Thomas Shrack

Quadrophonics: A Pair of 4-Channel Concerts

7 to 11 p.m. - KQED (88.5) and KPFA (94.1) Quadrophonic broadcast: Listeners will need two stereo radios, one for each station at opposite ends of the room. Features will be Robert Mora's "Positions,' selections by Santana and the Velvet Underground and electronic music by William Mor- aldo.

apparently, the velvet underground did a quad broadcast in the bay area in june 1970, aired on KQED/KPFA. maybe taped at their final san francisco shows in late '69, so some more MIA (pro mixed) tapes! via @grantmcphee.bsky.social awesome VU project. grantmcphee.substack.com/p/the-velvet...

A yellow lab on his back in the snow with his hind legs perfectly straight up in the air

Perfect form. 10/10

I cannot imagine any circumstance under which it is necessary — or even worth any media worker’s time — to write about what Bill Maher says about current events. He hasn’t been relevant in 20 years.

Read this thread. You will thank me.

Kash Patel is going to make history as the first FBI director to get medically evacuated from Burning Man

Elias Law Group is litigating 85 voting and election cases in 40 states. This is the largest litigation docket we have ever carried as a firm and I expect new cases to be filed this week.

We are not done fighting and we are not done winning.⚖️🗳️🥊

I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.

The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...

Kurt Vonnegut stop being so applicable to all time periods of American life, you can’t do that Kurt Vonnegut, your insights are too evergreen Kurt Vonnegut

These laws are disrespectful to persons of faith. Makes their God smaller. A pitiful deity that needs ceaseless bureaucratic enforcement.

Talarico says love thy neighbor is the second of two commandments Jesus called on Christians to honor, the first being love God. There is nothing about his Christian faith that should be seen as alienating non-Christians.

This is important to say because lots of liberals ain't hearing it.

Do they though

Dudes the key is to start at the *top* of the track and slide *down*.

Nazgul is a very good boy.

They're quite literally pillaging the government.

A stay pending appeal, and an immediate administrative stay, are necessary to prevent immediate, irreparable harm to the Nation. And a stay would not harm plaintiffs, who can be made whole through a refund, including interest, if tariffs paid during these appeals are ultimately held unlawful. Absent at least interim relief from this Court, the United States plans to seek emergency relief from the Supreme Court tomorrow to avoid the irreparable national-security and economic harms at stake. Plaintiffs oppose this motion.1

Here's the language from Trump's appeal of the District Court ruling on tariffs that said they'd pay back the plaintiffs, at least (they made this promise to get a stay back in May).

They caused themselves the headache they're about to face.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Tulsi Gabbard going to show up as the FBI raids John Roberts office?

one thing you have to understand about helen andrews is she is genuinely stupid

"THE SUPREME COURT RULED THAT THE POWER TO 'REGULATE' IS NOT AN UNCONSTRAINED POWER TO TAX!!!!!" uh, yeah? This is not even a hard question?

The reference to families is the extra touch that makes Trump a lowlife thug and Trump followers fucking trash.

Ah, now we’re guiding tariff revenue LOWER. No more “$300 billion, $600 billion,” etc. 🤡

Hours after SCOTUS said only the Congress can tax, the president said no, he can do all the taxes he wants all by himself. This is not getting enough attention. Via @atrupar.com

Epstein died in a locked cell with three neighbors who all told investigators that nobody did cell checks, let alone enter cells, the night Epstein died. Everything else is commentary.

We're all going to have to keep paying higher prices because the president is throwing a tantrum

“The tariffs have utterly failed to restore manufacturing jobs, which are falling in part due to the misguided application of the tariffs themselves.” @gregsargent.bsky.social on the Supreme Court striking down of Trump’s most central—and most ruinous!—policy agendas.

Trump’s Epic Loss on Tariffs Is Even Worse for Him than You Think The Supreme Court’s stunning invalidation of most of the president’s tariffs is another sign that Trumpist populist nationalism is in crisis.

The Supreme Court's remarkable ruling against tariffs is another sign that Trumpist nationalism is in crisis. Tariffs and deportations are key pillars of Trumpism. Both are major fiascos. Both have caused his approval to crater.

Trumpism is failing.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2068...

Third American death linked to ICE crackdown uncovered by Newsweek While the 23-year-old's death was reported in March 2025, it was not made clear that a federal agent fired the fatal shot.

For a whole year, DHS hid that they murdered Ruben, a young man in Texas, after a traffic stop.

Just like they did with Silverio, Renee, Keith, Alex, and Linda, they lied and avoided accountability. How many more people have to be executed before my colleagues realize that reforms are not enough?

As the world reels from the president's rant and threats of additional tariff chaos, I'd just like to remind the UK that they recently arrested someone who could probably bring down this entire house of cards with very little incentive.

Turns Out There Was Voter Fraud in Georgia—by Elon Musk The state board of elections found Musk’s PAC sent prefilled ballot applications.

The story that Elon Musk committed voter fraud has gotten next to no coverage -- one of those things you can't make come up on a Google search.

But I think it's time for Dems to go on offensive abt right wing coddling of this immigrant interfering in our elections.

newrepublic.com/post/206857/...