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i don't know who i follow/follows me who is a wikipedia editor, but if you care, perhaps you can help make lenny kaye's wikipedia page not a dumpster fire: "Kaye formed an artistic partnership with the singer Patti Smith, producing her debut single and contributing to several of her albums" AYFKM

R. Kelly asks President Donald Trump to commute 30-year sentence for sex abuse of minors www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/14/r...

"We don’t have to roll over for machines used by capital interests, or let them feast on our bones until we are gone. To say it’s inevitable is begging to be replaced and forgotten." @nikostratis.com is always good, but this essay is particularly rousing.

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This is an incredible story. Writing, visuals, shoe-leather reporting, public stakes, and stunning large-scale absurdity — it’s got it all.

Do we know any lefty sports writers in Chicago? 👀 Asking for a friend!

This guy thinks he can put this in new York city and that microphone won't be replaced by a giant dick within minutes. He's going to have to have 24 hour security. Also, the statue looks terrible, but he really captured what a doofus he was.

Help we are so hungry, no our mom did not just feed us squishy food tonight, can’t you see we are starving

I need an IV drip of these videos to keep me going until November.

I went to the Detroit Festival of Books and found a book for $2 that was on my running list of books I want to buy, I got two music books I wanted at a deep discount, & finally met @motherslug.bsky.social in person. For a day I didn’t want to leave the house this is a win

Also shoutout to that time L7 played Letterman and destroyed the equipment RIP Jennifer Finch m.youtube.com/watch?v=5miC...

Shoutout to that part of Ariel Schrag’s Awkward where she has a crush on a boy who wears an L7 t-shirt before she figures out that she’s queer RIP Jennifer Finch

The night Purple Rain came out, for some reason my bf & I decided to go see it in a theater off of Times Square. It was PARTICIPATORY.

Godspeed and farewell to Jennifer Finch of L7. A true punk rock force and legend on bass. Thank you for the riffs and the attitude. #RIPJenniferFinch

Have me your on your podcast to fill any dead air!

The asshole administration is planning to remove the mining buffer around Chaco Canyon in New Mexico. This is being done without tribal or expert input and the public comment time is incredibly, and cowardly short. Please comment to help try and save Chaco. www.koat.com/article/chac...

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Polymarket, Kalshi, and all those prediction market sites should be shut down permanently and their CEOs sent to prison This shit is sick; it's abhorrent, antisocial behavior that should make anyone engaging in it a total pariah

I was supposed to go canvass for Abdul this morning but can’t take a chance with the smoke but apparently Jake Lang showed up www.instagram.com/reel/Da8TI3i...

Clara Ester, a civil rights activist who was one of the last remaining witnesses to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, has died

I wonder where voters could be getting the idea that Obama endorsed Stevens from? All the ads I’ve seen in support of her lately are like this

Pretty scary: If they can do this to someone this rich & well-connected… www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Democrats who are skittish about reforming and regulating the Supreme Court need to get with the times. The public sees the Roberts Six for what they are.

30 Years Ago (July 18 1996) The members of The Who bring "Quadrophenia" to Madison Square Garden. Audio from Westwood One Radio. #TheWho www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ssz...

It’s an actual Dream Come True for me! Today I am driving a Muni Bus wearing the iconic Landor Livery, the true colors Muni is meant to display, designed by the great Walter Landor in 1975, introduced alongside the greatest logo in transit history, the Muni Worm.

I never saw Saturday night fever in the theater bc some parent in the area was outraged so the theaters all said “if you’re a minor a parent has to buy your ticket” & my mom had 4 kids/my dad traveled 4/days a week & she couldn’t be arsed so

literally someone a few houses from me is running a leaf blower and it is definitely a gas-powered one

WHO IS DOING YARDWORK IN DETROIT RIGHT NOW COME ON

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This came today so here’s my weekend sorted since I am not going outdoors if I can help it. Btw before someone comments on the method of arrival I went to TMR the day after they announced it & all the copies were gone & they couldn’t order it for me. I had to order online or not get it.

Massachusetts U.S. Senator Ed Markey have a speech and now Chellie Pingree. Both say ICE must go. Markey called Biddeford Maine “the North Star” of opposition to ICE. #Maine

Bands have it hard enough without Meta AI trying to graft massive third arms holding bottles of liquor on the bodies of their players.

Leave my boy Taco Bell out of it, it was bitch ass Taylor Farms, the world's largest salad processor. Fight the real enemy Big Salad

so now i hear that the dems are worried that Abdul El-Sayed will create "a Platner situation" and *that's* why they're putting their support behind Stevens & i have never seen such incompetent chucklefucks in my life. i am too old to go into politics but at least i know i am smarter & more capable

also similar to the dimension bending that takes place in tony khan’s favorite movie TIMECOP i was on the radio while attending this evening’s wrestling festivities. check out the playlist: maura.com/uncertain

NYT obit:

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How doth a cyclops wacche *The Odyssey*? Eyemax

This is exactly who ICE got rid of their standards to hire. There are definitely dozens more just like him ready to pop off.

In case you don’t know there’s usually a large bridge there

Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:

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Also they cancelled Mellencamp at pine knob tonight bc smoke and moved tonight’s concert of colors shows inside. They will make decisions on the other days of concert of colors on a day by day basis. (I had dinner with a friend who works at the Detroit News)

When I was a kid, food was edible.

oMg Haley Stevens has been sending out mailer after mailer stating that Obama endorsed her & today Obama’s office said “no we never said that”