Dave Ruder

you can't spell recrudescence without crud

Bolsonaro, Vucic and Orban out, Flamingo and Cockroach Revolutions, French uprising and Iberian housing movements, Nepal and Bangladesh popular insurrection, Iranian and Serbian movements, these too are heralds of the current moment. We are once again in a time of movement and revolution

If we continue to put our faith in science, we may soon be able to produce both grapes that make wine that tastes like brownies AND blondies. Wow.

this Friday on Gold Bolus you can find Marina Kifferstein's new album Strand Line, and ICIYL wrote about it in advance: icareifyoulisten.com/2026/10/revi... also you can find Marina talking w Dave Lake on WRUU this evening: www.wruu.org/oct-21-at-8-...

french protests make very clear how much u.s. protests self-restrain and how bizarrely obsessed we are with the fear of being demonized by entities that are demonizing us anyway

Even if you think that Israel's destruction of Gaza has not yet met the legal threshold of genocide you should recognise that Israel's government and a large share of the electorate are set on the physical destruction and removal of Palestinian people between the River and the Sea.

Im sure it is very easy to, it any given time, to argue that it is the wrong time to cut off israel. Im sure you can keep making that argument week after week, month after month, but then you rub your eyes and its been three years and gaza and southern Lebanon look like this. Was it the lesser evil?

in the house of stone AND light??? in THIS economy??????

BASEBALL YURI (1/5)

If food was sentient and you picked up hitch hikers, which foods would you be most excited to give a lift to (note: it’s bad etiquette to eat your passenger)?

"Now that it’s time to pay the piper, the state and its media allies are working desperately to sever the connection between COVID-19 and its consequences." Julia Doubleday takes down an ableist Telegraph column that denies the reality of Long COVID. thesicktimes.org/2026/09/21/c...

Is it better to sing "Jump" over the backing track of "The Touch", or to sing "The Touch" over the backing track of "Jump"?

In honor of Lorem's 30th birthday, and with the blessing of his loved ones, I'm sharing this piece that I wrote, somewhat by accident. It's about Lorem, but also about turning disabled grief into action. Please take the trigger warnings (at the top) seriously, but I hope you will read if you can.

tfw you see a poem that’s as lovely as a tree

"The entire structure of the War on Terror could not have been a more decisive failure," @attackerman.bsky.social tells @joshnathankazis.bsky.social. Read the Q&A on our site: jewishcurrents.org/no-bigger-fa...

Does having "Rold Gold" as a brand name imply that the pretzels are full of/made out of cocaine?

Before I fell asleep last night, I was bedeviled by not being able to remember whether or not Russell Crowe is Australian

Captain Planet He’s a weasel Got a portrait of him On my easel

I like the idea that someone could be a “night member” of an org but I don’t know what it means

aaaaand in pre-order today is Strand Line, a solo violin album from Marina Kifferstein of TAK and the Rhythm Method, featuring Berio, Liza Lam, Ashkon Behzadi pieces and improvisations too marinakifferstein.bandcamp.com/album/strand...

damn Cassandra Wilson rules, RIP to a great one www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7yu...

hey hey we're the parties and people say we party around

I think that if Sloppy Joe could be said to have a last name that that last name would be Beef

I feel like “Goose Island” is one of the better things you can name an island

If I were going to go back to school, it would be for either perfecting my duck face, or for learning to look like a little curly teddy bear style doggo

And there are people who might say, “looks like it’s Goonsday again”

Every time a right winger points and laughs at a socialist who was born rich, it should be understood as a desperate attempt to justify their own moral failure to themselves. If you grew up rich and are now a leftist and someone points that out, the proper response is: “Yes I am. Why aren’t you?”

one of the clearest ways I can try to demonstrate to you that Covid is still a big problem and killing/disabling more people all the time (more words and charts in the piece) www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Dogs that go “woof” or “ruff” are nice, but to me, the finest dogs are the ones that go “boof”

some days are like this www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE4X...

Sometimes it's August and you think about October. You realize that that's in two months, and that doesn't seem possible, but it will happen nonetheless.

It is my belief that if he were around today, he would style his name as dwight DAVID eisenhower

Dangerously close to “Hear the Hair” if you ask me

The coolest innovation about the Beethoven movies is that if you say the name of the big drooly dog three times, he will appear before you

"My cancer experience wasn’t without setbacks or issues — but there was no unknown, and no one questioned its legitimacy. No doctor suggested the cancer was “in my head.”" thesicktimes.org/2026/08/14/b...