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2024 Puerto Rican status referendum - Wikipedia

In the past, I’ve seen support for the three options (statehood, free association or independence) split, but in the most recent non-binding vote, statehood had a clear advantage, although 18% left it blank.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Pu...

Such a unique voice.

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day 8

Glass & Patron
– FKA Twigs
📍Cheltenham 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧
2015

A favorite track from her unique and inventive M3LL155X EP.

youtu.be/cNbFc-fa-ww

Who are your top 10 all time favourite vocalists? Real quick off the top of my head…

Ua
Sade
Martina Topley-Bird
Sarah Vaughan
Jeff Buckley
Alison Moyet
FKA Twigs
Kazu Makino
Marvin Gaye
Lisa Fischer

The Massholes will have to be favorites. Good news for public transit in Massachusetts.

Nice. I saw them a couple of times. They’re great live.

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Marked For Death
– Emma Ruth Rundle
📍Santa Monica, CA 🇺🇸
2016

Dark, heavy folk for a moody late night.

youtu.be/lz90JZuOckM

Jobs didn’t predict anything, he just bought it.

Fred Smith, Bassist for Television, Dies at 77 Fred Smith, bass player for the influential proto-punk band Television, died Thursday. He was 77. The band confirmed his death on Instagram.

RIP Fred Smith variety.com/2026/music/n...

Indeed. They don’t even need to switch parties. They could become independent and caucus with Dems, like Sanders or King in the senate.

They could even say “we want to support democracy and we will return to a conservative party later”

Every word of this.

Why would Trump worry about the elections if America was doing as great as he said it was? 🤔

Does the staffer’s last name begin with T, by any chance?

Crazy how fast "Waymo uses remote workers in the Philippines to tell the cars what to do if they get stuck" becomes "Waymo autonomous driving is entirely fake and it's just random Filipinos driving the cars remotely" on here

Following the through-line from Trump’s early-2010s birtherism to current racist videos:

Prior to 2008, comedians joked with dark humor about how the first black president would be assassinated. Instead, electing the first black president would mean the entire democracy would be assassinated.

Two skaters with one having been spun up in the air 11ft 3in with an arrow next to her head, there is another arrow next to them showing 10 feet with a basketball hoop

Ok now I want them to work dunks into the skating programs

YouTube video by KEXP Warpaint - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

Yeah, I love it. There’s an intricacy to their stuff that took a while to appreciate.

The full KEXP performance of the link I posted might be worth a view/listen sometime.

youtu.be/z0JqmAbe0jw

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No Way Out
– Warpaint
📍Los Angeles, CA 🇺🇸
2015

I enjoy how this one cycles through expansion and contraction.

youtu.be/9391iIlcYKs

You’ll start to be more free from it when the Millenials are at the prime consumer age.

democracy dies when you are actively trying to kill it!!

The word doing the work in that sentence is “potentially”.

Indeed. Having a degree means that at a particular moment in time, you satisfied the basic requirements which demonstrate competence with a set of subjects.

It doesn’t mean you retained any of it, or that you care about it, or that you can think critically about it.

Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries know there’s a comfortable role for “opposition” in an autocratic regime.

As long as they’re never too persuasive, they can put up tepid opposition to give the impression of choice.

They continue to profit from their positions, and can avoid the hard stuff.

This is a commission I did. He asked me to create a cartoon for his wife who was deconstructing from religion and finding her own freedom. They love it.

By the way, I've written tons on this urgent topic. Comment with "STAGES" and I'll send you a free PDF on the stages of deconstruction.

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I Am Here
– Savages
📍London 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧
2013

It’s all about how they ratchet up the intensity.

youtu.be/95MEmuHJfW0

a screen shot from Civilization VI, where I created a religion called “Slack”. It reads, “Slack is the true path of salvation! Please ignore all those other ones!"

This is the way.

#subgenius #slack #civilization

It's kind of wild that the French foreign ministry has an official shitposting account.

Letter from Senator Ron Wyden: Dear CIA Director Ratcliffe, I write to alert you to a classified letter I sent you earlier today in which I express deep concerns about CIA activities. Thank you for your attention to this important matter. Sincerely, Ron Wyden U.S. Senator

I don’t like this

Y’all didn’t realize they were using “Democracy dies in darkness” as a mission statement, not a salutary motto

Pinned lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Aug 19, 2021 Almost three years ago, my editor called me early one November morning. A wildfire had sparked near a town called Paradise, he said. Could I go? (1/13) 0:02 / 0:10 lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · 47m I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated. Quote lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Jan 25 Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world