Jeff Noricks

Most capitalists are just sad insecure men who need to learn what so many trans people learned - power and hierarchy will never validate you for being you, only how you benefit the system - and that no matter how much you win at the system's game, it'll still make you feel like you're not enough.

yeah I get it - all nostalgia and I do remember them very fondly and would like to try one BUT I will not wait in a big line, etc. I don't get the urgency that much - ha

Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station.

List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/

Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly.

sbgi.net/tv-stations/

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This book could help save democracy: Allan Lichtman’s Conservative at the Core shows that Trump isn’t an aberration but the culmination of 100 years of conservatism — built on privilege & a version of Christianity far from Jesus’s teachings. Buy it here: www.amazon.com/Conservative...

Legacy media keep referring to the Epstein cover-up as a “scandal,” when they should be calling it a crime.

Now you can work full-time, year-round, and still drown in student loans. And the Trump administration just made it harder to pay them off.

They wonder why young folks are so pissed.

RFK Jr. is absolutely poisonous. He has now caused Dr. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos, the person in charge of COVID19 vaccinations at the CDC, to resign.

She did so because RFK Jr. demanded that the experts in charge of vaccine guidance listen to him and not to the scientific evidence.

I've read the McClain autobiography so I knew about the organ playing (I think even played on the Tonight Show at one point), but I didn't think there would be records. That is cool. I have a '68 Tigers team record in my collection but not the organ music.

MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred can talk all he wants about the illogic in keeping dead people banned but he never would've reinstated Pete Rose if Donald Trump hadn't inserted himself into the matter. Manfred and his predecessors have routinely said in the past that they weren't going to do that despite multiple petitions by Rose's representatives and others but he did it yesterday specifically to please Trump and/or in an effort to head off Trump fucking with Major League Baseball. Pete Rose raped a 15 year-old girl in the 1970s -- she may have actually been 14 at the time -- associated with drug dealers, committed federal financial crimes, and compromised the competitive integrity of the game. He never took a single ounce of responsibility for any of that and he cravenly lied about it all until the day he died. Despite that, yesterday Rob Manfred paved the way for him to receive the highest honor Major League Baseball can bestow, all because a horribly corrupt man with multiple felony convictions of his own bullied him into doing it. This tells you everything you need to know about Rob Manfred, his ethics, his morals, and his spine. Fuck that guy. Fuck him sideways now and forever.

My newsletter today contains my thoughts about the Pete Rose reinstatement. Short version: www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...

Nice Richard Rohr reference! That guy is a amazing.

Happy Dave Brubeck Day!

(Take Five is written in 5/4 time.)

Sign reading "so tired of living in an Onion article"

An important message.

the american electoral system is basically 500,000 information-resistant people across a handful of states taking a guess and then going "haha! oops!" every two years. this process takes 18 months and costs four trillion dollars every time

i am fascinated by the outright refusal of people in the professional political commentary class to just consider the possibility that there is no plan and that trump really is a braying idiot with the more acute case of narcissistic personality disorder on record

i want nothing more than for jd vance to become a pariah whose name is a burden on him for the rest of his life.

the last decade has really helped me understand in a more visceral sense what it meant when God hardened the pharoah’s heart

Fairness Is Overrated A meditation on winning, losing, and kids' sports.

Sports isn't really about winning.

A long meditation on in today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/fairness-i...

Musk and Trump could not possibly be sending a clearer signal that the Tesla protests are working than this pathetic stunt today.

I've been randomly working through older classic films to fill holes in my "list" while also working to complete artists like Spielberg which led me to watch The Post from 2017 this week for the first time. What a powerful movie and I recommend. Very timely especially in these days.

Opinion | Trump’s Revenge Tour Finds Its True Target (Gift Article) It is hard to describe the president’s first month and a half in office as something other than a retribution campaign against the American people.

tired of people treating trump like he is anything other than an ego-driven simpleton (i wrote this, this is a piece about why he is nothing more than an ego driven simpleton.)

I think this was my favorite photo from Vermont this weekend.

Fox News reported that JD Vance had to move to an “undisclosed location” due to protests at the Vermont resort where he’s skiing this weekend. For inflicting misery on the world and here at home in America, this is exactly the energy that should greet Vance wherever he goes for the rest of his days.

What she said.

an archival black and white photograph of the KKK marching in Washington DC with the capitol behind them

In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…

Absolutely (and also to make things bad so the solution is to let all the donny t buddies get the private business to "fix" these problems)

Here's the ad the Washington Post wouldn't run

So….the Bezos-owned rag, @washingtonpost.com, refused to run this ad from @commoncause.bsky.social ! What do you say we make up for their 🐓💩 attitude by spreading it far and wide?

www.commoncause.org/articles/jef...

Elon Musk is trying to access your personal bank and tax data.

The world’s richest man should not and cannot be able to snoop around your personal finances.

Period. End of story.

I just made a donation to the Associated Press to show support for them. As others have said, other news orgs that are still there are not as courageous.

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live Bad Idea Jeans - Saturday Night Live

The daily grind of this awful administration and the fresh hell of the next outrageous and stupid announcement made me remember the old SNL Bad Idea Jeans parody ad. Funny, but too true. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGfB...