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DC & Cville & NC & TN. Robyn Hitchcock & Procol Harum. the beatles & the stones the dylan & the dead & aretha & stevie & REM & Joy Division & TV On the Radio & James Wright & Russell Edson & Gertude Stein & Chekov & Keats & Blake. new granddad! librarian
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🧵 Let’s be so effing for real right now. The Department of Education saying these jobs are no longer PROFESSIONAL is dumb as hell and insulting as fuck. It takes YEARS of post-graduate training, including passing certifying exams, to earn degrees in these fields. #fdt #momsky
November 21, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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The Rev. ELaura James Reid was pulled over by a man in fatigues for “driving unsure,” despite obeying traffic rules: “I don’t think it fits the narrative of stopping violent criminals, unless you driving down the street is considered violent.”
By @wendicthomas.bsky.social @kathsburgess.bsky.social
By @wendicthomas.bsky.social @kathsburgess.bsky.social
“I Don’t Feel Safe”: Black Memphis Residents Report Harassment by Trump’s Police Task Force
A pastor was pulled over for looking lost. A 72-year-old was marched out in his bathrobe due to mistaken identity. Memphis’ mayor welcomed the federal law enforcement surge, but some residents say the...
www.propublica.org
November 21, 2025 at 4:00 AM
The Rev. ELaura James Reid was pulled over by a man in fatigues for “driving unsure,” despite obeying traffic rules: “I don’t think it fits the narrative of stopping violent criminals, unless you driving down the street is considered violent.”
By @wendicthomas.bsky.social @kathsburgess.bsky.social
By @wendicthomas.bsky.social @kathsburgess.bsky.social
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I had no idea how many sounds used in thriller & horror films come from this one device. Amazing.
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From the Damnthatsinteresting community on Reddit: This instrument is the Mega Marvin, used to make sounds for horror movies
Explore this post and more from the Damnthatsinteresting community
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October 18, 2025 at 11:02 PM
I had no idea how many sounds used in thriller & horror films come from this one device. Amazing.
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The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!
Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.
Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.
October 13, 2025 at 3:27 AM
The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!
Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.
Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.
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Why aren’t media outlets unmasking these scumbags?
Why are there so few (none?) news stories about individual ICE agents themselves? Who they are, what motivates them, any moral dilemmas they face? Why aren’t protesters trying to get some to speak out?
October 13, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Why aren’t media outlets unmasking these scumbags?
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This kind of kidnapping, whether it's otherwise law-abiding undocumented workers, or 🇺🇸 citizens, ICE thugs act like they get a bounty per head (they already get a $50K signing bonus), these goons would have been slave catchers back in the day.
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October 11, 2025 at 12:43 AM
This kind of kidnapping, whether it's otherwise law-abiding undocumented workers, or 🇺🇸 citizens, ICE thugs act like they get a bounty per head (they already get a $50K signing bonus), these goons would have been slave catchers back in the day.
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Guess that Qatari jet wasn’t a “gift” to Trump after all.
October 11, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Guess that Qatari jet wasn’t a “gift” to Trump after all.
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This speaks for its self.
October 10, 2025 at 10:15 PM
This speaks for its self.
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I think that what we can infer is that insider trading is rampant, there is an expectation that if you are onside with the administration you will not be prosecuted for it, and there is a belief this admin will not be leaving, so YOLO.
October 11, 2025 at 8:35 PM
I think that what we can infer is that insider trading is rampant, there is an expectation that if you are onside with the administration you will not be prosecuted for it, and there is a belief this admin will not be leaving, so YOLO.
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Cartoon by John Deering.
October 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Cartoon by John Deering.
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“Catholic Girls Are Easy” first came to life on my piano in East Nashville, and though it now exists in full band mode on my new LP, its first incarnation was as a stripped back track I recorded at Sound City in Los Angeles, with Benmont Tench on piano.
It’s here:
youtu.be/usRcmJLAuV0?...
It’s here:
youtu.be/usRcmJLAuV0?...
Emma Swift - "Catholic Girls Are Easy (Demo version)"
YouTube video by Emma Swift
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October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
“Catholic Girls Are Easy” first came to life on my piano in East Nashville, and though it now exists in full band mode on my new LP, its first incarnation was as a stripped back track I recorded at Sound City in Los Angeles, with Benmont Tench on piano.
It’s here:
youtu.be/usRcmJLAuV0?...
It’s here:
youtu.be/usRcmJLAuV0?...
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CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?
October 9, 2025 at 2:34 PM
CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?
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Extreme conservative religious leaders
aligning w/authoritarian government
is literally what killed Jesus.
aligning w/authoritarian government
is literally what killed Jesus.
October 9, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Extreme conservative religious leaders
aligning w/authoritarian government
is literally what killed Jesus.
aligning w/authoritarian government
is literally what killed Jesus.
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Resistance comes in many forms. This is a good one.
Historians, librarians, and volunteers are documenting objects and signage throughout the Smithsonian’s museums and at national parks, hoping to save public history from the Trump administration’s recent mandates.
Documenting the History Trump Wants to Erase
Librarians, historians, and volunteers are forming networks to chronicle signs and objects they fear could disappear from museums and national parks.
hyperallergic.com
October 2, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Resistance comes in many forms. This is a good one.
