The second time I saw King Crimson in 1973, I was surprised at how loud they were. That was because I had seen them two weeks before in a really acoustically weird venue on the University of Pennsylvania campus and they didn't seem that loud there.
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The second time I saw King Crimson in 1973, I was surprised at how loud they were. That was because I had seen them two weeks before in a really acoustically weird venue on the University of Pennsylvania campus and they didn't seem that loud there.
Support for vaccinating kids against infectious diseases dropped from 81% in 1991 to 51% last year We are getting dumber as a society
And I would never want to get between Ted and a trip to Cancun when there’s an emergency in Texas
Missed seeing national referendums on them then, too.
I missed seeing national referendums on them.
I missed the elections in which people voted to end abortion rights and give the president unlimited powers.
There's always an excuse for not pursuing liberal policies. I don't think the media in the 1990s was more conservative than the media in the 1965 when the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts were passed, maybe even if you start by ignoring the media in the Jim Crow states.
This is not true. www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...
Obama wasn't interested in doing it. To wit: www.commondreams.org/news/2008/01...
It probably really started happening after the 1972 Nixon landslide. It took Reagan, though, to bring together the Nixon dirty tricksters, the (then-would-be) oligarchs, the John Birchers, the evangelicals and the Confederacy.
I agree. Every Republican president from Reagan onward has pushed the country to the right, but neither Clinton nor Obama pushed it back. Biden tried, but it was too little, too late.
Dem electeds have been ceding premises to Republicans since Ronald Reagan. Government is too big. Taxes are too high. Etc., etc.
I’ve seen one or two. My father took me to see Goldfinger when it came out. I think he took me to the next one too, but I’m not sure.
Wheels by Gram Parsons.
i’ve been calling her Princess Polio but this absolutely wins
He is an unapologetic eugenicist. But so are Thiel, Musk, Miller, Vance, and a whole range of others. This entire fucking regime are Nazis. We have to stop attributing this stuff to one person, whether Trump or Kennedy. They all believe the same thing.
As a kid, I wanted to visit “YOSE-mite” park. Recently, I thought movies about real people were called “bi-OP-ics.”
There Is by the Dells.
I’m AS (artificial stupidity).
Labor Day reminder: Trump thinks workers have too much time off.
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
Oh, What a Thrill by Chuck Berry, although I first heard the version by Rockpile, which is an absolute banger.
Good sane advice. Please read and repost. And Democratic politicians? Pay attention to what the people are saying, or you will be as unemployed as your Republican cohorts.
Yes. I can't remember the details off the top of my head, but she had expressed interest in playing Hazel in a project that never happened prior to the TV show getting made. In an interview about playing Hazel, she said she was perfect for it because she had "the soul of a chamber maid."
Thanks. I didn't know when Shirley Booth's birthday was. I met her twice. Once backstage at whatever play of hers we saw, and once a few years earlier when my father took me to New York and we went out to lunch with her. She was very nice. Also very, very talented.
I may have seen that. I remember seeing Shirley Booth in a play about that time, but I don't remember what the play was. Here's a publicity shot of her for the Hazel TV show. She's with my father, Ted Key, who created and drew the Hazel cartoon.
The transformation of the Washington Post editorial page appears to be complete.
The clearest picture of corporate greed in this country is CEO-to-worker pay ratios. At the 100 lowest-paying major US companies, CEO pay averaged $17.2M in 2024. Median worker pay at these companies was just $35,570. That’s a ratio of 632 to 1. How can anyone defend this?
Reminder that in 2021, Senate Republicans filibustered a bill by Democrats that would have banned partisan gerrymandering of congressional districts.
We are in the middle of August 2025. We are an even months into this nightmare. Yet we’re still seeing no semblance of a coordinated response from Democratic “Leadership”! This isn’t just another year. It’s a GD existential crisis. Lead or step aside for those who will.
Household electric bills are up 10% nationally since Trump took office. Meanwhile, household gas prices rose by 56%. Energy costs are set to go up more as the Trump-Republican budget bill guts clean energy projects. Remember how the entire election was about lowering prices?
Microsoft drops a crappy AI function into Excel and then warns people NOT to use it for anything that involves math or anything they consider pretty important. Excel is for doing math and organizing important information. www.theverge.com/news/761338/...
The biggest US copper wire manufacturers are still raising their prices even after most copper imports received tariff exemptions. More evidence that powerful corporations may be using the uncertainty and chaos of tariffs as cover to pad their pockets.
I don't know who needs to hear this, but an economy controlled by a handful of oligarchs isn't a "free market."
