ICE agents are America's failures, basically indistinguishable from lazy school shooters, losers who want to play Call of Duty on our streets against people who can't fight back. They have unlimited ammo and toss tear gas like they're pressing L1. They have to be defunded and jailed. All of them.

Public officials and news media: please stop calling them "law enforcement". They are bloodthirsty, supremacist, terrorist thugs operated by a criminal organization, and do not deserve even the modicum of dignity legitimately afforded to real LFOs.

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan. A citizen. Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold. "We're from the United States bro!' he screamed. Agents took and sold his phone And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.

Know this is old news, but relevant to my day today: "abundance" libs are just Romney Republicans who are relatively polite to LGBTQIA+ people. Truly toxic ideology, very popular in Ann Arbor!

There’s a GoFundMe for Jonathan Ross’s legal expenses for murdering Renee Good. This violates GoFundMe’s Terms of Service. Everyone must report it. A thread on how to do that 🧵

Thanks for the many, many good times, Bobby. They were more fun than a frog in a glass of milk. 💀🥀

It should be bigger news that masked agents were filmed hours ago removing potentially inculpatory evidence from the ICE shooter's house, clearly lacking evidence tags or chain of custody stickers. Before we have word on whether he underwent a toxicology screen at the hospital following the killing

Masked ICE agents, it seems, are now killing American citizens on American streets. Any Democrat who doesn’t support abolishing ICE should be instantly primaried and run out of the party. This is non negotiable. You cannot support the continued existence of this fascist murderous secret police.

No hate for Criterion Closet here, but this "homage" from @severinfilms.bsky.social featuring the great Joe Dante does more for me than any of those combined (though I love both Bill Hader appearances and the Safdies one is a surprisingly insightful character study). youtu.be/iAfr0_1XV5Y?...

Sent out a fairly personal newsletter today and forgot to take music journos I don't know and people who were interested in starting a print co-op (my last ditch effort to care about being in MI) off the list. It won't happen again! If y'all want to read it, it's here: mailchi.mp/001b2a3578a7...

Absolutely no one wants this but Whitmer, OpenAI, and Oracle are pushing to make it happen anyway.

I liked 'Eraserhead' on a small screen, but I didn't fully absorb it until a VERY loud theatrical screening in 2010. About ⅔ in, I was convinced I had the flu and tried to leave, but my gf at the time wouldn't let me. I was disoriented, nauseous, sweating. Five minutes after leaving, I was fine.

At least once a week, I start to reply to one of Daniel's posts before realizing I'll basically just be repeating his points back to him. Rock-solid dude with impeccable taste and thoughtful takes galore. I'm overdue for a visit slightly southward.

Easily in my Top 5 records of the year, despite the discomfort that comes from giving such laurels to a record one worked on themselves (I assisted with the cover design). It would be stellar if I'd never laid finger to trackpad, as is all of Stefan's work this year.

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller December 10,1949

Friends, I had a first interview earlier this week for a job I want more than basically any job in the world. I'd pull out all the stops to do this job better than I've ever done anything. That's all I'll say for now. However you put your positive vibes out into the ether, spare some for me, eh?

Reporters should start asking the people defending the boat attack what we should do with the Sackler family

It's Bandcamp Friday, so I'm goin' CHESTNUTS for the holiday season! Everything on the Golden Feelings Bandcamp is 50% OFF with code HOLYDAZE (which includes buying 5 CD copies of my first record for $10; today, it's $5!). Stuff them stockings! goldenfeelings.bandcamp.com

So bummed that finances and weather are keeping me in Michigan and away from this show in Paterson (and visiting pals in Brooklyn) this weekend. If you can make it out, this is a wildly stacked gig of folks I'll mostly probably see even less when I migrate back west next spring.

Read these words. This is your country doing this: “Pregnant & postpartum women report starving in ICE custody, freezing cells, invasive procedures, miscarriages, their pleas for help going unanswered.” Thank you @rfkhumanrights.bsky.social @the-independent.com for shining a light on these horrors

A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing. And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.

What a great headline

Well, it's officially that time of year, so here's the piece I wrote for @riotfest.bsky.social in 2019 about why Christmas music is good, actually. There's a pretty good playlist at the bottom of the article, too. riotfest.org/2019/12/10/h...

