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damn that is a genuinely hot take

all their merch has been sold out too pretty much since the KEXP set dropped. i dont think they were exactly prepared for becoming suddenly well known worldwide instead of being a local quebec band

i fucking love that album

YouTube video by KEXP Angine de Poitrine - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

This is the best new music I've heard in a while and I think a huge element of why it's compelling is that it is obviously very hard to make this youtu.be/0Ssi-9wS1so?...

The Discourse has become sort of numb to the fact that the richest guy on earth and owner of a major social media platform just routinely spits out the kind of nakedly white supremacist shit that until a decade ago you rarely saw outside of places like Stormfront.

All the dudes out there with two $1600/month loans on their lifted pickup trucks when gas hits $6/gal

i was just thinking this while watching REPTILE (2023), an otherwise undistinguished potboiler procedural that del Toro elevates with a commanding but understated performance. Not the kind of work most people associate him with but he's fantastic at that kind of role in addition to the showy weirdos

you know its a weird coincidence but it seems like we never really get those helpful explainers about how the stock market circuit breaker works when a democrat is president

i was totally car-free in NYC from 2007 to 2016 and completely missed the big great recession->2014 gas price spike. like literally did not notice except when id go home to visit my parents

i feel like genuinely useful stuff the government does like running time.gov persists mostly because no one in Trump administration has noticed it yet. "Department of Defense" persisting on the time.gov website instead of being changed to "Department of War" seemingly validates that

Ya but you can run an app on your phone now that can beat them

Trump take gas

thanks!

seen earlier today in downtown san diego:

keep in mind for the next few days:

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They like Trump and want to help him rule us a king, so they help downplay scandals that would've merited banner headlines for weeks under any other president

Markets are *very* unhappy about developments in Iran.

I will never forget Chuck Todd calling 100 million vaccines in 100 days a trump-style overpromise and when we hit it on day 65 he sneered that they set a low goal on purpose to look artificially good when they beat it

a lot of serious analysis out there is done through the lens of commodity trading and crude prices, so I appreciate de haan's focus on price-at-the-pump, which is the thing that people like me who care mostly about the domestic politics implications really care about, not WTI futures.

this is *the* gas prices guy to follow fyi. his newsletter is really good too

remember what I said about how, when Trump is flailing or incompetent, the media just subs in a totally fake version of Trump who is rational and not fucking up? Great example here

I was gonna write "somewhat unexpectedly" but ran out of characters. Many people kind of expected this — Issa had before floated the idea of running in Texas (?) rather than in his newly competitive redrawn Prop 50 district — but he also withdrew from the race at the last possible second, so

look there's a lot going on out there this weekend, so you might have missed that Darrell Issa (R-CA), a pro-Trump conservative and one of the richest members of the House, unexpectedly retired.

Good breakdown of what that news mean for San Diego politics (and the race for the US House) below:

USUALLY presidents getting blame or taking credit for gas prices (or local crime rates, or etc etc) is dumb, because it’s a commodity whose price is set on a global market, USUALLY for reasons having little to do with the White House’s occupant. But this is 100% directly Trump’s fault.

I'm no fancy political consultant, but, hey, if you're in Dem comms, you should notice that Fox News panicked over Trump wearing a cheap Trump merch baseball cap to receive the bodies of soldiers he got killed for no reason he can articulate, and you should absolutely lean into that.

it makes you think! bsky.app/profile/aduk...

remember having my mind blown by learning paul lepage didnt learn how to speak english until he was a teenager because he grew up in a french speaking northern maine town. once one of America's most unique regions!

i dont really hear it myself but people tell me i have a weak baltimore accent. a bunch of my relatives have very pronounced baltimore accents

guys www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...