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"How can so many voters be so politically selfish?" asks left-of-center journalist class that refuses to stop using a degrading app run by an antisemite because they personally benefit from it.

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My radiator is really “generating steam heat” at the moment. 🎵 🥵 🥶 #Ramones #BlitzkriegBop #MusicSky

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The Raincoats - The Raincoats 1979 UK Rough Trade #vinyl #music #NewWave #Avantgarde #PostPunk

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“The president once again found himself galloping ahead of reality’s leisurely pace.” 😂 ✍🏽 🛜 #McSweeneys #comedy #PoliticalHumor #NewYorkTimes #TheFailingNewYorkTimes #USMediaFailure #ObeyingInAdvance #AnticipatoryObedience

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The government can’t use its power to prosecute and silence disfavored opinions. We sent a letter pushing back on U.S. Attorney Martin’s message to Elon Musk about legal action against those who merely criticize, challenge, or “impact” DOGE employees’ work— an alarming threat to free speech.

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☎️ Call your reps daily, don’t stop calling until musk is held accountable You can call after hours & leave a message- fill up those voicemails NO excuse why we can’t call our reps daily We must outnumber maga, who calls their reps 10x more than us Specific scripts below ⬇️ 5calls.org

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“Los Angeles weather is the weather of catastrophe, of apocalypse….” ✍🏽 📚 🗣️ #LosAngeles #JoanDidion #CaliforniaWriters #BookSky #2025LosAngelesWildfires #SlouchingTowardsBethlehem

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For those interested in leaving dirtbag Zuckerberg’s 😡 Instagram who are confused by how PixelFed works (a la Mastodon) with the different servers and such… a short thread…. 🧵 📷 #PixelFed #FederatedSocialMedia #DistributedSocialNetworks #DumpZuck #DumpInstagram

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“If you are a musician or a music program based in the LA-area affected by the fires, please read below and click on APPLY NOW at the bottom. Requests will be accepted now through Feb. 28, 2025.” 🎵 🎸 🆘 🇺🇸

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Subversive shots of Catholic schoolgirls in ‘80s New York www.huckmag.com/article/cath...

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Good luck New Year’s Day meal with southern friends 😋 🍽️ 👶 📷 #NewYearsDay2025 #HoppinJohn #MealsWithFriendsAndFamily #food #FoodAndDrink #FoodSky #HolidayMeals

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Jimmy Stewart and Margaret Sullavan at Christmas time in THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER 📽️ 🇺🇸 🎞️ #film #movies #cinema #FilmSky #OldHollywood #ClassicHollywoodCinema #Christmas #ChristmasMovies

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What if Luigi Mangione decides to pull an Anna Delvey and displays a dazzling variety of daily lewks at his trial? 🤵🏻‍♂️✨

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“Charles Burns loves a doomed romance. This has been true throughout his career as a graphic novelist, and it remains so in his remarkable new book, FINAL CUT. Burns tells this latest story using a visual style that he has honed over decades of comics, designs and album covers….” 📚 ✍🏽 #GraphicNovels

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Listening to “Space Guitar,” by Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson 🎵 🪐 🎸 🎧 #NowPlaying #JohnnyGuitarWatson #PopMusic #MusicSky

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📚 🇺🇸 ✍🏽 📝 #BookSky #poetry #poets #writers #writing #books #NikkiGiovanni

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"Educate yourself so you don't become a fascist like me” Poster spotted in Bologna, Italy

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Support Local 2179!!! 📚 ✊🏽 🗽 #BookSky #books #labor #WorkersOnStrike #NYC #StrandBookStore #UAW

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The great Honus Wagner speaks! He’s almost 60yo in this footage ⚾️ 📽️ 🎞️ #baseball #MLB #MLBHistory #HallOfFamers #HonusWagner #MLBSky www.instagram.com/reel/DDQlBBG...

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"Could you write what you write if you weren’t so tiny, Joan?"—Eve Babitz, in a letter to Joan Didion, 1972 📚 🇺🇸 ✍🏽 🌴 #writers #WomenWriters #BookSky #AmericanWriters #CaliforniaWriters #quotes #literature #LiteraryQuotes

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“In a media landscape crowded with bloodless casualties, where heroes… kill either with self-righteous certainty or dignified reluctance while villains fetishize death for its own sake, BARRY deglamorizes violence by showing what it actually is: a tool people use to try to solve problems.“ 📺 ✍🏽 #TV

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Listening to Lou Reed’s “Walk on the Wild Side,” on BBC Radio 2 🎵 📻 🎸 🎧 #NowPlaying #LouReed #LouReedTransformer #MusicSky #music #RockMusic #PopMusic

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Murder most necessary – why Agatha Christie justified killing 📚 🇬🇧 ✍🏽 🔪 🩸 “In the mid-20th century, British crime novelists wrestled with the trickiest puzzle—can it ever be right to kill a fellow human being?” #books #writers #WomenWriters #crime #fiction #mysteries #UK archive.is/2024.05.19-1...

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Make America R E A D Again #politics #USPolitics #HealthCare #USHealthCare

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“Trump is in touch with the impulses and desires that run counter to social norms, and he invites his audience to put aside the usual internal barriers to acting on or voicing them. This moment is an opportune one for a revival of Freud, whose work, with its signature focus on subterranean….” 🧠 📚 ✍🏽

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“To Freud, crowds on their own can be dangerous, but they only constitute a long-term brutal threat when a certain sort of figure takes over the superego slot in ways that are both prohibitive & permissive….” 🧠 📚 ✍🏽 *article from 2006 | via Dave Pell 2024 #politics #Freud #psychoanalysis #fascism

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