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Masked men posing as ICE agents are kidnapping and assaulting women—taking advantage of the chaos and fear Trump's detention and deportation policies have fostered. Guest writer Cammy Pedroja exposes how Trump’s fear-driven immigration crackdown is endangering immigrant women.
ICE’s Shadow War on Women
Criminals are now impersonating masked ICE agents to kidnap and assault women
thinkbigpicture.substack.com
September 29, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Masked men posing as ICE agents are kidnapping and assaulting women—taking advantage of the chaos and fear Trump's detention and deportation policies have fostered. Guest writer Cammy Pedroja exposes how Trump’s fear-driven immigration crackdown is endangering immigrant women.
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The only hope I've found is fostering a community of individuals who are anti-AI and ardently supporting each other. Opt out of AI every time you can.
Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.
These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI
Visual artists, illustrators and graphic designers share their stories about how AI is being used to lower wages, degrade work and even replace it altogether, in this installment of AI Killed My Job.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
September 17, 2025 at 8:51 PM
The only hope I've found is fostering a community of individuals who are anti-AI and ardently supporting each other. Opt out of AI every time you can.
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The Ninth Circuit just delivered good news for digital privacy: abandoning a phone doesn't abandon your Fourth Amendment rights in the phone's contents. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Appeals Court: Abandoned Phones Don’t Equal Abandoned Privacy Rights
The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which covers California and most of the Western U.S., just delivered good news for digital privacy: abandoning a phone doesn’t abandon your Fourth
www.eff.org
September 17, 2025 at 7:02 PM
The Ninth Circuit just delivered good news for digital privacy: abandoning a phone doesn't abandon your Fourth Amendment rights in the phone's contents. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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The Dept. of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the U.S.
DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing
Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.
www.404media.co
September 16, 2025 at 8:33 PM
The Dept. of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the U.S.
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A reporter just asked the U.S. president a perfectly legitimate question about his attorney general's vow to prosecute people for constitutionally protected speech.
He responded by threatening to prosecute the reporter.
The threat itself is an abuse of power. It ought to be an impeachable offense.
He responded by threatening to prosecute the reporter.
The threat itself is an abuse of power. It ought to be an impeachable offense.
JON KARL: What do you make of Pam Bondi saying she's gonna go after hate speech? A lot of your allies say hate speech is free speech
TRUMP: We'll probably go after people like you because you treat me so unfairly. You have a lot of hate in your hate. Maybe they'll have to go after you.
TRUMP: We'll probably go after people like you because you treat me so unfairly. You have a lot of hate in your hate. Maybe they'll have to go after you.
September 16, 2025 at 2:46 PM
A reporter just asked the U.S. president a perfectly legitimate question about his attorney general's vow to prosecute people for constitutionally protected speech.
He responded by threatening to prosecute the reporter.
The threat itself is an abuse of power. It ought to be an impeachable offense.
He responded by threatening to prosecute the reporter.
The threat itself is an abuse of power. It ought to be an impeachable offense.
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Albert Einstein Gives a Speech Praising Immigrants’ Contributions to America (1939)
Albert Einstein Gives a Speech Praising Immigrants’ Contributions to America (1939)
There have been many times in American history when celebrations of the country’s multi-ethnic, ever-changing demography served as powerful counterweights to narrow, exclusionary, nationalisms.
www.openculture.com
September 16, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Albert Einstein Gives a Speech Praising Immigrants’ Contributions to America (1939)
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🚨At the Kennedy Center, Stuttgart Ballet ticket sales languish at 4–19%, subscriptions have plunged 50%, and a $1.6M shortfall warns America’s cultural heart is being hollowed out by politics.
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September 16, 2025 at 9:01 PM
🚨At the Kennedy Center, Stuttgart Ballet ticket sales languish at 4–19%, subscriptions have plunged 50%, and a $1.6M shortfall warns America’s cultural heart is being hollowed out by politics.
open.substack.com/pub/theintel...
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CNN put together a clip of RKF Jr denying today he linked antidepressants and mass shootings, followed by a clip of RFK Jr last week linking antidepressants and mass shootings
September 5, 2025 at 1:14 AM
CNN put together a clip of RKF Jr denying today he linked antidepressants and mass shootings, followed by a clip of RFK Jr last week linking antidepressants and mass shootings
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In case you missed it, I have a new single out, called “Impossible Air”.
It’s a song about love, desire, and compromise set in London, and recorded on the Isle of Wight.
Produced by Jordan Lehning
Music video by Rachel Lichtman
Abundance of feelings by me 🤣
youtu.be/lineREbm4fA?...
It’s a song about love, desire, and compromise set in London, and recorded on the Isle of Wight.
Produced by Jordan Lehning
Music video by Rachel Lichtman
Abundance of feelings by me 🤣
youtu.be/lineREbm4fA?...
Emma Swift - "Impossible Air"
YouTube video by Emma Swift
youtu.be
September 5, 2025 at 1:07 AM
In case you missed it, I have a new single out, called “Impossible Air”.
It’s a song about love, desire, and compromise set in London, and recorded on the Isle of Wight.
Produced by Jordan Lehning
Music video by Rachel Lichtman
Abundance of feelings by me 🤣
youtu.be/lineREbm4fA?...
It’s a song about love, desire, and compromise set in London, and recorded on the Isle of Wight.
Produced by Jordan Lehning
Music video by Rachel Lichtman
Abundance of feelings by me 🤣
youtu.be/lineREbm4fA?...