Is Stephen fucking Miller running our country right now? 👀 open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...
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Is Stephen fucking Miller running our country right now? 👀 open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...
Graham Greene has died. A Canadian acting icon, he earned an Oscar nomination for his role as Kicking Bird in Dances With Wolves. He also won a Grammy, Gemini and Canadian Screen Award, along with the Governor General's Performing Arts Award. He also earned a star on Canada's Walk of Fame.
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My dream is for it to happen like it does to vampires. When the leader kicks the bucket, the rest of them burst into flames.
WTF are all you commie libs talking about? He looks great!!
This is not what America is. It’s not. And we must make this very clear when we vote in 2026.👇
The average American simply has no idea how quickly the infrastructure that keeps us safe and healthy is collapsing. These systems run in the background thanks to government employees who quietly do critical work. Those employees are being purged and systems are being destroyed.
This whole thing is great but the highlighted bit made me laugh out loud. 😂 Marlon on Snoop:
The thing about a lot of these never Trump Republicans is that, unlike a lot of institutionalist Dems who think the fever will break and we can all return to comity or whatever, these guys saw the rot up close and know the only appropriate response is to tear them out of government root and branch.
The far right succeeded in this country in large part because adult men were angry about this supposed theft, and the Nazis learned to channel that rage. "[Marginalized group] stole your sex mommy!" is quite literally their rallying cry a lot of the time.
every day i see hundreds of comments of people spinning elaborate scenarios to explain how trump can control everything and all opposition is futile. a) i think a lot of you need to log off and stop following professional doomsayers. b) i think a lot of you are cowards
CHICAGO…
ICE forcing firefighters to stop battling a wildfire and make them all show their papers, then arresting some active firefighters and pulling them off the line shows there's no bottom. As @aselrod.bsky.social pointedly argues, it's nothing less than an "active assault on virtue wherever it exists."
"This is why liberals operate solely in reactive mode when it comes to Trump: Trump is the one constant when all else is chaos. This is a very unhealthy habit. We have a much better chance of combatting autocracy if people are creative instead of reactive." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/mafia-stat...
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
I believe this is what the kids call performative
My body is not cut out to be this furious all the time. I am built for naming dogs Doctor Reginald Pancakes and telling people about the time two bees stung me while I was on the toilet
A quarter of a billion dollars for this. 👇
Remember, when horrible things happen, you are not required to follow every breaking new development and be informed of every detail about what happened. Sometimes, you simply only need to know another horrible thing has happened, and give yourself permission to give your mind and soul a break.
I don’t see him anywhere in the picture though.
Thank God someone is stopping the dangerous... uh... violinists in Utah. Entered the US with proper papers at 10, later graduated with a fine arts degree from the University of Utah and stayed. Invasion! There's evidence he's been part of the vicious gang known as The Salt Lake Symphony Orchestra.
people often ask what’s wrong with gen x, and, like, there are a lot of answers, but i think the AIDS epidemic and the specific people it wiped out is probably an under discussed contributor to the bomber with red dots diagram
The Robert Mitchum/Shelly Winters wedding night scene in Night of the Hunter is Charlie Kirk's romantic ideal.
“Come set on my lap a spell, honey.” A clump of chaw flies through the air and clanks on a spittoon. {fin}
Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it
Who did this?
*Bee Gees voice*
Americans broadly hate all of this, and we all gotta remember that when it feels like things are spinning out of control
If you didn't manage to see this calmly furious and defiant statement by @govpritzker.illinois.gov yesterday, please find 12 minutes to see or hear it today. Best, strongest statement by sr official of where we stand and what is needed now. Civil duty to see it. www.msnbc.com/deadline-whi...
"Honey, I don't have much time. I've been arrested by ICE and they are sending me to a detainment center. I love you and the kids, I will be OK, please call our attorney" -- John Shin, DACA resident, speaking to his wife last week. She hasn't heard from him since www.fox13now.com/news/local-n...
Checked out an old telephone book & a chunky black rotary phone from that phantom branch of the library down by the train tracks that run along the river.
It's Minnesota State Fair time! It's time for Minnesotan folk art! Here, for example, is Saturn Devouring His Corn, in the seed art category!
These glasses are spyware for Meta and whomever they give/sell the info to. If you pay money to Meta to spy for the state and corporate interests, you're an enemy to everyone.
