On today’s episode of Cartoonishly Overt Sign We’re the Baddies: they’re taking the olive branch off the dime because it presents peace
as a music listener you will be rewarded tenfold spending $15-$20 to see a local act at a local venue. make live music a regular thing, not one more unreasonable facet of our profiteering corporate hellscape
Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs
It just became available on Kanopy. I felt the mock biopic was the weak link.
Recently read Shadow Ticket, and this has been sitting on my shelf for several years. Thanks for the impetus for finally giving it a read.
I slogged through Lincoln in the Bardo, but I had a bad feeling about this one. The concision of the short story form puts a damper on Saunders’ worst impulses.
Hey, Democrats, go ahead and attend the State of the Union, but only if you react in real time with this silhouette as your spirit guide.
This seemed too good to be true, so I checked it out and, yep, it's 100% real.
www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
And if you're bragging today about how you killed your WaPo subscription a while ago -- which is legit -- but you still have Amazon Prime because you just gotta watch, I dunno, Fallout, or Fleabag, or, fuck me, Shiny Happy People, of which I was a part, then you've chosen yr side, & its Bezos'.
Abolish ICE.
There’s no reforming it.
There’s no compromise.
There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.
“I forced the shape of English onto resisting tongues and then dared to call it ‘broken.’”
My goodness
I have just one question: What’s Andy’s take on Jim Belushi playing Ken Kesey in the new film The Chronology of Water? I’m anticipating some strong feelings on the subject. #TestShow435
Nope. Not enough for me. Need proof of life or I will start believing he "fell" out of the plane over the North Atlantic and was replaced by JD Vance in Mrs Doubtfire prosthetics. bsky.app/profile/atru...
this is the sickest shit ive ever seen
I take this as a positive sign that morale is zero within DHS, that they're all afraid, and that Miller is doing this publicly for the same reason Himmler made all the SS chiefs assemble to hear they were doing the Holocaust: you can't say later you weren't in this, and weren't empowered.
Today we salute a king
Northtown Books in Arcata is an absolutely incredible bookstore. Several years ago I met the folks who are running it now and their passion for running a welcoming local space was so infectious.
This fire is utterly awful.
If you can afford to kick in a few bucks to their fundraiser, please help.
"Like Amazon Prime, but with human beings."
Drag him.
thank you to everyone finding this essay in a brand new magazine - one that is trying to do something different in this time of media consolidation...
Elected Democrats spending more time today praising Dick Cheney than Zohran Mamdani is a great case study in abject fucking moral failure.
*This must be the most Erik Davis paragraph ever.
www.burningshore.com/p/demons-and...
Tyranny. Intolerable.
I like how Zohran Mamdani scandals are like "He called his old cousin his aunt one time" and Andrew Cuomo scandals are like "He sexually assaulted 13 women."
I hear the President has decreed that it is possibly a crime to refer to Americans as "fascists," but "fascism" is a word that has a relatively clear meaning that's worth understanding. Here's how an official publication of the US Army defined "fascism" in 1945.
So sad about this. I didn’t know Kaleb, but his writing made me think I did.
Yeah, you can call it fascism
Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative
