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Gilly & Billy Enamel Pin — MULE BOOKS 2″ of mighty soft enamel for your jacket, backpack, whatevs. Show your support for wealth distribution with this delightful pin designed by Adam Koford. Less talkin’, more loppin’! GILLY & BILL...

Back in the studio and ready to ship, in case you need a little pick me up for the new year:

www.mulebooks.com/store/gilly-...

At Least We Haven’t Been Shut Down (feat. Trisha Calvarese) — The Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado Politics Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, the Federal Government Shutdown enters its second-ish week and Democrats seem to have the upper hand, at least so far. Then, can p...

@getmoresmarter.com Is it a known issue that most of your episodes have moments where the audio tracks are obviously shifted? Ex: Around the 30m mark of the latest. overcast.fm/+AATX6MLDWXc...

Dear @hankgreen.bsky.social & @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social
Please enthusiastically sign me up for the Cock Blarnet tee (and stickers would also be sweet).
Respectfully,
Jake

The Black Panther Party Ten-Point Program (1966), including: “4. We Want Decent Housing Fit For The Shelter of Human Beings” and “7. We Want An Immediate End to Police Brutality and the Murder of Black People”. [kottke.org]

Undocumented immigrants pay almost $100 billion in taxes each year.

The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes each year.

Stop pretending that immigrants are the ones taking advantage of taxpayers.

No Kings: Safety and Deescalation Training for Hosts & Core Teams · No Kings _**Gather in-person with your planning and safety team to participate in this virtual training.**_ Get together a team of fellow No Kings organizers IN PERSON and dial in as a group for this virtual ...

Ahead of No Kings Day, a couple trainings we have coming up that might be useful:

Safety and Deescalation: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

Know Your Rights (w/ACLU): act.aclu.org/a/2025-kyr-t...

Thanks arriving in DC for Trump's Despot Parade

Steven Miller tweeting a video of protesters battling with federal agents in California and saying "an insurrection against the laws and sovereignty of the United States."

Ominous juxtaposition

Can’t shake the thought that having all this matériel in DC and provoking anti-ICE riots in LA, Chicago, and gods-know-where would make a handy little setup for declaring martial law.

Meh, it’s probably nothing. 😬

Photo by Ethan Wong. Me at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library

Columbia canceled my class on Race and Media, but I'm teaching it anyway.

All thanks to people power and community support-- especially from you all on Bluesky!

Happy to announce I'll be teaching Race Media and International Affairs 101 online-- hosted by D.C.'s MLK Jr. Memorial Library!

You could certainly say it’s my own fault, but Bluesky is the doomiest of scrolls.

I’ve seen enough YouTube videos: Kelly Clarkson is our most perfect singer.

A podcast called “Raging Moderates” had Kellyanne Conway on and she immediately went into “Trump’s documents were nothing but Biden had docs where his druggie son could get them!” and nobody said anything.
If that’s “moderate” burn it all down.

I’m officially at the
~ Larger font sizes screw up the UI of apps I actively use
~ I can’t read most text on my phone. Especially 3rd party apps
~ I can’t even play solitaire without my readers
stage of my decrepitude.
So now phone time is mostly glasses time. It’s almost reducing my screen time.

val kilmer’s turn in TOP SECRET is one of the single best comedy performances ever committed to film, both in terms of comic precision and mechanical virtuosity. just watch this whole clip in its entirety; it’s stunning

My suburban house is perfect except I can’t walk to anything worthwhile and people street race on my most adjacent main road. Otherwise I dig the quiet life.

Probably just enough age difference and exposure difference that I think I got the effect you’re describing in the early nineties from a stupid cocktail of Dead Can Dance and the second or third coming of Devo. Maybe TMBG.

Jon Spencer - Full Performance (Live on KEXP) YouTube video by KEXP

Unstoppable.

youtu.be/x0ONf5Rh-WQ?...

Colorado: grocery workers ARE requesting customers not cross their picket lines.

They've set up this convenient list of alternative grocery stores for the next two weeks:

Opinion | David Lynch was America’s greatest conservative filmmaker Sorry, Clint Eastwood.

For a long time, I've been trying to get my head around David Lynch's strange blend of avant-garde art with conservative politics and sensibilities. (Conservative in Nietzsche's sense, or Ralph Ellison's, not Trump's.) A new essay/column from me in Jeff Bezos's Washington Post:

My kitten Melvin stretched out on my lap

My kitten Melvin, now a bit larger, stretched out on my lap

Started/going in a month and a half.

Tips and Tricks for Bluesky Search - Bluesky Let’s dive into all the tips and tricks for advanced Bluesky search!

✨ Bluesky search tips and tricks

Add `from:me` to find your own posts

Add `to:me` to find replies/posts that mention you

Add `since:YYYY-MM-DD` and/or `until:YYYY-MM-DD` to specify a date range

Add `domain:theonion.com` to find posts linking to The Onion

See more at
bsky.social/about/blog/0...

I hate it when I find out and I didn’t even get to fuck around

In case you want an official source that backs up Matthew’s thread.
www.cdcr.ca.gov/facility-loc...

There Is No Safe Word How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades.

It’s here. www.vulture.com/article/neil...

I only call them “posts”. It’s not like the Bluesky app uses “skeet” anywhere.

a woman with red curly hair making a call me gesture Alt: Hip hop artist Ice Spice making a call me gesture

But also:

Who is your celebrity “Birthday Twin” (born same day as you)? Answer with pic or gif only.

Click through for context.