Marty Weil is one of the great voices of the District and I will never forgive Bezos for treating such a legend this way
05.02.2026 15:45 β π 72 π 16 π¬ 1 π 1@ecppdx.bsky.social
Classical pianist, composer, and theorist from New England living in Portland, OR. Queer, leftist, pro-trans, pro-Palestine. I post about politics, music, film, and whatever else I'm thinking about.
Marty Weil is one of the great voices of the District and I will never forgive Bezos for treating such a legend this way
05.02.2026 15:45 β π 72 π 16 π¬ 1 π 1It is wrong to say that Dems 'do nothing' for you, they will dilute, neuter, and negate your demands, undermine your efforts; make a joke of your sacrifices; and betray you.
Every time.
Harry Potter fan in 2026: yes the author is a Nazi with ties to Jeffrey Epstein but I don't see any of that when I buy my annual wand at the Wizarding World in Florida
01.02.2026 19:50 β π 2607 π 899 π¬ 22 π 27Then why is she contracting with the government?
04.02.2026 23:54 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0Aw, I love this for her π₯°
04.02.2026 23:43 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0My apologies everyone, I was wrong. Transgender people are in the Epstein files.
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As a topic of conversation amongst the rich and powerful people funding and pushing the anti-transgender movement.
I usually avoid making fun of someone's appearance but honestly it's all just a reflection of the deeply ugly person he is inside, so
04.02.2026 20:17 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I think a lot about the movie The Shop on Main Street, about this feckless Czech man who gets an "offer" to run a Jewish sewing shop (during Aryanification) and how he justifies it because hey, his family needs the money.
Spoiler: it doesn't end well.
Go fuck yourself.
04.02.2026 19:54 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0They also have a precedent for ignoring subpoenas and having nothing happen as a result.
04.02.2026 19:01 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0CORDER LIST: 607 U.S.) WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2026 25A839 ORDER IN PENDING CASE TANGIPA, DAVID, ET AL. V. NEWSOM, GOV. OF CA, ET AL. The application for writ of injunction pending appeal presented to Justice Kagan and by her referred to the Court is denied.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court will not stop the use of California's new congressional maps in this year's midterm elections.
The court rejected California Republicans' effort to stop the use of the new maps. There were no noted dissents and no opinion.
Breaking:
Fulton County just announced it has filed a motion "seeking the return of all files from the 2020 Election that were confiscated by the FBI" last week.
See new posts Conversation Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha What happened in Gaza over the past two hours? π¨ Israeli terrorist forces killed three civilians, including a child, in artillery shelling that targeted tents sheltering displaced people on Yaffa Street in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood. π¨ Israeli terrorist forces killed a four-month-old baby in an artillery strike east of the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City. π¨ Israeli terrorist forces killed two civilians in an artillery strike on tents housing displaced people in Qizan Rashwan, south of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
π¨ Israeli shelling over the past two hours has killed at least six civilians, including a four-month-old baby and a child, after artillery strikes hit tents sheltering displaced people in Al-Tuffah, Al-Zaytoun (Gaza City), and Qizan Rashwan south of Khan Younis.
04.02.2026 16:57 β π 168 π 107 π¬ 16 π 8everyone who works on this site is constantly posting "i hate this gay website i hope it collapses lol" in a way that doesn't read as joking as much just a Genuine Resentment for the thing they made.
04.02.2026 17:09 β π 829 π 130 π¬ 11 π 0To be fair, trans people *are* mentioned, just in an extremely different context from the others.
04.02.2026 17:38 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This is excellent piece and #mepolitics folks should note the mentions of Jared Golden.
www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
Why would we give this paper money? How can you even ask that?
04.02.2026 17:16 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0i didn't think it was possible to be dumber and less likable than elon musk but we have these fucking nerds trying their best, keep it up losers
04.02.2026 16:36 β π 20 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Are y'all just gonna keep being weirdly shitty mods?
04.02.2026 17:06 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0"Mods be Normal" challenge continues without any winners ever in the history of social media.
04.02.2026 17:05 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0π° Deliveristas victory now featured in @thenation.com by @prajwalmanipal.
$5.2M is going back into Deliveristasβ pockets after apps admitted wage theft.
As @helloDCWP Comm. @saalevine said: βCheating workers will not be tolerated.β
Read more ππΎ
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
This isnβt some anonymous tip. This is sworn testimony, under penalty of perjury, from someone who said Trump threatened to kill her if she exposed Epsteinβs sexual abuse.
03.02.2026 17:04 β π 7027 π 3072 π¬ 179 π 166Ripley the dog, under a blue blanket, only her head showing, sleeping
Nope. No interest. Out like a light. πΆπ€
04.02.2026 05:19 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Me with Ripley the dog, only her head showing from under a blanket, sitting on a couch
At least I have decent company! But I don't think Ripley finds it particularly interesting.
04.02.2026 05:05 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Cover art for The Reflecting Skin, in red and black showing a boy's face partially covered by his hands at top over black, upside down wheat in the middle with a red sky (at bottom), where the title is
Revisiting The Reflecting Skin tonight, after acquiring Film Movement Classics' recent release. I am both looking forward to and fearing this experience--an excellent, but very dark film.
04.02.2026 04:53 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I did not like Annette and that's made me reluctant to seek this out.
04.02.2026 02:14 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0THOU SHALT NOT PROTECT PEDOS!!! WHY THE FUCK IS THIS SENDERβS NAME REDACTED?!?
04.02.2026 01:59 β π 5793 π 1746 π¬ 266 π 116Until she quits, I don't believe her.
Working for the Nazis isn't an oopsie.
Judge rules members of Congress can inspect all ICE detention centers without appointment. "...DHS Sec. Kristi Noem re-implemented a notice requirementβ¦..[which] required 7-daysβ warning for visits to [ICE] facilities... funded exclusively by the βBig Beautiful Billβ..." thehill.com/regulation/c...
04.02.2026 01:19 β π 8921 π 3073 π¬ 287 π 136Not really. I mean, I know *I'm* not contracting with the Nazis.
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