Possibly Seth Kim-Cohen

"The deconstruction of the administrative state."
- Steve Bannon

Fuck the Met gala.

30 years ago, Cardigan Festival 3: 4 nights of indie rock to benefit the Howard Brown Health Center's AIDS treatment and support services. Labradford, David Grubbs, Sea and Cake, Number One Cup, Tortoise, Raymond Brake, Yum Yum, Weedy, Motorhome, the Wendy Fix. See Saw, Freakwater, the Pulsars...

I have a Sciascia t-shirt. Just sayin'.

Da Guv.

In Rome they gear up for the papal conclave. Meanwhile in D.C. we're already waist deep in the Paypal conclave.

Excellent! Appreciate you, your beer, your social responsibility. Can't wait to try it!

Forest Gump needs to shut his shriveled pie hole.

So, clearly it's not gonna be the Democrats who battle Trump in the trenches. So who then? And where can I sign up?

FYI: Amazon does have a fairly generous return policy.

FYI: Amazon does have a fairly generous return policy.

Looks like a Crass album cover.

YouTube video by OliasNil The Theoretical Practice of Impractical Theory

Talking about stuff:
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So the Signal clown car had one extra passenger. Ha ha ha, what a bunch of buffoons! Oh, and by the way, the attacks they were discussing killed 53 people including two children. That's what the Signal convo was about.

At least their giant shoes will prevent these clowns from being able to reach the big red button.

But why is the pull quote wrong and more provocative than what Vance actually said? His actual words are dumber than a dirt fence. There's no need to misquote him to demonstrate what an incompetent, immoral jagoff he is.

"Truth is a touring lineup of Lynyrd Skynyrd with no original members that you’re still listening to in the hope its version of Free Bird will kick ass." -- Stewart Lee in the Guardian

Paid full price (at my local independent bookstore). Read it. Loved it. Teach it. Thanks.

Shame on you, Senator! We are staring into the maw of oblivion and you decided to floss his teeth.

"Oppose the spending bill? How am I gonna do that when I can't even get out of this fakakta chair?!"

Ronald Reagan is creaming his senile cowboy jeans.

Maybe they can get one of those multi-seat trolley things that the day cares use to usher the toddlers around town.

Apparently, as part of its government efficiency regime, the administration has decided to cut a letter from its programs. Henceforth, its programs will be pograms (rhymes with "o-bombs").

We are living the answer to the question: What if Ronald Reagan had indoctrinated his Bedtime For Bonzo co-star into his Government-Is-The-Problem Army?

... We are watching how well they can collaborate to reinforce one another. The future condition of the government—and by extension the country—depends on how far the dynamo spins. (4/4)

... The first wants a sleek state that narrowly seeks to maximize returns on investment; the second a shackled state unable to promote social justice; and the third, most dramatically, a shattered state that cedes governing authority to competing projects of decentralized private rule. (3/4)

...the Wall Street–Silicon Valley nexus of distressed debt and startup culture; anti–New Deal conservative think tanks; and the extremely online world of anarchocapitalism and right-wing accelerationism. Within the new administration, each strain is striving to realize its desired outcome. (2/4)

...we are witnessing something new: the convergence of three strains of politics that have never simultaneously been this proximate to power. Those projects come from different but related places: (1/4)

Speed Up the Breakdown | Quinn Slobodian For the last month, the US opinion-making class has stared agog as Elon Musk and his minions have stormed the engine room of the federal government. Young

As he is wont to do, Quinn Slobodian astutely identifies the three overlapping factions grappling for the rudder in the basket beneath Trump's directionless hot air balloon.
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