John Linnell

I love that the expression is about how you're just like everyone else. I've been putting them on both legs at once since before I ever heard that saying.

A formal tableau featuring Stan Harrison (saxophone) Mark Pender (trumpet) and Dan Levine (trombone).

Horn guys

Protesters with American flags, "Resist" banner in front of old city hall and St. Louis arch.

TMBG guitarist Dan Miller cavorts with umbrella and two inflatable costumed protesters in front of old city hall and St. Louis arch. Penguin holds sign that says "I like my ICE crushed".

No Kings, St. Louis.

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

Very capacious work table with keyboard and speakers. Affixed to it is a metal plaque that says "Manufactured by Dewan Luxury Products, Brooklyn NY"

Brian Dewan built this desk for me more than thirty years ago. Since then I’ve taken it apart and moved it five times. It’s now in it’s sixth studio and being readied for it’s fourth decade of service.

Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance.

Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.

We have been sent here to fight for people.

We are fast becoming a banana republic, with two standards of justice. If you oppose the leader, you go to jail just for speech. If you're a loyalist, you get immunity for your crimes.

That's what happens in Iran - not the United States. This is a decision moment for America.

My favorite misheard lyric courtesy Kristin Asbury

Curing cancer would be unfair to people who have already died of cancer

A man in a large crowd waves an American Flag at a No Kings rally in Seattle

No Kings rally, U of Wash, Seattle

Randy Newman already turned in the definitive number.

I can spot a fake smile without smart glasses

Lean Back / Lean Forward

Are they repointing or is it something more drastic?

Gigantic sculpture of a sailor grabbing and kissing a dental hygienist based on a photo taken on V-J day. The woman depicted in the photo has said that the sailor was a stranger to her and that the kiss was not consensual.

Strolling around San Diego today I visited this monument depicting a sailor sexually assaulting a dental hygienist on V-J day. The name of the 25 foot high computer generated kitsch, if you weren’t already creeped out by what it depicts, is “Unconditional Surrender.”

oh yes the same people who acted like they were being murdered when they had to put a piece of cloth over their faces definitely understand the concept of shared sacrifice

Eric Andre holding a pizzaball.

Time to deliver a pizzaball!

HHS plans to cut the national suicide hotline’s program for LGBTQ youth In February, the program received an average of 2,100 contacts per day.

HHS Plans to Cut the National Suicide Hotline’s Program for LGBTQ Youth
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Statue of a soldier with rifle, Lexington, MA

Minuteman Statue, Lexington MA

Given the ongoing debate about how we commemorate our history I just want to add a shoutout to D. Boon and the Minutemen, punk rock soldiers who deserve their own monument.

camera: Argus Matchmatic

Two-thirds of NYers support city-owned grocery stores. Three-fourths support free buses. Nearly 80% support a rent-freeze.

I'm running for mayor to deliver these exact policies.

Our campaign is surging because unlike Andrew Cuomo, we know what working people need and deserve.

Our birthday tribute to Mickey Dolenz, who just turned 80.

panel shows aide entering oval office text box: "and so in America" aide to President: Mr. President! We took it too far the Canadians heard us making fun of them, and got all fucked up on hockey

The great Kate Beaton

Kurt Hoffman (vocals, tenor saxophone) and Meg Reichart (vocals, guitar) onstage at Barbès.

Les Chauds Lapins last night at Barbès, Brooklyn.

I think about this comic too. It feels so relevant now, and as grim as it is, it ends on a kind of optimistic note (for Crumb).

Harding and Grant had scandal-plagued terms, W. Harrison and Garfield didn’t survive long enough to make a mark. Hayes, who lost the popular vote, was installed in a backroom deal to end Reconstruction. McKinley, lionized by the current president, didn’t rate having his name spelled correctly here.

A gallery of eight U.S. presidents from Ohio.

Not to dump on Ohio, which has some fine qualities, but this gallery of Ohio born presidents doesn’t exactly make the case for great leadership.

Cincinnati

Indie Bookstores Will Soon Be Able to Sell E-Books (Gift Article) Bookshop, a site that lets independent, bricks-and-mortar bookshops sell their books online, is launching an app that will allow the sales of e-books, too.

Rare good news in the book world www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/b...

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