#TheBangles appeared on @jimmykimmellive in 2011 to promote their new album 'Sweetheart Of The Sun'.

GOP Congressman Wesley Hunt officially jumped into the Republican primary for the U.S. Senate in Texas. Why does that matter? Because Hunt’s entry makes a runoff much more likely — and that could completely change the race.

In Portland, Oregon, a West Coast version of Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign is playing out. Socialist city councilors, who say the city has been “run by the rich” for too long, have promised sweeping changes.

View is looking west in late afternoon. iPhone photo. #photography

Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan’s podcast 'I’ve Had It' has risen up the charts and created a community with ‘a brand of fuck-you politics’

"So, you're saying a third of the stock market is tied up in seven AI companies that have no way to become profitable and that this is a bubble that's going to burst and take the whole economy with it?"

Robert Reich is stating the truth. #USDemocracy

Don’t ask me why I obsessively look to rock ’n’ roll bands for some kind of model for a better society. I guess it’s just that I glimpsed something beautiful in a flashbulb moment once, and perhaps mistaking it for prophecy have been seeking its fulfillment ever since. – Lester Bangs

Dallas, Texas. No Kings Protest

“Healthcare for illegal aliens” is the new “they’re eating the cats and dogs in Springfield.”

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THE CARS (1981)

CHAKA KHAN (1984) stevie wonder, harmonica

"He's just a wet sock trying to pretend he's a Nike or something..."

“I think what is happening in America is they are building a techno-authoritarian surveillance state.”

From canceling votes, to refusing to negotiate, to threats of mass firings—here’s how the GOP is pushing towards a shutdown and what it means. ⬆️

Start naming mass shootings after politicians who take money from the NRA.

VIVIAN MAIER, photographer; Self-portrait, Chicago, 1957 #photography

Volkswagens!

The parents of the last missing girl from Camp Mystic, the Christian girls’ camp where 25 young campers and two counselors died during the July 4 flooding, blasted its recent decision to reopen one of its campsites in 2026 in a letter made public on Thursday.

An Attempt to Weaponize the Murder of Charlie Kirk

I don’t recall seeing this move on the authority handbook.

They're about to shut down the government to protect the Epstein Files from disclosure. Whatever is in the files must be so unhinged as to be beyond imagination.

With only a week before the U.S. government will shutdown unless Congress passes legislation to keep it open, Trump has demonstrated that he not only has no interest in keeping the government open, he is actively endeavoring to shut it down.

Liberalism might seem down and out, but it'll win in the end. It's the only stable way to administer an enormous country full of wildly different communities

Tylenol is about to be rich from the Fed govt after the ABSOLUTELY for certain lawsuit

Surprise, surprise.

Texas Democrats are not the same party you see on cable news. They learned how to fight fascists the hard way, on deadlines, in courtrooms, in committee rooms, and at 2 am on the House floor, while the Beltway crowd holds another press conference about “concern.”

ICE denies using excessive force in Broadview, Illinois. Never mind the videos…

HERBIE HANCOCK (1964)

NINA SIMONE (1957) #jazz

Volkswagen!

Pause your doomscrolling and listen to this story.

There's plenty one can criticize about Walt Disney, but one of his virtues was that he wasn't a wimp who'd run away if the FCC chairman said something mean to him.

"The framers’ intent was to build a system grounded in law, representative democracy, and accurate information—rather than fear, moral imposition, or authoritarian control". youtu.be/zNWn1zGFx4w

Epstein Investigation is so much bigger than you can imagine. It is not only about justice for survivors—it is also about the institutions and systems that protected rich powerful men they knew were abusing women and children: the banks, the government agencies, and other powerful people. #epstein

Walz: This is North Korea style stuff. And it's being done because this is a weak, thin skinned man who's failing as a president. All of the things he promised are not happening. It's a it's our most cherished freedom to point out very clearly, this is a terrible president

(1983) #NewWave

Almost sunset, after a stormy, rainy day. #photography