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These are the "law enforcement" tactics federal agents are using in Chicago. Their car is obstructed by a moped so they tear gas the entire neighborhood.

Unacceptable in America.

THE CHICKENS ARE FINALLY COMING HOME TO ROOST

Ryan Walters is out & the investigation floodgates just opened. The Oklahoma AG launched a full audit of Walters’ entire tenure as Superintendent, and it’s about damn time.

Also the education dept website’s being scrubbed of his culture-war nonsense.
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Republicans talk a big game about toning down political violence. But last week I called for a vote on my bill that would have given all Americans, including judges and other elected officials like this necessary privacy protections to stay safe. Republicans blocked it.

Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words.

The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.

there's a picture of her with the front of her shirt just soaked in blood. imagine trying to crack an 84 year old woman's skull and body slamming an 84 year old vet leaning on a walker.

is this the warrior ethos we've heard so much about?

It would please me so much if, after an endless string of perfect and heartrending novels, I got to make the last one be just absolute nonsense. An album to look up to in every respect

At the Zoo lmaooooo ABSOLUTE NONSENSE & I have always LOVED IT. One of the few S&G songs that I HAVE to dance to! It has appeared on many a workout mix of mine over the years.

The monkeys stand for honesty, giraffes are insincere, and the elephants are kindly but they’re dumb

The final track! lol

A Hazy Shade of Winter! So badass!! Goes so hard! I especially love it being right after Mrs. Robinson which is overall plucky sounding and then BAM

IT’S WINTER MOTHERFUCKERS

Time time time see what’s become of me!!

Again, fascinating to me that Mrs. Robinson—maybe their most well-known song?—is just hanging out in the middle of Side Two. I think this was specifically written for the Graduate soundtrack? So I imagine them trying to figure out where to stick it on their own album and yeah, middle of Side Two, ok

Punky’s Dilemma lol what a delight. I know Paul Simon wasn’t a perfect man, but no one else could start a song with the line “Wish I was a Kellogg’s Cornflake” and have all of us go yeah, sure

Side Two, especially compared to Side One, is raucous. Which is such an interesting choice to me! And evidenced by starting with Fakin’ It, which is just. Too relatable lol, lyrics wise, but audibly, a real good time

Bookends is a minute and a half long, a single verse, and it is literally perfect. I am gobsmacked by it.

Also: a PERFECT side one ending.

Old Friends breaks my heart every goddamn time.

How terribly strange to be seventy

Fuck

I can remember almost every line in Voices of Old People. Which is literally just recordings of old people. The art of the album man

The bittersweetness of Overs.

“No good times, no bad times
There’s no times at all
Just the New York Times”

I’m empty and aching and I don’t know why

COUNTING THE CARS ON THE NEW JERSEY TURNPIKE

FUCK

She said the man in the Gabardine suit was a spy! Fuck!

Have nothing to say about America that hasn’t been said other than it literally defined by childhood

I always forget about Save the Life of My Child even though it’s the real album opener. What a strange and wonderful song

“oh my grace I’ve got no hiding place”

Love starting an album with an introductory theme. The art of the album, man. I miss it

A vinyl edition of Bookends by Simon & Garfunkel next to a record player

Some thoughts upon listening to this copy of Bookends I bought at an antique store for $5:

Yup. I honestly don’t even know if I can keep watching??

😒 when she said she left her OIL AND GAS JOB to run a WELLNESS COMPANY I was like……is this an AI-written villain

bangs. "They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other," Watson said. "That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, 'f*** them kids.'" Watson said trucks and military-style vans were used to separate parents from their children. Other neighbors said agents destroyed property to get in the building. "They had a big, 15-inch chainsaw with round blade on it, cutting this fence down," said witness Darrell Ballard. "We're under siege. We're being invaded by our own military."

“Fuck them kids.”

That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other.

abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

………….what

But there is a definite Vibe on this season that feels like it’s appealing to the new political climate 🫠

To be clear most of these shows often make me feel bleak, like an anthropological study of straight people, and oof! Truly hard for me to believe that people live this way!!

This season of Love Is Blind makes me feel fucking bleak

Me toooooooooo