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now seems like a good time to remind you all to support independent, worker run, billionaire free, and/or reader funded news how and where you can.

PJ was known as a musician to me before I knew he was an actor. No matter, it was always so wonderful to see his work get recognized by his colleagues & fans. I havent seen him in a couple years but looking over our last texts, I smile to remember his passion for…well…everything, Peace to you PJ 🌹

Talking to someone is always a better option. 988lifeline.org?utm_source=g...

Welker: Why did you take down the picture of Trump with young women? Blanche: We take down any pictures with victims in them. Welker: So those women with Trump were victims? Blanche:

The replies are 🤌 *mwah* #fuckai

Neither shocked nor surprised. Everything is so blatantly corrupt, and yet nobody in Congress can seem to summon the balls to bring the administration to task. So embarrassing.

Honestly incredible that horses have not been domesticated yet as a species. Individuals have, yes, but every single horse comes out feral and unwilling to be ridden. Stay strong foals 💪

Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas. www.nola.com/news/educati...

Happy birthday to the brilliant Mike Watt, bass maestro, spiel gusher, raconteur. The man is 68 today and still going strong. He contributed to at least four new albums released this year, all great, and is seemingly always on the road (📸 Stevo Rood).

HUGE NEWS from the new Epstein files: Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996. The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...

3 eggs for 5lb potatoes. That's it. That's the binder. Also, the food processor and salad spinner are my best friends.

I'm sorry: I'm glad the Brown shooter has been found, but watching law enforcement officials take a victory lap and praise each other feels kinda gross? Given how the FBI messed up by leaking the name of an innocent person and that a random 48-year-old guy avoided capture for days, no time to brag

if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄

How am I just discovering the Timeless Torches? liberty.wnba.com/timeless-tor...

FOR THE MILLIONTH FUCKING TIME, KIDS ARE NOT RECEIVING THESE SURGERIES JUST BECAUSE THEY’RE TRANS!!!!!! IF bottom surgeries are done on kids, it’s not for gender affirming care, it’s due to disease or injury that requires it. And FYI 80% of pediatric top surgery was breast reductions on cis boys. 🤬🤬

I don’t stan politicians, but she’s pretty great.

Anyone who sees Bovino in Rogers Park, let us know. We’re doing ICE watch. Whistles out. Be on alert. Help protect our community.

Didnt realize I needed a Dead Moon Buick, with tiger striped interior, until now.

Tragic. Such a wonderfully talented man. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...

Say you know what I like, without saying you know what I like… Bookmarking!

AOC to @pabloreports.bsky.social: It is the responsibility of Congress to declare and authorize the use of military force. Congress has not authorized a military use of force. There has not been a case made, and I think the absence of one really speaks volumes.

…and the Sacklers are in which penitentary? Oh, they're free and still enjoying enormous wealth? This is BS, too familiar with past unsuccessful wars on drugs, and merely a ploy to allow trump to unleash terror on S. America for oil. He does not give a shit… www.npr.org/2025/12/15/n...

bookmarked, earmarked…all the marks…

The Trump comments about Rob Reiner are extra batshit because a few months ago people were getting fired and civil war was being threatened because some people dared to accurately describe Charlie Kirk's beliefs

The unfathomably bleak circumstances of Rob Reiner’s death put me off posting anything at first. But Donald Trump’s should-be-unbelievable-but-isn’t response has made it essential that we do. Flood the world with the good stuff. Remember him THIS way, not for this awful day. youtu.be/H7vk5keNbRc?...

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The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing. All from his movies.

I literally watched Spinal Tap II last night…

Ahaaa they've shared it! “Gentle, tender music doesn’t generate spectacle; it’s often the soundtrack to domestic or private moments when we’re at our most unguarded” The treatment of softness and sweetness as inferior in culture and discourse is SO corrupting. EMBRACE SOFT POWER!!!

In case you had any doubts, Can's Live In Paris 1973 is *superb* highway driving music. Jaki Liebezeit forever. canofficial.bandcamp.com/album/live-i...

It should be noted how stupid all of this is, which is perhaps appropriate for the year 2025, in which most of the economy consists of reckless gambling on AI. People spent more than $55m betting on the Time Person of the Year on Polymarket, $19m on Kalshi. www.404media.co/architects-o...

We now learn that Fifa had a very specific "ask" in exchange for its "Peace Award" to Trump, with loads of gold trinkets, and that was dismissal of a criminal corruption case against senior Fifa officials. And Trump granted it. Another corrupt bargain, barely noticed (and ignored by US media).

What are we actually doing here? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/c...

GRASS ROOTS AGITATION IS THE ONLY HOPE

we're cooked

here's our sloptify wrapped bunch of tracks up on bandcamp, free for 24 hours posthuman.bandcamp.com/album/midnig...

the danger of the absurdity of AI…

stumbled on this gem, where Pentangle sounds like CAN youtu.be/31KgtDly4lM?...

Rachel Gilmore: "Thanks to a confluence of factors—including the advent of social media, incompetent moderation from tech giants and manosphere influencers creation of soft entry points for a more radical ideology—anti-feminist ideology is experiencing a resurgence."

What I don’t understand is how a movie that HAS NOT YET BEEN RELEASED could be nominated for Cinematic & *Box Office* Achievement. Also, I don’t understand Cinematic & Box Office Achievement as a category. “Best achievement in making money.” Stupid.

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

DAMMIT another thing I want to play with, but I have to take the pup to the vet first… gamechangeraudio.com/recoder/?utm...

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I was going to hardcore matinees at the Harwan theater (also where we'd go for midnight Rocky Horror screenings). South Jersey Hardcore scene was very inclusive, and exposed me to how a scene could be a community. Love this story…

what a gift… www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This man may be the most racist president this country has ever had, and twelve presidents owned slaves

Not joking: has one reporter responded to his preposterous Sgt Schultz “I know nothing” schtick by immediately asking: * Doesn’t this level of ignorance disqualify you as speaker? * Do you really think we are so dumb to believe you? * Do you think it is appropriate to insult the voters like this?

I wrote about listening, thinking, reflection, memory & not “offloading” it all to sp*tify! www.theguardian.com/music/2025/d...