When your actual policies and platform are deeply unpopular, style is all you have left, and social media has taken the lid clean off

Preach

Was a hell of a debater back in the day, too..

(Of course, the legitimacy of those threats was completely coded by race, to say nothing of the whole “hey how about trying not-violence” idea…)

It was no less toxic nor any less masculine, but I think that contemporary media have taken the lid off of it in a way. Before social media it was, paradoxically, constrained by the threat of violence.

If I’m being honest, I’m inclined to think there’s an important mediation story. I feel so old saying this, but the stuff I see people say online were, once upon a time, quite literally fighting words.

“Pictures of You” is most likely a perfect rock song and an obvious choice to play, but it’s so damn sad that it’s not really encore material

I have always maintained that if was ever in a band, our “off-beat/surprise cover song” that we played in our encore would be “Boys Don’t Cry.”

‪He’s staking out a national security justification for the tariffs based on the invasion logic that Texas, et al. are pushing in US v Abbott. So far, it looks like James Ho is the only person who is willing to go all in for it, but once it’s Trump saying it, who knows?‬

I think all it took was a few people moving to get things rolling downhill. Momentum and the inconvenience of moving right before the election kept us on f.k.a. Twitter, but the tipping point was much closer than we thought. Elon helped us over the edge.