Luke O’Roark

Great game of 2025 No. 3 — Time Flies. Great ending.

Great game of 2025 No. 2 — Death Stranding 2: On the Beach

After about 100 hours, finally finished Kingdom Come: Deliverance II. Do recommend. 🤠

This Hospital System Fought COVID, Then a Far-Right Leader. Now It’s Taking on Idaho’s Abortion Ban. St. Luke’s, Idaho’s largest health system, was outspoken in defending its staff during a backlash against masks and vaccines. It also sued right-wing figure Ammon Bundy — and won. Now it’s backing…

St. Luke’s, Idaho’s largest health system, is the one major institution standing in the way of a ban on emergency abortion care in Idaho — a move that would make the state’s policy one of the most extreme in the country.

(Published March)

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Life Like This Kurt Vile · b'lieve i'm goin down... · Song · 2015

Great album 👍

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guys love to say “dude my balatro run last night was insane” then show you a screenshot like this

billionaires are consolidating control and expanding their influence in every way they can right now

A Profoundly Empathetic Book on Homelessness in the Bay Area Kevin Fagan’s new work moves beyond predictable policy critique to offer a powerful reminder of the moral side of the crisis.

A new book by Kevin Fagan reminds us of the moral side of the homelessness crisis: “why it is still worth fighting for the basic dignity of all people, especially those who live and die in the teeth of the American contradiction,” Jay Caspian Kang writes.

i will become a total shill for whichever politician decides to become the joe mccarthy of rooting out silicon valley ideology and influence

The push for profits is inhumane. It doesn’t have to be this way.

A ★★★★½ review of Mother (2009) This motherfucker, Bong Joon-ho…. this motherfucker….. now, this guy knows how to make some cinema.  That moment — if you’ve seen it, you know what I’m talking about — that moment it all hits an apex ...

Bong Joon-ho please miss once. Put him in the hall of fame

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The Staffers Helping Elon Musk Dismantle and Downsize the U.S. Government, One Agency at a Time Musk and his lieutenants are reshaping the government and its mission with the blessing of President Trump. ProPublica has confirmed the names and roles of more than 30 staffers affiliated with the…

#ICYMI: ProPublica has confirmed the names and roles of more than 30 Musk-affiliated staffers who are helping the world’s richest man dismantle or downsize federal agencies one by one.

Woman, 100, has journaled every day for 90 years: ‘No excuse for me not to’ Evie Riski’s dozens of diaries are not only a record of life in North Dakota over the decades, they have helped to solve minor family arguments.

This is a great story: www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/20...

Enjoy The Show (feat. Future) The Weeknd, Future · Hurry Up Tomorrow · Song · 2025

This song/album rules 👍

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How One Immigrant Community Is Coping With the Threat of Deportation Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

WATCH: The Nicaraguans who keep Wisconsin’s dairy farms, restaurants and factories working are sending home their most prized possessions, bracing for potential mass deportations.

“We don’t have much, but what we do have is important.”

📽️: @josesepulveda.bsky.social

“People Will Die”: The Trump Administration Said It Lifted Its Ban on Lifesaving Humanitarian Aid. That’s Not True. Organizations that provide vital care for desperate and vulnerable people around the world have been forced to halt operations, turn away patients and lay off staff. “I’ve never seen anything that sca...

NEW: Organizations that provide vital, lifesaving care for desperate and vulnerable people around the world have been forced to halt operations, turn away patients and lay off staff.

“I’ve never seen anything that scares me as much as this,” one doctor said.

Nooo, not public transportation and community 😔

In Vienna, most residents qualify for public housing. Can Boston combat soaring rents with the same model? - The Boston Globe Boston has a $110 million fund that is underwriting a new approach to housing in Charlestown.

This is a really good story: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/28/o...

The Historical Roots of Donald Trump’s Aggressive Nationalism What the President’s confrontations with Panama, Greenland, Canada, and Colombia suggest about his expansionist vision.

In a new Q. &. A., a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author discusses what President Trump’s confrontations with Panama, Greenland, Canada, and Colombia suggest about his expansionist vision.

SEAN EVANS: so tell us about this exciting new project of yours

KARL MARX, SWEATING: well sean i have to say im just really stoked to share this essay that i think makes a strong case for my claims about historical materialism and—WHEW that’s spicy oh man how do you guys EAT this stuff haha—

I’m leaving this app as soon I see Liz slander 👍

Michael Parenti is the best for writing this paragraph about contemporary “patriotism,” right-winged movements, etc.

(From his 2004 book, Superpatriotism)

It whips 💚👍

A ★★★★ review of Blue Velvet (1986) How lucky we are to exist in the same world as David Lynch — a master of synthesizing genres into a surrealist, beautiful, existential vortex. He will be missed. Blue Velvet is a major titan of Lynch’...

Watched David Lynch’s Blue Velvet — loved it

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Sucks it’s coming against Washington tho 😔👎

Saquon Barkley having one of the best running back seasons ever — happy for him 🤠👍

Yeern 101 ScHoolboy Q · BLUE LIPS · Song · 2024

This song rules 👍

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