Turns out, 6 months was optimistic

People are starving and dying because the state of Israel wants them to. defector.com/israel-break...

Here's a Bandcamp code for it btw e2jv-wppp

The "new" Dimitriam is out October 10th I think? It's good! I think Dimitriam is one of the most exciting lo-fi acts of the decade, and imo they stick the studio landing sawyr.xyz/writing/dimi...

rabbitholing while I'm sick, this one is fun in a classic rock kinda way youtu.be/5ksah_wehN0

This playlist is a treasure trove of live indie pop/northeast live music. A crass amount of stuff I haven't heard of intermixed with stuff that I've been hunting for, like Ed's Redeeming Qualities live youtube.com/playlist?lis...

The U.S. is revoking the President of Colombia's visa for saying Trump is complicit in the Gaza genocide and calling on American soldiers to resist Trump's orders to harm innocents.

Dave Matthews has the opportunity to do the funniest thing.

revoking credentials for asking a question is definitely a sign you feel good about the controversial move you’re about to make

I haven’t seen a lot of cis people I usually see pushing for calls, etc. doing so about these rules provisions, which would devastate trans people nationally. Calls need to be made to all electeds and a firm stance taken ASAP, with ten times the fervor of the Kimmel/D+ event

Sometimes you read an article that makes you feel like... idk... 15 years ago, some of us got on an express train and saw what was on the tracks ahead. And now we're on a call to the people on the slower train, now approaching, and they cannot comprehend the landscapes we describe as familiar.

people often say "not the onion" because they don't understand how the onion's humor works but credit to mother jones for clearly giving this an onion-style headline on purpose

I don't think someone spending their Wednesday arguing with a SW about Soviet foreign policy in 1939 is a gooner, but you gotta test the water in emerging markets sometime

Fuck the courts. Free Casey Goonan. www.kqed.org/news/1205727...

Delilah has good things to say about the new Dimitriam record which you can buy or also maybe steal the free download that came with my tape if you're fast enough dimitriam.bandcamp.com/album/instan...

really interesting and probably pretty bad that they're going after high-risk payment processors directly now www.404media.co/florida-laws...

Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.

Every other prescription label change in history required much more proof of effectiveness to get approved. This is a dangerous precedent to have political appointees dictating label changes in this way.

They did. I wrote a whole zine about this. queer.archive.work/library/down... - this is why I ignore a lot of people who talk about the Black freedom movement of the 50s and 60s. They don't know anything.

new Pavement greatest hits w/ no Wowee Zowee songs is wack

NEWS: The Congressional Progressive Caucus — which represents nearly 100 members in Congress — has just voted to endorse the Block the Bombs Act, to block weapon sales to Israel. First time any major congressional caucus has backed legislation to end US aid for Israel’s destruction of Gaza.

had to read the article to understand wtf was going on here which is that Meta is literally feeding Instagram pictures parents took of their teenage daughters to middle aged men as ads for Threads

lots of electeds and political candidates here this morning. i see congressional candidates kat abughazaleh and (evanston mayor) daniel biss, lieutenant governor juliana stratton, and chicago alder andre vasquez:

federal agents are getting increasingly violent as the morning goes on and the crowd of protesters outside the broadview ice facility grows. i’ve seen multiple people pushed and thrown to the ground. dhs is now playing a dispersal order warning of arrests and the use of chemical munitions.

Unfuckwitable Levels: High youtu.be/rDzg_j6nCsY?...

hey man sorry you couldn't make the set tonight. yeah I got a pic of the setlist for you here u go

We've also seen plenty of spontaneous community resistance, notably across some towns with very different political geographies as well as the city proper. People are not making their job easy for them right now, and that matters.

ICE shot and killed a man in the Chicago suburbs last week. In the days since, we've seen a laundry list of escalating violent behavior from the feds: reckless driving, destroyed property, dawn raids, intimidation and threats against reporters, witnesses assaulted and threatened with pepper spray.

Kids who, for all we know, may never see their parents again. Entire families slipping between the cracks of an increasingly exterminationist federal and state system.

It’s easy to remain level headed and calm when you don’t see your family being destroyed with every single one of these.

In today's Sound Advice, I take a look at the latest from BRNDA, Die Sptiz, Grant Pavol, and Water from Your Eyes. (Spoiler: They're all great) @craftedsounds.bsky.social #music

BREAKING: Judge orders Columbia activist Mahmoud Khalil to be deported to Algeria or Syria, alleging he omitted information from his green card application.

Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk

While I got my knuckles rapped by corporate America for being rude and tasteless about a guy who dreamed of the stoning of me and everyone I love, Fox's Brian Kilmeade advocated explicitly for the state murder of all homeless people -- on live TV, no less -- to virtually no response.

Hey all! I'd like to thank the world's media institutions, and of course the Bluesky mods, for being totally normal and proportional about a barely famous trans woman cracking wise about a Nazi's death.

ever since microsoft's layoffs in early july, the two zenimax unions have been fighting for impacted employees following the cancellation of the elder scrolls online studio's unannounced mmo. they've won laid-off workers more time (aka more pay), better severance, recall rights, and saved some jobs

who greenlighted the dogfucker instacart commercial?

HELLO! New Buddie on the way! LISTEN UP TO THIS :) www.craftedsounds.net/glass

I know I'm like three weeks late but I'm really into the new Hives record on first listen

Michigan lawmakers have introduced a bill prohibiting the any "depiction or description" of trans people or trans existence online, including it in a bill banning "pornographic" material The bill would completely erase trans people online, equating them with porn.

bsky.app/profile/mike... Suing Segpay, the payment processor to Lusty Heroes should also strike fear in everyone's hearts. Why should payment processors enforce content restrictions? They aren't responsible for the content- oops well now they are.

Before you comment on anything we report today, please look at this map. Internalize it. Then look at it again. ICE activity is happening in a ring of fire around the city proper right now, in less dense areas that are heavily disinvested, with few local media to cover quickly developing events.

Ten years ago yesterday, I wrote a story that changed the next decade of my life. I hate that it matters more today — I mean specifically, today — than it ever has before. I hate it, I hate it, I hate it. But here it is. www.thedailybeast.com/what-do-you-...

If you can't or won't stand up for trans people right now, you are never, ever, ever, ever going to do it and that is something worth knowing about yourself.

Genuinely who is out here starting a general purpose at protocol moderation service i will personally volunteer myself in the modqueue mines if it means I'm not beholden to what silicon valley dumbasses find objectionable

New, w/ @mulchy.bsky.social & @djbyrnes1.bsky.social: ICE shot & killed an immigrant in the Chicago suburbs yesterday. Then they immediately gave a misleading account of events. Chicago erupted in chaos and a father who lived here for decades is dead. This is what really happened:

Corporate media bravely continues Charlie Kirk's legacy by committing to destroy the careers of anyone who disagreed with him: www.404media.co/comcast-nbcu...

God its so disingenuous to pretend that all CK did was “have horrible opinions”. The man co-founded an organization that’s sole function was to fight tooth and nail to indoctrinate children at school into violent white nationalism. He wasn’t even just a pundit. He was ceo of the baby Nazi factory.