Quick point of clarification for pundits, politicians, journalists, & any others commenting on the Epstein Trump files: The victims were NOT "young women". They were CHILDREN. As such, they were not capable of giving legal consent. Sex without consent is rape. Words matter. Get them right.

#readandplay (528) #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Toad The Wet Sprocket - “Something’s Always Wrong” youtu.be/fK7bwIVrQFs?...

Don’t. Fucking. Go. To. Starbucks.

While you’re trying to dodge overdraft fees and wondering how you’ll afford Thanksgiving and holiday gifts for your people, Eric Trump is spending $500M in scam-coin on the dark web to buy rhino horns, whale tusks and elephant foot umbrella stands. The Trump economy is working exactly as planned.

#readandplay (528) #MusicChallenge #MusicSky “No rules. The only limit is our imagination.” Read 📚 & Play🎶

#TheTwen2ie5 Day 38 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Genres melded, yesterday’s hits homaged, asses shaken, shots taken, a year of weekends made - what CAN’T this song do? 13. Shaboozey - “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” (USA; April 2024) youtu.be/t7bQwwqW-Hc?...

Again, maybe what the takeaway we should have from political reporter after political reporter not just getting chummy w ppl like Trump or Epstein (or RFK Jr 👀) but actively running interference for them—either in their coverage or privately—is that its an industry full of ppl that are Bad Actually™️

So all but two Republicans in Congress voted to pay $500k of taxpayer dollars to each of ten Republicans senators. That's a big payout. If I had $500k (possibly tax free?) dollars paying for college would be so much easier. $500k is a lot, right?

We're in the "raping young teenage girls isn't pedophilia" part of the cope from MAGA. These people are evil.

#B-SidesandBonusTracks Day 12 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky It’s crazy what a band may cut in the name of its thematic vision for an album. Say, a cracking tune featuring the one & only Juliana Hatfield!! Nada Surf - “I Wanna Take You Home” youtu.be/L2-7CKAE52Y?...

#TheTwen2ie5 Day 38 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Genres melded, yesterday’s hits homaged, asses shaken, shots taken, a year of weekends made - what CAN’T this song do? 13. Shaboozey - “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” (USA; April 2024) youtu.be/t7bQwwqW-Hc?...

Can we timeskip ahead to the point where we all realize the race scientist eugenicists, the white birthrate obsessives, the silicon valley scamsters, and the Epstein circle are all just the same people?

#readandplay (527) #MusicChallenge #MusicSky “I usually make it through side A sober All bets are off when I flip her over One bourbon, one scotch, one beer I'm havin' a record year” Eric Church - “Record Year” youtu.be/gvvYMxV6TmI?...

#readandplay (527) #MusicChallenge #MusicSky “No rules. The only limit is our imagination.” Read 📚 & Play🎶

Post someone who looks great in a hat…

#TheTwen2ie5 Day 37 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Not everything she touches turns to gold for me. This theme of jilted-but-still-burning for them as you tell them to kiss off? That’s a chef’s kiss, though 14. Chappell Roan - “Good Luck, Babe!” (USA; April 2024) youtu.be/1RKqOmSkGgM?...

#LookAndSee (Day 249) #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Well they’re on my brain from another earlier post so this one popped right up! TV On The Radio - “Staring At The Sun” youtu.be/qHX-FKTV8Rk?...

#TheTwen2ie5 Day 37 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Not everything she touches turns to gold for me. This theme of jilted-but-still-burning for them as you tell them to kiss off? That’s a chef’s kiss, though 14. Chappell Roan - “Good Luck, Babe!” (USA; April 2024) youtu.be/1RKqOmSkGgM?...

#B-SidesandBonusTracks Day 11 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Even as a cover, this has the wonderful harmonics and craft of the band at their best TV On The Radio - “Modern Romance” (orig. Yeah Yeah Yeahs; New Health Rock) youtu.be/uTero8WoeG0?...

#readandplay (526) #MusicChallenge #MusicSky O.A.R. - “Shattered” youtu.be/Qa5Mawz92xU?...

#TheTwen2ie5 Day 36 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky An under the radar comeback from one of my favorite acts of the decade prior - hoping they soon enter the 20’s fray in full LP form! Cause this sure slaps 15. LCD Soundsystem- “new body rhumba” (USA; September 2022) youtu.be/JG17jiPdbb0?...

