brutal south
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raising kids & raising hell. south carolina, u.s.a.
Listening to "Wear Black" by the @themountaingoats.bsky.social for the umpteenth time and got chills at John's delivery of the line "wind in the evergreen cypresses," somehow doing a pitch-perfect impression of the great Bruce Cockburn for a moment
themountaingoats.bandcamp.com/track/wear-b...
themountaingoats.bandcamp.com/track/wear-b...
Wear Black, by the Mountain Goats
from the album Goths (Deluxe Version)
themountaingoats.bandcamp.com
September 26, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Listening to "Wear Black" by the @themountaingoats.bsky.social for the umpteenth time and got chills at John's delivery of the line "wind in the evergreen cypresses," somehow doing a pitch-perfect impression of the great Bruce Cockburn for a moment
themountaingoats.bandcamp.com/track/wear-b...
themountaingoats.bandcamp.com/track/wear-b...
"Loving you is not separate from the struggle for liberation. It is liberation itself."
June 13, 2025 at 1:30 PM
"Loving you is not separate from the struggle for liberation. It is liberation itself."
I kept seeing this doodle at an event with my kids, and as I was staring at it, 3 different kids walked up and said "Is that hyperpigmentation?"
May 21, 2025 at 12:52 PM
I kept seeing this doodle at an event with my kids, and as I was staring at it, 3 different kids walked up and said "Is that hyperpigmentation?"
This is still Peak Romance, to me
May 17, 2025 at 12:03 AM
This is still Peak Romance, to me
"Georgia state Sen. Ed Setzler, a Republican who sponsored the 2019 law, said he supported Emory’s interpretation."
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Hospital tells family brain-dead Georgia woman must carry fetus to birth because of abortion ban
A hospital is using a breathing tube and other measures to keep a brain-dead Georgia woman's body functioning because she is pregnant.
apnews.com
May 16, 2025 at 7:21 AM
"Georgia state Sen. Ed Setzler, a Republican who sponsored the 2019 law, said he supported Emory’s interpretation."
apnews.com/article/preg...
apnews.com/article/preg...
Our country provides weapons, money, and unwavering diplomatic support for a campaign to starve children on the other side of the world. www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle...
As Israel blocks aid, Gaza’s mothers watch their children starve
After more than two months of an Israeli blockade, the Gaza Strip is running out of food, and few are more vulnerable than its children.
www.csmonitor.com
May 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Our country provides weapons, money, and unwavering diplomatic support for a campaign to starve children on the other side of the world. www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle...
🎧 "Sentiment" - Un
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unvibes.bandcamp.com/album/sentim...
May 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM
🎧 "Sentiment" - Un
unvibes.bandcamp.com/album/sentim...
unvibes.bandcamp.com/album/sentim...
Nuclear weapons are a threat to all life on earth and we will never know peace until we dismantle them.
www.npr.org/2025/05/06/n...
www.npr.org/2025/05/06/n...
India launches missile attacks on Pakistan
India has launched strikes in several parts of Pakistan and Pakistan-controlled territory, in a dramatic escalation of tensions between the two nuclear-armed rivals.
www.npr.org
May 7, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Nuclear weapons are a threat to all life on earth and we will never know peace until we dismantle them.
www.npr.org/2025/05/06/n...
www.npr.org/2025/05/06/n...
summoned this riff from a hazy memory of a metalcore show at the american legion hall, circa 2005
May 6, 2025 at 11:23 AM
summoned this riff from a hazy memory of a metalcore show at the american legion hall, circa 2005
🎧 "Dull Knife pt. II" by Planning for Burial
May 2, 2025 at 1:00 AM
🎧 "Dull Knife pt. II" by Planning for Burial
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Happy May 1st. The value of your labor belongs to you and the actions of the state are best understood as as a coordinated effort to distract you from this. The state fears an organized and unified proletariat like it fears death and rightly so. Power to the workers and power to the people
May 1, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Happy May 1st. The value of your labor belongs to you and the actions of the state are best understood as as a coordinated effort to distract you from this. The state fears an organized and unified proletariat like it fears death and rightly so. Power to the workers and power to the people
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On Tuesday, 4/29, at 10:30 a.m., SC lawmakers will consider H. 4123, a bill that would criminalize teachers and school librarians. We need everybody who can make it to show up in the Blatt Building (1105 Pendleton St., Columbia), Room 110, to speak out against this bill.
