Josh Torres Wedding

Wife is out of town and I’m too lazy to cook for myself and too lazy to keep going out for every meal

So I bought like four days worth of Ethiopian food

U.S. military spending is set to hit a record $1.5 trillion.

Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government.

Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed EIGHT straight audits.

The military industrial complex is cheering today.

It sucks being the citizen of a pariah state

Iran is an bad actor on the world stage—and it would be better if it were a democracy. The same can be said of Russia, China, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, and many other countries no Trump fan wants us to invade and send our troops to die in.

Never apologize for opposing this war.

Close-up On The Outside, by Booker Stardrum 8 track album

Excellent

bookerstardrum.bandcamp.com/album/close-...

Israel, immediately after vaporizing a bunch of little girls:

🔥

remember in school when we learned about monopolies lol so quaint

Thanks I love Bill and just saw him play, but I don’t know this one. I’ll check it out

Hell yeah. I thought about putting some Cecil on there but couldn’t decide which album. Definitely should have put some Derek

Yeah! I meant to add that one when I put duo exchange on there, but it slipped my mind

Good call!

Friend asked me for a list of jazz recs for someone into hardcore…

Just made this quickly off the top of my head
What did I miss?

Sunday

I always feel like spring is almost here with the new native plant catalog drops

This should simply encourage more people to criticize ICE on social media.

YouTube video by Nightloop Jesse Jackson’s - Wattstax Music Festival Opening Speech (1972)

I. AM. SOMEBODY. ✊🏽

Rest in Power, Reverend Jesse Jackson.

youtu.be/NTVwT3j_zqY?...

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

I say to myself more than just about any other statement these days

This elitist view that only rich/Ivy/private school kids should study/have access the liberal arts is so deeply ingrained in so many highly educated Democrats’ views (including tons who majored in the lib arts themselves) that they don’t even realize they hold it, let alone how ugly & elitist it is

Elon Musk posted about race almost every day in January Many social media posts by Tesla CEO on his platform are indiscernible from those of white supremacists, say experts

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I think it's time to rethink how we categorize "middle class."

ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

NEW: ICE has a plan to lease offices across the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign.

Today, @wired.com is publishing dozens of those locations. Many are near schools, medical offices, and places of worship.

Vital work from @leahfeiger.bsky.social that I'm proud to publish.

This Day in Labor History: February 10, 1966. The Senate failed to gain cloture on an attempt to appeal Section 14(b) of the Taft-Hartley Act, a sign of the limited power of labor unions in American politics, even at the height of their membership and influence in the United States!!!!

Trump, Extreme Wealth Concentration, and Our Societal Crisis | Common Dreams The US government simply has not done enough to ensure that the livelihoods of all Americans are protected or improved in this new Gilded Age. What it has done is made sure the rich get richer by the ...

From 1975 to 2023, $79 trillion in wealth was transferred from the bottom 90% to the top 1%.

www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...

The #SuperBowl is emblematic of all that’s wrong with America and

tonight, for the second year in a row, millions watched as historically and systemically marginalized Americans showed us pieces of their beautiful, rich, and complex humanity that is so much bigger than oppression.

Multitudes.

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them