Gov. Pritzker: “Earlier today in the Oval Office, Donald Trump…asked for me personally to say, ‘Mr. President, can you do us the honor of protecting our city?’ Instead, I say, ‘Mr. President, do not come to Chicago. You are neither wanted here nor needed here.’”
Tick Tock www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
It is vital to support local and independent bookstores as well as your libraries. They serve communities and protect information outside the digital realm. Their importance will only increase in the coming years.
This is Room 8. The cat. In 1952 he climbed through a window at Elysian Park School, Los Angeles, & decided he wanted an education. He stayed for 16 years. In summer he disappeared into the hills & ALWAYS returned on the first day of school. TV came to film him appearing at dawn.
This is what happens when a culture becomes so relativistic and anti-intellectual, that some dumbass named Catturd on Twitter becomes the only source for government action. People are finally going to learn what it's like to have a government that rules by arbitrary fiat.
Union station, DC
They also banned books about seahorses for being too sexy! See more---> buff.ly/cmkz7Ki
The best suspense on television is trying to figure out whether someone being interviewed on Dateline is speaking from prison before they tell you.
the right has long labored under the misconception that ordinary liberals have always hated them and their way of life with a burning passion, something which is only just now becoming true
Getting rid of De Minimus right as we gear up for stocking for Christmas is the most impressive piece of "fuck your treats" I can thunk of.
Teaching abt slavery doesn’t make America look horrible—slavery itself is what made America look horrible. Museums just have the receipts. johnfugelsang.substack.com/p/yes-he-hat...
Trump doesn't seem to see that some people are still immune to his threats. Jack White criticized Trump's Oval Office decor. The White House then called White a "washed-up, has-been loser... masquerading as a real artist." And White, undeterred, posted an absolutely blistering takedown in response.
RFKJr is promoting a new kind of high-fat, high-salt, high-sugar diet that is, if anything, much unhealthier than what we had before. But it's highly profitable to him. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
The “Making Of Michael Jackson's Thriller” came out in 1983 when I was little. (We watched a lot of MTV in our dad’s house.) I was already obsessed with MJ, but the “Making of” fueled my interest in documentaries and a deep need to see “An American Werewolf in London.” 80s pop culture perfection!
I was obsessed with that movie and watched all the sequels.
What movie has had the most impact on your actual literal life? Not necessarily your favorite, but the one that’s most influenced or shaped something in your trajectory?
things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes
Banned! The 20 books they didn’t want you to read
Hahahahaha!!! h/t @gregproops.bsky.social
Newsom: We can’t do things the way we’ve done. Let’s disabuse ourselves of that. The Democratic Party needs to assert itself. We need to be strong again. Strength matters. People want conviction. They want character. They want a sense of intention and purpose…
That was one of the most batshit press conferences of Trump's public life. He brandished a photo of Putin and promised to deploy the US military to occupy Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. A sane country would be moving toward impeachment and removal right now.
Just saw them last month at Mosswood Meltdown and they set that stage on fire. Gerald, Mark, and Bob1 are in their 70s and still touring like young madmen. I’m pretty much ready to go full-on deadhead/DEV-Otee and follow them anywhere. Go see ‘em live!!
watching the new devo documentary on netflix and this footage of their early shows is electrifying
Just saw them last month at Mosswood Meltdown and they set that stage on fire. Gerald, Mark, and Bob1 are in their 70s and still touring like young madmen. I’m pretty much ready to go full-on deadhead/DEV-Otee and follow them anywhere. Go see ‘em live!!
DEVO had extraordinary energy and vision at the same time it provided social proof that things were fucked up. As a teen in the Reagan years, I can't overemphasize how welcome and important their message felt. Like oxygen.
Sensing a theme these last cupla weeks. Can’t put a finger on it. @barrons.com @npr.org @axios.com @politico.com
There isn't a bigger anti-establishment, fuck-the-man pursuit than skateboarding. Yet even that industry has succumbed to private equity, destroying leading brands and the relationships that kept the scene thriving, cool, and local. I look at a new report on this cursed financialization:
The numbers are in. The new maps republicans just passed in Texas reduce Hispanic Texans to one-third of a white person and Black Texans to one-fifth of a white person.
Ossoff: "There is at some point is going to be a reckoning for all of this. These folks who are working at these private prison companies who are on Kristi Noem's staff right now, they are at some point going to have to testify under oath about what is happening in the facilities they're running."
I had a dream last night that I was fighting Jason Bourne, Will Hunting and Tom Ripley. After months of therapy I'm finally battling my Damons.
