Really enjoyed this as second-generation Rush fan. Looking forward to telling my Dad, the prototypical Rush Fan™️, that Sabrina Carpenter also loves his favorite band

Steven Hyden@stevenhyden.bsky.social · 2w ago

I wrote about Rush's ongoing reunion tour (it's great!) and how the language around "nerd music" has moved from the prog-rock fringes to the center of pop music. stevenhyden.substack.com/p/on-rushs-r...

the president’s biggest supporters in town for the celebration it looks like

Rafael M Batista@rafmbatista.bsky.social · last mo.

Patriot front marching from Union Station right now. White supremacist and neo-fascist organization. Cowards.

found a contender for all time funniest Christgau review

Because you don't read enough LeGuin.

Slightly maddening when serious news outlets drag everyone down to Trump’s level by using language like “feud” as if it’s some reality TV spat. Pope Leo delivered a moral critique of American military aggression. That is not “feuding” even if Trump responded with a deranged personal attack.

Reuters@reuters.com · 4mo ago

Christopher White, a Vatican journalist and author of the 2025 book 'Pope Leo XIV: Inside the Conclave and the Dawn of a New Papacy', told Reuters that Donald Trump and Pope Leo are like "oil and water" amid their feud, following the president’s attack on the Catholic leader.

The right is not in favor of bad things as some sort of correction to the left, the right is in favor bad things because it likes bad things. Enough of this reactionary centrist bullshit.

The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 4mo ago

“For many years, a robust norm held in American politics: You could be in favor of legal immigration while still opposing illegal immigration,” Alexander Kustov writes. That norm is now in danger of collapsing, putting every legal immigration channel at risk:

I've said it before: I genuinely consider it a moral imperative that people my age and up bang the drum about what the Internet used to be so those younger know that there's nothing inherent about what it is now. The Internet doesn't have to be this; its culture can and has belonged to people.

derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · 5mo ago

2006 internet: RSS feeds, forums, communities of hobby blogs, where people post about interior design, fashion, and music for free 2026 internet: sponsored content, paid partnership, buy my merch, try my supplements, invest in my crypto, click link in bio to unlock the secrets of life for $30

They blew up a school you useless cretin

Chuck Schumer@schumer.senate.gov · 5mo ago

My statement on President Trump’s strikes on Iran:

The subheadline on this NYT piece is going to turn me into the Joker. Like... this... is exactly what trans people have been saying was going to happen for years.

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

For my newsletter, I wrote about "heritage Americans" and the real meaning of nationhood. publiccomment.blog/p/the-great-...

The Great Retcon

The invention of "heritage Americans"

publiccomment.blog

This is your regular reminder that the idea that Christianity is a thing uniform beliefs that everyone within “Western Civilization” believed and agreed on is a fiction that just ignores centuries of Christians killing each other and fighting literal wars over their different beliefs.

Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof@evanbernick.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The Rubio speech really is appalling, and if you haven’t read it yet, you should. www.state.gov/releases/off...

drake "mac jones" maye

Every Super Bowl ad is for the door in the forest. It’s annoying. “You must walk through the door.” Yeah thanks, I know that already. I dream of the door every night

ilhan omar continues to speak after a man tried attacking her and spraying her with something at a town hall event. he was tackled by people including state sen bobby joe champion. i see city council member latrisha vetaw next to her too this is a terrifying environment

taylr@taylordahlin.com · 6mo ago

someone just tried attacking rep ilhan omar at her town hall in north minneapolis, reportedly trying to spray her with something, but was tackled before he could get to her. she returned to speaking

this isn't The Big Win but it is a big win and people should feel great about it.

Ta-Nehisi Coates: With the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, "Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact—the culture war is an actual war"

“The Homeland” Is War on America: The Blood-and-Soil Nationalism That Killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti

In the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact: the culture war is an actual war.

vanityfair.com

Haven’t seen many athletes comment on the news in Minneapolis outside of Haliburton, but here’s two time All/Pro Broncos guard Quinn Meinerz, who takes the field in an hour:

Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics

Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Let us all have the courage displayed by the residents of Minneapolis.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

every federal agent who ever put on a mask did so because on some level they knew this moment was coming they knew they were setting out to do things that would deserve profound shame at the least, and righteous retribution at the most

There is evil and then there is this

Jay Kirell@jasonkirell.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed. www.startribune.com/detained-by-...

Emphasizing that ICE is deliberately arresting people who are in the asylum process precisely because they are easy pickings; after all, they're complying with the government! Amazingly, it's likely legal; but cruel, unjust, and very counterproductive by discouraging compliance!

Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The parents of a 7 year old, all of whom are in the process of applying for asylum, took their daughter to the ER when her nose wouldn't stop bleeding. ICE picked them up near the hospital and they are now in detention in Texas, presumably awaiting deportation. www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

nine years old

Kerry Howley@kerryhowley.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I wrote about Minneapolis. nymag.com/intelligence...

This video filmed by Ben Luhmann shows the moment a federal agent sprayed chemical irritants directly into a man's face in south Minneapolis. Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants.

Everyone involved - from Trump down to the ICE agents on the street - needs to be put on trial when all this is over.

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."