I made some chili over the weekend. Waiting for the next 90 degree day to start enjoying it.
As I listen to him drone on and on and on about Obama and Biden every time his own failures are even hinted at I can't help but remember that Dems asserted for at least 50 years that it was malpractice to blame their predecessors for the very real crimes and errors they perpetrated in office.
To quote a line from The Dark Knight Rises. "They know. They just don't care."
Ann B. Davis.
I have no idea. Other than perhaps sharing posts critical of Israel, I don't think I've ever posted or shared anything about other countries' politics.
The latest instance of my being blocked for no apparent reason. @gikairan.bsky.social has added you to the "Other Countries Politics" moderation list bsky.app/profile/did:...
cc @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov
Now that the rich have reached a point of power and wealth where they are essentially beyond the law entirely, it's worth thinking about what they're doing. - fascism - racist revisionism - prison camps - death camps - mass deportations - destroying the environment - eliminating public health
Sugarcane’s Got the Blues — Sugarcane Harris.
Reminder: If Trump and Republicans actually cared about quality of life and safety in DC, they wouldn’t have rammed through a CR in March that slashed $1 billion from the city’s budget. And Democrats don’t get a pass—Chuck Schumer voted for it right alongside them.
I was going to join their group until I got to its Facebook page and saw it was "AI enabled."
conservatives/republicans going full on fascist with occupying cities with the military is yet another reminder to NEVER TAKE CONSERVATISM SERIOUSLY. THEIR CRITICISMS AREN'T REAL. YOU CAN'T MEET THEM HALF WAY. THEY AREN'T A SERIOUS IDEOLOGY. THEY CAN ONLY BE CRUSHED, NOT DEBATED. thank you.
A Democratic Party with any spirit would stage a press conference every single day to present Donald Trump with one sarcastic award after another. The Dennis Hastert Award for Enabling Pedophilia The Richard Nixon Memorial Trophy for Lawlessness The Blue Ribbon for Setting a Record Federal Deficit
I do think there is too much of a “but crime is down!” reflex, and then they stop there, among too many liberals when correctly criticizing Trump’s military-spectacle power grab in dc. If you actually care about these issues the point is threefold: 1) crime is down so this is pretextual nonsense 2)…
You cannot have a functioning economy when so few people at the top hold so much of the nation’s wealth. It’s not sustainable.
The vicious cycle of monopolization: 1) Corporations argue that their growth is just part of the free market. 2) Use their monopoly power to gouge consumers. 3) Take a portion of their profits to make political donations. 4) Lobby against antitrust enforcement. 5) Repeat.
The concentration of wealth in the hands of a few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy. When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice. The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.
A video arguing that women shouldn’t be able to vote was just shared by Trump’s Secretary of Defense, the guy in charge of our whole military. And Democratic Party leaders still can’t stand up to this administration?! Our rights are on the line and all our party leaders offer us is silence.
This is reality. Until a portion of Republicans & Independents understand the truth, we will continue to march into the abyss. Willingly
Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.
Lemme just say if President Bernie Sanders had unilaterally imposed, by executive fiat, hundreds of billions of new taxes, personally browbeat executives about job cuts and investments and then fired the head of BLS, the Chamber of Commerce and the business orgs would not be sitting idly by.
When I was in high school, I would have been happy with a weed shop in the cafeteria. Of course, my parents would have had a different viewpoint.
Yes. And you should campaign on reforming the state Department of Motor Vehicles so that it will become known as the Gubernotorius DMV.
Don't forget Porn Flakes and Tricks.
This is how our government has been corrupted: 1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office. 2) Elected officials rewrite the rules in the donors' favor. 3) Donors make a huge profit. 4) Repeat. For the sake of democracy, we must get Big Money out of politics.
Texas gerrymandering is about racism. Fewer districts for Black and Brown communities. More power for white Texans. It’s voter suppression by design, and it fuels voter apathy by making people feel like their voices don’t matter. That’s the point.
It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.
Trump axes loan for Grain Belt power transmission project reut.rs/45gNyng
www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
WE COMPROMISED WITH THEM OVER AND OVER AGAIN FOR DECADES ALLOWING THEM TO MOVE THE OVERTON WINDOW ALL THE WAY TO CONCENTRATION CAMPS, ADAM
MY DADDY BOUGHT ME A MEDIA CONGLOMERATE! YAY!
Another day, another block from an account I've never heard of.
Just turned off Nicolle Wallace after a segment from her podcast aired in which Jeff Daniels said Ronald Reagan respected the rule of law. He committed treason to get elected and illegally sold arms to Iran to fund a right-wing military group fighting the Sandinistas in Nicaragua.
