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Crucial information from my pal Erik. Trump’s parade is full of alarming significance in its specifics. #NoKings

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Chip Taylor: wrote Wild Thing, wrote Angel of the Morning, and now has a charming concept album, Son of a Golf Pro: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nqT...

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this is so amazing

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We’ll need some of these fundraisers here soon: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sec...

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On this date: June 12, 1964. The infamous Rolling Stones show at Danceland; their first Minnesota appearance. Here is the thorough recap from Twin Cities Music Highlights.

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Part of what feels so urgent with Mountainhead is its plot hinging on mass civil disorder from deepfake videos and two competing tech companies, one who makes them perfectly and one that could detect them.

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It must be nice to be so confident this could never happen to them.

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Just found this cover of "Biko" by Paul Simon, who pretty much never covers his contemporaries. Also a reminder that we shouldn't just look at 1930s/40s Germany for parallels, but 70s/80s South Africa. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXnb...

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Everyone I knew who covered disinformation got laid off, their bosses got bullied into firing them, or they changed their beats from actual Nazi harassment campaigns. It cannot be stressed the damage the paid-for Substack “free speech” guys did in the service of fascism and against real free speech.

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Still better than the reception you get at Ford's Theater.

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Every major Dem politician needs to realize that, in this environment, they can schedule a "speech to the nation," like Newsom did, and get tons of media coverage. Just do it.

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Surprised, but I don’t think folks are ready for the severity of visual disinformation on the way in the days ahead.

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As the US Army celebrates it 250th birthday, Trump is celebrating the enemy that tried to defeat it.

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I will say what I have been saying as clearly as I can. We as a country need to collectively prepare for living without a Federal infrastructure. Yes we need to fight to save it, but we also need to prep for a country where it does not exist. I don't think we are ready, and I am afraid about that.

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Trump, talking at Fort Bragg right now about Los Angeles, is doing something I'm not sure I've ever seen a president do: he's actively maligning people in Los Angeles — an American city — in front of U.S. troops. And the troops are applauding. As an Army brat myself, this strikes me as very new.

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Back in 1992 I got James Ellroy to sign my copy of WHITE JAZZ and his inscription — “Fear the comedy of the patriarchy on the skids!” — is exactly what we’re experiencing right now. Frightened wanna-be alphas who are lashing out for the lulz.

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Ruscha, cops, donuts, but it’s more about rewarding the viewer for connecting these than best capturing the moment.

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Again, worth waiting for context around what may be a compositionally and aesthetically compelling photo today: www.theguardian.com/world/2020/o...

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Time for the dark, nihilistic "CHiPs" reboot.

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With no context, it means nothing. www.theguardian.com/world/2020/o...

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Good Night and Good Luck is a good play. Astoundingly, fortuitously resonant. Brilliant to air it on @cnn.com. Directed on live TV by David Cromer better than I’ve ever seen that done. Bravo to one and all.

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Suni Lee murals in our neighborhood. The Olympic gold medalist was born in St. Paul.

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Thoroughly enjoying the Good Night and Good Luck livestream.

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Breaking News: Reps Flood (R-NE) and Sorensen (D-IL) to introduce legislation to classify NWS employees as public safety employees like air traffic controllers and FBI agents. www.nbcchicago.com/news/nationa...

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Man it really sucks when someone just takes your government funding away out of nowhere on a whim

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meanwhile,

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This is a gigantic security problem. Which it obviously has been from the start. Giving these goons unmonitored access to government systems was unbelievably stupid. And now the shit is hitting the fan.

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O Lord, they fight! I will go call the watch.

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When White House slap-fights spill out into the public and the President starts free-associating to the press, then sitting there next to him, across from the WH toady chorus, there’s now always some foreign head of state with a “Whatever they’re paying me, it’s not enough” look on their face.

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Well, he’s got all the details on us on thumb drives now and probably can sabotage the networks, so…

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A delightful thread.

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no more posting about any of those “writing routines of famous writers” unless it’s Edmund White’s

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At first, thought Mountainhead was in the shadow of what Sarsgaard and Brody did in Succession, but soon enough it became as essential a story as any to make at this moment. Paired extremely well with the Curtis Yarvin profile in this week's New Yorker. Here's what's ahead.

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He was Andrew Tate's lawyer.

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If you're wondering, I looked it up—this is Pritzker at Chicago Pride in 1993, the year he earned his law degree.

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Chicago's entire jobs and population growth for the past two decades has been in the parts of the city where there is good public transport, which is why it is utterly bonkers that transit cuts are even on the cards

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All of the Twilight Zone is on HBO streaming so just immerse yourself in mid-century liberalism

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sits bolt upright lobster coconut curry with corn and and fennel, serve with spicy biscuits

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