Farewell to the great Bob Weir, a founding member of the Grateful Dead who kept the long, strange trip rolling long after the death of Jerry Garcia. variety.com/2026/music/n...

Vance is the embodiment of the cowardice and complicity in the GOP. In a blink of an eye, Vance went from decrying Trump as a dangerous nut who would be "America's Hitler" to happily serving as his loyal little lickspittle. He can't be shamed, but he should still be insulted as often as possible.

The stupid is strong in this one.

Trump's Truth Social post about elections was almost certainly a Miller special. If he didn't write it he was standing over Trump as he did. He is the real president.

The complete lack of basic professionalism among ICE officers shouldn’t cease to shock us. These are people who would be fired from any other job if they acted this unhinged.

The news is all terrible. If you want a break, here's a good overview on Olivia Rodrigo's early career and first big hit "Driver's License"

“'The guy, I’m telling him like, "Please step off the school grounds," and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he knocked me down,' an official at Roosevelt High School said. 'They don’t care. They’re just animals. I’ve never seen people behave like this.'"

Yes, it's a doggie dog world.

You're not living in an authoritarian country. Except for the part where the president seizes unprecedented powers. And the part where he orders sham prosecutions. And the part where he invades countries to take their oil. And the part where his White House rewrites the history of his coup attempt.

“There is a marriage “crisis,” a loneliness “epidemic,” a demographic “collapse.” People are flirting with A.I. boyfriends and virtually undressing strangers on X. Could more technology help?” 😱😱😱 srsly this whole article is a hallucinatory nightmare

I read Jon King's memoir 'To Hell With Poverty' - despite Go4 making the best post-punk record with 'Entertainment!' I feel like he (who wrote the lyrics and sang) might have fit in better with the Mekons ethos (they were mates in Leeds). It's not made by great men.

America First = projecting U.S. dominance across Western Hemisphere. Does not mean doing anything for U.S. population. Mostly a project to get DJT on Mt. Rushmore, I think.

Worst timeline. "reportedly announcing that the proceeds of the sale would go to the sheriff’s department and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital"

JM:"I’ll note that to the extant we accept the premise that Nicolas Maduro committed crimes under U.S. law, capturing him in a quasi-law enforcement operation does not ... create a rationale let alone the legal warrant for occupying the country, running its government or retooling its oil industry."

I find this TechCrunch claim pretty hard to believe: "Smart speakers have already made voice assistants a fixture in more than a third of U.S. homes." While I appreciate google maps telling me directions, for the most part I don't want to talk to the machines.

Nothing in the United States is so broken that it requires authoritarianism to fix; Republicans are deliberately trying to break it so it looks that way.

Would prefer not to see the phrase "at the height of his/her powers" anymore. It's done.

Lockjaw on the prowl.

Can someone please respond to Stephen Miller with this message from Frank Sinatra?

Lockjaw is camera-shy!

"we're trying to shut down science that produces results we don't like, it's a very worrisome trend. And we have seen this other times in history, and it never really ended well."

Clearly the root of all the problems!

Many of these are all about making use of the local amenities and various transport options, to gain a better understanding of what's available and how it works (or doesn't).

We had been starting to make progress on the government’s often ruinous dependency on software contractors and expensive vendors, but DOGE came in to put an end to that and destroy technical capabilities inside of govt. But, the “Tech Force!” That’s like if Peace Corps staffed by oil companies

Vought Ought Not!

this is how you know bari is incapable of operating at this level. pulling rank on some desperate lackey at the free press does not equip one with the requisite skills to try and fuck over a veteran correspondent who’s been on her network’s flagship program for more than a decade.

Oregon needs transportation funding.

World turning into mush.

This 👇

Reading 'Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind' by Annalee Newitz - reminded me of a snapshot I took around 1989 in the Presidio.

The ACA isn't just "health care for people who don't have a conventional employer." It also disallows something that was incredibly common 20 years ago, which I fear is getting lost to generational memory: insurance companies could deny you health care for essentially any previous health problem.

This too is maybe kinda sad. Not to say that all books are worth reading to the end! If it doesn't grab you, move on.

Important things to know about LLMs, via Gary Marcus: "LLMs learn weird nth order correlations between words (rather than concepts)" These things have statistics about language patterns, and Owain Evans is showing more ways they can get twisted. Worth a read.

This is just sad. Would the number be worse in the U.S.?

OR - If you don't bother to subscribe, then you likely won't feel that you're missing anything!

This release was a surprise to me when I saw it in the store last week. Wondered where/when the recordings were from - sounds like it is a mix of shows.

Nice state you have there...

Let's just say they're in a precarious position.

Cause they don't want women to be allowed to vote. Also - talk about devaluing the dollar!

More 'bad words' have been identified by DJT hacks, apparently including words for half the human race. So pathetic.

Turnstile - their show at Edgefield in Portland was a lot of fun!

This iconic Fabian Todorovic cartoon is still one of the best I’ve seen at illustrating the remarkable amount of space we surrender to cars, leaving little space left for everyone and everything else. The text added later makes the bonus point that many drivers still manage to complain about it.

Powerful depiction of the countries that fossil-brained folks would like to control.

things have become so dire at odot re: funding that we now legit have a shot at defunding this terrible stupid freeway expansion we've been fighting for over eight years. now's your chance - send an email to the oregon transportation commission. No More Freeways made it easy - deadline is tuesday

This ranking of the 1975 #1 hits makes me remember why punk was so necessary. (a few good ones and a lot of syrupy slop).

If you've ever been to a naturalization ceremony, you know they're filled with people whose palpable love of this country is twenty times stronger than the pinched "patriotism" of any native-born MAGA chud. Just unspeakable assholery.

As if Leon cares about governments representing their people! Also reminder that big corporations never want to be broken up, but they'd rather deal with smaller, less powerful, less aligned government powers.

Lots of 'Best of 2025' lists now coming out. Best list of 'Best of 2025 lists' is here:

Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.