#B-SidesandBonusTracks Day 10 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky A bonus track to their debut LP, it’s a got a great hypnotic feel that would’ve fit in fine on the album proper First Aid Kit - “Building Myself A Boat” youtu.be/MAIqQZKqOEI?...

Two months ago we were paying all federal workers, SNAP benefits were fully funded, and people could afford their health insurance premiums but a small group of Democratic senators have Stockholm Syndrome and are telling us we have to Sophie’s choice one or two of these things.

#TheTwen2ie5 Day 36 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky An under the radar comeback from one of my favorite acts of the decade prior - hoping they soon enter the 20’s fray in full LP form! Cause this sure slaps 15. LCD Soundsystem- “new body rhumba” (USA; September 2022) youtu.be/JG17jiPdbb0?...

23 more votes to tie for the second most total votes in a 1989 match!

ACA was the compromise. If Republicans want to flip the table and start over, we cannot negotiate from the compromise. Single payer is the demand. They can negotiate us back to the ACA again if they want.

2/ But in September, we dug through Epstein’s inbox and found that she was central. Daily emails. Coordinating gifts and favors. $35K watches, a $71K car, lingerie and cash routed to girls who later said they were abused. Gift link:

#B-SidesandBonusTracks Day 9 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky An odd thing to have a b-side on someone else’s single, but I’ll be sharing a few this month. Starting with a legend! John Cale - “All My Friends (orig. LCD Soundsystem” (LCD’s original as the A-side) youtu.be/qN109ybT1xs?...

#readandplay (525) #MusicChallenge #MusicSky “Got to get it Equal rights and justice” Peter Tosh - “Equal Rights” youtu.be/bOZQZAX4deM?...

#readandplay (525) #MusicChallenge #MusicSky “No rules. The only limit is our imagination.” Read 📚 & Play🎶

#TheTwen2ie5 Day 35 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky projects like this tend to make kitsch the point & the songs suffer. These guys evoke the old scenes so purely that it’s just the right natural kitsch of sexy time soul 16. Silk Sonic - “Leave The Door Open” (USA; March 2021) youtu.be/adLGHcj_fmA?...

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

It’s fun getting screamed at by people who can’t possibly think of being upset by anything done by anyone with a D next to their name Full funding of the Trump Admin? Sentence people to die by lack of access to care? Insult us by saying a doomed performative vote is a win? THEY TRIED THO🙄 #shutdown

I'm single. No kids, no claims, no pre-existing conditions. The cataclysmic leap from paying $50 a month to $1,228.28 a month is a level of devastation the depth of which I'm struggling to articulate. I wasn't going to be able to afford when I thought it was going up to $350 a month. And now...😵

Same as they did to force people to go back to work while still sick and contagious with covid

It really does seem like there's a decent chance that these senators screwed us because they don't want their personal Thanksgiving plans to be disrupted.

They got cute and used Senators not up for re-election next year or ones that were retiring for the surrender vote. So here's the metric we use instead: If you aren't pushing for a new Democratic leader in the Senate *immediately,* you're out on your ass.

putting chuck schumer where he belongs: thread

I can’t believe there are people who fall for this feckless, performative crap. “He SAID he didn’t like it - he did nothing to stop it, but he shook his finger SO HARD!” Leaders are judged on results, even if you’re naive enough to think he was blindsided or cut around on this THAT IS HIM FAILING

It was totally working. They were going to have to blow up the damned filibuster.

The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it. Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

thinking back to when eric cantor got knocked out in a primary in 2014

Never forget who sold us out: Hassan King Cortez-Masto Shaheen Kaine Fetterman Durbin Rosen

I feel more like this with every passing year. We need a party that is committed to preserving, protecting & improving life. We don’t need people intent on endlessly negotiating how much humanity we deserve or if we deserve any at all. We don’t need a society built around manufactured scarcity.

This right here.

#LookAndSee (Day 247) #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Nada Surf - “Blizzard Of ‘77” youtu.be/NL6R_xft7Zc?...

#B-SidesandBonusTracks Day 9 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky An odd thing to have a b-side on someone else’s single, but I’ll be sharing a few this month. Starting with a legend! John Cale - “All My Friends (orig. LCD Soundsystem” (LCD’s original as the A-side) youtu.be/qN109ybT1xs?...