Mr. Karl Farvman

Living Colour releases their debut LP today in 1988 — with “Cult of Personality”, a song inspired by a chat during rehearsal about what makes a leader charismatic.

“Vernon played a riff,” said drummer Will Calhoun. “And next we knew we had a song. All while we were setting up for sound check.”

BREAKING: A federal judge in Maryland has just barred DOGE from accessing Social Security, saying the group is on a "fishing expedition" that jeopardizes people's personal data.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

holy shit -- Trump was reading from a literal Tesla sales pitch, complete with pricing, during his White House event with Elon Musk. (Andrew Harnik/Getty)

I'm sure that's what they are doing. But you don't have to go too far to find ptichers who have been successful from the ages of 36 and up (here's 3 I'm providing with zero effort, and Cole is in league with them - R. Johnson, Verlander, Scherzer).

'This Is War': Bob Mould on Aging Indie, His Music's Legacy, and Where the U.S. Goes From Here Bob Mould looks back at a storied punk career with Husker Du and reflects on the indie scene that defined a generation.

www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

My son Owen did an event at Brian Keene & Mary SanGiovanni's Vortex Books & Comics. He speaks very highly of that shop. Made me want to visit.

It's not the end of his career.

When do we finally get to say that Republicans are obsessed with gender ideology?

Bluesky User Count

I don't know how much of this is due to the Twitter outage, but at the moment @bsky.app is adding 1.6 new users per second, about 3x what its been averaging the past few days...

This is the list of Rape Culture apologists. It includes Cuomo stans and literally people sent to attack me and other survivors for years. I’ve tried to include as many high profile abusers as I can. It is bipartisan on bad people supporting abusers. Block block block.
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Cuomo $60mn in Legal Fees Ex-Gov. Cuomo's State-Paid Legal Fees Soar, Nearly 4 Years After His Resignation The New York comptroller's office has released the updated total of more than $60 million in combined legal expenses ...

Full article from behind the paywall docs.google.com/document/d/1...

This fucking monster has spent $60 million of New York taxpayer money trying to bury me and the other woman he harassed alongside the nursing home victims his policies killed.

This man can go to hell. He is headed there sooner or later anyway.

I am beginning to see a reason for hope ...

"How often have we heard commentators remark that some of these people used to be pleasant and professional? I submit that they were evil jerks all along, we just didn’t know it" www.palmerreport.com/analysis/i-a...

The fact that the Nazis are always the bad guys and never the good guys shows just how woke and out of touch Hollywood has become

Another Dark Day at the Bezos Post: Ruth Marcus Resigns After Censorship The billionaire squeeze tightens as another respected journalist refuses to fall in line with Bezos's rightward push.

Ruth Marcus resigned from the Washington Post after CEO Will Lewis killed her column criticizing Bezos's new "free markets and personal liberties" mandate. www.readtpa.com/p/another-da...

a cartoon of homer simpson standing in a room with a sign that says " warning " ALT: a cartoon of homer simpson standing in a room with a sign that says " warning "

X engineers clocking in this morning

Twitter is currently down.

Meanwhile its CEO has been working remotely for months now.

Looks like someone needs to follow his own return-to-office mandate.

Twitter is down again... 😂

Leland Dudek.
Remember that name.
He was a "mid-level" SSA employee who seems to have been carrying out unauthorized contact with Musk's gang of bandits.
Because everyone above him was working to protect the confidentiality of SSA data, they were replaced and Dudek mat Acting SSA Administrator.

This affidavit, filed by a former Social Security employee in one of the DOGE cases, reveals a shocking exposure of personal info to DOGE operatives & possible compromise of parts of the system. Everyone should read this. Start at para 9. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

WOW. Read this entire affidavit.

Mao’s great leap forward killed 50 million people. But most experts think that Elon’s will kill many fewer.

Clay Pigeon and me

Phone room: calm before the storm

Shift number one, baby!

Pigeon hats at the ready!

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Never posted anything here before but the @wfmu.bsky.social fundraising marathon is underway and I feel compelled to shout it from every rooftop. Here's a sneak preview of this year's Weekly World Blues DJ premium. Astonishing cover art by Bill Graef. Tune in Wed 7 pm et for further explanation!

The Times welcomes new columnist Jeffrey Toobin, who will write about federal legal issues in the age of Big Balls.

Tulsi Gabbard has learned her lesson. So have Edward Snowden, Vladimir Putin, and Bashar al-Assad.

by Susan Collins

They will ignore the courts if they think it will not have repercussions and sow all manner of confusion and know it’s hard to stop them, if not impossible. It’s their playbook and in plain sight. Wreak havoc and then reap the rewards.

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The unlawful seizure of data, payments, hiring and even real estate control by an unelected & unfettered digital narcissist at the behest of a power grabbing chief executive is the only story right now. As I noted Friday, this is a hostile takeover and our nation’s lawmakers are sleeping through it.

The DEI caused the plane crash narrative is a distraction. The tariffs are a distraction. Whatever insane nonsense Trump spews that the media will chase like cats chasing a laser light is a distraction. The only story that counts right now is the wholesale hijacking of control of the US government.