Only 19% of Dems approve of the party at this point. That’s not because we have all of a sudden changed our mind on Dem principles or policies. It’s because we are so damned scared and so damned disappointed in a leadership team that simply does not appear up to be meeting the moment.
Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
Every part of this explanation sounds both rude to the people they’re getting rid of and doomed to fail. variety.com/2025/tv/news...
For the 1st time since the mid-20th c, a major urban US transit network is going to be largely destroyed. Philadelphia’s SEPTA must cut 45% of service, starting NEXT MONTH. 45% is not “waste fraud and abuse.” It’s “would you like to keep your heart or your lungs?” wwww.septa.org/fundingcrisis/
Make it four.
Three blocks in the last two days from accounts I never heard of for reasons I don't understand.
The Supreme Court said it was unlawful for the Biden administration to forgive student loans because it lacked congressional authority but has no problem with the Trump administration gutting the entire Department of Education without congressional approval. This is a lawless court.
Trump's big, ugly budget megabill gives ICE more cops than the FBI, more jails than the federal Bureau of Prisons, and a larger budget than most countries' militaries. Once the bill is fully implemented, nowhere in America will be safe from Trump's secret police state.
You can’t shrink government to the size where you can drown it in a bathtub and then be surprised when it can’t rescue people from a flood.
I insulted one Dem politician once and that led someone to block me, but the rest of the time someone has blocked me, I've been unable to figure out why.
Patrick Healy is the guy who drove the great @pkrugman.bsky.social away from the NYT by killing his newsletter and trying to rewrite crucial passages: www.cjr.org/analysis/pau...
Speaking of hatreds, I hate that mainstream journalists permit this double standard, and I also hate that Democrats, knowing how mainstream journalists operate, refuse to make a stink when stuff like this happens, so that mainstream journalists might cover the controversy.
was the the guy whose editing was so awful it forced Krug out of the NYT
Throwback: www.mediamatters.org/new-york-tim...
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What the GOP just did to America with its Big Maga Murder Bill's largest redistribution of wealth in our nation's history... seals the deal Reagan started. Happy Fourth, America.
They also are still linking to his eugenicist Substack, and his profile that includes his work for another Nazi-linked race science Substack.
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
One of the most popular government programs in the history of government programs. The tax preparer service corporate lobby wins again.
DEI is wrong. Here’s why the free speech group that I head up is careful to hire at least 50% conservatives.
I’ve been thinking a lot about Murkowski’s vote. It contains, in one action, so much that defines our pathetic political moment: Selfishness: I’m taking care of me and mine, the rest of you can pound sand; Lack of accountability: I know the bill is bad, hopefully someone else will fix it;
This has always been the GOP's strategy: 1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves. 2) Explode deficits 3) Use the debt as an excuse to demand cuts to vital programs that help millions. 4) Repeat.
"Pick your battles." There are 8,765 of them. It's a systematic assault on literally everything. No American has ever sought such petty revenge on every aspect of culture, democracy, and society as this thin-skinned billionaire & his Republican collaborators.
So, here it is. Thanks to a new state law that was NEVER DEBATED, Indiana University has committed itself to abolishing majors in African-American/African Diaspora Studies: American Studies; Art History; French; Italian; Religious Studies etc. DOZENS of majors. www.ipm.org/news-section...
If this is your last post, at least we'll know what happened.
NHL eliminating the emergency amateur backup goalie. Don't like it. We should be going the other way, MLB should have a local amateur kid who comes into blowouts to pitch instead of teams using position players.
I once lived in an apartment where I had a view of an Appalachian mountain ridge that was about five to 10 miles away . One night, I saw a small thunderstorm move along the top of the ridge like a train moving along a track.
This checked-swing strikeout is brought to you by Impriano Roofing.
For most of my political life (I'm 72), the term progressive was used to refer to the political party led by Fighting Bob La Follette in the 1920s. Then in the 1990s, some people who thought conservative media had made the term "liberal" toxic decided to start calling themselves progressive instead.
Impeach daily if you have to, filibuster even when you don’t need to, disrupt the process as much as possible. These are not normal times and this is not a normal government.
The entire establishment from both sides is aiming all of its money and firepower against Zohran Mamdani. Very telling. This is what they're threatened by and who they are willing to crush.
Honestly "all triggered by the Iranian revolution of 1979" is the type of description so precisely misleading that it could not have arisen by ignorance, it has to be coming from someone who is wholly familiar with what preceded the 1979 revolution and is willfully lying about it.