RIP my menchies (Mensheviks I mean.)

Huge Dead Boys fan, which is kind of the opposite. But this stuff is great too. Don't get me started on Blondie.

YouTube video by Blitz - Topic Someone's Gonna Die

Also partial to gangster rap. I contain multitudes, don't get me started on the (great) Geto Boys. That all feels the same in a way and I fucking love it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPRq...

YouTube video by RHINO Book Of Love - Boy (Official Music Video)

How the fuck did I not know about this band until recently. Why did my friends who inflicted stuff like Depeche Mode like 30 years ago not introduce me. This is beautiful. Signed, that rare Tankie on here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vcj...

Basic Axioms of Politics Might add more but these four are a good start...

Took me long enough... benhosen.substack.com/p/basic-axio...

Not an exact fit, but the billion dollar political consultant industry is really close to it.

As a long time( chickenshit and/or moral?, never got into that) student of con games long and short, this is shill erasure! A key component of every con game, and this applies to other things (like politics) too. There is a third vital cog to that ecosystem.

The literal wealthiest man in the world donating hundreds of millions of dollars to a presidential campaign and getting rewarded with a government post where he can award his companies with contracts is the most cartoonish possible rendering of what people warned about after Citizens United.

YouTube video by secret AGENT The Libertines - Don't Look Back into the Sun GLASTONBURY 2015

Feeling really shitty and demoralized but this always cheers me up. Generally a hater of 90s Brit Pop but the Libertines were interesting and good, and not just for the nostalgia for insanely drugged out punk bands when I was a kid. Beautiful song. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Hum...

Evergreen reminder

Donald Trump's economic masterplan

Trump is shallow and dumb in some ways but not all. He has an intuitive grasp on how power operates, and greed too. Those are what the world rotates around after all, it's not significant. A thoroughly bad guy but not a dummy exactly, like W and Reagan were. unherd.com/2025/02/why-...

Amen. Duncan Black actually moved the needle meaningfully when Obama was about to privatize Social Security. But you know what? Toilet Paper Man is rich, and gets invited to all the meetings and soirees with the important people now.

Reflected a larger reality: the idea really was that demographics would inevitably keep Democrats in power forever. "40 More Years". Even funnier is looking today's anti-woke crusader Dem strategist Ruy Teixeira's predictions back then. (Not funny actually. But hey, he's still getting paid)

Yep. With few exceptions (Schwarz, Welsh and Susan of Texas come to mind) that whole ecosystem was exposed as opportunistic frauds the second Blue Team won in 2008 and they figured they could make money licking Democratic boots, assuming they'd won that promised permanent majority.

Funny how they keep saying that, louder and louder. Maybe that's a real commitment?

NEW: What exactly is the problem that socialists have with liberals, anyway? Is there any way we can reach some kind of compromise or understanding? All of your answers are within!

An Open Letter to Liberalism
https://www.carlbeijer.com/p/an-open-letter-to-liberalism

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Not the surgeon's fault, I have nothing but praise for that dude and his office. Excellent care, not their fault that I didn't inherit Dad's Ashkenazi horse teeth but got Mom's Welsh teeth seemingly made of soft chalk.

Seeded Watermelon and the Tooth that Had To Get Pulled But Shattered Into 100 Pieces And Took the Oral Surgeon Almost Two Hours To Get All Of It Out.

Does he think that imaginary Long Island couple is going to be impressed by this? Probably.

Not that Google was ever good, but this cartoon is a good summary of now.

Recall the Strategic Response Group (SRG) was originally sold as a specialized “counterterror” squad that could quickly respond to ISIS-style attacks and since its inception in 2015 has only been used to harass Black Lives Matter, anti-genocide protestors and striking workers.

You’ll be surprised to learn this is an FBI manufactured “plot” with FBI informants pushing the 18 year old student along the entire time

16 felony charges for $100K in alleged damage is some bullshit, but overcharging is how they get 95% of defendants to plea out. They're also- obviously- trying to send a message here.

Just saw this (thanks, algorithm!). They should be out inside a month but I'm sure any gesture of support, even just a postcard, would be welcomed.

Yep. anytime someone tries to sell you on their new “AI tool” replace this with “hey checkout my new labor misclassification arbitrage scam”

BBC complains to Apple over misleading shooting headline Apple's new artificial intelligence features falsely made it seem the BBC reported Luigi Mangione had shot himself.

The AI madness is so far out of control that "Our product wrote a completely false news alert and credited a real news source" doesn't even rate a corporate comment, let alone an ashamed apology and pulling the product www.bbc.com/news/article...

Memorable chat- to me at least- about this unkind review of Contagion(2011) around that time, early 2020. ("Uh, kinda hits different now doesn't it, gallows laughter") exiledonline.com/contagion-or...

If you don't know her, very nice person and she actually knows something about film, I myself do not. One of the very few good things I've experienced in social media over the years is making friends somehow, some of whom have expertise on things that I don't and vice versa.