Thomas Herndon

YouTube video by Minaxi दिल्ली / Dilli (Live) | From The Creamery | Minaxi

Here’s a live version of a tune called Dilly by my band Minaxi (named after an Indian goddess). It’s a tribute to Delhi, where my guitar player spent a lot of time. Not sure if AI can reproduce the mega vibes we had in the studio that day quite yet. youtu.be/MWncJMnbgqw?...

YouTube video by Minaxi Your Love / Tere Ishq Mein | Minaxi | Cart Sessions

My band Minaxi just put out a cool version of our song The Deep Blue Sea Knows Your Love which we recorded in philly. check it out! youtu.be/iXNU210XNlg?...

Tune into WPRB this Sunday at 9 am to hear a live set from my band Minaxi! Here’s a clip from practice - we got some mega vibes cooking up 👊👊👊

all i can say is that we are going to win

once again joining the many people who have observed how much of a world-historical problem it is that Trump is so fucking funny

you’ll never believe the newest meme pair for “Find someone who looks at you like…”

One of the most pathetic examples of corporate capture I've ever seen.
CFPB is requiring bank examiners to read a "humility in supervisions" pledge before any examination begins, basically apologizing for having the temerity to monitor compliance.
Here's the pledge.

“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...

You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants.

We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.

www.propublica.org/article/chic...

"the woke conspiracy is why i'm not a winner"

Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.

Come hang this sunday if you're in the East Ridgewood/Bushwick area! Got a lot of cool bands on the bill 👊👊👊 @weisenthal.bsky.social @pewilliams.bsky.social @mattlindauer.bsky.social

I think this touches a deep, often-overlooked point. In my labour law days, I saw some employers spend MORE money fighting unionization than they would have paid accepting it. Loss of control was driving them at least as much as profits! Control is vital – with environmental policy as well.

On the collapse of COP30 and general climate inaction. I think this is correct and important: there are plenty of profits available in a full-scale green transition. But it won't happen without public orchestration and *that* is what threatens holders of capital.

@jwmason.bsky.social as Green New Kalecki.

(i think he’s right. @schwarz.bsky.social’s “iron law of institutions” applies to particular capitalists and the economy at large. they’d accept economic collapse and catastrophe if that’s what preserves their own capacity to control.)

What is a 'groyper? What to know about Nick Fuentes' alt-right movement Fuentes' band of extremist followers take their name from the underbelly of internet meme culture.

guys it's happening

www.newsweek.com/groyper-char...

Fascist on Fascist violence

Bonus points for being one of the best Warhammer posts ever

Fanone gets it: Opposition to political assassinations includes people whose views have no redeeming qualities, like Charlie Kirk.

Sugarcoating his views not only is dishonest in itself, it conveys that maybe you wouldn't oppose assassination of people whose views you don't sugarcoat.

RFK Jr caught in lie about Jeffrey Epstein flight "I was on Jeffrey Epstein's jet two times," Robert F. Kennedy told Fox News on Tuesday, weeks after conflicting information was shared with Newsweek.

1) going to keep saying: a society that wants to keep functioning must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

2) calling a lie a lie seems like it could help

www.newsweek.com/robert-f-ken...

i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.

Line plot showing average daily ICE removals in 2025. The title of the plot is "Trump is deporting more than 1,000 people every day"

New ICE deportation data just dropped: on average ICE deported 1100 people every day last month, a huge escalation

Although less than half the pace needed for Trump's goal of one million annual deportations, Congress gave them their funding, and we should expect this rate to rise

A global minimum tax on the ultrarich could change planetary politics. Right now South Africa, Chile, France, and Spain are pushing for it

At the same time, my chinese family has never considered me fully chinese. Shoot, even my mom is losing full chinese status among my uncles for marrying two white guys and not visiting HK enough, even though they all moved to the US at the same time!

This dynamic often has nothing to do with what your actual physical/cultural bg either (bc racial cats aren’t real fixed “essences”). For example, growing up in TX, I was called “chankman” for years by the white folk, even though the Herndons had been in US and TX longer than those calling me slurs.

Absolutely. One often missed aspect of bi/multi racial identity is we usually don’t fit into the categories that make us up. I’m 1/2 chinese, 1/2 white, checked both boxes on my apps, but have never been considered chinese or white by those communities, and don’t consider myself that either.

Yeah I help kids fill out their demographic information for, like, PSAT tests and when Latino is not a race because that’s separate question and kids are like what do I put I just gotta say I don’t know man, vibe it out I guess.

Reporters are responsible for doing their own fact checking. This is true for most non magazine newsrooms. They killed the copy desk in 2017. The only part that gets external fact checking is NYT magazine. Also, interestingly books.

Something beautiful about Miami-Dade is “what are you/where are you from” is the usual first order of business.

Alongside vast Latino diversity are Black, African, and/or West Indian heritages, too, ranging from Black Americans “from here” to Bahamians, Haitians, Dominicans, Jamaicans and Cubans.