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Review: Lowrider ‘Ode To Io’ [25th Anniversary Reissue] - The Sleeping Shaman Lee B explores Lowrider's Ode To Io 25th anniversary reissue – a fuzzed-out stoner rock classic where Swedish grit meets desert grooves

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“We didn’t want to be some huge rock’n’roll band. We wanted to make music for the people”: the inside story of Kyuss’ Blues For The Red Sun, the classic album that changed the course of stoner rock How cult stoner rock visionaries Kyuss made 1992’s classic Blues For The Red Sun

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Retro Review: Electric Wizard 'Dopethrone' – 25th Anniversary - The Sleeping Shaman Martin revisits Electric Wizard's Dopethrone – a quarter century later it remains a cornerstone and a pillar of stoner rock and doom metal

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Alex Gagne Signs Entry-Level Contract with Colorado Avalanche - University of New Hampshire Athletics Two-time University of New Hampshire men's hockey captain Alex Gagne (Bedford, N.H.) has signed a two-year entry-level contract with the Colorado Avalanche o...

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Trump Promised to ‘Drill, Baby, Drill.’ The New Rigs Are Nowhere to Be Found...

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First Half Red Sox Takeaways What a time it is to be a Red Sox fan!

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What Both Sides Get Wrong About Immigration The LA riots prove we’re missing the point about immigration, writes Martin Gurri.

What Both Sides Get Wrong About Immigration www.thefp.com/p/what-both-...

Ukrainian attack on Russian bombers shows how cheap drones could upset global security On Wednesday, President Putin reportedly vowed to respond to Ukraine's surprise attack on its strategic bombers. According to Russia's nuclear doctrine, the attack could technically prompt a nuclear r...

On Wednesday, Vladimir Putin reportedly vowed to respond to Ukraine's surprise attack on Russia's strategic bombers.

According to Russia's nuclear doctrine, the attack could technically prompt a nuclear retaliation.

Read the new article by Julien de Troullioud de Lanversin. ⬇️

It’s Time to Call This Year What It Is 2025 will be defined as a developmental season.

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DOGE vowed to make government more ‘efficient’ — but it’s doing the opposite New procedures and requirements — some implemented in the name of improving operations — are slowing down federal agencies.

What a sh*t show:

DOGE vowed to make government more ‘efficient’ — but it’s doing the opposite

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I Regret to Inform You that the Clowns Have Set Fire to the Big Top May 21, 2025

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Presidential Cancer Cover-Up? [Trump – not Biden] By John Breneman An American president is at the center of a scandalous cancer cover-up — and it ain’t Joe Biden. Triple Action News has learned that the United States is being ravaged by a deadly for...

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How to Survive Artificial Intelligence This technology can usher in an age of flourishing the likes of which we have never seen. It will also foment a crisis about what it is to be a person at all.

AI Will Change What It Is to Be Human. Are We Ready?
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Trump Executive Orders written by AI I was writing on my diary about the Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter being fired after coming out with a report on AI that said research and scholarship were one thing, but scraping copyrighted...

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The Intellectual Godfathers of Protectionism Once shunned, globalization’s doubters turned out to be right about its destructive economic and social consequences. What do they think of what Trump is doing?

The Intellectual Godfathers of Protectionism
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New polls show fear and loathing for Imperial Grand Dragon Trump [satire] Bad news for Donald Trump. Less than 100 days into his second term as America’s Imperial Grand Dragon, new polls show his approval ratings are freefalling faster than the stock market after a Trumpian...

Some interesting demographic segments polled here:
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Rod Dreher: ‘Cry More, Libs’ Is Not a Strategy These are difficult days for people like me: Americans who back the Trump administration for its determination to fight back against establishment tyrannies, but who are now troubled by its excesses, ...

Can't say I agree, but a very well written piece on why someone still supports Trump and the legit goals and hopes for the current administration:

Rod Dreher: ‘Cry More, Libs’ Is Not a Strategy www.thefp.com/p/rod-dreher...

Four Former UNH Wildcats on Stanley Cup Playoff Rosters - University of New Hampshire Athletics Four former University of New Hampshire men's hockey players are currently on 2025 Stanley Cup Playoff rosters.

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MIKE BORDIN On FAITH NO MORE: "MIKE PATTON Has Gone From Being Unable To Do The Shows To Clearly Being Unwilling To Do Shows With Us" - Metal Injection "That's heavy. That's a big difference. And we haven't really had much dialogue on it."

MIKE BORDIN On FAITH NO MORE: "MIKE PATTON Has Gone From Being Unable To Do The Shows To Clearly Being Unwilling To Do Shows With Us" metalinjection.net/news/mike-bo...

Trump Admin Orders Social Media Review on Gaza Visitors to the U.S. from all but 43 countries subject to vetting of posts since 2007

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The New Rules of Podcasting Are Making Our Debates—and Us—Dumber I celebrated the rise of new media, writes Konstantin Kisin. What could go wrong with “democratizing information”? As it turns out, quite a lot. Witness the Douglas Murray and Dave Smith debate.

Fascinating take on Modern Media: The New Rules of Podcasting Are Making Our Debates—and Us—Dumber www.thefp.com/p/the-new-ru...

The Further Depredations of DOGE Morning Dispatch

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WTF am I doing on a box of Wheaties?! I'm part of their new “Obscure Humorists of the 21st Century” series

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Today's top Trump Fake News When your president goes by the name “Donald Trump,” it can be hard to tell what’s real or fake. Complicating matters, Trump himself is a bona fide phony. A leading scientist from Triple Action Univer...

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Red Sox sign star prospect Kristian Campbell to eight-year extension For the second time this week, the Red Sox locked up another piece of their future on Wednesday.

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What Does the New Right Want? You can’t understand policymaking without ideology. And you can’t understand the Trump White House without understanding this burgeoning movement.

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This is the first time I almost understand the movement.

One beautiful sign of HOPE in the War on America being waged from the White House Despite the ongoing insanity (an all-out War on America waged by an ugly domestic terrorist from his lair in the White House), I still have moments of feeling … hopeful. How is this possible when it f...

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Oops, Team Trump texted me its top-secret Social Security War Plan Exclusive: See my transcript of the shocking group chat on Signal

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Kim Jong Un Demands to be Included in all Future Hegseth Group Chats The North Korean dictator called his exclusion "hurtful."

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Fentanyl May Be Classified As WMD, US Begins Bombing Ottawa In Five Minutes Kidding! Kidding, Canadian friends!

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