Some Sunday night music: Black Sheep, by Hailey Whitters. youtu.be/lWSGkBpSaq4?...

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

"Men make up around 13 percent of registered nurses, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. And the N.F.L. isn’t a traditional recruitment pipeline: None of the [five] players interviewed knew about the others." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/w...

I'm currently looking for a holiday home near a ski resort in Wyoming. CLB Architects wraps Caju House in Wyoming in weathering steel www.dezeen.com/2026/01/02/c...

"On 17 April, a whistleblower contacted the office of the inspector general alleging that Gabbard had blocked highly classified intelligence from routine dispatch ... For eight months, the intelligence report has been kept under lock and key, even after ..." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Abe's political party accepted the help of the Unification Church "despite the fact that thousands of former believers were suing the Church over allegations of financial and emotional abuse. Moon himself had been accused of sexual assault and brainwashing." www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

I will keep adding entries as they are revealed by detailed searches into the Epstein files. My thread focuses on researchers and academics who, well after Epstein's 2008 conviction, have sought contact with, received funding from, and let themselves be promoted by him.

Some Saturday night music: Lips Like Sugar, by Echo & the Bunnymen. youtu.be/9hGcJA8fXvU?...

"It’s beyond comprehension to me that we’re talking about letting a thousand girls go back to camp for 10 sessions this summer with the very same people who were in charge when 27 girls died less than a year ago." www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

"Even in a rules-shattering administration, the hasty conclusions about the shooting shocked federal prosecutors in Minnesota." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...

Some Friday night music: Reservations, by Wilco. youtu.be/v8Z2uFirtWU?...

"Art helps us to know one another better and to know ourselves more honestly. And it helps us to process our awe and terror at the world and our existence. It’s why those with authoritarian impulses always want to control it ... to silence its practitioners." www.liberalcurrents.com/none-more-wo...

Some Thursday night music: Ilomilo, by Billie Eilish. youtu.be/-e7wiyNO2us?...

"It’s worth noting that a rejection by CBS’s audience can and will be spun as proof that American discourse remains inhospitable to truth-telling mavericks like Weiss. That she has never been one hasn’t mattered yet. Maybe it never will." flaminghydra.com/cbs-breaking...

"When I set up the presentation there were the three traditional trophies and then there was this sad wee diddy-looking trophy and I was quite embarrassed," he admitted. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Some Wednesday night music: Creep, by Prince. youtu.be/NFXZNt4oLkE?...

"While only a a sliver of its sunlit surface is visible, most of the Moon's disk can be seen by earthshine as light reflected from a bright planet Earth illuminates the lunar nearside." The Da Vinci Glow (Image Credit & Copyright: Giorgia Hofer) apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25040...

If you need a little beauty this afternoon.

"Everything we know about skin has been learned from so-called scientific studies funded by large corporations who have a financial stake in keeping our musculature covered in an unnecessary layer of man-made flesh," said the self-proclaimed "membrane skeptic." theonion.com/rfk-jr-quest...

one of my strongest beliefs is that we're in our situation right now bc some of the most prominent talking heads (e.g. joe rogan, andrew schulz) are learning about politics in their 40s and 50s, instead of their teens and early 20s, and we have to go along for the ride as they learn basic things

"The other day, the school was unusually quiet. Its corridors, colorful with children’s art, had phrases of encouragement ('together is always better') painted on the walls. One hallway had a line of bikes for kids to learn how to ride ..." www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Some Tuesday night music: All Sparks, by Editors. youtu.be/93N4YKVJs6M?...

"Autocratic backfire can end in a leader's ouster and a nation’s collective ruin, as it did in Fascist Italy; in a leader clinging to power over a weakened state, as is happening with Mr. Putin’s Russia; or in popular resistance and mass mobilizations ..." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/o...

"Vang and her family fled Vietnam after spending decades persecuted for being Christian. Family members, including her brother Wa Chi Minh Vang, have even been imprisoned for their faith." www.kare11.com/article/news...

