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Albini Sessions (Benefit for Letters Charity), by Fugazi 12 track album

Stop literally everything.

Steve Albini's Fugazi sessions, widely bootlegged and full of lore, now available officially for the first time.

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Let's fight misinformation, help good journalists to make a decent living, and stick a big ol' finger in Jeff Bezos' eye.

That’s more losses than in the rest of their entire operational history.

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

So, I dunno. Be nice to a trans person today. And don't forget trans men as part of all of this.

This seems really cool. rjionline.org/news/announc...

Because of the National driver register, since their licenses are suspended, trans folks cannot move to another state and get a new license until they remove the suspension on their existing Kansas license.

They can't even escape this by moving to another state.

Remember when Trump yanked funds from Mississippi after learning that the state's welfare chief had directed millions in Temporary Assistance for Needy Families funds to sports celebrities, including not only Brett Favre, but the Million Dollar man and his two pro-wrestler sons?

Wait. He didn't.

Do we need to have a conversation about the other three, though? Do they just wait in the van, or the living room, or what? Are you obliged to offer them refreshment?

Amazon Change Means Wishlists Might Expose Your Address Amazon is allowing gift senders to choose items from third-party sellers, which could open recipients up to new privacy risks.

NEW: Amazon is telling people who use its wishlists feature to switch to post office boxes or non-residential delivery addresses if they want to ensure their home addresses remain private, as part of a change in how it processes gifts bought from third-party sellers.

"The only solution is not to pl—"
"LEEEERRRRROOOOYYYY JENNNNKINS!"

Letz go even bigger and better,,, ALL Female US Olympians and Paralympian medalists are invited out to celebrate in Viva Las Vegas for the SHE GOT GAME Weekend ,,,

Hit a guy up and LETZ GOOO

More interested in the Mean Girls/who's on the Christmas card list angle.

Matrix Revolutions. Three of us cut work to go see it, and boy was that the wrong choice. The local news film critic stopped us on the way out to get our reactions and uhh they did not use any of our footage.

Kevin, very happy to hear this and I will upgrade my sub to a paid one on the new platform.

"Elsie and her cartoon calves were featured in Elsie's Boudoir at Freedomland U.S.A.—an American-history theme park in the Bronx, New York—from 1960 to 1963."

Honestly how has Trump not yet brought this back.

True, and I think about that moment a lot… I have softened on the question a bit over time and will concede it may have been an extremely deadpan attempt at a joke. But yes, you're right.

To be slightly fair, a girl in my AP English class in '94 asked why Medea and Jason didn't go to family therapy.

@bubbaprog.xyz is it theoretically possible for NBC to scrub/counter the drone-whine in the audio signals from the Olympic broadcasts without sacrificing desired sounds? It seems like nothing else is in that frequency range.

A sudden DOJ departure is stoking fear that Trump’s populist antitrust movement is dead Some of the president’s own supporters fear corporate influence is destroying a movement that helped propel him to a second term.

my eyes are rolling out of my fucking head

A Worker-Led Alternative to Billionaire-Owned News in DC A Q&A with two founders of the 51st, a worker-led nonprofit newsroom launched after the closure of the beloved local outlet DCist.

"What we all need to agree and commit it to is that journalism is a public good. Journalism is a thing that we need. Particularly when it comes to local news."

For @inequality.org, @millsrodrigo.bsky.social interviewed two 51st co-founders, @abigailhiggins.bsky.social and @maddiepoore.bsky.social:

deny every single person working for DHS the sacrament if they are Catholic and excommunicate Vance.

You know what they’re going to store in those warehouses?

People

Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

This isn’t a Nick Kroll bit?

GM: Charisma check.

Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]

GM: that’s a d6 how did you

Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

Lacked the commitment to go all the way to Drake… hut!

ICE is not welcome here Good morning. It's bleak out there. Maybe you've been reading headlines and watching videos and thinking absolutely bonkers thoughts. Maybe you're in an ongoing state of shock that our presidential a...

ICE is not welcome here.

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100% of the proceeds go to Minnesota mutual aid funds.

Let's do some good this week:

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Catherine O’Hara’s Unforgettable Delivery The Canadian actress’s oddball utterances became lasting comedic earworms, among them her one-word scream in “Home Alone”: “Kevin!”

“If her death feels like a compounded loss, it is because she takes with her the dozens of offbeat women (and sometimes men) whom she coaxed out of her person and into existence.” Rachel Syme writes about the comedic legacy of Catherine O'Hara. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/naCy_M

/holds earpiece to ear
Sorry, I’m just being informed that in fact Kayleigh’s mom was confused, she walked into a showing of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” and she mistook Riff Raff for Melania.