a good 75% of the U.S. press operates either in blind fealty or timid normalization of him, yet he's such a narcissistic black hole it's just never enough
Posts by the mjl (michael j leblanc)
Happy 79th birthday to Star Trek actor Iggy Pop.
The Consumer Federation of America has filed a class-action complaint against Meta Platforms alleging that the social-media giant has profited from advertising for fraudulent activities on its platforms and misled users about its efforts to combat the problem.
#retro 📺+
His father was a jazz pianist out of Louisiana, his mom a vocalist. Miles thought of him as the Ellington of his generation. The connection between jazz & Prince is strong & on Voice Tracks I'll mark his 10 yr passing with covers of his tunes.
Sammy Jackson, Lyle Lovett & more.
9pm with JAZZFM91
How far is it from the Earth to the sun?
10 CVS receipts.
Got to say "one enema away from solving world hunger" on cable news' most watched show last night. InfoWars is already paying off.
Everyone is talking about the stock market and oil when we should be talking about families and groceries. shero.substack.com/p/pay-later-...
Normalize having casual hobbies as an adult. For example, I like to ride a bike but I don't wear any spandex. I'm not trying to beat my personal best. I'm not even timing myself. I just ride a bike for fun.
The Onion wants to make us submissive slaves to the New world order.
Correct.
Jerusalem Post: Despite a “ceasefire” the IDF is giving orders to open fire on everyone in Southern Lebanon trying to go home — “Even if the person is unarmed… based on the idea that there are no civilians left in Southern Lebanon.”
www.jpost.com/middle-east/...
Yet again I remind everyone (as Elizabeth does in her very next tweet) that "foreigners are corrupting our pure blood with weakness & disease" is Fascism 101. Not some variant, not some metaphorically similar thing, not some echo -- the thing itself.
So she has until then to copy what she can for a retirement in Moscow
Pity he was too "busy" to go and do that for us, the first time around...? 😂🤷♂️
Well, that, and the $20K ticket cost (in today's money).
SST wasn't economically viable when the airlines were heavily subsidized. What has changed, since then?
(Now... BALLISTIC transport, maybe. Someday. But that's less champagne-friendly 😂).
Pakistan at the peace talks that neither the US nor Iran are attending
Looks like Coachella's owner supports a lot of anti-LGBT institutions.
US political "scandals": a corrupt doofus wearing a cowboy hat sells NOAA for pennies on the dollar, invests in crypto, makes one billion dollars.
UK political scandals: way too complicated for me to follow.
RFK, Jr. has spent a couple of days up on Capitol Hill just repeating repackaged Nazi eugenics talking points and no mainstream media outlet will make that connection
Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them.
New piece ↓
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
Stop privatizing space.
After seeing the aftermath of Abdul El-Sayed asking Olivia Reingold what she meant by a Jewish state, I became convinced it's a question that should be asked more often. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
5 year old brains pick up languages crazy fast. Little fucker is set for life if you leave him alone to play with his friends.
An ever-growing number of loyal MAGA influencers are now turning on Trump #AlterNet
there's a japanese antidiarrheal whose packaging proudly claims to have won the russo-japanese war because it was so effective in addressing dysentery