WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger. Gen Z women aren't playing around.

i think it's nice that so many flags will be at half-mast for donna.

super cool video

These in game interviews have got to stop, no one wants this.

A stat we don't talk about enough: Newspapers have lost 77% of their jobs over the last 20 year, more than any of the 532 other industries tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

A moth got into the shelter tonight and it was the event of the season.

Here’s food for thought, had Ahab time to think; but Ahab never thinks; he only feels, feels, feels

So much raw talent on those albums but you can tell how much work and effort and thought and imagination went into making them. There's also no denying, he had a presence and power like few others

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Normally I would never suggest engaging with Klein at all, but what is apparent here is that he is spinning out because his imagined idea of America butts up against Coates' sober and historically grounded view of it. You're watching an avatar of the privileged pundit class fall apart in real time

Great piece on a great album. Obviously such a transitional record. Over time I've come to love Washing Machine/ Thousand Leaves/Murray Street as much as Evol/Sister/Daydream. What a singular, fantastic band who were never afraid to embrace change and challenge themselves

I been saying

What if it did happen and literally no one made the cut?

as far as obituaries go, you'd be hard pressed to do better than this.

Just shut Hollywood down and show good older films and regional cinema where you know people who made the movies and their friends and family will show up and fill seats. Everything has its life cycle and the American studio system has clearly reached its end

I'd never heard this song, but it's pretty good, and their critique is spot on. The great thing is you can love this song and still love Springsteen's songs too. Pop music, like life, is rich and complex

As Jesus said, it is easier for a Neo-Nazi fascist to get on TV than someone who opposes the rich.

We were going to do another big marketing stunt for THE TOXIC AVENGER UNRATED. Instead, Toxie, whose life was upended by crushing medical bills, has joined forces with Undue Medical Debt to erase at least $5 million in un-payable medical debt for those who need it most. Learn more:

Again, what other book is like Moby Dick? Shakespeare, of course, but that's a bunch of plays written over many years. McCarthy novels slop at its trough. Deadwood is fun to watch. But if you savor and favor well-crafted, imaginative prose, this is the book for you

Michael Shannon in Jesus' Son. You just knew

One Perfect Shot: Ethan Hawke in Blue Moon

Want to feel old? This is Godspeed You! Black Emperor now.

Nothing else quite like it before or since

since younger people are asking how shockingly stupid things were in 2003, may I present to you this circa-03 sign that I bought from a local restaurant and their (unrelated) going out of business sale a few years later

The new @lastweektonight.com piece on juvenile incarceration featured several @ProPublica stories. First up was our 2021 investigation with @wpln.bsky.social about young Black kids in Tennessee jailed for a crime that doesn't exist: www.propublica.org/article/blac...

Willie Nelson Has Been Old My Whole Life And Now I'm Old Too

The reason you're having trouble concentrating if you are here in the US is because we're basically being chased around by serial killers and being asked to disregard the fact.

It ain't news that this country is rotten to the core but every now and then we get smacked in the face with some news that underscores just how irredeemable this system is

Chilling final paragraph and editor’s note.

True

"The group, which seeks...damages, argues that the public backlash prevented the company from pursuing "the aggressive, anti-consumer tactics that it would need to achieve" its earnings goals." do you have a moment to discuss the Good News of dialectical materialism? www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...

I needed to hear all of the ways that Bob sings the word "love" today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES0L...

as the swift monster drags you deeper and deeper into the frantic shoal, you bid adieu to circumspect life

A film that takes place where you're from

An all time OH for me was an East Tennessee boomer in line at an estate sale: "They don't even put tomatoes on 'em. Kids these days don't know how to eat a hamburger."

Out of the gate with the hard hitting existential questions

Historians are going to have better records from the 19th century than the 21st, is my most medievalist futurist prediction.

Drinking vessels in the form of owls were popular in German-speaking lands during the 16th & 17th centuries. This one is a carved coconut. A bloodstone amulet engraved with a scorpion is mounted on the breast of this bird as a guarantee against poisoning. Ref LOAN:GILBERT.61:1, 2-2008 V & A Museum.

As I've done every year since its first incarnation, I wrote about the Big Ears festival artsknoxville.com/index.php/20...

Loved this movie as a teenager, was embarrassed about it as an adult, but rewatched it a few years ago and thought, Yeah Val nailed that shit

Tonight I discovered there used to be something at public schools (1910-1940's seems to be the window?) called FREAK DAY. Believe it was limited to New England but not sure. Anyways, now you know, too.

When I wrote my camps book, people sometimes had difficulty understanding how concentration-camp regimes were proud of what they were doing and wanted attention for it, even as they also hoped to keep many aspects secret and terrorize vulnerable classes. Anyway, this is what that looks like.

This world is stupid at heart

Good people it's time for a Jessamine rediscovery and celebration

My first electric miles record was Bitches Brew, a stone cold classic and still one of my favorites. Next up was this cassette, bought from the Columbia House 8 tapes for a penny scam. The leap he made in just a few years was astounding to my teenage years, and still is

Thanks @pbs.org for this terrific piece on forgotten/unknown black punk musicians - long overdue

A movie and soundtrack that both capture mid-90s indie rock like few other documents. Especially if you're from the South. And yeah, it's not just nostalgia, they hold up really well

With all this newfound Dylan love going around, I hope people who weren't aware of it stumble upon this scene written by Dylan and Larry Charles, which turned out to be eerily prophetic youtu.be/jcC_fuLBvnI?...

just learned that if your microsoft account gets compromised and you hit the “sign me out of everywhere” button, you get this pop up telling you it’ll take 24 hours (???) incredible company. nobody does it like them