April 29, 2025 at 2:38 AM
On Tuesday, 4/29, at 10:30 a.m., SC lawmakers will consider H. 4123, a bill that would criminalize teachers and school librarians. We need everybody who can make it to show up in the Blatt Building (1105 Pendleton St., Columbia), Room 110, to speak out against this bill.
No new law enforcement agencies had to be created to carry out this year’s mass deportation campaign. The departments spawned during the George W. Bush administration — Homeland Security & ICE — are now in the hands of an even less accountable unitary executive. brutalsouth.substack.com/p/rehearsals
April 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
No new law enforcement agencies had to be created to carry out this year’s mass deportation campaign. The departments spawned during the George W. Bush administration — Homeland Security & ICE — are now in the hands of an even less accountable unitary executive. brutalsouth.substack.com/p/rehearsals
Please take a few minutes to read about what ICE did in Milwaukee and think about where we're headed as a country. www.jsonline.com/story/news/b...
Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan charged with 2 felonies in ICE case
Brady McCarron, spokesman for U.S. Marshals Service in Washington, D.C., confirmed Dugan was arrested at about 8 a.m. at the Milwaukee County Courthouse and is in federal custody.
www.jsonline.com
April 26, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Please take a few minutes to read about what ICE did in Milwaukee and think about where we're headed as a country. www.jsonline.com/story/news/b...
Listening to some vintage South Carolina emo music and came across this little time-capsule lyric from before our state legalized tattooing. sequoyahprepschool.bandcamp.com/track/ill-fi...
April 16, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Listening to some vintage South Carolina emo music and came across this little time-capsule lyric from before our state legalized tattooing. sequoyahprepschool.bandcamp.com/track/ill-fi...
April 15, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States
Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
www.npr.org
April 15, 2025 at 12:47 PM
DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States
One fun thing about living in an old house is gradually discovering the, uh, ingenuity of previous residents
April 13, 2025 at 10:27 PM
One fun thing about living in an old house is gradually discovering the, uh, ingenuity of previous residents
"Beast of the Southeast"
April 11, 2025 at 12:39 PM
"Beast of the Southeast"
"When the report drops, it won’t be a scientific review—it will be a political weapon."
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The Trump Administration Is About To Release It's Own Anti-Trans, Junk-Science "Cass Review"
The review is expected by insiders to establish new standards of care to justify state bans, with no expert participation in its crafting.
open.substack.com
April 11, 2025 at 11:28 AM
"When the report drops, it won’t be a scientific review—it will be a political weapon."
open.substack.com/pub/erininth...
open.substack.com/pub/erininth...
"He spat again and thought how in this world the only abundance was of evil and trouble, and with these words he was overcome by bleak and vague forebodings."
April 5, 2025 at 7:26 PM
"He spat again and thought how in this world the only abundance was of evil and trouble, and with these words he was overcome by bleak and vague forebodings."
Been a good year for new music from the Drive-By Truckers diaspora
April 4, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Been a good year for new music from the Drive-By Truckers diaspora
Seen by a friend at Goodwill
April 2, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Seen by a friend at Goodwill
"... as if he expected the profusion of azalea blooms to have a lethal effect on him." – Flannery O'Connor, "The Partridge Festival"
March 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM
"... as if he expected the profusion of azalea blooms to have a lethal effect on him." – Flannery O'Connor, "The Partridge Festival"
Rebecca Hall acted the hell out of this movie
March 22, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Rebecca Hall acted the hell out of this movie