If you're looking for a hate-read this Thanksgiving, this opinion piece is mercifully short but will still make you want to punch something. Its shitty prose and poor support for its thesis also gives easy fuel to its obvious counterpoint. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

A movie that takes place where you're from (technically this takes place/was filmed 45 minutes away, but there is not a single story remotely worth telling from my hometown)

Don't know if I'm actually making a 2025 favorites list, but if I do, this is on it. I almost definitely won't do a RANKED list, but if I did, this would be right around the top spot. Great band and great folks.

just when you think you’ve seen it all, you find a bootleg TURTLENECK

I've never heard an OG lounge record that sounds THIS much like a precursor to Quintron, wild drumming

In the pre-streaming days, even the best TV shows (Simpsons, Cheers, Twin Peaks, etc) would take awhile to refine their characters and find their stride. 'Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman' hit the ground at a proto-Lynchian sprint and rarely let up. It's Norman Lear's masterpiece. youtu.be/zQqHAWWKwcw?...

I have 99.9% boycotted Starbucks for 25 years because the company and their coffee has been ass the whole time, but I stand with the employees and support more mass actions!

JD Vance owns a company that buys American real estate and sells it to foreign investors. They specifically target Americans in crisis to buy their property for less than it is worth.

TWO Bit-O-Honey with my Sweetwater order? Looks like I better go buy a lotto ticket

🚨 Pelosi is retiring, and the hospital lobby’s praise shows why that matters: she kept Medicare for All off the table and protected the private insurance model they profit from. www.levernews.com/pelosi-gets-...

it doesn’t get any clearer that america’s betrothal to fossil fuels is about letting energy companies pick our pockets to prop up their obsolete industry

ok, time to help the REAL 305MVP www.gofundme.com/f/sfp8cb

General strike on Black Friday. Right?

I more or less want to transition back into food/drink/bud service when I return to PDX next spring, but if I stay in marketing, I really hope it's with a company that has some semblance of structure or strategy in that department (btw, looking for work there next May if ya hear anything).

It has been positively KILLING me lately to not be back working where I belong: a cluttered, musty used record store. An infinite number of worse things happening in this broken world, I know, but it would still be nice if that one tiny wrong could be righted.

Was excited to have an eleventh hour guaranteed addition to my favorite music of 2025, but it's not actually out until January. Anyway, this is an unbeatable, heady lineup and I can't wait to hear the whole thing. barrywalker.bandcamp.com/album/paleo-...

The problem with listening to Tuluum Shimmering is that it gets me too excited to play music myself so I rarely get through those long tracks in one sitting at home. tuluumshimmering.bandcamp.com/album/tuluum...

🎶 CD Baby CD Baby CD Baby Attacked by Rats 🎶 (For advertising to me too aggressively on YouTube) youtu.be/-To8BnOdMDs?...

Judy Henske and Jerry Yester - Snowblind [USA, Psychedelic folk] (1969) https://redd.it/6onwsm https://youtu.be/mOGQGIRfDdQ

Last week, I indulged in the best deal in entertainment: $12 for all in-print minicomics from Matt Feazell's NOT AVAILABLE COMICS. It's a big stack, some stretching back to right before I was born. Eternally charming, and a MASSIVE influence on me since 1994. www.mattfeazell.net/CYNICALMAN/c...

Early holiday shoppers: put up a deal on the s/t Golden Feelings CD. 5 copies for $10(!), give 'em to whoever you know needs a relax. goldenfeelings.bandcamp.com/album/golden... "Blankets of dreamy pads coalesce into a verdant space where a river of catharsis awaits." [email protected]

Feels weird to say since he's a homie, but Fred Thomas can completely murder me with one line. For modern songwriters, hard to beat. Also, not be a boomer, but Dylan, Joni, Neil, Carole, Sir Paul (among others): all still alive. That dull millennial solipsist isn't even in her generation's Top 20.

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE Truth: No cars rammed ICE Claim: She boxed ICE in Truth: ICE boxed her in Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE Truth: She did not have a rifle Claim: ICE returned fire Truth: Only ICE fired Claim: She drove herself to the hospital Truth: Paramedics found her

The Oregon Republican Party tried to help Donald Trump make the case for military intervention in Portland with an image of a fiery protest — but since Portland is calm, they had to fabricate one by merging old photos of police in Ecuador and protesters in Brazil www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Guys, every person you see on Fox News in a mask is just Robert O'Neill, retired Navy Seal and occasional Fox News contributor. He's the former Antifa, former Gazan, former gang member. His eyes are very unique.