Christian Carey

Joyce Carol Oates quoting a tweet that says “wherever he [Elon Musk] goes, he wants to leave”: "wherever he goes, he wants to leave"-- that's because when he gets there, he has brought his own self along; & whatever club he's invited to join has been devalued by the invitation.

Boy watching Homer beat up the krusty burglar: Stop! He’s already dead!

Dick Durbin wanted his legacy to be killing your mother because she can’t afford cancer treatment.

Dems. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory

An agreement to agree to do a later vote is NOT an enforceable contract so what in the actual hell are Americans getting out of this deal??

i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.

Things are very bad.
Need to find my way to the next thing.

Brought to you by Senate Democrats: "How to gain a mandate and lose it in less than a week." #shutdown

Donald Trump has asked his employees on the Supreme Court to overrule lower court orders demanding that he fulfill his duties to feed Americans who are due SNAP benefits

AND

He's demanding that states which just rushed to fill the vacuum created by his cruelty "undo" that work.

I'm kind of into brunching in the protestant deep south because if you're a heathen you really can beat the church crowd. There's actually a church crowd to beat!

In response to Elon Musk dunking on someone as a "taker, not a maker," JCO quotes and replies "So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates—scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend's or relative's accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. In fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the 'most wealthy person in the world.'"

My theory about Joyce Carol Oates is that all her bad posts are her charging up like Godzilla's spines until she lets loose with a radioactive blast that leaves the world's richest Nazi a pile of ash

Pope Leo:

Claim: My uncle says Mamdani will abolish the entire NYPD. True: Your uncle does say that.

theonion.com/fact-checkin...

If you have a regional accent, please never try to get rid of it. Accents tell stories.

Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari outside
of Speaker Mike Johnson's office because he is starving families and gutting health care to cover up the Epstein Files.

Susumu Yokota — Grinning Cat (Skintone Editions) Susumu Yokota - I Imagine [To see Dusted's previous reviews of the albums in this reissue series, see here.] By 2001, Susumu Yokota had proved that eclecticism would do nothing to dilute the quality.....

My review of Susumu Yokota's "Grinning Cat."

dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7994814...

It's also almost the exact amount Republicans cut Medicaid by earlier this year

this truly is the thing that brings me real joy because this is the piece that’s replicable everywhere. if enough of us show up, their millions of dollars in dark money, bribes and attack ads accomplish nothing. Mamdani is clearly a generational talent but he won’t be the only one we find if we look

Not to replace substance with message but I genuinely do not think that the GOP establishment is prepared, nor capable, of regulating itself in a world where all high profile democrats are directly staring into a camera and telling Trump to go fuck himself.

One week ago the owner of my local bodega told me he didn’t do politics. Tonight he was wearing a NYC “I voted” sticker, saw me and smiled.

“I changed my mind,” he said.

I didn’t know you could spell Cuomo with 2 L’s

This is how a real President is supposed to act

Zohran Mamdani says on NY1 he didn't get a congratulatory call from either Andrew Cuomo or Eric Adams last night.

He says he got a congratulatory call from Curtis Sliwa, though.

How Zohran Mamdani Beat Back New York’s Elite and Was Elected Mayor

This NYT story about how Mamdani dealt with the opposition by the city's elites fails to mention one particular elite institution: The NYT editorial page, which last June railed against him as "uniquely unsuited to the city’s challenges... lacks political savvy"

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n...
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YouTube video by Craven Faults Craven Faults - Far Closes (Official Video)

Craven Faults' latest single. youtu.be/V2zNtlR5ZdU?...

Two cats, one lap.

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert "Human Mind" - Mavis Staples (LIVE on The Late Show)

Mavis Staples on Colbert: youtu.be/93iJcfvkdYw?... #mavisstaples #antirecords

Don't discard the good because you expect perfection. #Vote2025

Today in class, Deep Listening, the album, the ethos, and the implications for our creative work. #PaulineOliveros #Musicsince1900class #deeplistening

Blue Note's "RVG Edition" series was my gateway into jazz. The CDs were $10 a piece (IIRC) and allowed me to explore the classics as a high school student with a part time job.