This Empire Strikes Back fascist energy isn't going to play well in the United States. This isn't 1930's Europe. Yes, some non-insignificant percentage of Americans wants this, but the vast majority of us do not. We are repelled by it. And repelled by Stephen Miller.
Guess where people can go for help with this specific problem? The library. And thanks to MAGA culture wars, we can barely allow libraries to exist anymore.
Sorry I fell asleep standing up when you were talking about your weekend
You know you're old when you no longer sneak out of the house to go to a party, but sneak out of a party to go home.
Nicole Collier said she won’t sign “permission slip” to leave the chamber, which would require accepting round-the-clock monitoring by state troopers.
Donnie promised to end the war on day one, supposedly using his great statesmanship skills or magical powers. We're now on day 210 and still nothing—he’s even funding wars and genocides. His statesmanship skills are nonexistent, and his magical powers only work on his cult.
The idea of cats roaming to get dinners in multiple households was the subject of one of my favourite books when I was a child, I am delighted as an adult to discover this is founded in reality
On Saturday, August 16, hundreds of Latinx punks gathered at MacArthur Park for an evening of anti-authoritarian cumbia and hardcore ska punk as one of the venue’s 10 free summer concerts. By @jwhendricks.bsky.social Full story: lataco.com/ska-punk-mac...
And as soon as you help one, another one will ask for help too.
I think I did the math that there are like 10-11 (sometimes heavily) republican districts in and around the Canadian border that are getting absolutely mauled by the lack of tourism and their economies are pratfalling and I think you're going to see surprising results there in '26
WOW. @marcelias.bsky.social goes off on the failures of legacy media: "We have an absolute collapse and failure by the institutions that have promised us that democracy would not die in darkness, that in fact, they stand for the proposition that democracy will die in plain sight of daylight."
Newsom on ICE action outside his presser: "It's pretty sick & pathetic. It's everything you know about Trump's America & the authoritarian tendencies of the president. Wake up, America. You will not have a country if he rigs this election. You will a president running for a third term. Mark my word"
Carnies, all of them Carnies.
The Virtue of Integrity. My latest in @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
This is why I don’t spend much time on Meta’s Threads. So beyond repulsive.
Gonna keep shouting it from the rooftops: untreated mental illness is our biggest threat these days.
Gonna keep shouting it from the rooftops: untreated mental illness is our biggest threat these days.
The Montgomery bus boycotts lasted OVER A YEAR - carpooling, walking groups, job sharing, money for cabs, etc for 30,000+ Black people. That didn’t happen because someone said “let’s boycott” and the next day everyone simultaneously said “good idea” and magically stopped using the bus. 2/4
📌As a veteran, I am positively disgusted with too many in our so-called military leadership, who apparently are too fucking stupid to recognize fascism, or are gutless in calling it out. They disgrace the fallen who fought against it. It's appalling.
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I mean I agree with this here post but some of us have been yelling that this is about a bunch of elite white men wanting to be able to say slurs and grope their interns for awhile now.
Trump is a bigoted fascist operating at a third-grade reading level whose policies are completely incoherent. He believes in absolutely nothing but attention, wealth and power. the closest the NYT can get to explaining this to readers is to proclaim "this isn't your grandpa's republican party"
Slightly diminish a band: Neil Cubic Zirconia
On one hand, upping my estrogen has assuaged my fears that I'm a sociopath because I feel things I know in the abstract I ought to feel instead of being dead inside, but on the other hand, boy it sure is a hell of a time to get in touch with your emotions given *gestures at gigantic dumpster fire.*
Tim Burton should do a biopic about the unlikely friendship between Alice Cooper and Groucho Marx (Think Ed Wood). Groucho would take his old Hollywood friends to Alice concerts. While parents were worried AC was turning their kids to Satan, Groucho recognized it was all theatrics. It was his realm.
"Hurling dildos at WNBA players had a very particular message: You may think you are elite athletes, but to us you are still here to be mocked & sexualized & demeaned. And when Don Jr. posted that image to his 9.7 million followers, he was saying *That’s what I think of you too, and so does my dad*"
Ground and laws will be broken simultaneously.
In a way, the Rose Garden is the perfect metaphor for Trump’s presidency: take something living, intricate, and beloved, strip it down to bare stone, and call it an upgrade. The message is clear: history can be paved over.
South Park has updated their profile pic to Kristi Noem
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The f*&%ing library.