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Richard Seymour@leninology.bsky.social

Latest from Salvage #16 is my essay, 'How Life Doesn't Work': on the needful freedom and history-making power of the organism and the limits of materialism. Marxism needs something like this foundation for its emancipatory claims. salvage.zone/how-life-doe...

salvage.zoneHow Life Doesn't Work - SalvageIt is quite certain that in terms of merely mechanical principles of nature we cannot even adequately become familiar with, much less explain, organised beings and how they are internally possible. – ...

The New Republic@newrepublic.com

A 45-year-old Republican candidate in Iowa is being sued by his parents for $275,000 in unpaid rent. trib.al/ihJjZc5

trib.al45-Year-Old Republican Candidate Sued by His Own ParentsDerek Wulf, a 45-year-old man with a wife and two children, owes his parents rent.

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social

Van Hollen: The corporate media is essentially doing the bidding of the billionaire class. The exchanges they’ve had with Abdul El-Sayed are a perfect case of that. Because his campaign is built on 3 things… You would never know that, right, from his interviews with folks in the corporate media.

New town every hour@townsusa.bsky.social

Webster, Pennsylvania Pop: 152 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webster,_Pennsylvania Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=40206122 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=99523143 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=99523125

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Why do we always have to take people from shit house countries? We can't we take people from Norway and Sweden and Denmark? By the way, Denmark gave us Greenland ... what do you take, Venezuela or Greenland? We got them both!"

François Salvador ⚫️🔴@indieordie.bsky.social

Guided By Voices mentioned #leftofthedial #rotterdam

CNN@cnn.com

President Donald Trump on Thursday encouraged Republican Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy to keep running a controversial ad featuring his opponent Amy Acton's estranged mother. CNN's Kaitlan Collins reports. Read more: https://cnn.it/3UH9xBq

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

Peter Thiel has — privately, not publicly — broken with Trump on the Iran war. "I think we should not have done it." "There were a lot of mistakes that were made."

politico.comPeter Thiel breaks with Trump over Iran war: ‘We should not have done it’The remarks from an early tech-world supporter of the president are his most explicit on the war dividing Republicans.

New town every hour@townsusa.bsky.social

Glen Echo, Maryland Pop: 270 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Echo,_Maryland Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3169771 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=58176145 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=169380123

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

JD Vance smears Amy Acton: "I happen to think that the people of Ohio see through that fraudulent activity for exactly what it is. Somebody said alcohol. You can say it. I can't."

WFMU@wfmu.bsky.social

Today on WFMU: On The Frow Show with Jesse Jarnow, Boot Happening 2026, part 1. The Frow Show once again makes its annual pilgrimage into the luscious gray, presenting live recordings, outtakes, radio sessions, and otherwise rare jams (9 p.m. ET). www.wfmu.org/upcoming

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "The absolute mutilization of your children, where your son Timmy comes up five days later as Sarah, and you don't even know about it. Nobody can believe that's this country."

Ian Rapoport@rapsheet.bsky.social

Eagles QB Jalen Hurts, who is out for the season after several blood clots were revealed in his lungs. Before the London game, Hurts was in the hospital until 4 am and did not sleep because sleep was a risk. He played the game without having slept. Crazy.

News to Remember@moments2remember.link

Leaked audio of Mike Rogers calling on Republicans to use off-duty police officers to intimidate voters in Detroit in an attempt to manipulate the Michigan Senate race:

Cristian Farias@cristianfarias.com

The only thing I’ll add to this fine statement is that vindictive prosecutions are now a feature, not a bug, of our constitutional system, thanks to Trump v. United States. Unless and until Congress adopts deep, structural measures, presidential harassment through the criminal system won’t go away.