2 years ago today

In memory, Shane Patrick MacGowan, former member of the punk band Nipple Erectors, co-founder and lead singer of the Celtic punk band The Pogues, founder of Shane MacGowan and The Popes, died of pneumonia after a long illness.

📸 Gie Knaeps

#ShaneMacGowan #punkrockhistoy

Rhymes with Horst Wessel

A bird in the hand is worth one in the pink, two in the stink or wait hold on I fucked this up

Undocumented border crossing is a misdemeanor. Please list other crimes you think should result in someone’s child being taken away with no provisions to return them.

#AskATrumpDefender #54

Seeing in real time your own parent talk about how immigrants are wrecking the nation right in front of your immigrant spouse. I loathe where the algorithms are taking my parent.

He’s skipping funerals for soldiers to golf with the Saudis.

The Democratic Party’s problems are not about being moderate or left. That’s a consultant and pundit red herring

The problems are in party organization, the culture of “it’s their turn” nominations, candidate recruitment, gerontocracy, inability to shape media topics, and coming off hella lame

Rubio sank so far into that couch I was honestly afraid JD Vance might fuck him.

It bears repeating.

If you are a liberal in deep blue territory, one thing you could try doing right now is figuring out how to replace your Democratic member of Congress next year. With very few exceptions, the typical safe seat Dem is not meeting the moment. Find someone who will and help them.

Whether it's Donald Trump pardoning the rioters who ransacked the Capitol building and attacked police on January 6 or Biden preemptively pardoning the people who Department of Justice employees who prosecuted the rioters to protect them from Trump's wrath, both sides have shamed our system.

GOP members complaining about reduction of military standards while using a chart that misspells the word military!

If you played an instrument back in high school and stopped: we are in a golden age of decent cheap instruments.

The guitars are better, the amps are better. The pedals are cheaper, the wind instruments are actually instruments and not just shaped like them, etc.

Jump back into it.

Houdini was bound to be famous.

Muppets remake of Saving Private Ryan and whenever there's gore it's just ribbons and yarn spilling out with an occasional human hand glimpsed underneath

Sound Transit Studies Proposal to Create Task Force for Development of Framework for Reducing Bureaucratic Overhead: bit.ly/3Z2uFQK