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The Israeli army boarded the Freedom Flotilla and arrested Greta Thunberg and the rest of the Freedom Flotilla's crew

submitted 10 hours ago • 42 comments

new version NOW WITH BANJO!! The President’s Birthday Parade (sound on)

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

If your recordings are lacking in birdsong and lawn mowers, consider The Cove for your next project

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

Law enforcement is violently targeting press at protests around Los Angeles, from easily recognizable "mainstream" outlets to freelancers and independents. ALL press have explicit legal protections in California. #JournalismIsNotACrime. This evidence thread may get graphic. 🧵👇

submitted 23 hours ago • 33 comments

Set up to make a better recording of this song today. Adding a banjo. Yeah, a banjo. You have a problem with that?

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

Nichols is my proudest earned block. He did not like being told that he’s the reason people don’t trust “experts”

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

Miller should insist platoons of Guard members sleep in random LA people’s homes this evening, just to see if the Supreme Court would 6-3 or 5-4 its way to overturning the third amendment. Real opportunity for truly original Originalist hijinks.

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments

Wrote this in the summer of 2020, definitely a good sign to be dusting it off now. "Less lethal" weapons are tools of colonial occupation marketed to police, and tools of police marketed to colonial soldiers. Anti-civilian weapons more than "less-lethal" www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

‼️ Please disseminate widely: the manifesto of the One Ocean Science Congress #OOSC is open for digital signature: forms.ifremer.fr/pdg/oosc-man... #ScienceForTheOcean 🌊

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I can see the Ballad of the President’s Birthday Parade is going to need another verse

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Get ready for summer

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: ICE raid and community resistance in front of Home Depot in Paramount, California.

submitted 1 day ago • 189 comments

My 2028 “maybe fascism not so bad?” list (so far): Gavin Newsome Rahm Emmanuel Who else we got?

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Let's have some fun. In this NYT story, we see a picture of an OpenAI billboard on a college campus, suggesting the following prompt: "Give me a guide for mastering this Calc 101 syllabus. In two weeks. Small steps please." What happens when we actually use ChatGPT to do this? THREAD!

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

(b)looping zero gravity sounds

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

(b)looping zero gravity sounds

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Yura Yura Teikoku opening for Yo La Tengo

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Reposting for karma

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

This guy consistently posts songs with incredible lyrics mere hours after events unfurl. This was a good one.

submitted 2 days ago • 184 comments

Considering the rulings on tariffs and the fed, this just means the conservatives aren’t savvy enough to realize this could also lead to economic chaos

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: SCOTUS conservatives give DOGE access to Social Security records, overruling lower courts. All three Democratic appointees would reject the Trump administration’s request.

submitted 2 days ago • 61 comments

This Barney Rubble motherfucker is a straight up christo-fascist

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Solution to the “did they vote or this” debate: ask them Put the worst shit that’s happening in a brutally graphic ad and ask “Is this what you voted for?”

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Here’s Peter Welch toasting his good friend across the aisle insurrectionist (he signed onto the brief seeking to overturn the 2020 election) and Covid conspiracy monger Roger Marshall as if it’s all business as usual. JFC Yay milk I guess

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

OT, but I’ve always hated Journey, more so even than Foreigner

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Just takes a minute…

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I’m going to flog my funny song every day until the parade, so you might as well listen and get it over with

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Saw an old bluesman play at a festival side venue. He invited the white audience to clap, which they proceeded to do on the 1 and 3. He stopped, got everyone in the right beat. As soon as he started, people drifted off again Realizing it was a bad idea, he asked everyone to please stop clapping

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments