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My Midnight Creeps 🇳🇴 s/t (2005)
Side project by Robert Burås of Madrugada. A lot more garage than his other band. Sadly, he’d be dead I 2 years. Here is a live “I fell into a hole” from @YouTube. youtu.be/R-0ppcdc_h0?...

I forgot about this! Love it!

#5debutalbums0509
Valley Lodge - s/t (2005)
I’ve been silent until now Because I really don’t consider this a period with many good new bands. Here’s one exception, wonderful power pop from Brooklyn. Here is Naked City from @YouTube: youtu.be/4E5cprT1740?...

Remember back in the day when Congress used to be in charge of appropriations?

Must be nice to have a functioning Supreme Court.

When people are afraid to go to work, afraid to shop, or afraid to gather in their community, it hurts families, neighborhoods, and our entire economy.

If you can, show up for a small business and let’s continue to show the nation what it means to respond with care and decency.

If these MFers actually wanted to "protect kids", they would:

Pass gun control
Stop demonizing vaccines
Fund education and healthcare
Punish every single creep in the Epstein files

Censoring the internet does nothing to actually help kids. It only makes them ignorant.

Costly Wardrobe Malfunction Averted By ‘Incredible Save’ In Olympic Ice Skating Canadian ice dancer Piper Gilles' quick thinking was hailed as "insane" on social media.

Canadian ice dancer Piper Gilles' quick thinking was hailed as "insane" on social media.

‘It is hard to forgive’: former girlfriend of Norwegian Olympic biathlete responds to apology for affair * Sturla Holm Lægreid opened up after winning bronze * Woman thanks family and friends for support received The former girlfriend of the Norwegian biathlete Sturla Holm Lægreid has responded to his public apology for having an affair, saying it “is hard to forgive” what he did. It was after Lægreid had won bronze in the individual 20km on Tuesday that he, unprompted, opened up on what he described as the “hardest week of my life,” saying: “Half a year ago I met the love of my life. The world’s most beautiful and nicest person. Three months ago I made the mistake of my life and cheated on her, and I told her about that a week ago. This has been the worst week of my life.” Continue reading...

‘It is hard to forgive’: former girlfriend of Norwegian Olympic biathlete responds to apology for affair

Palestine Action activist says jury verdicts were vindication of cause Fatema Rajwani’s comments come after she and five others were cleared of aggravated burglary over break-in at Israeli defence firm The youngest of six Palestine Action activists cleared of aggravated burglary over a break-in at an Israeli defence firm’s UK site has said the verdicts were a vindication of their cause. After 18 months in jail, Fatema Rajwani, 21, was released on bail last Wednesday, having also been acquitted by a jury at Woolwich crown court of violent disorder in relation to the raid on the Elbit Systems factory in Filton, near Bristol, on 6 August 2024. Continue reading...

Palestine Action activist says jury verdicts were vindication of cause

MAGA lawmaker wants federal investigation into ‘indecent’ Bad Bunny halftime show Rep. Andy Ogles, an ultra-conservative congressman who has called for Christian nationalism, wants to send in federal investigators over the show’s “sexually explicit lyrical themes and suggestive cho...

Yes, the MAGATs are totally insane and are bending over backwards to cover THEIR combined pedophilia.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Ukrainaren går emot förbudet – kommer bära omtalade hjälmen - Radiosporten Trots förbudet – ukrainske OS-skeletonåkaren Vladyslav Heraskevych kommer bära hjälmen för att hedra sina döda landsmän. Heraskevych säger att han kommer ...

Radiosporten: Ukrainaren går emot förbudet – kommer bära omtalade hjälmen

https://www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/9154924

YouTube video by MS NOW Lawrence: Ignoring Epstein leads, Trump DOJ tries and fails to indict six Dems for reciting the law

In days gone by the populace would be storming the seats of power with blazing torches and pitchforks.......

youtu.be/5n4L12XUKas?...

Monica Zetturlund - The Baby [Sweden, Soul-Jazz] (1972) Music composed by the legendary jazz pianist Steve Kuhn

Monica Zetturlund - The Baby [Sweden, Soul-Jazz] (1972) Music composed by the legendary jazz pianist Steve Kuhn
https://redd.it/gdi088
https://youtu.be/NJfRk6lHfcI

'It's time to get aggressive', Border Patrol agent says in Chicago shooting video Federal prosecutors have released bodycam footage in the case of a Chicago woman who survived being shot multiple times by a Border Patrol agent last fall.

'It's time to get aggressive', Border Patrol agent says in Chicago shooting video reut.rs/4qsPC2Q

For humanists, morality is not a divine gift. Instead, it is rooted in our evolution as a social species. Over millennia, traits such as empathy, cooperation, fairness, and concern for others helped human communities survive and flourish.
humanists.uk/humanism/how...

YouTube video by Jesse Dollemore Peter Navarro ADMITS TRUMP DESTROYED ECONOMY w/ Mass Deportations!!!

You are totally fucked, Murica, because you couldn't bring yourself to vote for a woman of colour to run your country for whatever reason you used to convince yourself not to.

youtu.be/mnzqvVdWpWo?...

More than 120 million people in Bangladesh are expected to vote on Thursday to pick a new leader. It’s the first national election since a student revolution in the summer of 2024 toppled the previous prime minister, Sheikh Hasina. Here's what to know: nyti.ms/4akdjG9

France makes international appeal over ex-teacher accused of raping 89 children Police search for more possible victims of Jacques Leveugle, whose alleged crimes span many countries and date back to 1960s French police have made a rare international appeal for victims and witnesses in the case of a 79-year-old former teacher accused of raping and sexually assaulting 89 children across five continents from the 1960s until 2022. Police in Grenoble said Jacques Leveugle, who has been in pretrial detention in France since April 2025, was a “textbook example” of a serial sexual offender in an unusually sprawling case spanning many countries from Germany to India over more than five decades. Continue reading...

France makes international appeal over ex-teacher accused of raping 89 children

💉 There will be a lot more on this to come – best to wait for that! – but this reads like exploiting "perfect is the enemy of good" played obstructively. If you insist on _utter_ perfection, you can make reasonable trials unrealistic or dismiss otherwise good results.

Terrified Conservatives Lose Ability To Speak English After Exposure To Bad Bunny Performance

Terrified Conservatives Lose Ability To Speak English After Exposure To Bad Bunny Performance https://theonion.com/terrified-conservatives-lose-ability-to-speak-english-after-exposure-to-bad-bunny-performance-dios-mio-cry-millions-of-panicking-republicans/

Bad Bunny “together we are America”

A picture of bad bunny with the word love

Bad Bunny understood the assignment…

Iconic ’70s Band Announces Exclusive Update Amid 60th Anniversary Scorpions celebrates their 60th anniversary with a re-release.

I’m excited about this re-release. I can’t believe they
have been around for 60 years!
parade.com/entertainmen...

Celebrating Black military service is not “DEI woke shit.” It’s essential to America’s defense. The Trump administration has sullied the legacy of soldiers our nation relies on.

The Trump administration has sullied the legacy of soldiers our nation relies on.

A year ago Donald Trump vowed to make the Kennedy Centre great again. Last week he announced its “temporary” closure. 1843 asks what he wants from the venue econ.st/3MfD2Gc

Illustration: Mike McQuade

Russia’s Grinding War in Ukraine Despite claims of success in Ukraine, new CSIS data shows that Russia is paying an extraordinary price for minimal gains, with over 1.2 million casualties. Russia is also in decline as a major economi...

Russian battlefield casualties are greater than Ukraine’s battlefield losses due to:

🔹Failure to effectively conduct combined arms and joint warfare
🔹Poor tactics & training
🔹Effective Ukrainian defense
🔹Corruption & low morale

More: https://www.csis.org/analysis/russias-grinding-war-ukraine

Mord Jazz! We matched 1.

Good Evening Richard,

Here are my picks for #5debutalbums50s60s:

The Grateful Dead - s/t (5 pts)
Joe Gordon - Introducing
Clifford Brown & Max Roach - s/t
Freddie Hubbard - Open Sesame
The Velvet Underground & Nico - s/t

HM: The Doors, The Stooge, Santana, Herbie Hancock

I understand. I have other rock albums I’m not voting for the same reasons. The two I’m am voting for are just too important to my musical development to not vote for.