Alexander Reid Ross

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

does anyone really *need* to have to run to the bomb shelters, in the moral sense? is any of this really revolutionary?

incidentally, receiving texts from a Palestinian friend like "they're bombing tel-aviv" in that concerned key of shared "what the fuck are we all doing here" is basically my feeling right now. to be anti-war is to love each other. I don't have a side here.

I feel absolutely terrible for the people of Iran and Lebanon who have been absolutely terrorized. No idea what my gov's endgame is here, but it seems, like "papers please" domestically, to have terror and degradation as its purpose.

Today we lost not only a young hockey player and his mother. We lost a part of our great hockey family.”🕯

is there any evidence they think it's fine?

The Water Polo Scandal That Rocked LA’s Most Elite Private School In 2024 top water polo player Lucca van der Woude was arrested at Los Angeles’s Harvard-Westlake School—allegedly under suspicion of sexual assault. The criminal case against the player was closed, an...

Excellent but enraging story about open racism and sexual assault of teammates on a water polo team at an LA private school. The school admin and faculty vary between cruelly indifferent, incompetent, and outright racist.

I can't figure a way to do a gift link.

www.vanityfair.com/news/story/w...

YouTube video by WillieNelsonVEVO Willie Nelson - The Last Thing I Needed First Thing This Morning (Audio)

unrelated willie posting

www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-1u...

YouTube video by WillieNelsonVEVO Willie Nelson - The Last Thing I Needed First Thing This Morning (Audio)

unrelated willie posting

www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-1u...

it has come to my attention that this was also put out on my birth year... it is now close... neck and neck in fact.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=y70y...

yeah, Kate bush stabs me right in the heart every time. the somehow sadness of bliss and euphoria

I love the pat benetar version too though!

Picture of DOGE guy Nate Cavanaugh

Screenshot of my DOGE letter “Dr. Joseph Rezek Dear NEH Grantee, This letter provides notice that the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is terminating your federal grant (Grant Application No. FEL29509824) effective April 3, 2025, in accordance with the termination clause in your Grant Agreement. Your grant no longer effectuates the agency's needs and priorities and conditions of the Grant Agreement and is subject to termination due to several reasonable causes, as outlined in 2CFR§200.340. For instance, NEH has reasonable cause to terminate your grant in light of the fact that the NEH is repurposing its funding allocations in a new direction in furtherance of the President's agenda. The President's February 19, 2025 executive order mandates that the NEH eliminate all non-statutorily required activities and functions. See Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy, E.O. 14217 (Feb. 19, 2025). Your grant's immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government, including its fiscal priorities. Any objections or appeals to this termination will be managed in strict accordance with the President's Executive Orders,

Last year, this guy (left) from DOGE used ChatGPT to find NEH grants that were too “DEI” for Trump, and canceled them, including mine, as shown by the letter I received last April (right). Huge new NYT article on the back story link below

they are like wu tang for me, just a New York band that violently attacks fascism ... I think if all the agnostic front albums were as good as victim in pain, they'd be up there... or if beastie boys hadn't been so shitty in their earliest stuff maybe I guess, idk

it's hard to say sonic youth wasn't the best band of all time I guess

YouTube video by Puzzled Panther - Topic Dirty Boots

heh, some pdx love to these guys on this trip

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQRt...

lol, tugging on this thread led me to The Breeders Cannonball, and I'm so glad I went there

I love it, it's absolutely full on

you absolute legend, you.

YouTube video by Cher - Topic I Found Someone

this is another classic right here www.youtube.com/watch?v=48L1...

several times, yes.

Former Neo-Nazi Martin Sellner Launches European Ethnic Cleansing Institute Former Austrian neo-Nazi Martin Sellner has launched the “Institute for Remigration,” a new effort to mainstream his plan for the mass deportation of migrants, and even citizens classified by them as ...

Former neo-Nazi Martin Sellner has launched the “Institute for Remigration,” a new project aimed at advancing a Europe-wide campaign for mass deportations. The initiative builds on the “Great Replacement” and reflects a broader effort to push white nationalist ideas into mainstream political debate.

forever's gonna start tonight!

oh, and it's not even close

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcOx...

(Polio. It's polio)

okay?

This is no different from Putin saying MH17 was shot down by Ukraine or Assad saying rebels gassed themselves.

absinthe: what if freebasing, but liquor?