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Strings/shouts. Moon shots. Jams econo. Also a lawyer.
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The Guardian
13 days ago
Au Pairs frontwoman Lesley Woods: âWe were the antithesis to all that boy-meets-girl stuffâ
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Au Pairs frontwoman Lesley Woods: âWe were the antithesis to all that boy-meets-girl stuffâ
Her post-punk trailblazers were a key influence on riot grrrl. Now, after decades working as a lawyer, she is taking the name â though, contentiously, not the rest of the band â back on the road. âI havenât given the best of me yetâ, she says
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/dec/18/au-pairs-comeback-lesley-woods-interview?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1766068484
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Black Rails
18 days ago
1.16.26⊠Haydeeâs w/ Supreme Commander, Die Feen, DJ Sara Vox, DJ Doomsday Friday, January 16 Doors 7:00 PM, $15, all ages 6303 Georgia Avenue, NW, Washington DC 20011
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Rep. Clay Higgins invites you over for dinner; do you accept? đ€
about 1 month ago
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David Corn
about 2 months ago
Man of the people!
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Amanda Litman
about 2 months ago
This shit is why people donât trust the Democratic Party.
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Alexandra Petri
about 2 months ago
Did Women Ruin The Workplace
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Better Things Are Possible
about 2 months ago
Head in hands wondering how this could happen to me, the popular president who posted a video of myself shitting on everyone 2 weeks ago
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Stereogum
about 2 months ago
Dirty Three announce first North American shows in 14 years
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Dirty Three Announce First North American Shows In 14 Years
Dirty Three are coming stateside. Last year the Aussie post-rockers released Love Changes Everything, their first studio album in 12 years, and celebrated with a brief tour in their home country. In M...
https://www.stereogum.com/2328695/dirty-three-announce-first-north-american-shows-in-14-years/news/
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Ingrid Burrington
2 months ago
the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist
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jamelle
3 months ago
wow. bezos has destroyed this paper.
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Mona Burns
3 months ago
"History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats" -anon This is extremely enlightening It offers us encouragement And an important lesson Read this:
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Iggy Pop at
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, September 29, 2025. It was glorious.
3 months ago
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Stan Fox: Damn these glasses son. Navin R. Johnson: Yes, sir. [to the glasses] Navin R. Johnson: I damn thee. - âThe Jerkâ (1979)
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Nadine Smith
3 months ago
Disney/ABC put Kimmel back on air. Sinclair & Nexstar are blocking him. These are state-licensed stations funded by ads, not Disney. Pressure advertisers, file FCC complaints, and push back on corporate censorship.
#FreeSpeech
#NoKings
#Kimmel
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Courtney Milan
3 months ago
I.................... you know what? sure.
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Jimmy Kimmel
3 months ago
As I was sayingâŠ
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Jimmy Kimmel is Back!
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
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This is a funny time to find myself needing some aspirinâŠ
3 months ago
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Gil DurĂĄn
3 months ago
Beware fascism's most effective cheerleaders: Those who screech constantly that the battle is lost and action is hopeless. Their cowardly panic is a virus that aims to infect others with the same demoralizing terror. Shun them, shame them, block themâmercilessly.
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WIRED
3 months ago
Big Tech's embrace of President Trump has left many of us wondering: What the hell happened to Silicon Valley? In our new politics issue, we're getting into it. Also, we're taking this cover across the US in billboards, posters and a mural. Clues to find us in the đ§”:
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The New York Times
3 months ago
Tom Homan, who was later named President Trumpâs border chief, was recorded in September 2024 accepting a bag with $50,000 in cash in an undercover FBI investigation, according to people familiar with the case, which was later closed by Trump administration officials.
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Trump Justice Dept. Closed Investigation Into Tom Homan for Accepting Bag of Cash
Mr. Homan came under scrutiny after he was said to be recorded last year taking $50,000 in cash from undercover F.B.I. agents.
https://nyti.ms/46IpASJ
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#lungfishband
#passandstow
#dis92
@dischord.com
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3 months ago
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âEach of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak. And it is a solemn and weighty responsibility, and not lightly to be flung aside at the bullying of pulpit, press, government, or the empty catch-phrases of politicians.â - Mark Twain, âLetters from the Earth,â1938
3 months ago
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Mehdi Hasan
3 months ago
Donât you dare call us fascists, they say, as they force people off the airwaves for criticizing them while vowing to crush and criminalize their opposition.
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Black Rails
4 months ago
Tonight at
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, doors at 6:30 pmâŠ
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Drew Harwell
4 months ago
A National Guard report accidentally emailed to the Post says veterans and active-duty troops view the D.C. deployment with "shame and alarm"
@alexhorton.bsky.social
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National Guard documents show public âfear,â troopsâ âshameâ over D.C. presence
Internal documents reviewed by The Post reveal, with rare candor, how domestic missions rooted in politics risk damaging Americansâ trust in the military.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/09/10/national-guard-trump-dc/
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Matmos at
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, 8-30-2025âŠ
#matmos
@drewdaniel.bsky.social
@thrilljockey.bsky.social
#metalliclifereview
4 months ago
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Mother Jones
4 months ago
The United States, just months before its 250th birthday as the worldâs leading democracy, has tipped over the edge into authoritarianism and fascism.
