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José AKA Pepe...your ol' globe trottin', beer guzzlin', shit postin', record spinnin', coffee pot dodgin' vato. 🇲🇽🇺🇸 #Angels #Lakers #FreeGaza Powered by 🌯☭
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joshsternberg.com
"The city’s 1% realize their influence is waning: ‘It’s hard to be chill and relaxed’"

Oh no.

www.wsj.com/us-news/zohr...
New York’s Richest Ask ‘How Dare He?’ as Mamdani Closes In on City Hall
The city’s 1% realize their influence is waning: “It’s hard to be chill and relaxed.”
www.wsj.com
October 17, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
amazing how you can write about culture professionally and still have no idea what’s going on in the world
Will Staley on Twitter writes: "Maybe this is an artifact of Elon's stewardship of this website, but the "No Kings" stuff — the language, the iconography, even the notion that Trump wants to be a *monarch* — is just totally foreign to me. I don't know where it comes from. Definitely not here." Independent headline reads: "What order? Trump team ignoring 1 in 3 major judicial rulings against them, analysis finds" ACLU headlines reads: "Supreme Court Grants Trump Broad Immunity for Official Acts, Placing Presidents Above the Law" Reuters headline reads: "In a switch, Trump White House seeks to reward colleges for abiding by its ideological terms" ABC News headline reads: "With Comey, Brennan, Soros, Trump steps up his retribution campaign" Politico headline reads: "White House pauses new round of largely blue-state projects" AP headline reads: "Trump’s moves against media outlets mirror authoritarian approaches to silencing dissent"
October 17, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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theblogginggoth.bsky.social
Have been enjoying Greg Daniel's "Upload" on Amazon for its light, dry hypercapitalist cynicism but they knocked it out the park with a cameo by cyberpunk prophet William Gibson in S3E5! Appropriate use of @greatdismal.bsky.social as a cautionary voice that's utterly ignored 😉
October 17, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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kenklippenstein.bsky.social
I talked NSPM-7 with @nathanjrobinson.bsky.social

www.currentaffairs.org/news/trumps-...
Trump’s NSPM-7 is a Threat to Every American
Investigative journalist Ken Klippenstein exposes the new threat to free speech: branding any and all dissent as “terrorism.”
www.currentaffairs.org
October 17, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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nedraggett.bsky.social
And now I'm just spelunking around and here's this Facebook post by Kaleb Horton from September 2017. It was three months after MTV dumped its freelancers. I'm sure it would have been a piece there; instead he posted this on FB just to have it written out: Toys 'R' Us as societal microcosm.
Facebook post from Kaleb Horton, September 18, 2017: Toys R Us is probably going out of business this year. I'm fascinated by the collapse of retail, because what it really signifies is the collapse of the 20th century. The reason I pushed to profile guys like Harry Dean Stanton, Merle Haggard and Chuck Berry, was that writing about them is a way of writing about the 20th century, and how different it was from where we are now. How shockingly different, in retrospect. The migration out of the south, the descent of the Dust Bowl, which was a Biblical plague; the millions of people who were killed during World War Two. Monoculture, and the idea that a great episode of a television show would be seen by *half of all people.* The arrival of flight, and the end of horses. Homes without electricity. Coming of age without computers, without television. Listening to the radio for entertainment. The 20th century was a long time ago and it's a ghost now. It's a ghost you see in the places you wouldn't expect. It's seen in towns that were bypassed by the freeways, the dusty little towns out west that still have old diners and motels and payphones. It's seen in the places that we left, places where mines shut down, places where tourist attractions died off. It's seen in Bakersfield with Buck Owens' Crystal Palace and it's seen in Roswell, which stubbornly maintains the relics of the '90s UFO boom. Things like that won't be around forever. Someday owners will die and towns will burn and they won't be rebuilt. And it's difficult to suss out what those things are, because they're on roads, physical and metaphorical, that we no longer travel. The ghost sightings happen in stupid places, unexpected places, and uncool places. A few months ago, I went with Marie to the Toys R Us on Victory Blvd. in Burbank, which still looks exactly like it did in Back to the Future in 1985 somehow. It's not nostalgia that you see there, it's just a customer base and economic model that's aging and won't be around a lot longer, and it's *boring.* There's no reason for anyone to ever go to Lancer's, the little diner by that Toys R Us. Because it's not good. People go there out of tradition, and old habits. 80 and 90 year olds go there. We were lining up for a Nintendo, which is still a hard thing to keep stocked in stores. Toys R Us was actually the best place to obtain one, because it's no longer a place children beg their parents to take them to. When we went in, wham, there it was. The ghost of 1996. I was 8 years old, for a fraction of a second. The feeling wasn't nostalgia, it was a kind of temporal dislocation. A confusion. But it wasn't an immaculate 1996, it was a fading 1996. It was lonelier than I remember it. It's time for Toys R Us to go out of business. It was time ten years ago, fifteen. There are reasons to be nostalgic about the 20th century. We weren't plugged into so many wires, so many screens. We were a little bit closer to the process of manufacturing and agriculture than we are now. We made more things by hand, and our goals as people were uniquely audacious and driven by mad, desperate power that was temporary and had to end. But the 20th century was hopelessly cruel and soaked in blood. The 20th century gave us flight, but it also gave us bombs that can end the world and Richard Nixon and his evil sidekick Kissinger and it gave us new mutations of slavery and race and class subjugation and it gave us useless, disgusting monuments to Confederate slavers and traitors and cowards. It gave us President Trump, who wouldn't exist today without New York City's collective cocaine addiction in the 1980s. I want to find the ghosts, not because I miss the past -- the good old days can't return because they're imaginary and what you really miss is youth and if you're lucky a warm feeling of safety -- but because I don't even know what things we'll lose, or when we'll lose them, or how long we have to document them. I know ghosts when I see them. Toys R Us for the mundane side and the Salton Sea for the widescreen wasteland side. But I have absolutely no idea how many there are. I figure people go first, then places. Those are the things we have a limited time to physically document and historically examine and preserve on film. The ideas will go away much slower, and some of them may be eternal, like cold wars. But those are a lot less fun because you don't get to drive to them.
September 27, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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ceedreed60s.bsky.social
Saw this in Canada. Applies anywhere. Companies who make robots don’t pay taxes either. Bad for humans and the economy.
September 3, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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kristygreenberg.bsky.social
Blanche said he didn’t want a “she said, she said” situation—but that’s exactly what it is. Victims said Maxwell sexually abused them and helped Epstein. Maxwell denied it. Someone’s lying—and it’s not the victims. DOJ should charge her for lying to federal agents.
September 3, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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petermcgriffin.bsky.social
- ¿Si eres comunista por qué tienes un iPhone?
- Y tú ¿Si eres capitalista por qué tienes derechos laborales?
August 29, 2025 at 2:50 PM