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On the 30th anniversary of "Endtroducing....", @agspinelli.bsky.social spoke w/ DJ Shadow about creating his instrumental hip-hop masterpiece, forming the SoleSides crew, sample clearance, the influence of DJ Premier & Prince Paul, David Axelrod, Twin Peaks & more. www.powmag.net/p/dj-shadow-...

i am inviting anyone from a legacy media organization to explain to me why the house judiciary dems report on trump’s epstein’s ties and multiple allegations of rape isn’t worthy of extensively reporting on. i’m serious. i want to understand.

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

We won not only against Bolsonaro, but against the full force of the USian's Big Techs, Meta, CIA, Trump, the Brazilian right-wing elites, the billionaires' press and more.

Congrats to Lula on overcoming Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump to defeat Hospital Pervert Jr., even as his opposition literally blocked off roads and turned off bus service during election day. Fascists are scary but they are always, 100% of the time, ultimately gigantic fucking losers.

Brazil’s results tonight are a big endorsement for the idea that every country should have a second “are you you sure about that” election a couple weeks after the first one for the important stuff

Like many others I assumed this was funny hyperbole -- "call in the national guard!" type of thing -- but no it's a description of events.

The way pundits talk about "most Americans" is how an average Joe talks about zoo animals, extremely patronizing and also almost entirely wrong

the idea of generations is mostly nonsense. it’s a concept invented by a lexicographer and co-opted by marketers. a generation should be personal. anyone up to 5 years older than you and down to 5 years younger than you, that’s your generation. basically, if you were in elementary school with them

all of this has always been about getting back at the uppity women who wouldn’t fuck them

There are so many words together that shouldn’t be together

With Tom Skerritt's passing, the cast of Alien have so far died in the same order as the director's cut (where they find Dallas still alive waiting to become a cocoon): 1) John Hurt 2) Harry Dean Stanton 3) Ian Holm 4) Yaphet Kotto 5) Tom Skerritt It's macabre, sure, but it's also fascinating.

The Russians hacked Jared's phone. Then Dutch cyberspies then reverse-engineered that hack, giving them unprecedented access to his world. Bananas story in @vanityfair.com

Super-stoked to announce our show Very Special Episodes just won two Signal Awards; one for Best Commute Podcast (Gold) and one for Best Roadtrip Podcast (Silver) basically, if you’re on the move, we’ve got you covered with smart, fun, compelling stories

“I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I’ve come close to defining it: a lack of empathy.... Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.” — Dr. Gustave Gilbert, U.S. Military Chief Psychologist in the Nuremberg Trials, Nuremberg Diary

need to stop using the terms tech lords/tech bros. instead refer to them as what they are: anti-humanists. especially them AI folks since they plot to replace humanity with tech. these anti-humanists are overseers for the extractive dictates of capitalism, which prizes profits over people/community

went to a rodeo recently at the Cow Palace and saw a man who had what 8-year old me would’ve considered an ideal job: he vaults over a charging bull didn’t even know that was an option, if I did, I woulda definitely told ppl that’s what I want to do for a living: leap over livestock, professionally

We are sensing a pattern

The Mississippi AG says police are justified for killing a baby because someone thought his mother shoplifted diapers that she paid for. The police have refused to release body cam footage. Fuck everything about this story.

a state like New Jersey should put it out they plan to change their name from New Jersey to the State of Trump, or like Trumpland, and then wait for him to say that would be a great honor; and then Jersey should flip it and say “No, we were kidding. You absolute clown. How desperate is your vanity?”

Donald Trump calls every Black woman who ever utters his name "low IQ" and elite media is like:

In the late 1800s, "Scorchers" were the fast #bicycle riders - "hot-rodders" of their day - which also included females. Outfitted in bloomers and ready to ride, women took wicked pleasure in a new-found freedom offered by a changing society in which they no longer had to rely on men to get around.

Cyclists were often called “scorchers.” In the 1890's, “A new menace appeared in the streets: the ‘scorcher’ or bicycle speed fiend, ‘that idiot with head sunk between bent handle bars,’ body thrown forward and pedaling at top speed,” wrote Peter Salwen, author of (New York's) Upper West Side Story.

Part of the answer to "how did we get here?" is that many major journalists—since 1998, Crawford has covered SCOTUS for PBS, ABC, and CBS—are lying bigots. Here Crawford is praising a guy who asked a dumb racist question, glitched out when asked why, then admitted he wanted a Christian theocracy.

Happy Birthday to the late, great Huell Howser, born 81 years ago today youtu.be/SRXcHH0umkQ?...

Apparently at around 1:30 PM ET, the main accounts for the No Kings coalition on Instagram were frozen and pulled down. Admins have lost access to the account and are unable to log in. This happened at the peak of the organization's national day of action. Instagram, of course, is owned by Meta.

I swear to god the administration is going down the list of reasons pundits said it wasn’t fascism and doing them all one by one

this headline should be: Tik Tok “Permanently Suspends” the ‘Musk’ Film Account, CONFIRMING Suppression Fears …because we’re way past “raising,” the fears hath risen!

"Democracy dies unless Maggie Haberman has access to senior Trump aides and McConnell/Romney Republicans respect us" is essentially the argument Times editors have been making since 2018. I can't tell if they actually believe that or it's a pretext for their decision not to change their approach.

When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.

JD Vance’s not so subtle point is that the United States belongs to white Christian men, and the rest of us who don’t meet all three qualifications only belong here insofar as our betters choose to tolerate us.

this sounds like an intelligent three-year old who clearly needs a nap but instead wants to cry-argue that their imaginary friend feels disrespected by the child’s parents:

My heart breaks for mathematicians whose lives and careers are being destroyed by AI — and especially this PhD student, who doesn’t even know he is a poet

This bill would abolish ICE, DHS, and CBP, transferring legitimate customs duties to other departments. It would sunset Section 219 of the INA close the Guantánamo Bay detention facility and shutter all immigration detention centers. You have my sword, milady.

The religious nutjobs want to bring on Armageddon and are obsessed with the Antichrist while the atheist nutjobs think they are inventing a god because it can write code 🙄

Also love this clip of indigenous women veterans dancing on Custer’s flag

To "revel in the death... is normal, good, and aligned with our natural and national order” That’s it, that’s their whole deal, best expressed by this greedy anti-human man-boy We cannot let these people dictate the direction of our past, present, or future. They love nothing, they value nothing

How to defeat tech billionaire power? Look at Solano County. When billionaires invaded their community with plans to build a "tech utopia," Democrats AND Republicans banded together to fight back. In a triumph of local democracy, they stopped the project...for now. 🎁 www.wsj.com/us-news/sili...

Democrats love to “raise serious questions” about unmistakable fascism while hoping no one notices their serious questions are all they got. it’s like if you went to a vet because you think your dog is rabid, the vet says “this raises serious questions” but then does nothing and asks you for money

I think that one of the most important messages that candidates like Ossoff communicate when they openly condemn neo-Nazis and white supremacists is “I’m confident that I can win without the support of people who think I’m out of line here.”