I tried to take a photo of a grasshopper on my windshield, but now it looks like a gigantic bug destroying the town.

Happy birthday to singer-songwriter Graham Nash, 84 today. Born in Blackpool, to where his mother had been evacuated from her hometown of Salford when WW2 began. Family subsequently returned to Salford, where Nash grew up.

Bruce Springsteen’s ICE Protest Song Soars To No. 1

This seems to be the issue,lack if guts. No idea why though.

Now here’s a headline I can definitely get behind! 😏 “First Lady is a preening, scowling void of pure nothingness in this ghastly bit of propaganda.” And I guess we can thank Nick Hilton at The Independent for going to see it so we didn’t have to. 🤷‍♂️ We wouldn’t have gone anyway! 😒 flip.it/47IWNT

"Despite what the xenophobes in the Trump administration claim, international students aren’t stealing American students’ slots in higher education. To the contrary: their tuition dollars enable more American students to attend college." www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-is-m...

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

Researchers have documented the births of nearly two dozen North Atlantic right whale calves this season. It’s an encouraging sign for a species whose population is estimated to be below 400.

ICYMI: Users of Meta’s social platforms can no longer share links to ICE List, a website listing what it claims are the names of thousands of DHS employees. www.wired.com/story/meta-i...

In a heartening turn of events, the ICEwatch patrol training in Pasadena was absolutely packed to the gills this week, surprising even the organizers of the event. LA continues to get organized against ICE terror

On NPR on Friday, there was a story of a 4-year-old--an American citizen--who hasn't left her house since early December, not even to play in the yard. And her 8-year-old brother recently stopped going to school, too. Their father is undocumented, and the family doesn't want to risk him being taken.

My January music podcast is now live: www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ksi... playlist is also posted in three images below.

“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow

It's a sign of the times that callousness is now dressed up as intellectualism. That empathy is framed as being as morally problematic as prejudice. That bigotry and hatred is just honesty. That solidarity is treason.

Moriarty: "A police officer of color who was off duty was boxed in by ICE - she's a citizen - they demanded to know who she was & see her papers. She was going to try to record it & they ripped the phone out of her hand. That happened to a cop. That's what's happening here on the streets of MN."

You cannot overstate how startling it is to see a politician just say the thing with clarity and poise. No fearful hemming. No overwrought qualifying down til it’s meaningless. No lingering sense that there is a loyalty to a donor class or an ideology of stasis that they’d never admit to.

The longer *this* all goes on and it is not aggressively called out by Dem AND GOP politicians—even if “nothing happens—the more the rest of the world will know the US can never be trusted again to make reliable trade deals or be military allies

Sarasota Ferret Rescue is the name of my new band.

One of the most popular and crowd-pleasing arias in classical opera, "Perché non c'è cibo nella mia ciotola, donna?" tells an emotional tale of a desperately malnourished waif and translates into English as "Why Is There No Food In My Bowl, Woman?"

Currently listening to www.mixcloud.com/DKFM_Shoegaz... @dkfm.bsky.social

We don’t want Greenland. We want healthcare.

I find Gmail’s new “write this for me” feature deeply sinister. They’re trying to convince you that you are dumb and helpless. Don’t let them steal your ability to formulate thoughts and communicate. You were capable of writing an email in 2022 and you’re capable now.

1/ I recently wrote about Frances Perkins—FDR’s Labor Secretary and first woman cabinet member. She is best known as the architect of the New Deal but she had a lesser-known achievement: She dismantled her era’s version of ICE.🧵

A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter. I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.

Fans are cancelling tickets. FIFA has called an emergency meeting over the World Cup backlash. Boycott the Olympics too. Trump's Gestapo will round up and shoot anyone. No one is safe in America.

A career federal agent says that in 25 years, a fleeing vehicle has never justified killing its occupant, and officers should never stand in front of a running car. CBS reportedly pulled the interview, but it posted on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

PBS News notes this Sunday will be “PBS News Weekend’s” last due to federal budget cuts

TONIGHT, and all weekend, we're spinning up Callière, Whitelands, Waving Blue, ghost girl in my bed, Sleep Keeper, Scorche, Daniel Land, Winter Sun, mariin k., Crux of Faith, Glister and more! 🥂

He’s not wrong

Excellent, clarifying piece on the (real) legal pathway that Minnesota has to prosecute the ICE agent who shot and killed a woman today. No, federal agents do not have absolute immunity from start charges, no matter what the Trump administration claims.

When will it end?

An historic moment: Merz says Germany will accept responsibility for security on the European continent. As Russia increases threats and hybrid warfare against Europe at the same time that US support is weakening, this is an important promise at a critical point in time.

January 6, 2021 Never forget

US oil companies say Trump did NOT inform them of his intention to take over Venezuela. They say extracting oil there would be too costly & take years to build the infrastructure - in a place too chaotic & dangerous for their workers Trump is impulsively doing things with no viable end vision.

Los Angeles-based artist Nelson Bragg (NB), former member of The Brian Wilson Band, creates immaculate indie pop with classic strains of British Invasion influence. Thank you to Nelson and Big Stir Records for setting up this interview with @eklisiewicz.bsky.social!

Donald Trump is clear: he launched this war to remove a foreign leader and now he claims the U.S. will “run the country.” In other words, Donald Trump wants the U.S. to be an occupying power and control the oil.

My @bigtakeover.com interview with Nelson Bragg @bigstirrecords.bsky.social is now live: bigtakeover.com/interviews/i...

Tonight, the President of the United States has launched an unconstitutional war of aggression, dooming another generation to spill their blood for oil, and lay waste to a sovereign nation. I demand that Congress exercise its power, halt this conflict, and impeach this war criminal president.

Bottom Of The Hill is closing for good. 😭 The owners are retiring after 35 years. A favourite when I lived in SF in the 90s. I attended the famous Oasis gig (played pool with Pulp!) as featured in Dig! 🙏https://www.coyotemedia.org/san-francisco-club-bottom-of-the-hill-to-close-at-the-end-of-2026/

Btw, the big story overhanging all of this is that US government is deadly serious in its stated plans to dominate and control the western hemisphere. Take the threats against Greenland very seriously indeed.

This is an incredibly weak response from the EU, and a dangerous position to take. Maduro's legitimacy is not the issue at hand. The US is acting as a rogue state, and will embolden other states to use unchecked military power for their own ends. We need international law, not gangsterism.

This is just such a damned disgrace. A crime against knowledge and humanity itself.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but opposing GenAI is not about opposing technology, it's about opposing capitalists. GenAI is not a technology: it's a massive automation of theft, masquerading as an industry, run by grifters. Don't hate computers, hate the capitalists behind the curtain.

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No surprise here.