You cannot separate the current nightmare we now inhabit from the collapse/crisis in how rich, powerful middle-aged men perceive masculinity, especially their own insecurities.

What are we even doing here?

BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

they really want to test out that three missed meals theory www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/b...

Utterly despicable.

Soundgarden 2025 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction

Currently trying to convince eldest daughter to go to the local dive diner with me for breakfast.

Guitar of the Day

last 10 years is proof — in multiple sectors of society — that “evil corp/gov/criminal plays around with monsters it can’t control” plots were realistic if not documentary like

“Oh no, it’s not virtue signaling pal. It’s actual virtue.”

I’ve decided to let the insomnia win and am now having a cup of instant coffee and staring into the void at 3:10am

When the Fourth Great Awakening is about to cause the Fifth Greater Awakening

BREAKING: Trump’s ICE bans Christians and all people from praying “in front of or inside” the Broadview ICE facility. So, forced prayer in school is good, but volunteer prayer for the prisoner is banned. This is what white nationalist Christianity looks like. This is Trump’s fascist America. Smh.

Ok I have full blown insomnia now. This sucks.

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

it says a lot about the average politician that this guy seems to expect that zohran mamdani only said what he said to get elected and doesn’t actually believe in anything

2010: “we’re job creators” 2025: “never hire a human again”

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

He’s not a “far-right provocateur”. He’s a fucking Nazi.

Tin Machine on Arsenio '91 CW: Topless Bowie & Steinberger madness.

incredible that these guys have a massive hard on for a country that, if it were a state, would rank behind kansas in terms of wealth and which would be a total backwater if it weren’t economically integrated with more functional countries

Musk thinks this version of the future is what people really want—fake content that caters to your desires—because he's so detached from humanity. As he told Joe Rogan: "Most of what people consume in five or six years, maybe sooner than that, will be just AI-generated content. So music, videos..."

The laws of war are not mere niceties. They are lessons from centuries of blood agreed upon to keep the world more stable. Violating them isn’t hero cop who cuts through red tape to get things done, it’s psycho cop who crosses lines in ways even the rule benders find appalling and must be stopped.

Went back to the history of the Sicilian Mafia to illustrate something obvious but worth stating explicitly: The Trump administration behaves like an organized crime syndicate running a protection racket, not a representative government www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Guess it was never about persecuting Christians at all, huh?

Required reading to understand the groypers

Guitar of the Day

If you don’t schedule time for maintenance, the instrument will schedule the maintenance for you.

In just *two days,* Zohran Mamdani’s transition committee raised over $500,000 from 7,000 donors. In *two months,* Eric Adams raised about $1.94 million from 1,176 donors.

we're asking random chicago residents if they're aware of zohran mamdani because why lmao

Tell me more internet

The Battle of Waukegan

how we keep discussing Venezuela without taking this into consideration drives me insane

so my town has been hosting an emergency food drive for snap recipients. the town, high school clubs, the Y, the churches (Episcopal, Presbyterians, Lutherans, Baptists, Unitarians, and the Catholics) & the synagogue, are involved. You know who isn't participating? the fucking evangelicals.

We The People are having more courage and principles than most of the elites. People and organizations are showing their whole ass out there and think people won’t remember.

"they barely made any money"

Friday, signing on

I seem to remember whole congressional hearings about the terrible destructive force that is violence in video games and yet, there is a very strange quiet about an unregulated technology that coaches people to suicide.

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Texas… it’s not just Grijalva…. #TrumpEpsteinFilesCoverUp

When they stop funding snap while minting trillionaires, all I can say is eat the rich. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/b...

Striking contrast with the seemingly endless supply of op-eds, cable news appearances and Substack posts where eminent pundits inform us that normies don't care about airy abstractions like authoritarianism and the rule of law.

Lol holy shit it's all so bad

It was always going to end up here. A lot of disingenuous people were riding this one into the ground for their own gain, not excluding the Netanyahu government and vast swaths of the US media.

Excellent piece from @alexvitale.bsky.social. Public safety will play a crucial role in quality of life, and Mamdani is up against an NYPD team of 86 PR flacks, with a rote story that only the police can keep people safe. We know that's not true. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

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