Nate DiMeo

Favorite thing about the parade is how the singers use backing tracks that include crowd noise so the impression is that tens of thousands of people are roaring when the chorus comes in a Ciara song she’s debuting that day like it’s Champaign Supernova at an Oasis reunion.

Caring about and remembering other human beings is just too woke for the GOP, which, not coincidentally, did its very best to usher them into the grave.

Oh cool. There was far too much community and human connection in the holiday season.

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#FreeLA

but you must try/try and try/try and try

The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal Exclusive: Agency accessed private conversations of New York ‘courtwatch’ group that was observing public hearings

BIG: FBI spied on Signal group chat of immigration activists CourtWatch, classifying them as violent terrorist extremists for quietly sitting in on court cases, as revealed in intel bulletin we obtained & shared w/ @samtlevin.bsky.social @us.theguardian.com. #FOIA www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Public announcement: I will buy any Golden Globes voter one (1) lavender shortbread cookie at Trails Cafe and use the phrase “Hey! You look great! No, seriously, you look terrific. It’s so nice to see you,” in exchange for their vote for The Memory Palace as Best Podcast.

Telos less

Listen, you, regular person, likely can’t, say, stop your government from murdering fishermen. You can’t re-imprison a pardoned crook. You can’t stop drilling in whichever formerly protected forest. But you can, right now, find ways to protect your neighbors. There are people doing it. Join them.

Oreoboros

“Amo letttboxd! Hodie diu exspectavi. Sine me telephonum meum capere. Primo, voluptas culpabilis, Con Air eligo. Cage summi ordinis.”

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“Chuck Schumer” works as the campaign slogan for any primary challenger

no amount of state propaganda will ever convince me this man is my enemy

dawg not the steakhouse wedding font

Word

Ghost of Eugene Debs making a surprise leap off the top rope

Spare a thought for the lawyers who spent years working toward their degrees, toward passing the bar, toiling away on briefs, filing motions, all of it, and never getting their chance to do the kind of My Cousin Vinny shit happening here.

It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.

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Massive New Yorker profile of @sheaserrano.bsky.social, national treasure/publishing-industry innovator/impossibly charming and idiosyncratic weirdo when?

Setting aside the racism and xenophobia and incuriousness and a million other things, what a cowardly way to live.

Fair. Angelo here.

(we love it)

Victory Boulevard

“CDMX, Gossip Girl” (Univision spinoff

Why we’re holding a teach-in about American history at the Smithsonian | Kellie Carter Jackson and Nicole Hemmer Podcasters, professors, journalists and ordinary citizens will gather in Washington as the Trump regime wages war on history

In today’s Guardian with @kcarterjackson.bsky.social, explaining why teach-ins (like the one we’re holding Sunday!) are a vital part of activism.

Text from a flyer reading: A teach-in sunday October 2th, Sunup-Sundown, Washing, DC - The National Mall America's Front Yard. Lectures Readings Performances and Coversations In Defense of History and Museums. Featuring Kellie Carter Jackson, Nicole Hemmer, Derek Musgrove, Nate Dimeo, Tressie McMillan Cottom, Amande Seales, Jody Avirgan, James Fallows, Martha Jones, Marcia Chatelain, Paul Butler, Nathan Connolly, and More. Organized by Nate DiMeo (The Memory Palace) and Jody Avirgan (This Day)

An audio flyer and a flyer-flyer for a teach-in this Sunday on the National Mall. dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3...