the funny thing about the constant misappropriation of MLK is that the guy left a massive body of writing specifically aimed at explaining his views of those of the movement he represented to the broad public. it is extremely easy to know what the guy thought on a variety of subjects and yet

Mossy Stones

subtly downgrade a band. Placekick Murphys

Specific Public

Subtly downgrade a band Incompetent Company

subtly downgrade a band astray zeppelin

If you were a webcomic artist trying to make the next Berserk, Watchmen, Sin City, Skydoll, Blacksad - basically any acclaimed adult comic you can think of - there are dwindlingly few places you can independently publish that online

They definitely knew. This is a Transnational Crime Syndicate Masquerading as a Government. 👇 bsky.app/profile/jers...

Jimmy Kimmel and other late-night comedians have certainly said things about me that I found offensive, even outrageous. It never crossed my mind to call up the networks and say, "Hey, get rid of this guy." Because that's not how America works. play.prx.org/listen?ge=pr...

Pam Bondi is a loyalist hack, selected for her pro-bribery and pro-lying record, who has spent her tenure as Attorney General working to transform DOJ from a law enforcement org into a political allegiance and personal revenge org. If she can't find a pretext to manufacture charges, there isn't one.

and then there was Fetterman

Sen. Tim Kaine: "Brian Kilmeade 10 days ago suggested that homeless, mentally ill people should be lethally injected. He apologized...He didn't get pulled off the air."

If anyone needs to be fired it's Kilmeade

Remembering Gustav Holst on his birthday 🎂 📷 Martha Stern bromide print, late 1920s "Music, being identical with heaven, isn't a thing of momentary thrills, or even hourly ones. It's a condition of eternity." The Perfect Fool: www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

Crockett: "I'm gonna honor someone who decided they were going to proclaim I was involved in the 'great white replacement'? Yeah, I'm not honoring that ... it's unfortunate more of my colleagues even on my side couldn't see the amount of harm this man was attempting to inflict upon our communities"

$4 billion is what Disney paid for the Star Wars franchise.

NEW: Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom announced today that they have all recognized the State of Palestine

My bad that's NOT the Undertaker lamp... That is definitely Darkwing Duck lamp Use Temu coupon!!! 😎

What is the basis for this hope? They have nothing to offer Trump that he actually gives a shit about, because all he actually wants is to call them names online and he gets to do that for free no matter what happens. What's this negotiation supposed to even look like

Schumer is not working for us he works for AIPAC. Wish I had an updated chart, but I bet it's a whole lot more now!

"All I can tell you is I'm going to continue talking to him" -- Schumer is still refusing to endorse Mamdani

tbh if you know a teenager (any teenager, no matter who they are or how well you think they're doing) please go and tell them that you think they're great and you like them. you don't need to elaborate. just say it. they'll be awkward and uncomfortable about it. but they'll remember it forever

My weekly must-reads list and my thoughts on witnessing care and courage amid clouds of tear gas Friday night. "Almost 550 people across Chicagoland have been arrested by ICE during Operation Midway Blitz. It is a campaign of terror focused on a city that our president feels profound contempt for."

rewatching NETWORK for a project 👀 and it is absolutely shocking how prescient this film is. it’s like paddy chayefsky was granted a vision of america in 2025 and he furiously tried to turn what he saw into something intelligible to viewers in the 1970s

oh my god

In Zephyr, players traverse the back of a sentient continent to find the source of their passions and convictions, as well as to fulfill sacred obligations to their community. In the US, get it with free shipping at tabletopbookshelf.com/products/zep... and elsewhere, at araukana.com/store

Almost inevitably, a white liberal pundit who finds a way to “hear out” or “find commonalities” with white supremacists eventually starts saying depraved shit. I need to understand why that’s not the last strike for white people that it is for Black political observers.

I’d completely forgotten that Homan spoke at the Moonie offshoot church that worships AR-15s. Remind me again, why did we stop calling them weird?

this charlie kirk deification is some of the weirdest shit i have ever seen

luminata!

“We’re fine with corruption if comes with terrorizing brown people.” Really sums up the MAGA punditocracy.

Just a reminder on the day that Alex Acosta couldn't seem to remember much about some Jeffrey Epstein guy he gave a sweetheart deal to, that his daughters, on the other hand, have seen some shit:

If you are one of the almost 100 Dems who voted to honor the guy who said the Civil Rights Act was a huge mistake, don’t bother asking Black people to vote for you, donate to you or canvass for you next year. Don’t bother. Please. And don’t be shocked if you get a primary opponent.

Eek! The Cat [Episode 1] (1993) - Grandma 👵🏻 #EekTheCat #furry #furries (I know a certain cartoon bovine who sounds JUST like her)

As I told @newrepublic.com, "Once last week, twice today, ICE has picked me up and thrown me on the ground. Honestly, it doesn’t compare to what our neighbors who are trapped inside the Broadview processing facility are going through. They’re committing crimes against humanity there."

In an undercover operation last year, the FBI recorded Tom Homan, now the White House border czar, accepting $50,000 in cash after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts…

It’s too many apples

companies make it difficult or impossible to disable ai in their products because it is an authoritarian project made from a stack of consent violations in a trenchcoat they don't give you a checkbox for "i don't want this and will never use it" because they know many people would check that box

Never forget that one of the big reasons that social media is so heavily slanted towards bad moderation and ignoring violent rhetoric from the right is that they did have automated tools that deplatformed far right rhetoric, but they turned it all off because almost all Republicans got caught too

Much of the violent, racist rhetoric from the man arrested for allegedly threatening the life of Zohran Mamdani is almost indistinguishable from what top GOP politicians were saying in the days after Mamdani won the primary. (Also similar to what Girdusky said to me on CNN!)

What’s more astonishing: 1) that the president clearly believes, and repeatedly suggests, that asylum seekers are people from mental asylums, or 2) that no journalist has ever challenged him on this and no mainstream media outlets have done any deep dives on this story?

a few thoughts (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

genuinely believe that a large number of political, economic and media elites do not realize that nearly half the voting public did not vote for trump

This is what we need from elected officials -- a commitment to stand up for their constituents and, just as important, a willingness to tell right-wing trolls to get bent.