Did you join a ska band in the late 90s (I did, and they're getting back together - probably mid-life crisis)? I'm pretty sure if you did, no matter where in the world you were, you've met these 2 fuckers

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donativum and we all know how well that went

Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true

alright, ai ben garrison is pretty darn good

Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important. We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."

Really REALLY got sick of comparing printouts of one spreadsheet with one shown on screen. Regex and OCR radicalized me Also career switch wouldn’t have been possible without the good folks involved at RC (and probably would have never met my wife!)

What’s the lore behind choosing your career path ?

home county in the news... again... at least it's good news this time

Struggling to understand how a mayor would make significant impact in foreign relations

I think it is very clear that the Trump regime sees the right-wing influencers on the ground in Portland as an informal arm of their government www.theverge.com/policy/81340...

Anecdotal but turnout is huge. Asked the volunteers while in line to vote, “never seen anything like it”

My belief is that Kamala would have won last year if they’d let Tim Walz keep calling Vance and Trump “weird.” But the professional Dem consultant class closed off the one attack that actually resonated with voters.

Actually take that scene in inglorious basterds where the bear jew comes out with his bat, only this time all the basterds are wearing animal suits

Holy crap

Complete the circle; let them sing Bella Ciao and summon the god Antifa

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child. She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck. This is not about immigration enforcement. It's about terrorizing Americans.

I've been wondering why Dominion Voting Systems suddenly reached settlements with Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and One America News. Turns out, it's been purchased by a Republican-owned election tech firm that insisted on it, per Axios. www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...

You guys cannot just use that sound effect, I will just immediately think of Wet Hot American Summer EVERY time

This kind of misogyny and sense of entitlement starts early and the fact that no one involved did anything about the clear red flags is disturbing www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/n...

We won’t forget the cowards and collaborators.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Perfection.

Man alive. I have studied Right Wing authoritarianism for years and have watched some truly fucked up shit and today’s memorial service is maybe the most concentrated example of how messed up and disturbing that sector truly is.

WSJ just retracted its report that the shooter’s ammo was engraved with “transgender and anti-fascist ideology.” It smelled like bullshit from the beginning, and every conservative who ran with it should be shamed into obscurity.

“The family stressed that the agents knew-- the son had told them-- that Chop [the dog] was put in the bathroom for their safety and that the agents opened the door, let Chop out and shot him.”

This. Times a thousand. Again and again.

go birds is the philadelphia version of aloha it means hello i love you and goodbye

So Hegseth’s missiles were fired at a boat: ✅ they had no idea where it was going ✅ they had no idea who was on it ✅ they had no established authority to act ✅ but definitely wanted to murder whoever was on it Everyone involved should rot in prison forever

me at the gym right now

holy shit

hello, i made myself a job: ersc.io

I started reading The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (Shirer). It's good, and I understand why it's one of the go-to books for understanding the Nazi regimes origins. But there's this weird veneer about the writing that doesn't feel ... serious enough?

Devastating. “Atef Abu Khater, 17, who was healthy before Gaza was gripped by war, lies in intensive care in a hospital in the north of the Palestinian enclave, suffering from severe malnutrition. “He is not responding to the treatment,” said his father, A’eed Abu Khater… “I feel helpless”

i lose friends the old fashioned way by playing ska

Okay, here it goes, I have 4 posts planned so far, but this is the prelude to them. I'm gonna write about what things mean in the US labor movement from my perspective posts.demarko.org/2025/05/31/s...

New comic: on the origins of Due Process, how fundamental it is to our very notion of freedom, and how we all must stand up for the rights for any one of us to preserve liberty for all of us. Alt-text, notes/process & printable version on my site, appreciate sharing spinweaveandcut.com/due-process/

lol if I had a job waiting for me in canada I'd go. I'm literally jealous

World Central Kitchen has run out of food to serve in Gaza. Its bakery ("recently the last working bakery in Gaza") is out of flour. There are 100,000+ tons of food in staging areas within driving distance of Gaza, and Israel refuses to let them in wck.org/news/gaza-up...

Now, then, forever

Ah, the 3 kinds of autism

we're getting ready for some spring cleaning

I wonder what my old friend the Chicken Man is up to these days. Does he still live in Philly? I hope he’s doing okay. Now to relax and listen to this new Bruce Springsteen album