Out of 250 million eligible Americans, only 77 million voted for Trump, ~30%.
NOT A MANDATE
Trump's Razor: The stupidest explanation is the correct explanation.
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This session with @sjdemas.bsky.social and @atrupar.com was simply phenomenal. Independent media is the future and they dug into the root causes and how 10+ years of Trump have brought us here. publicnotice.co has ~300K subscribers. That's AMAZING. This is a real community. I hope you subscribe!
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Erik Schmitt creates mesmerizing videos where he cleverly uses perspective and editing to give the illusion of moving cars with just a swipe of his hand. [📹 erik__schmitt]
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Released 49 years ago today
L.A.M.F.,the only studio album by the American band The Heartbreakers, featuring the outstanding track Born to Lose
#punkrockhistory
About 30 states have adopted programs that allow families to spend public money on private school tuition. But our investigation found that many states have little interest in overseeing private schools.
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Released 49 years ago today
No More Heroes, the second studio album by The Stranglers, featuring the title track
No More Heroes - The Stranglers - Top of the Pops 1977
Rip Jet Black 🖤
Rip Dave Greenfield 🖤
#punkrockhistory
NEWS: An Iowa judge has dismissed Trump’s lawsuit against pollster Ann Selzer and The Des Moines Register over the 2024 poll that showed Harris ahead in Iowa. The case was dismissed with prejudice.
"Trump's first term has been memory-holed. His dirty deeds are treated as discrete acts instead of a continuum of crime with recurring players. His prior decades of illicit activity have vanished from the public domain: because there is no public domain."
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/gutting-th...
Trump: "If we lose $50 billion a year with a country, and we say 'we're not going to trade with you anymore,' we don't lose $50 billion a year. It's very simple. Right?"
Here’s one for you from a Texas attendee of the midterm GOP convention: “It was like an extended pep rally for a Texas High School football game with fewer people and less energy.”
Talked to @wired.com about a bunch of things, including: r/bald, Bluesky, Elon ruining twitter, why I live the inbox zero life, LLMs, and more.
Here it is:
www.wired.com/story/user-b...
Apparently people are sharing this far and wide on social media, which I think is horrible. This could cripple ICE operations. PLEASE do not share this.
Movie palaces promised escape from everyday life.
But in Hopper’s New York Movie (1939), the real drama isn’t on the screen—it’s inside the usherette’s thoughts.
She stands apart from the crowd, lost in a private story that takes center stage.
The Red Studio (1911) dissolves walls, floor, and furniture into a single field of Venetian red. Only Matisse's own artworks keep their color, floating like windows in the monochrome. Decades later, Rothko called it a revelation: color as environment.
Here are some of the songs I've been listening to this summer. It starts with a song Michelle and I love by Glen Hansard, a great musician who passed tragically this week. Our hearts go out to his family.
Spider-Man punched White Supremacist Nazi Jake Lang yesterday in Minneapolis. Of course the cops arrested Spider-Man. Jake Lang is an agitator that shows up at protests to start crap with people.
Brendan Carr has said that he won't talk about his discussions with the White House...
But, I was able to review thousands of pages of internal FCC emails and calendar logs that show regular meetings and conversations with admin officials, including Susie Wiles.
www.theguardian.com/media/ng-int...
This is the most Republican story you will read all day. A Republican who represents Trump’s home district was arrested for molesting his OWN GRANDSON and could face the death penalty under a state law he sponsored. There has to be a German word for this.
Trump is obsessed with the booze boycott because he enraged by the defiance of the Canadian people. This is not a trade dispute. It is an attempt to break our will.
Hold the line. There are no deals that can be made with predators.
charlieangus.substack.com/p/there-is-n...
41 years ago
Talking Heads’ bassist, Tina Weymouth, from the August 1985 issue of Vogue.
Photo by Oliverio Toscani
#punkrock#newwave#postpunk#basswoman#tinaweymouth#talkingheads#history#punkrockhistory
Bluesky is a "liberal bubble" because fascist chuds can't get traction without algorithmic assistance and because people here trained themselves to block "debate me" trybois the instant they roll up
Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company is suing Minnesota over a first-in-the-nation law banning technology that allows users to create and post deepfake videos or images of people naked without their consent.
Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
This "tweet" from a year ago has been deleted by its author. I'm posting here now on BlueSky as a reminder and as a public service, for anyone, should they ever need it.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.