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★🎛️🥁֎ drummer/percussionist • noisemaker • producer • designer • father/husband🗿↙️↙️↙️✊🏼music minor dropout🦾 @nyu.edu Tisch / GCMT alum 🇦🇲🇧🇷🇱🇧 https://linktr.ee/vpsounds
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My latest at Substack open.substack.com/pub/caspians...

the soy right

Elon Musk is making wild claims that #DOGE has found evidence of massive Social Security fraud.... The reality is that Musk's young engineers don't seem to be able to understand COBOL databases while Musk is misrepresenting the Social Security data www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

BREAKING: Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier released from prison after nearly 50 years

“Statistically speaking, if I have enough kids, one of them has to like me right?” said Elon Musk Read more: chaser.com.au/general-news...

~NEW EPISODE~ Prez Day Special! We talk about how the neoliberal presidencies of Clinton, Bush and Obama paved the way for Trump and MAGA. 🎙️: bit.ly/3EJAkEX

If you're having a rough day this is sure to cheer you up

JEN PSAKI: Democrats just lost everything. They control nothing... JON STEWART: They do control the email lists that continue to ask for money.

Jon Stewart mocks Jen Psaki's claim that we're in a constitutional crisis, likening it to a "Rachel Maddow special."

Temu Nosferatu

Letterboxd User Gives Movie Two Star Rating As If It Actually Fucking Mattered hard-drive.net/hd/entertain...

Philadelphia Enjoys Quiet Week Of Super Bowl Victory Reflection

The DOGE website is empty

The average Fox News viewer has no idea that Musk is tearing down a system that allowed this country to rule the world for the past 75 years. And when their standard of living slips dramatically in the next five years they still won’t understand because their TV will blame it on some poor scapegoat.

Damn it. I was going to do this one, but I thought it was too dumb.

USAID does good, they also do bad, acting as an instrument of counterinsurgency all over the globe. Trump's promising to end the good USAID performs, and move the bad to the State Dept. Lose, lose.

We’ve reached that terminal point of imperial decay when the highest ambition of most members of Congress is to be a sycophant.

In @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social I ask about Vermont Senator Peter Welch's recent votes #vtpoli www.counterpunch.org/2025/02/07/w...

THE AVENGERS for 64-year-old music fans who love to talk about “chops” just popped up on the YouTube algorithm.

Milton Nascimento Gigante

Milton Nascimento é maior que o Grammy e isso nem é opinião

Milton Nascimento Gigante O BRASIL É DOS BRASILEIROS

It’s possible that we are overusing the word legendary.

Post-Grammy Thoughts & Reflections open.substack.com/pub/caspians...

Happy for some amazing jazz artists who grabbed new hardware yesterday. Otherwise, a bit less happy about it. Here's my first attempt at parsing the difference. 🏆 #Grammys2025

Bill Haley and the Comets - 2025 could be your year!

Yeah this is disrespectful, unprofessional & makes your priorities quite transparent #Grammys @apnews.com

congratulations to Kendrick Lamar and his song “Drake Is A Pedophile” for winning 15 grammys tonight

Did you know that back in 1947, a journalist named Orrin C. Evans and his brother, George J. Evans Jr., made history by launching All Negro Comics Inc. in Philadelphia? It was the first Black-owned comic book publishing company in the U.S.! #blackhistory

Lisa Fischer and The Orrin Evans Trio the other night at Birdland NYC.

The impotence of these people

Fire Aid show has a Nirvana reunion with Kim Gordon, and the chyron underneath says "Thanks to our brand sponsors for their generous support: Goldman Sachs"

Deadly D.C. Plane Crash Comes Months After Congress Ignored Warning About Traffic at Reagan Airport

BREAKING: FAA Report Completely Contradicts Trump's Attack On Minorities youtu.be/pTuRrMjiOaQ?...

Absolutely. A constant convo on the local list serves.

An opposition party would demand his immediate resignation, a fearless White House press corp would counter his "DEI" slurs with questions about his competence and criminal liability. Ah well,

I would have thrown him a pair of speedos.

Why does it look like Lefsetz is in a mental asylum?

I see that Bob Lefsetz is still insufferable lol.

youtu.be/cIBdojOmpJU?...

So many people are about to be sacrificed at the altar of capitalism while minorities get blamed

Mahomes and his teammates relaxing before Superbowl week. #NFL #Mahomes #KCrefs #nflmemes #NFL #nfl #Eagles #JalenHurts

Tucker is the failson.. His dad ran the entire CIA propaganda operation from America to Cuba.. This is a 3rd generation failson 😭😭😭

As a seasoned DC journalist, I only plan to capitulate to Trump until he provides quotes for my next book, due in Spring of 2027.