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Like Tom, ‘71 and pop charts have always been garbage (go have a look at a random week in some supposed high point like 1967 or 1973), it’s just that most pop music of any era doesn’t endure, so we memory hole Warrant etc until we hear it at the grocery store lol.

Album cover for Terence Trent D’arby’s (now Sananda Matreiya) Neither Fish nor Flesh, a brilliant album that ruined his career.

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live George F Wills Sports Machine - Saturday Night Live

Couldn’t help but remember this:

Okay I’m reading it now and, no surprise, it suuuucks in exactly the ways you would expect.

grifters gonna grift

YouTube video by Montclair Immigration Network The last speech of Ronald Reagan as president was on immigration

m.youtube.com/watch?v=2R8Q...

as this goes on while i grow older, i am very much feeling like a creature of another time. obviously things have always been more or less this way my entire life but as the last vestiges of truth, shared obligations, a loose moral framework get sheared away, i feel increasingly out of place

👀 “Homan said he attended a Department of Homeland Security briefing six months ago to discuss classifying the drug as a WMD. ‘When I left that briefing, it was my understanding that they would push that recommendation up to the Secretary, but I've been out of it ever since,’ he said.”

Hell yes

'How are we an enemy?': UA community speaks out against Trump administration compact Campus workers, faculty & students held a teach-in, denouncing the proposal as an attack on academic freedom and urging UA President Suresh Garimella to reject it

“This compact is an insult to future scientists. How are we an enemy to an administration? And why does that determine if we get funding or not?”

story via @azluminaria.org

The Defector D'Angelo Mixtape | Defector The music channel in Defector’s work Slack is, paradoxically or not, a fairly quiet place. People will talk about records they’re enjoying or not enjoying, Patrick will reply “type shit” to various…

The Defector D’Angelo mixtape: defector.com/the-defector...

YouTube video by North Sea Jazz Archive D'Angelo & the Vanguard - Full Concert - Live at North Sea Jazz Festival 2015

That’s an amazing setlist. Saw him on Voodoo tour in 2000 and was blown away. Have played this video a billion times :

youtu.be/nOndQVYx7n0

Shit. Damn. Motherfucker. The best concert I’ve ever been to was him on the Voodoo tour. And I’ve seen Prince, Stevie, and James Brown. This hits hard.

Justice for All - Truthdig To restore the rule of law, Democrats must enforce the constitution with brass knuckles like there’s nothing to lose. Because there isn’t.

As Democrats contemplate a 2026 or 2028 run and wonder what message will most motivate voters, they need to understand that the minimum opening bid is vengeance.

Well, That Was Fast: Trump Tax Law’s New Corporate Breaks are Already Worsening the Deficit Corporate income taxes for the fiscal year that ended in September are $77 billion lower than in the previous year, a 15 percent drop.

Corporate income taxes are $77 billion lower than last year, primarily due to the Republican tax cuts for the rich.

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In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room. Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
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a man in captain america 's uniform says i understood that reference Alt: a man in captain america 's uniform says i understood that reference

Just like Chris Knight!

SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON CALLED OUT ON AIR:

'my kids could die if you don't stop playing games with our healthcare'

She’s spammed me with 6 texts today…so I’m not encouraged….

Teammates Unnerved As Translator Begins Referring To Ohtani As ‘The Host’ LOS ANGELES—Describing the mood in the clubhouse as eerie and ominous, several members of the Los Angeles Dodgers told reporters Tuesday they have become increasingly unnerved since Shohei Ohtani’s in...

Teammates Unnerved As Translator Begins Referring To Ohtani As ‘The Host’

Let’s talk about AI art.

theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

My message to the @uarizona.bsky.social President:

More importantly, if your objective is regime consolidation over the military, then bringing together 800 irritated top officers is the worst possible idea. They wouldn’t normally conspire electronically, but stranding them together during a govt shutdown gives them time to talk & compare notes.🚨

Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social • 12/6/2023 Fast forward to October 2008 and I'm sitting in that same living room with my then-90-year-old grandfather watching Colin Powell endorse Barack Obama on Meet the Press. I look over and my usually stoic, long-time-Republican grandfather is crying with joy that he will get a chance to vote for Obama. 们 0 7 Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social • 12/6/2023 l asked him what he was thinking about, and he started telling stories about the men he served with in WWil who came from backgrounds very different from his own, and how he learned to appreciate what it meant to live in a country comprised of such difference. Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social • 12/6/2023 To his mind, it was a direct line from his service in WWIl to this moment watching a Black general (and longtime Republican like my grandfather) endorse a Black Democrat for president. 口1 10 6 Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social • 12/6/2023 Those tears of joy were also tears of patriotism and pride. He was crying because this moment, to him, bespoke the greatness of the country he had served--a greatness he could have never imagined in the 1940s, but which moved him to tears in 2008. О 3 Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social • 12/6/2023 As he saw it, the GOP had left him and the people of his generation who bought into the inclusive mythos of WWil-era liberalism. He sensed the encroaching illiberalism and anti-intellectualism of the Palin-esque GOP and he despised it.

A story about my longtime Republican grandfather, Colin Powell, and Obama from 2008 that feels very relevant here.

Calais Campbell was walking pretty slow out of the locker room and admitted he ran out of gas in the second half. But as a dad, went out to get his kids on the field just now. Life goes on.

100%…I didn’t want him to see the field in the 2nd half and was wondering if he had any trade value. Still not sold but at least the season doesn’t feel completely lost if he & the team can build on this.

tired: pentagon pizza index
wired: culture war grindr outage index

Jimmy Kimmel's firing makes me ashamed to be an American SFGATE columnist Drew Magary on the fallout of Jimmy Kimmel's firing.

"I hope all of these people end up in a Hell that’s worse than the one they’re constructing right in front of us." www.sfgate.com/politics/art...

The United States Of Snitches | Defector On Saturday, the chairman of the Republican Party in Michigan’s Oakland County spent his afternoon directing his online followers’ attention to local businesses that had not lowered their flags to hal...

I wrote about the experience of government of, by, and for people who have been driven insane by screens. (This is a gift link, please Consider Defector if you are interested in subscribing to a website) defector.com/the-united-s...