Sam Backer

Just Six Corporations Remain

Just Six Corporations Remain https://theonion.com/just-six-corporations-remain-1819564741/

Epic View EP, by WET TUNA 3 track album

Wet Tuna is the funniest band name in Rock, and their new EP is maybe my favorite thing I've heard from them yet? Dubbed out demi-choogle of the highest degree. wettuna.bandcamp.com/album/epic-v...

A small indignity in a world full of them — Spotify (for all SORTS of ideologically nefarious reasons) still doesn't have release dates for albums. When in the calendar year did X come out (in relation to Y)? no one who uses this platform will ever know.

Not to be that guy but...just got a chance to look through the final project topics for my 400 level class on "Modern American Capitalism" and there are some absolute BARNBURNERS. The kids are more than alright.

Rereading Havey's "A Brief History of Neoliberalism" for the first time since like...2012. It's fascinating how, despite a retreat from certain elements of its "high ideology," so much of what he's describing here has just accelerated in the last decade.

"If you can't have peace with yourself, how in the hell are you gonna have peace with somebody else"

Is pissgrave ambient music? And if not...why not?

King is 81. Bets on him ever running again?

this Cuomo speech is generally shocking -- no real "good job" no "good luck" -- just partisan attacks and self-congratulations. Vs. Sliwa weirdo class-fest.

this is the purest schadenfreude I have ever experienced.

they're now playing "should I stay or should I go" what is going on.

LET'S GO MAINE HECK YEAH

fascinating...is there really not a map out there of the US banking system characterized by charter type in the mid 19th century? you'd think that would...just exist, but maybe not?

YouTube video by BruceSpringsteenVEVO Bruce Springsteen - Born in the U.S.A. (Electric Nebraska - Official Audio)

Insane that Bruce was out here just fully sounding like the Gun Club

today in the "the past is a different country"

books -- they used to look cooler.

The academic’s mid-summer crisis is a mid-life crisis in miniature:

You realize summer is half gone, & not only that: you see that the longest & least burdened days came early, & they are well past. You compare all you thought you’d do against the days remaining & grieve for what never will be

the assault continues -- federal and state. bloomingtonian.com/2025/06/30/i...

Who's Gonna Buy You Ribbons Paul Clayton · Paul Clayton Sings Home Made Songs And Ballads · Song · 1960

lol -- forgot that Dylan 100% ripped off his friend on this song, while producing a clearly better version. open.spotify.com/track/3q1Bx4...

Jeffries not yet ready to endorse Zohran Mamdani "We don’t really know each other well," the House minority leader said.

might look something like this? www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely

brad landers position right now is a fascinating new result of ranked choice — he didn’t win, but his team did, and he’s clearly going to get some political juice out of his role.

yeah i feel like “its nominee” is doing a lot of work there. I could easily see a faux anti-semitic witch-hunt + a “only radicals vote in the primary this isn’t “real” democrats” turn towards adams given that he’s…the dem incumbent? + some potentially very spooked business interests w/ pull.

you truly love to see it

The federal govt. deciding who can write and research history is definitely a good step towards a society built on "free speech"

Oh, no! @hagleycenter.bsky.social if you're around and can reach out, please blink?

I guess this points to... I dunno...the broader GPT-ification of online writing? Like -- this style is just OUT there now.

"They weren’t sitting across from someone on a Saturday night, trying to connect. They were scrolling. Dabbling. Disappearing behind firewalls, filters and curated personas. And while they disappeared, women continued to gather. To tend. To notice who wasn’t arriving — and to show up anyway."

"That night marked something. Not a heartbreak, but an unveiling. A sense that what I’d been experiencing wasn’t just personal misalignment. It was something broader. Cultural. A slow vanishing of presence."