Happy Year of the Horse, y'all.

It's almost like if you don't vaccinate your child against measles, they could get measles (and also likely transmit it others who are unvaccinated)! 🤒

There was that Mardi Gras we went as the Republican Party

Tonight's movie:

Yeah, this is pretty much exactly what I thought about when I saw Musk's stupid racist tweet: Minnesotans have spent the last month and a half saying we will die to defend our multicultural community.

Sometimes you wonder. Bloomberg this morning saying that you can't both believe that AI is a big deal and that we're in a bubble. But you absolutely can! That's exactly the story of the tech bubble of the 90s, major economic impact but not big profits. Sigh.

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Criminality is so rampant inside CBP that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...

Display an album that was important to you when you were nineteen.

Not surprised to get such a willfully ignorant misreading of the Beatles from Rubio and the current administration. In addition to Lennon's "Imagine," consider too Harrison's assimilation of Eastern influences into the Beatles' music and, more broadly, into his own spiritual life.

Great piece about a terrific record. She's one of the 3 or 4 greatest singers (no gender qualification necessary!) in rock history, and Ann Wilson came to Heart's first album pretty much fully formed.

In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”

The Connells have still got it. youtu.be/z1WPaTNRadI?...

Super cool thread on women who built the postwar liberal order.

Tonight's movie:

Right up there on the gross-o-meter with Dee Dee Ramone's story about shooting up speed mixed with toilet water with Sid Vicious.

Sylvano Esso’s Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn, who have earned a reputation for taking a strong stance on industry issues, posted that Wasserman’s ties to Maxwell are “so reprehensible that we can no longer allow our work to have any association with him or his name.”

This is why you don't make friends with those people. You don't meet them halfway. You don't accommodate them. You don't try to understand them. You don't make peace with them. You don't "set aside politics."

"Bill Callahan could sing the ingredients of Stove Top Stuffing and make it feel like he was revealing the sorriest thing he ever did, long ago, in a different life."

Cat's Cradle, Carrboro NC, April 25th. 🤘

Facebook plans to put facial recognition in its glasses and they think we’re too stupid to fight back. Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

Every single time a story like this is reported, we must assume that there are many many more that do not.

Tom Robbins:

Acoustic Superchunk in Greensboro tonight! WITH BERNIE SANDERS! 6 pm at the Carolina Theatre

So, an earlier answer to what's the worst thing that can happen with Polymarket: essentially, it's insider trading on airstrikes.

This is really, really dark. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

A Spider-Mobile/Super- Mobile team-up? Sold!

The UK has been colonized by billionaires.

Why am I not surprised that Epstein was obsessed with eugenics? (and he talked about it with Noam Chomsky!) Good dive via @juliametraux.bsky.social. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Y'all know all this mess is just language stuff, right? It's not actual ontological stuff.

Democrats have mostly focused on immigration through a civil rights lens in the past 20 years or so while Republicans have made it a public safety issue. But few Democrats have made an economic case for it. Hell, even Bernie isn’t that much of a fan of H-1B visas.

@bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social Schrödinger's Cardi B...she both did and did not perform at the Super Bowl halftime show. www.businessinsider.com/kalshi-polym...

Please watch the whole video from our Saint Paul Olympian. It’s one of the most direct and eloquent statements about the situation that I’ve heard from anyone. Proud to be a Minnesotan, proud to be represented by Rich Ruohonen.

The struggle itself towards coherence is enough to break a man's brain. One must imagine Trump miserable, just totally fucking angry at himself and the world and unable to express himself clearly and instead he rambles and knows he's rambling and can't stop himself. - Albert Camus, I think

The best part of that Bad Bunny halftime show was that I went from feeling absolutely beaten down by this administration and it’s evil bigoted supporters to OMG we’re gonna burn this whole thing down + dance in the streets! What radicalized me? That handsome and happy Puerto Rican Bad Bunny Man! 🐰

The increasing partisan distinctiveness of Appalachia ⤵️. Nothing fancy here--just unweighted avg. county-level 2-party presidential vote share. ⬅️ is simply Appalachia v. the rest of the country ➡️ includes separate lines for South/Non-South counties outside of Appalachia.

“Anybody Lynn ever met immediately realized what a bright shining star she was,” said her Tres Chicas bandmate Lamm. “Not like a rock or movie star, but a brilliant light of kindness, happiness, and depth."

Brandi Carlile's accompaniment for "America the Beautiful" before the game last night was SistaStrings. The duo, Chauntee and Monique Ross, played another American anthem, "Lift Every Voice and Sing," on the Library's Stradivarius instruments in 2024. Here's a clip of that impromptu performance. ⬇️

Tom Robbins, a long-time favorite writer of mine, passed away one year ago today at the age of 92. (photo by Don Wallen)

When I worked for Reason magazine during Trump's rise to power in 2016, I was explicitly forbidden by the editor in chief from writing about Trump's racism, or the violence and racism at his rallies. It was a "sideshow," I was told.

Disappointed to learn Bad Bunny wore Zara, effectively promoting the brand to millions. Although Zara has made admirable strides to address labor conditions, fast fashion can never be ethical because it depends on rapid production and cheap prices, which results in worker exploitation.

“Paranoia’s like pulled pork...It’s on menus all over the world, but in the American South it’s special.” --Mike Cooley

From the bestskeeting author of the Bluesky-famous six-week Bad Bunny 101 comes this essential close reading of the halftime show! 🧵

lol

Bad Bunny has a consulting historian. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...

kind of funny there are prob 1,000 major US musicians and every time conservatives need to put up a music artist to counter a mainstream narrative, they put up kid rock. "ok here's kid rock again" for the next 30 years, an octogenarian man in jean shorts rapping something from the 1990s

You’ve seen the halftime show … now read my friend Petra’s new book from @dukepress.bsky.social about how Bad Bunny became the global voice of Puerto Rican resistance! 👏🏽👏🏽 www.dukeupress.edu/p-fkn-r