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Slouching into fascism
Are we already past the tipping point?
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/08/slouching-into-fascism/
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Philip Gourevitch
5 months ago
Grossly irresponsible of the Times to have this ludicrous credulous spin as the top story the morning after a president who rules by fiat proclaims a totally specious emergency to militarize the capital - an editorial insult to our intelligence and our democracy.
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Crime in the District = 30 year low. Corruption in the White House = all time high.
5 months ago
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Brennan Center
5 months ago
The Constitution gives states the responsibility to run federal elections. Congress can set national standards, but the president has little proper role, if any.
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Trumpâs Anti-Voter Agenda Crystallizes
The administration is now the primary threat to election integrity.
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/trumps-anti-voter-agenda-crystallizes
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Black Rails
5 months ago
9.13.25âŠ
@rhizomedc.bsky.social
w/ Nice Breeze, Credit Saturday, September 13 Doors 6:30 PM, $12-$24, all ages 6950 Maple St NW, Washington DC 20012
#supportlocalmusic
#gotoshows
#blackrails
#blackrailsband
#blackrailsdc
#nicebreezedc
#creditband
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Dot Dash of Washington, D.C. at Fort Reno Park, 07/07/2025âŠ
@dotdashdc.bsky.social
#dotdash
#dotdashdc
#fortreno
#fortrenoconcerts
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#fortreno2025
6 months ago
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Aparna Nair
6 months ago
The vampire has been about many things in many cultures, anxieties about infection/blood, sex, death, and the power of womenâs bodies (the yakshi in Kerala, for eg), but in modern societies there is truly no more vampiric an entity than the billionaire seeking power, longevity and even more wealth
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âAnd Iâm finally getting hip to the American ruseââŠ
#mc5
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6 months ago
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youtu.be/BLInAn1LwZU?...
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X - 4th of July
YouTube video by X - The Band
https://youtu.be/BLInAn1LwZU?si=l3LIj8r_m1jeHYMX
6 months ago
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Judd Legum
6 months ago
3. Corporations that publicly endorsed Trump's megabill: 3M Altria AT&T Charter Communications Chevron Cisco Comcast Delta Airlines Door Dash Great Clips Hair Cuttery T-Mobile Uber United Airlines UPS Verizon
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Steve Kiviat
6 months ago
fortreno.com
Fort Reno Park in dc 2025 schedule is up
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Homepage - Fort Reno
DC Summer Concert Series
https://fortreno.com/
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Steve Kiviat
6 months ago
washingtoncitypaper.com/article/7669...
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Positive Force at 40: Looking at the Activist Groupâs Past, Present, and Future
Over Juneteenth weekend, Positive Force revisited D.C.âs punk history while supporting todayâs social justice causes.
https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/766964/positive-force-at-40-looking-at-the-activist-groups-past-present-and-future/
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Francesca Fiorentini
6 months ago
A bill that takes healthcare from 12 million people and gives $10 billion towards Mars exploration is the closest the rich have ever come to grinding up poor people and turning them into rocket fuel.
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jamelle
6 months ago
illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president
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Swing Kids at St. Stephen and the Incarnation Episcopal Church in Washington, DC, performing as part of the
@positive-force-dc.bsky.social
Juneteenth Racial Justice rally on June 19, 2025. I waited a long time to see this!
@threeoneg.bsky.social
#swingkids
6 months ago
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Mother Jones
7 months ago
In February alone, the national suicide hotline's program for LGBTQ youthâwho are four times more likely to attempt suicide than their peersâreceived an average of 2,100 contacts per day. Now the Trump administration is shuttering this critical resource.
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The Trump administration is shutting down the national suicide hotline's program for LGBTQ youth
"This is a death sentence potentially to thousands of youth across the United States."
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/06/trump-ending-lgbtq-suicide-hotline/
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The Quietus
7 months ago
âEverybody keeps calling me, [saying] âYou know, this would be a great time for
#Fugazi
to come backâ. And I donât know what they think weâre going to be able to do... But I appreciate the idea that we have superpowers.â Everything Wide Open: An Interview with The Messthetics
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Dave Jamieson
7 months ago
LOL the Washington Postâs AI bot summarizing the comments under tonightâs weather forecast
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Carl Quintanilla
7 months ago
â.. growth in overall US private construction spending on manufacturing has flatlined from the boom seen under President Joe Bidenâs administration ..â
@bloomberg.com
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ProPublica
7 months ago
In April, President Trump and Salvadoran President Bukele shook hands in the Oval Office to celebrate a deal to ship gang members to the notorious CECOT prison. But a new ProPublica investigation found thereâs more to the story. đ§”đ
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Rolling Stone
7 months ago
Brian Wilson, Beach Boys Co-Founder and Architect of Pop, Dead at 82 More on his life and legacy:
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The Guardian
7 months ago
Trump is waging war against his own citizens in Los Angeles | Judith Levine
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Trump is waging war against his own citizens in Los Angeles | Judith Levine
In its first months in office, the Trump administration enacted what could be called soft authoritarianism. Now we are in a second phase
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/11/trump-authoritarianism-los-angeles-citizens-immigrants?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1749637903
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