I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

So they are for Monotony, Inequity and Exclusion then? Not anywhere I want to live.

Hat for sale in the Woody Guthrie Museum. Let's go!

A long time ago Hank William Jr. wrote an anti-liberal screed. But now it's about what Trump and his circle of friends are doing to the country ... The chorus goes.... "Stop rollin' downhill like a fireball headed for Hell/With no kind of chance for the flag or the Liberty Bell...."

"It's Shepard's car, but Dylan is driving it." The line I wish I hadn't cut from The Drafts of Brownsville Girl. thedylanreview.org/2025/08/08/t...

My deep dive into the archival handwritten drafts of the Bob Dylan-Sam Shepard 1986 epic "Brownsville Girl," is up at the Dylan Review.... It's a long 'un, .... but if you're a Dylan and/or Shepard fan, lots of juicy details await. thedylanreview.org/2025/08/08/t...

So tired of reading one outrage afer another. The Genocide will not be televised, but it will be on social media. Cut the aid to Israel.

I just finished Matthew Specktor's The Golden Hour and if you 're at all interest in Hollywood and how the bad old world turned into the new worse world, it's pretty amazing. Great companion piece to the stellar Always Crashing in the Same Car by same. Shout out @specktor.bsky.social

“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” - George Washington -

"Donald Trump is showing all the signs of suffering from dementia. If this were a neighbor, a parent, or a family friend, you would have no trouble seeing it. We should not turn our heads just because it is the president." thehill.com/opinion/camp...

Hey Dylan People. Please come to my talk on the writing of Brownsville Girl this Thursday at 4 pm at the Dylan conference in Tulsa. Based on both the Dylan and Shepard drafts, there are a lot of surprises you'll definitely want to see. Can't wait!

“I won on groceries. Very simple word, groceries. Like almost, you know, who uses the word. I started using the word. The groceries.” 🤡 - 12/8/24 apnews.com/article/beef...

We are a barbarian nation.

When personal computers first appeared, they were sold as instruments of personal freedom. Who knew they'd become the most powerful tool of control ever invented.

Shakespeare, it's said, was born and died on the same day of the year. The Declaration of Independence was signed in July 3. The same day, 249 years later, we seem to have killed the dream of the US At least we're in good company.

This is literally a modern version of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act.

I have friends everywhere.

MSNBC where are you?

When the OrangeMan boasts about the stock market gains today, remember that it's crawling back from his catastrophes as he withdraws his policies. He's still 8% down from where the market was under Biden.

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"Do I have to be a communist just to read Karl Marx?" Happy International Workers Day ✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 I leave you with this amazing dialogue with Charlie Chaplin's son - Michael and a King, in A King in New York (1957)

Hello, Chuck Schumer? Is this good enough for you? Are we in the crisis now? Hello?

No terrorist group has ever harmed and killed as many Americans as Donald Trump and his administration. Not even close.

Ken!

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A few ultrarich monsters continue to rip money and services from millions of people who haven't got enough, who need it to survive - Why aren't they just off somewhere enjoying themselves - Only Congress can stop them - Why aren't they

Years ago in Belgrade under Milosevic, in a secret underground bar where people went to speak freely, a woman told me 'You have no idea how quickly it happens when it happens. One day I was safe, the next day a car full of men tried to take me in the street. One man stood up to stop them, I ran."

"Well, it's not like they're pulling Tufts students off the streets...." oh, wait a minute... How do we stop them?

can someone just ask trump and vance if they believe in democracy? It might help get this clear to his supporters.

Hell must be empty, all the devils are here.

“Humanist inquiry of the sort we pursue, with its situated knowledges and its cultural attunements and its fine-grained attentiveness to the shifting complexity of ethical and moral life, can give restorative heft to even the most tarnished of these ideals. You might need them.”

I need someone to explain to me why it’s always “if you can’t pay rent, buy fewer lattes and avocado toasts” and not “if you can’t pay your employees a living wage, buy fewer yachts, rockets and presidents”. Explain it to me like I’m in kindergarten.

Donald J Trump is the enemy of the state. The United States of America. Once you’ve, *fully*, accepted that, everything else falls into place. The question is, what are you going to do about it?

We are living in a comic book. Lex Luthor (Musk) has taken over the government to steal all the money, in order to finance his plan to take over Mars. Calling to Superwoman (AOC) and Afred (Bernie) to fix this mess.

Share with the retired folks you know….

I see people who are supposed to know better Standin’ around like furniture. —Bob Dylan, The Groom’s Still Waiting At The Altar

Sure, we'll kill thousands now. But that's only so we can kill a few thousand more later.

ditto. My gramma's Ukrainian blood in me is boiling.

A little bit of snark from me has appeared in the excellent The Drift to brighten your day.https://www.thedriftmag.com/mention/the-oscars-2025/

Awful. Though Mr. Bezos can take solace that as the publisher of a major newspaper, this still leaves him an ethical pratfall or two shy of Patrick Soon-Shiong, who is whoring and debasing the L.A. Times at a better clip. He'll need to pick up the pace. Democracy dies in selfish, groveling greed.

A very few Republican congresspeople could fix it right now. Far-right Republicans are following through with their published plans, which were set in motion decades ago.

After the take the buyout or be fired letter, and the justify your existence or be fired if you don't respond letter on a Saturday, I think every government worker should file a hostile work environment lawsuit.

Ian Fleming's original James Bond novels haven't aged well. For example, Moonraker - published almost exactly 70 years ago in April 1955 - features a villain who's a super-rich industrialist and rocket-maker seeking to cause chaos because he's a secret Nazi. Such a silly idea!

no lies here.

Our Ugandan friend reports that 600 people in her community have been cut off from HIV meds due to the USAID freeze. Multiply around the globe, and look forward to a new drug-resistant HIV. Trump and Musk are killers, but too dumb to know or too cold to care. STOP THEM.