Emerson Machtus

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

YouTube video by RosaliaVEVO ROSALÍA - Berghain (Official Video) feat. Björk & Yves Tumor

The GOAT, doing goated things. Esto es una barbaridad total.

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'Irreparably Damaged': Former Senior Official Details the Darkest Days of the CDC Under RFK Jr. Demetre Daskalakis, the former director of CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, argues the public health agency has been weaponized into a political tool.

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I might start a revolution just based on the fact that the president of the USA (& the White House) keep referring to Colombia and Colombians as “Columbia” and “Columbians” all over social media. For real.

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.

They’ve had their necks kneeled on.

They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.

At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.

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it is far better to be in a country with a mass visible protest movement than one without it

Insane thread.

Actually a scary possibility.

We are being held hostage. This is the weirdest cultural Stockholm syndrome.

Playoff baseball remains the undisputed king of American sports. Nothing comes close.

idk why I give myself these arbitrary social media tasks, but here’s a “We Are The World” of “Just Like Heaven” for the Cure single’s 38th anniversary

The only civil unrest we might see in Portland is the one being purposely created and fostered by the current Federal Government. They are doing everything they can to ignite it all.

Flawless.

Nintendo of America President Doug Bowser Steps Down Nintendo of America president Doug Bowser will retire Dec. 31 after more than a decade at the company.

I'm sorry, his last name is what?

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I detoured from reading a biography of Mao Zedong and Camus’s The Pest to The Wager because of your posts and it’s 100% the most fun I’ve had with a book this year. Keep em coming.

Reminder: the microwave is NOT a fridge.

i think everyone needs to get a lot less religious

Just 2 gun rights advocates sitting behind a wall of bulletproof glass while enjoying a memorial for a gun rights advocate who got murdered by a gun.

Guys there was a big Nazi rally in the U.S. today. No biggie.

Yeah but free speech though. Who’s the snowflake now?

Not to be color normative but the U.S. has no idea how confusing it is to me (an immigrant) that the right wing and GOP is graphically represented by the color RED in 🇺🇸.

YouTube video by Recuerdos3000 Miami Sound Machine - Dingui Li Bangui ((stereo)) HQ

Spent literal decades trying to find a song my mom used to play all the time when i was a kid. Thought it was some obscure Brazilian singer or something. Could never find it, thought i made it up. Nope: The Miami Sound Machine.

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It should be clear that defeating fascism makes it safer even for the fascists.

Call me a purist, but delaying the start of a major sporting final because a politician announced last minute he'd be attending, prompting additional security measures is as insulting to any sport as it gets. (+ BTW, this is all because he KNOWS most people there hate him but he's a freaking troll.)

me after the tariffs are struck down as illegal

JAWS turns / celebrates 50 this year as the kickstarter of the modern blockbuster era.

In one of the coolest moments of my career, I once jumped in to play a reporter with the very Roy Scheider. An absolute legend.

Go watch JAWS in the theaters!

Dear Americans, welcome to the thrilling game of ‘Did this dictator die or just disappear for a day?’ We’ve been playing it with Putin and Lukashenko for decades. Enjoy the suspense.

As a punk rock teen, I used to think the cool thing was to say you hated The Beatles. Blue Jay Way is the song that changed that for ever.

Yep, K-Pop Demon Hunters, the sing-a-long at the movie theater today with my kids. Every lyric of every song by a sold out theater. That thing is a juggernaut. (Also, proof that B. Snyder’s “Save the Cat” is alive and well).

Is the end of gerrymandering a possibility here? Like, if we go to a never ending tit for tat of states at what point is it all just proven to be a sham? (It is).