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current listening thread: forget i can just make a post and reply lol. just snapshots of new (to me) tunes i'm digging. reposting "Chat Pile - Why?" from couple months ago - www.youtube.com/watch?v=sER0...

people don't want to hear it, but schumer's refusal to defend ilhan omar helps enable the open bigotry we are hearing from rfk jr

Thursday is a paid holiday. Because Flavor Flav said so.

CNN Brasil reports that Flávio Bolsonaro’s whereabouts are unknown after he failed to surrender his passports to police A source close to Bolsonaro says the senator is currently flying to the United States

Lucy

In case anyone thought Israel's preference for far-right authoritarian leaders like Orban, Bolsonaro, Modi and Milei would end if Netanyahu gets voted out, think again. It's baked in now for a variety of reasons. The only illiberal authoritarian they don't like is Erdogan.

i wonder what percentage of the electorate now understands that this man and maybe 75 other people like him are actively trying to destroy our lives. that he is the biggest national security threat we have faced, even moreso than bin laden or whoever. its got to be dawning on more and more people

🌞 Howl’s Moving Castle 🌙

For the first time in years I've felt sympathetic to Geoff Keighley, because when haven't we all crashed out so hard we just start posting pictures of Liara T'Soni

バルフレア／フラン

Centrism isn't change -- not even incremental change. It is *control*. Over yourself and the world. Exercise it.

We found that as of right now 73% of your campaign donation goes back to the consultants and vendors (!!!), four times more than just 20 years ago. Only 13% to ads. Even I was shocked.

The racism that Abdul El-Sayed is facing from Republicans, the press, and even some Democrats is so disgusting.

NEW: A high-ranking Republican tried to curb the unchecked growth of West Virginia’s school voucher program. Then three PACs — bankrolled by pro-school choice billionaires like the Koch family and Jeffrey Yass — worked to take him down. with @mtnstspotlight.bsky.social

PAYPHONE - Then the ocean breaks. Out of the depths, a woman's voice emerges. Small. The dearest thing you've ever heard.

This is just beautiful to see

If you would try to win by abandoning trans people (or any targeted group) you can save this “we need to win” talk; there is no “we.” I am about solidarity, and you have chosen anti-solidarity. You are not any “we” I recognize. You are the enemy I’m trying to defeat. Beating you is how my “we” wins.

Kotaro Uchikoshi next game got cancelled. crashkeys.com

You shiver, and the city shivers with you.

SHIVERS - There should be something here -- a memory, a feeling, even if it's just a glimpse -- but the depths of your psyche remain silent. You don't have a single memory of your mother.

In this exclusive interview, filmed backstage at the “once in forever” Power to the People Festival on Oct. 3, legendary musician and activist @tommorelloofficial.bsky.social speaks with @kimkelly.bsky.social about rocking out and fighting fascism.

A beautiful body of work that challenges us to consider not just what is lost but what remains: 50 years ago, photographer Dee Azadian and hundreds of researchers spent months interviewing and recording the senior residents of Caldwell County.

Harris County TX. He's hospitalized: "ICE claimed the man ran in front of the agents' vehicle and was struck. However, the surveillance video appears to show the SUV veering left through empty parking spaces before running the man over..." abc7.com/story/ice-ru...

El-Sayed’s response to Kennedy:

VOLITION - You should build Communism -- precisely *because* it's impossible.

this isn't who we used to pretend to be

Most people in the USA have been very willing to allow a great deal of state violence so long as they do not need to witness or experience it regularly. MAGA has used this to push the limit of how much violence the USA will tolerate. There is no reason to think the escalation will stop.

I reanalyzed the CDC data behind the LGB “free fall” headline. It rests on a change in bisexual identification among one grade, in one wave, of one survey. Gay or lesbian identification did not change significantly. Calling it a "free fall" is sensational and just gives bad actors talking points.

We absolutely should be horrified by reports of planned public executions and see them as an overt re-embrace of spectacle lynchings--while also understanding that the story of the "modern" death penalty in this country is inextricable from that history, rooted in racial violence & white supremacy.

fuck these guys. put them all in prison.

The New KKK member who shot a man in the Bronx has allegedly been identified as Brendan Cuni

Bassam Tariq's 'Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother' captures a side of the city we rarely see. It helps that he was raised there. https://www.texasmonthly.com/culture/your-mother-bassam-tariq-film/

there is no place for anybody who works in and around ICE in civil society, including office clerks of any kind. they must all be punished severely and everything they love ripped from them. no quarter for any of them

4/ Fernando Vasquez, an 18-year-old citizen, was on break from work when agents chased and handcuffed him, then put him in their truck. After realizing their mistake, the agents left the teen alone in the woods, with no way to get home. Then they threw his ID out of the truck.

2/ Federal agents have detained at least 70 children and teens who are American citizens. Some were handcuffed or zip-tied. In one instance, a 15-year-old with disabilities was handcuffed outside a school in Los Angeles when agents mistook him for an alleged gang member.

The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️

fucking the pumpkin and then entering an emotionally complicated situationship space with it

Wrote about this yesterday - by a quirk of how expensive campaigning in Texas is, Ken Paxton and his soon-to-be-ex-wife were all your TV no matter what part of the country you live in lol www.chron.com/culture/arti...

The federal government is lying to you. And we have the receipts. projects.propublica.org/american-cit...

More than 100,000 people poured into the streets of Barcelona last night in support of the housing movement and its encampment in Plaça Catalunya. After police blocked the march near the end of its route, a prolonged battle took place in the city center.

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