Aaron A. Dalton

“We live in a hollowed-out ecosystem where media consolidation and an efficiency mindset means that the breadth of work that once existed in creative fields will never return.

The creative world is cooked.”
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And try therapy!

Give up the hope for a better yesterday and embrace the work for a better tomorrow.

There is not a single example in American history of a president doing something like this: having a secret agenda that's incredibly, unbelievably unpopular, spending the entire campaign pretending it's fake, and then, upon winning, going "psyche!" and not just embracing it, but expanding on it.

Alas, Assassins made it 101 performances

All of Elaine Stritch At Liberty (cheating, I know)

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i would again like to remind everyone that NEGATING A FRAME REINFORCES IT

"he's not really targeting criminals" makes it an argument about criminality

"this is a fascist attack" states what is actually happening

START WITH WHAT IT IS
not what it isn't

Can We Spot It? (Question: How can we identify native American fascists at work? ) An American fascist seeking power would not proclaim that he is a fascist. Fascism always camouflages its plans and purposes. Hitler made demagogic appeals to all groups and swore: "Neither I nor anybody in the National Socialist Party advocates proceeding by anything but Constitutional methods." Any fascist attempt to gain power in America would not use the exact Hitler pattern. It would work under the guise of "super-patriotism" and "super-American-ism." Fascist leaders are neither stupid nor naive. They know that they must hand out a line that "sells." Huey Long is said to have remarked that if fascism came to America, it would be on a program of "Ameri-canism." Fascists in America may differ slightly from fascists in other countries, but there are a number of attitudes and practices that they have in common. Following are three. Every person who has one of them is not necessarily a fascist. But he is

The central point is that when fascism came to America it wouldn't call itself that, nor would it be wearing a swastika. It would call itself "patriotic" and "100% American."

I don't pretend to have the solution to our pusillanimous capitalist titans, but I end by asking: "what more it will take for them to show some backbone and gumption. If not now, when?"

5/4

Totally. By the fourth hour, I just have to start skanking!

20%!

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You and my mother have so much in common.

Pathetic www.instagram.com/reel/DOzIdtE...

Statement in Response to ABC Taking Jimmy Kimmel Live! Off the Air American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada President Tino Gagliardi issued the following statement in response to ABC taking Jimmy Kimmel Live!, which employs musicians from…

“This is not complicated: Trump’s FCC identified speech it did not like and threatened ABC with extreme reprisals.

This is state censorship.

It’s now happening in the USA, not some far-off country. It’s happening right here and right now…”
@afm-union.bsky.social
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Damn

I guess… I stand with Karl Rove?

ABC excluded from Trump’s UK press conference as British officials deny any link to recent clash with Australian journalist Australia’s national broadcaster told by Downing Street that accreditation cancelled for ‘logistical reasons’ as other international outlets also denied entry

Incredible.

Not surprising.

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/s...

YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live Trump Gets Cold Reception in England, Sues NY Times for $15B & Kooky Kash Patel on the Epstein Files

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foucault watching all this like

Late Night’s Last Hope On Last Week Tonight, John Oliver delivers bad news with a pragmatic optimism. Someone has to.

“the primary role of democratically elected government, as he says over and over, should be to protect the powerless from the powerful. We need to see this belief articulated in all mass media, not just on comedy news programs.” www.vulture.com/article/john...

Selective ignorance is such a relief!

“*The clearest, most insightful response to all the eulogies I’ve read*

To speak of Kirk as a champion of reasoned discussion is also to ignore his frequent calls for the state suppression of his political opponents.

‘Investigate first, define the crimes later’ should be the order of the day’ “

If you visit downtown Tupelo, there’s a store with a sign telling the story about how a young Elvis walked in hoping to get a rifle and got sold a guitar instead, and in all seriousness there should be a national grassroots initiative to do that all the time everywhere.

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This bit seems telling:
“I did not know Kirk, and I am not the right person to eulogize him. But I envied what he built.”

...and while I think it's possible to make an argument that his assassination--that ANY political assassination--is an attack on diversity of thought and free speech, to posthumously hold him up as an example of someone who genuinely believed in those values for his opponents is simply not honest.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Governor Polis Orders Flags to Half-Staff to Honor the Anniversary of September 11th and the Passing of Charlie Kirk

Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment.

Jared Polis has failed Colorado.

Too true!