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Time to take out the trash.

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

Tonight, I'll go home and sleep in my bed. I have a lawyer, I'll get due process. But Edgardo, whose arm was ripped from mine by ICE agents, has none of those things. That's why I'll keep coming back to court, week after week, to make sure that people's rights are protected.

submitted 19 hours ago • 583 comments

Every extra hour that ICE spends facing off with activists is an hour they can't spend kidnapping other people. Every extra minute ICE has to spend contingency planning around activists and neighbors, every extra officer ICE has to put on a kidnap squad, is a drain on their efficiency.

submitted 40 days ago • 65 comments

If you take one thing away from today, let it be that we outnumber them.

submitted 4 days ago • 20 comments

See you out there today. ❤️

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

"'Materialists' is best when it's frank – and it is, charmingly and disarmingly so – about love in a capitalist society, where feelings are less important than value in the marketplace of the heart and where money, to quote the sage Cyndi Lauper, changes everything."

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Some farewell words for a genius. www.tyburrswatchlist.com/brian-wilson...

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

Brian Wilson dead at 82. Even if he'd just done "God Only Knows," he'd be eternal. But his solo demo for "Surf's Up" is the sound of the loneliest man on Earth. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaNL...

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Unparalleled crimes & constitutional violations happening on an hourly basis, right in front of us. A total, unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis, unlike anything we've ever seen before in 🇺🇸 history. The constitutional order is non-operative right now. Complete failure.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Another light gone out

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

the motherfucking beans

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

I know there are more important things going on but the response of my fellow critics to The Phoenician Scheme makes me feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

Excellent read and also explains why movement journalists are so damn critical

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Anecdotal, but I'm definitely noticing an uptick in advocacy for violence here. About which I'll say only this: Promoting violence on social media is the work of trolls and fools, those eager to bait others into implicating themselves in the age of surveillance or fools rushing to the gulag.

submitted 94 days ago • 478 comments

🤷🏼‍♂️

submitted 29 days ago • 253 comments

I think this is the week we’ll really find out who the good Germans are.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

What’s going on in LA is important; for precisely that reason, please be careful what you share, both in terms of confirming that it’s true and considering whether it’s wise

submitted 10 days ago • 11 comments

I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple. Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.

submitted 10 days ago • 886 comments

kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes

submitted 11 days ago • 102 comments

This is beyond the pale. Predatory cruelty. 💔

submitted 11 days ago • 72 comments

submitted 11 days ago • 418 comments

I cannot believe I just made this

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

In which I A) mull the damage a beloved persona can cause to the person creating it and B) marvel at the prospect of Wes Anderson finally disappearing up his own hindquarters. www.tyburrswatchlist.com/i-know-he-is...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

I am obnoxiously pleased with myself for coming up with this headline

submitted 13 days ago • 10 comments

“The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension” (W.D. Richter, 1984)

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

SCOOP: Elon Musk will not be fully exiting DOGE. In fact, federal workers from at least six agencies tell WIRED that DOGE-style work is escalating in their departments, and President Trump himself said in a press conference today that “Elon's really not leaving.”

submitted 19 days ago • 134 comments

Need Memorial Weekend entertainment? Movie critic @tyburr.bsky.social shares the 12 Nicolas Cage movies you must see on I Couldn’t Throw It Out, wherever you get podcasts. Plus, you'll hear my never-shared 1994 interview with Cage about his life, career, and more. bit.ly/3H5Ryxl

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

MFer w/ a MAGA hat on my flight from Zurich to Split. Buncha high school boys from the US see him while boarding and start chanting “4 More Years.” I want to crawl into a hole.

submitted 27 days ago • 5 comments

My wife thinks our dog looks like Dean Martin

submitted 29 days ago • 3 comments

Television/Tom Verlaine Feelies XTC Mountain Goats Little Feat Roxy Music James Brown Joni Kinks Chastity Belt Prince Martin Newell/Cleaners from Venus John Cale Silver Jews Steve Reich

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments

deleted a post that wasn't worth it. I'll say this instead: Jimmy Carter is I think the only figure in US history to have devoted his post-presidency to atoning for being president. To be president is to author suffering in the specific & abstract, & to hope you did enough to outweigh it.

submitted 30 days ago • 17 comments

“Abolish ICE” is the moderate position. Radical is “prosecute every ICE employee under RICO.”

submitted 39 days ago • 1445 comments

A haunting read, well worth a few minutes of your time: “…They are still sitting in the saddle of the collapsed tiger, exhorting it to roar back to life in the name of human rights, civil society, international law, and many other glorious-sounding ideological concepts.” @mazmhussain.bsky.social

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

Amid all the other news, it's easy to become inured to the basic facts here. Öztürk: -Is not accused of committing any crime -Is nonviolent -Was in this country legally -Merely engaged in speech that the administration objects to -Has been locked up for six weeks

submitted 43 days ago • 38 comments

The combination of "May the Fourth be with You" posts and posts memorializing May 4, 1970 at Kent State seem the perfect contradiction for a collapsing empire still trying to pretend that it is a plucky rebellion.

submitted 45 days ago • 8 comments

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.

submitted 46 days ago • 8 comments

Listening to Jill Sobule this morning after hearing of her tragic death on Thursday. One of the real ones, funny and rueful and her concerts were like spilling tea with a friend. Damn this world. youtu.be/stqs_svY1Ok?...

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment