Lester Bangs

@captainuncool.bsky.social

Iggy Pop! Amen!

If you're mad about having to pay several streaming services a ton of money to watch your baseball team play, you should want to tax the rich. If you're mad about the average day at the ballpark costing $225, you should want to tax the rich.

RFK Jr: "A Democratic senator claimed it's mathematically impossible to have a drug drop by 600%. I said, 'Well, if the drug was $100 and it raises to $600, that would be a 600% rise. If it drops from $600 to $100, that's a 600% savings.'" Trump: "Right"

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism. Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young RepublicansBobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young RepublicansWilliam Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris KobachSam Douglass, Vermont state senator