This is amazing, it has My Bloody Valentine live on Valentine's day 1992, three 80s Sonic Youth concerts, baby Nirvana, a 1984 the Cure, two Moonshake's, early Animal Collective, but most important a live recording of Pram which there are practically none of! archive.org/details/ajc0...

Wow. This is a well-crafted and insightful paragraph by Katie Rogers. “Mr. Trump sat and impassively watched blood and saliva sprayed out from the fighters beating each other silly in front of him.”

Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom did absolutely nothing about multiple clearly documented incidents of LAPD and CHP maiming journalists and protesters, completely unprovoked.

I haven’t gone to restaurants since February 2020, and since all my food allergies picked up, I don’t do take out either, so I’m missing the gradual frog-in-hot-water experience a lot of people have on menu prices, because when I look at one now I GASP at the cost.

An armistice can take weeks to negotiate. A comprehensive peace treaty can take months. No one on Earth who knows a thing about history or diplomacy thought anything could be resolved in six hours. This will confirm for everyone the extreme incompetence and bad faith of the American regime.

You know what would be amazing, if Vance can negotiate an agreement where Iran doesn't enrich above 3.67% (far below weapons grade); gets rid of 98% of its stockpile of uranium; has weekly inspections by the IAEA; and commits to all of this for at 10 years. Oh, yeah, that was the Obama Iran deal.

EcksteinsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Day 12 - Song from you favorite rock artist (solo) Sinner, Neil Finn youtu.be/RJYfNY7GeIk?...

#EcksteinsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge Day 12: song from a favorite rock artist Midnight Oil - King of the Mountain youtu.be/OuC_k51NUqU

“I'm a very early riser, and I don't like to miss that beautiful early morning light.” - David Hockney. #photography #marseille

Unfollowing and blocking anyone using AI to create images of our city and having the audacity to tag their location as Vancouver. It’s not creative, it’s not cute. Vancouver is gorgeous on its own why on earth do you need to add 5 more peninsulas, 8 more mountains and impossible sunset angles?

Here’s a tracker that shows you the sheer size and power of this thing. Stay safe out there, team. #CycloneVaianu #NZ zoom.earth/storms/vaian...

Looking more like the Secretary of Scotch than the Secretary of State. How proud are Dems of voting for this guy, eh?

Here we go folks! Six years and running! Come join the fun on Twitch! 💃🪩🕺🎶🎸🥁🎤

I wish more people would be talking about me instead. I’m a feminist public health professor and the only elected union leader in the race for Susan Collins’ senate seat. I’m also the person who chalked on the sidewalk in front of her house in 2022. We know she’s afraid of me. Andreaformaine.com

We've reached the point where SARAH FUCKING PALIN has the moral high ground over a leading Democratic U.S. Senate candidate. Lovely. www.disabilityscoop.com/2010/02/02/p...

Two easy ways to make Blueski just a little bit better - Stop engaging with the latest 'Bluesky is dying' take. Stop screenshotting terrible Tweets and posting them. There's always going to be someone convinced it's dying, and there's always going to be bad takes on Twitter.

Explain to me why a LEGO Trump video from Iran has better flow than people with million-dollar studios. 😂 I’ll wait. #MusicChallenge #NightMusic #FuckTrump

#EcksteinsMonthOfMusic 🎼 #MusicChallenge 🎶 Day 11: Your favorite instrumental Chet Baker, Alone Together, from Chet In Paris: Everything Happens To Me - The Complete Barclay Recording Vol. 2 Such lovely phrasing, he sings just like he plays. youtu.be/OwDNko6WKtk?...

An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death

#ECKSTEINSMONTHOFMUSIC #MusicChallenge #MusicSky 🎼🎶🎵 Day 12 - A song from my favorite rock artist Dire Straits - Down To The Waterline (live) youtu.be/h_IGSgvNS8s?...

#52WeeksOfFavourites Title tracks Gregory Alan Isakov - This Empty Northern Hemisphere youtu.be/e7SqM9jLTjA?...