1. Coachella performers, including Sabrina Carpenter, Justin Bieber and Karol G, are funding the MAGA movement. Let's follow the money. 🧵

Challenger in 2nd grade // followed by Romeo & Juliet—nude teens included—in 9th or 10th.

About 30 fire protection districts in St. Louis and St. Charles counties are asking voters to approve a 1% sales tax. Critics say it's a windfall for the districts, where firefighters typically earn more than six figures. From @jacobbarker27.bsky.social and me. www.stltoday.com/news/local/m...

It's almost like SNL knew I recently completed a two-week bender on America's premier prog-rockers.

Whoa whoa whoa. WSJ reports that Trump *personally* pushed the Justice Department to settle its antitrust case with Live Nation. Several sources for my NYT column speculated this was the case. The Journal says it's a fact. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

CRAZY

Murphy: I have great sympathy for our soldiers and our military leaders they are being given directions by a senile old man who is losing his mind. And so it's no surprise that this war is going horribly

PLAY IT AUGIE!

How did SNL not hold Geese for Gosling

Get Loveless back on streaming services!

He is on @timheidecker.bsky.social's podcast as we speak. Unclear if this was addressed: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPJi...

To any Democrat who ever said about any issue, "Maybe if we agree with Republicans just this far, they'll stop there," remember that you were wrong, it was obvious at the time, and you really should never believe that again about any issue, ever.

At least US fans can be all the prouder of our gold-medal-winning women's hockey team.

Auditioning for Alito's seat. This should seal the deal.

The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...

Wow.

Don't give anything an Emmy until it's as good as this.

Simply the Best: Tina Turner Kit for St. Louis’ MLS Team Unveiled

Chappell Roan Exits Wasserman Agency Amid Outrage Over Epstein Ties: ‘I Hold My Teams to the Highest Standards’

Since a lot of the coverage is omitting this detail: The Kennedy Center HAD a $250 million renovation and expansion just a few years ago, in 2019.

friend of mine is an undocumented immigrant and has been hiding in Melania theaters bc he knows people assume no one is in there

One-of-a-kind voice covers one-of-a-kind voice. Forbert and Sexsmith — two of the best to ever do it.

It's not quite the most pressing issue at the moment, but the American people absolutely have a right to know the names of the federal officials who shot and killed a man peacefully protesting, who was on his knees, prone in the street when they shot him in the back.

Sweet Lord... he plays the chills-inducing CCR classic "Long As I Can See the Light." I want to see him in this kind of stripped back setting.

DAVE MATTHEWS: “I don’t want my taxes to pay for masked thugs to roam our streets & terrorize our communities... She was trying to get away. He shot her 3x in the head. Murdered in cold blood. They’re trying to tell us not to believe what we see. FUCK ICE.” (H/T @marcofoster.bsky.social )

When Democrats begin declaring, I want each to release their full de-Trumpification plans if they should take office, including what they will immediately reverse, remove, demolish and/or rename.

Joe Perry is now a catcher's mitt.

A look back at a packed year of great albums and exciting releases.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

When Democrats begin declaring, I want each to release their full de-Trumpification plans if they should take office, including what they will immediately reverse, remove, demolish and/or rename.

Joe Walsh's chode guitar. It’s a guitar for a chode. 22.5 inch neck, 21 fret fretboard, fucking junk. www.juliensauctions.com/en/auctions/...

This. This was the formative event of my generation & our entire politics in 🇺🇸. The structural break after which we were no longer a full democracy, when 5 Wizards In Robes decided they were a super-legislature & counting all the actual votes didn’t matter. The rest has been 25 years of commentary.

He ain't coming back.

Seeing Rolling Stone lay off multiple staff less than three weeks before Christmas, one of them Brittany Spanos, a cover story writer with 11 years at the title, really confirms how bad things are in media right now

I've been marveling at the marvelousness of Evan Dando's Lemonheads output 1992-1996 and asked AI to create a side-by-side of those classic albums.

The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted. If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

Repost with an iconic fictional band…

Sex pest. Emotional abuse. This guy is the jizz stain on the dirty pants of a bus pervert. And how dare you use a D'Angelo song. I hope he comes crawling out the grave and strangles your wack ass

Funny how the same people who’d throw a tantrum if *their* free (floating) public transit disappeared are weirdly hostile toward the guy trying to give them more of it.

Is it SOP to ditch bylines on Pitchfork's douchiest reviews?

Ace Frehley, KISS Co-Founder & Guitar Hero, Dies at 74

Ride's Nowhere turned 35 yesterday — etched on Mount Shoegazemore alongside Souvlaki, Loveless and... what else? www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsmH...

Once upon a time, the social media accounts of federal agencies weren't a stream of fascist, white nationalist garbage interlaced with whiny culture-war posts. Earlier this year, even!

Geddy Lee, walking past fans.

WUH?

Tim's look. Unsubscribing Disney/Hulu/ESPN and diverting those funds to the HEI Network.

Spotify's "Alt Country Classics" playlist has had a random Uncle Tupelo *instrumental* at #1 for several years now.

NOT the Black Keys drummer.

Everyone running against a Republican Senator should be reminding people nonstop that everyone knew this would happen and every Republican still voted to put an antivaxxer with no health or science background in charge of health and science for the entire country

My main observation from the last few hours of monitoring US social media is that Democrats are universally denouncing political violence and calling for calm while MAGA are escalating language and openly lusting for retribution against broad categories of people they identity as their enemies.