"In a written response to questions from The Daily Illini, Illini Republicans declined to comment on whether they were saying Good and Pretti deserved to be killed." dailyillini.com/news-stories...

"If you’re fine with an immortal god turning into a bird, sleeping with a human, and producing an egg that hatches into the most beautiful woman in the world, Lupita Nyong’o’s skin tone probably isn’t where realism breaks down."

Some Monday night music: Catacombs, by Steph Strings. youtu.be/siuVtakFbjU?...

Dem leadership: changing this is a difficult process, you fool. You rube. You utter infant. Give us between $5 and $50 Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it

"Whatever 'Melania' is, and whatever numbers it ends up doing, it will never be able to compete, for sheer reach, with the sickening scenes that the Trump regime’s ice is starring in day after day. Coming soon, to a street corner near you." www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...

"Want to convince people that the financial system is a rigged casino so you might as well just gamble on cryptocurrency and betting markets? It helps if the actual financial system is run by banks who receive billions in public money and then steal millions of ..." pluralistic.net/2026/02/02/c...

Some Sunday night music: Just How You Are, by Leon Thomas. youtu.be/wz11MaOpwbo?...

"In the shadow of Roman power, an empire that concentrated power and wealth, extracted resources from the earth, exploited the poor, and maintained 'order' through fear and violence, Jesus speaks a radically different vision of reality" — @brcremer.bsky.social benjamin-cremer.kit.com/posts/sermon...

A little girl in Portland, OR after being tear gassed by ICE. what the actual fuck.

"The brand-new importance of MySpace meant that the Arctic Monkeys found an audience without the assistance of the always-hungry UK music press. Naturally, this made for a great press hook. The music press jumped on board in a hurry." stereogum.com/2486011/what...

These were the people who held the careers of female scholars in their hands . This is who was shaping or epistemological world

"Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency."

If you need a little beauty this afternoon. kottke.org/26/01/an-arc...

"Reading has truly helped me in my recovery. It was the catalyst that told me 'I'm going to be OK' on my journey to redemption." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/n...

These two stories appeared back to back on my RSS feed. Film students no longer have the attention span to watch whole movies: www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/01/the-... The LLM bots now have social media where they "talk" to each other: marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo... Things are great.

An entire political movement founded on uncovering hidden messages in documents to discover the powerful secret pedophiles and meanwhile the powerful pedophiles out here sending gmails saying "Hi fellow pedophile when are we meeting to do pedophilia again"

Some Friday night music: Burning the Midnight Lamp, by Jimi Hendrix. youtu.be/QlIkybg2wOU?...

NYT: I want to rip up all my questions and ask more about you wanting to be a death doula! Why ... ? Chloé Zhao: "Because I have been terrified of death my whole life. I still am. And because I’ve been so afraid I haven’t been able to live fully." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/m...

"Hundreds of people who would have been paroled under previous administrations now remain in state prisons with little chance of earning an early release through good behavior or by showing they are fit to reenter society and are unlikely to reoffend." www.propublica.org/article/loui...

Some Thursday night music: Instant Psalm, by The Smile. youtu.be/r38w0TawkcM?...

"These are isolated incidents, none of which resulted in violence. Again, most of the assaults against ICE agents have occurred while agents were conducting their duties, including when engaging with protesters." www.pbump.net/o/ices-excus...

"Headlines call it a 'crackdown' on immigration and a 'clash' between the government and 'protesters,' when in reality it's murderous occupying forces being confronted by people who just want to live free of their violence." www.thehandbasket.co/p/crackdown-...

Some Wednesday night music: TMJ, by Honeyglaze. youtu.be/DFf1qVpKiW4?...

If you need something good tonight. kottke.org/26/01/people...

"The collection of photos offers a curated view of life today in detention at the Navy outpost where the United States has held about 780 men and boys in the war against terrorism since 2002. Just 15 prisoners remain." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...